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'''Ghattamaneni Mahesh Babu''' ({{lang-te|ఘట్టమనేని మహేష్ బాబు}}; born August 9, 1974 in [[Madras]], [[India]]) is an [[Cinema of India|Indian film]] [[actor]].<ref>http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1121870/</ref> He has worked in a number of critically and commercially successful films and has established himself as one of the leading actors in contemporary [[Cinema of Andhra Pradesh|Telugu cinema]].
'''Ghattamaneni Mahesh Babu''' ({{lang-te|ఘట్టమనేని మహేష్ బాబు}}; born August 9, 1974 in [[Madras]], [[India]]) is an [[Cinema of India|Indian film]] [[actor]].<ref>http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1121870/</ref> He is the son of the former [[Tollywood|Telugu]] actor, super star [[Krishna (actor)|Ghattamaneni Siva Rama Krishna]]. He has worked in a number of critically and commercially successful films and has established himself as one of the leading actors in contemporary [[Cinema of Andhra Pradesh|Telugu cinema]].


He started his film career as a child actor in his father's film ''Needa''. He made his debut as a lead actor in 1999 with the commercially successful ''[[Rajakumarudu]]'' (1999). After ''Rajakumarudu'' he came with a successful movie ''[[Yuvaraju]]'' (2000) and then went on to make blockbusters such as ''[[Murari]]'' (2001), ''[[Okkadu]]'' (2003), ''[[Athadu]]'' (2005) and ''[[Pokiri]]'' (2006). In addition to movie acting, Mahesh is the [[brand ambassador]] of [[Thumbs Up]], [[Navratna]] Hair Oil, UniverCell, [[Amrutanjan]] and [[Provogue]] in [[Andhra Pradesh]].<ref>http://www.idlebrain.com/news/functions/maheshbabu-provogue.html</ref><ref>http://www.amrutanjan.com/no_pain_day.html</ref><ref>http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/51353.html</ref>
He started his film career as a child actor in his father's film ''Needa''. He made his debut as a lead actor in 1999 with the commercially successful ''[[Rajakumarudu]]'' (1999). After ''Rajakumarudu'' he came with a successful movie ''[[Yuvaraju]]'' (2000) and then went on to make blockbusters such as ''[[Murari]]'' (2001), ''[[Okkadu]]'' (2003), ''[[Athadu]]'' (2005) and ''[[Pokiri]]'' (2006). In addition to movie acting, Mahesh is the [[brand ambassador]] of [[Thumbs Up]], [[Navratna]] Hair Oil, UniverCell, [[Amrutanjan]] and [[Provogue]] in [[Andhra Pradesh]].<ref>http://www.idlebrain.com/news/functions/maheshbabu-provogue.html</ref><ref>http://www.amrutanjan.com/no_pain_day.html</ref><ref>http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/51353.html</ref>


==Early life==
==Early life==
Mahesh Babu was born on 9 August 1974 in [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], to actor [[Krishna (actor)|Garlanka Krishna]] and Smt. Indira Devi. He has four siblings: Ramesh Babu, Padmavathi, [[Manjula Ghattamaneni]] and a younger sister Priyadarshini. He did his schooling at [[St. Bede's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School|St Bede’s School]] in Chennai(schoolmate of Kaarthi upcoming Tamil actor) and obtained an Honours Degree in Commerce from [[Loyola College, Chennai]]. Mahesh Babu acted in seven of his father's films as a child actor. His first child acting role was in the film Needa/Naada.
Mahesh Babu was born on 9 August 1974 in [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], to actor [[Krishna (actor)|Ghattamaneni Siva Rama Krishna]] and Smt. Indira Devi. He has four siblings: Ramesh Babu, Padmavathi, [[Manjula Ghattamaneni]] and a younger sister Priyadarshini. He did his schooling at [[St. Bede's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School|St Bede’s School]] in Chennai(schoolmate of Kaarthi upcoming Tamil actor) and obtained an Honours Degree in Commerce from [[Loyola College, Chennai]]. Mahesh Babu acted in seven of his father's films as a child actor. His first child acting role was in the film Needa/Naada.


