Hyderabad, Aug. 10 -- East Godavari district administration along with the help of nature lovers have taken up the task to revive a 150-year-old tree, which was uprooted due to floods earlier this week, on the banks of Godavari river in Kumaradevam village in Andhra Pradesh.

The tree, locally called Nidra Ganneru chettu (botanical name: Samanea saman), has immense cultural and historical significance and is popularly called "cinema tree" or "movie tree" as it was featured in more than 300 South Indian films and a few Bollywood films.

On Monday, this tree developed a huge crack in its trunk and got uprooted due to heavy rains and floods. "The tree had withstood bigger floods in 1953, 1986, and 2022, and also the super cyclone of 1996 in ...