Souryam (Telugu: శౌర్యం) is a 2008 Telugu film directed by cinematographer-turned-director J. Siva Kumar, who makes his directorial debut.^[1] It stars Gopichand and Anushka Shetty in the main lead.^[2] The film was dubbed and released in Malayalam as Souryam. The film has remade into Kannada as Shourya with Darshan and Madalasa Sharma, and into Tamil by Prabhu Deva as Vedi with Vishal Krishna and Sameera Reddy in the lead roles.^[3]

Cast[link]

• Gopichand ......... Vijay
• Anushka Shetty .... Swetha
• Manoj K. Jayan .... Shivarama Krishna Gowd
• Ajay .............. Ajay
• Poonam Kaur ....... Divya

Plot[link]

Vijay (Gopichand) comes to Kolkata in search of his lost sister . In a series of events he ends up getting caught in a brawl with some goons and in self defence chops a man's arm off. Later Vijay approaches a college in Kolkata to apply for a job and he is asked to get a signature in the sports quota. He later meets Gymson (Ali) and finds out he is the strongest teacher in the college. He meets a bubbly college girl Swetha (Anushka Shetty) and soon, they fall in love. One day, the gangster's son named Ajay (Ajay) finds out that Vijay is alive and he swears to avenge his father's lost arm. At a party, Ajay found Swetha and asks if she wants to sleep with him. Swetha was disrespected and embarrassed, then later, Ajay follows her and Divya (Poonam Kaur), and cornering the girls with his men. After his father sent him a picture of the person he needs to abduct, Ajay found out that Divya is the key and forced to take her badly. Divya was able to escape from the goons then he finds a man who comes to rescue her, who is apparently Vijay, and he fights them successfully. Divya was injured by the goons but rescued by Vijay. And Vijay revealed to Swetha that he was looking for Divya, his long lost separated sister who hated him for ignoring her before. He was forced to ignore her sister, for his dream for her to have a better life than to live in the streets with him, and he hide his identity from her until he found her in the present day that was painful. But when gangsters chase Swetha and Vijay, Vijay was forced to fight and kill some of Ajay's goons which made Swetha scared on Vijay on the way he fights bloodily.

References[link]

Anushka Shetty
Shetty at TeachAIDS launch event in 2010
Born	Sweety Shetty[1] (1981-11-07) 7 November 1981 (age 30)[2] Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Other names	Sweety, Tommulu
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2005—present

Anushka Shetty (born on 7 November 1981 as Sweety Shetty) is an Indian film actress who works mainly in the Telugu and Tamil film industries. She debuted in the 2005 Telugu film Super and rose to fame following her performance in Vikramarkudu (2006).^[3] After starring in a series of high-budget productions alongside leading Telegu and Tamil actors, she went on to became one of Telegu and Tamil cinema's leading actresses in the successive years,^[4] while receiving high critical acclaim for her portrayal of the titular character in Arundhati,^[5] and as Saroja in Vedam,^[6] which fetched her two Filmfare, one Nandi and two CineMAA Awards.

Early life[link]

Anushka Shetty was born as Sweety Shetty on 7 November 1981^[2] in Mangalore. Shetty is an ethnic Bunt hailing from the landed Bellipady Uramalu Guthu family.^[7] Her parents are Prafulla and A.N. Vittal Shetty.^[7] She has two brothers Gunaranjan Shetty and Sai Ramesh Shetty who is a cosmetic surgeon.^[7] She attended her schooling in Bangalore. She did her Bachelor of Computer Applications at Mount Carmel College, Bangalore.^[8] She was also a Yoga Instructor and has trained under yoga guru Bharat Thakur.

Film career[link]

Shetty made her acting debut in Puri Jagannath's 2005 Telugu film Super alongside Akkineni Nagarjuna. The same year, she acted in another film Mahanandi, which was an unsuccessful venture. In 2006, she had four releases, the first being S. S. Rajamouli's Vikramarkudu opposite Raviteja, in which she portrayed the character Neeraja Goswami. The film went on to become very successful and got her much recognition, that eventually made her very popular in Andhra Pradesh.^[3][9] She next had starred in the film Astram, a remake of the 1999 Hindi film Sarfarosh, following which she debuted in the Tamil film industry, acting in the Sundar C.-directed action flick Rendu, sharing screen space with R. Madhavan. Later that year, she made a special appearance in A. R. Murugadoss' directorial debut in Telugu, Stalin.

