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Gummadi

Gummadi

Acting

Biography

Gummadi Venkateswara Rao widely known as Gummadi, was an Indian film actor and producer, known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema and a few Tamil films. Known as a character actor, Gummadi starred in around five hundred feature films. He received critical reception for his works in Thodu Dongalu (1954) and Mahamantri Timmarusu (1962), for which he has received the erstwhile Rashtrapati Award. Gummadi was an official member of the Indian delegation from South India to the Tashkent Film Festival in 1978 and 1982. Gummadi served as a jury member thrice for the 28th, 33rd, and 39th National Film Awards. He served twice on the state Nandi Awards Committee. In 1977, he was awarded India's fourth-highest civilian honor Padma Shri for his contributions to Indian cinema.

Known For

Srinatha Kavi Saarvabhoumudu
8.0

Born to Bhimamba and Marayya, Srinatha earns the title Kavi Sarvabhowma. He dedicates many of his works to kings in exchange for gifts and leads a luxurious life as a courtier.

Srinatha Kavi Saarvabhoumudu

1993
Pelli Kanuka
10.0

Bhaskar (Akkineni Nageswara Rao) and Vasanti (B. Saroja Devi) are college mates who clash when she complains to the college principal about a love letter he sent her. Later on realizing her mistake, Vasanti apologizes to him and the two fall in love. Vasanti's elder sister, Geeta (Krishna Kumari), supports the family by stitching clothes.Bhaskar rents the room upstairs in their house. He falls ill and in nursing him, Geeta falls in love with him. She confides her love to Vasanti, who decides to sacrifice her love for her the sake of her sister and convinces Bhaskar to marry Geeta. Bhaskar initially neglects Geeta. On finding out, Vasanti writes to him that their sacrifice, made for Geeta's happiness, would mean nothing unless he is a good husband to Geeta. Bhaskar relents and Geeta and he have a son. Vasanti joins them and Geeta suspects that there is something on between Bhaskar and Vasanti and makes Vasanti leave the house.

Pelli Kanuka

1960
Mayabazar
8.0

Balarama promises Subhadra that he'll marry his daughter to her son. But when the Pandavas lose their kingdom to the Kauravas, Balarama breaks his promise.

Mayabazar

1957
Tata Manavadu
8.0

A young man teaches a lesson to his parents for abandoning his grand parents.

Tata Manavadu

1973
Pandava Vanavasamu
6.7

After the Pandavas are forcefully exiled by their enemies, they must get together and fight back in order to reclaim their land.

Pandava Vanavasamu

1965
Aayanaki Iddaru
9.0

Ramya and her half-sister Ooha are both in love with Surya. A case of mistaken identity ensues, but Surya eventually marries Ooha, only to have Ramya reenter the picture determined to thwart her sister's happiness.

Aayanaki Iddaru

1995
Akka Chellelu
1.0

Janaki toils to make her sister Vijaya an advocate. When Janaki marries Justice Ramachandra Rao, Vijaya is shocked to find that her new brother-in-law is a murderer.

Akka Chellelu

1970
Daana Veera Soora Karna
8.8

A retelling of Mahabharata through the perspectives of KARNA and DURYODHANA. The film uses dialogue and poetry written in Classical Telugu/ Grandhika Basha.

Daana Veera Soora Karna

1977
Tiger
8.0

Legends of Indian cinema, NTR and Rajinikanth, unite on screen as "Raja" and "Rashid," two men with a shared past and a common enemy.

Tiger

1979
Bobbili Raja
6.6

Raja, a common man, and Rani, the daughter of a powerful minister, are brought together by the forest.

Bobbili Raja

1990
Samrat Ashoka
7.0

The life story of emperor Ashoka.

Samrat Ashoka

1992
Kirathakudu
5.5

Kiratakudu is a action oriented movie in which, Chiranjeevi played a rather unusual role, who hates his father to the core and does not support him even when is getting destroyed. Chakravarthy (Jaggayya), who is a prominent industrialist in the city, is president of the interpol and his son Charan (chiru) is a reputed sportsman, but there is no love between them. Charan, spends his life with friends and alchohol to overcome his loneliness.Despite chakravarti

Kirathakudu

1986
Kalam Marindi
10.0

In this movie inspired by Sujata (1959), Lakshmipati is a village landlord who adopts Shanthi, the daughter of his lower caste servant. When Shanthi grows up and falls in love with Srinivas Rao, his family objects to their marriage due to her caste.

Kalam Marindi

1972
Pasivadi Pranam
7.8

After his wife's death, Madhu lives in a drunken stupor until Raja, a child with hearing and speech impairment, enters his life. But Raja's parents' murderers are searching for him to hide the truth.

Pasivadi Pranam

1987
Pichi Pullaiah
7.0

Pullaiah is sent by his father to work in the city for a landlord. Pullaiah faces a lot of hardships and goes to jail, but finally is proved innocent.

Pichi Pullaiah

1953
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10.0

Prasad, an honest police officer, brings up his sons with a lot of love and care. However, when he falls on hard times, his sons abandon him and he is forced to rebuild his life from scratch.

Bahudoorapu Batasari

1983
Eenadu
N/A

Eenadu is Krishna's 200th movie with huge star cast. It's almost on the same lines of his 100th movie ALLURI SEETHA RAMARAJU. But in this movie, he fights against the politicians and industrialists who are looting the poor, the movie is about Ramaraju (Krishna) a social reformer who fights against the injustice by the political system and stands in support to the poor and down-trodden.Kantha Rao, Jaggayya, Rao Gopal Rao played the villains in the movie. Rao Gopal Rao is a small-time politician and brother-in-law of Krishna and husband of Krishna Kumari. His brother-in-law being a selfish and cruel man, Krishna stays away from them. Jaggayya is a businessman and and old friend of Krishna because of him Krishna lands in Jail without a fault of his. Kantha Rao is a criminal and after coming out of Jail, he enters into politics and becomes a minister.These three create havoc and play with the lives of the poor.

Eenadu

1982
Ave Kallu
8.0

Rich and pretty, Susila returns from college to find that her family is being bumped off one by one. The only clues are a half smoked cigar left at the scene of each murder and a mysterious woman in white running through the courtyard.

Ave Kallu

1967
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7.0

Sri Datta Darsanam, dubbed into Hindi as Shri Datta Darshan in 1988, is a 1985 Telugu film directed by Kamalakara Kameswara Rao. The story is based on the life of Hindu deity Dattatreya.

Sri Datta Darsanam

1985
Pelli Pustakam
9.0

Newly married couple Krishnamurthy and Satyabhama pretend to be unmarried while working at the same company, leading to complicated situations and threatening their marriage.

Pelli Pustakam

1991