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Nagarjuna Personal Profile
Original Name: Akkineni Nagarjuna
Film Name: Nagarjuna
Nick Name: Yuvasamrat
Date of Birth: Aug 29, 1959
Birth place: Chennai, Tamilnadu,India
Height: 6’0″
Zodiac sign: Aries
First Film: Vikram, 1986
Occupation: Actor, Producer, Businessman
Education: Schooling(Little flower school, Hyd) B.E(Mechanical), Guindy Engg.College,Madras. MS, University of Michigan,USA.
Father: Nageswara Rao Akkineni
Mother: Annapurna Akkineni
Brother: Akkineni Venkat
Sister: Satyavathi
Spouse: Lakshmi Daggubati (1984–1990 divorced), Amala (1992–present)
Childrens: Naga Chaitanya Akkineni(Mother Lakshmi), Akhil Akkineni (mother Amala)
Debut Film: Sudigundalu
Favorite color: White
Favorite actress: Tabu
Fav. music Director: Keeravani
Favorite place to eat: Gokhul chat
Favorite book: Outliers
Mater tongue: Telugu
Religion: Hindu
Nationality: Indian
Nagarjuna Biography
Akkineni Nagarjuna (born August 29, 1959 in Chennai, India) is a popular Telugu Cinema actor and producer. He is the son of veteran actor, Akkineni Nageswara Rao, who was a popular actor in the 60's and 70's. He's one of the greatest actors in Tollywood.
Nagarjuna was born to Telugu cinema star Akkineni Nageswara Rao and Annapurna Akkineni. Nagarjuna did his schooling at Hyderabad Public School and later went to Little Flower Junior College to do his intermediate. After that, he went on to do mechanical engineering in Osmania University. He attended the University of Michigan where he got a masters degree in Automobile engineering. His first marriage was to Lakshmi, sister of actor Venkatesh, on February 18, 1984. That marriage ended in a divorce. Nagarjuna is married to Amala a former South Indian actress. He has two sons: Naga Chaitanya (born November 23, 1986) - from his first marriage and Akhil (born April 8, 1994) - from his second marriage.
Nagarjuna Filmography
His first movie Vikram released on May 23, 1986 was a remake of the Hindi film Hero. After acting in four films, he acted in Majnu as a tragedy hero; similar roles were known to be his father's forte. He acted with his father in the movie Collectorgari Abbayi. His first big hit was Akhari Poraatam co-starring Sridevi that ran for 100 days in 12 centers. Geethanjali a love story directed by Maniratnam followed by Shiva an action film directed by Ram Gopal Varma were highly successful and established him as one of the top heroes. He was known for encouraging new directors such as Ram Gopal Varma by giving them a chance to make movies with him. He later married Amala, his co-star in Shiva He also made his Bollywood debut with the hindi remake of Shiva. Movies such as President gari pellam and Hello Brother gave him the status of a mass hero. After that, Ninne Pelladutha directed by Krishna Vamsi followed and was a huge hit. Later, he took up the challenge of portraying Annamacharya, the legendary singer/poet of Medieval times in the movie Annamayya It ran for 100 days in 42 centers and is one of the biggest hits in Telugu cinema.
In 2006, Nagarjuna's latest movie is Sri Ramadasu, a period film based on the life of great saint-composer Ramadasu, and directed by K. Raghavendra Rao. Nagarjuna plays the title role, and his performance was praised by critics as subtle and yet powerful and true to the saint himself.
He revived his father’s production Annapurna Studios and has become one of the most successful production companies of recent times in Tollywood. Nagarjuna never works after 6pm. If there is night shoot, he has to be informed 4 days earlier
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