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Tuesday, 20 August 2013

Star Portrait-Prakash Raj

Prakash Raj is a popular character artist. He was born on 26 March 1965 in Puttur, Karnataka in a Bunt family.

Education

He completed schooling at St. Joseph's Boys' High School, Bangalore and later joined St. Joseph's College of Commerce, Bangalore.

Personal

Prakash Rai changed his name to Prakash Raj based on prominent Tamil film director K. Balachander's advice, however he is still called Prakash Rai in his home town Karnataka.Prakash married actress Lalitha Kumari in 1994. They have two daughters—Meghana and Pooja and a son, Sidhu. Sidhu died of injuries sustained in a fall in 2004.The couple divorced in 2009.He married choreographer Pony Verma on August 24, 2010

Films

He is actor, director, producer and television presenter, who mainly works in the South Indian film industry. After working in the Kannada cinema for a few years, he entered Tamil film industry, through K. Balachander in his movie Duet (1994). In remembrance, he named his production company Duet Movies. He has played a variety of roles, most notably as the antagonist and of late, as a character actor. He has won a National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1998 for Mani Ratnam's Iruvar and a National Film Award for Best Actor in 2009 for his role in Kanchivaram, a Tamil film directed by Priyadarshan. Prakash Raj is also the host of Neengalum Vellalam Oru Kodi from the game show's second season onwards.

Producer

Prakash Raj Produced Naanu Nanna Kanasu in Kannada (2010), a remake of his own Tamil production Abhiyum Naanum.His latest directorial venture is a Tamil – Telugu bilingual, sports venture Dhoni named after Indian cricket captain.

Director

He took on the mantle of director and has directed several movies in Tamil (Kollywood). Most of the movies he produced turned out to be box-office hits and were also critically acclaimed.

He produced the movie Dhaya in which he acted as the hero with actress Meena which was a hit and earned him a special jury award for his performance.. He made Puttakkana Highway in Kannada which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Kannada in 2011.

Monday, 19 August 2013

Star Portrait-YVS.Chowdhary

YVS.Chowdhary is born on 23 May 1965 at Gudiwada, Andhra Pradesh. He is a well known Film Director, Producer, Screen Writer, Distributor and Exhibitor in telugu industry.

Film Career

Director

YVS.Chowdhary as a director did eight films. Among them were Devdas and Lahiri Lahiri Lahirilo ran for more than 175 days. Before becoming a director, he has associated with directors such as K. Raghavendra Rao, Ram Gopal Varma, Mahesh Bhatt and Krishna Vamsi.

Producer

His movie productions include Lahiri Lahiri Lahirilo, Devdasu, Sree Seetharamula Kalyanam Choothamu Raarandi,Seetharama Raju, Yuvaraju and Seathaiah. He also producued Nippu. Currently he is directing Sai Dharam Teja in Rey.

Personal

YVS Chowdary is a fan of NTR before he entered Tollywood. He started the trend of making films with new star cast in Akkineni Nagarjuna's home production film titled Sri Seetharamula Kalyanam Choothamu Raarandi. He directed actors such as Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Akkineni Nagarjuna,, Nandamuri Harikrishna, Mahesh Babu,Nandamuri Balakrishna and Mohan Babu in his other projects. He introduced "Venkat", "Chandu", "Chandni" in his first film. "Aditya Om", "Ankita Jhaveri", in his fourth film and "Ram", "Ileana D'Cruz" in his sixth film.

Star Portrait-Bellamkonda Suresh

Bellamkonda Suresh is popular film maker. He is married to Bellamkonda Padma and is blessed with two children Sai Ganesh and Sai Srinivas.

He was in media blitz when he got involved in shooting incident with Balakrishna on June 3, 2004 around 20:50 hrs at his residence in Jubilee

Hills, Hyderabad.

He was wounded and was admitted in Apollo hospital. Human Right Forum (HRF) later questioned the people but it did not arrive at any logical conclusion. The two victims have given statements before the magistrate alleging that actor has fired shots at them during their treatment in the hospital but soon they were retracted and made volte-face of their earlier statements

Films

Bellamkonda Suresh entered into the film industry with Maa Annayya and later produced films like Chenna Kesava Reddy and Lakshmi Narasimha with Balakrishna. He produced superhit film Kanchana, Kandireega and more recently Bodyguard, Busstop,Thadaka,Jabardsath.

