Akkineni Nageswara Rao
Akkineni Nageswara Rao ( Telugu: అక్కినేని నాగేశ్వరరావు; born September 20, 1924 in Venkataraghavapuram in the district of Krishna, Andhra Pradesh, † January 22, 2014 in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh ) was an Indian film actor of the Telugu film. He is known by the acronym ANR.
Life
As a child Nageswara Rao acted as a stage actor; he played at the age of 12 years, a woman's role in the play Harishchandra. With the theater group Excelsior Dramatic Association, he later gained a reputation as a talented in Gudivada woman performer. He made his film debut in 1940 in P. Pullaiahs Dharmapatni and then he joined occasionally in films. In his second, the mythological film Seeta Rama Jananam (1942 ) by G. Balaramaiah he took over the male lead role of Rama. With the success of Keelugurram (1949 ) next to Anjali Devi and the first Telugu film adaptation of the Sufi legend Laila Majnu, in which he played the lead role of Qais directed by PS Ramakrishna Rao, alongside his wife Bhanumathi Ramakrishna as Laila, began his rise zm movie star. NT Rama Rao Together with he joined in 1950 in two films, Palletoori Pilla and Samsaram on. Both actors were in the next three decades to the male " superstars " of the Telugu film.
After some melodramatic films with Bhanumathi he was successful in addition to the actress Savitri in Devadasu K. (1953), a Teluguversion of Sharatchandra Chattopadhyays Devdas directed V. Raghavaiahs. Nageswara Rao was at home in many film genres; he played except mythological films and melodramas in adventure films and social dramas. Among his best known films include Vipranarayana (1954 ), Tenali Ramakrishna (1956 ), Maya Bazaar (1957 ), Suvarna Sundari (1957 ), Doctor Chakravarthi (1964 ), Prem Nagar (1971 ), Chakradhari (1977) and Megha Sandesam (1982 ).
He campaigned to bring them into the land of their native language for the installation of the film industry of Telugu film of Chennai (Tamil Nadu ) to Hyderabad ( Andhra Pradesh ). The Director Subba Rao Adurthi 1957 he founded the production company Annapurna Pictures, which produced among other artistically ambitious movies of Subba Rao and K. Vishwanath and until 1976 was to full-fledged film studios.
Nageswara Rao was honored in 1990 with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for his outstanding contribution to Indian cinema. He was also winner of the Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and the Padma Shri of.
His younger son Nagarjuna is also an actor in Telugu and Hindi movie.