NTR Personal life
NTR married Basavatarakam in 1942. She died of Cancer in 1985. There is a Cancer Hospital established
in her memory in Hyderabad. NTR got remarried in 1993 at the age of 70. His second wife Lakshmi
Parvati started off as his biographer and later developed a relationship. NTR had seven sons and four
daughters from his first marriage. Prominent among his children are Bhuvaneswari, wife of Nara
Chandrababu Naidu and the chairperson of Heritage Foods; and Daggubati Purandeswari, MP and a
Minister of State for Human Resources in Manmohan Singh's cabinet; Nandamuri Balakrishna a leading
actor in the Telugu film industry; and Nandamuri Harikrishna, an actor turned politician and a member of
Rajya Sabha (upper house of India's Parliament). Prominent among NTR's grandchildren are N. Kalyan
Ram, N. T. Rama Rao Jr. and Taraka Ratna. (all three are actors in Telugu Cinema).
N.T. Rama Rao died on 18 January 1996 of a heart attack.[16].Recently in 2007 NDTV,a popular
television channel made a survey "who is the most popularly known person of andhra pradesh?". 73% of
the people answered NTR
