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Rangasthala Natulu
A Dasaratha Ramaiah
A Satyavathi
A Siva Parvathi
Aaakula Venkaiah
Aakula Appa Rao
Aakula Rangaa Kumari
Aalaa Gopala Swamy
Aamanchi Venkata Subramaniam(AVS)
Aaradhyula Koteswara Rao
Abburi Adi Narayana Sarma
Abburi Subba Rao
Abburi Vara Prasada Rao
Abburi Venkata Ramarao (AVR), Visahkapatnam.
He served as Artist and Announcer to ALL INDIA RADIO for 30 years. In 1977, he has won the National Best actor for a social play.
He also acted in 15 - 20 films like "Sree Variki Premalakha", "Mudhamandharam", "Challenge", "Lorry Driver", "Papa Kosam",etc ...
He did his diploma in acting from Andhra University and he has been the producer for the stage play "Amma" which has swept all the competetions for that year in 1997.
Contributed by : Sashikanth Abburi, Visakhapatnam, India, abburisashi@yahoo.com
Addanki Sreerama Murthy
He used to act as "Dharma Raju" in Pandava vudyoga vijayamulu drama and was very famous in this role
& as "Harischandra" opposte Pasupuleti kannamba! Played "Dasaratha" role in the early Telugu film "Paaduka Pattabhishekam".
Popularly known as "Addanki". Contributed by : Satya.M. Madhavapeddi
Adigopula Sai Sekhar
Akki Venkateswarlu
Alapati Surya Prakasa Gupta
Anisetty Satyavathi
Annapoorna
Aradhyula Venkata Subba Rao
Aradhyula Venkateswara Rao
Atmakuri Rama Koteswara Rao
B Siva Kumar
B Valeswara Rao
B Veera Raju
B Vijaya Kumar
Bachchu Samba Siva Rao
Banda Kanakalingeswara Rao
Bejjam China Kotaiah
Bellamkonda Subba Rao
An Advocate in Narasa Rao Peta, Guntur Dt. He was famous in the role of "Krishna" in
Pandava Vudyoga Vijayamaulu stage drama. Since, he used to play the role, preserving his natural big moustache,
he used to be popularly referred as "Meesala Krishnudu"! Contributed by : Satya.M. Madhavapeddi
Betha Venkata Rao
Bhimavaram Lakshmaiah
Bindu Madhavi
Bitra Punnaiah
Boina Bhargavi
Bommaraju Lakshmi Narayana
Bommareddy Satyanarayana Reddy
He is from Machavaram Vijayawada and played thousands of stage plays all over AP. Contributed
by : Bommareddy Satyanarayana Reddy, Machavaram, Vijayawada, AP
Dhulipala Sitha Rama Sastry.
A very great stage actor from Guntur. In the role of "Duryodhana", he was next only to the legendary
Madhavapeddi Venkata Ramayya! He also joined telugu film field and played character roles in several films.
Popularly known as "Dhulipala"! Contributed by : Satya.M. Madhavapeddi
Madhavapeddi Satyam
Madhavapeddi Satyam was also born in Brahmana Koduru (v), guntur dt to Madhavapeddi Lakshmi Narasayya and Sundaramma, in the 3rd
decade of 20th century. He had a rich and melodius voice and was a recognised singer, even from childhood! He came to limelight on the
Telugu Stage, as a member of the famous Malladi Suryanarayana drama trupe, for his role as"Nakshathraka" in "Harischandra" drama.
His talent was recognised by Late Chakrapani who took him to Madras to act in the film "Shavukaru", produced by him and Nagi Reddy under
the newly founded banner "Vijaya pictures". Though he acted in this and a few other telugu films, essentially being a talented singer, he
attracted the attention of famous cine music directors, such as S. rajeswara rao, Ghantasala venkateswara rao and many others, who utilised him
as a cine play back singer. He is reported to have sung nearly 7000 songs in films, some o0f which are in other indian languages too!
