Akkineni Nageswara Rao

Akkineni Nageswara Rao known as ANR. He is one of the first fully commercial Telugu Cinema heroes. His works includes mythological, folk tale, social, adventure and drama.
He is also a recipient of the Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. He is the first person to cause the shift of Telugu film industry to Andhra Pradesh from Chennai, Tamilnadu in an attempt to bring together the mother tongue of industry and industry itself.  Soon after the move to Hyderabad, Nageswara Rao founded his own production house, Annapoorna Studios located in Banjara Hill.His younger son Nagarjuna is also an actor inTelugu and Hindi films.His elder son Venkat is taking care of Annapurna Studios. He is a film producer. Recently he acted in a film called "chukkallo chandrudu" with young hero Siddhardh.

 He is specifically remembered in Andhra Pradesh for his biographical roles like Vipranarayana, Chakradhari, Tukaram, Kalidasu, Jayadeva, Tenali Ramakrishna, Kshethrayya etc. Moreover he is popular as hero of popular fiction (Novels) which were made into films e.g. Doctor Chakravarthi, Prema Nagar, Devadasu, Secretary etc.
Date of Birth: September 20, 1923.
Highest Award: Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1990 for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema.
Related: Akkineni Nageswrara Rao College, Gudiwada
http://www.anrcollege.edu/

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