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| name = T. Ramakrishna Sastry
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| birth_name = Tripuraribhatla Ramakrishna Sastry
| birth_date = 10 April 1914
| birth_place = [[Pedaravooru]], [[Tenali]] tq, [[Andhra Pradesh]]
| death_date = 21 May 1998
| death_place = [[Tenali]], [[Andhra Pradesh]]
| occupation = Actor
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'''Tripuraribhatla Ramakrishna Sastry''' or '''T. Ramakrishna Sastry''' ({{lang-te|త్రిపురారిభట్ల రామకృష్ణ శాస్త్రి}}) (10 April 1914 – 21 May 1998) was a famous stage and film actor in the early period of [[Telugu cinema]]. He was famous in portraying the role of [[Narada]] in about 12 films.<ref>Apara Naradudu Tripuraribhatla Ramakrishna Sastry, Tholinati Gramophone Gayakulu, Modali Nagabhushana Sharma, Creative Links Publications, Hyderabad, 2010, pp. 18-9.</ref>

He was born to Tripuraribhatla Raghavaiah and Kameswaramma in [[Pedaravooru]] of Tenali taluq in [[Guntur district]], [[Andhra Pradesh]]. He joined Rama Vilasa Sabha of Tenali and started as a child actor when 9 years old.<ref>Tripuraribhatla Ramakrishna Sastry, Nata Ratnalu, Dr. Mikkilineni Radhakrishna Murthy, Second edition, Sitaratnam Granthamala, Vijayawada, 2002, pp. 115-17.</ref> He acted in Balamitra Sabha of Dantu Venkata Krishnayya in Guntur from 1926 onwards — ''Roshanara'', ''Krishna Leelalu'', ''Ramadasu'' plays – and toured South India.

While he was playing with [[Sthanam Narasimha Rao]] and [[C. S. R. Anjaneyulu]], eminent film director [[Chitrapu Narayana Murthy]] was impressed by his performance and invited him to act in his film ''Mohini Rugmangada'' in 1937. He portrayed the Narada character with devotion and won applause of wide audience. Subsequently, he has acted in about 12 films including ''Markandeya'', ''Dakshayagnam'', ''Prahlada'', ''Mairavana'', ''Sumati'' and played different roles.

Returning to the stage, he acted in the ''Ramanjaneya Yudham'' play of Betha Venkata Rao as Narada and gave hundreds of performances. He has earned a good name in playing Bilvamangala, Shivayogi, Ramadasu, Kabir and Narada. He participated in ''Tulabharam'' play of Sthanam Narasimha Rao before [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] in New Delhi in 1952.

He died at the age of 84 years in [[Tenali]] in the house of his son-in-law on 21 May 1998.<ref>Tripuraribhatla Ramakrishna Sastry, ''Luminaries of 20th Century'', Part II, Potti Sriramulu Telugu University, Hyderabad, 2005, pp. 514-5.</ref>

==Filmography==
# Mohini Rugmangada (1937)
# Markandeya (1938)
# Mahiravana (1940)
# [[Dakshayagnam (1941 film)|Dakshayagnam]] (1941)
# Sumati (1942)
# Garuda Garvabhangam (1943)

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0766066/ Ramakrishna Sastry at IMDb.]

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