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R. K.

Indian actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ133850264 ↗
Source-derived summary

Veeramachineni Ramakrishna, known professionally as R. K., is an Indian director, producer, screenwriter and actor who works in Deccan and Telugu cinema.

Career

After making his debut with a minor role in the Telugu film Takkari Donga (2002), RK played the role of Mama in the Deccani film The Angrez (2005), which he also co-produced. He also worked as a producer for Hyderabad Nawabs (2006). He turned director with Hyderabad Nawabs 2 (2019).

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “R. K.” as indian actor. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2005, 2006, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Indian and actor can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as indian actor. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q133850264. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2002, 2005, 2006 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “R. K.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.