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1. Kamalinee Mukherjee


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Born on 4th March 1980, Kamalinee Mukherjee has worked in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam and Bengali films, but she is primarily a Telugu actress. 


Kamalinee graduated in English literature and then she got involved in a theater workshop. Phir Milenge was her debut film, but she was noticed in the film Telugu film Anand, which won several awards. 


Born in Kolkata, Kamalinee worked in every professional and amateur plays on stage during her school and college days. Interestingly, she took up masculine characters. Painting, writing poem...

Date of Birth: 04-03-1980
Age: 44
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Female
Language: Telugu
Skills: Movie Actress
Date of Birth: 04-03-1980
Age: 44
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Female
Language: Telugu
Skills: Movie Actress

2. Trisha Krishnan


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Born on 4th May, 1983 in Palakkad by Krishnan and Uma Krishnan as her parents. Before starting her carrer in modelling and acting, she did her schooling from Sacred Heart Matriculation school in Church Park and then BBA from Ethiraj College for Women (Chennai). She entered into film industry after making a mark as a model and winning several beauty pageants like Miss Salem and Miss Madras in the same year. In 2001, she won Miss India Pageant “Beautiful Smile” award. She got her first acting break in Tamil film Jodie. After that, she got her first lead role in Mounam Pesiyadhe (2002) opposite Surya and won critical acclaim.

Then, she continued to work in number of successful films like Saamy (2003), Ghilli (2004), Varsham (2004)and Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana (...

Date of Birth: 04-05-1983
Age: 41
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills: Movie Actress
Date of Birth: 04-05-1983
Age: 41
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills: Movie Actress

3. Venu Madhav


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Venu Madhav is a well-known comedian in Tollywood. He was born on 30 December 1979 in Kodad, Nalgonda district, Telangana.He did B.com degree and later pursued his acting career. He has acted in movies of three regions in Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam. He was a TV mimicry artist and TV anchor. He anchored a funny show “Once more Please”.

He made his debut in Tollywood in the movie “Sampradhyam” in 1995 under the direction of SattiVenkata Krishna Reddy. He acted as Hero in movies like Hungana, Bhulailas, and Premabhisekam.He acquired popular recognition in movies Sampradayam and Master in 1997 and TholiPrema in 1998. Now he is working as a comedian in various movies.

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Date of Birth: 30-12-1979
Date of Death: 25-09-2019
Age: 44
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Comedian
Date of Birth: 30-12-1979
Date of Death: 25-09-2019
Age: 44
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Comedian

4. Pradeep Rawat


p/r/a/d/e/e/pradeep-rawat.jpg Pradeep Rawat, is known for his villainous roles in various movies. He was born on January 21, 1952 at Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India. He played various villainous roles in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil films. The journey of this actor in Hindi roles starts from an epic “Mahabharat” as Ashwatthama (Dronacharya’s son) in 1988-90. He created his magic in various Bollywood movies like ‘Sarfarosh’, he played the role of ‘Sultan’. In ‘Lagaan’ he played as ‘Deva’, and in 2008 he became more popular by playing a role called ‘Ghajini Dharmatma’ in Ghajini. He ventured into ‘Tollywood’ with a hit film named ‘Sye’. He also played a double role in a movie Ghajini as Ram and Lakshman in 2005. These movies are placed in his memorable hits list. Rawat is such a consistent Indian actor that he plays his role very smoothly, in many languages. The list of...
Date of Birth: 21-01-1952
Age: 72
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Actor
Date of Birth: 21-01-1952
Age: 72
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Actor

5. Srikanth


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Srikanth is an Indian cinema actor. He has mainly worked in Tamil industry. He was born on February 28, 1978, to Jayanthi and Krishnamachari. His brother, Sudhir is working in the USA as a software engineer. He is married to Vandana in November 2007. They have two children together, a daughter Ahana and a son Aahil. Srikanth's nickname is Sree. Srikanth completed his schooling from SBOA Matriculation and Higher Secondary School, Chennai. Also, he did his graduation from Hindustan College of Arts and Science. It is located in Chennai too. In his college days, he participated in a fashion show organised by Madras College in the year 1997. This experience of his led him to stages shows and then to becoming an actor.

He did an advertisement which led him to act in movies...

Date of Birth: 28-02-1979
Age: 45
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 28-02-1979
Age: 45
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil

6. Kodi Ramakrishna


Rama-Krishna.jpg Rama Krishna more familiarly known as Kode Rama Krishna is a legendary Indian film director and writer. He predominantly worked in Telugu and Tamil fields. He hails from Palakollu of West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. He has a film experience of 30 years and has directed above 100 films. He is the director who can mesmerize audience with special visual effects. He integrated movies with technology indulged in them. One can see envy, revenge and drama as key ingredients of his movies. He is well-known for his fantasy movies. His first movie is Intlo Ramayya Veedhilo Krishnayya is a blockbuster and has run 525 days continuously without a break. He has worked with many of the top stars of South India like Chiranjeevi, Bala Krishna, Venkatesh, etc., He has dealt with all varieties of films like political films, female oriented, romance, ...
Date of Birth: 24-07-1949
Date of Death: 22-02-2019
Age: 74
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Director
Date of Birth: 24-07-1949
Date of Death: 22-02-2019
Age: 74
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Director

