Nandamuri Harikrishna: Never one to mince words, brief and upfront: 13 films in 51-year-old career

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Updated: Aug 30, 2018, 12:24 IST

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"Theliyanidani gurinchi maatladanu, thelisindi evvaru cheppina vinanu" (I will not speak about what I do not know and I will not listen to anyone telling me about what I already know).

Nandamuri Harikrishna: Never one to mince words, brief and upfront: 13 films in 51-year-old career

Harikrishna with Nagarjuna in ‘Seetharamma Raju’(L) ,Harikrishna in a still of film ‘Seetayya’ (R)

HYDERABAD: "Theliyanidani gurinchi maatladanu, thelisindi evvaru cheppina vinanu" (I will not speak about what I do not know and I will not listen to anyone telling me about what I already know). This famous dialogue written by film director-actor Posani Krishna Murali and oft-quoted by Harikrishna in the film 'Seetayya' in 2003 is what the man is all about. Upfront and in your face.Director YVS Choudary, a huge fan of NTR, made Seetayya with the tagline 'Evari maata vinadu' (He listens to no one) and the film was a huge hit.
Harikrishna acted in just 13 films though his career spanned 51 years. He was introduced to the silver screen as a child artiste. In his first film 'Srikrishnavataram' in 1967, he essayed the role of Krishna as a child. 'Thalla, Pellama' was another film in which he acted as a child artiste with NTR in the lead role.

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Ch Sushil Rao

Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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