artists had to wait everyday at the entrance to pick up their passes. I was told that most of the artists who were honoured had to return their shawls and mementos because the committee had run out of stock". On a different occasion, he faulted prominent Telugu film director K. Raghavendra Rao for being awarded honorary doctorate by the Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM University) in the year 2014 at Visakhapatnam. "How can the Gitam University confer the director a Doctorate as he lacks dignity and held no social duty for over many years," he questioned. A video featuring the veteran producer's comments on Raghavendra Rao on the honorary doctorate issue became viral. Murari even recollected one incident where, he said, the veteran director denigrated his mother without any respect on seeing her photograph. Filmography Source: References 1944 births 2022 deaths Telugu film producers Businesspeople from Vijayawada Film producers from Andhra Pradesh Indian autobiographers