Sri Sai Jagapathi Pictures and Santosh Productions are jointly producing a film with child actors, which is titled 'Daana Veera Soora Karna'. Late Nandamuri Janakiram's son Master Nandamuri Taraka. “Acharya deva emantivi emantivi,” is a popular dialogue from NTR’s mythological biopic Daana Veera Soora Karna that resounds with everyone even today. It is also the go-to dialogue for those who want to show off their acting chops.
Daana Veera Soora Karna | |
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Directed by | N. T. Rama Rao |
Produced by | N. T. Rama Rao |
Written by | N. T. Rama Rao Kondaveeti Venkatakavi (dialogues) |
Starring | N. T. Rama Rao Nandamuri Balakrishna Nandamuri Harikrishna B. Saroja Devi Prabha |
Music by | Pendyala Nageswara Rao |
Cinematography | Kannappa |
Edited by | G. D. Joshi |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Mayuri |
Release date | |
Running time | 226 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Telugu |
Budget | ₹10 lakh[1] |
Box office | est.₹1.5–2 crore[1][2] |
Daana Veera Soora Karna (transl. Generous, Heroic, Valiant Karna) is a 1977 Indian Telugu-language Hindu mythological film co-written, produced and directed by N. T. Rama Rao under his Ramakrishna Cine Studios banner. Based on the life of Karna from the Mahabharata, it stars Rama Rao playing three roles: the title character, Duryodhana and Krishna and also starred his sons Nandamuri Harikrishna and Nandamuri Balakrishna, who played the roles of Arjuna and Abhimanyu respectively. Music was composed by Pendyala Nageswara Rao. Made on a budget ₹10 lakh, the film was a commercial success, grossing ₹1.5–2 crore and became the highest-grossing Telugu film at that time.[1][2] It is regarded as one of the greatest films of Telugu cinema.