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Akkineni Nagarjuna is a Actor, Writer, Producer and Playback Singer Indian born on 29 august 1959 at Chennai (Inde)

Akkineni Nagarjuna

Akkineni Nagarjuna
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Birth name Akkineni Nagarjuna
Nationality Inde
Birth 29 august 1959 (64 years) at Chennai (Inde)
Awards Filmfare Awards South, Nandi Awards

Akkineni Nagarjuna (born 29 August 1959) is an Indian film actor, producer and television presenter who works primarily in the Telugu Cinema, and Television. He has acted in over ninety films as an actor in a lead, supporting and cameo roles, including Bollywood and Tamil films.He is also popular in Maharashtra, other than Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. He has received two National Film Awards, nine state Nandi Awards and three Filmfare Awards South. He received critical reception for his performance in biographical and historical films.

He enacted the role of 15th century composer Annamacharya in the 1997 film Annamayya; as Yavakri (the son of the ascetic Bharadwaja) in the 2002 film Agni Varsha; as Major Padmapani Acharya in the 2003 war film, LOC Kargil; as 17th-century composer Kancherla Gopanna in the 2006 film Sri Ramadasu; as Sai Baba of Shirdi in the 2012 film Shirdi Sai; and as Chandaludu (Lord Siva in disguise) in the 2013 film Jagadguru Adi Sankara.

In 1989, he was starred in the Maniratnam directed Romantic drama film, Geetanjali, which won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. In the same year, he acted in Siva, an action blockbuster directed by Ram Gopal Varma, premiered at the 13th International Film Festival of India. In 1990, he subsequently made his Bollywood debut with the Hindi remake of the same film titled Shiva, and tasted success. In 1997, he received the National Film Award for producing Ninne Pelladata. In 1998, He received the National Film Award-Special Mention for his performance in the historical film Annamayya.

In 2013, he has represented Cinema of South India at the Delhi Film Festival's 100 Years of Indian Cinema's celebration, alongside Ramesh Sippy and Vishal Bharadwaj from Bollywood.
In 1995, He ventured into film production, with a production unit operating in Seychelles, and was a co-director of an Emmy Award-winning film animation company in Michigan, U.S. Along with his brother, Akkineni Venkat, Nagarjuna is the co-owner of the Production company, Annapurna Studios and is the president of the non-profit film school Annapurna International School of Film and Media based in Hyderabad.

Usually with

Brahmanandam
Brahmanandam
(50 films)
Ali
Ali
(25 films)
Chandra Mohan
Chandra Mohan
(21 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Akkineni Nagarjuna (119 films)

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Oopiri
Oopiri (2016)

Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Akkineni Nagarjuna, Karthi, Tamannaah Bhatia, Prakash Raj, Jayasudha Kapoor, Vivek
Roles Vikramaditya
Rating79% 3.99523.99523.99523.99523.9952
Un condamné en liberté conditionnelle trouve un emploi en tant que gardien d'un multimillionnaire, paralysé de plein fouet.
Dongata
Dongata (2015)

