Tollywood Megastar Chiranjeevi is going to celebrate his 61st birthday today along his family and friends. Chiru was born on 22nd August 1955, in Mogalthur, a small village near Narsapur, Andhra Pradesh. He did his schooling in Nidadavolu, Gurajala, Bapatla, Ponnuru, Mangalagiri and Mogalturu. He also participated in Republic day Parade in New Delhi as NCC Cadet in early 70s. After the completion of Degree in Commerce, he came to Mumbai and joined Madras Film Institute in 1976.
His elder brother Nagababu is a film producer and he has also acted in several movies and young brother Power Star Pawam Kalyan is also an actor in Tollywood. His brother-in-law Allu Arvind is film producer. He has two daughters Sushmita and Srija and a son, Ram Charan.
He started his career with the movie ‘Punadhirallu’ whereas his first released movie was ‘Prenam Khareedu’. He got recognition in the film industry by Bapu’s directorial venture ‘Mana Voori Pandavulu’. His popular movies are Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari, Gang Leader, Gharana Mogudu, Mutha Mestri, Hitler, Choodalani Vundi, Sneham Kosam, Indra, Aapadbandhavudu, Stalin, Shankar Dada M.B.B.S. and Shankar Dada Zindabad.
Megastar also received Padma Bhushan in the year 2006. He is the ten-time winner of Filmfare Awards South and a four time winner of Nandi Awards.
Currently he is busy in the shoot his upcoming 150th coming movie ‘Khaidi No. 150’, under the direction of VV Vinayak. It is produced by his son Ram Charan under the banner of Konidela Productions with the association of Lyca Production.
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BY M. DIVYA SRI
