An intense performer and an actor par excellence Chiranjeevi today is the Megastar who needs little if any introduction. In a career spanning 30 years, Chiranjeevi in his 149 films has essayed performances ranging from the purely commercial to impressively personal and ambitious. Be it actor, star or megastar - Chiranjeevi has been acknowledged as being one of the most successful actors in the history of the Telugu Motion Picture Industry. We, at our Cherryfans.com would like to highlight the remarkable wo Chiranjeevi has shared with the moviegoers for the last 30 years. In 1998, Oct 2nd, Chiranjeevi started a Blood and Eye bank to help the people who are dying for the unavailability of the blood. So far the blood bank won State Govt Best Voluntary Blood Bank award for 5 consecutive years and about 1.7 lakhs units of blood was given away to the need and poor people. More than 2500 eye balls were gathered and operations were performed with the help of Maxivision and LV Prasad Eye Hospitals. Chiranjeevi was awarded prestigious Padma Bhushan award by the Central government on Jan 2006 and he also won the Kalaprapurna award (Hon Doctorate) from Andhra University Visakha Patnam. Chiranjeevi is the pioneer in the film industry to channelize the massive power and strength of his fans towards social service activities. In 2008 August 26th he floated a political party by name PRAJARAJYAM amidst huge gathering of over 2 million people at Tirupathi. CHiranjeevi is the founder President of the Praja Rajyam party and MLA for Tirupathi and PRP is playing a vital role in todays politics in Andhra Pradesh. Chiranjeevi is also looking forward to work for his 150th movie, which will be produced by his son Ram CHaran Tej.
Childhood: Konidela Siva Sankara Vara Prasad a.k.a. Chiranjeevi, the Megastar of Telugu film industry was born in a missionary hospital at Narsapuram, a village in the West Godavari district on 22nd August 1955. He was born to Shri.Venkat Rao and Smt.Anjani Devi. Chiranjeevi grew up in his native village with his grand parents, while his family was elsewhere because of his fathers occupation. The sense of discipline and hard working, which he still embraces, were introduced at a very young age in his life. The tough childhood he had being the eldest in his family has helped him to handle many such events of higher proportion with great expertise in the later stages of his life.
Varaprasad birth time is 10.05 am on Monday 22nd Aug 1955
Education: Varaprasads education was nomadic accounting to his father VenkatRao's frequent transfers to Ongole, Ponnur, Bapatla, Mangalagiri, Gurajala, Chirala, Nellore etc, which did not really defer Vara Prasad as he gained a great friend circle wherever he was. Varaprasad is really fortunate for his father has constantly encouraged him after having discovered the undaunted liking of his son towards cultural activities.
Varaprasad did his schooling in Nidadavolu, Gurajala, Ponnuru, Bapatla, Mangalagiri and Mogalturu. He also won first prize for his first performance as Parandhamayya Panthulu. After high school, Varaprasad joined Bi.P.C in P.R.Sharma Jr. College at Ongole. Following that he finished his B.Com from Narasapur College.
After graduating with a degree, Chiranjeevi came to madras to pursue a degree and career in CA (cost accountancy) and as fate would have it enrolled in Film institute in Chennai and walked out with a diploma
| Ist Class | Gurazala |
| IInd, IIIRd Class | Mangalagiri |
| IV, V, VI Class | Ponnuru |
| VII class | Mogalthuru |
| VIII, IX Class | Bapatla |
| Xth Class | Mogalthuru |
| Intermediate | Ongole CSR Sharma College, Bi.P.C |
| Degree ( B.Com) | NM College Narsapuram |
| CA (Discontinued) | Chennai |
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Acted as Pothuraju in 1976 Republic day parade representing Andhra Pradesh and participated in the capacity of NCC Cadet Captain.
Family Info: Chiranjeevi married Surekha, daughter of veteran actor and comedian Padmashri Late Dr Shri. Allu Ramalingayya. Chiru has always been a family man. He is blessed with two daughters Susmita & Srija and a son Ramcharan Teja. His younger brother Kalyan has reformed himself into one of the reckoning actors n the Telugu film marquee. His elder brother is into film production and also into acting career. His younger sister works for Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust and elder sister is a house wife. |  |
| Father | Konidela Venkata Rao |
| Mother | Anjani Devi |
| Elder Brother | Nagendra Babu |
| Younger Brother | Kalyan Babu |
| Elder Sister | Vijaya Durga |
| Younger Sister | Dr Madhavi |
| Wife | Surekha |
| Elder Daughter | Susmitha |
| Son | Ram Charan Teja |
| Younger Daughter | Srija |
| Brother in Law | Allu Aravind |
| Father in Law | Allu Ramalingaiah |
| Mother in Law | Kanaka Rathnam |
| Little did he imagine, even in the wildest of his dreams, that he would, one day, be a Megastar and rule the Telugu Film Industry. Years later, this youngster called Chiranjeevi in the Film Industry, with his hard work and dedication to his profession, could make it really big in the field hitting the limelight, with an unparallel fan following emulating his every act, word, dress, dance charitable activities and social service. What makes this ordinary human being such an extraordinary one - god knows. It was in 1978 while studying at the Film Institute run by the South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce in Madras that Chiranjeevi got an offer to act in Punadhi Raallu. But the movie got delayed. |  | ||
| Producer-director T Kranti Kumar, who had seen his photograph, gave him a role in the film, Pranam Khareedu. Subsequently, director Bapu signed him for Manavoori Pandavulu, where he first gained some recognition. He acted in a lot of best movies to date and had been able to deliver splendid action-packed movies. With all these talents in him, it is not a big surprise to know that he has been one of the highest paid movie actors in the Indian Film Industry. He occupies the top slot in telugu film industry for 20 + long years Chiranjeevi - The Actor In spite of being the most sought after commercial star, Chiranjeevi, being a Film Institute product, had the urge to do off-beat roles. Time and again he has tried his hand at such roles in films such as Bharathi Raja's Aradhana, K Balachander's Rudraveena and K Viswanath's Swayamkrushi and Aapadbandhavudu. The last two films won him the best actor award from the Andhra Pradesh Government. Rudraveena got him the coveted Nargis Dutt national integration award at the Central Govt level. But except for Swayamkrushi which was a moderate success, the others failed at the box office. Apart from the above artistic value movies, Chiranjeevi also did couple of strong message oriented movies in the form of Tagore and Stalin and both were blockbusters with more than 30 crores of revenue. As Chiranjeevi is going to complete three decades into the telugu film industry and in all achievements and honors, there is no sign of pride but he is still going successfully with a string of hit films.  | |||
Chiranjeevi, The Human being: Chiranjeevi is the only actor in the world to celebrate his birthday coinciding with the hundred-day run of one of his films (Gang Leader). In 1991, such an extravaganza, starting in the morning and ending in the evening at Vizag, Hyderabad, Vijayawada and Tirupathi (he flew by a chartered chopper) took his fans into delirium. He has a perfect rapport with his fans and he feels that he should do anything within his capacity for them.
