Akkineni Nageswara Rao Profile

Akkineni Nageswara Rao an actor as big as life, an artiste more than a star, a living legend in the history of Telugu film industry also known as ANR.

Nageswara Rao was born 20 September 1924 at Ramapuram, Gudivada in a poor farmer’s family, he education was only primary schooling and due to his parents’ poor economic conditions he take up acting at a very early age in street plays where he often played in female roles.

His first debut Telugu film was Dharmapatni, where he played the role as one of the hero’s childhood friends, but later he continued as a part time stage actor and acted in several Telugu plays such as Ashoka Jyothy, Sathyanveshana and Telugu Talli.

A famous Telugu filmmaker Ghantasala Balaramaiah, offered a role in his upcoming movie Seeta Rama Jananam in the role of Lord Rama to Akkineni Nageswara Rao.

Akkineni Nageswara Rao  acted in several Telugu films some of his prominent films that have been financial and  success flims are Missamma, Ardhangi Kalidasu, , MayaBazaar, Dr. Chakravarthi, Muga Manasulu, Dasara Bullodu, Tenali Rama Krishna, Devadasu.

He gave new dimensions to the dances with his variety of dancing steps in is films. Nageswara Rao was a singing hero of the old times who sang for himself in some movies,Nageswara Rao  was the contemporary to NTR who jointly shared popularity as one of the greatest Telugu actors for almost 40 years.

He was the first Telugu hero to migrate from Chennai to Hyderabad to develop film industry in AP and gave a five-point plan to state government about how to improve the Telugu Cinema industry in AP. Since there were no studios in AP at that time, then Nageswara Rao established Annapurna studios after his wife’s name Annapurna.

Nageswara Rao is married to Akkineni Annapurna and two sons and a daughter  one of his son Akkineni Nagarjuna is a well known actor Telugu film industry, and his family has produced several notable artists to Telugu film industry.

In his 69 years in the Telugu film industry, Akkineni Nageswara Rao has played the lead role in over 256 Telugu films and 26 Tamil films. Several of these films turned out to be financial and critical successes.

Awards:

Dada Saheb Phalke Award,
Padma Vibhushan,
Padma Bhushan,
Padma Shri,
Kalimamani,
Raghupati Venkayya Award.
Film fare Best Telugu Actor awards for four times
Kalidasu award by the MP Government at a national level.

Filmography:

Sudigundalu
Bangaru Gajulu
Govula Gopanna
Manchikutumbam
Brahmachari
Sri krishnarjuna yuddam
Pula Rangadu
Prana Mithrulu
Gruhalakshmi
Rahasyam
Vasantha Sena
Manase Mandiram
Navarathri
Kalimilemulu
Kula Gothralu
Veluguneedalu
Bharyabharthalu
Batasari
Vaagdhanam
Bhakta Jayadev
Iddaru Mitrulu
Maababu
Abhimanam

Name              : Akkineni Nageswara Rao
Other Names: ANR, Natasamrat
Date of Birth   : September 20, 1924
Place of Birth: Venkataraghavapuram, Dist. Krishna,
Wife                : Akkineni Annapurna
Profession      : Actor
Debut Film      : Dharmapatni

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