Telugu Movie Review Oopiri - Cast & Crew

Tamannaah Bhatia is a well known actress in Tamil and Telugu film industry with lots of fan following. Chand Sa Roshan Chehra was her first Hindi movie, in the year 2005. Her Telugu debut was Sri and the Tamil debut was Kedi. In Kedi, she did a negative role and the movie did not go well. It was also the debut movie for Ileana, the South Indian popular actress. Tamannaah Bhatia acted in Vyapari with director S.J.Suryah; but she did not get a good recognition. After she performed in Balaji Sakthivel’s Kalloori, she became notable. Her performance in that film was appreciated by everyone. Similarly, her Telugu film Happy Days was also a super hit and got her good name. Tamannaah Bhatia steadied her market by choosing good films.

Born on 17 December 1958 Jayasudha is predominantly a Telugu actress, though she has worked in Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada films too. She was born in Chennai, but her mother tongue is Telugu. Her aunt, Vijaya Nirmala has acted in Telugu films and she is a director too.

Jayasudha entered into films during the age of 12; she acted in a Telugu film named Pandanti Kapuram. Later, she did a minute role in K Balachander’s Arangetram. She worked with K Balachander in several films. Her original name is Sujatha and she changed it to Jayasudha. The Telugu film industry welcomed her and she worked in many good films there. The greatest credit to her acting prowess is that, she was compared with yesteryear legend Savithri. Her roles were powerful and they had variety in them. As a fitting tribute to her natural acting Jayasudha is named “Sahaja Nati”

When she grew up Jayasudha entered the Telugu film industry with the film Lakshmana Rekha. This showcased that there is an actress named Jaya Sudha in the Telugu film industry. But it is only her role in “Jyothi” which helped her in climbing the ladder of success.

Jayasudha’s popularity soared with the film “Adavi Ramudu”, which was a huge success. Jayasudha has worked in more than 200 films and would you believe that in a year 24 films of her released. A notable point is that, she would deliver her dialogues in a good manner, though she is quite alien to Telugu. Jayasudha was seen in many films of renowned filmmaker Dasari Narayana Rao. She became a great actress of Telugu cinema by 1982 that Dasari Narayana Rao titled a film “Jayasudha”.

Jayasudha has won many Filmfare awards. She is a good friend of another actress Jayapradha with whom she worked in Meghasandesam and Adavi Ramudu. Jayasudha tried her luck in politics, but she was not successful.

Anushka Shetty is the popular South Indian star who is very famous for her work in Arundhati, a Telugu movie. This film was dubbed in Tamil and made her more popular among the Tamil audience. Her first Tamil movie was Rendu with R. Madhavan. Anushka Shetty was not well known during the time of Rendu. It is only through Arundhati, she entered the hearts of the people. She masters all the roles given to her. She has paired with almost all the top stars of South Indian film industry right from Rajini Kanth. She paired Super Star in the film Linga and got a decent role in that film.

Gabriella Demetriades is a South African model. By profession, she is a model as well as fashion designer and also running a company “ Deme by Gabriella,” which is ready to wear women’s wear label, established in 2012. Initially, she was doing styling in Cape town, and as per photographer’s wish, she gave a test. In a Cape Town restaurant, a top booker spotted her and sent her to India for her first overseas contract. The popularity of India and her experience in India allowed her to be more globally central. She got selected for 100 sexiest women in the world for FHM and was also Miss “ IPL” in 2009 in Bollywood. She is currently active in Bollywood advertisements. Her recent advertisement is of “ Micromax Mobiles”.

Shriya Saran, the timeless beauty, is a much loved actor of the South Indian film industry who’s been reigning the world of cinema from nearly a decade. She’s acted in nearly 70 films in the languages of Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, English and Hindi and won a host of prestigious awards in all of her career.

A trained and expert traditional dancer, Shriya Saran was noticed in one of her dance videos and for the beauty that she was, movie offers came her way. Ishtam, the telugu film produced by Ramoji Rao was the first that she acted in and although the film didn’t really fare all that well, she was noticed. She was paired with bigger heroes like Nagarjuna and Tarun right after that when she acted in films like Santosham (with Nag) and Nuvve nuvve (first directorial of Trivikram Srinivas along side Tarun). Ever since that, she’s had no looking back. She acted in a lot of south Indian films after that, Tagore (starring Chiranjeevi), Balu (the Pawan Kalyan starrer), Chatrapathi (along side Prabhas), Sivaji (with Rajinikanth) being some of them.

