Telugu Awards Nandi Awards 1991 - Cast & Crew

Chithra is a worldwide known Indian soulful singer. Her original name is Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra. Born in July 1963, Chithra has grown into a versatile singer who can sing all variants. Though she is a born Malayali, she sang in more than 13 languages so far, and the number is still going on. She is fondly known as Chinna Kuyil and Keralathinte Vanambadi, which translates into English as Little Nightingale and Nightingale of Kerala. This is due to her exceptionally melodious singing which has never known any boundaries. She made the excellent contribution to the Music industry in languages like Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Odia, Assamese, Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit, Badaga, Tulu, Punjabi, and Urdu. She has a record of being able to record more than 25,000 songs and the number...

Sridevi is an Indian an actress renowned for her work in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada movies. She is regarded as Hindi cinema’s first female superstar. She was born as Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan on August 13, 1963, in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu to Ayappan and Rajeshwari. Her father is a Tamilian and mother is a Telegite. Sridevi made her debut as child artist at the tender age of four with the devotional film Thunaivan. She made her debut in Bollywood in 1975 with the film Julie where she was a child actor. Sridevi’s debut as a lead actress happened in the year 1978 with the movie Solva Sawan after which she delivered several hits like Himmatwala, Mawaali, Tohfa, Masterji, Karma, Mr. India, Waqt Ki Awaz, Chandni, Sadma, Nagina, Chaalbaaz, Lamhe, Khuda Gawah, Gumrah, Laadla and Judai. Her portrayal o...

Naresh is a famous South Indian Actor who has acted in various Telugu movies. He was born in 1960’s in Hindupur, Andhra Pradesh. He started his career at a very young age of 7. His debut movie as a child artist was ‘Pandanti Kaapuram’ which released in 1972. He always dreamt of being an actor and loved the words  ‘Lights, camera and action’. When the movie ‘Pandanti Kaapuram’ was being made, the child artist who was supposed to act in the movie was sick and he was given the opportunity to replace the child’s character. He was willing to do it and requested the director to finish the shooting before his mother came on the sets. His mother, Vijaya Nirmala who is also a South Indian Film Actress, Producer and director, wanted him to concentrate on his studies. His father is Late K.S.M...

Shyam Prasad Reddy is an Indian film producer. He is into film producing predominantly in the South Indian Cinema. He has worked with south superstars such as Rajinikanth, Suresh, Prabhu Deva, etc. Shyam’s production includes super hits like Anji, Arundhati, Aagraham, Aahuti, Talambralu, etc.

He took birth in South India. His Telugu films display extravaganzas of visual effects and VFX; Shyams’ trademark is the technicality in his movies with special three-dimensional experience. He received the Sarojini Devi Award for his contribution in a film on National Integration. Shyam’s previous ventures focus on society’s development towards greater goals through re-rendering human humans. He took birth in South India in the family of Mallemala. Shyam’s father Mallemala or M.S Reddy was a well-known screen...

Mullapudi Venkata Ramana (June 28, 1931-February 24, 2011) was a Telugu Story & Screenplay Writer. Critics regard him as one of the best Storywriters of contemporary Telugu Film Industry. He was primarily known for his humorous style of writing. He also created a popular cartoon character named Budugu. He was versatile storywriter & could etch both heart-warming & hilarious dialogues with the same ease. He created many memorable characters in the film industry like Radha, Gopalam (Muthyala Muggu) & Tutti (Mister Pellam). Mullapudi Venkata Ramana was born in a middle-class family in a rural area called Dhowleshwaram near Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh. Ramana had two siblings to take care, one elder sister & one younger brother when his father passed away. Ramana was just nine years old when...

Born on March 14, 1918, in Kanyakumari, Travancore, Krishnankoil Venkatachalam Mahadevan was an Indian vocalist, musician, music producer, lyricist and composer known for his works in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu cinema. He belongs to Tamil Brahmin family. He began his career as a composer with Tamil movie Avan Amaran by Nagercoil S. Nagarajan in 1950. The exceptional elements of his compositions were giving essential significance to lyrics and forming music that is impeccably suited to verses. He continually kept a base in the Carnatic music frameworks and offering autonomy to vocalists and different colleagues to openly contribute thoughts for enhancing his pieces.

The well-known Tamil motion pictures for which he composed music are Adimai Penn by K. Sankar, Vaanampadi by G. R. Nathan, Thiruvilayadal by A. P. Nagaraja...

Veturi Sundara Rama Murthy, a famous lyricist and poet was born on January 29, 1936. His birthplace was Padakallepalli in Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, India. His father was Chandrasekhar Sastry, and Kamalaba was his mother. He did his schooling in Jaggayapeta and Diviseema in Krishna District. He graduated from S.R.R. Government College in Chennai. After his education, he went back to Vijayawada. He worked as a Journalist in 1952 in Andhra Prabha. Narla Venkateshwara taught him editing news basics in Andhra Prabha. After a few years he joined Andhra Pratika, a weekly. Mullapudi VenkataRamana and Bapu were his colleagues. He was taking care of the cinema section.

He was as an editor at Andhra Janata, the official daily newspaper of Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee. In 1962, he interviewed the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharl...

