Popular Producer V B Rajendra Prasad First Death Anniversary
V B Rajendra Prasad, a popular Telugu Film producer. died on 13th January 2015.
Today is the first death anniversary of the great producer and director of Telugu film industry.
Businessoftollywood.com remember him on this day recollecting his past glory.
Rajendra Prasad born in an agricultural family of Dokiparru village, Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh on 4th November 1932 . He completed his Secondary Education at Pammura village. He was interested in acting and wanted to become a hero. In 1958 he shifted to Madras to become a hero. He struggled a lot to get offers in the movies. No Producer was ready to offer him a hero role. Then he dropped the idea of becoming hero and started producing movies.
He started his own Production House under the Banner “Jagapathi Art Pictures’ His first movie as producer was “Annapoorna”(1960) He made a series of good family oriented pictures with Sobhan Babu, ANR. He has produced 25 movies in Telugu, 3 movies in Tamil and 3 movies in Hindi. He even directed few films. His debut movie as director was”Dasara Bullodu” in the year 1971.
The popular actor Jagapathi Babu is his son.
Popular Movies(selected) with V B Rajendra Prasad as Producer:-
1. Annapoorna(1960)
2. Aaradhana(1962)
3. Athmabalam(1964)
4. Anthasthulu(1965)
5. Aasthiparulu(1966)
6. Adrushtavanthul(1969)
7. Akka Chellelu(1970)
8. Dasara Bullodu(1971)
9. Bangaru Babu(1973)
10.Manchi Manushulu(1974)
11.Andarudongale(1974).
12.Pichi Maraju(1975)
13.Ramakrishnulu(1978).
14.S P Bhayankar(1983)
15.Captain Nagajuna(1986)
16.Bharyabharthala Bhandam(1988)
17.Killer(1991)
List of movies directed by Rajendra Prasad:-
1.Dasarsa Bullodu(1971)
2.Bangaru Babu(1972)
3.Manchi Manushulu(1974)
4.Pichi Maraju(1975)
5.Bangaru Bommalu(1977)
6.Ramakrishnulu(1978)
7.S P Bhayankar(1983)
8.Captain Nagarjuna(1986)
9.Bharyabarthala Bandham(1989).
The Government of Andhra Pradesh honored him with the Prestigious Raghupathi Venkayya Award in the year 2004 for his contribution to Telugu Cinema.
His first directorial movie “Dasara Bullodu” screened for one year in many centers of Andhra Pradesh.
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