The institute was founded by the Akkineni family, including Akkineni Nagarjuna and Akkineni Nageswara Rao.
Since then, she has acted in over 100 movies, some opposite leading actors such as Kamal Hassan, Rajnikanth, Vishnuvardhan, Venkatesh, Nagarjuna, Ravichandran, Mammootty, Mohanlal, Sathyaraj, and Prabhu.
A Punjabi by birth, she made her acting debut in the 2005 Telugu film Modati Cinema, following which she appeared in several noted Telugu films, including Boss opposite superstar Nagarjuna and Bhaskar's Parugu.
Rajini is remembered for her memorable roles opposite all major heroes throughout the 1980s including Aha Naa Pellanta opposite Rajendra Prasad, Majnu opposite Nagarjuna and Seetaramula Kalyanam opposite Balakrishna.
The senior actress in her career has shared screen space with Vishnuvardhan, Rajinikanth, Mohanlal, Ambareesh, Ananth Nag and Akkineni Nagarjuna, V. Ravichandran, Shivrajkumar, Mahesh Babu and others.
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Yarlagadda Sumanth Kumar, a Telugu film actor hailing from the Akkineni family; nephew of Akkineni Nagarjuna and Amala.
Actors and actresses such as Mahesh Babu, Ileana D'Cruz, Prakash Raj, Ravi Teja, Asin Thottumkal, Jayasudha, Nagendra Babu, Rakshitha, Sayaji Shinde, and Akkineni Nagarjuna have been a part of Vaishno Academy's motion pictures.