Ravi Teja

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Ravi Teja
Born	January 26, 1963 (1963-01-26) (age 45) West Godavari, India

Ravi Teja (Telugu: రవి తేజ) born January 26, 1963) is an Indian Telugu film actor.

Contents 1 Personal life 2 Childhood 3 Early career 4 Career Success 5 Filmography 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Personal life

Ravi Teja alias Bhupatiraju Ravi Shankar Raju is from West Godavari District in Andhra Pradesh. Before starting his career in Tollywood, Teja spent most of his life in North India. His father was a pharmacist. Later on he moved to Vijayawada along with his family and joined Siddhartha Degree College. In 1987 after completing his education, he came to join in films. On July 28, 2006, his first son was born.^[1]

[edit] Childhood

Ravi Teja spent most of his childhood in North India. His father was a pharmacist and his mother, an engineer with Tata Industries. Due to his job nature, there was frequent change in the places he lived. RaviTeja was brought up and educated in north India - Delhi, Bhopal, Jaipur and Bombay. Later he moved along with his family to Vijayawada and joined Siddharatha degree college. ^[2]

[edit] Early career

His interest in films brought him into the film industry. He worked as an assistant director in the beginning. He worked on blockbuster movies like Prathibandh, Aaj Ka goondaraj and Criminal. His friend Y.V.S Chowdary helped him to obtain some offers from Bollywood as a script writer. He also did small roles in Hindi films. He acted as one of the friends of Chiranjeevi in Aaj Ka Goondaraj. Ravi Teja joined Krishna vamsi as an assistant director for Ninne Pelladatha. He also did a pretty role in the film. Following Ninne Pelladatha, Krishnavamsi gave him a real break by casting him in a village macho role in Sindhuram. Though he got a good name for Sindhuram, his career did not profit much from that. He did some secondary roles in Premaku Velayara and Padutha Thiyaga after that.

[edit] Career Success

It was Nee Kosam directed by a debutante director Srinu Vaitla, that gave Raviteja the much needed impetus. He bagged an award for his performance in Nee Kosam. His secondary roles continued again with films like 'Annayya', 'Budget Padmanabam', 'Tirumala Tirupati Venkatesa' and'Ammayi Kosam'.

Raviteja got the break of his lifetime with Itlu Sravani Subramanyam. Puri Jagannath, who was desperately looking to establish himself in the industry, after the failure of 'Bachi', paired up with Ravi Teja to deliver Itlu Sravani Subramanyam. The movie was well received by the audiences. That was the turning point in his career.

Vamsi, who was planning his comeback innings, directed RaviTeja in 'Avunu Validharu Ishtapaddaru'. It definitely welcomed Vamsi back into the industry and added another hit to Ravi Teja. Meanwhile, his friend Poori Jagannaath, who made the biggest hit of the year in Kannada, Appu, decided to remake the film in Telugu with Ravi Teja. This time he wanted to produce the film too. Idiot came out and set a new image for Ravi Teja as a ragmuffin and mass hero. With this he came to be known as the Hat-Trick hero because of three consecutive hits. The character Chanti clicked and was a rage in Andhra Pradesh

In 2003, Teja played the lead role in Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi, which became one of the biggest hits in his career. The year 2006 has been very special to Teja as he gave his career biggest hit Vikramarkudu, despite the flop Shock. Currently in 2008, the movie Krishna has broken all the previous records of Ravi Teja, making it the biggest hit of his career.

[edit] Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Co-Star	Director
2008	Krishna	Krishna	Trisha Krishnan	V.V.Vinayak
2007	Dubai Seenu	Srinivas	Nayantara	Srinu Vitla
2006	Khatarnak	Dasu	Ileana D'Cruz	Amma Rajasekhar
	Vikramarkudu	Athili Sathi Babu/Vikram Rathod	Anushka Shetty	S.S.Raja Mouli
	Shock	Sekhar	Jyothika	Harish Shankar
2005	Bhageeradha	Chandu	Shriya Saran	Rasool
	Bhadra	Bhadra	Meera Jasmine	Boyapati Seenu
2004	Chanti	Chanti	Charmy Kaur	Sobhan
	Naa Autograph	Seenu	Bhoomika Chawla, Gopika, Kanika	S.Gopal Reddy
	Venky	Venky	Sneha	Seenu Vaitla
2003	Veede	Yedukondalu	Reema Sen, Aarti Agarwal	Ravi Raja Pinisetty
	Dongodu	Madhava	Kalyani	Bheemaneni Sreenivasa Rao
	Oka Raju Oka Rani	Ravi	Namitha	Yogi
	Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi	Chandu	Asin Thottumkal	Puri Jagannadh
	Ee Abbai Chala Manchodu	Vivekananda	Vani,Sangeetha	Agasthyan
2002	Khadgam	Koti	Sangeetha	Krishna Vamsi
	Avunu Valliddaru Ista Paddaru	Anil	Kalyani	Vamsi
	Idiot	Chanti	Rakshitha	Puri Jagannadh
2001	Budget Padmanabham			S.V.Krishna Reddy
	Itlu Sravani Subramanyam	Subramanyam	Tanu Roy,Samrin	Puri Jagannadh
2000	Annayya	Ravi		Muthyala Subbaiha
	Tirumala Tirupathi Venkatesha	Tirupathi	Maheswari	E.Sathi Babu
1999	Samudram			Krishna Vamsi
	Manasichhi choodu
1998	Sindooram	Chanti	Sanghavi	Krishna Vamsi
1996	Ninne Pelladutha			Krishna Vamsi
1993	Allari Priyudu			K.Raghavendra Rao
1992	Aaj Ka Goonda Raj			Ravi Raja Pinisetty
1991	Karthavyam			Mohan Gandhi

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Ravi Teja at the Internet Movie Database