Moviesthepassion: Ram Charan Tej's Profile

9 Aug 2011

Ram Charan Tej's Profile

Name : Ram Charan Tej

Nick Name : Cherry

Date of Birth : 27th March, 1985

Birth Place : Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Height : 5ft 9in / 175 cm

Zodiac Sign : Aries(Mesham)

Languages : Telugu, Hindi, English

Father : Chiranjeevi (Tollywood MegaStar)

Mother : Konidela Surekha(Daughter of Veteran Actor And Comedian Padmashri Late Dr. Allu Ramalingayya)

Sisters : Sushmita (Called as Honey), Srija (Called as Sweety)

Favorite Actors : Amitabh Bachchan, Brad Pitt, Pawan Kalyan, Chiranjeevi

Party Animal : Occasionally

Hobbies : Horse riding (which he learnt while he was in Ooty), Playing with pet ‘Jack’

Favorite Hangout : Fusion 9

Favorite Pastimes : Jogging, Gym and pets

Food: Continental and Indian food.

Ram Charan Tej, also known as Cherry, was born on 27 March 1985 in Chennai to actor Chiranjeevi and Smt. Surekha. He has two sisters, Sushmita and Srija. He is the grandson of Allu Ramalingaih and nephew of actors Nagendra Babu and Pawan Kalyan. His cousin Allu Arjun is also a Tollywood actor.

He made his film debut with Chirutha. Ram Charan(Cherry) studied in Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan School, Chennai and he was brought up there. He did his schooling in Chennai and Ooty. He is the famous for Dance in Telugu Film Industry and he has good skills in Martial Arts. He knows horse riding well and the person who encouraged him to be involved in horse riding was Prabhu, a Tamil actor.

Career:

Ram Charan made his film debut in 2007 with Chirutha, which was directed by Puri Jagannadh. The movie showed a good performance at the box office. Charan's performance was well-received and eventually received Filmfare Best Male Debut (South) and Nandi Special Jury Award for the role.

His second film, S. S. Rajamouli's Magadheera (2009), emerged a critical as well as huge commercial success. This film broke all records and ran for an uninterrupted 300 plus days, and became the highest grossing Telugu film earning around 90 crores. The movie was a show stealer at South Indian Filmfare awards for the year 2009 with six awards and Ram Charan getting the Filmfare Best Actor Award and Nandi Special Jury Award. After the mega block buster Magadheera, Ram Charan came with a romantic entertainer Orange. The flick was directed by Bommarillu Bhaskar and produced by Nagendra Babu.

Presently, Ram Charan is all set to play the lead under Sampath Nandi's direction. The movie is being jointly produced by Paras Jain and NV Prasad under Super Good Films banner. The title of the film has been framed as ‘Rachaa’. Ram Charan recently went to USA for a couple of months to get himself trained in various martial arts. The movie is in production phase and producers are planning to release the movie by the end of this year. Tamannaah Bhatia will be the female lead.

Towards the end of November 2009, Ram Charan was featured on the cover page of People's magazine (for their December South India edition).

Awards:

Nandi Award: 2007: Special Jury for Chirutha

CineMAA Award: 2007: Best Male Debut for Chirutha

Filmfare Award 2007: Best Male Debut for Chirutha

Filmography:

1. Chirutha (28 September 2007) : Name: Charan – Hit

2. Magadheera (31 July 2009) : Khaala Bhairava – Blockbuster

3. Orange (November 26, 2010): Name : Ram

Dubbing of Magadheera: Maaveeran (2011): Name: Raja Parthiban (Tamil) and as .Dheera (2011) : (Malayalam)

4. Rachaa (2012) - Filming
5.Cherry (2012) - Filming
6. Vaade(2012) - Filming