1940 Lo Oka Gramam

1940 Lo Oka Gramam
1940 Lo Oka Gramam
Directed by	Narasimha Nandi
Written by	Vadapalli Raghu babu
Based on	Nayudu Pilla; by Gudipati Venkatachalam
Produced by	N. C. Narasimham
Starring	Baladitya; Sri Ramya; Rallapalli; Mukku Raju; Rajitha
Music by	Saketh Sairam
Release date	2008;
Country	India
Language	Telugu

1940 Lo Oka Gramam (transl. A village in 1940) is a 2008 Indian Telugu-language period drama film directed by Narasimha Nandi. It stars Baladitya and Sri Ramya, with Rallapalli, Mukkuraju, Rajitha and Gundu Hanumantha Rao in supporting roles. It is inspired by the story Nayudu Pilla written by Gudipati Venkata Chalam. The director mentions that Nayudu Pilla inspired him to develop the story.^[1] It is produced by N. C. Narasimham.^[2]

Cast

Despite winning accolades, the film remained unreleased for two years and had a poor theatrical performance.^[2]^[4]

Year	Award category	Winner	Ref.
2008	National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu	N. C. Narasimham	^[5]
	Sarojini Devi Award for a Film on National Integration	N. C. Narasimham
	Nandi Award for Best Character Actor	Mukku Raju	^[6]
	Nandi Special Jury Award	Sri Ramya	^[7]

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Nandi Special Jury Award
1983–1990	Vijayachander (1983) Karthik (1987) Kallu Chidambaram (1988) Chiranjeevi (1988) Venkatesh (1988) Jagapathi Babu (1990)
1991–2000	Naresh (1992) Suman (1997) Ravi Teja (1999) Venu Thottempudi (1999) AVS (2000) Srihari (2000) Nagarjuna (2000) Manjula Ghattamaneni (2001) Mahesh Babu (2001)
2001–2010	Surya (2001) N. T. Rama Rao Jr (2002) Ravi Teja (2002) Mahesh Babu (2002) Pavan Malhotra (2003) Saritha (2004) Mahesh Babu (2004) Allu Arjun (2004) Sneha (2005) Priyadarshini Ram (2005) Vadde Naveen (2005) Gangaraju Gunnam (2006) Genelia D'Souza (2006) Ram Charan (2007) Bhumika Chawla (2007) Allu Arjun (2008) Anushka Shetty (2008) Genelia D'Souza (2009) Ram Charan (2009) Srikanth (2009) Manchu Manoj (2010) Sunil (2010) Samantha Ruth Prabhu (2010)
2011–present	Nagarjuna (2011) Charmy Kaur (2011) S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (2012) Lakshmi (2012) Gautham Vasudev Menon (2012) Anjali (2013) Nithya Menen (2015) Nani (2016)