Chiranjeevi, the veteran actor has had an inspiring journey throughout his career which started from a remote village in Andhra Pradesh to his jubilee hills bungalow. He is a phenomenal actor and a grooving dancer, and has made millions of fans throughout his journey.
The Megastar has come a long way from being just a middle-class boy who spent most of his childhood with his grandparents and participating in the Republic day parade as an NCC cadet. He is considered the complete Actor of the Telugu movie industry who can dance, act, and fight simultaneously with the same energy and elegance.
Business Industry insiders called him a money machine because of his back-to-back successful movies in the 80s and 90s. He was one of the highest-earning actors in India in the early 90s. At one point he received 1.25 crore as a signing amount for the movie Aapadbandhavudu, the highest amount for an Indian actor to charge for a movie. He also received the Samman award in 2002 for being the highest Income payer by the Ministry of State for Finance.
As he excelled in the film industry, he was also active in politics and formed his own party Praja Rajyam in 2008. In 2011, He merged his party with Indian National Congress and served as Union minister of state, Ministry of tourism in the Indian government, which he continued to serve till 2014. His younger brother Pawan Kalyan is also very active in Politics and has formed his own political party, Jan Sewa.
Megastar Chiranjeevi is the founder of the famous Konidela family of the Telugu movie industry.
His younger brothers, Nagendra babu and Pawan Kalyan are very successful in the Telugu movie industry. Chiranjeevi's son Ram Charan is also one of the highest-paid actors in the Telugu movie industry.
He is also uncle to many other industry stars, such as Allu Arjun, Allu Sirish, Varun tej, Niharika, and Sai Dharam Tej.
But with all such superstars from his family, he also has been accused of spreading nepotism in the industry.
While he's had an illustrious career and is beloved by his admirers, he has also been marred with many controversies.
Most recently, his feud with Actor Rajasekhar has been under the media radar. Chiranjeevi has quit the disciplinary committee of the Movie Artistes Association after the allegations of Actor Rajasekhar about the working culture in the Association.
He allegedly blamed the Association while visiting an event in front of Chiranjeevi, which did not go well with the Megastar. This led to him submitting his resignation to the MAA. However, both the actors have denied having any problems between them, and Chiranjeevi has cited his schedule as the reason for the resignation.
He was once alleged to have destroyed the career of Uday Kiran, who called off his engagement with Chiranjeevi's eldest daughter Sushmitha. There have also been accusations of instigating Uday Kiran for his suicide in 2014.
Another case where Chiranjeevi was under media attention was when his daughter Sreeja's ex-husband Sirish sent a court notice against his daughter. He alleged that she was depriving his rights to meet their biological daughter Nivruthi. Furthermore, Sirish demands the court to allow him to take his daughter permanently to his house as Sreeja has already been married again.
Megastar was also once accused by many organizations for his Blood band and Eye bank, which operated under this Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust. In response, the AP government formed a high-level committee to investigate the various aspects of the trust. But Megastar was given a clean chit for any such allegations.
Chiranjeevi is one of the finest actors we have in the south film industry.
In an interview, famous director K. Balachander once said, "Chiranjeevi the great Megastar has Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth in him.,"
He is an inspiration to millions of people and all the newcomers to look up. Our superstars have come so far from an unknown personality to the godfather of the south film industry.
