Subbaraya Sarma
- Actor
Subbaraya Sarma was born on January 3rd 1947 in Vijayawada to a
magazine publisher. He started acting when in fourth standard and was
immensely inspired by then super hit Maya Bazar. He used to be bench
mates with Sutti Veera Bhadra Rao, Madhavapeddi Ramesh and classmate of
Malladi Venkata Krishna murthy, the well known writer. His full fledged
foray into stage happened at SRR college, where he was the cultural
secretary. This is where he met Jandhyala and encouraged him to write,
than act and went onto collaborate with Jandhyala until his death.
After college Sarma moved to Hyderabad and started working at APSRTC.
He was introduced to Desiraju Hanumantha Rao, whom he considers his
guru. In the direction of Hanumantha Rao, and the plays penned by
Yandamuri Veerendranath (along with Kota Srinivasa Rao, Nittala Srirama
Murthy, Sai etc) they have established a stage production company
called 'SriNikethan' and performed across Andhra Pradesh.
