Director and producer · Telugu cinema
Tatineni Prakash Rao
Tatineni Prakash Rao movies: 11 Telugu films on file (9 as director, 2 as producer), 1952–1981. Earliest on file: Palletooru (1952). Latest release: Rani Kasula Rangamma (1 August 1981).
- Films on file
- 11 (9 as director, 2 as producer)
- Years on file
- 1952–1981
- Born
- 24 November 1924 · November birthdays (Wikidata)
- Died
- 1 July 1992
- Selected films on file
- Rani Kasula Rangamma, Challenge Ramudu, Maa Babu
- Record
- Q7688139 on Wikidata
Career on file
Tatineni Prakash Rao has 11 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 1952 to 1981: nine films as director and two films as producer. The earliest of them is Palletooru (1952), and the most recent release is Rani Kasula Rangamma (1981). The most widely covered of these, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Rani Kasula Rangamma (1981), Challenge Ramudu (1980) and Maa Babu (1960). Other recent releases on file are Samsaram (1975), Illarikam (1959) and Charana Daasi (1956).
In the films Tatineni Prakash Rao directed, N. T. Rama Rao appears most often (six films), ahead of Akkineni Nageswara Rao (5) and Savitri (4). Music on four of them is by T. Chalapathi Rao, with Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao (2) and K. Chakravarthy (2) next. Anil Productions produced two of them, more than any other banner on file. Across these films the credits on file name 5 music directors and 28 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 8 of them; they average 156 minutes, and the longest is Charana Daasi at 196 minutes. By decade the list splits into 1950s (7), 1960s (1), 1970s (1) and 1980s (2).
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.