Sunday, 18 August 2013

Star Portrait-Bharat

Bharath is a child artist who entertain Tamil and Telugu industries. He was born in Trichy on 21st Jul 1981. Bharath Srinivasan has a sister named Preeti.

He is a trained dancer and learned dancing at the age of 11yrs at Swingers International Dance Club. He did his schooling at DAV Senior Secondary School, Anna Nagar,and studied at The New College, Chennai.

Film career

Shankar's Boys in 2003 marked the debut of Bharath. He played the guitarist of a boy band. He was selected for the role, after Shankar had seen him performing at a dance programme "Inspirations" at the Music Academy by Swingers.

He attained fame with Malayalam film 4 The People which was later dubbed into Tamil as 4 Students,and Telugu as Yuvasena.He did more than 35 films and in telugu he made his debut with Anandamanandamaye.Memorable were Gudumba Shankar, Venky, Happy, Dhee and Pokiri about 35 films.

Friday, 16 August 2013

Star Portrait-Chakri

Chakradhar Gilla was born on 15th at Mahabubabad, Warangal, A. P. He is popular as Chakri and is a music composer and singer. He has a brother and three sisters. He did his engineering at Manipal Institute of Technology.

Personal Life

Chakri is married to Sravani from Khammam.

Music career

He composed music for around 85 films. He started his career as music director with the Movie Bachi directed by Puri Jagannadh. As a composer he introduced many new talents (Singers and Lyricist). He won best singer award for movie Sathyam in tollywood filmfare awards and Nandi award for movie Simha.He is generally considered to have hits in the month of January, which is considered to be Sankranthi (a Telugu festival) season in Andhra Pradesh. This is due to hits such as Devadasu (2006), Desamuduru (2007), Krishna (2008) and Maska (2009) in straight years during Sankranthi.

Social activities

Chakri is associated with Kokila Event Management Company to promote social awareness causes.

Thursday, 15 August 2013

Star Portrait-Jagapathi Babu

Veeramachaneni Jagapathi Chowdhury is is one of the senior actors prevailing in the cinema industry who is well known as Jagapathi Babu. He is well known for his manly looks and piercing eyes and is a hit among the married women. Actor Jagapathi Babu has a huge fan following among married women, as many married women fantasize him as their dream man and also have disclosed it openly in many TV interviews. Actor jagapathi Babu feels privileged to be a dream boy many married women and also feels shy that, they fantasize about him, instead of their husbands in their dreams. He also acted in few Tamil films and in a Kannada film.He was born on 12th February 1965 in Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh to a couple V.B.Rajendra Prasad, a big Producer and Director. From his young age only, Jagapathi Babu is much interested in acting. After the finishing of his studies, He entered the Film Industry and is just rocking. Jagapathi Babu is a well known actor in portraying roles such as a husband or a lover, the senior actor acts in films, which suit to his age. He never acts in young hero roles or in characters, which doesn’t suit his body language. Actor jagapathi Babu is seen in roles which show him as an angry young man and has a toned body, to suit action hero characters like a commando, police officer and a good hearted goon. Since, the trend of multi starrer films struck Telugu cinema industry, almost a decade ago, Jagapathi Babu is seen in dual hero oriented movie subjects and the success rate of his films is also 100 percent when he acts in multi starrers. Jagapathi Babu has a unique recognition in the Telugu film Industry. He did different kinds of movies which include action and comedy. Jagapathi Babu is the second hero in Tollywood who had done movies with two wives after Late Sri Shoban Babu.Jagapathi Babu is a very handsome and manly person.He is also very kind in nature.

Film Journey

Jagapathi Babu made his debut in Telugu Cinema with the movie “Simha Swapnam” in the year 1989. The movie, starring rebel star Krishnam Raju in the lead, was directed by his father. He has acted in about a dozen movies (playing lead roles in few), but was unable to build up his stardom. He had his breakthrough in the form of “Gaayam” directed by Ram Gopal Varma in the year 1993. Since then, he has given several hits. He won the Nandi Award for Best Actor in 1996 for his role in the movie “Maavi Chiguru” directed by S V Krishna Reddy. Two years later, he won the Nandi Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film “Anthahpuram.” In 2000, he won the Nandi Best Actor Award for the second time for his performance in the movie “Manoharam”. Similarly, he bagged the Nandi Best Supporting Actor Award for the second time in the year 2007 for his role in the movie “Lakshyam”. His first tamil film is “Madrasi” which was released in 2006 and In 2011 which play as antagonist in “Thaandavam”. His recent release in Telugu was “Jai Bolo Telangana”. He has worked with noted directors like A. M. Rathnam, Ram Gopal Varma, Krishna Vamsi, S.V. Krishna Reddy, Guna Sekhar, Radha Mohan, Chandra Sekhar Yeleti, M. Raja, and J. D. Chakravarthy.

