Jagapathi Babu

Born Veeramachaneni Jagapathi Chowdhury
12 February 1969
Machilipatnam
The noted Telegu film actor Jagapati Babu is the son of a veteran producer-director and the key person of ‘Jagapathi Arts’ V.B. Rajendra Prasad. He mainly acts in films of the family and comedy genre. He also tries his hand at action films from time to time. He has firmly established his credentials as an actor by portraying a variety of roles and has worked with eminent directors like Ramgopal Varma, Krishna Vamsi, Guna Sekhar, Suresh Krishna and Manirathnam. He is about to enter the world of production as well. He has been paired against the famous star Aamani in several hit films.

Gopichand

Born Tripuraneni Gopichand
June 12, 1979 (1979-06-12) (age 30)
Hyderabad, India

Biography

He was 8 years old when his father T. Krishna expired. He completed his studies in Chennai, capital city of Tamil Nadu. There was no direct influence of his father on him in his childhood. He did his engineering degree in Russia. He was not interested in films and acting at that time.
His elder brother T. Premchand was working as an associate director to Mutyala Subbayya. Premchand made his debut as director and started working on a film under his home banner, but he unfortunately expired in a car accident. Gopichand was in Russia during the death of his brother and could not attend his funeral due to Visa problems.
Gopichand felt the need of someone to carry forward his father's legacy. As his brother was no more, he decided to enter the film industry. After completing his engineering, he did dialogue modulation course for a year. Then he made his debut as hero with ‘Toli Valapu’.
After doing villain roles in Jayam, Varsham and Nijam, he got a good break with Yagnam movie which turned out to be a blockbuster.
He was notified with mass image for his terrific performance in Ranam in 2006. In 2007 his Okkadunnadu became a hit, next movie Lakshyam turned out to be one of the biggest hits of the year.
His recent flick Souryam turned out to be a blockbuster.
Gopichand has huge mass and lady fan following in Andhra Pradesh.
He is very famous for his excellent action and dialogue delivery in addition to his impeccable comedy timing despite his initial roles as a successful villian. These traits make Gopichand one of the most versatile Telugu hero, something uncommon in Telugu cinema. He is currently however the best asset for Tollywood for his action roles.

Filmography

# Sankham (2009)
# Souryam (2009)
# Ontari (2008) .... Vamsi
# Lakshyam (2007) (as T. Gopichand) .... Chandu
# Okkadunnadu (2007) .... Kiran
# Raraju (2006) .... Kali, the hero
# Ranam (2006) .... Chinna
# Andhrudu (2005) (as T. Gopichand) .... Surendra
# Varsham (2004) .... Bhadranna
# Nijam (2003) .... Devudu aka Devadaya Sharma
# Jayam (2003) .... Raghu
# Tholi Valapu (2001) .... Prem

Dharmavarapu Subramanyam

Dharmavarapu Subramanyam was born on August, 9th, 1960 in a Telugu Brahmin family in Komminenivari Palem, Ballikuruva Mandalam, Prakasam District, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Few Movies:
1. Bendu Apparao R.M.P (2009)
2. King (2008 film) (2008)
3. Somberi (2008)
4. Chirutha (2007)
5. Shankardada Zindabad (2007)
6. Operation Duryodhana (2007)
7. Annavaram (2006)
8. Khatarnak (2006)
9. Andala Ramudu (2006)
10. Bommarillu (2006)

Brahmanandam

Date of Birth
1 February 1956, Mullapoodi, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, India

Mini Biography

Considered as the greatest comedian Telugu film industry ever produced Brahamanandam is a native of Muppala village near Sattenapalli, Brahmanandam completed his M.A (Telugu) and worked as a Lecturer in Telugu before Jandhyala introduced him to the silver screen with a role in the movie 'Chantabbayi.'

Much before that, he won the Best Supporting Actor in an Inter Collegiate Competitions in Narasaraopet in 1968 and won the fancy dress competition award for portraying the character of 'Modabbayi.' After a brief hiatus, he was given a role by D. Ramanaidu in 'Ahana Pellanta' and Brahamanandam never looked back.

Aravind Swamy

Born Arvind Swamy
June 18, 1970 (1970-06-18) (age 38)
Occupation Actor, Business Man
Years active 1991 - 2006
Spouse(s) Gayathri

Arvind Swamy is a popular former Indian actor. He has acted in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi. Popular movies to his credit include Roja, Bombay, Minsaara Kanavu, Indira, Devaraagam, Alaipayuthey.

