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The Inspiring Story Of Padma Sri Awardee Chintakindi Mallesham



The Inspiring Story Of Padma Sri Awardee Chintakindi Mallesham

Born in a weaver’s family, Mallesham is a traditional weaver of Pochampalli silk sarees in Sharjipet. With a strong desire to relieve his mother’s pain, he went to design a machine to mechanise the Asu process. While working at a workshop in Hyderabad, he noticed a machine’s movement and quickly returned home to give the final touch to his Asu machine that brought a revolution for the weavers in Andhra Pradesh & Telangana. He named it after his mother, the Laxmi Asu Handloom Machine.

Born in a weaver’s family, Mallesham is a traditional weaver of Pochampalli silk sarees in Sharjipet. With a strong desire to relieve his mother’s pain, he went to design a machine to mechanise the Asu process. While working at a workshop in Hyderabad, he noticed a machine’s movement and quickly returned home to give the final touch to his Asu machine that brought a revolution for the weavers in Andhra Pradesh & Telangana. He named it after his mother, the Laxmi Asu Handloom Machine.

KTR sends best wishes to the team of Padmasri Chintakindi Mallesham's biopic.

The Inspiring Story Of Padma Sri Awardee Chintakindi Mallesham

Telangana Minister KT Rama Rao, who is fondly known as KTR, is thrilled over the biopic of Padmasri Chintakindi Mallesham and he has sent his best wishes to the team on Twitter.


The Inspiring Story Of Padma Sri Awardee Chintakindi Mallesham

Chintakindi Mallesham's biopic is titled Mallesham and it is an emotional story about a mother and son. The son is a school dropout but goes on to invent the weaving machine without any prior knowledge of electronics or mechanics. Priyadarshi and Jhansi are playing the roles of son and mother, respectively.


The Inspiring Story Of Padma Sri Awardee Chintakindi Mallesham



The Inspiring Story Of Padma Sri Awardee Chintakindi Mallesham



The Inspiring Story Of Padma Sri Awardee Chintakindi Mallesham

Chintakindi Mallesham is a son of handloom weaver Lakshmi, who used to wind metres of silk yarn on to a large frame. This Class VI dropout from a village in Telangana, who could not see his mother undergo a lot of shoulder and elbow ache due to the repetitive work, invented Asu machine, which processes yarn mechanically. The 42-year-old was honoured and was awarded the Padma Shri this Republic Day.


The Inspiring Story Of Padma Sri Awardee Chintakindi Mallesham


KTR Promoting This Biopic!

The Inspiring Story Of Padma Sri Awardee Chintakindi Mallesham

Trailer of Mallesham, a biopic on the weaver turned engineer from Telangana, was released yesterday to overwhelming response. Actor Priyadarshi, who is playing the titular character in the movie, looks promising in the role of the Padma Shri winner who won laurels after his invention of the Asu machine which is used in weaving.

It seems like, TRS Working President KTR who is promoting handlooms in Telangana is awed with Mallesham trailer. “Watch the trailer of @MalleshamMovie - a biopic based on the inspiring journey of a rural innovator Chintakindi Mallesham from Telangana. He was awarded Padma Shri in 2017 for inventing Asu machine. Best wishes to the entire movie crew.”

It is known that, the movie traces the journey of Mallesham, a sixth grade drop-out who turned into an engineer and inventor after seeing his mother toiling to weave the traditional Pochampally sarees.

Mallesham is slated for release on June 21st. Needless to say that, Telangana government will lend full support to the film directed by Raj R.

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Mallesham Theatrical Trailer