telugu cinema

The first Telugu film, 'Bhatka Prahalada', was made in 1931. It was

directed by Hanumappa Muniappa Reddy. Most of the initial Telugu

talkies released had mythological stories that drew inspiration from

the vibrant Telugu drama and stage industry.

Tollywood, as the Telugu film industry is often called, moved from

Kolkata to Rajahmundry in 1936-37, but soon shifted to Madras (now

Chennai) where it remained for decades.

The industry started shifting to Hyderabad in 1955 when Sarathi

Studios was set up here. But it was only in mid 1990s that the entire

Telugu movie-making business moved to Hyderabad. Even now, about 10

percent of the music for Telugu films is made in Chennai.

Second only to Bollywood in terms of the number of films made,

Tollywood makes about 150 films every year. The industry, which

accounts for one percent of the state's GDP, registered a turnover of

Rs.3.0 billion last year.

 

original names of stars

ANR- Akkineni Nageswar Rao

Aamir Khan - Aamir Hussain Khan

Ajay Devgan - Vishal Devgan

Akshay Kumar - Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia

Ashok Kumar - Kumudlal Kunjilal Ganguly

Bobby Deol - Vijay Singh Deol

Chiranjeevi - Konidela Siva Shankara Vara Prasad

Dev Anand - DharamDev Pishorimal ?nand

Dharmendra - Dharam Singh Deol

Dilip Kumar - Yusuf Khan

Gemini Ganesan - Ramasamy Ganesan

Jamuna - Jamuna Ramanarao

Jayalalitha - Jayaram Jayalalitha

Jaya Pradha - Lalita Rani

Jeetendra - Ravi Kapoor

Mallika Sherawat - Reema Lamba

Mammootty - Muhammad Kutty

Manoj Kumar - Harikishan Giri Goswami

Meena Kumari - Mahjabeen Bano

Meera Jasmine - Jasmine Mary Joseph

MGR - Marudur Gopalamenon Ramachandran

Mithun Chakraborty - Gouranga Chakraborty

Mohanlal - Mohanlal Viswanathan Nair

Nargis - Fatima Rashid

N T R - Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao

Rajesh khanna - Jatin khanna

Rajkumar - Singanalluru Puttaswamayya Muthuraju

Rekha - Bhanurekha Ganesan

Salman Khan - Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan

Sandhya – Revathy

Sanjeev Kumar - Harihar Jariwala

Savithri - Savithri Kommareddy

Shammi Kapoor - Shamsher Raj Kapoor

Shashi Kapoor - Balbir Raj Kapoor

Sivaji Ganesan - Viluppuram Chinnaiahpillai Ganesan

Sunil Dutt - Balraj Dutt

Sunny Deol - Ajay Singh Deol

Surya - Saravanan Sivakumar

Vanisri - Ratna Kumari

Vijay - Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar

Vishnuvardhan - Sampath Kumar

Gurudutt – Vasanth Kumar Shiv Shankar Padukone.

Johnny Liver – John Rao

Nana Patekar – Vishwanath Patekar

Sneha – Suhasini

Sada- Sadaf mohammad Said

Khushboo- Nakhat

Radha – Chandrika

Simran- Rishibala

Madhavi- Vijayalaxmi

Asin- Meri

ARRehman- Dilipkumar

Soundarya- Sowmya

Shobhanbabu- Shobhanachalapathi Rao

Bapu- Sathiraju Laxminarayana

Amitab Bachchan- Amitab Rai Saxena

Mohanbabu- Bhaktavatsalam Naidu 

Krishna- Ghattamaneni Shivaramakrishna

Vikram- John kennedy

Nayanatara- Diana mariam 

John Abraham- Farjan

Rajinikanth - Shivaji rao Gaekwad