Saturday, February 23, 2008
PAWAN KALYAN INFORMATION
Pawan Kalyan (born September 2, 1971 is a popular Indian film star and director in Andhra Pradesh. He is fondly called Power Star by his fans. His birth name is Konidala Kalyan.He is younger brother to popular Telugu Actor Chiranjeevi and Naga Babu.
Early career
Pawan Kalyan entered Telugu movie industry with the movie Akkada Abbai Ikkada Ammayi as Kalyan Babu. This film did not do well at the box office. However, he was noticed for his Martial Arts.
Career
After his first movie, his second movie Gokulamlo Sita was an average flick but his next movies like Suswagatham, Tholi Prema, Thammudu, Badri, and Kushi went on to become hits which earned him a decent reputation. Kushi was a trend setter and was received well both commercially and critically.He even directed few song sequences and fight sequences in the Sensational Film Kushi. Also directed one fight sequence in the film Daddy for his brother Megastar Chiranjeevi.
Toliprema
This film is generally referred as turning point in his career. It is love story, where the hero loves heroine, but does not express his feelings to her,as she is very determined with her academics, the climax of the film shows the heroines love for the hero.The brother and sister relationship is well crafted in the movie
Thammudu
After the surprise blockbuster Toliprema, many were eagerly awaiting for the his next film. Pawan's next film was Thammudu. This film was loosely inspired from Aamir Khan's film "Jo Jeeta wohi Sikandar",where he plays a character called "Subbu" who is very casual towards life and does not show interest in academics, He plays the role of a brother, the film is about winning the Kick-boxing championship which was his fathers dream, which his elder brother could not accomplish it. The comedy scenes delivered by Kalyan are very good. The love track is also very interesting, the love and action are perfectly mixed in this film. Success of this film earned him many fans all over Andhra Pradesh.
Badri
After the success of Thammudu, the next film of Pawan Kalyan was Badri. Puri Jaggannadh made his debut as director with this film. The story of the film is about a guy who is unable to decide whom should he marry as he falls in love with another girl unknowingly. Initially the film was rated as an above average but later it became to be one of the hits of Pawan Kalyans career. The highlight of this film was the cowboy costume by Pawan Kalyan in the song "Yeh Chikita". In this film he shows an extardinary tallent when saying dialogs, when he says slow and power full dialogs to prakash raj.
Kushi
Kushi is considered as the biggest hit of Pawan Kalyan."One-Man-Show" is the apt word that describes the role of Pawan Kalyan in this film. The fights in this film are composed by Pawan Kalyan himself.KUSHI is a TRENDSETTER movie of tollywood. Kushi created & broke the records of all prevous tollywood movies.
His dialogue delivery and modulation is impeccable. This film shows the ego feelings between the lovers. PC Sreeram's photography is excellent. He directed 2 songs in the film and costumes for Pawan Kalyan are mangaed by his girlfriend Renu Desai. This film is known for its screenplay and full credit to S.J Suryah. Even the tamil version starring vijay is a big hit
After Kushi
After Kushi, Kalyan had five more releases Johnny, Gudumba Shankar, Balu ABCDEFG, Bangaram and Annavaram. All these movies did not do well as expected but were received with good collections. Pawan Kalyan ventured into direction with the movie Johnny which didn't do well.
Johnny
It was made in the direction of Pawan Kalyan himself and produced by Allu Aravind.The movie didn't do well(Bombed Misarably).It lacked the story and perfect screen play.He failed to blend the human emotions with the mass appeal.Also lookwise it is completely different to the his earlier movie Khushi.So, people and fans completely disappointed with his look and work.
Gudumba Shankar
It is directed by Veer Shankar and produced by his elder brother Nagababu.Although people had high expectations on this film,it didn't convert those expectations into collections.The story made this movie as a below average movie.The direction looked disappoint though,there are kalyan's style of humor and comedy that made the movie some what below average.
Balu ABCDEFGH
In this movie karunakar and pawan teamed up again after Tholiprema.It was produced by Mega Producer Aswanidutt.But it failed to convert the crazy combination into good movie.This movie lacked the nativity.Also lacked was comedy.Pawan created new style in this movie with his costumes.
