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Daggubati Venkatesh is a Actor and Scriptwriter Indian born on 13 december 1960 at Chennai (Inde)
Daggubati Venkatesh is an Indian film actor known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema. In a career spanning twenty seven years, he starred in sixty nine feature films. He has played a variety of roles in Telugu cinema and a few Bollywood films. He has received seven state Nandi Awards, and five Filmfare Awards for best acting.
Along with his brother Daggubati Suresh Babu, Venkatesh is the co-owner of Suresh Productions, one of the largest film production companies in India. Venkatesh has starred in several of his films under this production. In a career spanning three decades, he had many super hit films. His films like Bobbili Raja, Chanti, Preminchukundam Raa, Raja, Kalisundam Raa, Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, Lakshmi etc. turned out to be blockbusters, thus establishing him as a leading actor of Telugu cinema. He has the highest number of Nandi awards for best actor, he has won 5 of them. Owing to his popularity and success, he is widely known as Victory Venkatesh in the media. Apart from films, He is the Captain of Telugu Warriors representing Tollywood in Celebrity Cricket League.
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Daggubati Venkatesh
Birth name Venkatesh Daggubati
Nationality Inde
Birth 13 december 1960 (64 years) at Chennai (Inde)
Awards Filmfare Awards South, Nandi Awards
Nationality Inde
Birth 13 december 1960 (64 years) at Chennai (Inde)
Awards Filmfare Awards South, Nandi Awards
Along with his brother Daggubati Suresh Babu, Venkatesh is the co-owner of Suresh Productions, one of the largest film production companies in India. Venkatesh has starred in several of his films under this production. In a career spanning three decades, he had many super hit films. His films like Bobbili Raja, Chanti, Preminchukundam Raa, Raja, Kalisundam Raa, Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, Lakshmi etc. turned out to be blockbusters, thus establishing him as a leading actor of Telugu cinema. He has the highest number of Nandi awards for best actor, he has won 5 of them. Owing to his popularity and success, he is widely known as Victory Venkatesh in the media. Apart from films, He is the Captain of Telugu Warriors representing Tollywood in Celebrity Cricket League.
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Gopala Gopala (2015)
, 2h33Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Daggubati Venkatesh, Pawan Kalyan, Shriya Saran, Mithun Chakraborty, Posani Krishna Murali, Ashish Vidyarthi
Roles Gopala Rao
Rating71%
Kanneganti Gopala Rao is an atheist who owns a shop selling Hindu idols alongside his wife Meenakshi and son Moksha as well as his assistant Otthu. He obstructs a holy ritual involving his family, conducted by Siddheswar Maharaj, a fake godman. A sudden earthquake destroys his shop.
Drushyam (2014)
, 2h30Directed by Sripriya
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Daggubati Venkatesh, Meena, Nadhiya, Kruthika Jayakumar, Esther Anil, Naresh Vijaya
Roles Rambabu
Rating82%
Rambabu is a cable network operator who lives in Rajavaram, a village located in the Araku region, with his wife Jyothi and their daughters – Anju, a twelfth-grade student, and Anu, who is in secondary school. By virtue of his job, Rambabu spends a lot of time watching films in multiple languages. He does so with so much interest that he makes major life decisions by subconsciously taking on the behaviors of characters from these films.
Masala (2013)
, 2h20Directed by K. Vijaya Bhaskar
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Actors Daggubati Venkatesh, Ram Pothineni, Anjali, Shazahn Padamsee, Brahmanandam, Jaya Prakash Reddy
Roles Balaram
Rating53%
Balaram (Venkatesh) is a good hearted strongman of the village of Bheemarajapuram. He treats everyone with fairness and takes care of their needs. But there is one thing that Balaram cannot tolerate and that is lying. If he catches someone lying, Balaram metes out a severe punishment to the offender. Into this scenario comes in Rahman (Ram). Along with his sister Sania (Anjali), Rahman comes to the village in search of a job. With a brave deed, he falls into the good books of Balaram but circumstances force him to change his name to Ram. He soon becomes a trusted aide of Balaram and all is well for a while.
