Tanikella Bharani : Lesser Known Facts | Unknown Facts

He is an Indian actor, screenwriter, poet, playwright, and director who works mainly in Telugu cinema.
He has worked in over 750 films, including some in Tamil and Hindi.
He has won three Andhra Pradesh State Nandi Awards.
He directed the 2012 Telugu drama film Mithunam and received the CineMAA Award Special Jury Award for Best Direction for this film.
His ancestry includes poets and literary figures of Telugu literature.
He was born in Secunderabad to TVV Setu Ramalingeswar Rao and Laxminarasamma on July 14, 1954.
His grand uncles were Diwakarla Venkatavadhani and Viswanatha Satyanarayana, and his great-grand-uncle was Divakarla Tirupati Sastry.