Actor, producer and director · Telugu cinema
Padmanabham
Padmanabham movies: 142 Telugu films on file (142 as actor, 2 as producer, 1 as director), 1945–2006. Earliest on file: Mayalokam (1945). Latest release: Tata Birla Madhyalo Laila (13 October 2006).
- Films on file
- 142 (142 as actor, 2 as producer, 1 as director)
- Years on file
- 1945–2006
- Born
- 20 August 1931 · August birthdays (Wikidata)
- Died
- 2010
- Selected films on file
- Aatma Bandhuvu, Patala Bhairavi, Bhadra
- Record
- Q4866302 on Wikidata
Career on file
Padmanabham has 142 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 1945 to 2006: 142 films as actor, two films as producer and one film as director. The earliest of them is Mayalokam (1945), and the most recent release is Tata Birla Madhyalo Laila (2006). The most widely covered of these, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Aatma Bandhuvu (1962), Patala Bhairavi (1951) and Bhadra (2005). Other recent releases on file are Veerabhadra (2006), Chakram (2005) and Ganesh (1998).
N. T. Rama Rao is the most frequent co-star, sharing 64 films with Padmanabham, followed by Gummadi Venkateswara Rao (38) and Akkineni Nageswara Rao (36). Among directors, Adurthi Subba Rao cast Padmanabham most often, in ten films; next are C. S. Rao (9) and V. Madhusudhan Rao (9). Music on 23 of them is by K. V. Mahadevan, with S. Rajeswara Rao (17) and Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao (10) next. AVM Productions produced eight of them, more than any other banner on file. Across these films the credits on file name 69 different directors, 47 music directors and 142 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 111 of them; they average 158 minutes, and the longest is Pandava Vanavasam at 198 minutes. Three of them have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. By decade the list splits into 1940s (4), 1950s (14), 1960s (59), 1970s (38), 1980s (16), 1990s (7) and 2000s (4). 1968 is the busiest single year, with ten films.
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.