Chiranjeevi: Difference between revisions
| [pending revision] | [pending revision] |
m Reverted good faith edits by 124.30.174.15; Rv addition of false info and removal of sourced info. using TW |
|||
| Line 944: | Line 944: | ||
<div class="references-small"><references /></div> |
<div class="references-small"><references /></div> |
||
great hero |
great hero |
||
http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/ |
|||
==External links== |
==External links== |
||
Revision as of 11:49, 21 August 2007
Chiranjeevi | |
|---|---|
| File:Chiranjeevi.jpg Mega star | |
| Born | Konidela Siva Sankara Vara Prasad |
| Spouse | Surekha |
| Children | Susmita , Srija and Ramcharan Teja |
Konidela Siva Sankara Vara Prasad is a prominent Indian Actor acting mainly in Telugu film Industry born on August 22, 1955. He is more popular by his screen name Chiranjeevi.
Childhood
Konidela Siva Sankara Vara Prasad a.k.a. Chiranjeevi, the Megastar of Telugu film industry was born in a missionary hospital at Narsapuram, a village in the West Godavari district on 22nd August 1955. He was born to Shri.Venkat Rao and Smt.Anjani Devi. Chiranjeevi grew up in his native village with his grand parents, while his family was elsewhere because of his fathers occupation. The sense of discipline and hard working, which he still embraces, were introduced at a very young age in his life. The tough childhood he had being the eldest in his family has helped him to handle many such events of higher proportion with great expertise in the later stages of his life. Varaprasad birth time is 10.05 am on Monday 22nd Aug 1955
Education
Varaprasads education was nomadic accounting to his father VenkatRao's frequent transfers to Ongole, Ponnur, Bapatla, Mangalagiri, Gurajala, Chirala, Nellore etc, which did not really defer Vara Prasad as he gained a great friend circle wherever he was. Varaprasad is really fortunate for his father has constantly encouraged him after having discovered the undaunted liking of his son towards cultural activities.
Varaprasad did his schooling in Nidadavolu, Gurajala, Ponnuru, Bapatla, Mangalagiri and Mogalturu. He also won first prize for his first performance as Parandhamayya Panthulu. After high school, Varaprasad joined Bi.P.C in P.R.Sharma Jr. College at Ongole. Following that he finished his B.Com from Narasapur College.
After graduating with a degree, Chiranjeevi came to madras to pursue a degree and career in CA (cost accountancy) and as fate would have it enrolled in Film institute in Chennai and walked out with a diploma
Career
Dr. Chiranjeevi entered the Telugu film industry with the film Manavoori Pandavulu in 1977, Punnami nagu wherein he played snakecharmer in 1981 gave him very good repute. Meanwhile (between 1977 -81) he played a lot of minor and negative characters in films like Mosagadu, 49 Rojulu, etc. The first real break for him came with the movie Khaidi in 1983. It established Chiranjeevi as an action hero. It gave him the required push to stay on the top along with some more top actors of that time.
With films like Abhilasha (1983), Challenge (1984), Adavi Donga (1985), Raakshasudu (1986), Pasivadi Pranam (1987), Yamudiki Mogudu (1988), Atthaku Yamudu Ammayiki Mogudu (1989) etc he succeeded in establishing a name of his own in the film industry. He was given title of MEGASTAR by his fans with the movie Maranamrudangam (1988).
He won Nandi award for the movie Swayamkrushi (1987), directed by K.Viswanath, one of the legends in Tollywood. His movie Rudraveena (1988) , directed by K.Balachander won him the coveted Nargis Dutt award at the National level.
Chiranjeevi is known for his dancing abilities. He successfully imported the technique of Break Dance from the west and created a trend in the Telugu movie industry.
His winning streak continued into the 90's with films like Kondaveeti Donga (1990), Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari (1990), Kodama Simham (1990), Gang Leader (1991), Rowdy Alludu (1991), and Gharana Mogudu (1992). All these movies worked well at the Box-Office with some creating new records. Then followed a series of flops and disasters with Mechanic Alludu (1993), S.P.Parshuram (1994), Big Boss (1995), Rikshavodu (1995) sinking at the box office. He bounced back with Hitler and Master in 1996-97 and delivered good hits in Choodalani Vundi and Bavagaru Bagunnara.
Later in 2002 Chiranjeevi had one more release, Indra. This film turned out to be a huge hit and became the highest grossing film of that year. He won both the Nandi Award and Filmfare Best Actor Award for the film Indra[1]. Later in 2003, he came out with another block buster "Tagore", an excellent message oriented movie based on the Tamil runaway hit Ramana starring Vijayakanth. This movie again broke all the existing box-office records and turned out to be the highest grosser in Telugu Film Industry. His long-awaited "Anji" released in 2004, but it failed to record the success, despite the high expectations. But with the film Shankardada MBBS (Remake of Munnabhai MBBS), another social message oriented movie, he got another huge hit.
After this film he was again disappointed by the results of movies like Andarivadu and Jai Chiranjeeva an average grosser. He also appeared in a guest role in the film style directed by Raghava Lawrence. However with the film Stalin, another social movie, he bounced back onto the track, although the movie did not meet the huge expecations. Currently his film Shankardada Zindabad released on 27,july,2007,which is the sequel of his previous hit Shankardada MBBS and a remake of the hugely successful Lage Raho Munnabhai. The audio of this movie received good response and the movie is turning out to be an above average grosser.
Charity and services
On October 2, 1998, he founded the Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust (CCT), which includes Chiranjeevi Blood and Eye Banks. It is the state's largest recipient of Blood and Eye Donations. The Blood Bank of the CCT helped over 80,000 people and the Eye Bank has helped about 1000 people in the state of Andhra Pradesh since its opening.[1]
So far around 3.5 lakh people have pledged their eyes to CCT so far, giving 1600 people eye sight through CCT. CCT has also won the "Best Voluntary Blood Bank Award" by the AP State Government for the past 4 years.
On June 10, 2006, The President of India, Dr. Abdul Kalam, inaugurated the Chiranjeevi Charitable Foundation (CCF) at the Jubilee Hills Check post in Hyderabad.[2]
Recently Chiranjeevi charitable trust has reached another landmark by crossing the one lakh mark in collecting units of blood and more than 96,000 people were helped with blood by this blood bank.
Awards
In January 2006, Mr Chiranjeevi was honored with the Padma Bhushan.[3], the third highest civilian award in India.
In November 2006, Chiranjeevi was awarded with a honorary doctorate[4] by the Andhra University for his services to the Telugu film industry and for his social work.
In July 2007, Dr.Chiranjeevi was honored with the Legend.[5], as a prowess Hero in India.
He also grabbed 7 filmfare awards as best hero and FilmFare Legendary award in this year.
Filmography
References
- ^ "idlebrain.com". Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust. Retrieved 3 December.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|accessyear=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help) - ^ "When life imitated art". The Hindu. Jun 11, 2006.
- ^ "andhravilas.com". Chiranjeevi receives Padma Bhushan. Retrieved 3 November.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|accessyear=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help) - ^ "in.yahoo.com". Chiranjeevi receives Doctorate. Retrieved 2 November.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|accessyear=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help) - ^ "andhravilas.com". Chiranjeevi received Legend Award. Retrieved 3 November.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|accessyear=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help)
great hero http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/
External links
- Chiranjeevi at IMDb