Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry the popular lyric writer of Tollywood is dead. He is related to director Trivikram Srinivas. He was admitted to the hospital for a fever. KIMS Secunderabad doctors were monitoring his health.
His son is also a character actor doing small roles in Telugu cinema. He has won 11 Nandi awards. He was 66. He was having cancer. He acted in the movie Gayam under the direction of Ramgopal Varma.
K Vishwanath the director encouraged him to write cinema songs. He wrote poetry by the name Bharani. He got Padmasri in 2019.
Producer Suresh said that it is very unfortunate that the lyric write is no more. He is one of the fantastic writers and a legend opined Suresh Babu the popular producer.
Sirivennela can write 70 types of variants and the producers have to select from them he explained. AP CM Jagan also expressed his grief over the death of the popular writer.
Sirivennala has written Dosti song for RRR.