Filmography

# Raja Ko Rani Se Pyar Ho Gaya (2000) (as Aravind Swamy) .... Mohit Kumar
# Alai Payuthey (2000) (as Aravinda Samy)
... aka Sakhi (India: Telugu title: dubbed version)
... aka Waves (International: English title)

# Devaraagam (1999)
... aka Deva Ragam (India: Malayalam title: alternative transliteration)
# En Swasa Katre (1999)
# Minsaara Kanavu (1997) .... Thomas
... aka Merupu Kalalu (India: Telugu title: dubbed version)
... aka Minsara Kanavu (India: Tamil title: alternative transliteration)
... aka Sapnay (India: Hindi title: dubbed version)
# Saat Rang Ke Sapne (1997) .... Mahipal
# Indira (Priyanka) (1996) .... Thiyagu
... aka Indira
# Bumbai (1995) .... Shekhar Mishra Narayan
... aka Bombay (India: English title)
... aka Bombayi (India: Telugu title: dubbed version)
# Mounam (1995)
... aka Maun: The Silence (India: English title: dubbed version)
# Priyanka (1994) .... Raju
# Marupadiyam (1993)
# Daddy (1992)
# Roja (1992) (as Arvind) .... Rishi Kumar
... aka Roja (India: Malayalam title) (India: Telugu title: dubbed version)
... aka The Rose (International: English title)
# Thalapathi (1991) .... Arjun
... aka Dal-pati (The Leader) (India: Hindi title)

Allu Arjun

Allu Arjun - born April 8, 1983 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, is a Telugu film actor. He is the son of producer Allu Aravind, grandson of the comedian Padmashree Allu Ramalingaiah, and nephew of the famous Telugu actor "Megastar" Chiranjeevi. He is also the cousin of Ram Charan Teja.

Filmography

# Parugu (2008)
# Shankardada Zindabad (2007) .... Guest role
# Desamuduru (2007) .... Bala Govind
# Happy (2006) .... Bunny
# Bunny (2005) .... Bunny
# Arya (2004) .... Arya
# Gangotri (2003) .... Simhadri
# Daddy (2001/I) .... Gopi

# Vijetha (1985) (as Master Allu Venkatesh) .... Venkatesh, Allu
... aka The Victor 

Ali

Born Ali
October 10, 1967 (1967-10-10) (age 42)
Rajahmundry
Spouse(s) Ayesha

Ali is a South Indian actor who has acted in more than 800 films in Telugu and the Tamil and Bollywood film industries.

Ali was born in a poor family in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, India. His father was a tailor and his mother was a housewife. Ali had developed a passion for acting since childhood. Ali use to perform mimicry shows (Sholay Gabber sing dialogs)on Dasara, Sri Ramanavami festivals and marriage events. He came into the movie Industry with the help of Jitu mohan Mitra, Rajahmundry well know musical company. so when he heard that director Bhagyaraj was looking for new child artists to act in his movie Seethakoka Chiluka, Ali went to Chennai and attended the screening at Bhagyaraj's office. Bharthiraja was pleased with Ali's performance and gave him his first film role.

As a child artist, Ali had acted in a variety of movies but as he grew older, he was no longer suitable for child roles. He held on to the film industry in Chennai and waited for a breakthrough role. Ali started his second career in Tollywood as a comedian.

It was director S. V. Krishna Reddy who gave him the much-needed break with comic roles in his movies. Even though no suitable roles were present, S. V. Krishna Reddy used to create new roles for Ali. Reddy suggested Ali should have his own style of dialogue delivery. Ali developed his own style, which was popularly known as Chaata. This was developed with Ali's own way of pronunciation. His mother tongue is "Malayalam". His ancestors are from Kerala.

Nagarjuna

Name: Akkineni Nagarjuna

Nick name: Nag

Born: August 29, 1959

Birth Place: Chennai,Tamil Nadu, India

Zodiac sign: Virgo

Height: 6' (1.83 m)

Nationality: Indian
Religion: Hindu

Education:

Schooling: Hyderabad Public School

Intermediate: Little flower school, Abids, Hyderabad

B.E (Mechanical) : Guindy Engg. College, Madras

MS (Automobile) : University of Michigan, USA

Family:

Father: Sri.Akkineni Nageswara Rao (ANR)

Mother: Smt. Annapoorna

First Marriage: Lakshmi (18 February 1984)

Second Marriage: Amala (11 June 1992)

Sons: Naga Chaitanya (Born on 23 November 1986-Mother-Lakshmi-Birth Place-Hyderabad), Akhil (Born on 8 April, 1994-Mother-Amala-Birth Place-San Jose,USA)

Other Family Members:

