Kosaraju or Kosaraju Raghavaiah or Kosaraju Raghavaiah Chowdary was a Telugupoet and writer. He wrote about 3000 songs for 350 Telugu films. [1][2] His lyrics are steeped in Telugu folklore and rural idiom. Born in 1905 in an agricultural family in Appikatla village, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, Raghavaih studied Telugu literature, epics and puranas.