Telugu cinema bigwigs announced that May 4th will be celebrated as Director’s Day marking the birth anniversary of legendary director Dasari Narayana Rao. All the directors of Telugu cinema decided to form a trust for the welfare of directors and support the directors along with their families. They now formed Telugu Film Directors Trust (TFDT). Veteran director K Raghavendra Rao will be the Chairman of TFDT and N Shankar is the managing trustee.

All the top and leading directors of Telugu cinema donated their part for the trust and this amount will be used for the welfare of directors. VV Vinayak, Boyapati Sreenu, Sukumar, Harish Shankar, Vamshi Paidipally, Surendar Reddy, Koratala Siva, Nandini Reddy, BVS Ravi and Kasi Viswanath are the trust members. Meher Ramesh is the Treasurer.