He also acted in theater plays with equal élan. The offer to play Lord Rama in the film Seeta Rama Jananam from Telugu Cinema producer Ghantasala Balaramaiah was the major break in his cinematic career. He played a second fiddle to the protagonist in the debut film.

He debuted as a male actor with Dharmapatni when he was 17 years old. It is because only a few women actors were available. As a teen boy, he played female characters on the celluloid initially. He got introduced to Telugu Cinema in the early years of the film industry when he was a teenager. He continued his struggle to make it big in life. However, his ambition and determination did not die. Poverty put a stop to his academic career after primary education. He was the youngest sibling in the family. He was born in a poor farming family in the Krishna District in 1923. The life of Akkineni Nageswara Rao is a rag to riches story. Nageswara Rao breathed his last at the age of 91 in Hyderabad, yesterday.

He laid the foundation brick of the Telugu Film Industry in Hyderabad, contributed to the growth of Telugu Cinema and built many careers under his banner Annapurna Film Production. His career in the celluloid entertainment industry of South India spanned for 75 years from the Black & White era when actors used to sing themselves to the colorful times when playback singing is the trend. The actor cum leader cum visualizer who changed the face of Tollywood is Akkineni Nageswara Rao, the legend of Telugu Cinema.

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