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

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Jr NTR with KV Anand!


Young tiger Junior NTR, who is busy with the shooting of his upcoming film tentatively titled “Oosaravelli” under the direction of Surendar Reedy, apart from this movie he has many films in pipe line. Now the latest news from the film nagar circles is that Jr NTR will do a new project under the direction of Tamil director KV Anand.

Director Anand was earlier directed a Super Hit Tamil film Ko , which was released recently in Telugu as Rangam. He also directed another Tamil film Ayan with Surya, which was released in Telugu as Veedokkade. Now he is going to enter into Tollywood with full fledged Telugu film. As per the sources director KV Anand narrated the story line to Jr NTR and NTR has given the green signal to do thatproject it seems. Another buzz is that this film will be produced by Aswini Dutt, who produced Shakthi movie with Jr NTR recently, which was bombed at box office.
Stay with us for more details on this project!!
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