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Banda Kanakalingeswara Rao, Telugu Theatre Personality
Banda Kanakalingeswara Rao was an actor, director, and educationist of Telugu theatre. |
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Banda Kanakalingeswara Rao was an actor and director of Telugu theatre. He was also famous as an educationist. He became interested in theatre as a university student, and eventually founded a college for dramatics at Eluru in 1939. In the early 1930s, this great Telugu theatre personality started his own professional company, Prabhat Theatres. Under its banner, Banda Kanakalingeswara Rao directed and took the main role in many plays that he commissioned, such as J. Chandrasekhara Rao`s Sri Venkateswam mahatwam or `Sri Venkateswara`s Greatness` in 1932 and U. Satyanarayana Rao`s Chhatrapati Shivaji in 1948. This famous Telugu theatre personality, Banda Kanakalingeswara Rao died in 1968.
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