19 Mind-Boggling facts about Nagarjuna and his acting career on his birthday
Nagarjuna Akkineni is one of the leading actors of Telugu cinema for the past 4 decades, he has been an entrepreneur, producer, television presenter, studio owner, and philanthropist over these years. He has acted in over 100 films in various Indian film industries and was also a recipient of several awards & accolades for his performances and today he is celebrating his 62nd birthday, on account of his birthday let's see some of his career achievements as far as his films are concerned.
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Debuted at the age of 8 months into films
He made his film debut at the age of 8 months (while still being an infant, he was taken to his father’s film sets ‘Velugu Needalu’ in 1961 to do a cameo of a small baby in the movie.
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Child artist at the age of 6
He was seen as a child artist at the age of 6 in his father's film titled ‘Sudigundalu’ in 1967.
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Introduced several new directors to Tollywood
He has also introduced several new directors to Tollywood such as Ram Gopal Varma, YVS Chowdary, Dasaradh, Rahul Ravindran, Raghava Lawrence, JK Bharavi, Kalyan Krishna Kurasala to Tollywood (The list is only of the successful ones).
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Introduced Legendary directors to Telugu cinema
He also has Introduced other Industries' legendary directors to Telugu Cinema such as...
- Malayalam director Fazil to Telugu with with ‘Killer’, Bollywood director Mahesh Bhatt to Telugu with ‘Criminal’ and Tamil director Mani Ratnam to Telugu with ‘Geethanjali’
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KV Vijayendra Prasad started writing with Nag's film
Legendary Baahubali & Bajrangi Bhaijaan writer KV Vijayendra Prasad started his film career with Nagarjuna’s film 'Janaki Ramudu in 1988'.
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Introduced young heros to Tollywood
Nagarjuna had also introduced a few new heroes to Tollywood namely - Sumanth Yarlagadda, Akhil Akkineni and Roshan Meka apart from introducing other language actors to Tollywood such as Girish Karnad and Ravichandran from Kannada film Industry.
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Introduced Bollywood music composers to Telugu Cinema
Nagarjuna Introduced Bollywood Music composers Lakshmikanth Pyarelal in ‘Majnu’ and Sandeep Chowta in ‘Super’ to Telugu cinema.
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Mostly worked with KRR
The director he worked with the most number of the films is K. Raghavendra Rao in 9 films, followed by Ram Gopal Varma in 5 films each.
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17 films with Keeravani
The most often repeated music director in his films was - MM Keeravani, in about 17 films (so far) Nagarjuna has repeatedly given composition duties to Keeravani.
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Versatile to the core
Nagarjuna is known only for his mass action films & romantic films in the North, but he has done several Super hit devotional films in Telugu, namely Annamayya, Sri Ramadasu, Shiridi Sai, Sri Jagadguru Shankara Acharya and Om Namo Venkatesaya.
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Introduced several heroines to Tollywood
He had introduced several new heroines to Tollywood, nearly more than 13, namely Ayesha Takia, Ayesha Jhulka, Anshu Ambani, Anushka Shetty, Amala Akkineni, Bhoomika Chawla in Yuvakudu, Gracy Singh, Girija Shettar, Indraja, Ruhani Sharma, Sushmita Sen, Shenaz Treasurywala, Urmila Matondkar in Antham & others though his movies.
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9 films with Ramya Krishnan
He shared screen space in most of his films with ‘Ramya Krishnan’ in about 9 films, namely... Bangarraju (currently in making), Soggade Chinni Nayana, Chandralekha, Gharana Bullodu, Annamayya, Criminal, Hello Brother, Iddaru Iddare and Sankeerthana.
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More than 14 Multi-Starrers
He has acted in more than 14 multi-starrer films so far such as 'Adhipathi' with Mohan Babu (also in several other movies), 'Ninne Premistha' with Srikanth and Rajendra Prasad, 'Seetharama Raju' with Hari Krishna, 'Zakhm' with Ajay Devgn, 'Ramudocchadu' with Krishna, 'Mr. Bechara' with Anil Kapoor, 'Ravoyi Chandamama' with Jagapathi Babu, 'Shanti Kranthi' with Ravichandran, 'Aranya Kanda' with Rajendra Prasad (also in several other films).
He also worked with legendary Shivaji Ganesan in 'Agni Putrudu', 'Varasudu' with Krishna, Suman & Mohan Babu in 'Annamayya', 'Angarey' with Akshay Kumar, 'LOC Kargil' with many other stars in a Hindi film.
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Broke the 'taboo' in Tollywood
The first Telugu actor to broke the taboo in Tollywood by acting as a hero next to his father’s heroine ‘Sri Devi’ and his son’s heroines ‘Rakul Preet Singh & Lavanya Tripati’ in ‘Manmadhudu -2 & ‘Soggade Chinni Nayana’.
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Did 10 Bollywood films
Nagarjuna has acted in ‘Ten Bollywood Films’ – That include roles next to Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn, Anil Kapoor, and other important actors of Hindi cinema.
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Mostly seen with...
Heroines that are often repeated in his movies are Ramya Krishnan (9), Amala, Soundarya (6), Anushka Shetty (5), Rajini, Shriya (4) & Shobhana, Nagma, Vijayashanti, Nayanatara (3) films each.
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6 releases per year!
In the years 1987 & 1991, he had the highest no. of film releases as a lead hero with 6 releases each year.
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Just a few more to Century
Nagarjuna is Just 5 movies behind to complete century as a hero in Tollywood. We wish the best birthday wishes to Tollywood superstar Nagarjuna to achieve many more successes and be an inspiration to everyone.
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