Darivemula Ramajogayya Sastry was born on August 24, 1970 in Arepalli Muppalla,
Palnadu district, Andhra Pradesh, India, and is an Indian film lyricist in
Telugu cinema. The son of Suryaprakasa Rao and Saraswatamma, Sastry earned a
B.Tech from NIT Warangal and an M.Tech from IIT Kharagpur before working as a
metallurgical engineer in Bengaluru and Secunderabad. He began his lyric-writing
career contributing two songs to the film Yuvasena, a remake of 4 The People,
earning ₹20,000. His breakthrough came with “Om Namaste Bolo” in the film Ready,
followed by the devotional track “Sa...