Mr.Venkat Akkineni (brother) Ms.Satyavathi (Sister) Mr.Yarlagadda surendra (Bava) Mr.Sumanth (Nephew, Premakadha fame) Ms.Supriya (Niece, Akkada ammayi-Ikkada abbai fame) Mr.Chalasani Ramesh (Bava)

Mother tongue:Telugu

Address:

Plot No.959-A. Road No.48, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad-500033

First Shooting: Sep 20, 1985 at Annapurna Studios

Debut Movie: Vikram, 23rd May 1986

Fast Facts: • First film Vikram released on 23-05-1986
• Child artist in Sudigundaalu
• Sang a song in Sitaramaraju - Vinudu Vinudu Ee cigarette

NAGARJUNA ENTRY TO THE TELUGU FILM INDUSTRY:

Akkineni Nagarjuna (born August 29, 1959 in Chennai, India) is a popular Telugu Cinema actor and producer. He is the son of veteran actor, Akkineni Nageswara Rao, who was a popular actor in the 60's and 70's. Nagarjuna with his misty eyes, agile smiles, poise looks and soft-spoken nature, hoarded many lady buffs similar to his father Nata Samarat Akkineni Nageswara Rao, one of the kingpins of Telugu Cinema who also has many more number of female fans even today. Nagarjuna is a very frank and open person and this caliber in him brought him so many a friends and an ample reputation in the Film Industry. Nag's foray into films is an act of passion.

The celluloid scientist Nagarjuna was born on 29th August 1959. He made out his schooling in Little Flower School, Hyderabad. He graduated with an Engineering degree from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

Vikram (1986), his debutante film (a Telugu remake of Hindi Hero), made a splash at the hearts of youth. Being just 4 films old he proved that he can match his father's image as a tragedy king with a lovely film called 'Majnu'. He developed the strategy of inducting debutante directors to his films with Sankeerthana. Though this musical saga did not sustain at box-office, Nag has gone a step ahead as an actor.

He paired up with his legendry father Sr. Akkineni for Collectorgari Abbai. But it was the midas touch of Aswini Dutt that proved Nag's Box-office credentials. For the first time he paired up with Sridevi, who has done innumerable films with Nag's father Nageswara Rao, in the film 'Akhari Poratam' that ran for 100 days in 12 centers.

It was Geetanjali that has taken Nag's image as a romantic hero to new heights. Deft direction by Maniratnam and crafty camera work by P.C.Sriram added to necessary gloss to the romantic image of Nag. If you think Geetanjali is a big hit, you are in a soup. Because the box-office magnitude of 'Geetanjali' appears minuscule compared to the stormy film that followed which has taken all the youth's heart away. 'Shiva' gave Nag much needed action hero image and Nag made inroads into the hearts of students. Ultimate winner of 'Shiva' is none but Ram Gopal Varma, a raw director. It was the Nag's risky decision to employ a video operator as the director for his home production that did the trick. All the scorning critics who criticized Nag for his decision to choose Varma during the production of film are silenced by it's stupendous success.

Fueled by the success of Shiva, Nag made a grand entry into Hindi filmdom with the remake of Shiva. If you think Nag is fond of Shiva just because it changed the pace of his cine career, you are mistaken. This film has also got him Amala, his soul mate.

After the storm of Shiva, there was a period lull for sometime. Again Nag stormed with 'President gari pellam' that brought him the image of a mass hero. And his heavy box office romancing continued till Hello Brother. Hello Brother showed the stamina of Nag at box office by running 100 days in 28 centers. His comic antics are best exploited by the director E.V.V. With this film Nag's portfolio of acting is enriched with a rich ingredient called comedy.

Again the period of lull continued for few years till he spotted another creative director in making, Krishna Vamsi. Nag paired up with Vamsi to produce one of the biggest Telugu romantic blockbusters, Ninne Pelladatha. After this film Nag faced the biggest challenge in his cine career. That is to act as Annamayya, the legendary singer/poet of Medieval times. And Nag came out flying colors. Talk about the result. It ran for 100 days in 42 centers. He has become a household demigod with his presence of Annamayya.

Every good thing in life comes with a few sacrifices. He wanted to get rid of sacred 'Annamayya' image and wanted people to accept him as a romantic hero. He produced a string of romantic films later. All of them disappointed him at box-office and he went through the same kind of lull he had after 'Shiva' and 'Hello Brother'. All his fans waited in an unabated breathlessness for him to produce a film of Shiva magnitude. And Nag did not disappointed them. He came up with the blockbuster of the year, Nuvvu Vastavani. The super good films caption for this film, 'We don't break records ... we create records', seems to be very appropriate for Nag. Nagarjuna then did a hattrick by coming up with an Azad action film with patriotic tinge followed by a cameo in 'Ninne Premista'. This hattrick gave way to another lean patch which was broken by the stupendous hit of Santosham.

