Peketi Sivaram (

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: పేకేటి శివరాం) (8 October 1918 – 30 December 2006) was an Indian actor and director.http://www.cinegoer.com/archives/december2006/peketi.htm

Life sketch

He was born on 8 October 1918 in Pekeru village,

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in the erstwhile Madras Presidency of

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, present day

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. He acted in many

, Tamil and Kannada films, receiving recognition for the character Bhagavan in '' Devadasu'' (1953). He directed a few Telugu and Kannada films including ''Chuttarikalu'' (1968), ''Bhale Abbayilu'' (1969), ''Kula Gouravam'' (1972) starring

N. T. Rama Rao Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao (28 May 1923 – 18 January 1996), often referred to by his initials NTR, was an Indian actor, filmmaker and politician who served as List of Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh fo ...

and Rajkumar. He received the H. M. Reddy award in 2002. He died in

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on 30 December 2006.

Personal life

He has five sons from two marriages, the second one to the actress Jayanthi. His sons are Krishna Mohan, Peketi Ranga Rao, Venku and Gopal Peketi (with his first wife) and with second wife Jayanthi - Krishna Kumar (ex-husband of

Anu Prabhakar Anu Prabhakar, also known by her married name Anu Prabhakar Mukherjee, is an Indian actress, who predominantly appears in Kannada films and a few Tamil films. Early life Anu was born in Bangalore to M. V. Prabhakar, an employee with Bharat He ...

). With his first wife, he had four daughters: Laxmi, Shanti (wife of

Thiagarajan Thiagarajan Sivanandam (born 21 June 1946) is an Indian actor, director and producer in Tamil cinema. Beside Tamil, he has also acted in several Malayalam and Kannada films and a few Telugu films. He is the father of Tamil actor Prashanth and t ...

), Rani Kumar Tindal (CA) and Poornima. Peketi Ranga Rao is an art director while Thiagarajan is a film actor, producer and director. His grandson

Prashanth Prashanth Thiagarajan (born 6 April 1973), known professionally as Prashanth, is an Indian actor and businessman, known for his works predominantly in Tamil cinema. Besides Tamil films, he has also appeared in few Telugu, Hindi and Malayalam ...

, son of Thiagarajan, is also an actor in Tamil movies.

Filmography (partial)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sivaram, Peketi Male actors from Andhra Pradesh 20th-century Indian film directors 1918 births 2006 deaths People from East Godavari district Male actors in Telugu cinema Indian male film actors Male actors in Kannada cinema 20th-century Indian male actors Film directors from Andhra Pradesh Kannada film directors Telugu film directors