Southscope award, Filmfare award, CineMaa award, Stardust award and Vijay award were won by Shriya Saran in her career, over and over again. Nearly ten years after Shriya Saran debuted, she still continues to compete with fresh talent bagging as many important roles and looking as beautiful as she did when she set foot in the industry.

Nora Fatehi is yet another foreigner to get a break in the Bollywood and she is of Moroccan origin. She debuted in Bollywood through the movie ‘Roar – Tigers of the Sundarbans’ which was directed by Kamal Sadanah. She played the character of a commando who is on a mission to find and kill a man-killer tigress. The superhot model was already famous for her killer looks and the movie gave her a huge boost.

After her first movie in 2013, she became so popular and bagged the lead role in director Prakash Jha’s movie ‘Crazy Cukkad Family’ and also did a special appearance role in one of the songs in the Emraan Hashmi starrer ‘Mr.X’. She went on to do an item number in the Puri Jaganath directed Telugu movie ‘Temper’ which became a huge hit. She became popular in the Tollywood industry after ‘Temper’, and went on to do special appearances in the 2015 movies ‘Baahubali’ and ‘Kick 2’. 

The Canadian supermodel is so fond of dancing and has stated in an interview that NTR Jr. is her favourite dancer to work with. She confessed that she had been looking for someone who has got amazing moves to work with and NTR surprised her while shooting for ‘Temper’.

Akkineni Nagarjuna is a veteran Indian actor, TV presenter, and producer, who predominantly worked in the Telugu film and television industry. He was born on August 29, 1959, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu in India. He has acted in over 90 films as a lead and supporting actor and has done cameo roles in both Bollywood and Tamil films. The brilliant actor won a total of 2 National Film Awards, 9 State Nandi Awards, and 3 Filmfare Awards. He is also an acclaimed actor in historical and biographical films.

Akkineni is the son of the prominent actor Nageswara Rao Akkineni, and his mother is Annapoorna Akkineni. When his family moved to Hyderabad, he studied at Hyderabad Public School and later attended the Little Flower Junior College. He took a Bachelor of Engineering at the College of Engineering in Guindy and graduated M.S. in Automobile Engineering at the Eastern Michigan University. Akkineni got married to former actress and dancer, Amala Akkineni in the year 1992. His son, Naga Chaitanya from his first marriage to Lakshmi Ramanaidu Daggubati, is also a Telugu actor. His younger son, Akkineni Akhil is his son with Amala. He is also the brother of the very popular producer, Venkat Akkineni.

Akkineni started as a child artist in the year 1967 through the Telugu film Sudigundalu, where his father acted in the lead role. After some years, he was debuted as a lead actor in V. Madhusudhana Rao’s Vikram in 1986. This film was produced by his brother and became a success, giving him a good start as an actor. In 1987, he was starred in the classical film, Sankeertana; a film that marked the directorial debut of Geetha Krishna. After a year, he was featured in the blockbuster Telugu action film, Aakhari Poratam, where he was paired with Suhasini and Sridevi. Later, Akkineni was starred in another K. Raghavendra Rao’s Telugu film entitled Janaki Ramudu, together with Vijayashanti in the lead role.

He was starred in Mani Ratnam’s romance film, Geethanjali in the year 1989, opposite Girija Shettar. This film met critical and commercial success and even earned the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. Soon after, the talented actor met another success in the Telugu action film, Siva in 1989. This film marked the directorial debut of Ram Gopal Varma. Akkineni has also done the Hindi remake of the film entitled Shiva. This also marks his debut in Bollywood. Both films saw a huge success at the box-office. In 1991, he acted in the drama film Jaitra Yatra, from where he earned critical reception. This was followed by average success films like Prema Yuddham and Iddharu Iddhare. But Akkineni has proven his mettle and carved his niche in the industry as he appeared in more box-office hits like Neti Siddhartha, Killer, Chaitanya and Nirnayam, helmed by prominent directors like Priyadarshan, Fazil, and Prathap Pothen. He was then acknowledged as the ‘Celluloid Scientist’ as he usually experiments with different genres in films. In the following years, Akkineni appeared in box-office hit films such as President Gari Pellam, Gharana Bullodu, Varasudu and Allari Alludu.

In the year 1994, Akkineni was starred in a Hindi-Telugu bilingual film, Criminal, helmed by Mahesh Bhatt. For the first time, he acted in a comedy film entitled Hello Brother. This film was remade in Hindi entitled Judwaa and was also dubbed in Tamil. By the year 1996, he was starred and produced Krishna Vamsi’s Ninne Pelladata; a film that achieved the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu and the Filmfare Award for Best Film – Telugu. In 1997, he acted in a devotional biographical film Annamayya, from which he bagged the Filmfare Award for the Best Actor, Nandi Award and the National Award for Special Mention. Then he donned the films Nuvvu Vastavani, Azad and Ninne Premistha in the year 2000.

