Chettiyar determined to make his film ‘Bhoo Kailas’ under K. with his sharp nose and radiating smile, with his curl hair and tall figure captured almost all the hearts of Andhra Pradesh. His film ‘Paathala Bhairavi’ turned to be a sensational hit, which broke all the records by running 100 days in 34 centres and 25 weeks in 13 centres and 50 days in one center. For all each of the film Rama Rao was offered Rs 500/- per month as salary and Rs 5,000/- as the remuneration. All of these movies were of the famous firm Vijaya. Prasad’s ‘Pelli Chesi Choodu’ (1952) and K. Reddy’s film ‘Paathala Bhairavi’ (1951), which was followed by B.N. He factually starved for three days as he had left with no money and did not make even his roommates (famous producer Yoganand one among them) know. He couldn’t afford money even for the bus fares.
When the money, which was given to him for ‘Palleturi Pilla’ was spent over, Rama Rao struggled a lot. He took a small room for rent near the Thousand Lights area in Madras. Prasad’s ‘Shavukar’ in the same year.Īfter his two films, NTR moved his abide to Madras. His first lead role was in the film ‘Palleturi Pilla’, in 1950 followed by L. Rama Rao was offered a small role as a sub inspector in that film. But it was the film ‘Mana Desam’, for which Rama Rao faced the camera for the first time, in the year 1949. Prasad was a bit hesitant towards Subba Rao’s idea, he never took heed and made an agreement with Rama Rao after giving him a remuneration of Rs.1,116/. He called up NTR to Madras and fixed him up as the hero for his film ‘Palleturi Pilla’, without any make up test or screen test at all. Subba Rao, the famous film producer happened to see NTR’s photograph at L.V. His parents Nandamuri Lakshmiah Chowdhury and Venkata Ramamma least imagined that this child was going to be uprise as an remarkable persona in his future and going to come across a golden thrown for him in the Andhra Pradesh history.ī.A. His mother wished to name his son as Krishna, but his uncle named him as Taraka Ramudu, which later confined as Taraka Rama Rao. Nandamuri Tharaka Rama Rao was born in a farmer’s family at Nimmakuru, Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh on 28th of May 1923 at 4.32pm.