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Tenali Ramakrishna is a film of genre Drama directed by B.S. Ranga with Akkineni Nageswara Rao

Tenali Ramakrishna (1956)

Tenali Ramakrishna
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Tenali Ramakrishna is a 1956 Indian bilingual historical drama film primarily shot in Telugu, and directed by B. S. Ranga. This film was simultaneously made in Tamil and is named as Tenali Raman. N. T. Rama Rao appeared as Srikrishna Devaraya in both films. Tenali Ramakrishna was played by A. Nageswara Rao in Telugu version while Sivaji Ganesan portrayed the role in Tamil. The plot is based on the play written by C. K. Venkataramaiah. The film was remade in Kannada as Hasyaratna Ramakrishna in 1982.

Film is based on the story of, Tenali Rama, the court-poet of Sri Krishna Deva Raya. The Telugu version of the film has garnered the All India Certificate of Merit for Best Feature Film at 4th National Film Awards.

Synopsis

The Deccan Sultans of Berar, Ahmednagar, Bidar, Bijapur and Golconda who the splinters from the erstwhile Bahmani Sultnate now unite with the common purpose to defeat of Krishnadeva Raya and the conquest of the prosperous Vijayanagaram. They send their stooge Kanakaraj to assassinate Krishnadeva Raya, but Kanakaraj fails in his mission and is put to death.

Actors

Akkineni Nageswara Rao

(Tenali Ramakrishna)Sivaji Ganesan

(Tenali Raman (Tamil))Jamuna

(Kamala)Chittor V. Nagaiah

(Timmarusu)Bhanumati Ramakrishna

(Krishnasani)
And :
Mikkilineni
Mukkamala Krishnamurthy
M. N. Nambiar
Sandhya Mukhopadhyay
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