Nuvvu na mundunte
ninnala choostunte
jivvu mantundi manasu
rivvu mantundi vayasu...

goes the popular song from the movie Goodachari 116. Superstar Krishna's different style of dancing coupled with his impeccable facial expressions makes this song a treat to watch for many Telugu movie fans. Superstar Krishna is often referred to as "Andhra James Bond" in many places; the reason being he portrayed that role (detective) in many Telugu movies like none else in the Telugu movie space.

Superstar Krishna was the first person to act in a James Bond role not only in Telugu movies but also in all the Indian movies. His novel idea of showing Telugu audience how an English movie would look like in their language was his selling point. He convinced the crew and the "James Bond" movies in Telugu started.

He first acted as a detective in the movie "Gudachari 116" in the late 60's. The movie became a stupendous hit and movies with similar roles started flowing for the Superstar. Sri Krishna garu acted in this role in many movies spanning about two decades. James Bond 777, Gudachari 117, pattunkunte laksha, Agent Gopi were some of the movies in which he portrayed this role. In Mosagalluku Mosagadu he enacted yet another role of a Cowboy with equal ease and finesse.

Shobhan Babu: -

Sporting dark colored goggles, shirt tucked in, curly hair forming a ring on his forehead we often see a middle aged hero dancing with two heroines to smooth tunes in many Telugu movies. If you still need introduction about the actor whom we are talking about, it is none other than Sri Shobhan Babu.

Sri Shobhan Babu enacted the role of a lover sandwiched between two women in many movies. He acted in movies wherein he marries a woman, looses her accidentally, re-marries another woman due to family pressures only to know that his first love is still alive. In other movies, he loves a woman, cannot marry her due to some problems, marries another woman and in some incident meets his first love and then the drama goes on. Sri Shobhan Babu enacted these kinds of roles in many movies, some of them being Kaarthika Deepam (sridevi, sharada), Shravana Sandhya (vijayashanti, suhasini), Devata (sridevi, jayapradha), Emandi avida vachindi (vanisri, sarada) to name a few.

We often hear various titles that are put against their names like chocolate hero, stunt hero etc but how often do we see heroes who are referred to by the roles they enact and how often to we hear heroes who are heroes in their real life too. Telugu movie land is very blessed to have Actors like these. Idlebrain.com salutes these great personalities and their outstanding contribution to Telugu Cinema.

(to be continued ...).

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