V.B Rajendra Prasad
Born in an Agriculture family of village DOKIPARRU, Krishna District on 4th November 1932 for Jagapathi Chowdary and Lakshmi Narasamma. Grown up under the guidance of his grandfather Mr. Ramaswamy Garu. He has one elder brother Mr. Krishna Prasad. Had his basic education in DOKIPARRU and he was very poor at studies in his child hood because of his ill health, he was suffering from Asthma. So he couldn’t able concentrate more on his studies. Because of his ill health the education got affected so temporally there was halt in his education, so his father wanted to shift him to PAMURRA, a nearby village to DOKIPARRU and joined him in 4th class in that village and continued his education there in PAMURRA. So somehow managed his studies in that village and completed 10th Class and while studying in this village he heard about Kakinada which is called Andhra Paris and he had an intention to have his Higher education in Kakinada, for that he attended the Entrance test conducted by some college and he got selected in that Test and he joined his intermediate in Kakinada. In his school day he was very passionate about the Politics. So he participated in student union elections and won the Elections and he became the Student Union leader while he was in his first year intermediate.
P.R.College is known for its cultural activities which got applaud from the huge audience over the years. When he was the student president for the same college they invited Mr. NATARAJA RAMAKRISHNA who is very well known for his classical Dance in Andhra and organised a program and everyone got impressed with the performance from Mr. Ramakrishna. VBR was very Good Yoga teacher and he use to perform Yoga’s at each and every function organised by the college. After seeing the performance from Ramakrishna VBR has small thought in his mind that why can’t he perform in the stage as an artist. So with that intention he started a cultural organisation called “RAGAHAVA KALASAMITHI” with the partnership with his co student Mr. EDIDA NAGESWARA RAO who is well known producer of that era. So VBR started his career with this organisation as a stage artist performed in Dramas Directed by Athreya and D.V. NarasaRaju who were very famous on those days. His first break as a Drama Artist was through the Drama KUPPULU where he played a Lady role. This gained him lot of fame and name as an artist and most surprisingly he got Best Heroin Award for that role and received the award from MR. GOPALASWAMY who was then Vice Chancellor for Andhra University. From that RAGHAVA KALASAMITHI created its own brand and craze among the Andhra Audience. Then hundreds of Dramas and stage shows were performed through that organisation and VB became very well established artist over the years.
In 1953 he got married to Smt. Vasundara Devi. After his marriage with the suggestions from his elders he started the cement Business in Vijayawada with the just capital of 5000/- with four partners. So it ran for sometime but the outcome of that business was very less because we were four partners that time. So it was not even sufficient to pay the house rent in Vijayawada. So one day his father called him and asked him to quit that business and continue his agriculture in his village. So forcefully accepted that and I felt it’s a Good option than struggling for food in Vijayawada. So he was looking after their lands in his village and it was very difficult to go to farm in the winter season because of his ill health. So his father asked him not to go to farm because of his health conditions and asked him to go to BANDARU (now Machilipatnam) and look after the Rice Mill there. So again shifted himself to Bandaru. Again the same health problem because of the Dust coming out of the Mill. So again jobless then he started thinking about his career. Suddenly as a flash he recollected one instance where he met Mr. AKKENENI NAGESWARA RAO and expressed his interest in acting movies. Then ANR suggested him to concentrate on his studies and asked to meet him after his Degree. So with that spark he presented his idea of acting in movies to his brother and his brother took the same idea to his father and after 4 days he got a call from his father and his father accepted his request and gave him 50,000/- to go to Madras to flourish his dream of becoming Hero.
He shifter to Madras in 1958, with an intention to become a Hero and he struggled a lot for the offers in the movies. Even though ANR helped VBR and introduced D. MADHUSUDHAN RAO Garu, VBR was not offered Hero role by any Producers. Then ANR suggested him to back out the intention of becoming hero and asked him to dub the movies from other languages to Telugu. He debuted as Producer with ANNAPURNA and V. Madhusudhan Rao was the Director for that movie, JAGGAIAH and JAMUNA played the Lead roles in that Movie. Even though movie got Good response from the audience, the collections were very less. He made a series of Good Family oriented pictures with ANR, SHOBANBABU, NAGARJUNA etc... So for he has produced around 25 Movies in Telugu, 3 movies in Tamil and 3 Movies in Hindi under Jagapathi Arts Banner. VBR has directed around 13 Movies in Telugu, 3 movies in Tamil and 3 movies in Hindi. He was awarded with Raghupathi Venkayya Award.