He lent his voice particularly to S.V. Ranga Rao and Relangi Venkata Ramayya, in most of their films. He was specially famous for singing telugu
stanzas in Mythological films. He has earned unprecedented name and fame, particularly for the song "Vivaha Bhojanammu" in the film
"Maya Bazaar", produced by Vijaya Film pictures! Satyam passed away in Dec 2000, leaving a void in telugu film industry, that is hard to fill up! Contributed by : Satya.M. Madhavapeddi.
Madhavapeddi Venkata Ramaiah
Popularly known as "Madhavapeddi", Madhavapeddi Vekata Ramayya, was born to Koteswara Swamy and Venemma, in Brahmana Koduru (v),
Ponnur Mandalam in Guntur Dt, during the last decade of 19th century. Sri Madhavapeddi Venkata Ramayya was acclaimed as one of the alltime
stalwarts of the telugu stage! He was a contemporary of such great actors as, Addanki srirama murthy, Bellamkonda subba Rao,
Pulipati venkateswarlu and was particularly famous for the role of Duryodhana, in "Pandava Udyoga Vijayamulu" stage drama, penned by the
immortal Thirupathi Venkata Kavulu. He was also well known in the role of Prataparudrudu, in the stage drama, "Prataparudriyam" in which he
and Bellary Raghavacharyulu, another of the alltime stalwarts of the telugu Stage, acting in the role of Yugandhara, used to excel! It is said that
both these stalwarts, facing each other on the stage, used to skip delivery of some written dialougues, while conveying their meaning through
their wonderful facial expression and body language, much to the dismay and delight of the knowledgeble viewers!
After active stage career for over two decades, Madhavapeddi joined telugu film industry in its early phase and acted as "Nala" in the film
"Chitra Naleeyam", "Sisupala" in "Draupadi Mana Samrakshanam" and in some other early films of Telugu screen, many of which were
produced at Calcutta and Bombay, since the industry was not yet born in Madras! Madhavapeddi was known for his noblity and philanthropy
and spent his earnings to help many in dire need! Not being blessed with own children, he adopted a poor muslim boy and brought him up! Contributed by : Satya.M. Madhavapeddi.
Madhuragaana Kalaanidhi Vemparla Anjaneyulu
Maharshi Raghava
Makkapati Krishna Mohan
Malathi
Malladi Govinda Sastry
Malladi Krishna Prasad
Malladi Suryanarayana
Mancha Narayana
Mandalapu Indira
Mandey Shyam Kumar
Manikonda Subba Rao
Manne Srinivasa Rao ,BTech (Agri. Engg.)
Address : C/o Teja Hospital, Repalle,Tel:08648222289, 9440241271
Faculty: Actor, Director, Writer, Critic, Parishad Organiser.
Awardlu: 1. "NATYA SRI" from Allahabad Natya Sangh, Allahabad.
2. "NATYA BHUSHAN" from Utkal Yuva Samskritika Sangh, Cuttack.
3. "VISISTA VYAKTHI" from Kala Jagathi (Cultural Magazine).
4. "RANGASTHALA RATNA" from Gopi Krishna Nataka Kala Parishad, Nutalapadu
modalagunavi.
Marreddi Venkata Ramana Reddy
Marri Appa Rao
Marturi Subbulu
Master Kalyani
MD Prasad
Meena Kumari
Melam Chandra Prasad
Modukuri Subba Rao
Mopatti Rama Rao
MP Kanneswara Rao
Mudigonda Linga Murthy
Mukkamala Dattu
Mukkamala Krishna Murthy
An advocate in Guntur. Famous as stage actor from student days. Used to excel in the role of "Bussi" in"Bobbili Yuddham",
stage play. Joined telugu film field and played a number of character roles. Popularly, known as "Mukkamala"!. Contributed by : Satya.M. Madhavapeddi
Nanduri Subba Rao (Radio annayya) :
Nanduri Subba Rao garu (1932-2001) was famous Radio, stage artist, play wright, Producer in All India Radio, Vijayawada since 1960 to 1990.
