Mahesh Babu Biography | Mahesh Babu Profile

Mahesh babu also known as (Prince,Superstar), was born on 9 August 1974 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. mahesh babu is the son of the former Telugu actor Ghattamaneni Siva Rama Krishna and Smt. Indira Devi. mahesh babu has worked in a number of critically and commercially successful films and has established himself as one of the leading actors in contemporary Telugu cinema. mahesh babu has four siblings : Ramesh Babu, Padmavathi, Manjula and a younger sister, Priyadarshini. mahesh babu did his schooling at St Bede's School in Chennai and obtained an Honours Degree in Commerce (B.Com.,) from Loyola College, Chennai. Mahesh babu Height 5'11.

Mahesh babu acted in seven of his father's films as a child actor. His first child acting role was in the film Needa. mahesh babu is the brand ambassador for Thumbs Up, Navratna, UniverCell, Amrutanjan, Provogue, Idea and Vivel in Andhra Pradesh.

Mahesh Babu started his film career as a child actor in his father's film Needa. mahesh babu made his debut as a lead actor in 1999 with Rajakumarudu (1999) and then went on to star in films such as Murari (2001), Okkadu (2003), Athadu (2005) and Pokiri (2006).

Mahesh dated his co-star in the movie Vamsi, Bollywood actress and former Miss India (Miss Universe India) Namrata Shirodkar for two years. They got married on February 10, 2005, and have a son named Gautham Krishna.

Mahesh babu debuted in 1999 with the K. Raghavendra Rao film Raja Kumarudu opposite Preity Zinta, opened well at the box office and is commercially successful whilst earning Mahesh the Nandi Award for Best Male Debut.

Career
Mahesh babu debuted in 1999 with the K. Raghavendra Rao film Raja Kumarudu opposite Preity Zinta, opened well at the box office and is commercially successful whilst earning Mahesh the Nandi Award for Best Male Debut.

Mahesh babu appeared in Y.V.S Chowdary's Yuvaraju(2000),and in Vamsi(2000). Both movies were declared average at the box office. mahesh babu starred with Sonali Bendre in Krishna Vamsi's Murari(2001), which emerged as a critical as well as a huge commercial success mahesh babu's performance earned him the Nandi Special Jury Award. mahesh babu's next movie Takkari Donga (2002) opened to positive reviews. Mahesh's performance earned him the Nandi Special Jury Award.

Later that year, mahesh babu starred with Arthi Agarwal in Bobby(2002) , directed by Sobhan. The movie was commercially failed at the box-office.

mahesh babu's next film Okkadu (2003) opposite Bhoomika Chawla, produced by M.S. Raju and directed by Gunasekhar was critically acclaimed and a biggest box-office success of that year whilst earning his first Filmfare Best Actor Award (Telugu).The film collected a share of 7 crores in its opening week in Andhra Pradesh.In the same year, mahesh babu appeared in Teja's film Nijam(2003) was critically acclaimed and earned him Nandi Award for Best Actor.

In 2004, mahesh babu paired up with Amisha Patel in S. J. Suryaah's Naani. This was the Telugu version of the Tamil film… mahesh babu again appeared in Gunasekhar movie Arjun (2004),opposite Shriya Saran did well at the box office and earned him another Nandi Special Jury Award. mahesh babu's 2005 film with Trisha Krishnan, titled Athadu directed by Trivikram Srinivas was declared sensational hit in India as well as in USA and became one of the highest grossers of the year in tollywood and his performance earned him second Nandi Award for Best Actor.

mahesh babu next appeared opposite Ileana D'Cruz in the action flick Pokiri (2006) directed and produced by Puri Jagannadh is a critically acclaimed and all time Telugu film Industry record hit. The film was a huge financial success, emerging the highest grossing Telugu film of all time with 69.5 Crores. The film completed 100 days in as many as 200 centres in the andhra pradesh including 17 centers in Hyderabad alone and silver jubilee in a record 63 centres.

In the same year, mahesh babu again starred with Trisha in Gunasekhar's film Sainikudu (2006), opened well in India, ending up as an average grosser. mahesh babu appeared with Amrita Rao in Surender Reddy's Athidhi (2007), which was a commercial Hit.. The film opened with a gross collection of 12.5 crores in the first week of its release.

Mahesh Babu next signed a film with Trivikram Srinivas titled Khaleja(2010), opposite Anushka Shetty. Mahesh babu had planned to take a gap of six months after Athidhi. Due to unexpected circumstances, the film was postponed several times and took two years to be completed. Khaleja was released on 7 October 2010 and ended up as an average grosser.

In 2011, Mahesh babu's movie Dookudu was released. It was directed by Srinu Vaitla and was produced by 14 Reels Entertainment. Samantha Ruth Prabhu is paired with Mahesh in Dookudu. The movie took the largest worldwide opening for a Telugu film. Dookudu Movie set a box office record for the Telugu film industry by collecting a gross of more than 1 billion(100 crores).

In September 2011, Mahesh babu began shooting for the movie Business Man, Kajal is romancing with Maheshbabu. Businessman is the second film that repeating the same combination of Puri Jagannath and Maheshbabu after Pokiri.

Filmography & Awards


Year                  Title                 Awards


1999                 Raja Kumarudu     Winner, Nandi Award for Best Male Debut

2000                 Yuvaraju
   
2000                 Vamsi    

2001                 Murari             Winner, Nandi Special Jury Award

                                        Nominated, Filmfare Best Actor Award (Telugu)

2002               Takkari Donga     Winner, Nandi Special Jury Award

2002               Bobby    

2003               Okkadu             Winner, Filmfare Best Actor Award (Telugu)

                                        Winner, Santosham Best Young Performers Award

2003               Nijam             Winner, Nandi Award for Best Actor

2004               Naani    

2004               Arjun             Winner, Nandi Special Jury Award

2005               Athadu             Winner, Nandi Award for Best Actor

2006               Pokiri             Winner, Filmfare Best Actor Award (Telugu)

                                        Winner, Santosham Best Actor Award Telugu

2006               Sainikudu

2007               Athidhi             Nominated, Filmfare Best Actor Award (Telugu)

                                        Nominated, Santosham Best Actor Award

                                        Nominated, CineMAA Award for Best Actor – Male

2010               Khaleja    

2011               Dookudu
   
2011               Business Man    

2012              Seetamma Vaaikitlo Sirimalle Chettu
              Pre-Production,

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        Mahesh babu is going to create a record very soon regarding his ads. As per the sources, he is likely to be seen in around Ten ads in this summer. Below is the list
   
        Idea Cellular

    Thums Up

    Univercell

    Navaratna Hair Oil

    Amrutanjan Balm

    Provogue

    Vivel Soap

    Malabar Gold

    Fairever Shampoo (Still On Discussions)

    IPL Sponsor To One Of The Teams (Yet To Be Confirmed)