Ponnekallu - History

History

Until 200 years back, Ponnekallu used to be separate villages with small groups of people. These group of people were brought together by laying foundation for Ponnekallu village by Syamala surname family from Reddys community and Muppalla, Gurram surnames families from Kamma's community and Koppu Surname family Yadava's Community.

Well Known People from Ponnekallu

Shri Sheik Nazar garu, who got Padma Shri award in 1986 for his excellence in Arts (Burra Katha). His statue was located at bus stand center in Ponnekallu and it was inaugurated by Smt.Jamuna(veteran film actress).

Sri D.V.K.Rami Reddy garu is the main donor for Ponnekallu high school which was established 60 years back. This school helped thousands of people to get educated from Ponnekallu, Damarapalli and Garikapadu villages

Gurram Kotaiah garu, who worked as surpanch for ponnekallu village. He worked very hard for the village development. His statue is placed in ponnekallu at siva center(Bodrai center).

Sri Kasukurthi Kotaiah Garu, who worked as Village Munasabu for Ponnekallu village. He worked very hard for the village development. He is well respected while he is leading the village with integrity. After late N.T. Rama Rao came into the power the village Munasab and Karanam posts are eliminated.

Kommineni Apparao garu, popularly known as Sangeetam Chakravarthy (Telugu Music Director), is a native of Ponnekallu village in Thadikonda Mandal of Guntur district. He worked as a singer and composer for All India Radio in 1954. Later he entered the film industry, as a singer in 1958, through the film 'Jaya Vijaya' under Vithalacharya's direction. Then he tried his hand as music director in 1962 but failed. He restarted his career as music director through 'Mooga Prema', produced by K Chatterjee under G Ramineedu's direction in 1969. He shot into famous with the tunes in 'Sarada'. He also did dubbing to actors like Kamal Hassan (Manmatha Leela) and Nagesh (Server Sundaram).

Sri Muppalla Janardhan garu, is a native of Ponnekallu village. He acted in many movies as guest role artist. For sometime he was the leader for junior artists. Now he is acting in Telugu & Tamil TV serials and playing major roles. All serials are produced from Chennai. He is also taking care of direction department.

Sri Muppalla Sankara Rao garu, is a native of Ponnekallu village. He is serving education department for the past 30 years as a teacher in ZP High Schools. He is one of the best teachers in Andhra Pradesh and state level resource person for Mathematics and Physical Sciences. He was on the role of AP Gazetted Head Masters Association State General Secretary for around 8 years. He was the author of Physical Sciences question banks for SSC students and study materials for Polytechnic, APRJC entrance tests. He received best teacher awards from many organizations.