Tanikella Bharani

Tanikella Bharani తనికెళ్ళ భరణి
Born	(1954-07-14) 14 July 1954 Secunderabad, Hyderabad State, India (now in Telangana, India)
Occupation	Actor, writer and film director
Years active	1984–present
Spouse(s)	Durga Bhavani
Children	Maha Teja Soundarya Lahari
Parent(s)	Sethu Ramalingeswara Rao Laxmi Narasamma

Tanikella Bharani (Telugu: తనికెళ్ళ భరణి; born 14 July 1954) is an Indian film actor, screenwriter, dialogue writer, poet, theatre actor, playwright and director predominant in Telugu cinema. He has worked in more than 750 films (Including Tamil, Kannada and Hindi). He has garnered three Andhra Pradesh State Nandi Awards.^[1]

Early life

Tanikella Bharani’s ancestry includes poets and literary figures of Telugu literature. Diwakarla Venkatavadhani and Viswanatha Satyanarayana were his grand uncles. Divakarla Tirupati Sastry one of the Telugu poet duo Tirupati Venkata Kavulu were his great-grand-uncles.^[2]

He is fluent in Tamil and Hindi in addition to his native Telugu.

Career

Bharani did stage plays in the mid 70s and during this time he made the acquaintance of Rallapalli, a Tollywood actor. With his help Bharani started writing small dialogues and stage scenes. Later, he took a diploma in Theatre arts. Following Rallapalli's advice he moved to Chennai.

He started his career as a dialogue writer for Kanchu Kavachum in 1984. and has written dialogues for various movies like Ladies Tailor (1985 film), Sri Kanaka Mahalakshmi Recording Dance Troupe (1987), Varasudochhadu (1988), Chettu Kinda Pleader (1989), Swara Kalpana (1989), Shiva (1989) and Seenu Vasanthi Lakshmi (2004). Bharani also penned and sung the lyrics of Gundammagaari Manavadu (Bhale Bhaleti Mandu).

He has acted in more than 500 movies starting with Ladies Tailor (1985) & Sri Kanaka Mahalakshmi Recording Dance Troupe (1987) in which he was seen as Dora Babu. In 1989 he appeared in the hit film Shiva by Ram Gopal Varma which starred Nagarjuna. With the release of the film Shiva, he received much recognition and his character Nanaji impressed the whole Telugu audience.

He also played the lead role in the Hindi comedy film Main Tere Pyar Mein Pagal in 1999. His powerful antagonism in Samudram won him the Nandi award as the Best Villain. After 2000, he started playing more mature roles in movies like Manmadhudu (2002), Okariki Okaru (2003), Samba (2004), Malliswari, Godavari (2006), and Happy (2006).

Tanikella Bharani directed Telugu Drama film Mithunam is a 2012 featuring S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and Lakshmi.^[3][4] Tanikella Bhranai received CineMAA Award Special Jury Award for Best Direction for this film.^[5]

Tanikella Bharini wrote seven Telugu devotional songs song for the album "Nalona sivudu galadu" .^[6] He also sang the title song for Nalona sivudu galadu and Shahabash Raa Shankara which were written by him.

Awards

Nandi Awards

• Nandi Award for Best Dialogue Writer - Shiva
• Best Villain - Samudhram
• Best Character Actor - Nuvvu Nenu

CineMAA Awards

• Special Jury Award for Best Director - Mithunam (2013)^[7]

Sangam Academy Awards

• Sangam Academy award for completing Twenty five years in Telugu Cinema^[8]

Awards for Short Films (as a Director)

• Tenth Mumbai International Film Festival Award
• Idaho Panhandle - Hyderabad International Film Festival Award for Sira-The Ink

Literary works

Books

1. Parikini^[9]
2. Nakshatra Darshanam^[10]
3. Maathralu^[11]
4. Endaro Mahanubavulu^[12]

Plays (Drama)

1. Jambu Dweepam
2. Kokkorokko
3. Chal Chal Gurram
4. Gaardhabhaandam
5. Gograhanam

Song compositions

1. Naalona Sividu kaladu is a composition of 7 songs written by Sri Tanikella Bharani.
2. Sabhash raa sankara! Is composition by Bharani about the Concept of Siva(శివ తత్వమ్).
3. Naamanasu Kothi raa Raama !

Spiritual Books

1. Aata gadaraa siva^[13]
2. Sabhashuraa Sankara^[13]

Filmography

References

External links

• http://www.tanikellabharani.com
• Tanikella Bharani at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview on telugucinema.com

Nandi Award for Best Character Actor
Nandi Awards
Krishnam Raju (1994) Kasinathuni Viswanath (1995) Prakash Raj (1996) Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao (1997) Kota Srinivasa Rao (1998) Mallikarjuna Rao (1999) Prakash Raj (2000) Tanikella Bharani (2001) Nandamuri Harikrishna (2002) Prakash Raj (2003) Kota Srinivasa Rao (2004) Chandra Mohan (2005) Kota Srinivasa Rao (2006) Ahuti Prasad (2007) Mukku Raju (2008) L. B. Sriram (2009) AVS (2010) Sammeta Gandhi (2011)
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