Akkineni was also starred in romantic comedy films like Santosham, Shivamani, and Manmadhudu. He produced the Telugu film Satyam in the year 2003, which starred Sumanth, his nephew. In the following year, he acted in Nennanu and the box-office hit film, Mass, which he also produced under his own banner, Annapurna Studios. In 2005, he acted and produced the Telugu heist film, Super, along with Ayesha Takia, Sonu Sood, and Anushka Shetty. He was starred in the 2006 blockbuster biographical film, Sri Ramadasu. In this film, he earned the Nandi Award for Best Actor. In 2007, Akkineni acted in Raghava Lawrence’s Don, following with the action comedy thriller film, King in 2008.

By the year 2010, he was seen in films like Kedi and Ragada. He was also starred in the thriller film, Gaganam. He also donned the historical box-office film, Rajanna in 2011, where he earned the CineMAA Awards for Special Jury and the South Indian International Movie Awards for Special Appreciation. He was seen in Damarukam and Shirdi Sai in 2012. He also donned Greekuveerudu along with Nayantara and Bhai, opposite Richa Gandhopadhyay.

In the year 2014, the talented actor was seen in Vikram Kumar’s blockbuster Telugu drama film, Manam. This film was produced by Akkineni Family under the banner of Annapurna Studios. The film won the Filmfare Award for Best Film – Telugu. He earned the Special Jury Awards for Best Actor at the 5th TSR TV9 National Film Awards and the Best Outstanding Actor at the 11th CineMAA Awards.

He made his debut in the small screen as a TV producer in the drama soap, Yuva in 2009. He is also one of the major shareholders of the Telugu TV channel, MAA TV. He became an anchor for KBC – Meelo Evaru Koteeswarudu and won the Entertainment Leader Award from the TV 5 Business Leaders Awards ceremony. Akkineni is one of the owners of the Mumbai Masters of the Indian Badminton League and the Mahi Racing Team India. He is also the endorser of Kalyan Jewellers in both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

Akkineni Nagarjuna Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)

Karthik Sivakumar, or popularly known as Karthi, is a prominent film actor, who predominantly works in the Tamil film industry. He was born on May 25, 1977, in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India, to Tamil actor, Sivakumar and Lakshmi. He studied at Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan, and later attended St. Bede’s Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Chennai. He obtained a degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Crescent Engineering College in Chennai. Post graduation, he started working as an Engineering Consultant in the city and pursued higher education abroad. During those times, Karthi was earning 5000 every month, until he thought that he wanted to do something more. He had his scholarship in the USA and studied at Binghamton University in New York, where he took Master of Science in Industrial Engineering. While doing his masters, he also studied filmmaking. Karthi worked as a graphic designer for a short period of time in New York, and then, he decided to pursue his career in film direction. He took two courses at the State University of New York and studied basic filmmaking.

The precious icon of the Indian music industry, Gopi Sundar has composed his soulful music for more than fifty movies to date. In 2014, he composed the songs & background score for the Malayalam movie "1983" and was awarded the National Award.the movie got a good critic rating of 3.5 out of 5.abrid shine, the debut director of the movie was awarded the Kerala State Awards in the category of the best debut director. Alongside the film bagged two more awards for the category of best & second best actor in the same award ceremony of 2014. He was born in Kochi & opted for joining the music industry for his career. Gopi has a good knowledge of instruments like Tabla & keyboard & has worked as a keyboard programmer in some of Bollywood hit films.

Prakash Raj, born on 26th of March, 1965, as Prakash Rai, in Bangalore, is an actor, director, and producer. He is also a television presenter and has worked in films of many languages. He is best known for his work in the film industry of South India, and for playing roles of a villain in quite a few Bollywood films. He hails from a Tulu and Kannada-speaking household and is fluent in various other languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. He also has an actor brother named Prasad Raj. He studied at St. Joseph’s Boy’s School, and subsequently, at St. Joseph’s College of Commerce. Both institutions are in Bangalore. Prakash has three children, Meghana, Pooja, and Sidhu, from his earlier marriage to the actress Lalitha Kumari. His son, unfortunately, passed away in the year 2004. He is currently married to the choreographer Pony Verma. In the first few years of his career, he worked in Kannada Doordarshan, doing serials like Guddada Bhootha, and he also acted in supporting roles in Kannada movies like Nishkarsha.

