NTR Kathanayakudu: Which Actor Plays Who? 

Director Krish Jagarlamudi and actor Balakrishna have joined hands together for the second time after Gautami Putra Satakarni for NTR - Kathanayakudu, which is a biopic based on the life of legendary actor-politician Nandamuri Tarak Rama Rao (NTR).

Recently, the makers of Kathanayakudu also launched the film's audio which garnered a lot of eyeballs given that it was attended by almost every family member of the NTR clan . The icing on the cake was the presence of Jr NTR who made an emotional speech and was appreciated by one and all as he spoke like a common Telugu man and an NTR fan and not as his grandson.

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Unfortunately he has not reprised any role in the biopic, but we have the complete list of actors and the roles they play in the movie for you. Have a look.

Principal Star cast

• Nandamuri Balakrishna as N. T. Rama Rao
• Vidya Balan as Basavatarakam
• Nandamuri Kalyan Ram as Nandamuri Harikrishna
• Rana Daggubati as Nara Chandrababu Naidu
• Bharath Reddy as Daggubati Venkateswara Rao
• Sachin Khedekar as N. Bhaskara Rao
• Garapati Srinivas as Nandamuri Saikrishna
• Poonam Bajwa as Garapati Lokeswari
• Manjima Mohan as Nara Bhuvaneswari
• Himanshi Choudary as Daggubati Purandeswari
• Heroshini Komali.R as Kantamaneni Uma Maheshwari
• Sumanth as Akkineni Nageswara Rao
• Brahmanandam as Relangi
• Murali Sharma as Aluri Chakrapani
• Naresh as B. A. Subba Rao
• Prakash Raj as Nagi Reddy
• Jisshu Sengupta as L. V. Prasad
• Sanjay Reddy as Pingali Nagendra Rao
• Ravi Kishan as Ravikant Nagaich
• Vennela Kishore as Rukmanandha Rao
• Mirchi Madhavi as Nannapaneni Rajakumari
• Kaikala Satyanarayana as H.M. Reddy
• Director Krish as Kadiri Venkata Reddy
• Supriya Vinod as Indira Gandhi
• Daggubati Raja as Nandamuri Trivikrama Rao
• Rohith Bharadwaj as Nandamuri Ramakrishna

NTR's heroines

• Nithya Menen as Savitri
• Shriya Saran as Prabha
• Pranitha Subhash as Krishna Kumari
• Shalini Pandey as Sowcar Janaki
• Yashu Mashetty as S. Varalakshmi
• Hansika Motwani as Jaya Pradha
• Payal Rajput as Jaya Sudha
• Rakul Preet Singh as Sridevi
• Anushka Shetty as Saroja Devi
• Prathyusha as G Varalakshmi

Cameos

• Girish as Ramoji Rao
• Easwar Babu as S V Ranga Rao
• Mandali Buddha Prasad as Mandali Venkatakrishna Rao
• Chandra Sidhhartha as Dasari Narayana Rao
• Subhalekha Sudhakar as P Pullaiah
• Sai Madhav Burra as Peethambaram
• S Sankar as Vithalacharya
• Shiv Shankar master as Vempati Chinna Sathyam,
• Ravi Prakash as Yoganand
• Inturi Vasu as Tatineni Prakash
• Surabhi Jayachandra as TV Raju
• Bhadram as Peketi Sivaram
• Sanjay as Pingali
• Arjun Prasad as Marcus Bartley
• Devi Prasad as Gummadi
• Nageshwara Rao as Pundarikakshyaa
• SV Krishna Reddy as Kamalakara Kameshwara Rao
• Ramajogayya Sastry as C Narayana Reddy
• Sikinder as M G Ramachandran
• Sunil Kumar Reddy as Kannappa
• Avasarala Srinivas as DV Narasaraju
• Raghu master as Salim Master
• Nagaraj as Chalameshwar

It is reported that Balakrishna's grandson, the son of his second daughter Tejaswini, will be seen playing his child , but who will be playing his role as young Balakrishna is yet to be revealed.

NTR Kathanayakudu is the first of the two part biographical movie series based on the life of former movie star and politician NT Rama Rao. Vidya Balan will be seen as Basavatarakam, N. T. Rama Rao’s first wife. This film marks her debut in Telugu. The music has been composed by MM Keeravani. The film's sequel, N.T.R: Mahanayakudu will showcase NTR's political journey.

The first part, NTR Kathanayakudu will be released on 9 January 2019.

Did you know that Sr NTR did not attend the wedding of Nandamuri Balakrishna? We sign off with this trivia for now. Stay tuned to Sakshi Post for more updates on NTR Biopic.

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