Chiranjeevi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Chiranjeevi

Indian actor and politician

Date of Birth: 22-Aug-1955

Place of Birth: Mogalthur, Andhra Pradesh, India

Profession: actor, politician, film producer, film actor

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Chiranjeevi

  • Konidela Siva Sankara Vara Prasad (born 22 August 1955), better known by his stage name Chiranjeevi, is an Indian film actor and politician.
  • He was the Minister of State with independent charge for the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India from 27 October 2012 to 15 May 2014.
  • Prior to politics, Chiranjeevi had attended the Madras Film Institute and had worked primarily in Telugu cinema in addition to Tamil, Kannada, and Hindi films.
  • He made his acting debut in 1978 with Anil Varanasi Punadhirallu.
  • However, Pranam Khareedu was released earlier at the box office.
  • Known for his breakdancing skills and his unique acting technique, Chiranjeevi starred in over 150 feature films.
  • In 1987, he starred in Swayam Krushi which was dubbed into Russian and was screened at the Moscow International Film Festival.
  • Chiranjeevi won the 1988 Cinema Express Best Actor Award and the state Nandi Award for Best Actor awards for his performance in the film.
  • In the same year, Chiranjeevi was one of the Indian delegates at the 59th Academy Awards.
  • In 1988, he co-produced Rudraveena which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration.
  • He is one of the co-owners of the Indian Super League club Kerala Blasters FC. Chiranjeevi's 1992 film Gharana Mogudu, directed by K.
  • Raghavendra Rao, is the first Telugu film to gross over ?10 crore at the box office.
  • The film was screened at the 1993 International Film Festival of India in the mainstream section.
  • It made Chiranjeevi the highest-paid actor in India at the time catapulting him to the cover pages of national weekly magazines in India.
  • The entertainment magazines Filmfare and India Today named him "Bigger than Bachchan", a reference to Bollywood's Amitabh Bachchan.
  • News magazine The Week hailed him as "the new money machine".
  • He was paid a remuneration of ?1.25 crore for the 1992 film Aapadbandhavudu.
  • In 2002, Chiranjeevi was given the Samman Award for the Highest Income Tax Payer for the 1999–2000 assessment year by the Minister of State for Finance.
  • A poll conducted by CNN-IBN in 2006 named Chiranjeevi the most popular star of the Telugu film industry.In a film career spanning thirty-nine years, he won four state Nandi Awards, including the Raghupathi Venkaiah Award, and ten Filmfare Awards South including the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award – South.
  • In 2006, Chiranjeevi was honored with the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian award, for his contributions to Indian cinema and was presented with an honorary doctorate from Andhra University.
  • In 2013, he inaugurated the Incredible India Exhibition, a joint participation of the Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting at the 66th Cannes Film Festival.
  • Chiranjeevi represented Incredible India at the 14th International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony held in Macau.
  • In 2013, IBN LIVE named him as one of "the men who changed the face of the Indian Cinema".
  • Chiranjeevi's 150th film was announced in May 2015.

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