Telugu Awards Cinemaa Awards 2016 - Cast & Crew

Pragya Jaiswal, born in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, studies at the Symbiosis Law School, Pune. During her college days, she took a part in Miss Pune Contest, won the competition, and surprisingly got a direct wild card entry into Femina Miss India 2008 where she got the title of Miss Fresh Face, Miss Dancing Queen, and Miss Friend Of The Earth. After completing her graduation, she decided to join a law firm in Mumbai, but as she couldn’t be there on time, she started modeling for advertisement campaigns for big brands. Pragya also received the Symbiosis Sanskritik Puraskar Award on 22 January 2014 for her work in the field of art and culture. Pragya made her debut in 2014 in the Bollywood movie Titoo MBA. Her maiden film was Virattu (a Tamil film), also scripted in Telugu as Dega.

Date of Birth: 1980

Gender: Female

Language: Hindi

Skills: Movie Actress

Biography About Pragya Jaiswal

Biography About Pragya Jaiswal

Date of Birth: 1980

Gender: Female

Language: Hindi

Skills: Movie Actress

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.

Her appearance in Thaandavam with Vikram was praised by many people, as she did a good role, leaving the heart hard at the end in the movie. She acted with Vikram in Deivathirumagal as an Advocat...

Rana Daggubati is a famous Indian actor. He was born on 14 December, 1984 in Chennai. Rana is the grandson of legendary producer Daggubati Rama Naidu and son of the producer, D.Suresh Babu. He is the nephew of Venkatesh.. Rana has completed his entire childhood and schooling in Chennai. Rana has also done Photography course in Konica institute of Imaging and Technology. Before acting, Rana was an entrepreneur and his company name is Spirit Media. He was a successful Digital Post entrepreneur. His company has won Nandi award for special effects for the movie Sainikudu. Born with silver spoon in his mouth, Rana has not struggled a lot for movie chances.

He has the responsibility to continue his family legacy as a good actor. He made his debut with the Telugu film, Leader in 2010 directed by Sekhar Kammula. He act...

Prudhviraj, also known as Ballireddy Prudhviraj, is a Telugu comedian, who made his debut in E.V.V. Satyanarayana’s, ‘Aa Okkati Adakku’, in 1992. While working in his debut film, he spent 40 days with the late Indian film actor, Rao Gopal Rao, and learned so much about the film industry. He made an appearance in over 100 films for over two decades. Prudhviraj earned popularity because of his dialogue, “30 Years Industry Ikkada”, in the patriotic film, ‘Khadgam’, helmed by Krishna Vamsi, in the year 2002. Prudhviraj was born in Tadepalligudem, West Godavari District in Andhra Pradesh, and studied at Andhra University, where he finished his post-graduation in Economics. During those times, he usually joined cultural programs and stage plays, which just shows how much passion he h...

The actor was born to producer Allu Arvind and Nirmala on April 8, 1983. H Hence, it makes sense to say that acting bug ran in him too. Allu Arjun is related to some pretty big-time Tollywood heroes (Chiranjeevi, Pawan Kalyan, Ram Charan are maternal uncles) and has kept their flame burning on the silver screen. Considering big heroes like Chiranjeevi, Pawan and Charan as famous actors in Indian screen could have earned him passage to Tollywood royalty. Allu Arjun still realizes that he needs his space in Indian screen. Today, he is undoubtedly a popular name in Telugu cinema. He is also the paternal grandson of comedian Allu Rama Lingaiah. As a two-year-old boy then, the actor had begun his journey in a Chiranjeevi’s film ‘Vijetha’ and appeared in two scenes as actress Subha's son. La...

A Chennai boy born in Karaikal to the immigrants of Vietnam is famous for his stunt sequences and action director and choreography. He was born and brought up in Chennai itself. He belongs to Tamil Chettiar community. He started off as an extra stunt fighter in many regional films. His first venture as a full-time action director is Murari. Earlier he has worked with pioneers like Kanal Kannan, Ram Gopal Verma, Vijayan, etc. he has done quite a plenty of films in Telegu, Tamil, and Malayalam. He earned critical appreciation and fame through his work in films such as Varsham, Anniyan, Athadu, etc. Ram Gopal Verma, impressed by Hein offered him to work for James and thus it was his ticket to Bollywood. His next Bollywood venture was Mani Ratnam’s Raavan.

He had also ...

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.

Unfortunately, his brother Kotagiri Gopal Rao died on 6th November 2012. His elder brother took care of his family after their father's death. At that time Venkateshwara Rao was not interested in academics. He did not cont...

Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry is an Indian Lyricist and Poet. He works in the Telugu Film Industry as a Lyricist. His actual name is Chembolu Seetharama Sastry. Sastry was born on the 20th of May in the year 1955. He was born in Anakapalli, Andhra Pradesh. He is currently staying in Hyderabad, Telangana. Seetharama Sastry had his debut with writing songs for the legendary director K. Vishwanath.

His first song was for the film “Janani Janmabhoomi” (1984). He wrote songs for the film “Sirivennela” (1986). The songs were loved by the audience. That is the reason he got renamed from Chembolu Seetharama Sastry to Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry. Some of his famous works are “Lasku Labo,” “Yennadu Vidiponi,” “Love Me,” “O Chilaka,” “Nee Kosam,” “...

Akhil Akkineni is an Indian film actor. He acts in Telugu films. He is receiving the most praise for an exceptionally promising face as he is the son of actor Nagarjuna and Amala. Industry sources feel that he is going to make a big name for himself on the big screen.

Directors, actors and other industry members are attempting to give him a break in Kollywood and Tollywood as a hero in major movies. It is a fact that actors naturally receive the most praise for being the children of superstars as viewers even want to see them on the big screen.

Since he was from film industry itself, producers used to consider that he could make a debut even as a child artiste. Thus, when he was just one-and-a-half-year-old industry h...

After the success of "Dhinka Chika" song for Salman Khan, starrer "Ready", South Indian composer Devi Sri Prasad, has been getting numerous offers in Bollywood. Devi Sri Prasad liked the evergreen film ‘Sholay’ so much in his youth days, that he has seen the movie many times in his young days, and had then made his thoughts to make his journey to the film world. 

He stated that music in’ Sholay’ could always be an inspiration for his generation. Thus, he always wanted to be part of Bollywood and entertain the music lovers throughout India. He has so much passion for music and the film industry that he does not miss any music show hosted for his fans in abroad. Though offers from Bollywood are in the pipeline, he wants...

Jr Ntr is a proven actor from his childhood itself. He is a very famous Tollywood actor who is known for his variations in performance. In addition to being an actor, he is also a skilled dancer in Kuchipudi.

Jr Ntr commenced his career in 1996.  Born in 1983, he was only 13 yr old when he acted for the first time in a movie. However, his first movie as a child artist Bala Ramayanam won the Nandi Award as best children's film. Though he was away from industry for awhile for studies, Jr Ntr was always close to Tollywood. He made a huge debut again in 2002 as Aadi, which made him go closer to the audience. 

Jr Ntr has worked in 27 fantastic films. These films are so extraordinary hits that during 2012 he was listed as one of the top 100 celebrities in India, by Forbes. His annual inc...

Prasad Devineni is a film producer in the South Indian Film Industry. He mainly produces Telugu films. Prasad is also one of the Board Members of the Production Company named Arka Media Works. He has produced many Telugu films like ‘Once Upon a Warrior’, ‘Panjaa’, ‘MaryanaRamanna’, ‘Vedam’ and manymore. His biggest production was the 2015 blockbuster film Bahubaali. He is also the producer of the second edition of the film which released this year alongside Karan Johar. Bahubaali is the most successful and highest earning movie till date. It has already earned over a billion and is still running strong.

He has received many prestigious awards in his career, starting from 2010. His first award was for the fi...

Shobu Yarlagadda was born in Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh, India. He is an Indian film producer. Shobu is the relative (son-in-law) of director K. Raghavendra Rao. Prakash Kovelamudi has been in brother-in-law in relation. Shobu preferably works in the Telugu film industry. He did his both primary and secondary studies at his hometown. Shobu is a graduation degree holder in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, in the year 1992. In the year 1995, he got admission into Texas A&M University in the field, Agricultural Engineering.

He worked almost a year and a half, in California Air Resources Board, Greater Los Angeles Area, as Air Resources Engineer. Shobu builds and developed the Arka Media works with Prasad Devineni in the year 2001. He started offici...

A film director and a screenwriter S.S. Rajamouli was born as Koduri Srisaila Sri Rajamouli in Film Nagar, Hyderabad, Telangana. He is well known for his hit films like Magadheera, Eega and Baahubali: The Beginning. He started off directing daily soaps in Telegu for Eenadu Television working under K. Raghavendra Rao. His debut as Film director was Student no.1 in 2001 which turned out to be a blockbuster. His next venture was after a long gap of two years, Simhadri, which also received rave reviews. His third flick Sye was based on a game of rugby and for this, he joined hands with K.K. Senthil Kumar. This film received appreciation from all over and was a hit. His next movie was Chatrapathi, which again touched the audience’s heart with the music by M.M. Keeravani and screenplay by Senthil Kumar. He ...