Published 13:24 IST, September 3rd 2018

Actor Pawan Kalyan Is A True Power Star. Here's Why

Actor Pawan Kalyan who has worked predominantly in the Telugu film industry turned 47 on September 2, 2018

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Pawan Kalyan, Power Star of Telugu cinema belongs to one of biggest cinema family of south India. Pawan Kalyan who me his acting debut in 1996 is youngest bror of south star Chiranjeevi. He boasts of a successful career down south with 25 films to his credit in past two deces in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi and Kanna langus combined. Over years, Pawan Kalyan ah donned hat of a producer, director, actor, screenwriter, stunt coordinator, playback, sticking true to his title of Power star.

Actor

Pawan Kalyan me his acting debut with Telugu film ‘Akka Ammayi Ikka Abbayi’ in 1996. following two films were remakes of Tamil films  Gokulathil Seethai and Love Today. During his first film, actor was named as Kalyan Kumar and took up screen name of Pawan Kalyan after ‘Gokulamlo Seeta’.

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In 2004, Pawan Kalyan me a cameo appearance in ‘Shankar Da M.B.B.S’, in which titular role was played by his bror Chiranjeevi and it was remake of ‘Munnabhai M.B.B.S’. He received his first Filmfare mination for film ‘Kushi’ in year 2001. For 2012 film 'Gabbar Singh' actor got several awards for Best actor including Filmfare Award, Hyderab Times Film Award, SIIMA Award and CineMAA Award. 

He was last seen in film 'Agnyaathavaasi' which was directed by Trivikram Srinivas and released in early January this year. 

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Behind Camera Work

In 2003 film ‘Johnny’, power star donned role of a director, choreographer, writer and actor. He played a kickboxer in film and it is only film directed by him. Produced by Allu Arvind film tanked at box office. 

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Before his acting debut, he h produced three films starring Chiranjeevi as K.Kalyan under banner of Anjana Productions.  Later he produced, Sardar Gabbar Singh' and ‘Chal Mohan Rang’ in 2016 and 2018 respectively. While ‘Sardar Gabbar Singh’ did fairly well at box-office, ‘Chal Mohan Rang’ failed to impress audience.

From 1999 to 2004, actor has also worked as a stunt coordinator for films like ‘Thammudu’, ‘Kushi’, ‘Bri’ and ‘Johnny’ among ors. That was t all, actor has also tried his hand at playback singing and has rendered his voice for some of songs from his film including 'Thati Chettu', 'Killi Killi', 'Kaatama Rayudaa' among ors. His latest song is from film ‘Agnyaathavaasi’, titled ‘Kodakaa Koteswar Rao’.

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Politician

In 2014, actor found his own political party ‘Jana Sena’ meaning People’s Army in Telugu. He h also extensively campaigned for Telugu Desam Party and BJP to join hands in Andhra Presh and Telangana. In 2016, actor anunced that his party will be contesting 2019 elections.

 

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16:57 IST, September 2nd 2018