“Gollapudi Srinivas National Award” had been institutionalized in year 1998 in the adoring reminder of Filmmaker Gollapudi Srinivas, who died while directing his first Telugu Movie “Prema Pusthakam”. Gollapudi family members have since been honouring very Best first-time director.
Megastar Chiranjeevi who was one of the chief guests of the event believes that the true reason for the countrywide level of popularity of “Gollapudi Srinivas National Award” is mainly because of the love and passion; and more than that it has a family touch.
Debut movie director Sanjay Gupta been given the Gollapudi Srinivas National Award along with cash prize worth Rs.150,000 for 2014 for his Hindi drama “Q”.
