NTR married Basavatarakam in 1942. She died of cancer in 1985. There is a cancer Hospital established in her memory in Hyderabad. NTR remarried in 1993 at the age of 70. NTR had seven sons and four daughters from his first marriage. Prominent among his children are Bhuvaneswari, wife of Nara Chandrababu Naidu and the chairperson of Heritage Foods; and Daggubati Purandeswari, MP and a Minister of State for Human Resources in Manmohan Singh's cabinet; Nandamuri Balakrishna a leading actor in the Telugu film industry; and Nandamuri Harikrishna, an actor turned politician and a member of Rajya Sabha (upper house of India's Parliament). Prominent among NTR's grandchildren are N. Kalyan Ram, N. T. Rama Rao Jr. and Taraka Ratna; all three are actors in Telugu cinema.
N T Rama Rao became very well known for his charitable work during his film career.He died on 18 January 1996 of a heart attack. Often playing a Hindu god in his films, since his death he has been worshipped in some parts of Andhra Pradesh himself as a deity; numerous death shrines have been created in his name.Rama Rao exerted a major, long-lasting, influence over the people of Andhra Pradesh and is celebrated by the people. The NTR University of Health Sciences is named after him.
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