From 'Indra' to 'Gharana Mogudu', check out noteworthy performances of Chiranjeevi

Veteran actor Chiranjeevi needs no introduction He is among the most successful stars of Indian cinema and had worked in Telugu Tamil Kannada and Hindi films Chiranjeevi debuted as an actor in the Telugu film Punadhirallu in 1978He got the Raghupathi Venkaiah the top film honour in Andhra Pradesh three Nandi Awards and nine Filmfare Awards South including the Lifetime Achievement Award He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2006 In 2022 he was awarded the IFFI Indian Film Personality of the Year Award at the 53rd IFFIChiranjeevi was born Konidela Sivasankara Varaprasad Rao on August 22 1955 in Mogalthur a village in Andhra Pradeshs West Godavari regionOn his birthday let us look at some of his remarkable performancesVijetha 1985Vijetha is a 1985 Telugu film directed by A Kodandarami Reddy and produced by Allu Aravind starring Chiranjeevi Bhanupriya and J V Somayajulu It was a remake of the 1981 Bengali film Saheb which had previously been remade in Hindi as Saaheb 1985 starring Anil Kapoor The film was also dubbed in Tamil and it was titled Dharma Prabhu Chiranjeevi received his second Filmfare Best Actor Award for his work in the filmIndra 2002B Gopals directorial action drama film that was released in 2022 became the highestgrossing Telugu film of its time It features Chiranjeevi Sonali Bendre and Aarthi Agarwal while Sivaji Mukesh Rishi and Prakash Raj play supporting roles with music composed by Mani Sharma The film won three state Nandi Awards and two Filmfare Awards South with Chiranjeevi winning both the Nandi Award for Best Actor and Filmfare Award for Best Actor in Telugu The dialogues and certain scenes create an indelible visual imprint on the spectator and it showed how talented the actor isRudraveena 1988The 1988 Telugu film was directed by K Balachander It starred Chiranjeevi and Shobana alongside Tamil actor Gemini Ganesan Ilaiyaraaja composed the soundtrack and background score The film was loved for its music and received three National Film Awards Best Feature Film on National Integration Best Music Direction and Best Male Playback Singer for S P Balasubrahmanyam It also won four Nandi Awards including a Special Jury award for ChiranjeeviShankar Dada MBBS 2004It was a comedydrama that was a remake of the 2003 Hindi film Munna Bhai MBBS It was directed by Jayanth C Paranjee featuring Chiranjeevi Sonali Bendre Srikanth Girish Karnad and Paresh Rawal The movie was commercially successful and the audience loved watching Chiranjeevi and Sonali Bendre onscreen Chiranjeevi and Srikanth both won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor Telugu and Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor Telugu awards respectively at South Filmfare Awards in 2005Gharana Mogudu 1992K Raghavendra Raos directorial Telugu romantic drama was a remake of the 1986 Kannada film Anuraga Aralithustarring It features Chiranjeevi and Nagma and was a blockbuster which made him the highestpaid actor The film was screened at the 1993 International Film Festival of India in the mainstream sectionThe actor was recently seen in the action entertainer film Bholaa Shankar Helmed by Meher Ramesh the film is a remake of the 2015 Tamil hit Vedhalam The film also stars Tamannaah Bhatia and Keerthy SureshThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever