We pay our homage on his Death Anniversary

Peesapati Narasimha Murty was a Telugu stage actor.He learned the epics well which helped him to render the poems and dialogues appropriate to the scene with clarity and bhava.He won the prize as best Sri Krishna in the “Akhilandhra Pandava Udyoga Vijayalu” competitions held in 1949 at Guntur and since then acted the role continuously for 40 years. Unlike the other artists who acted as Krishna, he never indulged in long raga aalapana and rendered the padyams with clarity in majestic voice. In between padyams, he created dialogues suitable to that scene that earned appreciation of the audience. Even though he made only short raga, he earned the accolades of the illiterate audience also, which is surprising since they are accustomed to the long winding ragas of other artists as Sri Krishna. He acted throughout the state and all major cities in India. He received many awards including the ‘Kendra Sangitha nataka academy’ award, the only drama artist to get the same. He received puraskaram from Govt of Andhra Pradesh as drama artist. His audio CD is shown in CD section. In his own troupe; he acted as Sri Krishna alone throughout the five scenes of the drama, particularly for the elite audience.