Vamsy (born Nallamilli Bavireddy) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, littérateur, composer, poet, producer, actor and cartoonist known for his works in Telugu cinema, and television.^[1][2][3][4] He got breakthrough with Sitaara (1984), which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu at the 32nd National Film Awards.^[5]

Vamsy was born on 20 November 1956 in Balabhadrapuram, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh into a Telugu speaking family.^[6]

Vamsy started writing stories at the age of 15. His first story, "Satya Sundari Navvindi", was read on All India Radio in 1975. He wrote two novels, "Manchu Pallaki" and "Karma Sakshi", which were published in "Andhra Jyothy Weekly" before beginning his film career. In 1976, Vamsy worked with V. Madhusudhana Rao in Madras, as assistant director for many films, and later worked as an assistant director to K. Viswanath on Sankarabharanam, Bharathiraja on Seethakoka Chilaka.^[1]

In 1982, he made his first film Manchupallaki, a remake of the Tamil film Palaivana Solai.^[2] In 1984, Vamsy made the critically acclaimed Sitaara, which starred Bhanupriya in her first role. The movie was adapted from Vamsy's own novel Mahal lo Kokila (The Nightingale in the Palace). The movie won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu. In 1985, Vamsy made Preminchu Pelladu^[7]

Vamsy directed a ethnographic film Bommarshi Bapu, which won a Nandi Documentary Award for Best Director in 1996. He also directed a TV serials named Lady Detective and Sneha for ETV, which was aired every Thursday in 1995–96.^[8][9] For a significant period of his career, Vamsy collaborated with the music director Ilayaraja. The two were so attuned to each other's way of thinking that for a song in his movie Ladies Tailor, Vamsy shot the music video ("Ekkada Ekkada") before the song had been recorded by the music director.^[10]

Vamsy has published a short story compilation called Maa Pasalapudi Kathalu, and has written a wide variety of short stories since 1974. His major works include Mahallo kokila, Manchupallaki, Aa Naati Vaana Chinukulu, Venditera Kathalu, Vennela Bomma, Gokulam lo Radha, Ravvala konda, Sree seetarama lanchi service Rajahmundry, Manyam rani, and Rangularatnam. He has written around 360 short stories published in Swathi (magazine) weekly under the title Maa Diguwa Godavari Kathalu For his contributions to storytelling with a native approach, he was awarded with Sripada Puraskhaara at Rajamundry on 17 April 2011.^[11]

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