About this stamp
Printer, Publisher and Film Producer
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 23 February 2018 for B. Nagi Reddi (1912–2004), publisher, film producer and philanthropist. Bommireddy Nagi Reddi was born on 1 December 1912 at Pottipadu in Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh, the second child of B. N. Narasimha Reddy and Erukulamma, and studied in Chennai.
Prasad Process and Chandamama
He began as a letterpress printer in 1944 and built Prasad Process into one of India’s largest offset presses, once the only plant in the country printing large 24-sheet hoarding posters. With his friend Chakrapani he started the Telugu monthly Andhra Jyothi in 1945 and, in 1947, the children’s magazine Chandamama, which came to be published in 14 Indian languages besides English and Sinhalese, and in Braille.
Vijaya Productions
In 1948 he took over Vauhini Studios and in less than ten years made it the largest studio in South-East Asia. With Chakrapani he founded Vijaya Productions, whose first film was Shavukaru, and which led a golden era in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Hindi cinema. He received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1986. In 1972 he founded Vijaya Hospital in Chennai, which grew from 46 beds to 700. He died on 25 February 2004.
On the Stamp
His portrait in glasses beside a strip of film. It was designed by Alka Sharma; 661,000 were printed by wet offset at the Security Printing Press, Hyderabad.
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