Mudabidri Venkat Rao Vasudeva Rao (Template:Circa 1920 – 22 March 2002) was an Indian actor. He entered the film world as a child actor in 1928. He won the Best Actor Award at the 23rd National Film Awards for his role of Choma in the Chomana Dudi (1975), a film based on Shivarama Karanth's novel of the same name.[1]
He played a prominent role in Shyam Benegal's Telugu film Kondura. In Mrinal Sen's Oka Oori Katha and Mani Rathnam's Nayakan, Bombay. He acted in over 200 films in his career; however, post Chomana Dudi, he mostly played minor roles.[2]
Filmography
- Chomana Dudi (1975)
- Oka Oori Katha (1977)
- Kondura (1978)
- Nayakan (1987)
- Bagh Bahadur (1989)
- Bombay (1995)
- Dweepa (2002)
References
- ↑ Vasudeva Rao Dead. chitraloka.com(22 March 2002).
- ↑ A natural. Deccan Herald(14 April 2002).
External links
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