If there is a good looking girl, it's customary for Andhra people to say she looks like "Baapu Geesina Bomma". This is the greatness of Bapu. In fact, the phrase Bapu Bomma (Bapu's painting) has become synonymous with a beautiful Telugu girl. Another character called Rendu Jadala Seetha ("Seetha with two plaits") later became a synonym for any girl wearing two plaits.

Girls from Andhra Pradesh, wherever they are, take it as a compliment when they are called a Bapu Bomma. The artist-film maker has immortalised the classic beauties of Andhra Pradesh through his very popular films, thousands of magazine illustrations and other works of art. Every college girl spare no effort to look like his creation ‘Bapu Bomma'.

బాపు రమణల బొమ్మల కథలు. Bapu Ramana's cartoon stories