Malladi Ramakrishna Sastry (16 June 1905 – 12 September 1965) was a Telugu writer.
[1] Their family has settled in Bandar (Machilipatnam) during his childhood.
He learnt Vedas from Yadavalli Subbavadhanulu, Mahabhashyam from Nori Subramanya Sastry and Brahmasutras from Sistla Narasimha Sastry.
[citation needed] Malladi wrote about 150 songs for nearly 40 films.
[2] He died of Cerebral hemorrhage due to Hypertension on 12 September 1965 in Chennai.