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Saakshi Ranga Rao is a Actor born on 15 september 1942
Sakshi Ranga Rao (Telugu: సాక్షి రంగారావు) (15 September 1942 – 27 June 2005) was a character actor in theater arts and South Indian cinema.
He was born to Lakshmi Narayana and Ranganayakamma as Rangavajhula Ranga Rao of Kondiparru village near Gudivada. He began his career as a stenographer in Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. He showed passion for theater arts and performed poignant roles on stage. He began his film career with Saakshi in 1967 directed by Bapu. Then onwards, he became known by this screen name. He acted in about 450 films over about four decades. The majority of them were of comedies.
He had the distinction of acting in most of the Telugu film directed by K. Vishwanath, Bapu and Vamsi. He has acted in the successful films like Sirivennela, Swarna Kamalam, April 1st Vidudhala, Joker and Swarabhishekam.
He died after a prolonged illness in 2005 in Chennai at the age of 63 years. The apparent cause of death was diabetes and associated renal failure. He is survived by wife, two sons and a daughter. Television actor Saakshi Siva is his youngest son.
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Saakshi Ranga Rao
Birth name Rangavajhula Ranga Rao
Birth 15 september 1942
Death 27 june 2005 (at 62 years) at Chennai (Inde)
Birth 15 september 1942
Death 27 june 2005 (at 62 years) at Chennai (Inde)
He was born to Lakshmi Narayana and Ranganayakamma as Rangavajhula Ranga Rao of Kondiparru village near Gudivada. He began his career as a stenographer in Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. He showed passion for theater arts and performed poignant roles on stage. He began his film career with Saakshi in 1967 directed by Bapu. Then onwards, he became known by this screen name. He acted in about 450 films over about four decades. The majority of them were of comedies.
He had the distinction of acting in most of the Telugu film directed by K. Vishwanath, Bapu and Vamsi. He has acted in the successful films like Sirivennela, Swarna Kamalam, April 1st Vidudhala, Joker and Swarabhishekam.
He died after a prolonged illness in 2005 in Chennai at the age of 63 years. The apparent cause of death was diabetes and associated renal failure. He is survived by wife, two sons and a daughter. Television actor Saakshi Siva is his youngest son.
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Top Hero (2009)
, 2h20Directed by S. V. Krishna Reddy
Actors Nandamuri Balakrishna, Soundarya, Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam (AVS), Rohini Hattangadi, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Mahesh Anand
Roles Classical Singer
Rating62%
Seema Simham (2002)
, 2h35Genres Action
Actors Nandamuri Balakrishna, Simran, Reema Sen, Raghuvaran, Sai Kumar, Charan Raj
Roles School Master
Rating51%
The movie starts with a fight in which Durga Prasad bashes up police for occupying the house of a poor woman. Dhanunjaya Rao (Raghuvaran) comes to know the heroism of Durga Prasad and tells him his flashback. Dhanunjaya Rao and Chandra Sekhar (Charan Raj) are the best friends. They have a kid each. Dhanunjaya Rao is a business magnate and Chandra Sekhar is a police, officer. Chandra Sekhar arrests a dreaded goon and the goon's supporters kidnap the son of Dhanunjaya Rao and hold the kid as hostage and want to exchange the kid for the release of goon. If Chandra Sekhar does not release goon, he would be getting a promotion and prize money worth 5 lakhs from the Government. At the last spurring moment, Chandra Sekhar becomes selfish which results in the death of the son of Dhanunjaya Rao. Due to this incident Chandra Sekhar becomes an enemy of Dhanunjaya Rao. The wife of Dhanunjaya Rao gets paralyzed. Dhanunjaya Rao's aim is to kill the son of Chandra Sekhar.
Chinnabbayi (1997)
, 2h24Directed by K. Viswanath
Actors Daggubati Venkatesh, Ramya Krishnan, Ravali, Sreevidya, Kaikala Satyanarayana, Kota Srinivasa Rao
Rating53%
Sri Krishnarjuna Vijayam (1996)
, 2h11Directed by Srinivasa Rao Singeetham
Themes Films based on mythology, Films about religion
Actors Nandamuri Balakrishna, Roja, Priya Raman, Naresh Vijaya, Srihari, Raja
Roles Sumitrudu
Rating70%
The film is based on slight little portion from epic Mahabharata 'Vidya Pradarsanam' to 'Panchali Parinayam'.
Subha Sankalpam (1995)
Directed by K. Viswanath
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors Kamal Haasan, Aamani Hazrath, Priya Raman, K. Viswanath, Gollapudi Maruti Rao, Kota Srinivasa Rao
Rating73%
Vajram (1995)
, 2h30Directed by S. V. Krishna Reddy
Genres Action
Themes Films about mathematics
Actors Akkineni Nagarjuna, Roja, Indraja, K. Viswanath, Ananth Babu, Palli Babu Mohan
Rating51%
Vajram is a story of young man, estranged from his narcissistic father, upon failing to meet the latter's high expectations for intellectual pursuits.
