Annamayya's curriculum vitae includes an estimated 32,000 kirtanas and krithis. Whatever, now the film is a big time hit in neighbouring Karnataka as well.Īnnamacharya - or Annamayya - was, legend has it, a poet whose muse was Balaji, the lord of the seven hills (Tirupati, to give it the more familiar name). Nagarjuna with Kasturi and Ramya Krishnan in Annamayya. Or perhaps because Nagarjuna's portrayal was stunning enough, in an unfamiliar persona, to merit a second visit. Click for bigger pic!īut a Nagarjuna with close cropped hair and caste mark on forehead, clad in saffron, holy beads round his neck and playing a saint to the hilt? All of Andhra Pradesh took a double take when Annamayya hit the marquee - and went again and again to the theatres, perhaps not believing the evidence of their eyes the first time round.

He's also a cool young man - very grunge, suave, with it, at ease surfing in Mauritius, Tabu in tow, for Jab Dil Pe Koi Aati Hai. If Telugu cinema has an angry young man, then it should be Nagarjuna - the tall, hunky hero whose trip in life appears to be to bash up the baddies, if you judge by films like Shiva. Rediff On The Net, Movies: Nagarjuna plays a religious poet in Annamayya

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