, 2h39Directed by Sreekanth Addala
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Daggubati Venkatesh, Mahesh Babu, Anjali, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Prakash Raj, Jayasudha Kapoor
Roles Peddodu
Rating74%
A kindhearted man, known as "Relangi mavayya" ("Relangi Uncle") by his family, lives in the village of the same name. His middle-class family consists of his wife, mother, niece Seetha and three children: two sons (Peddodu, "the elder" and Chinnodu, "the younger") and a daughter, Chinni. Peddodu is an introvert, who lives life on his own terms and is unsociable. Although Seetha wants to marry him, her love is apparently unrequited. Chinnodu is the opposite of his brother. He falls in love with Geetha, the daughter of Seetha's paternal uncle who is jealous of Chinnodu's father and denigrates his family's economic status. Although the family is close-knit, the brothers do not communicate well with each other.
Shatruvu (2013)
, 2h7Actors Daggubati Venkatesh, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Vijayakumar, Captain Raju, Brahmanandam, Jaya Prakash Reddy
Roles Ashok
Rating74%
Ashok (Venkatesh) is an advocate who works as a junior along with his two friends Raghava (Maharshi Raghava) & Bhaskar for advocate Durga Prasad (Vijay Kumar) who always fights for Justice. Durga Prasad and his wife Lakshmi (Sangeetha) treat them as their own children. Venkataratnam (Kota Srinivasa Rao) is a powerful contractor who has the entire system in his hands. Once Venkataratnam cheats Govt by saying that he has constructed a hostel for poor people without doing it, just showing on papers. Durga Prasad takes up the case and gathers all the proofs against him. Venkataratnam threatens Durga Prasad a lot who does not yield to it. Finally, Venkataratnam kills Durga Prasad and his wife Lakshmi in front of the court and destroys all the evidence. Before dying, Durga Prasad takes a word from Ashok, that he should win this case in any circumstances. Ashok gives respect to his words and takes up the case, but he fails to get the case admitted because there is no evidence. In that frustration, Ashok reacts on Venkataratnam publicly in court, which leads to his suspension from the court and he has been arrested.
Shadow (2013)
, 2h40Directed by Meher Ramesh
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Daggubati Venkatesh, Taapsee Pannu, Geetha, Madhuurima, Konidela Nagendra Babu, Adithya Menon
Roles Rajaram / Chanti / Shadow
Rating36%
Rajaram (Venkatesh) is the son of Raghuram (Naga Babu), an investigative journalist in a United Nations agency. He infiltrates the criminal organization of Nana Bhai (Aditya Pancholi) and earns his trust. He gathers proof against the activities of Nana and hands them over to newspaper publisher Chaitanya Prasad alias CP (Sayaji Shinde). This is discovered by Nana Bhai and he murders Raghuram in an exceedingly brutal manner. He additionally destroys Raghuram's family. Rajaram manages to flee from the Massacre and vows to get revenge on Nana. With the assistance of Baba (Nassar), Rajaram grows up to be a strong young man. He assumes the identity of Shadow and starts looking for members of Nana's gang. Meanwhile, Prathap (Srikanth), a tricky cop in UN agency, is also searching for Nana Bhai and his gang. As expected, the methods of Rajaram and Prathap cross resulting in friction. However, Rajaram soon learns that he has a terribly sturdy association with Prathap. At last he manages to reach Nana Bhai and destroys him.
Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum (2012)
, 2h19Directed by Radhakrishna Jagarlamudi
Genres Action, Crime
Actors Rana Daggubati, Nayantara, Brahmanandam, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Posani Krishna Murali, L.B. Sri Ram
Roles Ballari Babu in a special appearance
Rating65%
Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum starts with Devika (Nayantara) documenting illegal mining in Bellary by Reddappa (Milind Gunaji), a ruthless business tycoon. Reddappa burns down a village so that the people leave, because under it is a large iron ore deposit, which he wants to mine. The villagers, especially Matti Raju (L.B. Sriram), want to kill Reddappa to take revenge. It is later revealed that Devika is not a journalist but an informer of the CBI.
