Music And Movies

Try as you might, you cannot shake of your 'image' easily in Indian films. As an actor, if you are branded as good in something, you remain that, come hell or high weather. Many have tried to break the shackles and very few have succeeded. After the initial struggle, many slowly settle back into their assigned roles. Gummadi Venkateswara Rao, popularly known as Gummadi, who passed away recently, was one such actor, who was branded as a great character actor, and he remained so till he quit films due to old age. In Gummadi's case, you can see that he enjoyed the roles he was doing and didn't care how he was branded. He was younger to actors like NTR but he never worried that he had to play to NTR's elder brother or father. He started playing elderly roles from his young age and continued playing them till he was old. He never grew young. To those who grew up watching Telugu films in 60s, 70s and 80s, Gummadi was a constant figure. As the father, grandfather, the eld...