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The Allu–Konidela household is likely one of the greatest names within the business, and never simply Tollywood. Outstanding heads of the household embrace late comedian actor Allu Ramalingaiah and his son-in-law, actor-politician Chiranjeevi. The household is colloquially generally known as the ‘Mega household’ in reference to the moniker of Chiranjeevi. Right here we deconstruct the household tree and show you how to turn into extra accustomed to its wealthy lineage….
Allu Ramalingaiah
It began with Allu Ramalingaiah, the grandfather of Telugu star Allu Arjun. Allu Ramalingaiah was one of the vital well-known actors, comedians, and producers in Telugu cinema. He appeared in over 1000 movies in quite a lot of roles. He began his movie profession with ‘Puttillu’ in 1950. He then went on to behave in movies like, ‘Todi Kodallu (1957)’, ‘Aada Pettanam (1958)’, ‘Poola Rangadu (1967)’, ‘Talli Tandrulu (1970)’, ‘Hero (1984)’, amongst others. He and his spouse, Kanaka Ratnam, had 4 youngsters – Allu Aravind, Surekha Konidala, Nava Bharathi, Vasantha Lakshmi.
Allu Aravind (Allu Ramalingaiah’s son)
Allu Aravind is an Indian movie producer, distributor, and businessman. He’s the founding father of Geetha Arts, a serious movie manufacturing home within the Telugu movie business. A few of his notable works as a producer embrace Bantrothu Bharya (1974), Subhalekha (1982), Pasivadi Pranam (1987), Attaku Yamudu Ammayiki Mogudu (1989), Mappillai (1989), amongst others. He’s married to Nirmala, and has three youngsters Allu Venkatesh, Allu Arjun, and Allu Sirish. The latter two are well-known actors in Telugu cinema. Arjun is likely one of the highest-paid actors of Telugu cinema.
Venkatesh (Allu Aravind’s son)
Venkatesh is called Allu Bobby. He has been working as an IT skilled for nearly 15 years. He just lately made his debut as a producer with the Varun Tej starrer ‘Ghani’.
Allu Ramalingaiah
It began with Allu Ramalingaiah, the grandfather of Telugu star Allu Arjun. Allu Ramalingaiah was one of the vital well-known actors, comedians, and producers in Telugu cinema. He appeared in over 1000 movies in quite a lot of roles. He began his movie profession with ‘Puttillu’ in 1950. He then went on to behave in movies like, ‘Todi Kodallu (1957)’, ‘Aada Pettanam (1958)’, ‘Poola Rangadu (1967)’, ‘Talli Tandrulu (1970)’, ‘Hero (1984)’, amongst others. He and his spouse, Kanaka Ratnam, had 4 youngsters – Allu Aravind, Surekha Konidala, Nava Bharathi, Vasantha Lakshmi.
Allu Aravind (Allu Ramalingaiah’s son)
Allu Aravind is an Indian movie producer, distributor, and businessman. He’s the founding father of Geetha Arts, a serious movie manufacturing home within the Telugu movie business. A few of his notable works as a producer embrace Bantrothu Bharya (1974), Subhalekha (1982), Pasivadi Pranam (1987), Attaku Yamudu Ammayiki Mogudu (1989), Mappillai (1989), amongst others. He’s married to Nirmala, and has three youngsters Allu Venkatesh, Allu Arjun, and Allu Sirish. The latter two are well-known actors in Telugu cinema. Arjun is likely one of the highest-paid actors of Telugu cinema.
Venkatesh (Allu Aravind’s son)
Venkatesh is called Allu Bobby. He has been working as an IT skilled for nearly 15 years. He just lately made his debut as a producer with the Varun Tej starrer ‘Ghani’.
Allu Arjun (Allu Aravind’s son)
Allu Arjun is an Indian actor recognized for his works primarily in Telugu cinema. One of many highest-paid actors in India, he’s additionally recognized for his dancing expertise. (keep in mind the hook step of Srivalli from Pushpa: The Rise?) He’s a recipient of a number of awards together with a Nationwide Movie Award, and three Nandi Awards. After taking part in a baby artist in ‘Vijetha’ (1985) and a dancer in Daddy (2001), he made his debut in ‘Gangotri’. Allu Arjun is married to Sneha Reddy and the couple has two youngsters—a son, Ayaan and a daughter, Arha.
