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Venu Thottempudi
Venu Thottempudi (born 4 June 1976) is an Indian actor who primarily works in Telugu cinema. He has appeared in several successful Telugu films as a lead actor. Career After finishing his engineering from Dharwad Engineering College, Venu started pursuing acting as his career. For his first acting job, he was cast as the main lead in a movie directed by Bharathiraja. After a brief period of shooting, the movie was stalled and later cancelled due to production problems. To promote Venu, his friend Venkata Shyamprasad formed S. P. Entertainments. Under this banner, in 1999 Venu started his career with the movie ''Swayamvaram'', directed by K. Vijaya Bhaskar. Co-starring Laya, the movie was very successful at the box-office and Venu won a Nandi Special Jury Award for the movie. Venu became well known for his dialogue delivery, timing, expressions and clear portrayal of emotions. In 2000, Venu won at the boxoffice once again with ''Chiru Navvutho''. G. Ramprasad, who earlier work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kakinada
Kakinada (List of renamed places in India, formerly called Kakinandiwada, Coringa, and Cocanada; ) is the List of cities in Andhra Pradesh by population, sixth largest city of the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and serves as the district headquarters of the Kakinada District. It lies on the coast of the Bay of Bengal. J.N.T.U. College of Engineering Kakinada, established in 1946, is the oldest and popular Government college in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The First Polytechnic college of Andhra Pradesh, Andhra Polytechnic was established here in 1946. It was also the origin point of Buckingham Canal where goods used to be transported by boats during the British rule. It was once home for Asia's largest Port, sea port (now near the village Coringa, East Godavari district, Coringa). Many people from the city migrated from this Port, sea port to countries like Myanmar, Burma, Mauritius, Fiji and various southeast Asian countries to work there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahumati
''Bahumati'' is a 2007 Indian Telugu-language romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by S. V. Krishna Reddy under R.R Movie Makers. The film stars Venu Thottempudi, Sangeetha, Shabana Khan and Ali. Plot Venkataramana is an honest police officer who refuses to accept bribes and always stands by his word. He is an orphan and dreams of helping the other orphans. His friend plays a cop who misses no opportunity to make money fining pedestrians for not wearing a helmet. Venkataramana's wife Bhanumathi is a middle-class girl who dreams of riches and a costly lifestyle. The honest cop cannot fulfill her demands and suffers constant harassment from his wife who denies him conjugal bliss. The hero buys a lottery ticket for his wife. However, when he eats at a restaurant, he is unable to pay the bill. Thus he promises to share half the prize money from his lottery with Dharani (Shabhana Khan), who is a waitress at the hotel. Venkataramana wins 100 million in the lottery and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramachari
''Ramachari – Eedo Pedda Goodachari'' is a 2013 Indian Telugu-language comedy film directed by Eshwar. A remake of '' C.I.D. Moosa'', the film stars Venu Thottempudi and Kamalinee Mukherjee. The film was released on 17 May 2013. After the failure of this film, Venu Thottempudi took a break from acting. Cast *Venu Thottempudi as Ramachari *Kamalinee Mukherjee as Geetha *Ali as Ganguly *Brahmanandam as Chinta * Chandramohan as Kotachari *L. B. Sriram as Tatachari *M. Balayya as Harischandra Prasad *Murali Sharma as Chadda *Suthi Velu as Ganapathi Production This is the second collaboration between Venu Thottempudi and Kamalinee Mukherjee after '' Gopi Gopika Godavari'' (2009). A song was shot at Ramoji Film City. The film was ready for release in 2011. Reception A critic from ''The Times of India'' wrote that "In the garb of comedy, you will realise there is so much of silly stuff, that towards the end you won’t mind it – so long as the packaged comedy is funny enoug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charmy Kaur
