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Chittor V. Nagaiah

Chittor V. Nagaiah

Birthday: 1904-03-28 | Place of Birth: Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh

Chittor V. Nagaiah (born Vuppaladadiyam Nagayya, Telugu: వుప్పలదడియం నాగయ్య) was a multilingual Indian filmactor, composer, director, producer, writer and playback singer from Andhra Pradesh, India. Indian film journalist and the editor of Film India, Baburao Patel, described Nagiah as ‘The Paul Muni of India’. [1] Nagaiah has acted in about 200 Telugu films, and 160 films in Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. He was one of the first south Indian actors, to be honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1965.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1961
Kappalottiya Thamizhan

as    Ulaganathan Pillai

1941
Ashok Kumar

as    King Ashoka