He initiated the construction of 11 Temples in the Daiva Sannidhanam temple in film Nagar, Jubilee Hiss, Hyderabad.
P.R.College is known for its cultural activities which got applaud from the huge audience over the years. When he was the student president for the same college they invited Mr. NATARAJA RAMAKRISHNA who is very well known for his classical Dance in Andhra and organised a program and everyone got impressed with the performance from Mr. Ramakrishna. VBR was very Good Yoga teacher and he use to perform Yoga’s at each and every function organised by the college. After seeing the performance from Ramakrishna VBR has small thought in his mind that why can’t he perform in the stage as an artist. So with that intention he started a cultural organisation called “RAGAHAVA KALASAMITHI” with the partnership with his co student Mr. EDIDA NAGESWARA RAO who is well known producer of that era. So VBR started his career with this organisation as a stage artist performed in Dramas Directed by Athreya and D.V. NarasaRaju who were very famous on those days. His first break as a Drama Artist was through the Drama KUPPULU where he played a Lady role. This gained him lot of fame and name as an artist and most surprisingly he got Best Heroin Award for that role and received the award from MR. GOPALASWAMY who was then Vice Chancellor for Andhra University. From that RAGHAVA KALASAMITHI created its own brand and craze among the Andhra Audience. Then hundreds of Dramas and stage shows were performed through that organisation and VB became very well established artist over the years.
In 1953 he got married to Smt. Vasundara Devi. After his marriage with the suggestions from his elders he started the cement Business in Vijayawada with the just capital of 5000/- with four partners. So it ran for sometime but the outcome of that business was very less because we were four partners that time. So it was not even sufficient to pay the house rent in Vijayawada. So one day his father called him and asked him to quit that business and continue his agriculture in his village. So forcefully accepted that and I felt it’s a Good option than struggling for food in Vijayawada. So he was looking after their lands in his village and it was very difficult to go to farm in the winter season because of his ill health. So his father asked him not to go to farm because of his health conditions and asked him to go to BANDARU (now Machilipatnam) and look after the Rice Mill there. So again shifted himself to Bandaru. Again the same health problem because of the Dust coming out of the Mill. So again jobless then he started thinking about his career. Suddenly as a flash he recollected one instance where he met Mr. AKKENENI NAGESWARA RAO and expressed his interest in acting movies. Then ANR suggested him to concentrate on his studies and asked to meet him after his Degree. So with that spark he presented his idea of acting in movies to his brother and his brother took the same idea to his father and after 4 days he got a call from his father and his father accepted his request and gave him 50,000/- to go to Madras to flourish his dream of becoming Hero.
He shifter to Madras in 1958, with an intention to become a Hero and he struggled a lot for the offers in the movies. Even though ANR helped VBR and introduced D. MADHUSUDHAN RAO Garu, VBR was not offered Hero role by any Producers. Then ANR suggested him to back out the intention of becoming hero and asked him to dub the movies from other languages to Telugu. He debuted as Producer with ANNAPURNA and V. Madhusudhan Rao was the Director for that movie, JAGGAIAH and JAMUNA played the Lead roles in that Movie. Even though movie got Good response from the audience, the collections were very less. He made a series of Good Family oriented pictures with ANR, SHOBANBABU, NAGARJUNA etc... So for he has produced around 25 Movies in Telugu, 3 movies in Tamil and 3 Movies in Hindi under Jagapathi Arts Banner. VBR has directed around 13 Movies in Telugu, 3 movies in Tamil and 3 movies in Hindi. He was awarded with Raghupathi Venkayya Award.
He initiated the construction of 11 Temples in the Daiva Sannidhanam temple in film Nagar, Jubilee Hiss, Hyderabad.
