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Remembering SV Ranga Rao: A versatile actor loved for his mythological roles

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A towering tribute to an irreplaceable legend

Remembering SV Ranga Rao: A versatile actor loved for his mythological roles





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The actor, whose centenary is being observed this year, worked in 162 films, 109 in Telugu and 53 in Tamil, in a career spanning nearly 3 decades.

A towering personality with an electrifying screen presence, SV Ranga Rao who acted mostly in Telugu and Tamil films was ranked on par with the superstars of the 1950s, 60s and 70s such as NT Rama Rao, Nageswara Rao, MG Ramachandran and Sivaji Ganesan.

The actor, whose centenary is being observed this year, worked in a total of 162 films, 109 in his mother tongue Telugu and 53 in Tamil, in a career spanning nearly three decades before his untimely demise at the age of 56.

Ranga Rao was the only actor apart from the legendary NT Rama Rao who remained an automatic choice for Telugu filmmakers for mythologicals which were a rage in those times. But even NTR was no match for Ranga Rao in terms of the sheer range of characters that he portrayed on the screen.

NTR, of course, was the ultimate actor when it came to playing Lord Krishna as films like the Sivaji Ganesan starrer Karnan would testify. But Ranga Rao played Akbar, Bhishma, Duryodhana, Yama, Ravana, Ghatotkacha, Kamsa and Keechaka, and what really propped him up as an actor par excellence was that he performed all these roles with effortless ease. For one, his height and physique suited all these larger-than-life roles and when it came to voice modulation, Ranga Rao was peerless. Even though some of these characters had to be essayed in a loud, over-the-top manner, the audience never got an inkling that he was going overboard with his acting.


Read more at: https://www.thenewsminute.com/artic...tile-actor-loved-his-mythological-roles-86007
 
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In the 1970s, he acted in lot of commercial movies which were dubbed in Tamil.
 

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