Daggubati Suresh Babu

Born in South India on December 24, Daggubati Suresh Babu is a notable producer of South Indian film industry renowned mainly for producing Telugu films. Suresh Babu was the child of Rajeswari Daggubati and Dr. ‘D Ramanaidu’, Dada Saheb Phalke Award winner. He had two siblings-one brother and one sister. Suresh’s father was also a well-known producer of his time who passed away in the year 2015. Suresh’s younger brother, ‘Daggubati Venkatesh’, is also associated with the film industry and is an actor.

Suresh did his schooling from Don Bosco School located in Madras in India. He finished his PUC from Loyola College situated in Chennai in India. Suresh Babu moved to the United States to finish graduation from the University of Michigan, Detroit. He embarked his career journey with the film, “Devatha”, which released in the year 1982. But he started producing films with his own name in the year 1990 and the film was “Bobbili Raja”. Bobbili Raja was the debut movie of the actress ‘Divya Bharti’.  The film revolved around the story of Raja and Rani, who falls for each other but had to go through a lot of difficulties. The film was a major hit and had a rating of 6.8 on IMDb.

After that, Suresh went ahead to produce another Telugu movie in the year 1991, “Coolie No.1”. In this film, ‘Tabu’ was cast opposite Venkatesh. Tabu made her film debut with this movie. Most of the films produced by Suresh Babu starred his brother, Venkatesh in the lead role. Suresh Babu worked as a producer of various films including “Super Police”, “Ganesh”, “Jayam Manade Raa”, “Malliswari” and many more. “Kalisundam Raa”, one of the films to which he was a producer, was also remade in Hindi titled, “Kuch Tum Kaho Kuch Hum Kahein”.

Suresh had also produced Telugu films which are a remake of Bollywood movies including “Masala”, “Gopala Gopala”, and “Drushyam”. Drushyam was a remake of the Malayalam movie “Drishyam” which starred ‘Mohanlal’. Suresh had also worked as a presenter of movies including “Eega”, “Golconda High School”, “Uyyala Jampala” and many others. Suresh recently worked as an actor in ‘Tony D Souza’ directed movie, “Azhar”, which focused on the life of a famous cricketer, ‘Mohammad Azharuddin’.

Movies produced by him also won several accolades including Nandi Award, National Film Award, and TV9 Film Award. Suresh is the owner of the production company which was started by his father named, Suresh Productions. This production company also made a Guinness World Records for producing more than 150 films. Suresh is married to Lakshmi Daggubati, and they are the proud parents of ‘Rana Daggubati’, Mallavika Daggubati, and Abhiram Daggubati.

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Daggubati Suresh Babu is an Indian Film producer, distributor, studio owner and managing director of the Suresh Production. He was born on December 24 in Andhra Pradesh, India. His residence located in the Film Nagar, Hyderabad City in the Andhra Pradesh state. His father name is Dr. D. Ramanaidu, who is also a producer and his mother name is Rajeswari Daggubati. He has a brother named Venkatesh who is elder than him and a famous actor. The name of his wife is Lakshmi. Professionally he is a film producer in the film industry. He has three children's including two sons and a daughter. Their name is Rana Daggubati, Malavika Devi Daggubati, Abhiram Daggubati. Daggubati completed his schooling from Don Bosco School at Madras. He did his pre-university college from Loyola College and graduated at the University of Michigan, Michigan in the year of 1981.

He made his debut from the film ‘Devatha' in the year of 1982 September 14. In English, the story depicted in the movie Goddess. The K. Raghavendra Rao directed Devatha in 1982. Also produced by D. Rama Naidu. Moreover Music of this movie composed by the K. Chakravarthy. The film includes the starring Shoban Babu, Jaya Prada, Sridevi, and Mohan Babu. K. Raghavendra Rao made the Hindi movie as Tohfa in the year of 1984 with the cast of Sridevi and Jaya Prada. The storyline based on the love triangle in with the lead actor. Also, he worked as a producer in the film of Bobbili Raja. In which the cast mentioned as Venkatesh and Divya Bharati and the movie directed by the D. Gopal. As an actor, Daggubati worked in the movie Azhar, which directed by the Tony D'souza in the year 2016.

He worked in the various films as the presenter, director, and producer and most of his movies include the actor Venkatesh. For their contribution to the Tamil Cinema, he won the award of ‘Nagireddy-Chakrapani' under the Andhra Pradesh government in the year 2012. He also got the winning position in the ‘National Film Awards' for the category of ‘Best Feature Film Telugu' for the film ‘Kalisundam Raa' in the year 1999. He also played the role of President of AP Film Chamber of Commerce for the year 2011-2012. He won ‘Nandi Awards' for the movies of Ganesha, Kalisundam Raa, Neeku Nenu Naaku Nuvvu, and Malliswari. Also won TSR-TV9 National Film Award for ‘Drushyam' in the year 2015 in the category of ‘Best Film.’

Venkatesh Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)