Bodyguard (2012)
, 2h35Directed by Gopichand Malineni
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Daggubati Venkatesh, Trisha Krishnan, Saloni Aswani, Prakash Raj, Reshma Rathore, Meenakshi Dixit
Roles Venkatadri / Venky
Rating51%
Venkatadri (Venkatesh) is a tough bodyguard who is assigned to protect the family of Varadarajula Naidu (Prakash Raj). Keerthi (Trisha Krishnan) is the college going daughter of Naidu and Venkatadri accompanies her to the college to keep a watch. Fed up with the close scrutiny maintained by Venkatadri, Keerthi hatches a plan with her friend Swathi (Saloni Aswani) to divert Venkatadri’s attention. Keerthi tries to distance herself from Venkatedri by calling him from a private number, Venkatadri falls in love with the girl without knowing that it is Keerthi herself. At one point, Keerthi too feels herself becoming attracted to Venkatadri and expresses her desire to meet him in person. However due to circumstances they are not able to accomplish this until at the climax when she tells Venkatadri to meet at a railway station and elope with her. Venkatadri agrees, unaware it is Keerthi.
Nagavalli (2010)
, 2h39Directed by P. Vasu
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Horror
Actors Daggubati Venkatesh, Anushka Shetty, Richa Gangopadhyay, Shraddha Das, Poonam Kaur, Jyothika
Roles Sri Naga Bhairava Rajshekhara & Dr. Vijay (duelrole)
Rating45%
An ancient painting of Chandramukhi, alias Nagavalli (Anushka Shetty), floats away to a distant place, where it finally comes into the hands of a village painter. The painter takes it home to restore it. When his wife asks him to sell the painting, he becomes furious, saying that he wouldn't sell it off even at the cost of his life. The next day, the painter is shown to be dead under mysterious circumstances, possibly being a suicide. The painting is then sold off to a dance competition, which was distributed as a prize to Bharatanatyam dancer Gayathri (Kamalinee Mukherjee), her husband and her family. Gayathri lives in a palatial house in Tirupathi with her husband, father Shankar Rao (Sharat Babu), mother Parvathi (Prabha), sisters Geetha (Shraddha Das) and Gowri (Richa Gangopadhyay), maternal uncle Appa Rao(Dharmavarapu Subramanyam), his wife and maternal cousins Pooja(Poonam Kaur) and Hema(Suja) happily.
Namo Venkatesa (2010)
, 2h32Directed by Srinu Vaitla
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Daggubati Venkatesh, Trisha Krishnan, Chandra Mohan, Brahmanandam, Mukesh Rishi, Jaya Prakash Reddy
Roles Venkataramana / Venky
Rating54%
Venkata Ramana (Daggubati Venkatesh) a.k.a Venky is a ventriloquist. An astrologer (M. S. Narayana) predicts that if he does not get married in one year, he will be a single man forever. He goes to Paris to show his talent to the company of Paris Prasad (Brahmanandam). Paris Prasad fools everyone and he was given a loan from a bank. But he has not repaid the loan to the bank. Venky befriends Sheikh Raj (Ali). Venky also falls in love with Pooja (Trisha Krishnan), the niece of Paris Prasad. Pooja has no feelings for Venky, but Paris Prasad tells Venky that Pooja too loves him and fools him. Slowly Pooja and Venky become friends. Pooja goes back to India and finds that her marriage has been arranged with Bhadrappa (Subbaraju), the son of her uncle, Changala Rayudu (Mukesh Rishi). Venky asks Paris Prasad for help. Prasad comes with Venky to save Pooja by telling him that Pooja loves him and wants to break the marriage. But Pooja loves an NRI named Rahul. There Venky introduces himself to everyone as Pranit and makes fools of them by giving the partnership of his factory's benefit. One day when Venky with Prasad and Pooja runs away, Bhaddrapa's uncle (Jaya Prakash Reddy) comes to know everything. He tells everyone this. Then Venky goes to his village along with Prasad, Rahul and Pooja. He introduces his family, his uncles, Narayana (Chandra Mohan) and Malesh Yadav (Kota Srinivasa Rao). After that Bhaddrapa's grandfather hatches a plan in which Venky will come with Pooja and they will kill him. But Venky ends up coming with his full family, so they could not kill him. But after coming here, Venky comes to know that Pooja loves Rahul. When Pooja's uncle attacks them, Venky saves everybody. Pooja realizes she loves Venky. Paris Prasad also realizes his mistake and gets Venky and Pooja married. After the marriage, Prasad asks Venky to give him money with which he can repay the bank loan. But Venky laughs after hearing this.