Bangaram
It was the another movie of pawan that disappointed fans,buyers,distributors and producer.It was produced by AM Rathnam and directed by Dharani.The story was very week.Also the Comedy part was missed.
Annavram
It was the remake of Tamil hit Thirupachhi.It was produced by Paras Jain and NVPrasad and directed by Bheemineni Srinivasa Rao. This is 5th film after Khushi.It became a average grosser at the box office.About 5 films his fans are waiting for a hit, which he failed to deliver.
Jalsa
Pawan is currently doing a film with Trivikram Srinivas. This movie is titled as Jalsa.This movie is far from media hype but still it managed to get hype because Pawan - Trivikam combo. The movie also has Illeana, the current youth heart throb.Parvathi Melton and Kamalini Mukherjee are doing guest roles . Pawan Kalyan always got admiration from stalwarts like A.M. Rathnam, P.C. Sreeram etc..His fans are hoping that atleast this will give some cheer to them and will become a hit which is eluding Pawan from past 6 years and 5 movies.
Trivia
Pawan Kalyan is a Vegetarian.
He holds a Black Belt in Martial Arts and did real stunts for his movies - Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbai and Thammudu.
Renu Desai is the Costume designer for most of his films.
Pawan Kalyan was the first south indian actor to appear in an endorsement,for the soft drink PEPSI but now replaced by his nephew Allu Arjun.
He returned money back to the distributors for his film Johnny didnt do well at the Box Office.
Apart from being an actor, he feels also as a Director, Screenplay writer, Choreographer, Stunt Master and a Playback singer.[1]
Pawan enjoys doing cultivation and spends lot of time in his farm house doing gardening
Ali is the best friend of pawan kalyan
"Victory" Venkatesh is a good friend of Pawan Kalyan and both expressed their interest to act in a film.
Tamil sensational actor Vijay is also a good friend and great fan of him.[2]
Tamil and Telugu actress Trisha in an interview said that, she had a crush on Pawan Kalyan.[3]
Telugu movie actress Nikita's favourite hero too is Pawan Kalyan.[4]
Telugu actresses Genelia and shriya are also big fans of pawankalyan.
He has a good rapport with music director Ramana Gogula and the creative directors - Puri Jagannadh and A. Karunakaran.
Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1996 Akkada Abbai Ikkada Ammayi Kalyan Kumar debut film,Average
1997 Gokulamlo Seetha Pavan Play Boy
1998 Suswagatham Ganesh Hit
Tholi Prema Balu [[2]]; National Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu[5] and State Golden Nandi award for the best feature film[6]
1999 Thammudu Subrahmanyam / "Subbu" Subhash Kick Boxer,Hit
2000 Badri Badri-Badrinath Fashion Designer and Ad director,Hit
2001 Khushi "Sidhu" Sidhartha Roy Mega Blockbuster, Also provided stunts and choreographed a couple of songs[[3]]
2003 Johnny Johnny Average
2004 Gudumba Shankar Shankar / Kalyanji - Anandji Average
Shankardada MBBS Special appearance
2005 Balu ABCDEFG Balu / Ghani Average
2006 Bangaram Bangaram Average
Annavaram Annavaram Average
2007 Shankardada Zindabad Suresh Played an important guest role.
Jalsa pawan kalyan oadhi(dus)
See also
Chiranjeevi
"Victory" Venkatesh
Allu Arjun
Bala Krishna
Ram Charan Teja
Tollywood
References
^ "Pawan Kalyan Filmography"
^ "Behind Woods: Vijay at Hyderabad: Telugu fans happy"
^ [1] "Trisha: I love Pawan Kalyan but don't know why"
^ "TeluguCinema.com:, Star Interviews: Nikita's Personal Profile
^ "National Film award for the best Telugu Feature Film"
^ "List of Nandi Award winners for the Best Feature Film
External links
Pawan Kalyan at the Internet Movie Database
Pawan Kalyan's Son: Akira Nandan Konidela
Pawan Kalyan's Satyagrahi
Pawan Kalyan Fansite
Chiranjeevi - Pawan Kalyan Fansite
Mega Fansite
Early career
Pawan Kalyan entered Telugu movie industry with the movie Akkada Abbai Ikkada Ammayi as Kalyan Babu. This film did not do well at the box office. However, he was noticed for his Martial Arts.
