Telugu Tv Serial Mee Star - Cast & Crew

Swetha who is also known as Rakshita is a South Indian film actress. She has acted in various films in the Kannada, Tamil and Telugu industry. Rakshita entered the film industry with the Kannada film Appu sharing screen space with the famed Puneet Rajkumar.

Suma is a familiar person in south Indian film industry. She is from Kerala but she settled in Hyderabad because of her father’s job purpose. Her father name is P.N. Kutty and her mother’s name is Vimala and who were settled in secunderabad. Her father was a railway employee. She is the only daughter to her parents. She started acting on Doordharshan period onwards. In the year of 1990, she started her career in serials and she acted in serials like Megalaya, Mandhakini, Samatha, etc.

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 choreographer cum actor cum director Raghavendra Lawrence was also a hit movie for Prabhas. He gave a cameo appearance for a song in Action Jackson, dancing with Sonakshi Sinha. His latest film is Baahubali, with Anushka Shetty, Tamannah and Ramya Krishnan. It is a bilingual movie, which is shot in Tamil and Telugu simultaneously.

Ravi Teja is the popular Telugu hero, whose birth name is Ravi Shankar Raju Bhupatiraju. He started his career as an actor from the year 1990 in a supportive role. His debut movie is Karthavyam, in which Vijay Shanthi was the lead. He has also worked as an assistant director for few Bollywood and Tollywood movies. His first main role was in the film Sindhooram in the year 1997. Nee Kosam was the movie, which revealed out his acting talent and got him the Nandi Award for his excellent performance. Itlu Sravani Subramanyam, Avunu Valliddaru Ista Paddaru, Idiot, Khadgam and Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi were his hit movies in the beginning.

Manchu Vishnu is the first son of Veteran Telugu actor, politician M. Mohan Babu. He was born on 23 November, 1981 in Chennai. He completed his schooling from Padma Seshadri Balabhavan School in Chennai. He graduated from Shree Vidyaniketan Engineering College, which is one of the prestigious institutions in South India run by his father. After completing his schooling, he went to USA and got trained for martial arts and acting.

Manchu Vishnu debuted on the silver screen of Tollywood with Telugu film ‘Vishnu’ and he bagged Filmfare for the first film itself. The film that brought star status to Vishnu is Dhee. The film has changed his status from Mohan Babu’s son Vishnu to Vishnu’s father Mohan Babu. Dhee, directed by Sreenu Vaitla with Jenelia D’Souza, Sri Hari and Brahmanandam as main cast was the block buster in Tollywood in 2007, and was remade into Tamil and Bengali. The film made him top contender of Tollywood. His other major flicks are Asthram, Krishnarjuna, Denikaina Ready, Doosukeltha, etc., He shared the screen with his father in Saleem, Pandavalu Pandavulu Thummeda, and impressed the Telugu audience with his performance.

Apart from acting, he is also a producer and owner of 24 Frames Factory and Think smart. He has produced many movies and Telugu serials. He is also director of Shree Vidyaniketan Educational Trust which was founded by his father. He married Viranica and has 2 twin daughters Ariaana and Viviaana. His siblings Manchu Manoj and Manchu Lakshmi are also Tollywood actors.

The Manchu Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)

The business management graduate Siddharth has done movies in Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi. In Bollywood, he was seeing in movies like Rang de Basanti, Chashme Baddoor and Striker, where he played significant roles. He won the best debutant SCREEN Award for Rang de Basanti. Siddharth has 14 award nominations and a total of 4 awards (including Filmfare and ITFA) The guy made his debut in acting in a Tamil Film in 2002. Mani Ratnam was the man behind the exploration of such a great diamond. He has done a total of 28 movies till today. The talented actor has already tried his hands successfully in playback singing. Siddharth has sung in 12 films out of which, one includes a Bollywood movie, Striker, in which he sang two songs.

Dasari Narayana Rao is an Indian cinema director who has mainly worked in Telugu movies and has credit to some Bollywood movies too. He was born on 4 May 1947 in Palakol, West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India. He has done his graduation in BA and had an interest in acting and directing since then. He has performed in many drama competitions. Most of the films he has done in his career have laid emphasis on corruption, gender discrimination and injustice.

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)