Genres Thriller, Comedy
Actors Adivi Sesh, Lakshmi Manchu, Brahmanandam, Taapsee Pannu, Pragathi Mahavadi, Ravi Teja
Roles Self
Rating62% 3.147473.147473.147473.147473.14747
Venkat (Adivi Sesh), Vijju (Madhu Nandan) are protégés of Kattam Raju (Prabhakar). The three goons manage to kidnap actress Shruthi (Manchu Lakshmi) and decide to hide her in an apartment owned by vijju’s boss, Brahmi (Brahmanandam). Brahmi lives in the U.S.A, but much to the kidnappers' surprise, arrives as a private detective to solve the kidnapping case. Chaos ensues when Brahmi realizes that Shruthi has been kept at his own house. The kidnappers join under him as his servants and after a small comedy scenes....the trio keep travelling until the main villain(kattam raju)stopped them and a fight ensues...after that shruti says that she told venkat-adivisesh to kidnap her as she saw her stepmom made a contract with kattamraju to kidnap her daughter...it is then revealed in flash back that sruthi is an orphan and venkat is her best friend.
Manam
Manam (2014)
, 2h30
Directed by Vikram Kumar
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about religion
Actors Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Akkineni Nagarjuna, Naga Chaitanya, Shriya Saran, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Brahmanandam
Roles Nageswar Rao / Seetharamudu / Bittu
Rating79% 3.9967453.9967453.9967453.9967453.996745
Radha Mohan and Krishna Veni are a couple leading a miserable marital life due to several misunderstandings and decide to apply for divorce. They die on 14 February 1983 at 10:20 AM near a clock tower on their way to the lawyer's office. Their son, Nageswara Rao, becomes a rich and influential businessman and happens to come across his parents' lookalikes, Nagarjuna and Priya. After befriending them, Rao decides to re-establish them as a couple but is shocked when Nagarjuna introduces his lover, Prema. Rao manages to dissolve the relationship with the help of his personal adviser, Girish Karnad. Unaware of this, Nagarjuna swears not to fall in love with anyone. At the same clock tower, Rao meets Dr. Anjali and falls in love with her at first sight. He helps her in admitting an injured old man to a nearby hospital and donates his blood. The injured man, Chaitanya, is shocked upon seeing the pair as they resemble his deceased parents, Seetharamudu and Ramalakshmi.
Bhai
Bhai (2013)
, 2h34
Directed by Veerabhadram Chowdary
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Akkineni Nagarjuna, Prasanna, Richa Gangopadhyay, Adithya Menon, Kamna Jethmalani, Sonu Sood
Roles Bhai
Rating34% 1.7189951.7189951.7189951.7189951.718995
Bhai (Akkineni Nagarjuna) is the most skilled and trusted enforcer of a Hong Kong-based Don, named David (Ashish Vidyarthi). David is heavily dependent on Bhai for his day-to-day operations and this is resented by David’s sons, James (Sonu Sood) and Tony (Ajay). David sends Bhai to Hyderabad, to finish off an undercover police officer who is disrupting the mafia operations in the city. In the due course, Bhai bumps into Radhika (Richa Gangopadhyay), a horticulturist who falls in love with Bhai after few incidents. However, Bhai never accepts her proposal. Bhai begins hunting down the undercover officer and uncovers his identity. The cop is none other than Arjun (Prasanna) and Bhai decides to finish him off. On the day of the trial, Bhai finds out that Arjun is his brother after seeing his father Raghava along with Arjun. He drops the plan and tries to walk out from the place. But the visuals of Bhai aiming Arjun with a gun are recorded about which Bhai is not aware of. However, Arjun is attacked by a few disguised armed men and all of them are killed by Arjun. Much to the shock of Bhai, one of the deceased is Tony, who sets out to India on the suggestion of James in order to kill Arjun and gain David's appreciation. David is taken aback after realizing the truth and is hell bent on killing Arjun.
Greeku Veerudu, 2h35
Directed by Dasaradh
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Akkineni Nagarjuna, Nayantara, K. Viswanath, Meera Chopra, Ashish Vidyarthi, Vennela Kishore
Roles Chandu
Rating47% 2.3695852.3695852.3695852.3695852.369585
Chandu (Nagarjuna) is a very selfish, self-made and cutthroat businessman in New York who runs a successful Event Organizing Agency and is aided by his uncle Sundar (M. S. Narayana), friends Bharath (Bharath Reddy) and Maya (Meera Chopra). Chandu never believes in relationships and family bonding citing them as a mess to discard. He is always involved in romantic activities with many girls sans commitment. Maya loves Chandu but as fate would have it, She marries Kamaraju (Brahmanandam), an aged yet wealthy doctor to rob his wealth. On the advice of Chandu, she applies for divorce and gets the money from him. However, she realizes that Chandu dumped her and makes a plan to teach him a lesson. She manipulates the terms and conditions of the agreement entered between Chandu and another big businessman PR (Ashish Vidyarthi) regarding organizing a charity show. According to the fraudulent terms since the show was unsuccessful, PR gets every right to recover the whole consignment amount from PR. Chandu lands in financial soup and is desperately in need of Money. Thus, he finally decides to visit his grandparents in India who is hoping to meet him since years.
