Kaikala Satyanarayana, a veteran Tollywood actor and former politician, died early Friday at his Hyderabad home.

Kaikala Satyanarayana lived to be 87 years old and left behind his wife, son, and two daughters.

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Satyanarayana's last rites will be done on Saturday at the Mahaprasthanam crematorium in Jubilee Hills, his family said.

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Over the course of his six-decade-long career in movies, Satyanarayana appeared in over 750 different movies.

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Satyanarayana was a close friend of NT Rama Rao, who was a famous actor and the former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.

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Additionally, Tollywood Veteran Kaikala Satyanarayana also tried his hand at politics for a short time.

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He was elected from Machilipatnam to the 11th Lok Sabha as a member of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), but he left politics after 1998.

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He got the 2011 Raghupati Venkaiah award, the 2017 Filmfare lifetime achievement award for Telugu cinema, and Andhra Pradesh's Nandi film awards.

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Kaikala was discovered by DL Narayana, who cast him in Changayya's 1959 film "Supayi Koothuru." Though it bombed, he was noticed for resembling NT Rama Rao.

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His first role as an antagonist came in B Vittalacharya's Kanaka Durga Pooja Mahima. Since then, he's been at his best when playing villains.

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