Dr Palakodety Satyanarayana Rao

Dr Palakodety Satyanarayana Rao has been working for Eenadu media group for the past 49 years (including 18 years in Eenadu, a leading Telugu news paper and 31 years for ETV, a leading TV channel). He has been a Creative Director for TV 5 News.Several of his novels and short stories have won many prestigious awards.Dr Rao is a Ph.D (Doctorate) from the Potti Sriramulu University for his thesis titled “Influence of Hollywood on Indian Film Narratology – A Comparative Study of Hindi and Telugu Films”.

His love for cinema is also demonstrated in his critically acclaimed “Bollywood Classics”, “Hollywood Classics”, a series of books on select iconic Bollywood and Hollywood films respectively. Dr Rao has acted as a judge for the Telugu section of the popular “Filmfare” awards in 2007. He is the proud recipient of “Bhasha Puraskaram” from the Govt of Andhra Pradesh. In addition to books on movies, Dr Rao has published 35 other books on various subjects.

Dr Rao currently spends his time writing and directing the series “Apuroopa Chitralu” (500+ episodes broadcast till March 2026) and “Cinekatha” (3020 episodes broadcast till March 2026) for ETV Cinema channel.