Charmy Kaur, also spelt as Charmme or Charmi (born 17 May 1987), is an Indian film producer and former actress. She is well known for her works predominantly in Telugu cinema, as well as few Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Hindi films. Her most notable works include films such as ''Mass'' (2004), ''Anukokunda Oka Roju'' (2005), ''Lakshmi'' (2006), '' Pournami'' (2006), and '' Rakhi'' (2006), where she played supporting roles in all these movies except ''Anukokunda Oka Roju'' (2005). She then appeared in films such as ''Mantra'' (2007), for which she won the state Nandi Award for Best Actress, the subsequent years, she appeared in '' Manorama'' (2009), ''Kavya's Diary'' (2009) and ''Mangala'' (2011) for which she garnered another state Nandi Special Jury Award. Later she also appeared in the Hindi film '' Bbuddah... Hoga Terra Baap'' alongside Amitabh Bachchan. Career Charmy Kaur made her acting debut in the 2002 Telugu film ''Nee Thodu Kavali'', in which she acted as a housew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayagadu
''Mayagadu'' is a 2011 Indian Telugu-language family drama film directed by Dilip Polan and starring Venu Thottempudi, Charmy Kaur and Satya Krishnan. The film released after much delay. Cast *Venu Thottempudi as Leela Krishna * Charmy Kaur as Vandana *Satya Krishnan as Spandana *Sayaji Shinde as Chidambaram *Ravi Babu as Ravi *Ali as Vishwanath Production This film marks the return of Venu Thottempudi to the silver screen after a gap of two years. The film reached its post-production stage in mid-2008. The film was delayed and resurfaced in media in late 2010. Reception A critic from ''The Hindu'' wrote that the film was "As boring as sitting through a tax seminar". A critic from ''Filmibeat Oneindia.com is an Indian website established in January 2006 by BG Mahesh. The website provides news updates, information on sports, events, travel, entertainment, business, lifestyle, videos, and classifieds in seven different Indian language ...'' wrote that "But for the ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamalinee Mukherjee
Kamalinee Mukherjee is an Indian actress. She has predominantly appeared in Telugu films as well as Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Bengali and Kannada language films. After graduating with a degree in English literature, she completed a workshop on theatre in Mumbai. She made her acting debut in '' Phir Milenge'' (2004), a film that was based on the subject of AIDS. She then appeared in the Telugu film '' Anand'' also in 2004. Early life Kamalinee was born and brought up in Kolkata, India. Her father is a marine engineer and her mother is a jewellery designer. She is the eldest of the three siblings in the family. Owing to her "love for being on the stage" since childhood, she acted in all sorts of amateur and professional stageplays while in school and college. Incidentally, she always portrayed masculine characters in these plays. Besides theatre, she developed a love for reading, painting and writing. She also underwent several years of training in the Indian classical dance form, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vamsy
Vamsy is an Indian film director, screenwriter and music director known for his works in Telugu cinema. In 1985, he received the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu, National Film Award for ''Sitaara''. Vamsy has his own style of making the movie with art like the director Bapu (director), Bapu. Early life Vamsy was born in Balabhadrapuram,and brought up in the village of Pasalapudi, near Ramachandrapuram, Konaseema district, Ramachandrapuram of East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh. Career Vamsy started writing stories at the age of 15. His first story is "Satya Sundari Navvindi" was read in All India Radio in 1975. He has also written 2 novels, "Manchu Pallaki" & "Karma Sakshi" which were published in "Andhra Jyothy Weekly" before beginning his film career. In 1976, he started to explore his career in Madras, beginning his work with V. Madhusudhana Rao as assistant director for many films, later worked as an assistant director to K. Viswanath on San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gopi Gopika Godavari
''Gopi Gopika Godavari'' is a 2009 Indian Telugu-language film released on 10 July 2009. The film, starring Venu Thottempudi, Kamalinee Mukherjee, Krishna Bhagavan and Sana, was directed by Vamsy. Plot Gopi and Gopika, who have never met each other, fall in love over texting. However, while Gopi loses his memory in an accident, soon after planning to meet Gopika, she saves his life as a stranger. Cast * Venu Thottempudi as Gopi * Kamalinee Mukherjee as Gopika * Krishna Bhagavan * Jayalalitha * Pradeep Shakthi * Kondavalasa Lakshmana Rao * Praveen * Narsing Yadav * Sana * Krishneswara Rao Soundtrack Chakri later reused "Nuvvekkadunte" as "Enakkoru Devathai" for Tamil film ''Pillaiyar Theru Kadaisi Veedu ''Pillaiyar Theru Kadaisi Veedu'' () is a 2011 Tamil-language romantic drama film written and directed by newcomer Thirumalai Kishore and starring Jithan Ramesh along with Sanchita Padukone. Suhasini, Jayaprakash, Prakash Raj, Soori, and Bose V ...''. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venkatesh (actor)
