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Hundreds of fans pay last respects to veteran Tollywood actor Krishna

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Hundreds of fans, top political leaders of Telugu states and Tollywood personalities paid their last respects to veteran actor Krishna here on Wednesday. People queued up at Padmalaya Studio to see the superstar for a time and pay their last respects.

Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and leaders cutting across party lines paid their respects to Krishna, who passed away early on Tuesday at a hospital in Hyderabad while undergoing treatment following a cardiac arrest. He was 79.

Fans descended on Padmalaya Studio in large numbers to catch the last glimpse of the actor, who acted in about 350 films in a career spanning over five decades.

Telangana Governor and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister consoled Krishna's son and popular actor Mahesh Babu, son-in-law and MP Galla Jayadev and other family members.

Krishna's last rites will be performed with state honours later in the day at Mahaprasthanam in Jubilee Hills.

Tamilisai told reporters that Krishna's service to the film industry will always be remembered. "Looking at the large number of fans who have turned out here, I could see the pulse of people," she said.

Andhra Pradesh tourism minister and former actor Roja, actors Jayaprada, Balakrishna, Kota Srinivas Rao, filmmaker Allu Arvind and others paid their respects.

Ghattamaneni Siva Rama Krishna Murthy or Krishna was born on May 31, 1942, at Burripalem in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. He debuted as the lead actor in the 1965 movie 'Thene Manasulu'.

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Superstar Krishna who has acted in more than 350 films also directed and edited a few other films besides producing many technological firsts in the Telugu film industry. He also has reportedly introduced a few western film genres into Telugu cinema such as CowBoy, Spy/Detective and JamesBond. Krishna directed 17 feature films and produced many films under his Padmalaya Studios production company along with his brothers Adiseshagiri Rao and Hanumantha Rao. Krishna was one of the highest-paid Telugu actors during his time.

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The above biographical film on the freedom fighter ‘Alluri Seetharama Raju (1974)’ by Krishna under his home banner Padmalaya studios marked his 100th film. The film is considered to be the first cinema scope film in Telugu. The film later ended up as the highest grossing Telugu film of that year.

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Krishna’s yet another film ‘Eenadu’ made in 1982 has reportedly introduced yet other new technology to colour grade the film. And though ‘Eenadu’ Telugu film industry started using Eastman colour grading technology for all the films until it was replaced by colour processing labs and digital technologies.

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This Krishna’s epic historical fim written, directed, edited, produced and acted by Krishna along side Jaya Prada, Radha and Mandakini was simultaneously made in Hindi as Singhasan and the film was successful at the box-office.

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This time Superstar Krishna’s focus went on sound design and he introduced newly found Ditial theaer system in the us and incorporated the same Technology in this movie revoulutionary film ‘Telugu Veera Levara’ DTS was later replaced by its competitor Dolby sound technology.

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This western action film directed by KSR Das has its screen play written by Aarudra. The film is said to have run for 100 days and was subsequently dubbed into Tamil and Hindi besides having a trimmed Hindi version.

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