All All. Sign In. Top 50 Telugu Heroes of All Time. The greatest actors of Telugu cinema. As of April List activity. Rama Rao. Born into a farmer's family, Rama Rao Taraka Nandamuri got his bachelors of arts degree and took a job with the government. Married to Nandamuri Basavatarakam, he began acting in films, his first being Mana Desam , in which he played a police officer. His first movie as a hero was Palletoori Pilla , which was a huge hit.
His subsequent movies-- Showkar , Pathala Bhairavi , Malliswari and Chandraharam --established him as the premier hero in the Telugu film industry. He acted in a mythological role as Lord Krishna for the first time in Mayabazar and acted in most of the major roles in "Ramayana" and "Mahabharatam", even in Tamil films.
He acted in a total of films, including some Tamil and Hindi films. He suffered some career reversals in the late s and early s, but came back with a bang in the late s with some major hits like Adavi Ramudu , Yamagola , Vetagadu He became the first superstar of the Telugu films a position which was held by Chiranjeevi till around An intensely emotional person, he also directed films, built a studio and produced films.
He established the TeluguDesam party in and within a year became the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. He was an avid advocate of Telugu Pride and made sure his native state. He married Lakshmi Parvathi in He was re-elected by a landslide in , but was ousted from power by an internal party coup in which his son-in-law and the present Chief Minister, Mr.
Chandrababu Naidu, took over in He died less than six months later, in because of heart attack. His son Nandamuri Balakrishna is a famous actor in Telugu films. He is survived by six sons and three daughters. One of the best films ever made in the history of Indian cinema.!
