Category: Nostalgia

Legendary Tollywood actress Savitri named her daughter as Vijaya Chamundeshwari long ago. There is a reason for that. Savitri was introduced into films on Vijaya…

It was an incident happened many years ago. There used to be a film magazine called ‘Kagada’ dedicated for cine gossips. Telugu film industry people…

This was the news of 1951. Kantha Rao acted in a small role in the film ‘Nirdoshi’. HM Reddy was the producer in that film.…

It’s a wonderful example for Seeta Rama Sastry’s dexterity. He was asked to pen a song for a situation narrated by K Vishwanath for the…

S Vara Lashmi is the yester years’ actress who was known for her singing talent as well. She acted in many films with NTR but…

G Vara Lakshmi was the old actress who acted in many films as a character artiste. She acted as Prahladha (child role) in 1942. Vemuri…

Ghantasala, the legendary Telugu film singer was traveling in a Railway Compartment along with SV Ranga Rao, Pingali and Kodavati ganti Kutumba Rao. They were…

Myriad things can be learned from Late NTR especially in the matters of punctuality, discipline and giving respect to deserved people. He always used to…

Ravi Kondala Rao is the writer cum actor who was very active till two decades ago. He shared a moment that frightened him a lot.…

Yester years’ actress Vanisri recalls the initial days of actor Naresh. She said, “I saw Naresh as a kid when he came along with Vijayanirmala.…

Many assume that Late Vishwanatha Satyanarayana, the first Gnanapeeth Awardee in Telugu, was a caste biased personality. Vishwanatha was a Brahmin and there were many…

This was an incident that took place many years ago sometime in later 30s. Vishwanatha Satyanarayana was lecturer in a college where his younger brother’s…

Ravi Kondala Rao, the veteran writer and actor mentioned a nostalgic though in one of his books. He says, “Dr Ramanaidu made a film ‘Papa…

That was in 1956 when a film magazine ‘KINIMA’ conducted an interview with Savitri, the glowing star of those days. A question was asked to…

Ravi Kondala Rao shared the rules and rubric that censor board used to hold in 40s and 60s. He said an incident, “BN Reddy made…

Jayalalitha and NTR acted in many films earlier. But she used to feel nauseate to act with NTR after the lunch hour. NTR used to…

This was the incident way back to 50s-60s. First the Telugu version of Devadas was made in Telugu with ANR in lead role. The film…

Gummadi and SVR were contemporaries where the former was a soft one and latter a very big egoistic. In a film where SVR was playing…

Raja Babu’s performance in the song ‘Vinara Sooramam Koothuri Moguda Vishayam Chebuthanu’ along with Rama Prabha was a super hit for ever and he is…