Following his role as the titular protagonist in Balachandrudu (1990) while still a child, his career went on hiatus so he could concentrate on his education until taking on his first lead role as an adult in the 1999 film Raja Kumarudu, for which he won the Nandi Award for Best Male Debut. He continued to perform as a child actor in several films, most of which featured his father Krishna. He first appeared in the 1979 film Needa when he was four years old. Mahesh Babu is an Indian actor and producer known for his work in Telugu cinema.
IN June 1948, several film enthusiasts were injured in a police lathi-charge at a cinema hall in Vijayawada.Mahesh Babu at the audio launch of Selvandhan, the Tamil dubbed version of Srimanthudu, in 2015
The massive crowd that had gathered at the celebration of the 100th day run ofīalaraju (Ghantasala Balaramaiah) to catch a glimpse of the film’s stars had apparently startled the policemen on duty who resorted to the time-tested technique of crowd control.
In the years that followed, lathi-charges became a regular feature of the festivities engendered by Telugu cinema. The 1948 event marks the beginning of what would evolve into a fan culture that was only rivalled by its Tamil counterpart. The star who arrived on the scene at this historic moment was Akkineni Nageswara Rao.Īs far as his contribution to the film industry is concerned, Akkineni is second to none, not even the film star-turned-politician Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao (NTR). ANR, as he came to be popularly known later, had earned quite a reputation playing female roles in an amateur theatre group called Excelsior, where he was paid five rupees per performance. He began his film career too, in 1940, playing a female role. Such was his mastery over female roles that he had to struggle to act like a man. He was quick to make the transition and, in the mid-1940s, he began to be cast as the male lead in films of reputed directors such as C. Many years later, he would recall that learning and unlearing to play female roles was the main reason he could excel as an alcoholic and a devotee on screen though he was a teetotaller and a non-believer.īalaraju, the ANR character is of secondary importance to the story. Like most films of the period, it revolved around the female lead S.
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