However, Chitti Babu even as a child of 12, was very focused and determined on becoming a performing classical musician, after the movie assignment. The movie was a hit and he had also starred in a small role in another movie as well. ![]() The movie was produced by Bhanumathi Ramakrishna and starred herself and Akkineni Nageswara Rao in the lead roles, both of whom became thespians eventually. In 1948, they moved to Madras (now Chennai) primarily because they got the opportunity for Chitti Babu to act in a Telugu movie "Laila- Majnu" as a child artiste who played the role of little Majnu. Pandravada Upmakaya and also Shri Eyyuni Appalacharyulu and later was a prime disciple of MahaMahopadhyaya Dr Emani Sankara Sastry. He had his earliest basic lessons from Shri. Chitti Babu gave his first performance at the age of 12. ![]() ![]() ![]() He had a providential beginning, when at that early age, he corrected his father playing the Veena and the stunned father spontaneously decided to get him started on the Veena and nurture the child's inherent prodigious talent. He was a child prodigy who started playing Veena at the age of 5. Chitti Babu was his nickname at home, which came to stay eventually, after his father formally changed it to be so. Chitti Babu Challapally (surname) was born on 13 October 1936, in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India, to music-loving parents, Ranga Rao Challapally and Sundaramma Challapally, who had initially named him Hanumanlu, when he was born.
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