Amala Akkineni Opens Up About Sudden Overnight Family Departure

Amala Akkineni, Akkineni Nagarjuna’s wife, is almost 60 but you’d never guess it. She started her film career in the late 80s and did over 50 movies before her marriage. After tying the knot in 1992, she stepped back from films to focus on her son Akhil and the family’s businesses. The Akkineni family has their hands in everything, studios, agriculture, hospitals, chemicals, real estate, you name it. Recently, she opened up about her childhood and family struggles, and fans were honestly surprised.

For Telugu audiences, Amala isn’t just an actress. Calm, talented in classical dance, involved in charity, and the perfect daughter-in-law, she’s always played many roles off-screen too. She usually keeps personal stories private, but in an interview, she spoke about her parents, their hardships, and her dance journey. She said, “My father had to leave home overnight during the Partition, with nothing, at just 10 years old. Ten siblings. Imagine that. He studied on scholarship, met my mother at university, and married for love. They gave everything to others, never really thought of taking.”

Her dance journey started in Vizag when she was just seven or eight. “I joined Bharatanatyam classes and loved it instantly. My teacher told my mom I had talent and should train at Chennai Kalakshetra. Mom took me there right away. I stayed in the hostel, studied, danced for three hours every day, and spent nine years there. It was tough but amazing,” she shared.

After school and college, she performed across India and even abroad. “I felt proud representing India through dance. It made me adaptable, and I even picked up five languages along the way,” she said, smiling. Her video talking about family struggles, childhood, and dance is going viral now.