Popular music and film director RP Patnaik lost his father Baggam Janakeshwar Rao. He was suffering with throat cancer from a long while and breathed the last today in a Private Hospital in Hyderabad. Janakeshwar Rao worked as Forest Range Officer and was retired. He was survived by wife and three children. Among the three, eldest is Gautham Patnaik who recently debuted as a director with ‘Keratam’ while second is RP Patnaik, a wonderful director known for films like ‘Broker’ and ‘Seenu Vasanti Lakshmi’ and the youngest is Chandramouli working as a Sound Engineer.
Last rites of Janakeshwar Rao will be held tomorrow in Hyderabad. Entire film industry expressed deepest and heart felt condolences to the family of RP Patnaik.