Allu Sirish (Allu Aravind’s son)
Allu Sirish is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Telugu movies. He’s the brother of main Telugu cinema actor Allu Arjun. He debuted as a lead actor with Gouravam (2013), and later went on to look in movies akin to ‘Kotha Janta’, ‘Srirastu Subhamastu’ and ‘Okka Kshanam’.
Bharathi (Allu Ramalingaiah’s daughter)
Bharathi was Allu Rama Lingaiah’s elder daughter and star producer Allu Aravind’s elder sister. Since Bharathi was single, she used to stick with Allu Aravind’s earlier than her dying in 2016, attributable to age associated problems. She was 74.
Surekha (Allu Ramalingaiah’s daughter)
Allu Ramalingaiah’s daughter Surekha is married to megastar Chiranjeevi. The couple has three youngsters: two daughters, Sushmita and Sreeja, and a son, Ram Charan. Ram Charan is likely one of the highest paid actors of Telugu cinema.
Chiranjeevi (Allu Ramalingaiah’s son-in-law)
Chiranjeevi was born as Konidela Sivasankara Varaprasad Rao. He was enthusiastic about appearing from a younger age. He moved to Chennai and joined the Madras Movie Institute in 1976, to pursue a profession in appearing. He started his appearing profession in 1978 with ‘Punadhirallu’. In his profession spanning over 4 a long time, he starred in over 150 characteristic movies predominantly in Telugu, in addition to some movies in Hindi, Tamil and Kannada. On 20 February 1980, Chiranjeevi married Surekha, the daughter of Telugu comedian actor Allu Ramalingaiah. They’ve two daughters, Sushmitha and Sreeja, and a son, Ram Charan.
Chiranjeevi has two brothers, Nagendra Babu, a movie producer and actor, and Pawan Kalyan, an actor-politician. Allu Aravind, his brother-in-law, is a movie producer. Chiranjeevi has two sisters, Vijaya Durga and Madhavi Rao. Durga has two sons, Sai Dharam Tej and Panja Vaisshnav Tej, each of whom are actors. He’s uncle to actors Allu Arjun, Allu Sirish, Varun Tej, Niharika, Sai Dharam Tej, and Panja Vaisshnav Tej.
Ram Charan (Chiranjeevi’s son)
Ram has carved out a distinct segment on his personal as a incredible actor, regardless of being the son of megastar Chiranjeevi. With Puri Jagannadh’s Chirutha, Ram Charan debuted as an actor in Telugu movies in 2007. He took appearing coaching at Mumbai’s famend Kishore Namit Kapoor appearing college to hone his skills. He additionally made his Hindi movie debut in ‘Zanjeer’, a remake of the 1973 Bollywood blockbuster of the identical title, co-starring Priyanka Chopra. He’s married to Upasana Kamineni, and the couple welcomed their first youngster, a daughter named Klin Kaara Konidela final 12 months.
Nagendra Babu (Chiranjeevi’s brother)
Nagendra Babu, who’s an actor and producer, acts primarily in supporting and antagonist roles, although he has additionally performed the lead in some movies. He has acted in ‘143’, ‘Anji’, ‘Shock’, ‘Sri Ramadasu’, ‘Chandamama ‘and ‘Orange’. He has produced a number of movies along with his brothers, Chiranjeevi. He has two youngsters, actors Varun Tej and Niharika.
Varun Tej (Nagendra Babu’ son)
Tej is the son of actor Nagendra Babu. Tej made his appearing debut in 2014 with Mukunda. He acquired reward for that includes in Krish’s critically acclaimed conflict movie Kanche. Varun received married to actress Lavanya Tripathi final 12 months.
Niharika Konidela (Nagendra Babu’s daughter)
Niharika Konidela is an Indian actress and producer who predominantly works in Telugu movies. She made her debut with the movie Oka Manasu. She produces movies and net collection beneath her banner.
Pawan Kalyan (Chiranjeevi’s brother)
Konidela Pawan Kalyan is an Indian actor, politician, filmmaker, martial artist, and philanthropist who primarily works in Telugu cinema. Kalyan made his appearing debut within the 1996 movie Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbayi however rose to prominence with the dramas ‘Gokulamlo Seeta’ (1997) and ‘Suswagatham’ (1998).
He’s a father of 4 youngsters specifically Akira Nandan, Aadhya Konidela, Mark Shankar Pawanovich and Polena Anjana Pawanova. He received married thrice, and his high-profile divorce from his first spouse Nandini precipitated him a lot anguish.
(With inputs by Nitesh Poojari)
