Ravi Teja

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. 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

Career Success

It was Nee Kosam directed by a debutante director Srinu Vaitla, that gave Raviteja the much needed impetus. He bagged an award for his performance in Nee Kosam. His secondary roles continued again with films like 'Annayya', 'Budget Padmanabam', 'Tirumala Tirupati Venkatesa' and'Ammayi Kosam'.

Raviteja got the break of his lifetime with Itlu Sravani Subramanyam. Puri Jagannath, who was desperately looking to establish himself in the industry, after the failure of 'Bachi', paired up with Ravi Teja to deliver Itlu Sravani Subramanyam. The movie was well received by the audiences. That was the turning point in his career.

Vamsi, who was planning his comeback innings, directed RaviTeja in 'Avunu Validharu Ishtapaddaru'. It definitely welcomed Vamsi back into the industry and added another hit to Ravi Teja. Meanwhile, his friend Poori Jagannaath, who made the biggest hit of the year in Kannada, Appu, decided to remake the film in Telugu with Ravi Teja. This time he wanted to produce the film too. Idiot came out and set a new image for Ravi Teja as a ragmuffin and mass hero. With this he came to be known as the Hat-Trick hero because of three consecutive hits. The character Chanti clicked and was a rage in Andhra Pradesh

In 2003, Teja played the lead role in Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi, which became one of the biggest hits in his career. The year 2006 has been very special to Teja as he gave his career biggest hit Vikramarkudu, despite the flop Shock. Currently in 2008, the movie Krishna has broken all the previous records of Ravi Teja, making it the biggest hit of his career.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2008	Krishna	Krishna
2007	Dubai Seenu	Srinivas
2006	Khatarnak	Dasu
	Vikramarkudu	Sathi Babu/Vikram Rathod
	Shock	Sekhar
2005	Bhageeradha	Chandu
	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	Vivekananda
2002	Khadgam	Koti
	Avunu Valliddaru Ista Paddaru	Anil
	Idiot	Chanti
2001	Budget Padmanabham
	Itlu Sravani Subramanyam	Subramanyam
2000	Annayya	Ravi
	Tirumala Tirupathi Venkatesha	Tirupathi
1999	Samudram
	Manasichhi choodu
1998	Sindooram	Chanti
1996	Ninne Pelladutha
1993	Allari Priyudu
1992	Aaj Ka Goonda Raj
1991	Karthavyam