J. V. Somayajulu

Jonnalagadda Venkata Somayajulu (30 July 1920 His father worked as an Inspector in the Prohibition and Excise department in Gudivada and other towns. He spent his childhood in Vizianagaram and also participated in stage dramas there. He was a government official and worked as a Deputy collector for Mahabub Nagar district.

His career spanned five decades in stage dramas, films and television. His passion for Gurazada Apparao's play, Kanyasulkam, was such that he, along with his actor brother J V Ramana Murthy, played it about 500 times in 45 years. His exposition of the delightfully notorious character, "Ramappanthulu" in the play, has become legendary. The woman behind the success of Somayajulu was his mother Saradamma. Somayajulu had two sons and a daughter. Janakiramaiah Ugra Narasimham Swathi Muthyam Magadheerudu Kaliyuga Pandavulu

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Indiramma

Tamil films

Kannada films

Hindi films

Malayalam films

Television Lady Detective (1995) Abhay Charan as A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami (1996) Nagamma as Rayudu (2002–2004)