He was an NCC cadet and had participated in the Republic Day Parade in New Delhi in the early '70s. He spent his childhood in his native village with his grandparents.Ĭhiranjeevi did his schooling in Nidadavolu, Gurazala, Bapatla, Ponnur, Mangalagiri and Mogalthur. His father worked as a constable and was transferred on a regular basis.
3.2 1982–1986: Breakthrough with leading rolesĬhiranjeevi was born as Konidela Siva Sankara Vara Prasad on 22 August 1955 in Mogalthur, a village in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India. In 2013, IBN LIVE named him as one of "the men who changed the face of the Indian Cinema". Chiranjeevi represented Incredible India at the 14th International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony held in Macau. 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 was appointed as the Minister of State with independent charge for the Ministry of Tourism on 27 October 2012 and served until. The party won 18 out of 294 seats and was later merged into the Indian National Congress in 2011. In 2008, Chiranjeevi founded the Praja Rajyam Party and contested in the 2009 Andhra Pradesh election. A poll conducted by CNN-IBN in 2006 named Chiranjeevi the most popular star of the Telugu film industry. In 2002, Chiranjeevi was given the Samman Award for being the highest Income Tax payer for the 1999–2000 assessment year by the Minister of State for Finance. He was paid ₹1.25 crore (equivalent to ₹8.2 crore or US$1.1 million in 2020), the highest fee for any Indian actor, for the 1992 film Aapadbandhavudu. News magazine The Week hailed him as "the new money machine". The entertainment magazines Filmfare and India Today named him "Bigger than Bachchan", a reference to Bollywood's Amitabh Bachchan. 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 film was screened at the 1993 International Film Festival of India in the mainstream section. Raghavendra Rao, is the first south Indian film to collect over ₹10 crore (equivalent to ₹65 crore or US$8.7 million in 2020) at the box office. Ĭhiranjeevi's 1992 film Gharana Mogudu, directed by K. In 1988, he co-produced Rudraveena which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration. Chiranjeevi won the 1988 Indian Express Best Actor Award and the state Nandi Award for Best Actor awards for his performance in the film. In 1987, he starred in Swayamkrushi which was dubbed into Russian and was screened at the Moscow International Film Festival. He is the first Indian actor to start a personal website on internet. However, Pranam Khareedu was released earlier at the box office. Ĭhiranjeevi began his acting career in 1978 with Punadhirallu. He served as the Minister of Tourism for the Government of India from 20. In 2006, he was honoured 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 a film career spanning over four decades, he won three Andhra Pradesh State Nandi Awards, a Raghupathi Venkaiah Award, and nine Filmfare Awards South. Chiranjeevi starred in over 150 feature films in Telugu, as well as some films in Hindi, Tamil and Kannada. Chiranjeevi (born Konidela Siva Sankara Vara Prasad 22 August 1955) is an Indian actor and former politician, who predominantly works in Telugu cinema.
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