Seetharama Launch Service- Rajahmundry, he expresses anguish at the vanishing of the beautiful Papikondalu.Ĭritics point to an element of eccentricity in some stories. Though Vamsy is not against progress, he is concerned about the plight of the man left with no alternative livelihood. Rajahamsalu Vellipoyayi, where he writes of the tragic life of the boatman who was deprived of his livelihood with the construction of the bridge connecting Yedurlanka and Yanam. Though he refrained from writing political stories, one can find the digs he took in stories like A voracious reader, he agrees that many writers had an influence on him. “Maybe I have imbibed it in the course of life,” is all that he says. Though his humour seems a mixture of satire and intelligent comedy, more like a cartoon caricature, he dismisses this by saying that there is no humour in him. Narayan created a mythical Malgudi and gave it life through his pen portrayal, Vamsy recreated an existing Pasalapudi and drew life sketches of its nature, people, their love, hatred, likes, dislikes, accent and emotions, taking the reader on a roller-coaster ride of angst and ecstasy. Maa Pasalapudi Kathalu in a popular weekly, a comparison with When he wrote a series of 72 short stories titled Nallamilli Vamsy was born in Balabhadrapuram in East Godavari district but spent most of his younger days in the nearby Pasalapudi village. Of course, Bapu's illustrations only enriched them.ĭoes this visual quality help him as a filmmaker? “ Much before all these stories happened, certain necessities of life led me to film field,” says the enigmatic writer who is better known as an award winning filmmaker.

Be it hisĭiguva Godavari Kathalu or the collection of short stories,Īku Pachani Gnapakam give readers the impression of images floating before his eyes.

Besides his graphic, detailed description of the setting of the story without missing out on even minute details of the Godavari belt where he was born and brought up, his vivid portrayal of characters, their behaviour and their raw emotions are all captured candidly. What makes his writing special is that most of the characters are realistic, some of them drawn from his own experiences. While unveiling the characters in his short stories, Vamsy asks us to love even those characters that have shades of negativism in order to understand their psyche better and bring them to terms with reality.

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