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Kannada Prabhakar is no more
NTR - AswiniDutt - Raghavendra Rao combo
Saakshi is back in the business
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The
action king of Kannada film industry Tiger Prabhakar expired on the
auspicious day of the Hindu's festival Ugadi (25/3/2001). At 10.50 PM
(IST) Prabhakar had his last breathe at Apollo Malya Hospital due to
kidney failure. From 8-30PM problems started, and the hospital doctors
tried their level best to save him. But his blood pressure and pulse
rate started decreasing. Dr. Rajkumar and Smt. Parvarthamma Rajkumar
had visited the hospital in the evening and they were there till 7-30
PM. Till last week Prabhakar was suffering from jaundice and he was
in hospital. He entered the film field in 1969 and acted in more than
200 films in languages like Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi.
May his soul rest in peace.
Aswini
Dutt and Raghavendra Rao are going to jointly produce a film on the
banner of Swapna cinema with Jr. NTR as hero. S S Rajamouli, a protégé
of Raghavendra Rao, would direct this film. Rajamouli has direct a few
episodes of Raghavendra Rao's teleserial 'Santhi Nivasam'. Raghavendra
Rao, who started encouraging the new directors with his film in the
direction of Sobhan has given another chance to another new director.
Pruthvi Teja is giving story. Hari Anumolu would handle the camera.
The selection of remaining cast and crew is going on. This film is expected
to go on floors in April and be completed by June 2001. Jr. NTR has
taken decision to make film after film rather than signing more films
at a time, as per the suggestion of his father Hari Krishna. NTR is
playing the role of a college student in this film.
The
lithe lass and Saakshi Sivanand did make news for all the wrong reasons
in the past. This beauty, whose roots are routed to Rajahmundry, was
ill treated by the Telugu film industry for her snobbish behavior. She
seems to have buried the hatchet and back in the business with her promising
performance-oriented role in Raja Sekhar's 'Simha Raasi'. Raja Sekhar
is playing the head of village in this film. The next schedule of this
film is slated for 22nd of Rajahmundry this month. Supergood films is
remaking their own hit film from Tamil. A new director called Samudram
is directing this film.