Mohan Babu is now 40
Year-long celebrations are being planned to mark the actor’s 40 years with the Telugu Film Industry
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-11-22 23:04 GMT
Actor Mohan Babu completed 40 years in Telugu Film Industry on November 22. 40 years ago, his first movie as a lead, Swargam Narakam, had released on this day. To commemorate this, an event was organised which was attended by his entire family — daughter Lakshmi, sons Vishnu and Manoj, wife Nirmala Devi, daughter-in-laws, son-in-law and his grandchildren, besides Dasari Narayana Rao and Venkatesh.
At the event, his children spoke about Mohan Babu’s journey from a remote village in Chittoor district to being one of the legendary actors of Tollywood. He has juggled between various roles — he played the lead actor, villain and character roles — and succeeded in portraying all of them.
Meet the family: The Manchu family with Dasari Narayana Rao at the event, right, Mohan Babu
The celebrations will last for a year and an event on a grand scale will be organised where a lot of Tollywood celebrities will be invited. As part of the celebrations, scripts of Rayalaseema Ramanna Chowdary and Assembly Rowdy will be released as books, his famous songs and his famous dialogues will be released in CDs, his rare photographs will be released in a book and the digital version of his famous movie Pedarayudu will release.
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