7. Kaikala Satyanarayana


k/a/i/k/a/l/kaikala-satyanarayana.jpg Kaikala Satyanarayana is one of the most famous Telugu Actors of 1960s to 1990s. He has also been into production and direction of movies at one point. He is one of the proud recipients of Raghupathi Venkaiah Award for lifetime achievement. This is a very prestigious award in Telugu film industry which is given only to the much recognized contributors in Telugu Cinema. Kaikala was given this award in 2011. He was born in a rural village in Andhra Pradesh, in the year 1935. His family was moderately well in terms of financial stability. He could study up to graduation in Gudivada, another city in Andhra Pradesh. He got married in 1960. The couple is blessed with 4 children. He entered Telugu Film Industry through a movie called Sipayi Koothuru, produced by D. L. Narayana. This movie was not a commercial hit but had worked well for Kaikala ...
Date of Birth: 25-07-1935
Age: 88
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Date of Birth: 25-07-1935
Age: 88
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu

8. Kaushal Manda


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Kaushal is south Indian actor. He is from Vishakapatnam, Hyderabad. He did his schooling at BHV high school, Vishakapatnam. And he did his intermediate at CPR College, Vizag. And after that he did Diploma in metallurgical engineering, from Vizag University. When he was in school, he was a shettle player and after that in college, he got NCC best firer award. He got married to Neelima. At the age of 16, he entered into creative media and in the year of 2001, he was trained in acting from Kishore Namath Kapoor institute, Mumbai. And he also did crash course in direction from the Pune Film Institute, Pune. He modeled for 178 ad films including Grasim, Babaj, Boxer, Tide, Maruthi, GMR, LG, Vijaya Textiles., Optex, Cmr, Giyardino, Viskha dairy, Sony music videos, Aditya music, Airtel, cool soap, Cococola, Fantoosh,etc. He was among the top ...

Date of Birth: 13-05-1981
Age: 42
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Movie Actor
Date of Birth: 13-05-1981
Age: 42
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Movie Actor

9. Rajendra Prasad


07-03-2017/rajendra-prasad.jpg Rajendra Prasad is a famous actor in Telugu. He is known for his comic roles. He was born on 19 July, 1956 in Nimmakuru. He was born to Venkata Narayana and Manikyamba. He completed diploma in Ceramic Engineering before entering film industry. He was awarded honorary degree by Andhra University. He came to film industry inspired by Sr.NTR. We can see Sr.NTR adoptions in many of Rajendra Prasad’s films. It is known that ex-Prime Minister, P.V.Narasimha Rao is huge fan of Rajendra Prasad. He is usually called as Nata Kiriti, Comedy king, Divine Comedian, etc., Rajendra Prasad started his film career with the movie Sneham directed by Bapu but he came to lime light with the film Ladies’ Tailor. He is known for his comic timing in his movies. He mainly did comic roles in his films. He has done 200 films nearly in 1980’s and 90’s. Among his fil...
Date of Birth: 19-07-1954
Age: 69
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Movie Actor
Date of Birth: 19-07-1954
Age: 69
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Movie Actor

10. Prabhas


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Prabhas is one of the favorite heroes of the Andhra people. His original name is Prabhas Raju Uppalapati and he was born in Chennai. His parents are Suryanarayana Raju and Siva Kumari. He has a brother Prabodh and a sister Pragati. His debut movie was Eshwar in 2002 and his costar was Sridevi Vijayakumar. Varsham is one of his biggest hits and in this film, he is paired with Trisha. Varsham was later remade in Tamil as Mazhai with Jayam Ravi and Shriya Saran. His film Chathrapathi also went on well with 100 days in theatres. In the film Pournami, he acted with Trisha and Charmi. The climax song with a fight was praised by all. Charmi was applauded for the wonderful dance. He also acted in an action comedy movie Bujjigadu and it got a good success. Later on he acted in Billa, a remake of Tamil movie Billa. Rebel, directed by choreograph...

Date of Birth: 23-10-1979
Age: 44
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Actor
Date of Birth: 23-10-1979
Age: 44
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Actor

11. Allu Arjun


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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...

Date of Birth: 08-04-1983
Age: 41
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Movie Actor
Date of Birth: 08-04-1983
Age: 41
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Movie Actor

12. Chandra Siddhartha


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Born on 12th May 1969, Chandra Siddhartha is a Tollywood screenwriter, director, and producer. Son of C. Poorna Chandra Rao and C. Shakuntala Devi, he graduated from Nizam College in Hyderabad with a degree in Telugu Literature. He started his career as an assistant director for the movie Jaithra Yathra in 1987. At that time, he worked under Uppalapati Narayana Rao. His first feature film was a movie called Inscrutable Americans in 2001 for which he also wrote the screenplay. The movie is the story of a boy named Gopal and the changes that come in his life when he moves to America to pursue higher education.

This movie shows the differences in the American and Indian lifestyle and the consequences of sudden change. This movie got fairly good reviews and a rating of 6.9/1...

Date of Birth: 12-05-1969
Age: 54
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 12-05-1969
Age: 54
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu

13. Akkineni Nagarjuna


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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 Sch...

Date of Birth: 29-08-1959
Age: 64
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Actor
Date of Birth: 29-08-1959
Age: 64
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Actor

14. Chiranjeevi


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Chiranjeevi is called as the Mega Star of Telugu cinema. Born as, Konidela Siva Sankara Vara Prasad, Chiranjeevi changed his name in the film industry. He learned his acting skills from the Madras film institute. Punandhirallu was the debut movie of Chiru, but it failed to hit the box office. Chiru has acted in 149 films and his 150th film is getting ready. For his 150th film, Sridevi is approached to perform. Sridevi has acted with Chiru in many films and this pair has created many blockbuster hits. An honorary doctorate was given to him by the Andhra University and he is one of the proud recipients of Padma Bhushan.

He was the Tourism Minister of India from 2012 to 2014. Chiranjeevi is married to Surekha and he has three children, Ram Charan Teja, Sushmitha and Sreeja. Ram Charan is one among the popular Tollywood Stars, as h...

Date of Birth: 22-08-1955
Age: 68
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Movie Actor
Date of Birth: 22-08-1955
Age: 68
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Movie Actor