the phrase bapu bomma has become the gold standard for telugu womans beauty in telugu cinema and culture the lines of the hit number bapugari bomma from attarintiki daredi reflect the essence of feminine telugu beauty hey bongaralanti kallu thippindi ungaralunna juttu thippindi gingiralette nadumopullo nanne tippindi ammo bapu gari bommo olammo mallepula kommo goes the number loose translation rotating her eyes like tops twirling her curly hair shaking her hips making me crazy oh my god bapu bomma or a branch of jasmine whether it was sangeetha in the 1975 classic muthyala muggujyothi in vamsa vruksham 1980 divyavani in pelli pustakam 1991 sneha in radha gopalam 2005 and last but not the least nayanthara as sita in sri ramarajyam bapus actresses have epitomised telugu beauty onscreen a gifted illustrator bapu sattiraju lakshmi narayana had a unique style which he seamlessly adapted to the telugu screen he could tell an entire story through storyboards and thats a rarity these days one of his biggest contributions to art is the bapu bomma series where he depicted his idea of an ideal telugu woman big eyes sharp nose and voluptuous body a lot of arts students who hailed from small towns and villages especially from the andhra region were influenced by his work and imitated him its not creative drawingwhich is taught in most colleges but it suited quite well to storytelling in films several students ended up working as assistants to the assistants of bapu explains artist fawad tamkanat actress nayanthara echoes similar sentiments saying he was like a father figure i am so lucky to have worked with him he is a genius a living legend who made every frame of sri ramarajyam look like a painting after the movies shooting was donebapu garu gifted me a beautiful painting from ramayana which i will treasure forever actress pranitha subhash never met the iconic filmmaker but reckons being called bapu bomma was the biggest compliment she ever got although i never got a chance to meet and interact with bapu i felt a connection with him and his work almost everyone on the sets was going gaga over the song and they sort of introduced me to the works of bapu recently i read a quote which said that if a woman is beautiful shes called an angel in english and a bapu bomma in telugu i think that sums up the legacy he has left behind says pranitha actress charmme rates working in the bapudirected sundarakanda as the greatest learning experience of her career i was a bapus fan even before i worked with him i had seen a lot of his films and illustrations and when i got a chance to work with him in sundarakanda i sort of imitated his paintings on the first day of the shoot when i enacted a scene where i had to light a lamp he was so surprised with what i had done that he came to me patted on my