Her first release in 2007 was Lakshyam, after which she starred in Raghava Lawrence's Don opposite Nagarjuna again. The former, in particular, succeeded at the box office.^[10] In 2008 she had appeared in six films. Okka Magaadu was the first release, in which she played one of three female leads. Her subsequent releases Swagatam alongside Jagapati Babu and Bhumika Chawla and Baladur opposite Ravi Teja garnered poor reviews and box office returns.^[11][12] She next appeared in the film Souryam with Gopichand which became a box office hit.

In 2009, Shetty first starred in the blockbuster hit Arundhati. In this heroine-centric film, she essayed two roles for the first time.^[4] It was a critical as well as commercial success. Critics heaped praise on Anushka for her performance. Idlebrain's Jeevi wrote that she was "simply amazing in two roles" and that she did "exceptionally well with subtle yet impact creating performance", while Rediff claimed that she was "brilliant and breathtaking in parts",^[13] labelling Arundhati as "totally Anushka's film".^[14] Sify noted that she was "at her best with great performance".^[15] She went on to win the Nandi Special Jury Award and the Filmfare Best Actress Award among other accolades. Her next film, the action flick Billa, a remake of the 2007 Tamil namesake, itself a remake of the 1978 Hindi film Don, featured Shetty in a role contrary to that in Arundati. Her final release in 2009 was her second Tamil feature film, Vettaikkaran with leading Tamil actor Vijay which was one of the highest grosser of the year.^[16] She had an array of releases in 2010, with her Tamil release Singam co-starring Suriya emerging her highest-grosser of the year, while most her Telugu films performed poorly. She portrayed a prostitute in Krish's critically acclaimed anthology film Vedam,^[6] winning accolades for her performance, including her second consecutive Filmfare Award, following which she was selected to reprise the character in its Tamil remake, Vaanam as well. Her other 2010 releases were Panchakshari, Khaleja, Nagavalli and Ragada.

Vaanam became her first 2011 release, which received critical acclaimed reviews as well. Her next release Deiva Thirumagal with Vikram became a critical and commercial success, fetching her laurels for her portrayal as Anuradha, a lawyer. The successes of her Tamil films led to Anushka growing in popularity in Tamil cinema. She was subsequently offered several high-profile productions, including A. R. Murugadoss' new project starring Vijay and the Gautham Menon-directorial Neethane En Ponvasantham featuring Jeeva.^[17] with Sify calling her the "most wanted heroine in Kollywood".^[17] She confirmed that she had signed two Tamil films, Selvaraghavan's Irandam Ulagam opposite Arya and an action-masala film to be directed by Suraj, co-starring Karthi.^[18][19] She agree to be part of another Tamil production, Thaandavam, in November 2011.^[20] She is shooting for two Telugu projects as well, the fantasy film Damarukam alongside Akkineni Nagarjuna and the period drama Rampachodavaram.^[21] She is also acting in Koratala Siva's Vaaradhi opposite Prabhas.^[22]

Filmography[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

Wins

• 2010: Filmfare Award for Best Actress - Telugu - Arundhati
• 2010: Nandi Special Jury Award - Arundhati
• 2010: CineMAA Award for Best Actress - Arundhati
• 2010: Vijay Award for Favourite Heroine - Vettaikkaran
• 2011: CineMAA Award for Best Actress (Jury) - Vedam
• 2011: Filmfare Award for Best Actress - Telugu - Vedam
• 2011: Jaya Award for Favorite Actrees - Deiva Thirumagal

Nominations

• 2011: Filmfare Award for Best Actress - Telugu - Nagavalli
• 2011: Vijay Award for Favourite Heroine - Singam

References[link]

External links[link]

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M. S. Narayana (Telugu: ఎం. ఎస్. నారాయణ) is a comedian and director in Tollywood. He has acted in more than 500 films & is noted for his comic timing and facial expressions with witty dialogues.

Filmography[link]

Actor[link]

Director[link]

1. Bhajantrilu (2007)
2. Koduku

Singer[link]

1. Kabaddi Kabaddi
2. Gabbar Singh

References[link]

1. ^ http://www.cinegoer.com/telugu-cinema/news-archives/january-2012/venkatesh-srikanth-starrer-shadow-muhurat-held-270112.html

External links[link]

• M.S. Narayana at the Internet Movie Database
• TLCA members felicitation to M. S. Narayana
• Koduku Movie Announcement

Krishna Bhagavan  pronunciation (help·info) (Telugu: కృష్ణ భగవాన్) is an actor in Tollywood, who has acted in more than 100 films as a comedian.

