Thottempudi venu biography

Venu Thottempudi

Indian actor

Venu Thottempudi (born 4 June ) is an Indian actor who primarily works in Telugu cinema. He has appeared in several successful Telugu films as a lead actor from to the early s.

Career

After finishing his engineering from Dharwad Engineering College, Venu started pursuing acting as his career. For his first acting job, he was cast as the main lead in a movie directed by Bharathiraja. After a brief period of shooting, the movie was stalled and later cancelled due to production problems. To promote Venu, his friend Venkata Shyamprasad formed S. P. Entertainments. Under this banner, in Venu started his career with the movie Swayamvaram, directed by K. Vijaya Bhaskar. Co-starring Laya, the movie was very successful at the box-office and Venu won a Nandi Special Jury Award for the movie. Venu became well known for his dialogue delivery, timing, expressions and clear portrayal of emotions.[citation needed] In after the unsuccessful Manasu Paddanu Kaani, Venu won at the box office once again with Chirunavvutho.[3] G. Ramprasad, who earlier worked with B. Gopal as an assistant director, was roped in as the director for this movie. This movie co-starring Shaheen Khan was produced once again by S. P. Entertainments. Chiru Navvutho became one of the most successful Telugu movie in the year and received acclaim for Trivikram Srinivas's writing and Venu's performance as a chef whose marriage gets cancelled due to elopement of the bride.[4]

After a couple of successful films, Venu received several offers.[citation needed] Later he appeared in some unsuccessful films like Durga (),[5]Veedekkadi Mogudandi? (),[6]Priya Nestama (),[7]Malli Malli Choodali (),[8]Pellamtho Panenti (),[9]Cheppave Chirugali ()[10] He later bounced back with a couple of hits like Hanuman Junction (),[11]Kalyana Ramudu (),[12]Pellam Oorelithe (),[13] and Kushi Kushiga (),[14] His next releases were Sadaa Mee Sevalo () directed by Neelakanta,[15]Sri Krishna (),[16]Illalu Priyuralu (), Bahumati directed by S. V. Krishna Reddy[17] and Allare Allari directed by Muppalaneni Siva.[18] He also worked on an unreleased film starring Aarthi Agarwal and Sridevi Vijayakumar during this time.[19]

In , his movie Yamagola Malli Modalayindi co-starring Srikanth, Meera Jasmine and Reemma Sen was released. This movie was successful at the box-office.[20] In , he was seen in Deepavali and a small yet vital role in the movie Chintakayala Ravi starring Venkatesh.[21] In he was seen in Gopi Gopika Godavari directed by Vamsy and co-starring Kamalinee Mukherjee.[22] In , Venu was seen in Dileep Polan's Mayagadu opposite Charmy Kaur.[23] Venu was also seen in N. T. Rama Rao Jr.'s movie Dammu, directed by Boyapati Srinu.[24] His next release was titled Ramachari and directed by Eshawar. He is paired with Kamalinee Mukherjee in this movie.[25] Venu subsequently took a break from films and campaigned for his brother-in-law in Khammam.[26] After nine years Venu was seen in Ravi Teja's movie Ramarao on Duty, directed by Sarath Mandava.[27]

Filmography

Television

Awards and nominations

References

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  2. ^"Welcome to Corner House". .
  3. ^Jeevi (26 February ). "Manasu Paddanu Kaani - Movie Review". .
  4. ^Jeevi (10 November ). "Movie review - Chiru Navvutho". . Archived from the original on 15 September Retrieved 16 May
  5. ^"Durga". Sify. Archived from the original on 9 March Retrieved 15 September
  6. ^"RP Patnaik to score for Chiranjeevi". Idlebrain. 20 November Archived from the original on 2 May Retrieved 2 May
  7. ^Srihari, Gudipoodi. "Shoddy and sluggish". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 21 December Retrieved 27 November &#; via
  8. ^"Malli Malli Choodali review at Full Hyderabad". Archived from the original on 11 March Retrieved 11 March
  9. ^G. V, Ramana. "Telugu cinema review&#;— Pellamtho Panenti&#;— Venu, Laya, Kalyani&#;— SV Krishna Reddy". . Retrieved 17 November
  10. ^"Telugu cinema Review - Cheppave Chirugali - Venu, Ashima Bhalla, Abhirami". 24 September Retrieved 5 August
  11. ^Kumar, K. Naresh (12 July ). "Masala mix of melodrama and action". The Hans India. Retrieved 18 January
  12. ^Moviebuzz. "Review: Kalyana Ramudu". Sify. Archived from the original on 17 January
  13. ^"Telugu Cinema - Review - Pellam Voorelithe - Srikanth, Venu, Rakshita, Sangeeta, Sunil- SV Krishna Reddy - Mani Sharma". . Retrieved 2 September
  14. ^Moviebuzz. "Review: Khushi Khushiga". Sify. Archived from the original on 18 January
  15. ^"'Service' is passable". . 26 March Archived from the original on 8 February Retrieved 28 February
  16. ^"Success Meet - Sri Krishna ". . 19 June Archived from the original on 12 November Retrieved 12 November
  17. ^"Bahumathi". Sify. Archived from the original on 8 February
  18. ^"Give Allare Allari a miss". .
  19. ^"Muhurat - Sri Padmavathi Art Pictures". . 15 December
  20. ^Vardhan, G. P. Aditya. "Yamagola Mallireview". . Retrieved 3 March
  21. ^"Chintakayala Ravi - Review - Filmibeat".
  22. ^"Average flick Film Review". The Hindu. 11 July
  23. ^Chowdhury, Y. Sunitha (16 July ). "Mayagadu: It doesn't cast a spell". The Hindu.
  24. ^"Dhammu film review - NTR, Trisha & Karthika". .
  25. ^Rao, Sushil (17 May ). "RAMACHARI MOVIE REVIEW". The Times of India.
  26. ^"Happy birthday Venu Thottempudi: Did you know the reason behind his long absence from films?". The Times of India. 4 June
  27. ^ abOutlook (7 July ). "Venu Thottempudi's First Look From Ravi Teja-Starrer 'Ramarao On Duty' Is Out Now". Archived from the original on 21 September Retrieved 21 September
  28. ^The New Indian Express (31 August ). "Venu Thottempudi set to make OTT debut with Athidhi". Archived from the original on 21 September Retrieved 21 September
  29. ^"నంది అవార్డు విజేతల పరంపర (–)" [A series of Nandi Award Winners (–)] (PDF) (in Telugu). Information & Public Relations of Andhra Pradesh. Retrieved 21 August

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