Awards and Honours

Jagapathi Babu received seven Andhra Pradesh state Nandi Awards. Recently he received the Kala Bhushana Award, for his contribution to cinema, by TSR Lalitha kala Parishat of Andhra Pradesh. Here is the list of

Awards

In 1990 Nandi Special Jury Award for the film “Adavilo Abhimanyudu”

In 1993 Nandi Award for Best Actor for the film “Gaayam”

In 1996 Nandi Award for Best Actor for the film “Maavi Chiguru”

In 1996 Nandi Special Jury Award for the film “Shreekaram”

In 1998 Nandi Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film “Antahpuram”

In 2000 Nandi Award for Best Actor for the film “Manoharam”

In 2007 Nandi Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film “Lakshyam”

Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for the Telugu film “Lakshyam”

Star Portrait-SS.Thaman

SS.Thaman is born on 16 Nov 1985 in a brahmin family, Andhra Pradesh. His full name is Ghantasala Sai Srinivas Thaman Siva Kumar, He made his debut as actor in Shankar's Boys but then became the most popular music director. Ghantalasa Balaramayya,erstwhile director and producer, known for producing the Telugu film Seetarama Jananam, the debut film of Akkineni Nageswara Rao, is his grand father.

Family

He hails from the family of musicians. His father Ghantasala Siva Kumar was a Drummer, who worked for seven hundred films, under composer, K. Chakravarthy, his mother Ghantasala Savitri is a playback singer, his aunt is singer P. Vasantha.

Personal

He is married to playback singer Sai Vardhini. Thaman owns a band named Thakkali. At the age of nine, He joined Ilaiyaraaja's brother, G. Anand as a rhythm pads player, and discontinued studies when he lost his father at the age of 13. He was compelled to make his hobby into a profession to meet the crisis in his family.[He then joined Raj-Koti team, and worked for three years on sixty films and then joined M. M. Keeravani and worked with him for three years completing thirty films. He has also gained experience from composers like Vandemataram Srinivas, Chakri, R. P. Patnaik and Devi Sri Prasad.

Under Manisharma he worked for more than 6 yrs and 80 films. Before turning music director he had stint of 14 yrs under various directors as rhythm, key board programmer.

Film Career

He made his debut in telugu in 2009 with Bheebhatsam and later scored for many films. Important among them are Kick,Brindavanam,Mirapakaya,Kanchana, Kandireega,Dookudu,Business Man,Nayak, Bodyguard,Love Failure, Baadshah,Greeku Veerudu.

Awards

Best Music Director-Film Fare Award,SIIMA, TSR TV9 2011-2012-Dookudu

The Hyderabad Times Film Awards 2011 - Best Music Director for Dookudu.

MAA Music Awards 2011 - Best Music Director for Dookudu.

Hobbies

Cricket

Twitter Account

@musicthaman

Star Portrait-Uday Kiran

Uday Kiran Vajpeyajula who is well known as Uday Kiran or Uday is an actor in Tollywood and Kollywood industry. His first three consecutive blockbuster films earned him the title "Hat trick Hero".

Uday Kiran was born on 26 June 1980 to Hyderabad-based VVK Murthy and Nirmala. His father works at the Town's airport & his mother, late Nirmala was a house wife. He has an elder sister named Sridevi, who stays in the Gulf with hubby Prasanna and kids Teja & Mahati. He finished his Schooling at K.V.Picket, Inter at Triveni Jr. College and Graduation (B.Com) at Wesley College.