Career
After his first movie, his second movie Gokulamlo Sita was an average flick but his next movies like Suswagatham, Tholi Prema, Thammudu, Badri, and Kushi went on to become hits which earned him a decent reputation. Kushi was a trend setter and was received well both commercially and critically.He even directed few song sequences and fight sequences in the Sensational Film Kushi. Also directed one fight sequence in the film Daddy for his brother Megastar Chiranjeevi.
Toliprema
This film is generally referred as turning point in his career. It is love story, where the hero loves heroine, but does not express his feelings to her,as she is very determined with her academics, the climax of the film shows the heroines love for the hero.The brother and sister relationship is well crafted in the movie
Thammudu
After the surprise blockbuster Toliprema, many were eagerly awaiting for the his next film. Pawan's next film was Thammudu. This film was loosely inspired from Aamir Khan's film "Jo Jeeta wohi Sikandar",where he plays a character called "Subbu" who is very casual towards life and does not show interest in academics, He plays the role of a brother, the film is about winning the Kick-boxing championship which was his fathers dream, which his elder brother could not accomplish it. The comedy scenes delivered by Kalyan are very good. The love track is also very interesting, the love and action are perfectly mixed in this film. Success of this film earned him many fans all over Andhra Pradesh.
Badri
After the success of Thammudu, the next film of Pawan Kalyan was Badri. Puri Jaggannadh made his debut as director with this film. The story of the film is about a guy who is unable to decide whom should he marry as he falls in love with another girl unknowingly. Initially the film was rated as an above average but later it became to be one of the hits of Pawan Kalyans career. The highlight of this film was the cowboy costume by Pawan Kalyan in the song "Yeh Chikita". In this film he shows an extardinary tallent when saying dialogs, when he says slow and power full dialogs to prakash raj.
Kushi
Kushi is considered as the biggest hit of Pawan Kalyan."One-Man-Show" is the apt word that describes the role of Pawan Kalyan in this film. The fights in this film are composed by Pawan Kalyan himself.KUSHI is a TRENDSETTER movie of tollywood. Kushi created & broke the records of all prevous tollywood movies.
His dialogue delivery and modulation is impeccable. This film shows the ego feelings between the lovers. PC Sreeram's photography is excellent. He directed 2 songs in the film and costumes for Pawan Kalyan are mangaed by his girlfriend Renu Desai. This film is known for its screenplay and full credit to S.J Suryah. Even the tamil version starring vijay is a big hit
After Kushi
After Kushi, Kalyan had five more releases Johnny, Gudumba Shankar, Balu ABCDEFG, Bangaram and Annavaram. All these movies did not do well as expected but were received with good collections. Pawan Kalyan ventured into direction with the movie Johnny which didn't do well.
Johnny
It was made in the direction of Pawan Kalyan himself and produced by Allu Aravind.The movie didn't do well(Bombed Misarably).It lacked the story and perfect screen play.He failed to blend the human emotions with the mass appeal.Also lookwise it is completely different to the his earlier movie Khushi.So, people and fans completely disappointed with his look and work.
Gudumba Shankar
It is directed by Veer Shankar and produced by his elder brother Nagababu.Although people had high expectations on this film,it didn't convert those expectations into collections.The story made this movie as a below average movie.The direction looked disappoint though,there are kalyan's style of humor and comedy that made the movie some what below average.
Balu ABCDEFGH
In this movie karunakar and pawan teamed up again after Tholiprema.It was produced by Mega Producer Aswanidutt.But it failed to convert the crazy combination into good movie.This movie lacked the nativity.Also lacked was comedy.Pawan created new style in this movie with his costumes.
