My health is fine, says Kota Srinivasa Rao

For the past a few days, reports about versatile actor Kota Srinivasa Rao have been making rounds in various media. Apparently to scotch those rumours, the ace actor arranged a media conference and dismissed all the rumours about his ill-health as false and baseless.

“I was deeply hurt with those false reports about my deteriorating health,” said the actor.

He said it was natural for him at the age of 74 to have some ailments. He further added that he has diabetes and arthritis, but the media reports have caused lot of pain, confusion and agony among his family members, relatives and friends.

Slamming the media personnel for going overboard, the actor said, even going for a routine medical check-up could attract media's attention these days. "I have no health complications. Please understand," said Srinivasa Rao in his appeal to the media. After making his debut in 1978with the Telugu movie `Pranam Khareedu’, the actor-par-excellence acted in hundreds of movies in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam.

He was widely appreciated for his roles in ‘Prathigatana’, ‘Aha Naa Pellanta’ and ‘Pelli.’ The recent ones are ‘Attarintiki Daaredi,’ ‘Dhookudu’ and `Raktha Charitra’ in his elegant body of work for the last three decades.