SOUTH INDIAN CINEMA LEGEND DASARI NARAYAN RAO

Doyen of South Indian Cinema..Dasari Narayana Rao!

Four years over..One of the doyens of South Indian Cinema, newspaper owner and politician..Dasari Narayana Rao left this world!

A. Nageswara Rao & Jayaprada in.. 

Telugu film 'Megha Sandesham' (1982).

From Aandhra Pradesh..Dasari Narayan - Rao started acting on stage & latter entered in the film industry. He acted in Telugu, Tamil & Kannada films. 

In 1972 he made his directorial debut with film 'Tata Manavadu' in which S. V. Ranga Rao & Anjali Devi acted. He also started writing scripts & lyrics!

Then he started directing films in other languages like..entered in Hindi cinema with 'Swarg Narak' (1978) and directed famous artists Jeetendra, Moushami - Chatterjee, Vinod Mehra, Shabana Aazami and Sanjeev Kumar! 

Reena Roy, Jeetendra & Rekha..

in Hindi film 'Prem Tapasya' (1983).

 

After that hit movie he made many family films for Bollywood..like 'Prem Tapasya' (1983) with Rekha & Jeetendra who were hit stars for South Indian film industry that time!

He also directed Tamil films like 'Natcharitram' - (1980). He handled various genres with legendary actors of that time..like he made romantic film.. 'Premabhishekam' (1981) with A. Nageswara Rao and action film.. 'Bobbili Puli' (1982) with N. T. - Rama Rao. And in both Sridevi was their heroine! 

He also made political drama film in Hindi..'Aaj ka MLA Ram Avtar' with most famous Rajesh - Khanna! But his films emphasized social injustice!

Dasari Narayana Rao in his

last film 'Erra Bus'(2014).

Meanwhile in 1995 he made big Television serial 'Viswamitra'. And he also started his Newspaper 'Udayan'!..Latter in 2011 he made War movie 'Parama Veera Chakra' with actor Nandamuri Balakrishna! 

In 2014 he produced and directed his last film 'Erra Bus' in which he did character role with new artists Vishnu Manchu and beautiful.. Catherine Tresa!

He made more that 150 films and did 'Limca - World Record' for directing maximum number of films! He won two National Film Awards, nine state Nandi Awards and four Filmfare Awards South..including 'Lifetime Achievement Award'! 

 

His films screened in our 'International Film Festival of India' and at international film festivals abroad like..Cannes, Moscow & Tashkent!

Homage to this legendary filmmaker!!

- Manoj Kulkarni