NT Rama Rao's life spanned several decades of cinema and political life. He worked with legends in the film industry and heavyweights like Indira Gandhi in politics. Who are the actors and actresses playing different real-life characters in 'NTR: Kathanayakudu' and 'NTR: Mahanayakudu', the biopic movies? The makers have revealed the complete list of cast members.

Full-fledged roles:

NT Rama Rao: Nandamuri Balakrishna
Basavatarakam: Vidya Balan (in both the parts)
Nara Chandrababu Naidu: Rana Daggubati (Mainly in 'Mahanayakudu' but will also make an appearance in 'Kathanayakudu')
Akkineni Nageswara Rao: Sumanth (to be seen also in 'Mahanayakudu' to an extent)

Big names in small roles:

Sridevi - Rakul Preet Singh
Relangi - Brahmanandam
Savithri - Nithya Menen
Nagireddy - Prakash Raj
Jayaprada - Hansika Motwani
Rukmangadha Rao - Vennela Kishore

Interesting names in small roles:

Nandamuri Harikrishna - Kalyanram
Krishna Kumari - Pranitha Subhash
Bhuvaneshwari - Manjima Mohan
Sowcar Janaki - Shalini Pandey ('Arjun Reddy' fame)
Purandheswari - Himansi
Lokeswari - Poonam Bajwa
Aluri Chakrapani - Murli Sharma
B Vithalacharya - N Shankar (director)
Jayasudha - Payal Rajput ('RX 100' fame)
Indira Gandhi - Supriya Vinod
C Narayana Reddy - Ramajogayya Shastry (lyricist)
Prabha - Shriya
Vempati Chinna Satyam - Siva Sankar Master
HM Reddy - Kaikala Satyanarayana (veteran actor)

Other names:

Nandamuri Trivikramarao - Daggubati Raja
Uma Maheswari - Hiroshini Komali
Nandamuri Ramakrishna - Rohith Bharadwaj
Ramoji Rao - Girish
Saikrishna - Garapati Srinivas
SV Rangarao - Eswar Babu
Mandali Venkata Krishna Rao - Mandali Buddha Prasad
Dasari Narayanarao - Chandra Siddhartha
LV Prasad - Jisshu Sengupta
Nadendla Bhaskara Rao - Sachin Khedkar
BA Subbarao - Naresh
P Pullayya - Subhalekha Sudhakar
KV Reddy - Krish Jagarlamudi
Pithambaram - Sai Madhav Burra (dialogue writer)
Yoganand - Ravi Prakash
Tatineni Prakash Rao - Inturi Vasu
T Venkataraju - Surabhi Jaya Chandra
Peketi Sivaram - Bhadram
Pingali - Sanjay
Marcus Bartley - Arjuna Prasad
Gummadi - Devi Prasad
G Varalakshmi - Pratyusha
Pundarikakshaiah - Nageswara Rao
Kamalakara Kameswara Rao - SV Krishna Reddy
MG Ramachandran - Sikander
DV Narasaraju - Srinivas Avasarala
K Raghavendra Rao - K Prakash
Saleem Master - Raghu Master
Daggupati Venkateswara Rao - Bharath Reddy