Vamsy

Vamsy or Vamsi (Telugu: వంశీ, born Nallamilli Bamireddy on 20 November 1956) is a Telugu Indian film director, screenwriter and music director. He is considered one of the four cornerstones of Telugu cinema of the 1980s and '90s, the others being K Viswanath, Bapu and Jandhyala.

Biography

Vamsy was born and brought up at the village of Pasalapudi, near Ramachandrapuram of East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh on 20 November 1956. His birth name is Nallamilli Bamireddy; Vamsy is his screen name.

Career

Vamsy worked as an assistant director to K Viswanath on Sankarabharanam before making his first film Manchupallaki with Chiranjeevi, Suhasini,Tripuraneni Sai Chand and Rajendra Prasad in 1982. This movie was a remake of the Tamil film Palaivana Solai directed by Robert-Rajasekaran. In 1984, Vamsy made the critically acclaimed Sitaara, with which he introduced Bhanupriya to the Telugu film industry. The movie was adapted from his 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, he made 'Preminchu Pelladu', the first movie with Rajendra Prasad as the sole lead

Vamsi (film)

Vamsi (also known as Vamsee, Vamshi, or Vamshee) is a 2000 Tollywood film produced by G. Adiseshagiri Rao on Padmalaya Studios banner, directed by B.Gopal. Starring Mahesh Babu, Namrata Shirodkar in the lead roles, Krishna played an important role and music was composed by Mani Sharma. It was Mahesh Babu's third film as an actor. The story written by Satyanand. It was dubbed in Hindi as Vamsi The Warrior. Vamsi is also inspired by Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge in few scenes.

The film received negative reviews and was unsuccessful at the box office.

Plot

Vamsi (Mahesh Babu) is a fashion designer who gets an opportunity to participate a designer's contest held in Australia. Vamsi has a colleague called Sneha (Mayuri Kango) who is selected to model his creations in the fashion contest. Since Vamsi has to study the culture of Australia to design the best outfit, he is asked to tour Australia extensively for a month. Shilpa (Namrata Shirodkar) is the daughter of an industrialist Ankineedu Prasad (Nassar), who is studying in Australia. She decides to take a vacation after exams by touring the Australian country. Vamsi meets Shilpa in the tour and they slowly fall in love.