

Establishing the Padmalaya Studios in Hyderabad, he also produced and directed several highly successful movies. He immortalised revolutionary freedom fighter Alluri Sitarama Raju on the big screen with his 100th film of the same name released in 1974. Krishna, father of actor Mahesh Babu, had acted in over 340 movies, introducing James Bond and Western cowboy style films to the Telugu audience in the sixties. He was hospitalised in Hyderabad on Sunday night after suffering a cardiac arrest.

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Yesteryear Telugu superstar Ghattamaneni Krishna (79) passed away in the early hours of Tuesday.
