Thota Tharani – 100 years of Indian Cinema
100 Years Of Indian Cinema
The Indian cinema is celebrating the 100 year completion. Telugu cinema is completing 82 years of its first release of Bhaktha Prahlada (1931). As part of celebrations of Indian Cinema, businessoftollywood.com remembers and recollects the information of The Greats of Early Telugu Cinema.
Businessoftollywood.com is presenting the profile of the great art director Thota Tharani.
Thota Tharani is a popular art director in Tollywood born on 16th December 1949 at Chennai. Thota tharani is an Set designer and has worked for about 100 films for set designing and erection.Heworked as art director for many Telugu,Tamil and few English movies.He was the set designer for Dasavatharam by Kamal Haasan.Thota Tharani received National award as best art director for the movie ‘Leader’.
Thota Tharani was honored with Padmasri by Govt. of India in 2001.
List of Telugu movies with Tharani as art director:-
01.Panduranga Mahatyam (1957)….NTR
02.Babruvahana (1964) …NTR
03.Alluri Seetharama Raju (1974) …Krishna
04.Sommokadidhi Sokokadidhi (1978) …Kamal Hasan
05.Gorintaku (1979) ….Dr.Rajasekhar
06.Subhalekha (1982) …ChiranjeeviNelavanka (1983) [Art Director]
07.Lanke Bindelu (1983)…Krishna
08.Rendu Jella Seetha (1983) …Naresh
09.Sagara Sangamam (1983) …Kamal Hasan
10.Anveshana (1985) …Karthik
11.Shiva (1989) …Nagarjuna
12.Gitanjali (1989) …Nagarjuna
13.Iddaru Iddare (1990) ….Nagarjuna
14.Anjali (1990) …Tarun
15.Chaitanya (1991) …Nagarjuna
16.Nirnayam (1991) …Nagarjuna
17.Gentleman (1993) …ArjunBombay (1995) [Production Designer]
18.Subha Sankalpam (1995) …Kamal Hasan
19.Choodalani Vundi (1998) ….Chiranjeevi
20.Ravoyi Chandamama (1999) …Nagarjuna
21.Nayak: The Real Hero (2001) [Hindi movie)
22.Mrugaraaju (2001) …Chiranjeevi
23.Jayam (2002) …Nitin
24.Dil (2003) ….Nitin
25.Mass (2004)….Nagarjuna
26.Run (2004) …(Hindi Movie)
27.Donga Dongadi (2004) …Jagapathi Babu
28.Athadu (2005)….Mahesh Babu
29.Godfather (2006) …Ajith
30.Anumanaspadam (2007) …Aryan Rajesh
31.Sivaji (2007)…Rajanikanth
32.Leader (2010) …Rana Daggubati
33.Life Is Beautiful (2012) …Abhijeeth/Sudhakar
34.Rudrama Devi (2014) (filming) [Art Director]
