A retrospective movie pageant titled ANR 100: King of the Silver Display screen can pay tribute to legendary actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao. To coincide with the doyen’s a hundredth birthday on September 20, the household of the late actor, in collaboration with the Movie Heritage Basis, Nationwide Movie Growth Company, Nationwide Movie Archive of India and PVR-Inox, will display 10 of his most memorable movies. The movies will likely be screened in theatres from September 20 to 22 in 25 cities together with Hyderabad, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru, Vadodara, Jalandhar, Rourkela, Warangal, Kakinada and Tumkur.
The restored classics are Devadasu (1953), Missamma (1955), Mayabazar (1957), Bharya Bharthalu (1961), Gundamma Katha (1962), Physician Chakravarthi (1964), Sudigundalu (1968), Prem Nagar (1971), Premabhishekam (1981) and Manam (2014).
Shivendra Singh Dungarpur of Movie Heritage Basis said that this pageant comes after the profitable retrospectives of Amitabh Bachchan, Dilip Kumar and Dev Anand. “The choice of movies on this retrospective, from 1953 to 2014, embody a few of ANR’s greatest hits, which proceed to resonate with folks after many years.”
Actor Nagarjuna Akkineni added, “My father was rightly known as Natasamrat for his capability to play a spread of roles – from a saint to an alcoholic to a romantic hero – in a approach that has stayed in folks’s hearts for many years. His performances in Devadasu, Premabhishekam, Physician Chakravarthi and Sudigundalu are liked even as we speak. He was a pioneer; he established Annapurna Studios, laying the primary basis for the Telugu movie business in our State. We’re happy with his legacy and thru this pageant, audiences throughout the nation will keep in mind an icon of Indian cinema. We wish to protect this legacy so that folks will keep in mind him for one more 100 years.”
Amitabh Bachchan, who has been carefully related to the Movie Heritage Basis, recalled being struck by ANR’s humility and ease. “That is the primary time a retrospective on this scale has been achieved for Telugu cinema. The pageant will give modern audiences a chance to expertise ANR’s display presence, versatility and vary.”
In his profession spanning 71 years, ANR labored as an actor and producer in additional than 250 movies in Telugu, Hindi and Tamil.