Ravi Teja

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Ravi Teja
Born	January 26 1963 (1963-01-26) (age 46) Image:Flag of India.svg West Godavari, India

Ravi Teja (Telugu: రవి తేజ) born January 26, 1963) is an Indian Telugu film actor.

1 Personal life
2 Career
3 Filmography
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Personal life

Ravi Teja Alias Bhupatiraju Ravi Shankar Raju is from West Godavari District in Andhra Pradesh. Before starting his career in Tollywood, Teja spent most of his life in North India. His father was a pharmacist. His mother is a housewife. Later on he moved to Vijayawada along with his family and joined Siddhartha Degree College. In 1987 after completing his education,he came to join in films. On July 28, 2006, his first son was born.^[1]

[edit] Career

At the beginning of his film career, he worked as an assistant director for several films. From then, he planned to do small roles. He got his big break from Puri Jagannadh to make Itlu Sravani Subramanyam. Later the same pair produced Idiot in 2002 which went on to become to become one of the biggest hits of that year,his performance and puri's direction was critically acclaimed. Later that same year, he starred in Krishna Vamsi's Khadgam, which became a super hit for Teja. In 2003, Teja played the lead role in Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi, which became one of the biggest hits in his career. He also starred in other average flicks in that year as well. In 2004, he starred in one hit (Venky) and two flops (Naa Autograph & Chanti). In 2005, Teja played the lead role in Dil Raju's Bhadra, which became a big hit and completed a hatrick for Dil Raju. He also starred in Bhageeradha, which was hardly recognized at box office. The year 2006 has been very special to Teja as he gave his career biggest hit Vikramarkudu, despite flop films Shock and Khatarnak. His next movie Dubai Seenu was a successful venture at the box-office.

[edit] Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	Krishna	Krishna	Filming
2007	Dubai Seenu	Srinivas
2006	Khatarnak	Dasu
	Vikramarkudu	Athili Sathi Babu/Vikram Rathod
	Shock	Sekhar
2005	Bhageeradha	Chandu
2005	Bhadra	Bhadra
2004	Chanti	Chanti
	Naa Autograph	Seenu
	Venky	Venky
2003	Veede	Yedukondalu
	Dongodu	Madhava
	Oka Raju Oka Rani	Ravi
	Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi	Chandu
	Ee Abbai Chala Manchodu
2002	Khadgam	Koti
	Avunu Valliddaru Ista Paddaru	Anil
	Idiot	Chanti
2001	Budget Padmanabham
2001	Itlu Sravani Subramanyam	Subramanyam
2000	Annayya	Ravi
2000	Tirumala Tirupathi Venkatesha
1998	Sindooram		Uncredited
1996	Ninne Pelladutha		Uncredited
1993	Allari Priyudu		Uncredited
1992	Aaj Ka Goonda Raj		Uncredited
1991	Karthavyam		Uncredited