Filmography
Telugu
| Movie | Artists | Producer | Director | |
| 1 | Annapurna | Jaggaiah, Jamuna, Gummadi | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V. Madhusudhan Rao |
| 2 | Aaradhana | Akkeneni Nageswara Rao, Savitri | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V. Madhusudhan Rao |
| 3 | Aatma Balam | Akkeneni Nageswara Rao, B. Saroja Devi | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V. Madhusudhan Rao |
| 4 | Anthasthulu | P.Bhanu Mathi, Akkeneni Nageswara Rao | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V. Madhusudhan Rao |
| 5 | Aasthiparulu | Akkeneni Nageswara Rao, Jayalalitha | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V. Madhusudhan Rao |
| 6 | Adrustavanthulu | Akkeneni Nageswara Rao, Jayalalitha | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V. Madhusudhan Rao |
| 7 | Akka chellalu | Akkeneni Nageswara Rao, S. Janaki, Krishna | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | A. Sanjeevi |
| 8 | Dasara Bullodu | Akkeneni Nageswara Rao, Chandra Kala, Vanisree, S.V. Ranga Rao | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V.B. Rajendra Prasad |
| 9 | Bangaru Babu | Akkeneni Nageswara Rao, Vanisree | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V.B. Rajendra Prasad |
| 10 | Manchi Manushulu | Shoban Babu, Manjula | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V.B. Rajendra Prasad |
| 11 | Bangaru Bommalu | Akkeneni, Manjula | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V.B. Rajendra Prasad |
| 12 | Muddula Koduku | Akkeneni, Sridevi, Jayasudha | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V.B. Rajendra Prasad |
| 13 | PichimaRaju | Shoban Babu, Manjula | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V.B. Rajendra Prasad |
| 14 | Andaru Dongale | S.V. Ranga Rao, Lakshmi | Venkata Ratnam | V.B. Rajendra Prasad |
| 15 | Chitapata Chinukulu 1 | All | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V.B. Rajendra Prasad |
| 16 | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | All | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V.B. Rajendra Prasad |
| 17 | Ramakrishnulu | Akkeneni, NTR | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V.B. Rajendra Prasad |
| 18 | S.P. Bayankar | Akkeneni, Krishnam Raju | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V.B. Rajendra Prasad |
| 19 | Barya Barthala Bandham | Akkeneni, Balakrishna, Rajani | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V.B. Rajendra Prasad |
| 20 | Captain Nagarjuna | Nagarjuna, Kushbu | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V.B. Rajendra Prasad |
| 21 | Lanchavatharam | Dasari Narayana Rao | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | Dasari Narayana Rao |
| 22 | Simhaswapnam | Jagapathi Babu, Krishnam Raju | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V. Madhusudhan Rao |
| 23 | Killer | Nagarjuna, Nagma | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | Fazal |
| 24 | Bangaru Bullodu | Balakrishna, Ramya Krishna | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | Raviraja |
| 25 | Balebullodu | Jagapathi Babu, Soundarya | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | Sharath |
| 26 | Pelli Peetalu | Jagapathi Babu, Soundarya | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | S.V. Krishna Reddy |
Tamil
| 1 | Engal TangaRaja | Shivaji Ganeshan, Manjula | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V.B. Rajendra Prasad |
| 2 | Uthaman | Shivaji Ganeshan, Manjula | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V.B. Rajendra Prasad |
| 3 | Pattakathi Bhairavan | Shivaji Ganeshan, Manjula, S. janaki | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V.B. Rajendra Prasad |
Hindi
| 1 | Rashte Pyarke | Jitendra, Rekha, Shabana Ajmi | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V.B. Rajendra Prasad |
| 2 | Be karan | Sanjay Dutt, Padmini | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | V.B. Rajendra Prasad |
| 3 | Kathronki Kiladi | Darmendra, Sanjay Dutt, Madhuri Dixit | V.B. Rajendra Prasad | T. Rama Rao |
Awards
Forty four years of dedicated and deep involvement in the film industry with sincerity and great virtues have awarded him Andhra Pradesh Governments prestigious “RAGHUPATHI VENKAIAH AWARD” for his outstanding services to Telugu Film Industry in particular and to Indian Cinema.
His Telugu Film “ANTASTULU” won the Best Picture award of Sydney Film Festival.
His First directorial venture “DASARA BULLODU” run for one year in Many A.P. Centres
As a Noble he produced one Telugu film “PICHI MAARAAJU” exclusively for the welfare of staff members, to whom entire profits were distributed and it’s the World Record. No Producer has done this ever.
He is serving as president of FILM NAGAR CO-OPERATIVE HOUSING SOCIETY, Hyderabad for the past 17 years and rendered so many services for the welfare and grand development of Film Nagar as a Beautiful world of cinema the only one of its type in the whole world.
His latest Achievement is the construction of FILM NAGAR DAIVA SANNIDHANAM in association with a few other members as chairman of Daiva Sannidhanam Board. The Sannidhanam is already Tack of the city, with 15 deities, in a clam and peace atmosphere.
He is deeply dedicated to his responsibility and treats work in worship. He is an undisputed “gentleman” of Cinema industry, known as “AJATA SATRUVU”.
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