![]() Many important facts about Annamacharya's life and works were gathered from the 'Annatnacbarya Cbaritramu', a biography written in Telugu, by his grandson Chinna Tiruvengalanatha. He has paid his homage to his spiritual teacher Adivan in his composition 'Chududu' in 'Bhairavi'. In his later life, Annamacharya was influenced by the founder of the Sri Ahobila Math, Sri Adivan Sathakopa. Annamacharya's wife Thimmakka was also a poet and had written 'Subhadra Kalyana' and considered as the first Telugu women poet. He architected a major compositional form, the kirtana with its threefold division of 'pallavi', 'anupallavi' and 'charanas'. He was also the pioneer of the 'Bhajana' tradition. The songs composed by Annamacharya can be divided into two categories namely 'Adhyaatama' and 'Sringaara samkirtanaas'. He also used to argue, quarrel and confess his failures and at the end surrender to Venkateswara. He used to praise Lord Venkateswara in his poems by expressing his love for him. The compositions of Annamacharya were like floral offerings to God. These were hidden for centuries in the Sri Venkateswara temple at Tirumala and were discovered in the engraved from on copper plates. He composed more than 32, 000 Carnatic krithis in the Carnatic music tradition. ![]() He was a devoted to Lord Venkateswara of Tiruptai, Andhra Pradesh. He was later formally inducted into Vaishnavism by one Ghana Vishnu.Īnnamacharya was regarded as the 'Telugu pada kavita pitaamaha' (Grand old man of simple poetry). He belonged to a 'Smartba Brahmin' family. He was born on 'Vaisakha Poornima' in the year 'Sarwadhari' on AD at Tallapaka, a village in the Cuddapah district of present day Andhra Pradesh. But the appearance of Nagarjuna in this film was made convincingly well that he looked almost close to Annamayya in appearance.Annamacharya was a Telugu poet and musician of 15th century his full name being Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya also known as Annamayya. It was because Annamayya as depicted originally doesn’t have a moustache.
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