He started off with ramp-walking and was Mr. Aptech in the year 2006 He ventured into film industry after his graduation. Uday Kiran in an Interview to a National news paper in 2003 has declared that the alleged troubled association with Chiranjeevi, is a baseless rumour. Uday, stated that the family's good will with Chiranjeevi is maintained. Uday Kiran is a youthful and boyish actor of Tollywood. He got married to Vishitha October 24, 2012.

Film Journey

He entered into film industry in the year 2000 with no backing from any leading actors or producers, which is very uncommon in the current Indian Film Industry. He made his Tollywood debut under his mentor, cinematographer turned film director Teja in the year 2000 with the block buster film “Chitram”. The film went on to become a trend setter in Tollywood industry. He has primarily acted in the leading roles of many films of Telugu. This film, followed by two other blockbusters, “Nuvvu Nenu” and “Manasantha Nuvve”, made him listed among the very few actors in Telugu cinema to deliver three consecutive successful films. His performance as a hot-blooded youngster in “Nuvvu Nenu” won him the Film fare Best Actor Award in the year 2001.

He then did many films, each showcasing the various capabilities of his acting. In His fourth film “Kalusukovalani” he proved his dancing skills. While in his fifth film, “Sreeram” he ventured into an action oriented story. In the year

2005, he ventured into Tamil Film Industry with the film Poi directed by veteran K.Balachander. He then did two more films “ Vambu Sandai” in 2008 and “Pen Singam” in 2010 release in Tamil, the latter being the story penned by M. Karunanidhi, which did moderately well at the box office. After 2008 his film career drastically decreased in 2009 there is no release for him.

Later on after 2008 he didn’t receive any big success until now. Recent release in Telugu “Jai Sri Ram” also received a mixed response. Currently he is working for an untitled Tamil film.

Awards and Honours

He received the Film fare Best Actor Award in Telugu for the year 2001 for the movie “Nuvvu Nenu”

Star Portrait-Gunasekhar

Gunasekhar is well known writer and director in Tollywood. He was born on June 2nd in Narsipatnam, Visakhaptatnam, Andhra Pradesh.

Talents

Gunasekhar is well known for his creativity and lavishness on silver sreen. He is popular for his variety screenplay. Some of his blockbuster Telugu films include Ramayanam (1997 film), Sogasu Chooda Tharamaa, Choodalani Vundi and Okkadu.

Currently he is busy with his high budget venture Rudramadevi starrring Anushka and Rana.

Awards

National Film Awards

National Film Award for Best Children's Film - Ramayanam (1997 film) - 1998

Nandi Awards

Nandi Award for Best Director - Okkadu - 2003

Nandi Award for Best Feature Film -Okkadu - 2003

Nandi Award for Best Feature Film -Manoharam - 2001

Nandi Award for Best Feature Film - Sogasu Chooda Tharamaa 1995

Filmfare Awards South

Filmfare Best Director Award (Telugu) for Okkadu

Star Portrait-Tarun

Tarun Kumar is well Known as Tarun is one of the prominent heroes in Telugu film industry. He has also worked in Tamil and Malayalam cinema. His other names are Lover Boy, Dream Boy, Choclate Boy, Youth Hert Throbe. He was born on January 8, 1983. He is the eldest son of noted actress Telugu and Tamil Roja Ramani and Oriya actor cum producer Chakrapani. He has only one sister Amulya. He completed his schooling in Venkata Subbarao Boys High School in Chennai Up to 5th class and from 6th to 10th he studied in BharathiyaVidhyaBhavan, Hyderabad. He completed his degree in BBM from the Bangalore University. Following his mother's footsteps, he has acted in numerous films as a child artist. Later on he entered into film industry as a lead actor with the film “Nuvve Kavali” went on to become Tollywood's biggest blockbuster for the year 2000 He is an accomplished cricketer and participates in Celebrity Cricket League.

Film Career.

