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Savitri, an actress par excellence from the golden age of South Indian Cinema, mainly Telugu and Tamil, saw enormous love from audience for being a great beauty and best actress. Her roles in films like Mayabazaar, Missamma, Ardhangi, Donga Ramudu, Devadasu, Aradhana, Sumangali, Velugu Needalu, Devatha and many more. She was complimented the most by Akkineni Nageswara Rao saying that she improved a lot from Devadasu days to a stage where acting with her became a competition and if they were not on their money, she would easily grab the attention. About her, Sobhan Babu too shared an experience saying that while doing a scene with her, they had an exchange in the scene.He was waiting for her to complete her line to react but she took a pause and he thought if she forgot the lines but actually she gave an expression during the pause. Watching the scene on screen he was mesmerized it seems. Many many such testimonies about her talent has she acted in mote than 200 films in both Telugu and Tamil, 110 in Telugu and 92 in Tamil. But in her personal life she was not as lucky as she was on screen. She fell in love with Tamil actor Gemini Ganeshan, at an early age and married him in 1955. The actor was already married and he married 4 women in his life. She was addicted to alcohol during her later career stages before diagnosed with blood cancer.At the age of 45, she looked like a 60 year old due to her disease and in her last films, she looked completely different from her popular self. She is survived by her daughter, Vijaya Chamundeswari who had a turbulent relationship during her dying stage. Capturing this larger than life image and person on screen to perfection is huge challenge and Yevade Subramanyam fame, Naga Ashwin took up the tough task to accomplish the impossible. Ashwini Dutt will be producing the movie. Who will be Savitri has been a big question? The answer was Samantha till yesterday but the team has clarified that Samantha is playing a key role and Keerthy Suresh is being finalised to play Savitri. It is 99% confirmed and the young actress is kicked about the part. She has to complete the official signing on the dotted line to concrete the agreement.
Nithya Menon Beats Vidya Balan and Anushka!
Nithya Menen is said to have finalised to essay the role of Mahanati Savitri in the veteran actress biopic. Although the names like Vidya Balan, Anushka Shetty did rounds earlier for veteran actress biopic, Nithya apparently beaten both Vidya, Anushka to bag the plum project. The biopic of Savitri will be helmed by Nag Ashwini who made decent debut with Yevade Subramanyam. Nithya is well-known for her performances and got noticed despite doing only few films. This is said to have impressed the makers to zero in on Nithya. The film will be Telugu-Tamil bilingual as Savitri is equally popular in Tamil, Telugu. Born on January 4, 1936, Savitri made her acting debut in 1950 Telugu-Tamil drama Samarasam, and went on to star in several classics such as Devadasu, Missamma, Penin Perumai, Pasa Malar, Bhale Ramudu, 'Thodi Kodallu, Mayabazaar and Gundamma Katha. Besides donning the greasepaint, Savitri also directed a few films such as Chinnari Papalu, Chiranjeevi and Mathru Devatha. She was even a popular playback singer. Subsequently, her personal life saw lows and pushed her into depression. It's learnt that the movie wouldn't touch the dark side of her life and would focus more on the happier times of her and her contribution to cinema. The yet-to-be-titled film would be a tribute to the first lady superstar of Telugu Cinema.
Actor ANR passed away
Legendary actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao (90) passed away. He breathed his last on Wednesday [January 22] early morning at Care Hospital. ANR has been suffering from cancer from past few days and has been undergoing treatment. Akkineni Nageswara Rao acted in 256 films including Telugu and Tamil. Born on September 20 in 1924, he started his career on stage and made his entry in cinema industry with Dharmapatni in 1941. The legendary actor has acted in Manam and the film has been under production. ANR is the only Telugu actor who was honored by Indian Government with Padma Vibhushan for his contribution towards Cinema. He was also honored with Dada Saheb Phalke Award. Nageswara Rao played varied roles in his career and has brought perfection to the characterizations such as romantic and devotional roles. Gundamma Katha, Batasari, Missamma, Devadasu, Maya Bazar, Suvarna Sundari, Vipranarayana, Tenali Rama Krishna, Dasara Bullodu, Prem Nagar, Andala Ramudu, Muga Manasulu, Premabhishekam, Megha Sandesham, Sutradharulu, Sri Ramadasu, Sri Ramarajyam and many more include his finest works. An era in Indian Cinema comes to an end with ANR passing away. Indian Cinema has lost irreplaceable legendary actor today... But Akkineni Nageswara Rao will live on forever with his movies… Rest In Peace ANR!!!
