[4] Satyanarayana was the father of Ramalinga Raju, the founder chairman of Satyam Group of Companies.

The family and their related entities reportedly bought over 1,100 acres in four villages including Kompally as a part of the Satyam scandal.

[5] Mooga Manasulu, a 1964 Telugu film with Akkineni Nageswara Rao and Savithri as protagonists, was shot in a haunted building adjacent to the Fox Sagar Lake here.

Therefore, it is very well connected to Nizamabad, Kurnool, Bangalore and Kanyakumari in South India, as well as Delhi, Nagpur, Srinagar and other places up north.

[4] Places of interest include the cinema hall Asian Cineplanet Multiplex, Raichandani Mall, Sim and Sam's Party and Playtown, Dhola-ri-Dhani, etc.