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Titan of India’s Telugu Cinema Dead at 91

PEOPLE Posted: January 23, 2014 12:07 am

Over the course of a seven-decade career, Akkineni Nageswara Rao not only appeared in more than 250 films, earning awards and an enormous following, he led the move of Telugu-language filmmaking (now India’s second-largest movie industry) to the capital city where Telugu is actually spoken. (He also, unusually, resisted the urge to enter politics.)

PEOPLE Published: 01.22.14

Read the story in Livemint (India) Published: 01.22.14

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