Telugu Movie Review Balakrishnudu - Cast & Crew

Regina Cassandra is a film actress, who is noticeable in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada movies. She rose to fame in the film, Kanda NaalMudhal directed by V. Priya at the age 16. Regina was born on 13 December 1988. Her birthplace is Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Her mother is from Karnataka, and her father is from North-India.

Avantika Vandanapu, born and brought up in America, California, had become famous when she starred as the hero’s cousin in Brahmostavam, a Telugu film, released in 2016. Due to some schedule conflicts, she didn’t appear in “Krishna Gaadi Veera Prema Gatha”, which released in 2015. Avantika was born on January 1st 2005 to Anupama Reddy Chintala and Srikanth Vandanapu and is currently studying in sixth standard in North America. She was always an active kid and she started taking classes for semi-classical dance when she was five years old.

Ramya Krishnan is a South Indian movie and TV actress who has acted in more than 200 films. She has acted in the 5 big languages of Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. She is a pro in the likes of classic dances, Bharathanatiyam and Kuchipudi, and has performed worldwide as well. She was born in Chennai to Telugu parents, who speak fluent Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi. She is the niece of Cho Ramasamy, an actor and a leading politician. She is married to Krishna Vemsi, a Telugu director, and has a son named Ritwik.

Pavan Mallela is an Indian-Director. He primarily works in the Telugu Film Industry.   Some of the movies in which he had worked include Balakrishnudu, which released on 24^th November 2017. In this movie, he had taken the right cast which was ready to put their extra efforts. The star casts include Nara Rohit, Regina Cassandra, Ramya Krishna, Prutviraj, Adithya Menon, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Ajay, Raghy Karumanchi, Aathma, Vennela Kishore, Raghy Babu, Srinivasa Reddy, Ravi Verma, Diksha Panth, Avantika Vandanpau, Tejaswi Madiyada, Satya Krishnan, and Ravi Varma.

Vijay C. Kumar is a Telugu cinematographer. He is famous for receiving a Nandi Award for the film Godavari. He is critically acclaimed for his lighting techniques, visualization, tele-focus shots, use of natural colours, balancing depth of focus between the subject and the object, and other techniques. Vijay is the son of the famous cinematographer C. Nageswara Rao and C. Sanadhana. When Vijay was only seven years old, Nageswara died at the age of forty two. His mother had him follow Nageswara’s footsteps by enlisting him in the outdoor unit of Sarada Enterprises, now known as Anand Cine Services, at the age of thirteen as an apprentice.

Mani Sharma is a famous music Director in Tamil and TelughMovies. His full name is Mani Sharma Yanmandra. Mani Sharma was born in a small district of Andhra Pradesh. His Village name is Machillipatnam which is situated in Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh. He spent his childhood in Chennai.

Kotagiri Venkateshwara Rao- The most wanted editor for the directors of Indian Cinema. He was born in David in Krishna district which is located in Andhra Pradesh. Kotagiri Venkateshwara Rao is a film editor in Telugu cinema industry. He is not only an editor but he also produces a lot of films. He started his career in the year 1977. He lived in Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh. And he served as the president of Andhra Pradesh film federation along with his younger brother Kotagiri Gopal Rao. He had been in that post for almost six years. He married Sujatha and he has two daughters namely Padmaja and Neeraja.

Adithya Menon was born on 6th April 1974 as Anil Menon in Mumbai. When he was a kid, his family shifted their base to Dubai. Till his 18 years, Adithya grew up in Dubai. He is an alumnus of Our Own English High School in Dubai. Later, his family returned to India and settled in Bangalore. He is an engineering graduate, who was graduated from M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology. During his college days, he attended an audition for the Radio Jockey in Radio Midday. It was the base for him to enter the media.

Kota Srinivasa Rao is a renowned Indian film actor, who predominantly works in Telugu cinema and theater. He was born on July 10, 1947, in Kankipadu in British India. He started his career as a stage actor and performed in many drama plays. Before he entered the film industry, he worked as an employee at the State Bank of India and continued his passion for stage acting. Kota got married to Rukmini and had three children. His son, Kota Venkata Anjaneya Prasad, died in a road accident in Hyderabad in 2010. Rao is also a former politician, who served as the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in Andhra Pradesh, India from the year 1999 to 2004.

