NTR took the Congress-led Central government by horns and played an important role in floating the National Front by pulling down the Rajiv Gandhi government in 2009. He was an uncrowned king of the Tollywood till the end of 1970s.Īnd it was a sensation when NTR entered politics by floating Telugu Desam Party in March 1982 with the slogan of upholding the self-respect of the Telugus and coming to power in then combined Andhra Pradesh within nine months, dismantling the decades-old Congress, which was dominating the state politics till then. Take any mythological character – Krishna, Rama, Vishnu, Shiva and Lord Venkateshwara, he was a perfect fit into that role. Such was the charm he had weaved around the people of Telugu states that for the next six decades, he was virtually treated as a demi-god. That was Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, aka NTR. Soon, some of the crew members rushed to him to touch his feet and others offered him aarti. When the 33-year-old actor walked into the sets of Vijaya-Vauhini Studios in Madras (now Chennai) in 1956, donning the make-up of Lord Krishna, the entire crew in the studio, including director K V Reddy, was dumbfounded.
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