Akkineni Nagarjuna

OriginalName: Sri.Akkineni Nagarjuna
NickName: Nag
Date of Birth: 29th August 1959
Time: 12 hour 27 minutes
POB: Chennai
StarSign: Virgo
Education: Schooling: Hyderabad Public School,
Intermediate: Little flower school, Abids, Hyderabad
B.E (Mechanical): Guindy Engg. College, Madras
MS (Automobile): University of Michigan, USA.
Address: Plot No.959-A. Road No.48,
Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad-500033.
Father: Sri.Akkineni Nageswara Rao (ANR)
Mother: Smt.Annapoorna
FirstMarriage: Lakshmi
18 February 1984 at Vijaya Seshmahal, Chennai
Second Marriage: Amala

11 June 1992, at Adayar, Chennai
Sons: Naga Chaitanya,
Born on 23 November 1986 at 4.20 a.m., at Swapna Nursing Home, Hyderabad
Akhil,
Born on 8 April, 1994 at 1.58 a.m. at
San Jose, USA
Family Members: Mr.Venkat Akkineni (brother)
Ms.Satyavathi (Sister)
Mr.Yarlagadda surendra (Bava)
Mr.Sumanth (Nephew, Premakadha fame)
Ms.Supriya (Niece, Akkada ammayi-Ikkada abbai fame)
Mr.Chalasani Ramesh (Bava)
First Shooting: 20 September 1985 at Annapurna Studios
First Movie: Vikram, 23rd May 1986.




Akkineni Nagarjuna (born August 29, 1959 in Chennai, India), often known as Nagarjuna, is a popular Telugu Cinema actor and a successful producer. He is the son of veteran actor, Akkineni Nageswara Rao, who is a very respected actor having successfully done multiple films through the last four and half decades.
Nagarjuna was born to Telugu cinema actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao and Annapurna Akkineni. Nagarjuna did his schooling at Hyderabad Public School and later went to Ratna Junior College to do his intermediate. After that, he went on to do mechanical engineering in College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai(also called as Anna University). He later attended the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), where he received his master's degree in Automobile Engineering.
Nagarjuna has married twice. He is currently married to Amala who was a popular actress in Tamil and Telugu film industries. He has two sons. Naga Chaitanya from his first marriage, and Akhil Akkineni from second marriage(featured in Sisindri).
Nagarjuna is one of the richest individuals in the film industry. He charges 5 to 10 crores per movie.The Akkineni family owns Annapurna Studios in Hyderabad.He is also a very shrewd investor and has multiplied his wealth multifold during the past few decades.
Nagarjuna charges close to 5 crores per movie and is considered one of the most wealthy folks in the telugu film industry
His first movie Vikram released on May 24, 1986 was a remake of the Hindi film Hero starring Jackie Shroff. After acting in four films, he acted in Majnu as a tragedy hero; similar roles were known to be his father's forte. He acted with his father in the movie Collectorgari Abbayi. His first big hit was Akhari Poraatam co-starring Sridevi that ran for 100 days in 12 centers. Geethanjali a love story directed by Maniratnam followed by Shiva an action film directed by Ram Gopal Varma were highly successful and established him as one of the top heroes. During this phase of his career he relished working with new directors such as Ram Gopal Varma in order to recreate his screen persona and enjoy a certain creative energy, through the fresh approach of these young directors. He also made his Bollywood debut with the Hindi remake of Shiva. Movies such as President Gari Pellam and Hello Brother gave him the status of a mass hero. After that, Ninne Pelladutha directed by Krishna Vamsi appealed to a broad cross section of people, both young and mature. The movie was a big success at the box office. Later, he took up the challenge of portraying Annamacharya, the legendary singer/poet of medieval times in the movie Annamayya It ran for 100 days in 42 centers and is one of the biggest hits in Tollywood. He won the National Award for this role in Special Jury.
Nagarjuna revived his father's production Annapurna Studios which has become one of the most successful production companies of recent times in Tollywood. He never hesitates to experiment when he produces films. He gave a chance to a newcomer who had no prior experience in movies to direct him. The newcomer didn't disappoint him and went on to become one of the finest directors of Indian film industry. The director is none other than RamGopal Verma. Nagarjuna is also known for his swiftness in decision making. He agreed to work with Krishna Vamsi(director) after seeing 10-minute-rushes of the director's film Gulabi. His decision proved to be bang on target as they made the blockbuster movie Ninne Pelladutha
Nagarjuna never works after 6pm. If there is night shoot, he has to be informed 4 days earlier.
Nagarjuna has not acted in many Tamil films despite the fact that he has a huge fan following in Tamilnadu. The dubbed version of his films like Geethanjali and Shiva had seen excellent runs in Tamilnadu. His first ever role in a Tamil movie was in K.T.Kunjumon's Ratchagan, which was however a did badly in Tamilnadu.
Nagarjuna owns several restraunts in India and abroad and often visits them on a regular basis.
Nagarjuna is investing close to 87 crores in real estate projects in dubai. He is planning to team up with SRK to build a national level power project in Hyderabad.
Nagarjuna is close friends with the business tycoon Anil Ambani.
While working on Khuda Gawah in Afganisthan, Nagarjuna fell in love with the region so much that he bought a huge property there and wanted to build a film studio, but later sold the property after the 9/11 attacks.