Pawan Kalyan
Pawan Kalyan | |
|---|---|
| Born | Konidela Kalyan |
| Other names | Power Star |
| Height | 6'1' |
| Spouse(s) | Nandini (divorced)[1] Renu Desai [2] |
| Children | Akira Nandan |
Pawan Kalyan (born as Konidela Kalyan) is a popular Telugu cinema actor and a film director. Fondly known as Power Star by his fans, Pawan Kalyan's notable movies include Tholi Prema (1998), Thammudu (1999), Badri (2000), Khushi (2001) and Jalsa (2008). He is the younger brother of popular Telugu actor - Chiranjeevi and actor/producer Nagendra Babu.
Career
Acting career
Pawan Kalyan was born in Chirala, Andhra Pradesh, India to Sri Venkat Rao and Smt Anjana Devi. Pawan Kalyan entered Telugu movie industry with "Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbayi" as Kalyan Babu. Though this film did not do well at the box office, Pawan Kalyan was noticed for his expertise in Martial Arts.
For showing his martial arts talent in movie Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbayi Andhra Pradesh's Ex-Chief minister Nara Chandra Babu Naidu entitled him the name 'Pawan' by which he became popular in the Telugu film industry. Pawan's second movie Gokulamlo Sita failed at box-office but his next movie Suswagatham was fared well. He tasted his first success with Tholi Prema (1998), which set standards in the industry and became a paradigm for youth oriented films. The movie marked a milestone Pawan's career and he was recognised by the audiences. His next two flicks Thammudu and Badri were a blockbusters. Kushi (2001), broke box office records as it went on to gross 20 crores.
Pawan made his directional debut with Johnny, for which he travelled to Japan to get trained in martial art Akido. Renu Desai and himself cast as lead actors, the film was a disaster at the boxoffice. Gudumba Shankar (2001), for which Pawan contributed screenplay and other artistic skills was seen as a good family entertainer despite not living upto the box office expectations. Balu (2005) by Vyjayanthi Films didn't fare well either. His next movie Bangaram failed too. Annavaram (2006) fared better than his previous two.
Jalsa (2008), is the most widely released south Indian picture ever (approximately 1000 theatres worldwide). Jalsa also completed 50 days in 282 centres and celebrated 100 days in 25 centers . [3]
Politics
Pawan Kalyan is involved in the State politics of Andhra Pradesh. He is campaigning for the Praja Rajayam Party which is lead by his own brother Chiranjeevi. He is also the youth president for that Party.
Social Work
Pawan has started an organization called Common Man Protection Force(CMPF) in October 2007. He has contributed 1 crore INR towards the corpus fund, CMPF aims to solve the social problems, help the neglected sections of the society, in India. He makes sure that all this films have a message for the viewers, making them aware of the problems in the society and quest towards the solutions. He is a person who always questions his motives constantly.But till now no news or no service heard about the CMPF
Personal life
Pawan Kalyan was first married to Nandini, whom he divorced on 13th August 2008 [4]. On 28th January 2009 married Renu Desai. Renu was the female lead in the films Badri, Johnny. The couple have a son named Akira Nandan before their marriage, and named after his favourite director Akira Kurosawa.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1996 | Akkada Abbai Ikkada Ammayi | Kalyan Kumar | |
| 1997 | Gokulamlo Seetha | Pavan | |
| 1998 | Suswagatham | Ganesh | |
| Tholi Prema | Balu | ||
| 1999 | Thammudu | Subhash | |
| 2000 | Badri | Badrinath | |
| 2001 | Khushi | Sidhartha Roy | |
| 2003 | Johnny | Johnny | |
| 2004 | Gudumba Shankar | Shankar / Kalyanji | |
| Shankardada MBBS | Gudumba Shankar | Cameo appearance | |
| 2005 | Balu ABCDEFG | Balu / Ghanni | |
| 2006 | Bangaram | Bangaram | |
| Annavaram | Annavaram | ||
| 2007 | Shankardada Zindabad | Suresh | Cameo appearance |
| 2008 | Jalsa | Sanjay Sahu | |
| 2009 | Puli | Filming |
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