Jagadguru Adi Shankara, 2h9
Directed by J. K. Bharavi
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Akkineni Nagarjuna, Upendra, Mohan Babu, Sai Kumar, Srihari, Suman
Roles Chandaludu
Rating62% 3.1458153.1458153.1458153.1458153.145815
Adi Shankara (Kaushik Babu) is born at Kaladi of Kerala state to a Brahmin family. Soon Adi Shankara is born Agni Deva (Tanikella Bharani) says to Rudraksha Rushi (Mohan Babu) that he has only 8 years of life. So Rudraksha Rushi gives 24 years of life to Shankara from his span, at a cycle of every 8 years whenever Shakara's life is in trouble. After his father's death Shankara shows his remarkable power in acquiring mastery over four Vedas at the age of eight. When he is caught by a crocodile in Purna River, he seeks the permission of his mother to become Sanyasi and then only the crocodile leaves him. Reluctantly, his mother accepts his proposal and then the crocodile disappears. In search of a guru, he leaves for North India. Then he finds his guru, Govinda Bhagavatpada (Srihari). The guru teaches him 'Jala Stambhana', 'Agnisthambana','Vaayusthambana' and 'Parakaya Pravesha' (leaving one's own soul and entering others) etc. skills. Soon, Shankara decides to preach his Advaita Vedanta philosophy to the people who are quarreling among themselves in the name of castes and religions. Shankara teaches a lesson to one such person, Kapalikudu (Suman), who is responsible for the quarrels among the people. In another sequence, a Chandala (Nagarjuna Akkineni) proves to Shankara that all the people are equal before god. During his philosophical tour, Shankara gets a chance to debate with Mandana Misra (Sai Kumar). While Misra I about to give up, his wife Ubhaya Bharathi (Kamalinee Mukherjee) challenges Shankara by asking some question on sex and related questions. As he being a Sanyasi, he can't answer her questions. He then asks for a recess of 15 days. He later, do parakaya Pravesha and enters the dead body of a king (Mynampati Sreerama Chandra) then he makes love with the king's wives (Kamna Jethmalani) and learns and gets the answers for the questions posed by Udaya Bharathi. Although being a sage, he performs the rituals of his mother. This factor irks the elders of his religion. However, they repent for their act later. Finally, having occupied 'Sarvagnapeetha' of Kashmir, he gets salvation and disappears in Lord Shiva (Chiranjeevi).
Damarukam
Damarukam (2012)
, 2h37
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Action
Actors Akkineni Nagarjuna, Anushka Shetty, Ganesh Venkatram, Prakash Raj, P. Ravi Shankar, Duvvasi Mohan
Roles Mallikarjuna
Rating54% 2.7052852.7052852.7052852.7052852.705285
The protagonist of the movie is born with a divine grace of Lord Shiva (Prakash Raj) and the boy's parents are advised to name him as Mallikarjuna as he is destined to accomplish a great work. During his childhood, Mallikarjuna faces a great tragedy as his parents and grandparents are killed by a huge feline creature when they are returning from Kashi. This incident leaves his younger sister, Sailu (Abhinaya) paralyzed from the waist and hence renders her lame (Sailu had a talent for dancing before this incident). This disaster makes Malli to become an atheist.
Shirdi Sai
Shirdi Sai (2012)
, 2h22
Directed by K. Raghavendra Rao
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Akkineni Nagarjuna, Sneha, Srihari, Kamalinee Mukherjee, Sayaji Shinde, Sarath Babu
Roles Sai
Rating66% 3.3344153.3344153.3344153.3344153.334415
Shirdi Sai (Nagarjuna) appears in Shirdi at an early age and disappears. He goes to the Himalayas and returns to Shirdi after a gap of 9 years. He chooses a dilapidated mosque as his abode. Amazed by his presence and miracles, the local people start calling him Sai Baba. He kept helping people around and spreading communal harmony by saying that there is only one God. Certain local people are suspicious of Sai Baba after they learn about his greatness over a period of time. The rest of the story is all about what Sai Baba did to make Shirdi the only pilgrimage for people of all religions and about he entering Samadhi.
Gaganam
Gaganam (2011)
, 1h58
Directed by Radha Mohan
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion
Actors Akkineni Nagarjuna, Prakash Raj, Poonam Kaur, Bharath Reddy, Babloo Prithiveeraj, Sana Khan
Roles Major Ravindra
Rating72% 3.6362253.6362253.6362253.6362253.636225
On a flight from Chennai to Delhi five passengers retrieve weapons hidden in the toilet and use them to hijack the plane. An engine is damaged during the struggle with the pilots so they make an emergency landing at Tirupati Airport. Government authorities arrive. The hijackers demand ₹100 Crore (c. US $22,000,000), the release of their imprisoned leader Yusuf Khan (Sricharan), and a fresh aircraft for their escape.
Rajanna
Rajanna (2011)

