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Personal life

 Ravi Teja alias Bhoopatiraju Ravishankar Raju was born in Jaggampeta, East Godavari District in Andhra Pradesh. He is the eldest of three sons to his father, Bhoopatiraju Rajgopal Raju, a pharmacist and mother Rajyalaxmi Bhoopatiraju, a home maker. Both his brothers are now actors as well. Bhoopatiraju Raghunath Raju aka Raghu has also played the lead in a few B-Grade Telugu films and Bhoopathiraju Bharatraj Raju shared space with Ravi Teja in a few of his films and now plays negative roles in Tollywood. Before starting his career in Tollywood, Ravi Teja spent most of his childhood in Jaipur, Delhi, Mumbai and Bhopal. Later on he moved to Vijayawada along with his family and joined Siddhartha Degree College to pursue his Bachelors in Arts. Half way through his graduation, he left to Chennai on October 2nd 1988 to join Films.

 

On May 26, 2002 he married his now wife, Kalyani who hails from Ganapavaram, West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh. On June 6, 2003, he was first blessed with a daughter, Mokshadha and on July 28, 2006, his son, Manit, was born.

 

 Childhood

Ravi Teja spent most of his childhood in North India. His father, Bhoopathiraju Rajgopal Raju, a very ambitious man, went through several transfers and took up new opportunities resulting in Ravi Teja's family having to travel a lot throughout India. Even as a child, Ravi was fascinated with cinema and his icon till date remains the Legend Mr. Amitabh Bachchan. Several times he would see Amitabh Bachchan's movies and re-enact them at home. In one such attempt, when he was just 5 years old, he set ablaze the couches of his living room when his mother was out shopping and put both his kid brothers in between the 'fire wall' to rescue them. Punished of course was he for this but the passion in his heart had for films kept growing by the day. At age 11, he tried to run away from his home in Jaipur to Mumbai so he could join Bollywood and become as famous as Amitabh Bachchan. All his juvenile attempts to join cinema were strictly kept at bay by his family. Later the family moved to Vijayawada and he joined the Siddharatha Degree College to pursue his Bachelors in Arts. 

Early career

 His interest in films brought him into the film industry. In the beginning, he worked in both Television and Films as an Assistant Director but continued in feature films after that. He worked in several Bollywood as well as Tollywood projects including Prathibandh, Aaj Ka Goondaraj and Criminal. He managed to do a few small time roles in Bollywood as well. He acted as one of Chiranjeevi's friends in Aaj Ka Goondaraj. Ravi Teja joined Krishna Vamsi as an assistant director for Ninne Pelladatha. He also did a petty role in the film. Following Ninne Pelladatha, Krishna Vamsi gave him a well deserved break by casting him as one of the Lead actors in Sindhuram. Though he got a good name for Sindhuram, his career did not profit much from that. After that he played second lead in few films like Pattukondi Chuddam, Premaku Velayara and Padutha Thiyaga etc. His first film as a lead actor was Neekosam, 1999 directed by Sreenu Vaitla

 

Career Success

It was Nee Kosam directed by a debut 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 his big break with Itlu Sravani Subramanyam. Puri Jagannath, who was desperately looking to establish himself in the industry, though his debut film Badri with Pawan Kalyan was a hit, 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's kitty. 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 ragamuffin and mass hero. With all three of these films being super hits, he came to be known as the Hat-Trick hero. The character Chanti clicked and was a rage in Andhra Pradesh. His famous line "Chantigadu local" is still mouthed by many youngsters over Andhra Pradesh.

 

In 2003, Ravi Teja played the lead in Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi, which became one of the biggest hits of the year. The year 2006 has been very special to Ravi Teja as he gave one of his career's biggest hit Vikramarkudu, directed by S. S. Rajamouli, despite the flop Shock, a Ram Gopal Varma production. Currently in 2008, the movie Krishna directed by V. V. Vinayak, has broken all the previous records of Ravi Teja, making it the biggest hit of his career.

 

Ravi Teja direct Ram Gopal Varmas film

 

Actor Ravi Teja is well known as a mass hero. But before his debut in the film industry as a hero, he worked as an assistant director under Ram Gopal Varma. Now, it is reported that Ravi Teja is going to direct a film of Ram Gopal Varma.

 

Paritala Ravi who was a well known factionist and a TDP leader was brutally murdered in public 5 years ago. His wife Sunitha was much inclined to produce a film with her husband’s life story as the script. But due to some unknown reason she could not succeed in doing so and so she handed over the idea and thoughts to Ram Gopal Varma. Now Ram Gopal Varma is ready with the subject and has asked Ravi Teja to direct this film.

 

Ravi Teja picking his pace in tollywood Ravi Teja, who made his debut in tollywood as a villain is now a big hero. The latest report suggests that he is now a proud owner of a Mercedes e class Benz which is worth of 40 lacs. Slowly and sweetly, the mass hero has made a special place in the hearts of the tollywood fans.

 

Now, at present the tollywood industry has only few big names who have succeeded in their film careers. One such name is Ravi Teja who is next to Pawan Kalyan and Mahesh Babu who has more youth fan following, Then Junior NTR and Prabhas. Since Jagapathi, Tarun, Nithin and Allu Arjun have their respective film back grounds they are also little bit considered in tollywood. 

 

Filmography

Year       Title       Role       Co-Star                 Director

2008       Neninthe             Filming Siya        Puri Jagannadh

Baladur                 Chanti   Anushka Shetty                Uday Shankar

Krishna                 Krishna                 Trisha Krishnan                 V.V. Vinayak

2007       Dubai Seenu      Srinivas                 Nayantara           Srinu Vytla

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 Ellore

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   Srinu Vytla

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                  Ramya Krishna S.V.Krishna Reddy

Itlu Sravani Subramanyam           Subramanyam   Tanu Roy,Samrin              Puri Jagannadh

 

Supporting Roles

Year       Title       Role       Co-Star                 Director

2000       Annayya              Ravi                        Muthyala Subbaiha

Tirumala Tirupathi Venkatesha Tirupathi              Maheswari         E.Sathi Babu

1999       Samudram          [bujji gadu]                         Krishna Vamsi

Manasichhi choodu         Chanti                   Mutyala Subbaiah

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