Tyagayya (1946 film)

Tyagayya Telugu is a 1946 film considered as masterpiece produced and directed by Chittor V. Nagaiah It is a soul stirring film about the truly extraordinary life of Saint Thyagaraja.

Thyagayya Nagaiah is a villager composing devotional music to Rama while rejecting the court of Serfoji, Maharajah of Tanjore Narayana Murthy, the dominant cultural center of the region. Turning down invitations and gifts from the Maharajah, he provokes the jealous wrath of his brother Japesen Lingamurthy. The films climax comes when Japesen destroys Ramas idols, Thyagaraja resurrects them eventually and sacrifices his life to his God.Nagaiah also introduced lyrics from Kannada the Purandaradasa devara nama in the films opening, Tamil by Papanasam Sivan and sung by D. K. Pattammal and Hindi sung by J. A. Rehman. ........

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