Allu Ramalingaiahs 86th Birth Anniversary
Padma Sri awardee for the best comedy only next to Relangi and an eminent character artist Late Sri Allu Ramalingaiah (1922-2004), is well known for his special mark of serving the humour quotient. Today, the 1st of October is the great artist's 86th Birth Anniversary. Fondly called as Allu, he began his film career in 1953 with 'Puttillu'. In his fifty year journey of tinselville, he has acted an enormous number of over 1000 films. 'Jai' a year before his demise was his last film. He had a special mark of comedy, with unique mannerisms, apt comedic timing and his own special nasal voice. This gave him a special place amongst his contemporary comedians like Relangi, Rajubabu, Padmanabham, Ramana Reddy. He is also recognized for his unique character roles that exhibited negative shades with artists like RaoGopal Rao, Nagabhushanam. He also played many memorable roles in films like 'Mayabazar', 'Missamma', 'Sankarabharanam' and 'Yamagola'. He was awarded the prestigious Padma Sri for his outstanding contribution to Telugu Cinema for the year 1990. He was also felicitated with Raghupathy Venkaiah award for his contribution to Telugu Cinema for the year 2001. Nritya Kala Mandali awarded him the title 'Hasya Kala Prapoorna' for his contribution to Praja Natya Mandali before he ventured in to the film industry. His family is very closely associated with the industry having a star producer and distributor Allu Arvind his son, megastar Chiranjeevi his son-in-law and his brothers Nagababu and Pawan Kalyan along with Allu Arjun, Ram Charan Teja, Allu Sirish who are his grandsons. Allu Ramalingaiah Kala Peetam, founded in the memory of this eminent artist, headed by Saripalli Kondala Rao, every year felicitates an eminent personality who outstandingly contributes to the film industry, with an award on this name. This year the recipient of the award is Kala Thapasvi, Padma Sri K.Viswanath.
Chakrapani the legend turned hundred
This is a chronicle of a master story teller who was instrumental in creating such big hits and trend setters for years together. Even now at various occasions those mammoth creations remembered and compared with present day huge technical entertainers. Born in a village of Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh in the year of 1908, 5th August, 'Chakrapani' alias Alur Venkata Subbha Rao rose to the heights of challenging strong Hindi film world in terms of production that involved heavy budgets and technical aspects of films produced under the banner of Vijaya-Vauhini. His extraordinary ability in weaving a story by just knowing four or five lines (knot) of any story and integrating necessary items such as dialogue, songs and fight sequences. He mastered himself with Hindi through a freedom fighter Prajanandan Sharma who inspired him to write in Hindi with a pen-name 'Chakrapani'. While he had to attend medical treatment at Vellore, AVS Rao met a patient and learned Bengali and later utilized to translate Sharath Chandra's novels in to Telugu and credited with introducing the great Bengali to Telugu readers. Later he entered into flourishing Telugu cinema world with P Pullaiah's Dharma Patni. During the tenure he met Nagi Reddy and BNK Reddy a combination that extended up to 30 years since 1945 to 1975. At first together with Nagi Reddy he founded a children's magazine Chandamama, and other two Andhra Jyothi and Vijaya Chitra, among them Chandamama expanded into other ten Indian languages, in subsequent years. The hit movies of Vijaya-Vauhini productions not alone remain as the ever-green hits which are on top, in the list of favourites, for Telugu people but also dubbed and remaked into other languages including Tamil and Hindi. Patala Bhairavi, Maya Bazar, Gundamma Katha, Missamma, Shavukaru and Appu Chesi Pappu Kudu, are some those hits. It is high time not only for the film industry to pay honor for the legend but also every film lovers of land to appreciate any work that sequel Chakrapani's contribution.
Aalayam screening today
Earned the name as a versatile actor Shivaji donned 'Aalayam' film screening scheduled today, following 'Missamma' and 'Mantra'. mollywood actress Honey Rose paired with him in this movie. After a long gap director Mutyala Subbiah has taken the charge of direction. however his recent release Maa Ayana Chanti Pilladu' did not received the expected response. He expects a repeat success of earlier films.