Annapurna Studios
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| Private | |
| Industry | Entertainment |
| Founded | 1975 |
| Founder | Akkineni Nageswara Rao |
| Headquarters | Hyderabad, India |
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Key people
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Nagarjuna Akkineni Akkineni Venkat Sumanth Naga Chaitanya Sushanth Akhil Akkineni Samantha Ruth Prabhu |
| Products | Films |
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Film production Film distribution |
| Owner | Nagarjuna Akkineni |
| Website |
Annapurna Studios Pvt Ltd Annapurna International School of Film & Media |
Annapurna Studios (Telugu: అన్నపూర్ణ స్టూడియోస్) is an production and distribution company established in 1975 by the late Telugu actor Nageswara Rao Akkineni. This studio was named after his wife 'Annapurna Akkineni'. Based in Hyderabad, it mainly produces and distributes Telugu films and also provides various production facilities, including sound stages for set construction, outdoor sets, editing, dubbing and Digital Intermediate suites. ANR's son, actor Nagarjuna Akkineni serves as a chairman after his dad's death.
The non-profit Annapurna International School of Film and Media is also situated in the premises of Annapurna Studios.
Actor Nageswara Rao Akkineni always wished to move the Telugu film industry from Madras to Hyderabad (now in Telangana) as this is where its audience predominantly was. With the support of the government, he started the studio primarily to encourage this migration. The studio was inaugurated by the then President of India Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed on 14 January, 1976.
The first Studio floor at Annapurna was built in 1976 and spans an area of 11,000 sq ft. The second studio was built in 1978 and was dedicated to the workers who had made the construction of the studio possible. This was followed by the construction of two more studios spanning 10,000 sft each and several outdoor locations, including a Manduva house (village house), police station, hospital, the Manam house, and several other landscaped areas which were commonly used in many films and television shoots.
In 2011, Annapurna Studios invested in building five new air-conditioned floors wherein the biggest floor spans an area of 14800 sq ft. This new facility features plush green rooms for artists & technicians, in-house 1520 KV generator capacity, catwalk grids for easy light settings, cyclorama/bluemat for special effects and inbuilt fire-fighting and detection systems. It also includes a 3000 sft space for dance rehearsals, photo-shoots and press-meets.
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