Raghu Babu is a prominent Telugu actor and comedian, who become famous for his outstanding comic timing and expressions. He was born as Raghu Babu Yerra on June 24, 1964, in Ravinuthala, Andhra Pradesh in India. He is the eldest son of Giri Babu, a famous Telugu actor and comedian. He studied in Madras from his 7th standard until college. He took an Engineering course (AMI), but in 1988, he stopped schooling and helped his father in his film production job. In the same year, he also got married. He started acting at the age of 10 in the drama play, Sri Krishna Tulabaram, which became very popular. Initially, Raghu did not have any plans to become an actor. But the late director, Satya Reddy, insisted that he is indeed an artist and the director wanted to make him an actor. He was cast in the film, Dongalu Unnaru Jagratha in the year 1990, which marked his debut in the film industry. His real passion is to become a producer, but one day, Satya Reddy did an ad for the film without informing him. His photo was there and the rest of the cast and when he asked Satya, he just said, he is doing the movie, and so he did it.

Raghu Karumanchi is a veteran comedian-actor of Tollywood, who is very much active on social media nowadays. He believes that two things spell success in life- one must manage when he has nothing, and one has to behave or accept his life when he has everything. He is not only known for his comic dialogues in films, but he is also a very frank person who posts humorous messages on social media, both on Twitter and Facebook.

He was born in East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. At the age of two, their family moved to Hyderabad, so he was grown up in Hyderabad.

He learnt Kathak (Indian classical dance) while he was studying 3rd class. Afterwards he learnt Bangra (dance originating from the Punjab region) extensively for eight years. He was even familiar with mime (imitation without use of speech) and gave many performances. He used to participate in lot of cultural activities mainly dance competitions.

He completed his engineering from Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. Later on he went to USA and pursued Masters in Computers. He even joined in a job at Rediff. At the same time he joined a three month course in NYFA (New York Film Academy), which helped him a lot for his acting career. Meanwhile he also worked for a production house ‘Hollywood Bollywood’ as Model and for some while he worked as production assistant. He was married in 2006 and claims that movies are his passion.

He made his debut in 2005 through a film named ‘Vennela’, in which he played a role of Syed, a Muslim youth. His first project was a big hit and helped him getting many more chances. He moved to Hyderabad and started his acting career. He was offered one of the main roles in ‘Nuvve’ by Gopichand (Telugu film director). He got more opportunities in big movies like Bommarillu, Sainikudu and Rakhi. He was presently busy in Tollywood acting in supporting roles.

He also acted in a TV serial named “Mogalirekulu” which was aired on Gemini TV. Mogalirekulu is an Indian soap opera created and written by Manjula Naidu and Bindi Naidu (sister’s leading the TV serial industry as writers, directors and producers). It was started on February 18, 2008 and ended on May 24, 2013.

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Ravi Varma is an actor who has been working in the Telugu film industry as a supporting actor and side character for a  long time. Born in Andhra Pradesh in a very affluent family, Ravi had hopes of getting into the film industry since his early days in school, where he was inspired by the cinema. He was raised in Hyderabad from where he completed his graduation in engineering. After his graduation, he moved to New York City to complete his post-graduation and he later got a job in NYC itself. During his time in New York, Ravi decided to go ahead and attend a few acting classes and he started enjoying acting a lot and decided to take a risk and quit his job and then he moved back to India.

Srinivasa Reddy is a Telugu actor and known for his eccentric comedy. Born in Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh (now in Telangana), India Srinivas is a well-acclaimed comedy entertainer. Although it took him more than ten years to position himself as a comedian in Telugu film industry. Srinivasa Reddy started his career in the entertainment industry as a TV anchor and first debuted in movie Istam in 2001 in a supporting comedy role. The film also starred Shreya, which was also her debut film.

Vennela Kishore is a famous Tollywood actor, director and comedian. He was born on 19th September 1980 at Kamareddey, Nizamabad,Telangana. He was working as software quality engineer in the USA.Later, He took a stand and settled in India in 2008 to furnish his passion as an actor or comedian. He debuted in Movie Vennela in 2005.