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| D Yoganand |
Yoganand was born on April 16, 1922 in Madras. Yoganand's father Venkata Das was an estate manager under Nawaab Raza Ali Khan of Machilipatnam. |
Yoganand joined Jiten Benarjee of Newtone Studios, a noted camera man of that time. Later, he also worked with another popular cameraman of the time, Rehman. In 1943, he joined as an editor, upon the recommendation of Gudavalli Rambhramam, with Manikyam who was working for the film Maayalokam - that was his first paid job! He also worked as an assistant director to Gudavalli at that time.
After Maayalokam, comedian Lanka Satyam started the film Bhakta Tulasidas and asked Yoganand to join his troupe. They made the film in Salem and so Yoganand went along and worked for the next three years there as an assistant director for Tamil and Telugu films, while also working as an editor also for some films.
He came back to Madras in 1949 and joined the story department of Chittoor V. Nagayya's Renuka Productions. He worked along with the Lingamurthy in the story department. Lingamurthy then got an offer to direct the film Samsaaram, and Yoganand was taken as his assistant for the film. But, due to certain reasons, Lingamurthy came out of the project, and L.V. Prasad replaced him as the film's director. However, Yoganand had known L.V. Prasad already, and so he was still retained in the project. Eventually, the film gave a fresh image to ANR and was the first biggest hit for ANR in social films.
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