You cannot make out difference on his face on the screen when the pain was unimaginable. He did not skip shooting even when his hand got fractured while shooting for Sardar Papa Rayudu or even when his right hand got slight paralysis attack while making movies like Dana Veera Sura Karna. He was so dedicated to his work that he cared more for his producers. Also, he never liked to have any extra or unnecessary lights or apparatuses lying around on his sets as a director. On his sets, he wanted a discipline like KV Reddy, his mentor used to love. We hear a lot about him being disciplined and giving great deal of importance to the word he gave to anyone. But after Adavi Ramudu, he saw an upswing so much that he ended up being Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh in 1983! Until Adavi Ramudu release in 1976, he saw 5 years of downtime for his standards as hits were far in-between averages and flops. If you don't believe in yourself, you can never make a comeback. In an uncertain Industry like film making ups can take you to never experienced levels while downs can just bury you. He even pulled off stunts at the age of 70, while performing climax fights in Major Chandrakanth. This shows that he never considered age as a factor when he was acting. When people said Sridevi was just 18 when she starred in Vetagadu, he replied to those comments saying, he was just 17 in a funny manner. But NTR broke it twice with Jayaprada and Sridevi in his films like Adavi Ramudu and Vetagadu. Normally, actors after crossing 50 years, would be feeling a little embarrassing to share screen with girls whose age is 18 or 17. Raghavendra Rao, who was half actor's age when he directed it, still fondly remembers how the actor just did the stunt without any fuss upon his request. At the age of 58, he jumped on a train for a song sequence in Adavi Ramudu film. NTR never said, "No, I can't do it", for anything directors have asked him to do say old articles, snippets and pieces written by journalists, fellow actors from his era. On the occasion of his 97th birth anniversary when we think about what makes Sr.
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