Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu’s son and TDP’s national general secretary Nara Lokesh has been making efforts to set up NTR Memorial Museum in Amaravati capital region, for which he is now in search for an ideal spot. He felt that he needed at least 15 acres for this project. Already, he said that they have started a mini museum at NTR Trust in Hyderabad, but are working to make it a big project here.

As a two-hour biopic would fail to do justice to the greatness of NTR, who took Telugu pride to its heights in not just films but in politics as well, he said he is in search of a befitting premises. “For some time my wife Brahmani and I have been working on the NTR Memorial Museum that can reflect the true contribution of the legendary leader. Our knowledge of his greatness is very short, as we were born when he was already in,” he added.

According to him, the museum was first proposed to be set up at Nimmakuru, the native place of NTR in Krishna district, but it was later decided that it would be set up in Amaravati, so that it would be more accessible. On this occasion, Lokesh called upon people to contribute to the venture by donating things they have that reflect memories of NTR.

NTR Trust organising a week-long pictorial exhibition `Telugu Vari Gnapakam’ in Vijayawada on the occasion of the 21st NT Rama Rao’s death anniversary at PB Siddhartha College for Management grounds. It is having around 108 rare pictures of NT Rama Rao right from the time he started his film career with Mana Desam. It will be open to the public from 9 am to 3 pm till January 25.

At the centre of the exhibition is a makeshift memorial of NTR with his life-size photo and at the four corners of the set up are screening rooms playing documentaries of the life and times of the actor-turned-politico made by the NTR Trust.