Pen name Sid Name Siddharth Katragadda Period 2002–present | Ethnicity IndiaHindu Rationalist Nationality US Role Writer | |
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Occupation Artist, filmmaker, writer, engineer Alma mater University of Texas, Arlington, The Frank Anthony Public School, Bengaluru, St. Joseph's College, Bangalore Books The Other Wife, Dark Rooms: A Saga Relatives Tripuraneni Gopichand, Tripuraneni Ramaswamy | ||
Siddharth Katragadda is an writer, filmmaker, artist and poet of Indian origin.
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Writing
Katragadda's first book, Dark Rooms: A Novel in Verse, was published in September 2002 and won an award at the San Diego Book Prize, 2002. His second Novel in Verse, The Other wife also won the same award in 2003. His first novel was finalist at the 2010 San Diego Awards (unpublished manuscript). Numerous articles written by him have been published on CNN. 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.
His work has been reviewed in the journals like "The Best Reviews", Book Review Asian Journal and "One India"Book Review by One India – Dark Rooms
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.
Films
He is an award-winning filmmaker/screenwriter. His screenplay was a Quarterfinalist at the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards, 2016. and the WeScreenplay Screenplay Awards - and Semi-finalist at the Southern California Screenplay Contest. His short film "Varanasi" won the Best Foreign Film Award at the Atlantic City CineFest, New Jersey, 2013. His short film "Flight Delayed" won a prize award at the '9th Multimatograf Film Festival', Vologda, Russia. His short documentary, "The Indus Code" was shortlisted for the 6th International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kerala. His short film "The Interpreter" won an award for Best Special Effects and was officially selected to be screened at Germany After Dark Horror Fest. He has also worked as cinematographer, editor and lyricist in his films.