129 yrs HISTORY OF FAMILY BASED TELUGU THEATRE

Surabhi theatres are more than a century old. This is a unique collective of Telugu theatre companies. Surabhi Sri Venkateswara Natya Mandali comprising about 60 artistes of the same family under the stewardship of R. Nageswara Rao alias Babji staged Srikrishna Leelalu, Baalanagamma and Mayabazaar and somany other mythological plays. Surabhi most popular for the materialistic realisation of the enigmatic effects of super human powers of the devathas, rakshasas, mantrikas and so on meticulously on the stage. They perfected the technique so much that it got identified with the place of the origin of the theatre group of Surabhi.