# Pulagam Chinnarayana

Pulagam Chinnarayana is an Indian Telugu cinema journalist, film critic, lyricist, screenwriter, and public relations officer.
He began his career as a film journalist, writing for magazines such as Sivaranjani, Number One, Chitram, and Santhosham. He later worked for Sakshi for eight years, where he rose from a regular reporter to the position of in-charge.
Chinnarayana has authored several books on Telugu cinema, including Jandhya Marutham, Aanaati Aanavaallu, Cine Poornodayam, Svarnayuga Sangeetha Darsakulu, Pasidi Thera, Cinema Venuka Storeelu, Maya Bazar Madhura Smruthulu, and Vendi Chandamamalu.
He has received multiple accolades, including two Nandi Awards for Best Book on Telugu Cinema for his works Aanaati Aanavaallu (2009) and Pasidi Thera (2015). He also won the Nandi Award for Best Film Critic in 2014.

## Literary career

Chinnarayana authored as his first book Jandhya Marutham which was a compilation of 39 films directed by Jandhyala. It had a foreword written by actor Chiranjeevi. It was the first time Chiranjeevi wrote foreword for a book. It was launched at State Art Gallery in Hyderabad organized by Hasam magazine. Actors Chiranjeevi and Rajendra Prasad attended the function, where the former launched the book.
Chinnarayana then authored Aanaati Aanavaallu as his second book which had a foreword written by director Trivikram Srinivas. Within a month of release, all the copies of first print were sold out and this book went for second print. He won Nandi Award for Best Book on Telugu Cinema from Andhra Pradesh state Government for this book, in 2009 and 2016. His next work Cine Poornodayam which was based on life of Edida Nageswara Rao, owner of Poornodaya Creations was successful.
On music directors who worked between 1932 and 1982, Chinnarayana wrote Svarnayuga Sangeetha Darshakulu which was proofread by singer S.P. Balasubrahmanyam. Music director M.M. Keeravani wrote the foreword for this book. Later, Chinnarayana came up with Pasidi Thera which was a compilation of details about 100 films and a sequel to Aanaati Aanavaallu and Cinema Venuka Storeelu which had background details of films made after 2000. Among them, he won Nandi Award for Best Book on Telugu Cinema from Andhra Pradesh State Government for Pasidi Thera, in 2016.
Later, Chinnarayana authored Maya Bazar Madhura Smruthulu, a book on film Mayabazar by associating with Viswanatha Reddy, son of film's producer Nagi Reddy. Chinnarayana made a documentary along with the book and he got commendation from Vice President of India Venkaiah Naidu.
Chinnarayana authored Vendi Chandamamalu along with another writer Vaddi Om Prakash Narayana. It has information about Venditera Navalalu which is the term for novels about a film between 50s and 70s in Telugu cinema. This book was released on 2 October 2019 by director Vamsy and first copy was received by Ravi Prasad Paadi, a higher level official of South Central Railway.
In the year 2021, the first look of his upcoming book Jai Vittalacharya was launched by Krishna (Telugu actor) which is based on the cinematic journey of legendary director B. Vittalacharya. The book was launched officially on 1 October 2023 by director Trivikram Srinivas. M. L. Narasimham of The Hindu wrote "A comprehensive book on Vittalacharya, his style of making a movie, his journey with his works, and his personality, Jai Vittalacharya comes with rare personal photographs of the veteran director, besides stills from his films." in his review about Jai Vittalacharya.
In December 2024, Chinnarayana compiled and edited the book Master of Suspense: Hitchcock, along with Ravi Padi. This book is a compilation of 60 essays about Alfred Hitchcock, written by several filmmakers, journalists and writers from Telugu film industry. This book was launched in the presence of film personalities like Vamsy, Mohana Krishna Indraganti, Harish Shankar, Nassar etc.

## Publications

Chinnarayana authored the following books.
* Jandhya Marutham
* Aanaati Aanavaallu
* Cine Poornodayam
* Swarnayuga Sangeetha Darshakulu
* Pasidi Thera
* Cinema Venuka Storeelu
* Maya Bazar Madhura Smruthulu
* Vendi Chandamamalu
* Jai Vittalacharya
* Master of Suspense: Hitchcock

## Film career

Chinnarayana started and is continuing as public relations officer, dialogue writer and lyricist for Telugu cinema. As he was acquainted with Puri Jagannadh during the film Badri, he worked on the film Itlu Sravani Subramanyam as a PRO for the first time. He then worked on Nuvvu Nenu, directed by Teja and worked as PRO for more than 300 films till date. He is the permanent PRO for actors Ram Pothineni and Kartikeya Gummakonda. He turned lyricist with Mahesh, starring Sundeep Kishan. He turned dialogue writer with Prema Oka Maikam starring Charmy Kaur and is currently penning dialogues for Yashoda starring Samantha Ruth Prabhu.

### As lyricist

| Year | Film | Director | Composer | Song Name |
| 2013 | Mahesh | R. Madan Kumar | Gopi Sundar | "Madi Moose" |
| 2014 | Preminchali | Susindran | Yuvan shankar raja | Kotha ala ee premaraa... Konte kaala ee premaraa! |
| 2016 | Garam | R. R. Madan | Agastya | "Rabbaa Rabbaa" |
| 2016 | Manalo Okadu | R. P. Patnaik | R. P. Patnaik | "Dum Maro Dum" |
| 2017 | Paisa Vasool | Puri Jagannadh | Anup Rubens | "Padhamari" |
| 2018 | Aatagadharaa Siva | Chandra Siddhartha | Vasuki Vaibhav | "Rama Rama Re" |
| 2018 | Janatha hotel | Anwar Rasheed | Gopi Sundar | Chal Chal Kalame, Agena Keratame |
| 2018 | Shubhalekha+Lu | Sarrath Narwade | K. M. Radha Krishnan | "Cheppaka Tappadu Antey" |
| 2019 | 7 | Nizar Shafi | Chaithan Bharadwaj | "Idhivarakepudu" |

### As dialogue writer

| Year | Film | Cast | Director | Producer |
| 2013 | Prema Oka Maikam | Charmy Kaur, Rahul haridas | Chandu | Venkata Suresh, Srikanth Surya |
| 2017 | Gulf | Chethan Madineni, Dimple Hayathi | Sunil Kumar Reddy | Yakkali Ravindra Babu |
| 2018 | Bluff Master | Satyadev Kancharana, Nandita Swetha | Gopi Ganesh Pattabhi | Ramesh P Pillai |
| TBA | Yashoda | Samantha Ruth Prabhu | Hari and Harish | Sivalenka Krishna Prasad |

## Awards and recognition

* 2006 Santosham Film Awards as a Best Journalist and PRO Award (for Pokiri)
* 2007 A.P Cinegoers 36th Annual Film Awards for Best Film Journalist Award.
* 2009 Nandi Award for Best Book on Telugu Cinema (for Aanati Aanavaallu)
* 2014 Nandi Award for Best Film Critic
* 2016 Nandi Award for Best Book on Telugu Cinema ( for Pasidi Tera)