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Tuesday, October 5, 2010


Akkineni Nagarjuna
Born
August 29, 1959 (1959-08-29) (age 51)
India Chennai , TamilNadu, India
Other names Yuva Samrat, King, Celluloid scientist, South indian supremo
Occupation Actor,
Producer
Years active 1986 - Present
Spouse Lakshmi Daggubati (1984-1990)
Amala (1992-present)
Children Naga Chaitanya, Akhil

Akkineni Nagarjuna (Telugu: అక్కినేని నాగార్జున) (born 29 August 1959 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India), is an Indian Tollywood and Bollywood actor and a producer.

Early life

Nagarjuna was born on August 29, 1959 in Chennai to Legendary actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao. Later their family shifted to Hyderabad where he did his schooling at Hyderabad Public School, and did his Intermediate from Little Flower Junior College Hyderabad and returned to Chennai to pursue BE (Mechanical) College of Engineering, Guindy [Anna university] and MS (Automobile) [Michigan], USA. He then Returned back to India for his acting career and continued his fathers legacy.

Tollywood Cinema

1986-2004

Nagarjuna's first movie Vikram released on 24 May 1986 (before this he acted in Sudigundalu as a child artist). It was a remake of the hit Hindi film. 1989 was a remarkable year in the career of Nagarjuna. The shift up in his career came in this year when he attained critical and commercial success with Geetanjali, a love story that was directed by famous South Indian director Maniratnam. Geetanjali became a block buster hit when it was dubbed into Tamil as well. In the same year, Nagarjuna followed it up with the trend setter blockbuster hit, Shiva, an action film directed by Ram Gopal Varma. It went on to become one of the all time hits of the Telugu film industry. Shiva was dubbed into Tamil as 'Udhayam' and it was a run away hit Tamil too. He subsequently made his Bollywood debut with the Hindi remake of the same film, which too turned out to be a huge success all over India. Nagarjuna helped launch the career of the Bollywood director, Ram Gopal Varma. After Shiva, the expectations on his subsequent films were too high. He did some different roles in the movies like Killer, Nirnayam. Nagarjuna had to endure a series of commercial setbacks before President Gari Pellam was released in 1993. He was able to follow it up with the hit films, Varasudu, Gharana Bullodu, and Allari Alludu, Criminal and Sisindri to name a few. In 1994, he ventured into comedy for the first time with Hello Brother. Hello Brother was such a block buster hit that it was later remade into Judwaa, a Hindi film starring Salman Khan. Hello Brother became a super hit in Tamil too, when it was dubbed into that language. In 1996, Nagarjuna starred as well as produced, Ninne Pelladutha, which was directed by Krishna Vamsi and co-starred the National Award winning Hindi actress, Tabu was highest crosser in Telugu industry. It is rumoured that Nagarjuna signed Krishna Vamsi upon seeing just ten minutes of the director's, then yet to be released debut film, Gulabi. It went on to become the biggest hit of that year, while also launching the career of music director Sandeep Chowta. Later, Nagarjuna took up the challenge of portraying Annamacharya, the 15th century Telugu singer and poet, in Annamayya. Like Shiva and Geethanjali, Annamayya. For his role in this film, Nagarjuna went on to receive the National Award from the President of India. In 2000 Sitaramaraju hit movie, Nagarjuna starred in Nuvvu Vastavani which went on to become a blockbuster. His subsequent films that year, Ninne Premistha and Aazaad too met with commercial success. Later, he starred in the romantic comedies, Santhosham and Manmadhudu, both of which were huge hits at the box office. Shivamani capped off a golden run of six continious hits for Nagarjuna, a record that has few equals in the business. During that time, he produced the blockbuster film, Sathyam, helping the acting career of his nephew, Sumanth.

2004-Present

In 2004, Nagarjuna had two releases, Nennunnanu and Mass. The former, despite being slammed by critics, went on become a box office winner. Mass, which was produced by Nagarjuna himself and directed by a debutant, the prominent dance choreographer Lawrence, too became one of the highest grossing films in his career[1]. Once again, Nagarjuna proved that he had a good eye in spotting new talent. In 2005, Nagarjuna acted and produced Super, which didn't exactly reach up to expectations it was an average hit. Then in 2006, Nagarjuna reunited with Annamayya director, K.Raghavendra Rao, and starred in the film Sri Ramadasu, his second period film that was based on the great 18th century Telugu saint-composer of the same name.[2] Nagarjuna received the Nandi award for best actor that year. Sri Ramadasu, much like his earlier Annamayya, gave Nagarjuna critical as well as commercial success. His most recent films, "Don" was a box office hit in 2009. "King" was also a successful movie in 2009. He is currently working for Gaganam co-starring with Prakash Raj as a Top Cop.

