Postal stamps dedicated to Nagarjuna

Akkineni Nagarjuna, who will turn 57 on Monday, recently added another feather to his cap by turning into a singer for his next, Nirmala Convent. To celebrate this, a postal stamp will be launched on his birthday by his sons Naga Chaitanya and Akhil Akkineni.

“This is the biggest surprise of my life,” says Nagarjuna. The stamp will feature a portrait of Nagarjuna as a singer alongside the Taj Mahal. A total of 10,000 postal stamps have been printed.

When asked about the plans for the big day, Akhil says, “We’ve no big plans. He has never been keen on having big birthdays. We will just have a family dinner.”

— With inputs from Subhash K. Jha