Sattiraju Lakshminarayana, well known by his stage name Bapu, was a Telugu and a few Hindi film directors, painter, illustrator, cartoonist, scriptwriter, musician, and designer from India. Bapu was born on December 15, 1933, in Narsapur, Andhra Pradesh. He graduated from the University of Madras with a B.Com. and a BL. He began working as a political cartoonist for the newspaper Andhra Patrika in 1945. He appeared in the Doordarshan documentary Eminent Cartoonists of India in 1996, and the Indian Institute of Cartoonists honoured him with its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. Through his artistic endeavours, such as Bapu Bomma, The Navarasas, and the Indian Dances, etc., which were presented at the National Film Theatre in London in 1978 and at the numerous Telugu Conferences in the United States, he earned international renown. For J. Walter Thomson, Efficient Publications, and F. D. Stewarts, Chennai, he has worked as a graphic artist. In 2013, he was awarded the Padma Shri for his contribution to Indian art and cinema, as well as two National Honours, two National Film Awards, seven state Nandi Awards, two Filmfare Awards South, a Raghupathi Venkaiah Award, and a Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award South.