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| T Subbarami Reddy |
T. Subbarami Reddy (b: 17 September 1943) is an Indian industrialist, politician and film producer. He is a film producer of extraordinary distinction in the country and produced a number of Hindi, Telugu and Tamil films of great technical and directorial excellence. He received Swarna Kamal, a national award for the best feature film and Rashtrapati Award for producing films Bhagwat Gita and Swami Vivekananda.
Childhood
He was born to T. Babu Reddy and Rukminamma at Nellore, Andhra Pradesh. He did B.Com. from Nizam College, Hyderabad. He is an eminent public orator in English and Telugu.
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Industrialist
He founded the Gayatri Group and has been in the field of business for the last 35 years involved in the construction activity, sugar industry, chemical industry, State's development. He is also the founder of India's best cinema theatres (Maheswari and Parameswari), which were built in Hyderabad.
He received a Gold Medal by the then Prime Minister of India Smt. Indira Gandhi for his outstanding contribution in the construction of the world's biggest dam Nagarjuna Sagar Project in Andhra Pradesh in 1967.
He was Chairman of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam Board (T.T.D.) since 2004, National Panorama Festival Committee in 1992, National Film Award Jury in 1994 and 1997, Andhra Pradesh Cultural Federation in 1994 and Member of Central Film Censor Board, 1983-85.
Film career
He is a film producer of extraordinary distinction in the country and produced a number of Hindi, Telugu and Tamil films of great technical and directorial excellence. He received Swarna Kamal, a national award for the best feature film and Rashtrapati Award for producing films Bhagwat Gita and Swami Vivekananda.
Political career
His party is the Indian National Congress. He was Member of the Parliament of India representing Andhra Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament and Lok Sabha, the lower house since 1996.
He was elected to 11th and 12th Lok Sabha twice in 1996 and 1998 from Visakhapatnam constituency. He was elected as Rajya Sabha member in 2002 and continued in the position third term. He was member of various parliamentary committees. He was also Minister of State in the Ministry of Mines between 2006 and 2008.
Awards
* Life Time Achievement Award in U.S.A. by American Telugu Association in 2002 for his special interest in the upliftment of socially backward and the downtrodden. organized hundreds of music and dance concerts; active participation in social, political, spiritual, cultural and philanthropic activities all over India; extensive social and philanthropic works; built community halls, hospitals, colleges, auditoria, etc.
* Kala Samrat by Maharashtra Government, 1988,
* Kala Ratna by Lt. Governor, Delhi, 1989,
* Kala Ratna by Telugu Academy, 1993,
* Doctorate by Mangalore University in recognition of social work.
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