Directed by S. S. Rajamouli, V. Vijayendra Prasad
Genres Drama
Actors Akkineni Nagarjuna, Sneha, Shweta Menon, Pradeep Rawat, Ajay, Nassar
Roles Rajanna
Rating62% 3.14693.14693.14693.14693.1469
The film is set in the Nelakondapalli village of Adilabad district in Nizam Princely State of Hyderabad of the late 1940s. The feudal society is under the vice-like grip of an aristocratic family and its head, a Dorasani (Shwetha Menon). Mallamma (Baby Annie) is the darling of the village, who is living in perpetual humiliation. They seek solace in her songs. Brought up by Sambayya, an old man, she develops a mysterious attachment to a basil tree which is regarded as holy by the entire village.
Kedi
Kedi (2010)

Directed by Kiran Kumar
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Akkineni Nagarjuna, Mamta Mohandas, Anushka Shetty, Chitrangada Singh, Nirmal Pandey, Mahek Chahal
Roles rummy
Rating46% 2.328952.328952.328952.328952.32895
Ramesh, nicknamed Rummy (Nagarjuna) loves his childhood friend Janaki, who asks him to become rich and powerful before marrying her. With this motive, Rummy starts gambling and becomes rich in no time.
Ragada
Ragada (2010)

Directed by Veeru Potla
Genres Action, Romance
Actors Akkineni Nagarjuna, Anushka Shetty, Priyaman, Pradeep Rawat, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Dev Gill
Roles Satya Reddy
Rating59% 2.9986552.9986552.9986552.9986552.998655
The movie starts out with Tanikella Bharani trying to kill an innocent man, who is against Pedhanna. Tanikella is killed by Jairam, who is one of Peddhanna's followers. Peddhanna is the biggest goon in all of AP, and he has 3 major followers who murder people for him. The other henchman just kidnaps the wanted. These followers are, Jairam, Bhagavan, and Nanda. The next scene introduces Satya, getting off a truck and getting involved in a fight, which is against GK, and Peddhanna. Satya helps GK, who makes him his partner. Here, they find out that Satya is very money minded. GK's love, Sirisha, who does not love GK back, gets captured by Satya, and falls in love with him. Brahmanandam is another important character in the story whose major role is flirting with Sirisha. Priyamani enters as Ashtalakshmi, being chased by rowdies. Obviously, Satya beats them up and finds out that the rowdies are Pedhanna's rowdies following Ashtalakshmi, for a reason she does not know of. Later, her whole family is introduced as a Brahmin family.