Veturi Sundararama Murthy
Veturi Sundararama Murthy (Telugu: వేటూరి సుందరరామమూర్తి, 29 January 1936 – 22 May 2010), popularly known as Veturi.
Veturi was born at his mother's native place Kolluru, near Tenali of Guntur district in an orthodox Telugu Brahmin's family on 29 January 1936. His native place is Pedakallepalli near Mopidevi, in Diviseema of Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh (AP). Veturi is a nephew of the great Telugu pandit Veturi Prabhakara Sastri. His grandfather Veturi Sundara Sastry was a poet too.
Education
Veturi completed his schooling in Diviseema, Jaggayyapeta, near Vijayawada in Krishna district, and SSC in his grandmother's village. Later Veturi went to Madras (now called Chennai) for his intermediate studies and came back to Vijayawada where he completed his degree in S.R.R. Government College. He was a student of legendary Viswanatha Satyanarayana at this college.
Veturi cherishes his professional relationship with the national award winning Telugu film director, Dr.K.Viswanath and the renowned music composers K. V. Mahadevan & maestro Ilaiyaraaja.
Veturi is a relative of the late Veturi Prabhakhar Sastry, whose blood line runs throughout the world, in countries such as: India, USA, Britain, Australia, Canada, France, Italy, etc.
Veturi has a unique style, which no one could imitate. He has got amazing capabilities in language as well as imagination/creativity. His style is romantic with deep feelings. Sometimes, he prefers to swerve from his style to provide lip-sync for dubbing movies.
He is a master of the language. The language, he uses in lyrics, ranges from meaningless words to most meaningful words in life. Many a time, he pens phrases which have no apparent purpose; but they possess in-depth meaning. An example is: gasagasala kougilinta which translates to your hug is as intoxicating as the seeds on the poppy plant. He conveys the most unexplainable feelings in simple words. An example is: anagala raagamai toluta veenualalarinchi, analEni rAgamai maralA vinipinchi which translates to (the music of your flute) pleased my ears once, later it resounded in my heart as an unexpressible feeling.
His knowledge in classical telugu poetry is evident from the figures of speech (alankaaralu). Here are three verses from the same song: acceruvuna acceruvuna viccina kannulajUDa (They watched Lord Krishna in wonder dancing in the lake), aabaala gopaalam aabaalagobaaluni (everyone watched the Little Krishna), aaradha aaradhanaageeti palikiMci (Radha sang a devotional song). It can be observed that the same word is juxtaposed with different meanings (a figure of speech in Telugu, yamakam).
He uses a lot of classical objects in fresh similes. Objects like ponnacheTTu, tyAgarAjakIrtana (Tyagaraja's song), Rutuvulu (Seasons), Raagas have all been used extensively in his songs. One such song from SundaraakanDa uses all grammatical rules of Telugu in a romantic conversation between lovers (Ex: mattuga mallelu attaru chindE vELa champakamaalalu sompulakistaavaa). These songs stand as proofs of his knowledge in various subjects.
His imagination ranges from most creative similes like bhoodari lo neelambari, maa seemake cheenambari to most vulgar comparisons like muDideeste moopuram, paruvaala gopuram. Particularly when it comes to writing more serious lyrics like those of Shankarabharanam, his imagination prowess has been proved a number of times.
Veturi faced a lot of criticism that he includes a lot of vulgarity when it comes to mass films. Examples are: "puttintollu tarimesaru...", "muDi deeste moopuram, paruvaala gopuram" etc., Many people feel that Veturi has degraded the quality of Telugu lyrics as much as he added quality work to it. However, this was done by him yielding to the pressures of directors as he himself revealed on his birthday 10th February.
He got the National Film Award for Best Lyrics for his song in the film Matrudevobhava for the song "raalipoye puvva neeku raagalenduke". Many people feel that it has been a great injustice to such a veteran artist to give only one national award. He declared that he would return the national award if Telugu is not given the status of classic language by the Government of India.
National Awards
He got the National Film Award for Best Lyrics for his song in the film Matrudevobhava for the song "raalipoye puvva neeku raagalenduke". Many people feel that it has been a great injustice to such a veteran artist to give only one national award. He declared that he would return the national award if Telugu is not given the status of classic language by the Government of India.
Veturi is a relative of the late Veturi Prabhakhar Sastry, whose blood line runs throughout the world, in countries such as: India, USA, Britain, Australia, Canada, France, Italy, etc.
Veturi has a unique style, which no one could imitate. He has got amazing capabilities in language as well as imagination/creativity. His style is romantic with deep feelings. Sometimes, he prefers to swerve from his style to provide lip-sync for dubbing movies.
He is a master of the language. The language, he uses in lyrics, ranges from meaningless words to most meaningful words in life. Many a time, he pens phrases which have no apparent purpose; but they possess in-depth meaning. An example is: gasagasala kougilinta which translates to your hug is as intoxicating as the seeds on the poppy plant. He conveys the most unexplainable feelings in simple words. An example is: anagala raagamai toluta veenualalarinchi, analEni rAgamai maralA vinipinchi which translates to (the music of your flute) pleased my ears once, later it resounded in my heart as an unexpressible feeling.
His knowledge in classical telugu poetry is evident from the figures of speech (alankaaralu). Here are three verses from the same song: acceruvuna acceruvuna viccina kannulajUDa (They watched Lord Krishna in wonder dancing in the lake), aabaala gopaalam aabaalagobaaluni (everyone watched the Little Krishna), aaradha aaradhanaageeti palikiMci (Radha sang a devotional song). It can be observed that the same word is juxtaposed with different meanings (a figure of speech in Telugu, yamakam).
He uses a lot of classical objects in fresh similes. Objects like ponnacheTTu, tyAgarAjakIrtana (Tyagaraja's song), Rutuvulu (Seasons), Raagas have all been used extensively in his songs. One such song from SundaraakanDa uses all grammatical rules of Telugu in a romantic conversation between lovers (Ex: mattuga mallelu attaru chindE vELa champakamaalalu sompulakistaavaa). These songs stand as proofs of his knowledge in various subjects.
His imagination ranges from most creative similes like bhoodari lo neelambari, maa seemake cheenambari to most vulgar comparisons like muDideeste moopuram, paruvaala gopuram. Particularly when it comes to writing more serious lyrics like those of Shankarabharanam, his imagination prowess has been proved a number of times.
Veturi faced a lot of criticism that he includes a lot of vulgarity when it comes to mass films. Examples are: "puttintollu tarimesaru...", "muDi deeste moopuram, paruvaala gopuram" etc., Many people feel that Veturi has degraded the quality of Telugu lyrics as much as he added quality work to it. However, this was done by him yielding to the pressures of directors as he himself revealed on his birthday 10th February.
He got the National Film Award for Best Lyrics for his song in the film Matrudevobhava for the song "raalipoye puvva neeku raagalenduke". Many people feel that it has been a great injustice to such a veteran artist to give only one national award. He declared that he would return the national award if Telugu is not given the status of classic language by the Government of India.
National Awards
He got the National Film Award for Best Lyrics for his song in the film Matrudevobhava for the song "raalipoye puvva neeku raagalenduke". Many people feel that it has been a great injustice to such a veteran artist to give only one national award. He declared that he would return the national award if Telugu is not given the status of classic language by the Government of India.
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