And naturally, his fans are actively participating in the Blood Bank and Eye Bank that Chiranjeevi has launched recently under Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust. The Trust has adopted Nizamabad district as a model district and also spread its activities to other areas as well.
He explains his success as a kind of journey that will have its breaks meaning failures intermittently but will still have to be continued just the same. His best critics are his wife Surekha, his brother and brother-in-law who are always around him and air their views on his performance. In spite of the enormous fan following that he has, Chiranjeevi has maintained the self-discipline that he cultivated when he was still a struggling artiste and finding it difficult to make both ends meet. He feels very happy because he has had no godfather in the industry and has risen to this position of fame only through sheer grit and hard work.
Three decades of Megastar Chiranjeevi acting career can be divided into four phases:-
Initial Phase| Between 1978 and 1983 October (till the release of Khaidi) he had acted in about 60 movies, mostly in secondary roles, some as second hero, some as villain and some are character roles. The finest actor in Chiranjeevi came with memorable movies like
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| Second phase of his career started with the release of Khaidi directed by A Kodandarami Reddy and produced by Thirupathi Reddy of Samyuktha movies. Khaidi movie is heavily inspired by Hollywood blockbuster First Blood. Khaidi movie opened new vistas in film- making and also created hundreds of fans associations for Chiranjeevi. And then there was no looking back. Says veteran producer D Ramanaidu: Even a Chiranjeevi flop can earn more revenue than any other hero blockbuster. This phase has witnessed many remarkable movies in Chiranjeevi career.
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The third phase started with the Mega hit Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka sundari directed by K Raghavendra Rao, a trend- setter in box office collections and continued until the industry hit of Gharana Mogudu. But then it is difficult for any star to live up to the expectations of the audience after such a massive hit. Chiranjeevi career took a nosedive with a row of not-so successful movies (which however did not bring any losses to the producers). Chiranjeevi went into hibernation and took respite from films in 1996. That was the first time in the actors’ career that no film was released in a calendar year. Some of the remarkable movies of Chiranjeevi in this phase are
| JVAS | Prathibandh |
| Gangleader | Rowdy Alludu |
| Gharana Mogudu | Aapadbandhavudu |
| Aaj Ka Gundaraj | Mutamesthri |
Fourh Phase: Came in 1997 and with it the Megastar had bounced back. But then the re-launch of the Megastar was not easy. A story that appeals to a cross section of the audience had to be found. The audiences perception was also changing with the advent of young heroes and filmmakers. Chiranjeevi himself became aware of this. He said, Of course, when a star attains a certain position, a lot is expected of him. If the story is good it will catch the eye. The image then becomes secondary. If the script is not up to the mark the film will flop no matter how well I act. Then came the offer to act in Editor Mohan’s Hitler, a remake of the Malayalam hit by the same title. And the gamble paid off. The film became a runaway hit. The audience and mainly his fans that grew along with him are now a matured lot. | |
| They liked him as a strict but doting brother in the movie, followed by a young lecturer in Master. And the ailing industry breathed a sigh of relief, as the master had found his form once again with Mega hits, Bavagaaru Bagunnaara and Choodalani Vundi. Chiranjeevi is careful enough to see that a director directs each film he now accepts with whom he has not worked before. In these three decades, he has done about 143 films. His recent Industry blockbuster Indra has created history in the Telugu film industry by amassing a lump some amount of Rs 35 crore share at box office. Then comes another industry hit movie in the form of Tagore produced by Oscar films. The success saga continued till the release of STALIN. Political Career: In 2008, Chiranjeevi started Praja Rajyam, a political party in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Around 10 lakh people attended the launch of the party in Tirupati. At the launch, he stated that social justice was the main agenda of his party.[12] His party in the 2009 general elections won 18 seats in the Andhra Pradesh State Assembly. He was elected a Member of the State Assembly from Tirupati.[13]His party recently stood for United Andhra Pradesh and opposed a separate state of Telangana. | |