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
He dated his co-star in the movie ''Vamsi'', [[Bollywood]] actress and former [[Miss India]] (Miss Universe India) [[Namrata Shirodkar]] for two years. They got married on February 10, 2005, and have a son named Gautham Krishna. He has a twitter account, of which he opened up on April 16, 2010 and likes to spend most of his free time on Twitter.
He dated his co-star in the movie ''Vamsi'', [[Bollywood]] actress and former [[Miss India]] (Miss Universe India) [[Namrata Shirodkar]] for two years. They got married on February 10, 2005,<ref>http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/hindi/interview/6267.html</ref> and have a son named Gautham Krishna.<ref>http://www.sify.com/movies/mahesh-babu-is-a-daddy-news-telugu-kkfvirieahd.html</ref> He has a twitter account, of which he opened up on April 16, 2010 and likes to spend most of his free time on Twitter.


==Career==
===1999-2004===
He began his career as a child artist. He made his feature film debut in 1999 in [[Raja Kumarudu]], opposite [[Preity Zinta]], directed by [[K. Raghavendra Rao]]. The film opened well at the box office and is commercially successful whilst earning Mahesh the [[Nandi Award]] for Best Male Debut.<ref>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285940/</ref><ref>http://www.cinegoer.com/rajakumarudu.htm</ref> In 2000, he appeared in [[Yuvaraju]] directed by [[Y.V.S Chowdary]], and in [[Vamsi (film)|Vamsi]]. Both movies declared as average at the box office.<ref>http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-vamsi.html</ref> In the year 2001, he starred with [[Sonali Bendre]] in [[Krishna Vamsi]]'s [[Murari]] emerged a critical as well as huge commercial success.<ref>http://www.cinegoer.com/maheshbabu175.htm</ref> His performance as ''murari'' was widely praised by critics and earned him the [[Nandi Special Jury Award]]. He played a cow boy role in his next movie [[Takkari Donga]] opened to positive reviews.<ref>http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-takkaridonga.html</ref> Although the film did not do so well at the box-office, Mahesh performance earned him with the [[Nandi Special Jury Award]]. Later that year, he starred with [[Arthi Agarwal]] in [[Bobby]] directed by [[Sobhan]] commercially unsuccessful at the box-office.