Personal life[link]

Krishna Bhagavan was born in Kaikavolu, a small village in the East Godavari District. His parents are Meenavalli Veerraju and Lakshmi Kantham. He spent his childhood in Kaikavolu and went to Pedapudi for his school studies. He joined the Gandhi Memorial School there. He used to cross the farms and a small canal to go to his school. He was not good at studies. He completed his schooling with great difficulty.^[1]

He is married to Lakshmi and has one daughter, who is pursuing engineering studies.

Education[link]

After graduating from the school in Kaikavolu, he went to Kakinada for his higher education. He completed his 10th Standard there and entered Andalamma College for his intermediate education. He came to Hyderabad for college and got his degree in Commerce (B.Com), at Ambedkar Degree College, Bagh Lingampally, Hyderabad. He intended to continue his commerce studies with a master's degree. When he was not accepted by any college, he lost interest in continuing his studies and developed an interest in acting in movies.

Career[link]

He was very interested in acting from childhood and acted in school plays. His first professional drama was Pending File, in which he played the role of Parandhamayya but, as he went on the stage, he forgot his lines completely. It was a memorable experience for him as a drama artist.

After that he went to Chennai, to start his film career. He attended the screening test for a Kranti Kumar film, where he was one among 300 people. He got an opportunity to act in that film but the producer's death halted the project.

After that Krishna Bhagavan did a film, Maharshi, for Sravanti Ravi Kishore, along with Raghava, Shanthi Priya and Ram Jagan. It was directed by Vamsy.

After that he did April 1 Vidudala, which was directed by Vamsy. He wrote the script.

His career as an actor languished until he performed the role of Babji in the television serial Vasantha Kokila, directed by Uppalapati Narayana Rao, which won him the Andhra Pradesh State Nandi Award. Afterward, he acted in the movies Avunu Valliddaru Ista Paddaru and Kabaddi Kabaddi.

After becoming popular comedian, Krishna Bhagavan is getting offers as solo hero and acted in John Appa Rao 40 Plus, Donga Sachinollu, Mr. Girisham, Andhra Andagadu, Bommana Brothers Chandana Sisters.

Filmography[link]

Telugu[link]

Tamil[link]

External links[link]

• Krishna Bhagavaan at the Internet Movie Database
• A brief history of Krishna Bhagavan

References[link]

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Raghu Babu is a Telugu comedian, who is the elder son of famous comedian and character actor Giri Babu. He got married in 1988.

Partial filmography[link]

• Daruvu (2012)
• Yen Endraal Kaadhal Enben (2012) - Tamil Film
• Endhukante... Premanta! (2012)
• Poola Rangadu (2012)
• Mondi Mogullu Penki Pellalu (2011)
• Madatha Kaja (2011)
• Manchivadu(2011)
• Mayagadu (2011)
• Maaro (2011)
• Subhadra (2011)
• Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011)
• Varevva (2011)
• Wanted (2011)
• Bhale Pellam Bhale Mogudu (2011)
• Oosaravelli (2011)
• Kathi Kantha Rao (2010)
• Ranga The Donga (2010)
• Ragada (2010) as Hotel Server
• Alasyam Amrutham (2010)
• KalyanRam 'Kathi' (2010)
• Baava (2010)
• Brindaavanam (2010)
• Khaleja (2010)
• Don Seenu (2010)
• KothiMuka (2010)
• Brahmalokam To Yamalokam Via Bhulokam (2010)
• Jhummandi Naadam (2010)
• Panchakshari (2010)
• Vedam (2010) as Dappu Subani
• Buridi (2010)
• Betting Bangaraju (2010)
• Taj Mahal (2010)
• Yagam (2010)
• Aakasa Ramanna (2010)
• Kalavar King (2010)
• Namo Venkatesa (2010)
• Adurs (2010)
• Om Shanthi (2010)
• Kasko (2009)
• Posani Gentleman (2009)
• Saleem (2009)
• Katha (2009)
• JayeeBhava (2009)
• Bendu Apparao R.M.P (2009)
• Nachav Alludu (2009)
• Raju Maharaju (2009)
• Aa Okkadu (2009)
• Rajavari Chepala Cheruvu (2009)
• Kick (2009)
• Adhinetha (2009)
• Drona (2009)
• Masth (2009)
• Mental Krishna (2009)
• Sasirekha Parinayam (2009) as Abbulu
• Kuberulu (2008)
• Chintakayala Ravi (2008) as Drunkard
• Friends Colony (2008)
• Souryam (2008)
• Gajibiji (2008)
• Hare Ram (2008)
• Kantri (2008) as Acid Durga
• Adhyakshaa (2008)
• Donga Sachinollu (2008)
• Sawaal (2008)
• John Apparao 40+ (2008)
• Nagaram (2008)
• Lakshmi Putrudu (2008)
• Ontari (2008)
• Krishnarjuna (2008)
• Andariki Vandanalu (2008)
• Nee Sukhame Ne Korukunna (2008) as Swapna's Brother
• Mee Sreyobhilashi (2007)
• Godava (2007)
• Maisamma IPS (2007)
• Seema Sastry (2007) as Villain
• Bhajantrilu (2007)
• Thulasi (2007)
• Yamadonga (2007)
• Allare Allari (2007)
• Satyabhama (2007)
• Lakshyam (2007)
• Aa Roje (2007)
• Dubai Seenu (2007) as Panjagutta Sub-Inspector
• Rajubhai (2007)
• Sri Mahalakshmi (2007)
• Munna (2007)
• Athili Sathibabu LKG (2007)
• Bhookilash (2007)
• Jagadam (2007) as Seenu's father
• Okkadunnadu (2007)
• Adivaram Adavariki Selavu (2007)
• Lakshmi Kalyanam (2007)
• Evadaithe Nakenti (2007) as Pentiaha
• Desamuduru (2007)
• Annavaram (2006)
• Aadhi Lakshmi (2006)
• Chinnodu (2006)
• Tata Birla Madhyalo Laila (2006)
• Photo (2006)
• Brahmastram (2006)
• Astram (2006)
• Vikramarkudu (2006)
• Ashok (2006) as Anjali's brother
• Mayajalam (2006)
• Kitakitalu (2006)
• Bangaram (2006) as Driver
• Shock (2006)
• Sri (2005)
• Moguds Pellams (2005)
• Modati Cinema (2005)
• Allari Pidugu (2005)
• Political Rowdy (2005)
• Nayakudu (2005)
• Adirindayya Chandram (2005)
• Please Naaku Pellaindi (2005)
• Kanchanamala Cable TV (2005)
• Yagnam (2005)
• Jagapathi (2005)
• Athanokkade (2005) as Henchmen Abdul
• Hungama (2005)
• Bunny (2005) as Villain Supporter
• Chakram (2005) as The Conman
• Arey (2005)
• 786 (Khaidi Premakatha) (2005)
• Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana (2005)
• 22 Minutes (2005)
• Mr. Errababu (2005)
• Pellam Pichodu (2005)
• Prayatnam (2005)
• Sorry Naaku Pellaindi (2004) as Special Appearance
• Aaa Naluguru (2004)
• Leela Mahal Center (2004)
• Suryam (2004)
• Chanti (2004)
• Apparao Driving School (2004)
• Gudumba Shankar (2004)
• Gowri (2004)
• Valliddaru Okkate (2004)
• Swamy (2004)
• Koduku (2004)
• Andalu Dongale Dorikithe (2004)
• Aithe Enti (2004)
• Preminchukunnam Pelliki Randi (2004)
• Seenu Vasanthi Lakshmi (2004)
• Varsham (2004) as Bhadranna's henchman
• Mr & Mrs Sailaja Krishnamurthy (2004)
• Shiva Shankar (2004)
• Maa Alludu Very Good (2003)
• Nenu Seetamahalakshmi (2003)
• Sreerama Chandrulu (2003)
• Ori Nee Prema Bangaram Kaanu (2003)
• Toli Choopulone (2003)
• Vishnu (2003)
• Okato Number Kurradu (2003)
• Charminar (2003)
• Sambhu (2003)
• Kalyana Ramudu (2003)
• Dil (2003)
• Raghavendra (2003)
• Golmaal (2003)
• Kabaddi Kabaddi (2003)
• Dhanush (2003)
• Anveshana (2002)
• Khadgam (2002)
• Gemini (2002)
• Chennakesava Reddy (2002)
• Bharata Simha Reddy (2002)
• Aadi (2002)
• Neetho Chepalani (2002)
• Murari (2001) as Bava (Erra Babu)
• Vasantha Kokila (serial)
• MUTTAIDUVA (DD serial)
• Lady Detective (serial)
• Dongalu Unnaru Jagratha (1990)

External links[link]

• Raghu Babu at the Internet Movie Database
• An Interview With Raghu Babu
• ChitChat With Raghu Babu

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