Ram Pothineni

Ram Pothineni
Born	(1988-05-15) 15 May 1988[1] Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India (now in Telangana, India)
Residence	Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2006–present
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Website	www.heroram.com

Ram Pothineni (born 15 May 1988) is an Indian film actor who is known for his works in Telugu cinema.^[2] Ram is the nephew of noted film producer Sravanthi Ravi Kishore. Ram made his film debut in 2006 with the masala flick Devadasu, which became a blockbuster at the box office. He won a Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut - South for his performance in the film. Following this, Ram rose to prominence with leading roles in critical and commercial successes such as Ready (2008), Maska (2009), Kandireega (2011), Pandaga Chesko (2015), and Nenu Sailaja (2016), establishing himself as one of the leading stars of Telugu cinema. Ram is fondly referred to as 'Energetic Star' by his fans.

Personal life

Pothineni was born on 15 May 1988 in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (now Telangana) to father Muralimohan Pothineni.^[3]. He did his schooling at Chettinad Vidyashram in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He is the nephew of successful producer Sravanthi Ravi Kishore.

Career

In 2002, Ram acted in a Tamil short film titled "Adayalam"and he won Best actor in European movies festival. The producer and Director were awarded Notable film in New Jersey Art Film Festival. He auditioned for the lead role in Kaadhal. Ram made his debut in 2006 with Devadasu and the film went on to become a blockbuster, running for 175 days in over a 17 centers and completed 205 days in Hyderabad Odeon 70mm theatre.^[4][5] His second film, Jagadam was directed by Sukumar. Though it did not do well at the box office, it received critical acclaim. He then appeared in Ready alongside Genelia D'Souza directed by Srinu Vaitla with the film becoming a huge success, prompting remakes into other Indian languages and catapulting him to the big league.^[6] In 2009, he had two releases, Maska and Ganesh Just Ganesh, the later was not successful at the box office. Maska had one of the biggest openings at the time, collecting over ₹2.5 crores on the opening day and recovering its investment within the first week. In 2010, Ram had only one release, Rama Rama Krishna Krishna, produced by Dil Raju and directed by Srivaas. Ram's next film Kandireega was a big blockbuster of 2011 and Ram proved to be the man of the masses along with his lover boy image. His next latest release was Endhukante Premanta with Tamannaah, directed by Karunakaran and produced by Sravanthi Ravi Kishore. The movie was shot in the beautiful lavish locales with a huge budget but it turned out to be an average grosser.

In 2013, Ram had yet another release, Ongole Githa with Kriti Kharbanda directed by Bhaskar and produced by B.V.S.N. Prasad. The movie was sold for a record price in Ram's career, released on 1 February 2013 and was commercial failure at the box office. He next starred with Daggubati Venkatesh in Masala, the remake of the Hindi film Bol Bachchan which was directed by K. Vijaya Bhaskar and jointly produced by Sravanthi Ravi Kishore and Suresh Babu.^[7] In 2015 he starred in Pandaga Chesko directed by Gopichand Malineni and produced by Paruchuri Kireeti under United Movies Banner.^[8] Its reviews were not encouraging but it managed to strike the right chord with the masses and became a hit film. his next releases were Shivam and Nenu Sailaja within a gap of three months in the same year. Both produced by his own production house, Shivam took a great opening but could not sustain due to bad reviews. Surprisingly, the immediate release Nenu Sailaja took a grand opening worldwide with a record collection of 7 crores on day 1, the highest for Ram and did extremely well worldwide. It is the highest viewed music video album for a Telugu film on YouTube with over 3 songs with 25 million views and "Crazy Feeling" with over 30 million views, a record for a Telugu film. Hyper released on September 30, 2016, directed by Santosh Srinivas and produced under 14 Reels Entertainment. It earned mixed reviews and ended up as an average grosser.In 2017 he release another movie vunnadi okkatey zindagi produced by sravanthi kishore .with his co-star sriviahnu its give good reviews to his carrier.

Filmography

See also

• List of Indian film actors

References

External links

• Official website