Dasari Narayana Rao Passed Away: Popular multi lingual director and the former Union Minister Dasari Narayana Rao has passed away in Hyderabad owing to illness, at 75. Popularly known as Darsaka Ratna, the director suffered from a lung infection for which he was getting treatment at KIMS hospital from January. Dasari Narayana Rao is famous for directing 150 films and also producing 53 films.
Apart from being a director-producer, he also acted in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada. He also holds a Guinness Record for directing highest number of films. As the Union Minister, he got into legal trouble after his name was highlighted in the illegal allocations of coal blocks during the Congress regime with Manmohan Singh as the Prime Minister.
His fans have been worried as the director fell sick after attending a function of Khaidi No. 150 in January, and was admitted to the hospital. Presently, the director was working on an untitled project with Pawan Kalyan and also had plans to make a biopic about the Late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. But Narayana Rao passed away before he could finish these projects.
Big blow to Telugu filmdom. Veteran filmmaker Dasari Narayana Rao, who has over 120 films to his credit, is no more. Tragic.
— Haricharan Pudipeddi (@pudiharicharan) May 30, 2017
