Thousands bid tearful adieu to ANR Thursday Jan 23,2014

The mortal remains of the thespian Akkineni Nageswara Rao, who died in the early hours of Wednesday, were consigned to flames at the Annapurna Studios here on Thursday afternoon, with full police honours amid a 21-gun salute as thousands of fans, friends and relatives bid a tearful adieu. 

The final journey of legendary ANR came to an end slightly after 3.30 p.m. at the Studios.

 His sons Venkat and Nagarjuna and grandchildren Sumanth, Naga Chaitanya, Akhil and Sushant carried the body to the pyre

Prominent among those who attended the funeral were -

• Union Minister of State for Tourism K. Chiranjeevi
• former Union Ministers T. Subbarami Reddy
• Dasari Narayana Rao 
• U.V. Krishnam Raju
• D. Rama Naidu 
• Allu Arvind
• K. Raghavendra Rao
• Gunnam Gangaraju
• Madhura Sridhar
• actor-turned MLA Jayasudha
• Sridevi
• Tabu
• Anushka Shetty
• Maheswari
• Jeevitha
• Ramaprabha 
• Kaikala Satyanarayana
• Venkatesh
• Jr. NTR
• Muralimohan
• Tarak
• Dr. Rajasekhar and 
• Adivi Sesh. 

The State Govt was represented by Ministers D. Nagender and Kasu Venkatakrishna Reddy, apart from the chairman of the AP Official Languages Commission Mandali Buddha Prasad. 

Earlier in the day, his body was moved to the A.P. Film Chamber of Commerce and kept there to enable fans and well-wishers to pay their last respects

Akkineni Nageswara Rao's children - actor Akkineni Nagarjuna, Naga Susheela, Akkineni Venkat - are inconsolable after the body of the screen legend was consigned to flames at the Annapurna Studios premises in Hyderabad on Thursday

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