Work in Bollywood and Tamil films

Nagarjuna acted in various Bollywood Hindi Movies like Shiva, Drohi (1992), Khuda Gawah (1992), Criminal (1994), Mr. Bechara (1996), Zakhm (1998), Angaarey (1998), LOC Kargil (2003), Agni Varsha etc. Shiva was a huge hit in most of the languages it was made into. Khuda Gawah, Criminal, Zakhm are box office hits. He has also dubbed some of his Telugu language Movies in Hindi. He had also made guest appearances in many Hindi films. He has also acted in Tamil films like Ratchagan which was made as Rakshakudu in Telugu. His other movies which were dubbed into Tamil are Shiva as Udhayam, Geetanajli as Idhayathai thirudathae, Annamayya, Sisindri & Hello Brother. He fluently speaks Hindi, Tamil, Telugu & English.

Television production

Nagarjuna made his debut as a television producer in 2007 with the serial Yuva. He owns a large stake in the television channel Maa TV.

Awards

National Awards

AP State Nandi Awards

Bharathamuni Awards

Vamsi Berkley Awards

AP cinegoers Awards

Other Awards

Filmfare Awards

As a producer

Filmography

As actor

Year Film Role Other Notes
1986 Vikram Vikram, Vikkidada
Captain Nagarjuna Nagarjuna
1987 Aranyakanda

Majnu Rajesh
Sankeertana

Collector Gari Abbai

Agni Putrudu Kalicharan
Kirai Dada

1988 Aakhari Poratam Vihari
Chinna Babu

Murali Krishnudu Murali Krishna
Janaki Ramudu Ramu
1989 Shiva Shiva Filmfare Best Actor Award (Telugu)
Agni
09.08.1989
Geethanjali Prakash 12.05.1989
Vicky Daada Vikram 11.03.1989
Vijay Vijay 19.01.1989
1990 Shiva Shiva 07.12.1990
Neti Siddhaartha Siddhaartha 15.06.1990
Iddaru Iddare
05.09.1990
Prema Yuddham
23.03.1990
1991 Jaitrayatra Vijay 13.11.1991
Santhi Kranthi Kranti 19.09.1991
Chaitanya Chaitanya 07.06.1991
Nirnayam Vamsi Krishna 21.02.1991
1992 President Gari Pellam Raja 30.10.1992
Drohi Raghav/Shekhar 25.10.1992
Antham Raghav 11.09.1992
Khuda Gawah Insp. Raja Mirza 07.06.1992
Killer Eeshwar 10.01.1992
1993 Allari Alludu Kalyan 06.10.1993
Varasudu Vinay 06.05.1993
Rakshana Bose
1994 Criminal Dr. Ajay Kumar
Hello Brother Deva/Ravi Varma
Govinda Govinda Seenu
1995 Sisindri Raja
Criminal Dr. Ajay Kumar
Gharana Bullodu Raju
1996 Ninne Pelladutha Seenu Also producer,
Filmfare Best Film Award
Vajram Chakri
Ramudochhadu Ram
1997 Ratchagan Ajay
Annamayya Annamayya Filmfare Best Actor Award (Telugu)
1998 Zakhm Raman Desai
Chandralekha Seeta Rama Rao
Angaarey Raja
Auto Driver Jagan
Aavida Maa Aavide Vikranth
1999 Ravoyi Chandamama Sashi
Seetaramaraju Ramaraju
2000 Azad Chandra Sekhar Azad
Ninne Premista Srinivas
Nuvvu Vastavani Chinni Krishna
2001 Eduruleni Manishi Surya Murthy,Satya Murthy(dual role)
Akasa Veedhilo Chandu
Bava Nachadu Ajay
Adhipathi Cameo role as a lawyer
Snehamante Idera Aravind
2002 Manmadhudu Abhiram
Agni Varsha Yavakri
Santosham Karthik
2003 LOC Kargil Maj. Padmapani Acharya
Shivamani 9848022338 Shivamani
2004 Mass Mass, Ganesh
Nenunnanu Venu
2005 Super Akhil
2006 Style Mass Cameo
Sri Ramadasu Gopanna, Sri Ramadasu Nandi Award for Best Actor
Boss - I Love You Gopal Krishna
2007 Don Don, Suri
2008 Krishnarjuna Krishna (God)
King Bottu Seenu/King/Sarath
2010 Kedi Ramesh (Rummy)
Gaganam
Filming
Simultaneously being made into Tamil as 'Payanam'
Thakita Thakita
Special appearance
Ragada
Filming
Releasing December 2010
2011 Mankatha
Filming
Rajanna
Announced

As producer

Year Film Notes
1979 Kalyani
1980 Pilla Zameendaaru
1980 Buchhibabu
1981 Money Hai To Honey Hai
1981 Premaabhishekam
1982 Yuvaraju
1983 Shri Ranganeethulu
1995 Sisindri
1996 Ninne Pelladatha
1998 Aaha
1998 Sri Seetarama Kalyanam Chutamurarandi
1998 Chandralekha
1999 Prema Katha
1999 Sitaramaraju
2000 Yuvakudu
2002 Manmadhudu
2003 Satyam[7]
2004 Mass
2005 Super

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