Ever since the AP Government announced Nandi awards, an interesting discussion was spotted among netizens about Raghupathi Venkaiah Award and NTR National Award. While, some netizens opined Raghupathi Venkaiah Award was the best others opined that NTR's National Award stands the best.
But then, cine analysts have elicited and listed out the differences between both the awards. According to them, Raghupathi Venkaiah Award stands the best award in the AP state which is given to the eminent personalities in Telugu film industry as a token of respect to their lifetime achievements. This is something like Dada Saheb Phalke Award given by Indian government to the Indian film personalities. This award was introduced in the year 1981 and LV Prasad was the first recipient of the award.
NTR National Award was introduced by TDP government in 1997. The prime objective of this award is to promote TDP at the national level. Accordingly, a huge prize money of Rs.5 lakhs is given away to the winners of the award in addition to the memento and certificate. Also, this prize money is ten times to that Raghupathi Venkaiah Award.