Tarun started his acting career at the age of eight, under Usha Kiran Movies production. He won the National Film Award for Best Child Artist in 1991 for the Tamil film “Anjali” directed by Mani Ratnam. He became famous overnight with the success of Mani Rathnam’s “Anjali” in 1990. He acted as Anjali’s older brother. He received the National Film Award for Best Child Artist along with Shyamili and Shruthi In the same year, he acted in the Malayalam children's film, Abhayam. The film won the National Film Award for Best Children's Film and Tarun won the Best Child artist Award at the Japanese film festival. He won three Andhra Pradesh state Nandi Award for Best Child Actor. He has also acted with Superstar Rajinikanth in the 1991 Tamil blockbuster “Thalapathi”. Later he did a TV Serial "Wonder Boy" for which he awarded Nandi Award with his outstanding Performance. And also did as an anchor for children Quiz Programme in Television. He also did ads for Fanta and Spinz Talc. Later on Tarun made his re-entry in a lead role with the love story “Nuvve Kavali” in 2000 it went on to become Tollywood's biggest blockbuster at time of its release. He frequently appears in Romantic comedy films. His other releases in 2000 were “Uncle” and “Priyamaina Neeku”. In 2001, he was cast in “Nuvvu Leka Nenu Lenu” and “Chirujalla”. Tamil film Senthil’s “Punnagai Desam” in 2002 did moderate business. This was followed by “Nuvve Nuvve” in 2002 with Shriya Saran. Tarun and Shirya Saran were paired together again in “Ela Cheppanu” in 2003. In the Tamil movie “Enakku 20 Unakku 18”, he worked with Trisha and Shriya. “Sakhiya” in 2004 and “Soggadu” in 2005 were his other releases. “Bhale Dhongalu” in 2008 was the remake of the Hindi hit “Bunty Aur Babli” and didn’t enjoy the same success. Tarun's next movie is Krishna Vamsi’s “Sasirekha Parinayam” with Genelia D’Souza. In 2011 he started filming of “Chukkalanti Ammayi Chakkanaina Abbayi” with Vimala Raman which is released in 2013. Currently he is working for two films one is “Anucharudu” and second is “Yuddam” these two movies are under filiming.

Awards and Honours

National Award for “Anjali”

National Award for “Manasuna Mamatha”

Nandi Award for “Teja”

Nandi Award for “Wonder Boy” [TV Serial]

Nandi Award for “NuvveKavali” as a Best Actor

7 Cinegoer Film Awards

1 Film fan Award of chennai

3 Vamsy International awards

Fukoka International Award, Japan

Flimflams award, Chennai

Best Complements:-

South Indian "Rajesh Khanna"

Heart Throbe of Andhra Pradesh

Noted writer Sirivenella Sitarama Sastry said “Tarun is an actor who deserves the national award"

Tuesday, 13 August 2013

Star Portrait-Kona Venkat

Grandson of Kona Prabhakara Rao, Kona Venkat was born in a brahmin family. He is popular dialogue writer. He made his foray into films and produced Tokaleni Pitta directed by Dharmavarapu Subramanyam. The film turned out to be a disaster and later he worked under Ram Gopal Varma.

He went on to form formidable combination with Srinu Vaitla and Gopimohan. His popular films include Samba, Venky,Balu ABCDEFG, Andarivadu, Bhageeradha, Chukkallo Chandrudu, Dookudu, Denikaina Ready and Baadshah.

He even turned actor in Endukante Premanta

Awards

He won the Best writer Award for the movie 'Ready' at the Santhosham Film Awards.

Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Telangana breaking Tollywood?

Formation of Telangana seems to be breaking Tollywood film industry which is currently the number two film making industry after Bollywood. Buzz is there will be two separate film industries from now on. One will be Telangana Film industry and another Andhra film industry. Already preparations are on for the same by the supporters of both sides.

This will surely be sad and heart breaking for film people in Tollywood who are extremely attached emotionally. However some say this is not true and they even point out that Telangana film chamber existed separately along with AP film chamber even before the formation of Telangana.

Monday, 13 May 2013

Hot Tollywood heroes

Monday, 22 April 2013

Stars shine at TSR Awards

Top actors from the South Indian film industry and Bollywood made their presence felt at a recent awards function for the years 2011 and 2012, held at a private auditorium in the city. The glitzy affair saw several awards in various categories presented to the actors. Megastar Chiranjeevi, Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Dr D Ramanaidu, Balakrishna and Nagarjuna among others, spoke highly of the awards. While actor Neha Dhupia regaled all with her Bollywood dance numbers, danseuse Shobhana was all grace in her Bharatnatyam recital. Bolly stars Sridevi, Rani Mukerji, Anil Kapoor, Dia Mirza and Zeenat Aman added lots of glitz to the event. T Subbarami Reddy was spotted ch at t i n g with guests who made their way to the ceremony.