Premabhishekham became one of the biggest hits in Telugu film history, and was screened in a Hyderabad theatre for 533 days-a record that is unbroken, and will likely remain so, with film-makers having moved to a system of multiple prints and releases on hundreds of screens in multiplexes as opposed to low-intensity releases.ĪNR was born into a poor farming family in 1923 in Venkata Raghava Puram of Krishna district in the then Madras Presidency. He went on to star in such celebrated blockbusters as Devadasu (Devdas), Maya Bazaar (Magic Market), Dasara Bullodu (Dasara Lad), Missamma, Laila Majnu, Anarkali, Prema Nagar (Love Town), Premabhishekham (Pouring of Love), and Meghasandesham (Message from the Clouds). In turn, his move spurred several Telugu film studios and production houses to migrate to Hyderabad, which today is home to the second biggest film industry in India, behind only Bollywood.

ANR is largely believed to be the man who helped relocate the Telugu film industry from its former base in Madras (now Chennai) to Hyderabad at a time when the Andhra Pradesh capital hardly had any infrastructure related to the film industry.ĪNR built his own movie studio on 22 acres of land in Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, in 1975, naming it Annapurna Studios after his wife and producing several movies under the banner of Annapurna Pictures.

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