Birthday Special: a successful Director, producer as well as Former CM of Andhra Pradesh
Birthday Special: a successful Director, producer as well as Former CM of Andhra Pradesh
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Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, aka NTR, was on born May 28, 1923, Nimmakuru, near Machilipatnam, India, Indian motion-picture actor and director, politician, and government official who founded the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and served three terms as chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.

As an actor, he rose to superstardom among the country’s Telugu-speaking people and parlayed his fame into a successful political career.

The man who would become popularly known as NTR was born in a small village near the coastal city of Machilipatnam (now in Andhra Pradesh) to a poor farming family. He completed a bachelor’s degree from Andhra Christian College in nearby Guntur.

NTR’s first film, Mana Desam, was released in 1949, and he continued to make movies until 1982, appearing in some 300 films and directing more than a dozen. He often portrayed a Hindu god, particularly Krishna, in his movies, and his adoption of the white or saffron robes of his costumes as his everyday dress only reinforced his lofty image.

In March 1982 he founded the TDP, with the stated objective of protecting the interests of India’s Telugu-speaking people. The TDP turned out to be highly successful at consolidating voters against the then-ruling Indian National Congress (Congress Party) in the state.

NTR had married Basavatarakam Nandamuri in 1942, but she died in 1985. In 1993 he married Lakshmi Parvathi (or Parvati), whom he then tried to groom to be his successor. His actions, however, provoked dissension in the TDP, particularly from Nara Chandrababu Naidu, NTR’s son-in-law and by then one of the party’s highest-ranking members.

NTR died of a heart attack on 18th January ’1996.

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