Kommineni Seshagiri Rao

Kommineni Seshagiri Rao was a known South Indian movie director and popularly known for the movies he directed in Telugu. He was born in 1939 at Ponnekallu village, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. He had a happy personal life with four sons and a daughter. Even though Kommineni Seshagiri Rao is from a small village he always wanted to work in film industry. After so many efforts and trails finally he entered into Tollywood a started playing villain roles in the movies. His dialogue delivery used to be very catchy and strong because of his powerful, rough voice.

\Soon he became notable for the negative roles he played. In 1967, lastly, Kommineni Seshagiri Rao played a lead role as a hero in the movie “Goppavari Gotralu” and this movie had brought him decent recognition in the industry. Later on, he acted in almost fifty movies and few of them such as “Taatha Manavadu”, “Sri Krishna Paandaviyam” etc were super hits and are still considered as classics. Kommineni Seshagiri Rao had worked in various departments of the Telugu movie field. Acting and simultaneously he also worked on the scripting and screenplay for the films “Lakshmi pooja” and “ Devathalara Deevinchandi Devathalara Deevinchandi is a Telugu television se >> Read More... ”.

This did not stop him from involving in movie making and Kommineni Seshagiri Rao directed many movies with superstars and also introduced few new actors to the Tollywood under his direction. In 1978 he released his first movie “ Bhagya Lakshmi Baakiyalakshmi is a Tamil TV serial telecast on St >> Read More... ” and he never stopped making movies from then. Kommineni Seshagiri Rao had almost directed twenty-five movies which made him an acclaimed filmmaker. His movie “Thayaramma Bangarayya” was a super hit and Kommineni Seshagiri Rao remade the movie in Tamil starring Sivaji Ganesan The Honorable Mr. Ganesan was the second son in hi >> Read More... for the lead role Satyasamudram. Casting famous actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao Akkineni Nageswara Rao is undoubtedly the ‘Bhisma >> Read More... for the main role, in the movie “Koteeswarudu” Kommineni received positive reviews from critics. He also worked with many popular actors and which were all hits at the box-office. Not only in Telugu,

He also worked in Malayalam movie field and made a movie with Sharath Babu, “First Four Nights” in 1990 which had also got the positive response from the audience. Kommineni Seshagiri Rao’s other family members had also played important role in the industry. His brother, Chakravarthy was a famous music director and his nephew Sri Kommineni Sri Kommineni is a Telugu music director, writer, >> Read More... was also a popular playback singer in Tollywood. Kommineni Seshagiri Rao is a highly experienced movie maker, scriptwriter and, artist with so much experience. Within the time period of thirty-five years he gave so many blockbusters and quality movies for the industry. In 2008, December 5th Kommineni Seshagiri Rao passed away because of multiple organ failures.