Bangaram
It was the another movie of pawan that disappointed fans,buyers,distributors and producer.It was produced by AM Rathnam and directed by Dharani.The story was very week.Also the Comedy part was missed.
Annavram
It was the remake of Tamil hit Thirupachhi.It was produced by Paras Jain and NVPrasad and directed by Bheemineni Srinivasa Rao. This is 5th film after Khushi.It became a average grosser at the box office.About 5 films his fans are waiting for a hit, which he failed to deliver.
Jalsa
Pawan is currently doing a film with Trivikram Srinivas. This movie is titled as Jalsa.This movie is far from media hype but still it managed to get hype because Pawan - Trivikam combo. The movie also has Illeana, the current youth heart throb.Parvathi Melton and Kamalini Mukherjee are doing guest roles . Pawan Kalyan always got admiration from stalwarts like A.M. Rathnam, P.C. Sreeram etc..His fans are hoping that atleast this will give some cheer to them and will become a hit which is eluding Pawan from past 6 years and 5 movies.
Trivia
Pawan Kalyan is a Vegetarian.
He holds a Black Belt in Martial Arts and did real stunts for his movies - Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbai and Thammudu.
Renu Desai is the Costume designer for most of his films.
Pawan Kalyan was the first south indian actor to appear in an endorsement,for the soft drink PEPSI but now replaced by his nephew Allu Arjun.
He returned money back to the distributors for his film Johnny didnt do well at the Box Office.
Apart from being an actor, he feels also as a Director, Screenplay writer, Choreographer, Stunt Master and a Playback singer.[1]
Pawan enjoys doing cultivation and spends lot of time in his farm house doing gardening
Ali is the best friend of pawan kalyan
"Victory" Venkatesh is a good friend of Pawan Kalyan and both expressed their interest to act in a film.
Tamil sensational actor Vijay is also a good friend and great fan of him.[2]
Tamil and Telugu actress Trisha in an interview said that, she had a crush on Pawan Kalyan.[3]
Telugu movie actress Nikita's favourite hero too is Pawan Kalyan.[4]
Telugu actresses Genelia and shriya are also big fans of pawankalyan.
He has a good rapport with music director Ramana Gogula and the creative directors - Puri Jagannadh and A. Karunakaran.
Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1996 Akkada Abbai Ikkada Ammayi Kalyan Kumar debut film,Average
1997 Gokulamlo Seetha Pavan Play Boy
1998 Suswagatham Ganesh Hit
Tholi Prema Balu [[2]]; National Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu[5] and State Golden Nandi award for the best feature film[6]
1999 Thammudu Subrahmanyam / "Subbu" Subhash Kick Boxer,Hit
2000 Badri Badri-Badrinath Fashion Designer and Ad director,Hit
2001 Khushi "Sidhu" Sidhartha Roy Mega Blockbuster, Also provided stunts and choreographed a couple of songs[[3]]
2003 Johnny Johnny Average
2004 Gudumba Shankar Shankar / Kalyanji - Anandji Average
Shankardada MBBS Special appearance
2005 Balu ABCDEFG Balu / Ghani Average
2006 Bangaram Bangaram Average
Annavaram Annavaram Average
2007 Shankardada Zindabad Suresh Played an important guest role.
Jalsa pawan kalyan oadhi(dus)
See also
Chiranjeevi
"Victory" Venkatesh
Allu Arjun
Bala Krishna
Ram Charan Teja
Tollywood
References
^ "Pawan Kalyan Filmography"
^ "Behind Woods: Vijay at Hyderabad: Telugu fans happy"
^ [1] "Trisha: I love Pawan Kalyan but don't know why"
^ "TeluguCinema.com:, Star Interviews: Nikita's Personal Profile
^ "National Film award for the best Telugu Feature Film"
^ "List of Nandi Award winners for the Best Feature Film
External links
Pawan Kalyan at the Internet Movie Database
Pawan Kalyan's Son: Akira Nandan Konidela
Pawan Kalyan's Satyagrahi
Pawan Kalyan Fansite
Chiranjeevi - Pawan Kalyan Fansite
Mega Fansite
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