His next film [[Okkadu]] (2003) opposite [[Bhoomika Chawla]], produced by [[M.S. Raju]] and directed by [[Gunasekhar]] was critically acclaimed and a biggest box-office success of that year whilst earning his first [[Filmfare Best Actor Award (Telugu)]].<ref>http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-okkadu.html</ref><ref>http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2003/07/24/stories/2003072400060202.htm</ref><ref>http://www.cinegoer.com/maheshbabu175.htm</ref> The film collected a share of {{INR}} 7 crores in its opening week in Andhra Pradesh.<ref>http://www.idlebrain.com/trade/records/okkadurecords.html</ref> In the same year, he appeared in [[Teja (film director)|Teja]]'s film [[Nijam]] was critically acclaimed and earned him [[Nandi Award for Best Actor]].<ref>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368896/</ref> In 2004 release, he paired up with [[Amisha Patel]] in [[Naani]] (film is about a teenage boy who is aged to adulthood by a scientist), is a remake of [[tamil]] film (New) directed by [[S. J. Suryaah]] performed poorly at the box office. Later that year, he again appeared in [[Gunasekhar]] movie [[Arjun]] opposite [[Shriya Saran]] did well at the box office and earned him another Nandi Special Jury Award.
===2005-Present===
His 2005 film with [[Trisha Krishnan]], titled [[Athadu]] directed by [[Trivikram Srinivas]] was declared sensational hit in india as well as in [[USA]] and became one of the highest grossers of the year in tollywood.<ref>http://www.cinegoer.com/archives/january2006.htm#newsitem6</ref> He received his second best actor [[Nandi Award]].
He next appeared opposite [[Ileana D'Cruz]] in the action flick [[Pokiri]] (2006) directed and produced by [[Puri Jagannadh]] is a critically acclaimed and all time Block Buster. The film was a huge financial success, emerging the highest grossing Telugu film of all time in the year 2006 with {{INR}} 66.5 Crores. The film completed 100 days in as many as 200 centres in the [[andhra pradesh]] and neighbouring States, including 17 centers in [[Hyderabad]] alone and silver jubilee in a record 63 centres<ref>http://www.cinegoer.com/pokirirecords.htm</ref><ref>http://www.telugufilms.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page</ref><ref>http://www.hindu.com/2007/05/02/stories/2007050219160200.htm</ref> In the same year, he again starred with [[Trisha Krishnan|Trisha]] in [[gunasekhar]] film [[Sainikudu]], opened well in india, ending up as an average grosser<ref>http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/review/8191.html</ref>
In October 2007, he appeared with [[Amrita Rao]] in [[Surender Reddy]]'s [[Athidhi]] was a commercial Hit.<ref>http://entertainment.oneindia.in/telugu/top-stories/mahesh-babu-athidi-hit-251007.html</ref> The film opened with a gross collection of Indian Rupee {{INR}} 12.5 crores in the first week of its release.<ref>http://www.andhravilas.com/movienews.asp?id=42059</ref> He next signed with [[Trivikram Srinivas]] again for movie [[Khaleja]]. Mahesh Babu had planned to take a gap of six months before the release of his next film after Athidhi. But, due to unexpected circumstances, the film was postponed several times and the film took two years to be completed. The movie was ultimately released on 7 October 2010.<ref>http://www.hindu.com/2010/09/28/stories/2010092856070200.htm</ref> Despite its mixed reviews, the film collected over {{INR}} 30 crores in the first two weeks.<ref>http://telugu.16reels.com/news/Movie/1811_Mahesh-Khaleja-Grosses-Over-30-crores-in-Two-Weeks.aspx</ref> and ended up as an average.<ref>http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-khaleja.html</ref><ref>http://www.greatandhra.com/viewnews.php?id=24090&cat=1&scat=12</ref><ref>http://www.supergoodmovies.com/9204/tollywood/Telugu-Cinema-Mahesh-Kaleja-Collections-2-days-News-Details</ref>
==Filmography==
==Filmography==
===Films (child artist)===
===Films (child artist)===
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==See also==
==See also==
*[[Pokiri (2006 film)]]
*[[List of Indian film actors]]
*[[Cinema of Andhra Pradesh]]
*[[Okkadu]]
*[[Namrata Shirodkar]]
*[[Namrata Shirodkar]]
*[[Krishna (actor)]]
*[[Krishna (actor)]]

Revision as of 00:30, 20 December 2010

Mahesh Babu
File:Mahesh4.jpg
Born
Ghattamaneni Mahesh Babu

Madras, Tamil Nadu, India
Other namesPrince, superstar
OccupationActor
Years active1999 - present
Height6'2
SpouseNamrata Shirodkar

Ghattamaneni Mahesh Babu (Telugu: ఘట్టమనేని మహేష్ బాబు; born August 9, 1974 in Madras, India) is an Indian film actor.[1] He is the son of the former Telugu actor, super star Ghattamaneni Siva Rama Krishna. He has worked in a number of critically and commercially successful films and has established himself as one of the leading actors in contemporary Telugu cinema.

