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Date of Birth
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1938
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Place of Birth
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Kapileswarapuram, Krishna
(Krishna district)
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Nationality
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India
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Also know as
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Rama Rao Tatineni, T. Ramarao, T. Rama Rao, रामा राव तातिनेनी, टी० रामा राव, टी० रामाराव
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Profession
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Film Director
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Rama Rao Tatineni, also known as T. Rama Rao, is a prolific Indian filmmaker. He has directed 65 Hindi and Telugu feature films between 1966 and 2000.
Tatineni started his work in the film industry in the late 1950s as the assistant director of his cousin T. Prakash Rao and Kotayya Pratyagatma, before making his directorial debut with 1966 Telugu film Navarathri.
According to Encyclopædia Britannica, Rao was "the man who established the 'Madras movie', or Hindi films funded primarily by southern capital, as a viable commercial option in the all-India market..."
He is the father of T. Ajay Kumar.
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