L. V. Prasad

L. V. Prasad is a Director and also worked as Producer, Actor, Laboratory, Screenplay, Thanks to, Presenter. L. V. Prasad has mostly worked in Hindi and has worked in languages like Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali.
He was born on January 17, 1908. He was born in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, India. He was born as Akkineni Lakshmi Vara Prasad Rao. He was an Indian director and producer. He was known for the movies like: Jeene Ki Raah (1969), Sharada (1957) and Bidaai (1974). He passed on June 22, 1994.He was the recipient of the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award by the Government of India for his life-time contribution to Indian cinema in 1983.He was also the first person to be awarded the prestigious Raghupathy Venkaiah award by the State Government of Andhra Pradesh for his outstanding contribution to Telugu cinema in 1981. He acted in Kalidas (1931) - the first Tamil Talkie, in _Bhakta Prahlada_ (1931) - the first Telugu talkie and Alam Ara (1931) - the first Hindi (Indian) talkie. The greatest achievement he had was that the Indian postal department issued a commemorative postal stamp in his honor on September 5, 2006 Check out this page for more updates on L. V. Prasad.