Bommireddy Nagi Reddy బొమ్మిరెడ్డి నాగిరెడ్డి |
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Born |
Kothapalli village, Pulivendula, Kadapa District, Andhra Pradesh |
2 December 1912
Died | 25 February 2004 Chennai |
(aged 91)
Occupation | producer, presenter, editor, director, business man, hospitals, philanthropy |
Years active | 1950–89 |
Bommireddy Nagi Reddy (2 December 1912 – 25 February 2004) was a Telugu movie producer. He set up Vijaya Vauhini Studios in Chennai, which was then Asia's biggest film studio. As his elder brother (who was also a director) had the same initials and was known as B. N. Reddy, Nagi Reddy was popularly known as B. Nagi Reddy. Some of the movies produced by Nagi Reddy include Patala Bhairavi (1951), Missamma (1955), Maya Bazaar (1957), Gundamma Katha (1962), Maduve Madinodu (1965-Kannada), Ram Aur Shyam, Shriman Shrimati, Julie (1975), and Swarg Narak (1978), the latter two of which were in Hindi. Reddy has served as the president of Film Federation of India twice during 1960-61 and 1962-63.
B. Nagi Reddy was born in Andhra Pradesh.
Nagi Reddy along with his friend and partner Alur Chakrapani produced over fifty films in four decades in the four South Indian languages and Hindi. He made mythological, devotional, and historical Telugu movies. Some of his more notable films include Pathala Bhairavi, Maya Bazaar, and Missamma. He made most of his films in association with screenwriter Chakrapani. Nagi Reddy closed down Vijaya-Vahini after the Tamil film industry moved out of studios in the 1970s, and started the Vijaya Hospital and Vijaya Health Centre.