He started his film career as a child actor in his father's film Needa. He made his debut as a lead actor in 1999 with the commercially successful Rajakumarudu (1999). After Rajakumarudu he came with a successful movie Yuvaraju (2000) and then went on to make blockbusters such as Murari (2001), Okkadu (2003), Athadu (2005) and Pokiri (2006). In addition to movie acting, Mahesh is the brand ambassador of Thumbs Up, Navratna Hair Oil, UniverCell, Amrutanjan and Provogue in Andhra Pradesh.[2][3][4]

Early life

Mahesh Babu was born on 9 August 1974 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, to actor Ghattamaneni Siva Rama Krishna and Smt. Indira Devi. He has four siblings: Ramesh Babu, Padmavathi, Manjula Ghattamaneni and a younger sister Priyadarshini. He did his schooling at St Bede’s School in Chennai(schoolmate of Kaarthi upcoming Tamil actor) and obtained an Honours Degree in Commerce from Loyola College, Chennai. Mahesh Babu acted in seven of his father's films as a child actor. His first child acting role was in the film Needa/Naada.

Personal life

He dated his co-star in the movie Vamsi, Bollywood actress and former Miss India (Miss Universe India) Namrata Shirodkar for two years. They got married on February 10, 2005,[5] and have a son named Gautham Krishna.[6] He has a twitter account, of which he opened up on April 16, 2010 and likes to spend most of his free time on Twitter.

Career

1999-2004

He began his career as a child artist. He made his feature film debut in 1999 in Raja Kumarudu, opposite Preity Zinta, directed by K. Raghavendra Rao. The film opened well at the box office and is commercially successful whilst earning Mahesh the Nandi Award for Best Male Debut.[7][8] In 2000, he appeared in Yuvaraju directed by Y.V.S Chowdary, and in Vamsi. Both movies declared as average at the box office.[9] In the year 2001, he starred with Sonali Bendre in Krishna Vamsi's Murari emerged a critical as well as huge commercial success.[10] His performance as murari was widely praised by critics and earned him the Nandi Special Jury Award. He played a cow boy role in his next movie Takkari Donga opened to positive reviews.[11] Although the film did not do so well at the box-office, Mahesh performance earned him with the Nandi Special Jury Award. Later that year, he starred with Arthi Agarwal in Bobby directed by Sobhan commercially unsuccessful at the box-office.

His next film Okkadu (2003) opposite Bhoomika Chawla, produced by M.S. Raju and directed by Gunasekhar was critically acclaimed and a biggest box-office success of that year whilst earning his first Filmfare Best Actor Award (Telugu).[12][13][14] The film collected a share of ₹ 7 crores in its opening week in Andhra Pradesh.[15] In the same year, he appeared in Teja's film Nijam was critically acclaimed and earned him Nandi Award for Best Actor.[16] In 2004 release, he paired up with Amisha Patel in Naani (film is about a teenage boy who is aged to adulthood by a scientist), is a remake of tamil film (New) directed by S. J. Suryaah performed poorly at the box office. Later that year, he again appeared in Gunasekhar movie Arjun opposite Shriya Saran did well at the box office and earned him another Nandi Special Jury Award.

2005-Present

His 2005 film with Trisha Krishnan, titled Athadu directed by Trivikram Srinivas was declared sensational hit in india as well as in USA and became one of the highest grossers of the year in tollywood.[17] He received his second best actor Nandi Award. He next appeared opposite Ileana D'Cruz in the action flick Pokiri (2006) directed and produced by Puri Jagannadh is a critically acclaimed and all time Block Buster. The film was a huge financial success, emerging the highest grossing Telugu film of all time in the year 2006 with ₹ 66.5 Crores. The film completed 100 days in as many as 200 centres in the andhra pradesh and neighbouring States, including 17 centers in Hyderabad alone and silver jubilee in a record 63 centres[18][19][20] In the same year, he again starred with Trisha in gunasekhar film Sainikudu, opened well in india, ending up as an average grosser[21]

In October 2007, he appeared with Amrita Rao in Surender Reddy's Athidhi was a commercial Hit.[22] The film opened with a gross collection of Indian Rupee ₹ 12.5 crores in the first week of its release.[23] He next signed with Trivikram Srinivas again for movie Khaleja. Mahesh Babu had planned to take a gap of six months before the release of his next film after Athidhi. But, due to unexpected circumstances, the film was postponed several times and the film took two years to be completed. The movie was ultimately released on 7 October 2010.[24] Despite its mixed reviews, the film collected over ₹ 30 crores in the first two weeks.[25] and ended up as an average.[26][27][28]

