During 1980s and 90s Yandamoori Veerendranath held the status as a number one novelist of Andhra Pradesh. Even then, the top writer earned a little fame among a section of literate people.
However, Yandamoori shot to extreme limelight when he teamed up with Megastar Chiranjeevi, Ilayaraja, A Kodandarami Reddy and KS Rama Rao for a series of films. He even got an opportunity to direct the Megastar's film Stuvertpuram Police Stations.
Afterwards, Yandamoori's fame gradually eroded as a celeb from film industry. On the other side, he stopped writing novels too. Right now, Yandamoori is appearing as a motivational speaker in engineering colleges and other educational institutions.
According to some gossip mongers Yandamoori suffers identity crisis reminding the days when had ruled the roost of his career way back. The other day when 'IMPACT', an inspiring three day camp was held in the city of Kakinada, some great people's pictures were shown as visuals on the screen and were explained by a psychologist. When Yandamoori's turn came next, he straightaway indulged in flattery on himself and said he should also have been a place among those pictures shown on the screen. It would be better for Yandamoori to restart writing novels to avoid psychological syndromes.