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akkineni nagarjuna

akkineni nagarjuna Biography

Akkineni Nagarjuna (Telugu:) (born August 29, 1959 in Chennai, India), often known as Nagarjuna, is a popular Indian Telugu cinema actor and a successful producer. He is the son of veteran actor, Akkineni Nageswara Rao, who is a very respected actor having successfully done multiple films through the last two and half decades.

Personal Background:

Nagarjuna was born to Telugu cinema actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao and Annapurna Akkineni. Nagarjuna did his schooling at Hyderabad Public School and later went to Ratna Junior College to do his intermediate. After that, he went on to do mechanical engineering in College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai(which is an Anna University in-house department). He later attended the University of Michigan, where he received his master's degree in 1986-2004

His first movie Vikram released on May 24, 1986 was a remake of the Hindi film Hero starring Jackie Shroff. After acting in four films, he acted in Majnu as a tragedy hero; similar roles were known to be his father's forte. He acted with his father in the movie Collectorgari Abbayi. His first big hit was Akhari Poraatam co-starring Sridevi that ran for 100 days in 12 centers. Geethanjali a love story directed by Maniratnam followed by Shiva an action film directed by Ram Gopal Varma were highly successful and established him as one of the top heroes. During this phase of his career he relished working with new directors such as Ram Gopal Varma in order to recreate his screen persona and enjoy a certain creative energy, through the fresh approach of these young directors. He also made his Bollywood debut with the Hindi remake of Shiva. Movies such as President Gari Pellam and Hello Brother gave him the status of a mass hero. After that, Ninne Pelladutha directed by Krishna Vamsi appealed to a broad cross section of people, both young and mature. The movie was a big success at the box office. 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 the biggest hits in Tollywood. He won the National Award for this role in Special Jury. Most weak looking hero in tollywood at his early days.

2004-Present

In 2004, Nagarjuna had two releases, Nenunnanu and Mass, the latter going on to become a hit. In 2005, Nagarjuna had one release, Super. Super didn't reach up to the exceptations. Then in 2006, Nagarjuna had two releases, Sri Ramadasu, a period film based on the life of great saint-composer Ramadasu, directed by K. Raghavendra Rao, and Boss, I Love You.He got Nandi award for Sri Ramadasu and it was a great box office hit. However, Boss, I Love You was a flop.His earlier release Don, was directed by Raghava Lawrence.His latest release King, directed by Sreenu Vaitla, went on to be another biggest hit of his career.

Another movie, KING, was released on 25 December 2008 and went on to be the biggest hit of the year. It was directed by Sreenu Vaitla and produced by D Sivaprasad Reddy. His co-stars were Trisha Krishnan, Srihari, Sunil. The major attraction in the film is 'Nag' himself portraying three different characters with good energy in all the characters, especially in Bottu Seenu character. The movie also has hit songs, one of which is pictured with eight heroines: Genelia, Priyamani, Charmee, Mamata Mohandas, Trisha, Sneha Ullal, Kamna Jatmalani and Anushka.

Upcoming Films:

Right now he is planing to do the movie with the D. Shivaprasad Reddy (King, Nennunanu, Allari Alludu Producer). In the Kamakshi Kala Movies with introducing the new director(Yuva Serial Asst Director). This movie is going to start in july 2nd week and it is going to release in december last week.

Annapurna Studios:

Nagarjuna revived his father's production Annapurna Studios which has become one of the most successful production companies of recent times in Tollywood. He 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. Nagarjuna 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. Annapurna Studios is the only busiest studio in the state for shooting films, TV serials, TV shows etc.

Trivia:

Nagarjuna owns several restaurants in India and abroad and often visits them on a regular basis.

He is one of the highly paid actors (over 9 Crores for SriRamdasu)

He is one of the richest person in the cinema industry with having more than 100 crores of properties. Nagarjuna is investing close to 87 crores in real estate projects in Dubai. He is planning to team up with SRK to build a national level power project in Hyderabad. Nagarjuna is a close friend to the business tycoon Anil Ambani

While working on Khuda Gawah in Afghanistan, Nagarjuna fell in love with the region so much that he bought a huge property there and wanted to build a film studio, but later sold the property after the 9/11 attacks. He used to go Maldives regularly for vacations and he is a good scuba diver too.

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