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Tyagaiah is a 1946 Telugu-language film produced and directed by V. Nagayya It is based on the life of the saint Tyagaraja.

Tyagaiah
Poster of Tyagayya
Directed by	V. Nagayya
Screenplay by	V. Nagayya S. V. R. Acharya or Samudrala Sr. Dialogues and other songs
Story by	V. Nagayya
Based on	The life of Tyagaraja
Produced by	Nagayya Sri Duvvuri Narayana Reddy
Starring	V. Nagayya B. Jayamma
Cinematography	Mohamed A. Rehman
Edited by	Govind Dinkar Joshi
Music by	V. Nagayya
Production companies	Sri Renuka Films, Madras
Release date	1 November 1946 (1946-11-01) (India)
Running time	186 minutes
Language	Telugu

Cast

Production

The film was joinly produced by Nagayya and Sri Duvvuri Narayana Reddy, and directed by V. Nagayya. Nagayya also wrote the story and handled the scenario. The dialogues were written by S. V. R. Acharya i.e., Samudrala Venkata Raghavacharya otherwise popularly known as Samudrala Sr. Photography and special effects were handled by Mohamed A. Rehman. Audiography was done by Dinshaw K. Tehrani, editing by Govind Dinkar Joshi, and art by C. Rama Raju and F. Nagoor. The dances were choreographed by Vedantam Raghavaiah.[1]

Music

The music was composed by V. Nagayya and the Renuka Orchestra headed by the Trivellore Violinist Brothers. While the lyrics of most of 37 songs were written by S. V. R. Acharya (Samudrala Sr.), the Tamil songs were written by Papanasam Sivan and Chandilyan. One Hindi song was written by J. A. Rehman. Nagayya had introduced lyrics in Kannada with the song Purandaradasa Devara Nama (film credits). Songs in Tamil and Hindi were sung by D. K. Pattammal and J. A. Rehman respectively.

Box office

The movie became a block buster and collected over 25 lakh rupees in just share alone. It was also the first Telugu movie to do so.

See also

• Tyagayya (1981 film)

References

External links

• Thyagaiah at IMDB
• Thyagaiah songs at Musicindia.
• Thyagaiah review at Idle brain.
• Thyagaiah film review at Roopavani in Telugu.
• Full Film on YouTube

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