Filmography

Films (child artist)

  • Needa (1979) produced by Dr.K.Rama Koteswara Rao
  • Poratam (1983)
  • Sankharavam (1987)
  • Bazaar Rowdy (1988)
  • Mugguru Kodukulu (1988)
  • Gudhachari 117 (1989)
  • Koduku Diddina Kapuram (1989)
  • sharukh(?)
  • Bala Chandrudu (1991)

Films

Year Title Role(s) Notes
1999 Raja Kumarudu Raja Winner, Nandi Award for Best Male Debut
2000 Yuvaraju Srinivas
Vamsi Vamsi
2001 Murari Murari Winner, Nandi Special Jury Award
Nominated, Filmfare Best Actor Award (Telugu)
2002 Takkari Donga Raju2 Winner, Nandi Special Jury Award
Bobby Bobby
2003 Okkadu Ajay Varma Winner, Filmfare Best Actor Award (Telugu)
Winner, Santosham Best Young Performers Award
Nijam Seetaram Winner, Nandi Award for Best Actor
2004 Naani Naani
Arjun Arjun Winner, Nandi Special Jury Award
2005 Athadu Nanda Gopal Winner, Nandi Award for Best Actor
2006 Pokiri Pandu (Krishna Manohar) Winner, Filmfare Best Actor Award (Telugu)
Winner, Santosham Best Actor Award Telugu
Sainikudu Siddhartha
2007 Athidhi Athidhi Nominated, Filmfare Best Actor Award (Telugu)
Nominated, Santosham Best Actor Award
Nominated, CineMAA Award for Best Actor – Male
2010 Khaleja Seetharama Raju
2011 Dookudu Filming
Veta Pre-production

References

  1. ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1121870/
  2. ^ http://www.idlebrain.com/news/functions/maheshbabu-provogue.html
  3. ^ http://www.amrutanjan.com/no_pain_day.html
  4. ^ http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/51353.html
  5. ^ http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/hindi/interview/6267.html
  6. ^ http://www.sify.com/movies/mahesh-babu-is-a-daddy-news-telugu-kkfvirieahd.html
  7. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285940/
  8. ^ http://www.cinegoer.com/rajakumarudu.htm
  9. ^ http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-vamsi.html
  10. ^ http://www.cinegoer.com/maheshbabu175.htm
  11. ^ http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-takkaridonga.html
  12. ^ http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-okkadu.html
  13. ^ http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2003/07/24/stories/2003072400060202.htm
  14. ^ http://www.cinegoer.com/maheshbabu175.htm
  15. ^ http://www.idlebrain.com/trade/records/okkadurecords.html
  16. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368896/
  17. ^ http://www.cinegoer.com/archives/january2006.htm#newsitem6
  18. ^ http://www.cinegoer.com/pokirirecords.htm
  19. ^ http://www.telugufilms.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
  20. ^ http://www.hindu.com/2007/05/02/stories/2007050219160200.htm
  21. ^ http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/review/8191.html
  22. ^ http://entertainment.oneindia.in/telugu/top-stories/mahesh-babu-athidi-hit-251007.html
  23. ^ http://www.andhravilas.com/movienews.asp?id=42059
  24. ^ http://www.hindu.com/2010/09/28/stories/2010092856070200.htm
  25. ^ http://telugu.16reels.com/news/Movie/1811_Mahesh-Khaleja-Grosses-Over-30-crores-in-Two-Weeks.aspx
  26. ^ http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-khaleja.html
  27. ^ http://www.greatandhra.com/viewnews.php?id=24090&cat=1&scat=12
  28. ^ http://www.supergoodmovies.com/9204/tollywood/Telugu-Cinema-Mahesh-Kaleja-Collections-2-days-News-Details

See also

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