Anantapur History

Anantapur offers some vivid glimpses of the prehistoric past. It is generally held that the place got its name from 'Anaatasagaram' , a big tank, which means "Endless Ocean". The villages of Anaantasagaram and Bukkarayasamudram were constructed by Chilkkavodeya, the minister of Bukka-I, a Vijayanagar ruler. Some authorities assert that Anaantasagaram was named after Bukka's queen, while some contend that it must have been known after Anantarasa Chikkavodeya himself, as Bukka had no queen by that name.
Anantapur is familiarly known as "Hande Anantapuram" . ' Hande ' means chief of the Vijayanagar period. Anantapur and a few other places were gifted by the Vijayanagar rulers to Hanumappa Naidu of the Hande family.
The place subsequently came under the Qutub Shahis, Mughals, and the Nawabs of Cuddapah, although the Hande chiefs continued to rule as their subordinates. It was occupied by the Palergar of Bellary during the time of Ramappa but was eventually won back by his son, Siddappa. Morari Rao Ghorpade attacked Anantapur in 1757. Though the army resisted for some time, Siddappa ultimately bought off the enemy for Rs.50,000.
It then came into the possession of Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan. Tipu hanged all the male members of the Siddappa family except Siddappa who escaped from his confinement at Srirangapatnam. After Tipu's death, it was once again taken back by Siddappa. Siddappa submitted himself to Nizam because of the treaty of 1799, who took the total control of the area. He was later pensioned off when British occupied the territory

Tuesday, 7 June 2011

Badrinath to put breaks for Allu Arjun’s FS!


















Allu Arjun was once considered as the hero with 
golden arm. All his initial films were hits. Except
 Happy, which was a decent earner in few
 regions rest of the films in Bunny’s first five
 flicks were hits. However, his struggles started
 with Arya 2 in which he played an eccentric role 
that didn’t go down well with the masses.
Although Arya 2 has cult following, it is too limited
 that the film ended up as a flop. However, well
 wishers of Bunny claim that it was commercial 
hit. But in fact it is not. Later Varudu proved to 
be the first major disaster in Allu Arjun’s career.
Vedam which was critically acclaimed was ended 
up as flop on the commercial front. With a row
 of flops Allu Arjun has taken big decision to do
 a film of Badrinath’s caliber. This film is one
 of the biggest budget films in Tollywood history
. Allu Arjun hopes that this film would put
 breaks on his flop streak and get him back 
into winning ways. Let’s hope so.

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