Among the four modern pillars of Telugu industry including Chiranjeevi, Balakrishna, Nagarjuna and Venkatesh, it is Balayya who didn’t work with legendary actress Sridevi. Because he feels that he should not romance that heroine who worked with his father, late NTR, as a leading lady.
Though Sridevi has no qualms in acting with Balayya, it seems like the Nandamuri hero never wanted to pick her up. And then, other day we’ve seen the heroes from Big Four in Mumbai except for this Nandamuri star. As Sridevi happens to have worked with NTR in a dozen films at least as a heroine, his son Balayya should have paid homage to her mortal remains, isn’t it?
In the recent times, Nandamuri Balakrishna didn’t turn up at the funerals of even Telugu legends like Akkineni and Ramanaidu as well. Insiders say that he has a very strong sentiment of not attending the funerals and sends only his wife Vasundhara to all such places. But how far it is a sentiment to pay one last visit to a person who is leaving this earth forever?
Anyway, film lovers already started accepting the fact that Balayya will not turn up at funerals. But what is to be seen is if anyone from Nandamuri family paid homage to Sridevi or not. For using his grandfather’s name most of the time, at least Jr NTR should have gone. Pch!!