Director · Telugu cinema
Tatineni Rama Rao
Tatineni Rama Rao movies: 17 Telugu films on file, 1966–1991. Earliest on file: Navarathri (1966). Latest release: Talli Tandrulu (9 February 1991).
- Films on file
- 17 (17 as director)
- Years on file
- 1966–1991
- Born
- 1938 (Wikidata)
- Died
- 2022
- Selected films on file
- Anuraga Devatha, Aatagadu, Yamagola
- Record
- Q7688141 on Wikidata
Career on file
Tatineni Rama Rao directed 17 of the Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 1966 to 1991. The earliest of them is Navarathri (1966), and the most recent release is Talli Tandrulu (1991). The most widely covered of these, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Anuraga Devatha (1982), Aatagadu (1980) and Yamagola (1977). Other recent releases on file are Prananiki Pranam (1990), President Gari Abbai (1987) and Pachani Kapuram (1985).
In the films Tatineni Rama Rao directed, Akkineni Nageswara Rao appears most often (nine films), ahead of Kaikala Satyanarayana (8) and Gummadi Venkateswara Rao (6). Music on six of them is by K. Chakravarthy, with K. V. Mahadevan (4) and J. V. Raghavulu (3) next. Prasad Art Productions produced three of them, more than any other banner on file. Across these films the credits on file name 5 music directors and 33 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 15 of them; they average 148 minutes, and the longest is Navarathri at 165 minutes. By decade the list splits into 1960s (3), 1970s (8), 1980s (4) and 1990s (2).
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.