ANR Biography

Akkineni Nageshwara Rao  Akkineni Nageswara Rao Telugu: Was (born 20 September 1924) at Venkataraghavapuram, Gudivada Taluk, Krishna District), also known as ANR, is a Telugu Cinema film actor from Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh. His films include a diverse range of genres which include mythological, folk tale, social, adventure and drama.

Family

Nageswara Rao is also worked in many drama in the stages etc. He has the 69 of the acting career. He nearly  from the 1941 in the flim industry. He was the no.1 hero till the his generation ends.and that time. In the film industry that time the ANR is the one eye and the (NTR is the another eye for the telugu industry).he is the father of telugu cinema current superstar nagarjuna and the grandfather of the nagachaitanya,sushanth,sumanth and akhil.his wife is the Akkineni Annapurna.he also has studio in the hyderabad carated by his  wife name.

His family was very poor.he stoped studying in the early of his age only. .He started acting in street plays at the age of 9 and acted in several plays.in those the male takes the lead and female is not used to acts. and he plays the plays the female role in the street dramas.The first Indian feature film Raja Harichandra&Nageswara Rao in his early days as an actor used to act such female roles on stage.He acted more than 260 movies in his career.

Career

First Talkie film of Telugu Cinema 'Bhakta Prahlada' was released in 1931. Akkineni Nageswara Rao's (ANR) first film Dharmapatni was released in 1941. Seeta Rama Jananam is his first film as Hero Rama. He is the recipient of Dada Saheb Phalke Award, the Raghupati Venkayya Award, and the Kalidasu award granted by MP Government at national level. He was appointed as an adviser to the State Film Development Corporation. Rao built the Annapurna studio facilities and created Annapurna Pictures. The Akkineni Nageswara Rao award was created for the best film.

Personal life

He is married to Akkineni Annapurna, after whom he named the Annupurna Studio. His son Akkineni Nagarjuna is an actor in Andhra Pradesh.
Awards

Nageswara Rao was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1990 for his lifetime contributions to Indian cinema. He is also a recipient of the Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. He received NTR National Award for the year 2005

Premabhishekam

Akkineni's Premabhishekam (directed by Dasari Narayana Rao) is one of the biggest hits in Tollywood. Premabhishekam had an amazing 533 days run in Hyderabad City which is still highest run in a city for telugu movies. Premabhishekam is the only Telugu film that ran for 365+ days continuously.

Nageswara Rao’s first Telugu film was Dharmapatni, a 1941 Telugu film , wherein he played the role of one of the hero’s childhood friends. He later continued his career as a part time stage actor and acted in several renowned Telugu plays such as Ashoka jyothy, Sathyanveshana and Telugu talli. On one such occasion, when he was travelling back from a play inTenali, he was spotted on the Vijayawada railway station by Ghantasala Balaramaiah a Telugu film maker of those days and was immediately offered a role in his upcoming movie Seeta Rama Jananam. He was later cast in this movie in the role of Lord Rama.

In his career spanning 69 years in the Telugu film industry, he 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. Amongst other things, Nageswara Rao is credited for influencing Telugu film producers and creating a base for Telugu films in Hyderabad.

Telugu film industry in its early days worked out of Madras (now, Chennai) in Tamil Nadu. The new state of Andhra Pradesh was carved out from the Madras Presidency on 1 November 1956 and several leaders opined that in order to create a sepaarate identity for the Telugu film industry, it had to be based out of Hyderabad – the then capital of Andhra Pradesh. ANR was one of the actors of that period who insisted on creating a base for Telugu films in Hyderabad and established his own production studio, Annapurna Studios, to facilitate this.