Venkatesh’s Career started with “Kaliyuga Pandavullu”. Making improvements from movie to movie with unique stories, he is shining with super hit movies, he also received a State Nandi Award as best actor for his excellent performance in the movie “Aada vari maatalaku Ardhale verule”.

Far away from the happiness, by wins and loses or through awards and realizing, daily through his contemplation that real and permanent happiness is within oneself, Venkatesh stopped responding towards material things long time ago, but he is never negligent in discharging his responsibilities as a human being.

What are the details of your new cinema?
We are making the movie. We will let you know complete details soon.

If the combined remuneration of hero’s, heroine’s and director’s is exceeding the cinema business amount do you think multistarer will come?
If hero’s and director’s can come to an understanding either after completing the cinema business or after movie release and share percentage profits then multistarer will come otherwise in Telugu it is very difficult for multistarer’s to come.

What is your take on budgets of big heroes?
I can’t comment about other big heroes. As far as I am concerned I make sure that the producers book profits before the release in 99% of the time. There could be one or two projects that are exceptions. I came from the family of a producer and I make sure that producer is happy all the time.

What are your interests other than movies?
Spirituality. I now know that happiness & bliss is not outside but within me. I enjoy myself by seeing at my happiness, experiencing and feeling it. That does not mean that I forget my responsibilities. I fulfill my responsibilities as a son, as a father, as a husband and as an actor even as I continue my spiritual journey.

Since you are in Spiritual path will you act in any spiritual movies in future?
Definitely I will act. I am thinking of playing as Vivekananda. I will do if the script is satisfactory. We need good script.

What is a good cinema in your opinion?
Good and bad are relative and change according to time, trend and situations. What is good script 5 years ago may not be that good now. In this season what stood as the best cinema, might become normal cinema after 4 years. Every now and then even if a good script comes we may think otherwise. In one mood we might think a normal subject is good one. Just imagine what happens when a person sees different angles as an actor, critic, audience and producer and judges it. It is luck that sometimes in this state of confusion too we manage to get hit pictures.

What is the one thing that makes you happy?
In the early age of my life, knowing that God is not outside but he is within me and in every one, makes me very happy.

If God asks you to desire a boon then what would it be?
When god already gave everything then what is there to ask. We all came from him and we’ll all go back to him. There is nothing for us to desire.

You are a follower of Ramana Maharshi. What can you say about him?
Not only him, I follow every one, Jesus, Allah, Sai Baba, Buddha… all of them have been recognized by public as, gods are they and they are gods. We must feel that we are gods. We must not gain knowledge and remain intellectuals. We must merge in it.

Do you do Yoga and Meditate?
Meditation is part of life. Always when you do something you do like meditation by involving yourself in it fully. There is no need to worry about the outside world. If you are happy then you will make others happy too. That is my policy.

Lets talk about movies again. What do you say about awards?
In the early stage of your career awards give you encouragement. Now at this stage I am not seeking anything. If I get it I take it. Rehman expected Oscar during “Lagan” time. He did not get it. But now, he did not expect it but he got 2 Oscars. We won’t get it as we are looking for it. That does not mean that if we are not looking for it we will never get it. We must work hard and be sincerely do our work.

Spiritually you have traveled so far but what about your family members?
They are also in that path.

When did this spiritual awakening begin?
During “Preminchukundam ra” cinema success I traveled all over AP. In that tour the questions “who am I” started.