Siddharth Katragadda

Siddharth Katragadda
Born	1972 Bangalore, India
Pen name	Sid
Occupation	Artist, filmmaker, writer, engineer
Nationality	US
Ethnicity	IndiaHindu Rationalist
Alma mater	University of Texas, Arlington, The Frank Anthony Public School, Bengaluru, St. Joseph's College, Bangalore
Period	2002–present
Notable works	Dark Rooms, The Other Wife
Notable awards	San Diego Book Awards – Poetry Runners-up 2002 & 2003, Downbeach Film Festival – Best Foreign Film for Varanasi, Multimatograf Film Festival – Special Award
Relatives	Tripuraneni Gopichand, Tripuraneni Ramaswamy
Website
www.siddharthfilms.com

Siddharth Katragadda is an artist, filmmaker, writer and poet of Indian origin.

Writing

Katragadda's first book, Dark Rooms: A Novel in Verse, was published in September 2002 and was a runner-up award for the San Diego Book Prize, 2002.^[1] His second Novel in Verse, The Other wife also won the same award in 2003.^[2] His first novel was finalist at the 2010 San Diego Awards (unpublished manuscript).^[3][4] Numerous articles written by him have been published on CNN.^{[5][6][7] [8]} His work has appeared in Grey Sparrow Press (best new literary journal 2011), A Generation Defining Itself, Carter Street Review, Eastown Fiction, WriteFromWrong Journal and numerous literary journals.^{[9][10][11] [12] [13]} His work has been reviewed in the journals like "The Best Reviews",^[14] Book Review Asian Journal^[15] and "One India"^[16]Book Review by One India – Dark Rooms^[17]

Books

Year	Book	Genre	Awards
2002	Dark Rooms	poetrynovel in verse	Runners-up San Diego Book Awards
2003	The Other Wife	poetrynovel in verse	Runners-up San Diego Book Awards
unpublished	Blood Siblings	dramaliterary fiction

Painting

An emerging painter, he has held various painting exhibitions in India and in America. He has been painting since he was ten. He believes that an artist's primary objective should be to capture a culture – and that a culture, or ethnicity, can be best understood through its women. He paints colourful and elaborately dressed, voluptous, dark Indian women, paying equal attention to their omnipresent bindis and resplendent ornaments as he does to their draped saris and brilliant blouses. His portraits are as abstract as they are figurative. He tends to abstract away from facial features, and lays more emphasis on the way a culture has sculpted the woman as a whole, especially the colours, which are depicted in brightest of colours – reds, saffrons and yellows – the most essential Indian colours. His paintings have been featured at Chitra Kala Parishath, Kalarasa Gallery (Bangalore), Art Walk (San Diego), IndianArtCollectors.com, Mixture ShowRoom (San Diego), Paintings Etc. (Singapore), Chlorophyll (Chandigarh) and IndianPainters.net. One of his paintings is in the private collection of Mani Ratnam.His paintings are collected worldwide.

Exhibitions

Year	Gallery	Solo/Group	Show
2009	Chitra Kala Parishad'	Solo
2009	Palm Meadows"	Solo
2010	San Diego Bay"	Group	"Art Walk San Diego"
2010	Mixture Gallery"	Group	"Mixture"
2012	IndianArtCollectors.com"	Solo	"Feature Artist"
2013	Renaissance Gallerie"	Group	"The Parrot"
2014	Kalarasa"	Group	"Eclectic Collections - 30 emerging Indian Artists"
2015	Wine Vault San Diego"	Solo	"The Woman"

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Films

He is an award winning filmmaker who has written/directed the feature film, "The Girl Upstairs" ( Premiered at Delhi International Film Festival, 2013) and numerous short films. His short film "Varanasi" won the Best Foreign Film Award at the Downbeach Film Festival, New Jersey, 2013.^[24][25][26] His short film "Flight Delayed" won a prize award at the '9th Multimatograf Film Festival', Vologda, Russia.^[27] His short documentary, "The Indus Code" was shortlisted for the 6th International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kerala. ^[28][29] His 48 hour film project film "The Interpreter" won an award for Best Special Effects and was officially selected to be screened at Germany After Dark Horror Fest.^[30][31] He has also worked as cinematographer, editor and lyricist in his films.

Filmography

Year	Film	Genre	Awards	Credited as
				director	Producer	Screenwriter
2013	Varanasi	romance drama	Best Foreign Film, Downbeach Film Festival, New Jersey	Yes	Yes	Yes
2013	The Girl Upstairs	romance drama	Official entry: 2nd Delhi Film Festival	Yes	Yes	Yes

References

1. San Diego Book Award for Dark Rooms
2. The Other Wife-Novel in Verse
3. San Diego Unpublished Manuscript Award
4. San Diego Unpublished Manuscript Award
5. Article on CNN -Delhi Rape
6. Article on CNN-Delhi Rape
7. http://prospectjournal.org/2013/01/30/she-said-no-he-heard-yes-americas-rape-culture/
8. Article on CNN – girl education in Bihar
9. Poetry in Grey Sparrow Press
10. Poetry in Eastown fiction
11. Poetry in Carter Street Review
12. Poetry in Wilderness House Literary Review
13. Poetry in River Poets Journal
14. Book Review by Best Reviews
15. Asian Journal on Dark Rooms
16. Book Review-The Other Wife
17. Book Review by One India-The Other Wife
18. Siddharth Katragadda Painting Exhibition on Indian Art Collectors
19. Siddharth Katragadda Painting Exhibition Chitra Kala Parishad
20. Siddharth Katragadda at Art Walk San Diego
21. IndianArtCollectors.com
22. http://www.thecityguide.in/Bangalore/Central-Bangalore/Cunningham/Events/Group-Exhibition-SNINFS/EditorsNote/
23. http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/attend/article5411694.ece
24. http://www.downbeachfilmfestival.org/
25. http://my.secrds.com/containers/103bd40e372c4af4f389b82f72339b61/site/schedule.pdf
26. http://downbeach.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/varanasi_siddharthkatragadda_downbeach2013
27. Short Film wins special award at Russian Film Fest
28. http://iffk.in/idsffk/images/9th-Day.pdf
29. http://idsffk.keralafilm.com/informfilm.html
30. http://www.48hourfilm.com/en/sandiego/
31. http://germanyafterdark.com/index.php/official-selection/science-fiction?start=6

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