Harikrishna is the favorite son of Nandamuri Taraka Ramarao, the most famous artist of Telugu cinema field and founder president of Telugu Desam Party. NTR used to call him affectionately as ‘Hari.’’ Harikrishna was recently inducted into Telugu Desam Party Politbureau and felicitated with a doctorate by an American University.
Hari is very kind-hearted person and is very much interested in looking after animals like cows, and also in mythological stories. As Hari is not afraid of anybody since childhood, NTR used to take special care about him and kept Hari at his grand-father (father of NTR), in Nimmakuru village, (native place of NTR).
Image Courtesy: Nandamuri Fans.
In the beginning NTR was in Madras (Chennai), while acting in films and later on moved to Hyderabad, the State capital of Andhra Pradesh state and settled there.
NTR constructed Ramakrishna cinema studio at Hyderabad and made Hari in -charge for that studio.
NTR also purchased 250 acres of agricultural lands in Shamshabad (near Hyderabad). Hari and his grand-father are looking after these lands. While returning from Shamshabad, after seeing the lands, father of NTR, met with an accident and lost his life. There after NTR sold these lands, thinking that his father died due to these lands only (some sort of sentiment).
Hari could not able to adjust to city life and of the opinion that most of the people in towns/cities are not as honesty as the people living in the villages. He expressed his desire to go back to his native village, but NTR persuaded and convinced Hari to stay at Hyderabad, to look after the studio and their cinema production, etc.
Hari was the driver to that famous vehicle, ‘’Chianti Ratham’’( enlightened vehicle), in which NTR carried out his election campaign for 9 months in the year 1982-83, and defeated the ruling Congress government. Telugu Desam Party, founded by NTR came into power in Andhra Pradesh, in the year 1983. During the election campaign, Hari was the care-taker of NTR, and looked after NTR very well.
Hari says that farmers are the back-bones to the states as well to the country, but no political party evincing sufficient interest in welfare of the farmers. He is of the strong opinion that progress of the nation depends on the well-being of the farmers only.
Hari further says that he cannot tell lies, always keeps his promises given to others that are why he is facing much difficulty in containing politics in the present prevailing conditions. Every body (including my children) should strive hard to come up in life and never depend upon others for a lift.
Person, like my beloved father, is rarely born in this world. His personality was extraordinary (God given gift as somebody said).
NTR’S action in pictures, discipline in life, and perseverance in performing any work is all the extraordinary qualities rarely noticed in a single human being.
Hari and his father were behaved more like bosom friends rather than father and son.
‘’I wish to dedicate my further life to serve the people’’ (about entering into politics), NTR said these words first of all to Harikrishna.
Politics are prevailing in every field including cinema industry. Most of the cinemas are now without any meaningful stories and devoid of any social obligations and sentiments, as compared to old pictures.
Now I cannot simply act in cinemas, just for the sake of money. We should not deceive not only ourselves but also the public, by producing pictures without any moral values.
Finally I sincerely wish that the Telugu Desam Party should once again regain its old glory and fame, as in the days of NTR and dedicate itself to serve the poor and bring equality and social justice to all the ordinary human beings.
Then only the aim of the father to serve the poor will be fulfilled. The name and fame of the ‘’Telugu people’’ should be spread all over the world.
Source: Eenadu Sunday Magazine.