Nag is called as the celluloid scientist. He is best talent spotter around. To his credit he blooded Geetha Krishna, Ram Gopal Varma, Uppalapati Narayana Rao, Praveen Gandhi, V.R.Pratap and Jonnalagadda srinivasa Rao, Dasarath. He offered 'Ninne Pelladatha' to a new comer Krishna Vamsi just by looking at a 5 minute rushes of 'Gulabi'. Nag will be known as the person who changed the mindset of industry with his creative thinking. He encouraged the new technology in his films. And others followed him. Nagarjuna is never after the number game and did not encourage the culture dragging movies for 50 days and 100 days for the sake of records and false prestige.

Later, he took up the challenge of portraying Annamacharya, the legendary singer/poet of Medieval times in the movie Annamayya It ran for 100 days in 42 centers and is one of of the biggest hits in Telugu cinema.

In 2006, Nagarjuna's latest movie is Sri Ramadasu, a period film based on the life of great saint-composer Ramadasu, and directed by K. Raghavendra Rao. Nagarjuna plays the title role, and his performance was praised by critics as subtle and yet powerful and true to the saint himself.

Always propagating quality cinema with clean entertainment, Nagarjuna years to make good movies, which would not only rise above the typical commercial movies but also enhance our heritage, rich tradition and family values.

He revived his father’s productionAnnapurna Studios and has become one of the most successful production companies of recent times in Tollywood.

* Nagarjuna never hesitates to experiment when he produces films.He gave a chance to a newcomer who had no prior experience in movies to direct him. The newcomer didn't disappoint him and went on to become one of the finest directors of Indian film industry. The director is none other than RamGopal Verma. Nag is also known for his swiftness in decision making. He agreed to work with Krishna Vamsi(director) after seeing 10-minute-rushes of the director's film Gulabi. His decision proved to be bang on target as they made the blockbuster movie ninne pelladutha.

* Nagarjuna never works after 6pm. If there is night shoot, he has to be informed 4 days earlier.

* Nag is not very keen on acting in Tamil films despite the fact that he has a huge fan following in Tamilnadu.His films like Geethanjali and Shiva had seen excellent runs in Tamil nadu. His re-entry in Tamil however was marred by the listless movie, Ratchagan. Nag however got raving reviews for his performance in Ratchagan and obviously the screenplay/story of the movie was a letdown.

* He also own's a major share in MAA TV.

Chiranjeevi

Born Konidala Shiva Shankara Vara Prasad
August 22, 1955 (1955-08-22) (age 55)
Mogalthur, Narsapuram, West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh
India






Occupation Actor, Politician






Years active 1977 to present






Spouse Surekha






Children Sushmitha, Ram Charan Teja, Sreeja






Parents Venkata Rao, Anjana Devi






Awards Padma Bhushan, Honorary Doctorate degree from Andhra University


Chiranjeevi(Real name: Shiva Shankara Vara Prasad Konidela), born on 22 August 1955), is an Indian film actor and a politician. He appeared primarily in Telugu films along with a few Hindi films. After graduating with a degree in commerce, Chiranjeevi made his acting debut in Punadhirallu (1978); Pranam Khareedu (1978) released at the box office earlier though. His performance in Khaidi (1983) and Swayam Krushi (1987) got him recognition; the latter winning the Nandi Award – his first major award. He subsequently played a variety of character types; his film roles along with his screen persona contributed to a change in the concept of a Telugu film hero.
His film, Rudraveena (1988), not only won the National Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration but also helped him win his second Nandi Award. For Muta Mesthri (1993) and Sneham Kosam (1999), he won Filmfare Awards. For his performance in Indra (2003), he won the Filmfare Award and the Nandi Award. These accomplishments established him as a leading actor of Telugu cinema. His last film in a leading role was in Shankar Dada Zindabad (2007).
In 2008, he entered politics by forming the Praja Rajyam Party. In the 2009 Andhra Pradesh elections, Chiranjeevi was elected as a member of the State Assembly from Tirupati constituency. He led the Praja Rajyam Party to emerge as the third largest party in the same election. Popularly known as Megastar in the media, Chiranjeevi was honored with the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award. In 2006, he was presented with an honorary doctorate degree from Andhra University. Chiranjeevi is married to Surekha, the daughter of erstwhile comedian Allu Ramalingaiah. They have two daughters and a son, Ram Charan Teja, who is an actor in the Tollywood.