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HYDERABAD: When Nitish Kumar Reddy knelt down at the Melbourne Cricket Ground to celebrate his century against Australia on Saturday, he stood taller than a giant. It was also his way of telling the world where he came from — the land of Telugu movies or Tollywood — which shapes popular culture in the two Telugu states of AP and Telangana.

Nitish Kumar Reddy became the youngest centurion after Sachin Tendulkar and Rishabh Pant in Australia. Here's everything you need to know about Nitish's father, Mutyala's sacrifices.