Unnaipol Oruvan (2009)
, 1h46Directed by Chakri Toleti
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about terrorism
Actors Mohanlal, Kamal Haasan, Lakshmi Narayan, Ganesh Venkatram, Nassar, Anuja Iyer
Rating79%
The recently dismissed police commissioner of Chennai, Inspector General Raghavan Maraar (Mohanlal), describes in a voice-over about his sudden termination due to a common man who walked into his life. An unnamed man (Kamal Haasan) is shown strategically placing a travel bag in a train in the Chennai Central railway station and in a shopping mall. He proceeds to place another bag, under the false pretense of lodging an FIR, in the toilet of a police station in Anna Salai, Chennai.
Eenadu (2009)
, 1h46Directed by Chakri Toleti
Actors Daggubati Venkatesh, Kamal Haasan, Lakshmi Narayan, Ganesh Venkatram, Anuja Iyer, Sriman
Roles Commissioner Eashwar Prasad
Eashwar Prasad (Daggubati Venkatesh) standing at the lakeshore, describes in a voice-over about his termination due to a common man walked into his life and turning everything topsy-turvy. This scene leads into the flashback. An unnamed man (Kamal Haasan) is shown strategically placing a travel bag within a train in a railway station, bus and in a multiplex at Hyderabad. He proceeds to place another bag, under the false pretense of lodging an FIR, in the toilet of a police station located at Lakdi-ka-pool, Hyderabad. He then arrives on the rooftop of a building under construction near Raj Bhavan road and sets up his base of operations, equipped with various modern technology gadgets and instruments. He calls up Eashwar and informs him that 5 bombs have been placed in different locations throughout Hyderabad, which are programmed to explode simultaneously within four hours. The common man demands that he would like to negotiate with a senior Government official. Eashwar seeks the services of the Chief Secretary(Lakshmi) to act as the negotiator. Eashwar also alerts his team involved in intelligence research and surveillance, tapping all the available resources in gathering preliminary information and tracing the location of the caller. Meanwhile, the caller tips off TV9 news reporter Shilpa Rajkumar (Anuja Iyer), telling her to reach Lakdi-ka-pool police station immediately as it is going to be "the most important day of her life".
Chintakayala Ravi (2008)
, 2h32Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Daggubati Venkatesh, Mamta Mohandas, Anushka Shetty, Aarti Chabria, Venu Thottempudi, Sunil
Roles Chintakayala Ravi
Rating56%
Chintakayala Ravi (Venkatesh) works in a bar named Cyber Wave in New York. He is a head waiter; he works with his three friends who also are waiters at the same bar. He has a soft spot for software engineers because he came to the US with the dream of becoming a software pro. Unavoidable circumstances prevented him from reaching that goal.
, 2h37Directed by Selvaraghavan
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Daggubati Venkatesh, Trisha Krishnan, Srikanth, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Meghna Naidu, Suman Setty
Roles Ganesh
Rating75%
Ganesh (Venkatesh) is from a middle-class family. He makes several bids to obtain employment but all goes in vain due to his poor language skills and inadequate educational qualifications. All his friends settle in life, but he continues to struggle in finding employment. Ganesh has two faithful friends in Vasu (Srikanth), and Seenu (Sunil). His father (Kota Srinivasa Rao), who is a teacher, is always critical of him for being an irresponsible person. This just added to his list of woes.
Tulasi (2007)
, 2h27Genres Drama, Action
Actors Daggubati Venkatesh, Sivaji, Ramya Krishnan, Vijayakumar, Nayantara, Vijayakumar
Roles Parvataneni Tulasi Ram aka Tulasi
Rating54%
Parvataneni Tulasi Ram aka Tulasi (Venkatesh) is a native of Palnadu region. As his region is well known for factional feuds, his father Dasaradha Ramayya (Vijaykumar) keeps him away in Hyderabad and get him educated and makes him an architect. Once he goes to an abroad trip, where he comes across Vasundhara aka Vasu (Nayantara) and loses his heart. He marries her and they continue to lead a happy life. When Vasu turns pregnant, Tulasi takes her to their native place to share the happy moments with the entire family.