Rathna Shekar Reddy

His movies include National Award winner for Best Feature Film - Telugu Na Bangaaru Talli (Ente in Malayalam), the award-winning Gutthi-the Riddle, Virodhi, Ishq, Yamudiki Mogudu, Mana Kurralle, Yuddham Sharanam and others. He won the best actor award at the Abhinandana Akkineni Film Awards 2015 for his role of Vijay in the film Naa Bangaaru Thalli, which was presented to him on 21 September 2015 at Ravindra Bharathi auditorium, Hyderabad.

The group Samahaara under the guidance of Rathna Shekar Reddy is credited with making theatre popular and involving the young crowd in Hyderabad. Their most significant contribution to the Theatre of India, apart from their original productions, has been organizing four editions of The Hyderabad Theatre Festival, namely The Hyderabad Theatre Festival 2009, The Hyderabad Theatre and Short-Film Festival 2010 and the Samahaara Hyderabad Theatre and Rock Music Festival 2011. and the Hyderabad Theatre Festival 2012. The Festival has been instrumental in bringing together the various amateur and professional theatre groups in Hyderabad and improving the quality and scale of the plays. The platform of HTF as it is abbreviated has been a great boost for theatre groups in Hyderabad.

Many of Samahaara's stand-alone productions are performed at various auditoriums across the city, including the open-cultural center Lamakaan, the iconic Ravindra Bharathi, Telugu University and Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. HTF 2009 was held in June 2009 at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, HTF 2010 was conducted at Ravindra Bharathi in July 2010 for 7 days and HTF 2011 was conducted in December 2011 at three venues: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Ravindra Bharathi and Taramati Baradari.