Daggubati Venkatesh (born 13 December 1960) is an Indian actor known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema and a few hindi films. Venkatesh debuted with the 1986 film '' Kaliyuga Pandavulu'' for which he won his first Nandi Award. In a career spanning over 35 years, he starred in many successful films and establishing himself as a major actor in Telugu films. Venkatesh won five Nandi Awards for Best Actor and six Filmfare Awards South in various categories. Along with his brother D. Suresh Babu, Venkatesh co-owns of Suresh Productions, one of the largest film production companies in India, under which he acted in several films. He is also the mentor of the ''Telugu Warriors'', representing Telugu cinema (Tollywood) in the Celebrity Cricket League. Early life Venkatesh was born on 13 December 1960 in a Telugu family to film producer and former Member of Parliament, D. Ramanaidu and Rajeshwari in Madras (present-day Chennai), India. He has an elder brother Suresh Babu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chintakayala Ravi
''Chintakayala Ravi'' is a 2008 Telugu-language romantic comedy film produced by Nallamalupu Bujji and directed by Yogi. The cross over cinema, starring Venkatesh, Anushka Shetty, Mamta Mohandas in lead roles and Venu Thottempudi in a supporting role, with songs composed by Vishal–Shekhar and background score composed by Mani Sharma. The film received positive reviews from critics and audience. It was a hit at the box office. Plot Chintakayala Ravi (Venkatesh) works in a bar named Cyber Wave in New York. He is the head waiter; he works with his three friends who also are waiters at the same bar. He has a soft spot for software engineers because he came to the US with the dream of becoming a software pro. However, unavoidable circumstances prevented him from reaching that goal. His mother Seshamamba (Lakshmi) tells everybody in her village in Andhra Pradesh that her son is an outstanding software engineer in America. Ravi is hit hard with sentiment; for the sole reason of n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reemma Sen
Reema Sen (born 29 October 1981) is an Indian actress and model who primarily appeared in Bengali theatre films, Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi films. Early life and education Sen was born in Kolkata on 29 October 1981. She completed high school from St. Thomas Girls School in Kidderpore, Kolkata, after which her family moved to Mumbai. Personal life Reema Sen married businessman Shiv Karan Singh in 2012. She gave birth to their son, Rudraveer, on 22 February 2013. Career Film and modelling career In Mumbai, she began her modelling career, appearing in a number of advertising campaigns. She then moved to films and made her acting debut with Telugu film ''Chitram'', in which she acted opposite Uday Kiran, whom she later paired with in ''Manasantha Nuvve''. She also appeared in the Tamil film ''Minnale'' alongside Madhavan, which was very successful. Her first Hindi film ''Hum Ho Gaye Aapke'' flopped, and she decided to continue working in Tamil cinema. Her appearance in the Tamil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meera Jasmine
Jasmine Mary Joseph, known professionally as Meera Jasmine, is an Indian actress who appears primarily in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada language films. Meera Jasmine won the National Film Award for Best Actress in 2004 for her role in '' Paadam Onnu: Oru Vilapam'', and is a two-time recipient of the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress and a Tamil Nadu State Film Award. She also won the Kalaimamani Award from the Government of Tamil Nadu. Early life Meera Jasmine was born in Kuttapuzha village, Thiruvalla, Kerala to Joseph and Aleyamma. She was the fourth of five children. She has two sisters, Jiby Sara Joseph and Jeny Susan Joseph, who has also acted in films, and two brothers, one of them, George worked as an assistant cinematographer. She completed her schooling in Bala Vihar, Thiruvalla and Marthoma Residential School, Thiruvalla. She appeared for her Higher Secondary Exams in March 2000. She had enrolled for a BSc degree in Zoology at Assumption College, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
