Mullapudi Venkata Ramana (born June 28,1931-February 23,2011) is a Telugu story writer. He is especially known for his hilarious style of writing. He also created a child character called Budugu. Many other memorable characters like Radha, Gopalam, Contractor (in [Muthyala Muggu]), Tutti (in [Mister Pellam]) in Modern Telugu Literature/Cinema flown from the ink of this master writer's pen. Mullapudi is also the dialogue, story and screenplay writer for many of the movies that came as a Bapu-Ramana combination. He is versatile in penning both heart-touching and rib-tickling dialogues. It is a known fact that Ramana's word and Bapu's line are made for each other.One whips the pen in broad strokes, the other wields the pen in sharp words.

Biography
Early life
Ramana's childhood was mostly spent in Dhavaleswaram near Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh. Ramana had one elder sister and a younger brother. It was a happy family with no troubles until his father expired when Ramana was 9 years old.  This turned their family status upside down and they shifted to Chennai (called Madras in those days) for better opportunities. Ramana's mother Mrs. Adilakshmi took all the pains to raise the family in such situation. Ramana's education and career happened in Madras itself.

Early Career
After complete SSLC in Madras, Ramana have done many petty jobs before finally taking an first official job as a reporter in Andhra Patrika in 1953 First, he was working for the "Daily" section of the news paper, and then shifted to "Weekkly" section. He was responsible for the "Cinema Page" section in the paper. That was the time when all the big names of telugu literature like Nanduri Ramamohan Rao, Pilaka Ganapati Sastry, Surampudi Seetaram etc were working for the same news paper. Due to the literary environment and friendship with all the poets/writers, Ramana's interest in writing was born and then he never turned back. That was the same time when he got introduced to film industry and befriended the famous stars of film fraternity.

Association with Bapu
Ramana’s association with Bapu on a career plane completes 60 years. They first met in 1942 in P.S. High School, Madras. They studied there in standards V and VI and then continued schooling at Kesari High School.Ramana’s first short story Amma Maata Vinakapothe was published in 1945 in Bala, a children's magazine published by Radio Annayya (Nyayapathi Raghava Rao),he was 14 then. Bapu illustrated the story. That was the beginning of their career as a writer-producer -illustrator- filmmaker duo”.
While Bapu achieved much of his fame sticking to a subtle style of artistic elegance, Ramana announced his entry through a bunch of talkative characters, who try to make no sense out of the sensible world around them, because of their askew point of view. Ramana is the dialogue, story and screenplay writer for many of the movies that came as a Bapu-Ramana combination. He provided an able foil, providing script/dialogue that suited bapu's visuals and this celebrated friendship and professional associatioon gave many good cinemas.

Autobiography
Kothi Kommachi is Ramana's Autobiography in a Book and Audio form. Just like the title, the story keep hoping different timelines and incidents.

Awards
He was awarded the Raja-Lakshmi Literary Award for the year 1995 from Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation, Chennai.

Filmography
This is partial list of his films. Kindly help expanding it.
Year    Film    Language    Credits
1962    Raktha Sambandham    Telugu    Writer
1963    Mooga Manasulu    Telugu    Writer
1964    Daagudumootalu    Telugu    Writer
1965    Preminchi Choodu    Telugu    Story
1966    Kanne Manasulu    Telugu    Story and Dialogues
1966    Navarathri    Telugu    Writer
1967    Poola Rangadu    Telugu    Story
1967    Prana Mithrulu    Telugu    Story and Dialogues
1967    Saakshi    Telugu    Writer
1968    Bangaru Pichika    Telugu    Writer
1969    Buddhimanthudu    Telugu    Story and Screenplay
1970    Balaraju Katha    Telugu    Dialogues
1971    Sampoorna Ramayanam    Telugu    Writer
1973    Andala Ramudu    Telugu    Writer
1975    Muthyala Muggu    Telugu    Story
1976    Bhakta Kannappa    Telugu    Writer
1976    Jeevan Jyoti    Hindi    Story
1976    Seeta Kalyanam    Telugu    Writer
1978    Gorantha Deepam    Telugu    Story and Screenplay
1978    Manavoori Pandavulu    Telugu    Screenplay and Dialogues
1980    Hum Paanch    Hindi    Screenplay
1980    Kaliyuga Ravana Surudu    Telugu    Writer
1980    Rajadhi Raju    Telugu    Story and Screenplay
1980    Vamsa Vriksham    Telugu    Screenplay and Dialogues
1981    Radha Kalyanam    Telugu    Writer
1981    Thyagayya    Telugu    Writer
1982    Pelleedu Pillalu    Telugu    Story and Dialogues
1983    Manthrigari Viyyankudu    Telugu    Writer
1985    Bullet    Telugu    Story and Screenplay
1985    Jackie    Telugu    Writer
1986    Kalyana Thamboolam    Telugu    Writer
1991    Pelli Pusthakam    Telugu    Dialogues and Screenplay
1993    Mr. Pellam    Telugu    Writer
1993    Shrinatha Kavi Sarvabhowma    Telugu    Writer
1994    Pelli Koduku    Telugu    Writer
1996    Rambantu    Telugu    Writer
2005    Radha Gopalam    Telugu    Story and Dialogues
2008    Sundarakanda    Telugu    Story, Screenplay and Dialogues
2011    Sree Rama Raajyam    Telugu    Story and Dialogues