Famous for his lead role in Ganapathi play (written by Chilakamarthi Lakshmi Narasimham Pantulu). Also acted in and produced several hundreds of dramas from Akasavani, Vijayawada Kendra. Well known for his "Bavagari Kaburlu" and " Radio Bala Annayya". Receipient of National Awards for 2 times from I & B Ministry, Govt. of India. Acted in some telugu movies like "O Sita Katha", " Eduruleni Manishi", "Ananda Bhairavi" etc.
Contributed by,Sunitha on 30.11.07 by email
Naralasetty Samba Siva Rao
Narla Koteswara Rao
Natasekhara Krishna
Neelam Mallaiah
Nelloori Satyanarayana
Nethi Parasurama Sarma
Nimmagadda Venkateswarlu
Nimmaraju SRA Prasad
Nutakki Subba Rao
Oorvasi Sarada
P Anjaneya Sarma
P Linga Rao
P Pandu Ranga Rao
P Pichaiah Naidu
P Siva Parvathi
P Sudarsanam
Paada Rangaiah
Paarupalli Satyanarayana
Padma
Padmaja Prabhakar
Padmasri Sthaanam Narasimha Rao
Pagadala Peda Tirupati Kumari
Pagadala Rama Rao
Pagadala Shyam Sunder
Paladugu Radha Krishna Murthy
Pamulpati Chenchu Rama Rao
Panduri Kutumba Rao
Parupalli Subba Rao
Pasupuleti Kannamba
Acclaimed as the Best Stage Character Actress in those days (1930's & 40's). She was famous in the Roles
"Chandramathi, Kaikeyi, Nayakuralu etc". Joined Telugu Cine Field and became equally famous! Contributed by : Satya.M. Madhavapeddi
Ubba Ankaiah
Gana Gandharva, Gana Kousthubhalankara, Ganabhinaya Kalanidhi, Swarna kiriti etc. Basically, he hails from Prakasam Dt, and settled in
Hyderabad. He acted as Sri Krishna, Narada, Bhakta Ramdas, Anjaneya, Dharmaraju etc. Right now, he is special advisor to TTD. He won many
awards too. Even now we can hear his metallic voice from AIR. Contributed by : RamaKoteshwarRao on 7th Dec 2002
Basically he was a teacher, homeopathy practitioner and a family man and possess the privilege of being the founder member of Rama Vilas Sabha of Tenali, whose troupe-members staged a number of historic and mythological Dramas all over Andhra and outside the State also. He enacted about 70 different roles, major and minor like Krishna, Karna, Kanwa Maharshi, Vidyanadhudu etc. He was a contemporary of the great stage actors like Addanki Sri Rama Murthy, Madhapeddy Venkatramaiah, Sthanam Narasimha Rao, Govindarajula Subba Rao, Peddipatla Chalapathi and a host of other luminaries with whom he shared the theatre in various plays. Apart from this, he had also acted in four (4) films during 1930’s. Unfortunately he expired at an early age of 49 in 1942 before his talents were better known.
His legacy was taken-up by his third son Yeleswarapu Satyanarayana, a teacher and a popular stage actor. Sri Satyanarayana was also a member of Surabhi Natyamandali for some period and acted in plays like Dharanikota, Telugutalli, Sowdhamini a number of times during the 60’s. He was a contemporary and an Advisor in theatre arts to renowned stage actors’ viz., Teegala Sesha Rao and Dr. Tarani of Chebrole, Guntur District. His rendering of verses was very much acclaimed and appreciated for clarity and heart-touching recitation.
Contributed by : Ramachandra Rao, 4th son of Late Sri Yeleswarapu Kutumba Sastry ,H.No. 16-2-836/L, Plot-39 , Madhavnagar, Saidabad
Hyderabad - 500 059 [AP], Contact Phone :040 - 55291014, e-mail : rcr_yeleswarapu@hotmail.com
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