As Actor
Nayakan
1987
7.9
M. V. Vasudeva Rao
Acting
Birth Date
January 1, 1920
Date of Death
March 22, 2002
Biography
Mudabidri Venkat Rao Vasudeva Rao (c. 1920 – 22 March 2002) was an Indian actor. He entered the film world as a child actor in 1928. He won the Best Actor Award at the 23rd National Film Awards for his role of Choma in the Chomana Dudi (1975), a film based on Shivarama Karanth's novel of the same name. He played a prominent role in Shyam Benegal's Telugu film Kondura. In Mrinal Sen's Oka Oori Katha and Mani Rathnam's Nayakan, Bombay. He acted in over 200 films in his career; however, post Chomana Dudi, he only played minor roles.