Singeetam Srinivasa Rao has born on 21st September 1931 in Gudur, Andhra Pradesh, and his current residence is in Chennai. By birth he belongs to Indian nationality. Srinivasa’s occupation is of a producer, writer, composer, director, and lyricist. Srinivasa had worked in different languages like in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu. Rao had directed nearly sixty films in various languages and has won many awards from cinema industries. Rao is honored in national film awards two times; he has got six Nandi awards from six different states, and Rao was credited with three South Indian Filmfare awards and three Karnataka film awards.

His first award-winning movie is ‘Samskara’ which had released in Kannada language and had won the National Film award, besides that the movie has got Bro...

Vinod Kumar was born on 1 April 1963. He is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam cinema. His debut film in Kannada was entitled Thavaru Mane which was released in 1985 and was produced by A.L. Abbaiah Naidu. His Tollywood debut film’s name was Mouna Poratam released in the year 1989, Ramoji Rao was its producer.

He has done multifarious films in the Telugu cinema industry and, in addition to that, he has also been a part of the South film industry for more than 30 years. Some of his best films are- Mouna Poratam released in 1989, Mamagaar, Karthavyam, Bharat Bandh et cetera. He has been awarded the Nandi Award. He has done 150+ film and, amongst them, he was played a hero in the south regional languages.

S. Gopal Reddy is an Indian director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter. The multi-talented personality has given his contribution to the Telugu and Bollywood film industry. He has established the Durga Arts a production house. He won two Filmfare Award (South) as the best Cinematographer for his work in the films like ‘Varsham’ and ‘Sri Ramadasu’. He was born in Andhra Pradesh. He started his career at Venus Studios in 1968 under the guidance of V.S.R Swami, who is a veteran cinematographer. At that time, the films were pictured in black and white print. He made his entry into Telugu film industry in 1979 with the film Raktha Tilakam. He has been a part of many movies from the Telugu industry like ‘Dhruva Nakshatram,’ ‘Moodu Mullu,’ ‘Nelavanka...

Ram Gopal Varma is a famed Indian film director and writer, critically acclaimed for his work in the Telugu cinema and Bollywood industry. He speaks a million messages through his films and has been widely appreciated for his realistic portrayal of characters that act as a mirror image of the Indian society.

He won the National Award in 1999 for his socio-political drama, ‘Shool’. After starting his career as a qualified Civil Engineer, Ram Gopal Varma, popularly known as RGV, went on to become a filmmaker. His foray into the film industry has been propelled by the video rental library he set up in Ameerpet, which was inspired from his brief stint in Nigeria.

Like many filmmakers, his film career too started as an assistant director to B. Gopal. After failing as an assistant filmmaker, Ram G...

Dasari Narayana Rao is an Indian cinema director who has mainly worked in Telugu movies and has credit to some Bollywood movies too. He was born on 4 May 1947 in Palakol, West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India. He has done his graduation in BA and had an interest in acting and directing since then. He has performed in many drama competitions. Most of the films he has done in his career have laid emphasis on corruption, gender discrimination and injustice.

He has done over 150 films as a director and also produced 53 films. He got married to Dasari Padma, producer and they have a son, Arun Kumar Desai, who is an actor. In his early life, he had launched a newspaper, Udayam, which got very famous.

He was also elected as the Rajya Sabha member and became the Minister of State in Ministry...

Babu Mohan is a famous comic Actor and a veteran Politician, belonging to Hyderabad, in India. Babu’s birth name is Kastur Babu Mohan Rao. He was born in the village Beerolu that is located in the Khammam district, in the present day Telangana. He was born in a middle-class family and was brought up in a conservative manner. Babu’s father was a teacher, in their district. Babu Mohan has been ridiculed his whole life, for his dark appearance. He has faced a lot of discrimination because of this, during his childhood.

Babu dusted off all those who teased him and got a job in the Government Revenue Department. After working there for a while, he realized his passion was to act in movies and hence, quit his safe job and started venturing into fil...

S P Balasubrahmanyam is still considered to be one among the best musicians in the past three decades, in spite of the surge of various new comers. This legendary singer is reputed for his intense voice, profound knowledge of music, and a style of singing which is appreciated even today. SPB, as he is fondly called, has given his voice for more than 30000 songs. His name is recorded in the Guiness Book of World Records for singing several songs in a short span of time. He has sung the most in Telugu, the next being Tamil. He has also given his beautiful voice for Sanskrit slokas.  

Other than Telugu and Tamil SPB has sung in Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada too. SPB also tried his luck a...

Nassar is one of the multi talented actors in the Indian cinema industry. He has achieved various awards for his acting performance. He is not only an actor, but a producer and a good director too. Mehaboob Nassar is his full name and Nassar remained as his stage name. He is married to Kameela and has three children. His debut was through Kalyana Agathigal, a Balachander movie. He has acted in various films with different roles. Most of his roles depict him as a villain. After few years of his successful villain roles, he jumped to character roles that yielded him fame. He did a good role in Roja as a good Police Officer. His role in Thevar Magan made him to get a good name. He made his debut as a director through Avatharam in the year 1995. He acted in a lead role in the film alongside Revathi. Revathi acted as Blind ...