Nandamuri Kalyan Ram

Nandamuri Kalyan Ram is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Telugu cinema. He was born to actor, politician Nandamuri Harikrishna and Lakshmi. He is one of the grandsons of N. T. Rama Rao, who was an actor, a statesman. Actor Jr.NTR is his half-brother. He is the owner of the production company named after his grandfather late NTR, called N.T.R. Arts. He had played a lead role in several hit movies like Athanokkade, Hare Ram and Pataas.

Career

Kalyan Ram started his career as an actor with Toli Choopulone (2003) produced by Ramoji Rao. His next movie was Abhimanyu (2004) produced by Ashwini Dutt. Starting his film career with two failures did not dampen his spirits.

In 2005 he established his own banner, N.T.R. Arts, under the name of his legendary grandfather NTR and produced Athanokkade introducing Surender Reddy as director. Kalyan Ram startled the film industry and the audience alike with this movie. It was a runaway hit at the box office. His next movie, Asadhyudu (2006), was a disaster. His next ventures Vijayadasami with Samudra and Lakshmi Kalyanam with Teja did not work. However, Hare Ram under his own production proved him as actor and was well received by critics and was a good success for him after "Athanokkade". In 2009 he starred in Jayeebhava which was a flop. In 2010 he starred in KalyanRam 'Kathi' which turned out as an average film from his banner. After a long gap Om 3D produced on his home banner, which was touted as India's first action 3D film released in late summer 2013. Despite the hype the film ended up as a failure at the box office.

Athanokkade

Athanokkade is a 2005 Telugu film which was directed by Surender Reddy. This film stars Kalyan Ram, Sindhu Tolani, and Ashish Vidyarthi. Music was scored by Mani Sharma. This film was a surprise big hit at box office, thanks to its screenplay and thrilling pace. It was remade into Tamil as Aadhi. The Hindi version of this film is International Don.

Plot

At the age of 11, Ram’s family and Anjali’s family members are killed by Anna (Ashish Vidyarthi). Ram's father is Prakash Raj, who is an ACP. Due to a conflict between Anna and Ram's father, he kills the complete family. In that tragic incident everyone is killed except Anjali (who is a small girl by then), Ram and their uncle. Ram is adopted into a different family and Anjali lives with her uncle. They both are not aware of the other’s survival in that incident. How Ram and Anjali take revenge on Anna is the remaining plot.

Cast

Sindhu Tolani

Sindhu Tolani is an Indian actress working in various languages such as Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Hindi. Tolani was born in Mumbai, India on 19 July 1983. She has been a Fair & Lovely cream model girl in the North as well as a successful actress. She has given many hits in Telugu cinema.

Film career

Sindhu Tolani started her career with the Telugu movie Aithe. The movie was a low budget hit which first got everyone to notice her. Her first huge hit in Telugu was Athanokkade. Another hit followed in Manmadhan with Silambarasan. Since then she has appeared in many Telugu and Kannada films and recently in Majaa with Vikram. She received critical acclaim with her roles in films like Manmadhan in Tamil and Bathukamma in Telugu. She also acted in the Television series Kutumb which aired on Sony TV.

She was also a part of Mani Ratnam's stage show, Netru, Indru, Naalai.

Filmography

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Mani Sharma

Mani Sharma is a music director known for his works in Telugu and Tamil films. He is also known as "Melody Brahma" (God of Melody) for his contributions to music in Tollywood. Legendary singers S. P. Balasubrahmanyam & K. S. Chithra recorded maximum number of songs in his composition. Mani has scored music for more than 175 films in Telugu, Tamil and other South Indian Languages. He has received two Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awards and three Music Mirchi Awards.

Early life

Mani Sharma was born in Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh to violinist Y.N. Sharma. He spent most of his childhood days in Chennai.

Career

Mani Sharma started his career as a keyboard player in the late 1980s under the guidance of music director Sri Satyam. As a keyboard player, he toured with Padma Bhushan Dr. S.P.Balasubrahmanyam. He used to work with Murali Krish and Chakri Policherla under Maestro Ilaiyaraaja in Chennai.

Mani was also a keyboard player for Raj-Koti and M. M. Keeravani. He was approached by Ram Gopal Varma for the background score of Antham. Varma asked him to compose a single song for his film and he agreed. Then he continued to compose background music for other films like Raathri (Raat), Preminchukundam Raa etc. His first film as a full-time music composer was Super Heroes. Later he got the breakthrough with Chiranjeevi's 1998 film Bavagaru Bagunnara.

Surender Reddy

Surender Reddy (Telugu: సురేందర్ రెడ్డి) born December 7, 1975 in Jammikunta, Karimnagar, Telangana, India is a Tollywood film director.

He worked with top stars of Tollywood like Ravi Teja , Allu Arjun , Mahesh Babu and Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao.

Career

He made his directorial debut, Athanokkade with Nandamuri Kalyan Ram. His noted films are Kick starring Ravi Teja , Ileana D'Cruz and Race Gurram starring Allu Arjun and Shruti Haasan. All the films he directed except for Athanokkade are the stories written by Vakkantham Vamsi. Surender's films are known for bold storylines and his unique depiction style of the protagonist.

His recent movie Kick 2 was released in August 2015 with star hero Ravi Teja It was one of the most anticipated movies in the career of Ravi Teja owing to the popularity of Kick. It collected an estimate of Rs.6.25 crores (943,000 USD) on its first day, the highest for a Ravi Teja movie crossing Power.

Filmography

As A Director

Awards and nominations

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