
Many of his novels have been made into motion pictures in Telugu. He built an ashram at Kakinada, a one-crore project to teach the importance of education to tribal students free of cost. His book 'Success in Five Steps' holds an all-time record in Telugu literature, surpassing sales of more than two crore rupees.

In an opinion poll in 1982 conducted by Andhrajyoti, he was one among "4 most popular persons" of the state, others being N.T. His film Vennelloa Aadapilla (వెన్నెల్లో ఆడపిల్ల) won Film fare award. His film, 'oka Voori Katha (ఒక ఊరి కథ)’ won best regional film award from President of India. His TV Serials won Golden Nandi awards for best direction and production.
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His another popular novel Tulasi Dalam was first adapted into a Kannada movie (1985) titled Thulasidala and later in Telugu as Tulasidalam (1989),in Hindi as Phoonk (2008) and its remake in Telugu as Raksha (2008). He directed films with artists like Chiranjeevi, Ramya Krishna etc. He is a motivational speaker and has delivered speeches at Australia, Tanzania, Indonesia, Singapore, US and, the UK. His works have been translated into Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, English, and Hindi. He is an acclaimed novelist, playwright, and State Sahitya Academy award winner.


He worked for 15 years in various financial institutions as a senior executive. Yandamuri Veerendranath is from East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh.