Maatho Pettukoku (1995)
Directed by A. Kodanda Rami Reddy
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Nandamuri Balakrishna, Roja, Rambha, Captain Raju, Raghuvaran, Kota Srinivasa Rao
Roles Rishawala
Rating23%
Yamaleela (1994)
, 2h20Directed by S. V. Krishna Reddy
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Kaikala Satyanarayana, Ali, Indraja, Tanikella Bharani, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Manju Bhargavi
Rating71%
This story is dependent on the mother sentiment. The story is very simple. Hero’s mother lived a very royal life in a great palace as her husband was Jameendar that time. But later she lost her property due to some circumstances and she also lost her husband. And left that palace along with 2 year old kid (Ali).From that moment, she has been living a normal life. One fine day, Ali happens to listen the entire story of her mother and decides there itself to make his mother happy by purchasing the same palace for her mother. So he does lots of mischievous things to earn money. Bringing Yamadharmaraja, lord of Naraka, to Earth is part of that. The story ends up with a good climax. The comedy scenes of Yama(Satyanarayana) and chitragupta(Bramhanandham) are most hilarious. Their conversation with the local police is most memorable hilarious comedy. Music is excellent. This movie is musical hit. All songs in this movie have become most popular. This is also a good movie for children. Totally, this is a good family entertainment.
Nippu Ravva (1993)
, 2h11Directed by A. Kodanda Rami Reddy
Genres Action
Actors Nandamuri Balakrishna, Shobana, Amrish Puri, Nizhalgal Ravi, Babu Antony, Allu Rama Lingiah
Roles Coolie
Rating12%
Aa Okkati Adakku (1992)
, 2h35Directed by E. V. V. Satyanarayana
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Rajendra Prasad, Rambha, Saakshi Ranga Rao, Brahmanandam, Nirmalamma, Allu Rama Lingiah
Roles Pellilla Peraiah
Rating78%
Chitti Babu (Rajendra Prasad) strongly believes in astrology and spends a lazy life. Rambha (Rambha), with whome he falls in love, pressures him to marry her before her father, Royyala Naidu (Rao Gopal Rao), finds an alliance of his choice. Naidu, out of love for his daughter, agrees for the marriage on the condition that he earn ₹ 1 lakh by the night of the wedding.
Swati Kiranam (1992)
, 2h10Directed by K. Viswanath
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Mammootty, Raadhika Sarathkumar, Jayanthi, Master Manjunath, Saakshi Ranga Rao, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam
Rating82%
The film starts with a shabby old man living as a recluse near a famous temple. When he ventures out into the village, he is beaten by the shepherds who believes that he is a thief. When they hand him over to the police, the officer in charge identifies him as a once-famous musician, Anantha Rama Sharma (Mammooty), hailed as Sangeeta Samrat (Emperor of music), who has been missing for four years. The inspector RadhaKrishna (Achyuth) informs his aunt (Raadhika Sarathkumar), who teaches music in his native village, of this and the past of Anantha Sharma is narrated through flashback.
Gharana Mogudu (1992)
Directed by K. Raghavendra Rao
Genres Drama
Actors Nagma, Kaikala Satyanarayana, Vani Viswanath, Brahmanandam, Sharat Saxena, Rama Prabha
Rating72%
Raju (Chiranjeevi) is a do-gooder who helps his co-workers in a Visakhapatnam shipyard, but when his mother suffers a paralytic stroke, he moves back to Hyderabad and looks for a job. Uma Devi (Nagma) daughter of industrialist Bapineedu (Raogopal Rao) takes over the business from her father and helps it to reach new heights which also sees her head-strong ways reach new heights. In this scenario, she not only rejects Ranganayakulu's (Kaikala Satyanarayana) son's marriage proposal but insults them when the father-son duo show up at her house. To get their revenge, they send goons to kill Uma Devi. As fate would have it, Bapineedu shows up in the car instead of Uma Devi and is rescued by Raju who asks him for a job which Bapineedu readily agrees to.
Dharma Kshetram (1992)
, 2h27Directed by A. Kodanda Rami Reddy
Genres Romance
Actors Nandamuri Balakrishna, Divya Bharti, Kongara Jaggaiah, Nassar, Devan, Srihari
Roles Madhava Rao
Rating62%
Karthavyam (1991)
Directed by Ketan Mehta
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Nirmalamma, Charan Raj, Vinod Kumar, Uday Prakash, Saakshi Ranga Rao, Sai Kumar
Rating69%
Bhaskar (Sriram) visiting his village for his friend Archana's (Gopika) wedding. But he ends up in returning to city with Gopika herself for she comes to know of the bridegroom's bad past in the village just before the marriage.
Pelli Pustakam (1991)
, 2h24Directed by Bapu
Actors Rajendra Prasad, Ananth Babu, Gummadi Venkateswara Rao, 'Subhalekha' Sudhakar, Saakshi Ranga Rao, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam
Rating79%
Newly married couple K. Krishnamurthy (Rajendra Prasad) works as an art director in Mumbai and his wife Satyabhama (Divyavani) as a stenographer in Kerala for a low salary. To solve their financial problems they seek a job in a big company and pretend to be unmarried as their boss (Gummadi) would give job only to one member in a family. This has slight resemblance to the 1955 classic movie Missamma where couples pretend to be married but here it's the other way around.