Ali is a Telugu actor and also worked in Bollywood movies. He was born in a financially weak family but always had a passion for acting. Irrespective of his financial condition, he kept on developing his passion for acting and got his first role as a child artist in Director Bhagyaraj’s film Seethkoka Chiluka. He performed a great job as a child artist in different movies. Afterward he faced many difficulties for a “Grown up actor’s” role, and his struggle got a life when he got to play a comic role in director S.V Krishna Reddy’s films.

Vamsi Paidipally also called as Vamshi, is a Telugu and Tamil movie director and screenwriter who has been in the industry for eight years. His directorial debut was Munna, a Telugu film in the year 2007, which is about a college student and his struggle to kill Don Kakha. The movie fared well at the box office, and its soundtrack was a huge success. 

Prasad V Potluri was born on September 8, 1970, in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India to Raghavendra Rao and Mangatara Devi. He did his higher secondary from NSM Public School, Vijayawada and completed his graduation in Mechanical Engineering from Nagarjuna University. Popularly known as PVP, Prasad is a Philanthropist, Educationalist, and Serial Entrepreneur. He is married to Jhansi Sureddi and has two children, one son (Param) and one daughter (Pearl). He is the Co-Owner of Kerala Blasters F.C. (One of the teams in the Indian Super League), Owner of Hyderabad HotShots (Indian Badminton League) and PVP Cinemas, Strategic Investor in Maven Corp and Karvy Consultants,

Adivi Sesh Sunny Chandra is the full name of Adivi Sesh. He is a director and actor in the South Indian Film Industry. He was born on 17 Dec 1985. Sesh is from the family of Tollywood director Sai Kiran Adivi and writer Adivi Bapiraju. At the San Francisco State University, he studied film direction. He also won Mr. India Waves and Mr. India San Francisco titles. He started acting with Sontham movie in Telugu in 2002. Later in 2010, he directed the movie Karma: Do you believe? in the Telugu language. He is also the writer of the film and played the role of Dev. It was the first Telugu film that was shot entirely in the USA with all American crew. In Panjaa movie, Sesh played the role of Munna as a villain opposite Pawan Kalyan.

Vivekanandan is the birth name of the versatile comedian Vivek. He is introduced by the legendary director Balachander through the film Manadhil Urudhi Vendum. It is the film in which Ramesh Arvind was also introduced. They both acted as brothers of Suhasini in that film. He got famous through Pudhu Pudhu Arthangal, as his dialogue Innaikku Seththa Naalaikku Paal reached the viewers well. He acted with top actors and reached fame within a short span. He performed with Rajini in Uzhaippali, Veera and Sivaji. His role in Kadhal Mannan, an Ajith starter, was loved by many people. Vivek acted with Vijay in Kushi and Priyamanavale. He performed with Vadivelu in few films and the notable one is Middle Class Madhavan, a Prabhu movie. Both Vadivel and Vivek performed humorously in that film. After the invasion of many comedians like Santhanam and Suri, the chances get lessened for Vivek. He performed as Eka in the Dhanush movie Uthamaputhiran, which was outstanding. Singham of Surya had Vivek as a Police constable. His recent movies are Velai Illa Pattadhaari with Dhanush and Yennai Arindhaal with Ajith. He has also acted as a solo hero in the film named Nan Than Bala. The film did not go well as expected, but he has won positive criticism from the critics. 

P.S. Vinod is an Indian born in Andhra Pradesh. He is a well-known cinematographer as well as director. He is one of the top 20 cinematographers in Tamil. P.S. Vinod has completed his graduation in Tamil Nadu from Television Institute. As soon as he completed his graduation, he started assisting well- experienced cinematographer Santosh Sivan. After that, director Vasanth signed him for his two coming movies Rhythm and Appu.These two films have become the success to P.S. Vinod and his team. Later P.S. Vinod did few films in Bollywood and which has become well -known movies in Hindi. P.S. Vinod second film in Hindi was Musafir, and he has also won the nomination for film awards for Zee, for Musafir movie. Some of his movie lists include Anima and Persona, Appu, Celluloid Man, David, Kadhal 2 Kalyanam, Musafir, Neal N Nikki, Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat, Rhythm, Striker, Tees Maar Khan, Panjaa, Arrambam. Previously, Two Tamil movies are worked by P.S. Vinod, the gangster film Aaranya Kaandam and romantic comedy film Kadhal 2 Kalyanam.

Madhu is a Telugu actor who has majorly worked in Tollywood. Pawanism which hit the screens in 2014 was his previous film.

As a screenwriter for some of the best blockbusters in the Telugu industry, Abburi Ravi is well-known for his wonderful stories. His way of words, which shaped up the movie ‘Bommarillu’, won a Nandi Award for Best Dialogue Writer.