Mahesh Babu filmography

Mahesh Babu receiving Best Actor – Telugu Award at the 61st Filmfare Awards South from actress Tamannaah for his performance in the film Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu (2013)

Mahesh Babu (born Mahesh Ghattamaneni) is an Indian film actor known for his work in Telugu cinema. Born to actor Krishna in the Ghattamaneni family, Mahesh Babu faced the camera at the age of four as a child artist in 1979's Needa directed by Dasari Narayana Rao.[1] His first leading role was in the film Rajakumarudu, which was released in August 1999.[2] In 2001 he starred in Murari a Telugu supernatural thriller film. In 2002 he starred in Takkari Donga. In 2003 he starred in the movie Nijam. He played a young Kabaddi player in the 2003 film Okkadu, one of the biggest Telugu grossers of the time. He received international recognition with the 2005 film Athadu. The film was dubbed into Polish for a release in Poland as Poszukiwany, becoming the first Telugu film released in Poland, and became a boxoffice hit.[3][4] His film Okkadu collected a share of 23 crores at the Boxoffice.[5]

In 2006 he starred in Pokiri, premiered at the 7th IIFA Awards held in Dubai. The film was subsequently remade into Tamil, Hindi and Kannada. The film was also one of the fourteen southern Indian films to be screened at the International Indian Film Academy Awards Film festival in 2006. Pokiri collected a share of 48 crores at the Boxoffice.[6] His film Pokiri was declared as an Industry Hit at the boxoffice. This film was also dubbed into polish along with Athadu which helped him to gain significant following in that region.[7] In 2010, he starred in the film khaleja.[8] His performance in Khaleja was critically praised as one of his best performances. In 2011, he starred in Dookudu, which had the largest worldwide opening for a Telugu film. It became the first Telugu film to reach a gross of more than ₹ 1 billion at the time, excluding the dubbed versions. Subsequently, the Los Angeles Times quoted it as "the biggest hit you've never heard of".[9] The film collected a share of 56 crores at the boxoffice.[10]

In 2012, he starred in the film Businessman. Businessman collected a share of 40 crores at the boxoffice.[11] In 2013, he starred in the multistarrer film Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu . The film collected 51 crores at the boxoffice.[12] In 2014, he starred in the psychological thriller, 1: Nenokkadine . The film was the highest rated thrillers for an Indian film in Internet Movie Database. It won three awards out of eight nominations at the 4th South Indian International Movie Awards and two awards at the 11th CineMAA Awards ceremony.[13] He was then starred in Aagadu. In 2015 his film Srimanthudu collected a gross of 175 crores in 50 days.[14] The film was declared as the second highest-grossing film in terms of both share and gross at the Tollywood box-office. This film was the first Indian movie to have premiere in Chile.

He is the Only South Indian hero who has six Telugu films which collected more than one million dollars at the United States Boxoffice. [15]

This is the filmography of him. As of May 2016 he has 22 releases as a male lead. As an actor he has received 7 Nandi Awards (3 Best Actor, 3 Special Jury, 1 Best Debut), 5 Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu. To date, he has won seven Nandi Awards, five Filmfare Awards, three CineMAA Awards, three South Indian International Movie Awards and one International Indian Film Academy awards

Actor

As Child artist
No Year Title Role Notes
1 1979 Needa Cameo Debut film as child artist
2 1983 Poratam Bujji Child artist
3 1987 Shankharavam Raja Child artist
4 1988 Bazaar Rowdy Mahesh Child artist
5 1988 Mugguru Kodukulu Surendhra Child artist
6 1989 Gudachari 117 Chinna Child artist
7 1989 Koduku Diddina Kapuram Vinod & Pramod (Dual role) Child artist
8 1990 Bala Chandrudu Balachandra Child artist
9 1990 Anna Thammudu Murali Child artist - Billed as Omega Star Mahesh Babu
In lead role
No Year Title Role Award Notes
1 1999 Raja Kumarudu Raja Nandi Award for Best Male Debut Dubbed in Hindi as Prince No. 1
2 2000 Yuvaraju Srinivas Dubbed in Hindi as Ek Aur Rajkumar
3 2000 Vamsi Vamsi Dubbed in Hindi as Vaamsi - The Warrior
4 2001 Murari Murari Nandi Special Jury Award
 Remade in Kannada as Gopi
Dubbed in Hindi as Rowdy Cheetah
5 2002 Takkari Donga Raju Nandi Special Jury Award
6 2002 Bobby Bobby
7 2003 Okkadu Ajay Varma Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu
 Remade in Tamil as Ghilli
Remade in Bengali as Jor
Remade in Kannada as Ajay
Remade in Hindi as Tevar
8 2003 Nijam G. Seetaram Nandi Award for Best Actor
 Remade in Oriya as Arjuna
9 2004 Nani Nani/Viju Dubbed in Hindi as Nani-the magic man
10 2004 Arjun Arjun Nandi Special Jury Award
11 2005 Athadu Nanda Gopal/Parthu Nandi Award for Best Actor
 Remade in Hindi as Ek: The Power of One
Remade in Bengali as Wanted
Dubbed in Polish as Poszukiwany
12 2006 Pokiri Krishna Manohar (Pandu) Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu
 Remade in Tamil as Pokkiri
Remade in Hindi as Wanted
Remade in Kannada as Porki
13 2006 Sainikudu Siddhartha
14 2007 Athidhi Athidhi Remade in Bengali as Royal
15 2010 Khaleja Seetarama Raju Dubbed in Hindi as Jigar Kaleja
16 2011 Dookudu G. Ajay Kumar Nandi Award for Best Actor
Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu
SIIMA Award for Best Actor
 Remade in Bengali as Challenge 2
Remade in Kannada as Power
17 2012 Businessman Surya Bhai Nominated-Filmfare Award for Best Actor - Telugu
 Remade in Bengali as Boss
18 2013 Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu Chinnodu Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu
SIIMA Award for Best Actor
TSR–TV9 National Film Awards-Best Actor Award for the year 2013
19 2014 1-Nenokkadine Gautham Ranked #6 in world's best thriller movies by Internet Movie Database
Best Actor (Jury)		 Dubbed in Hindi as Ek Ka Dum
20 2014 Aagadu Encounter Shankar Dubbed in Hindi as Encounter Shankar
21 2015 Srimanthudu Harshavardhan International Indian Film Academy Awards – Telugu for Best Actor

Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu
SIIMA Award for Best Actor
22 2016 Brahmotsavam Ajay

Voice over

Year Title Cast
2008 Jalsa Pawan Kalyan, Ileana D'Cruz
2013 Baadshah NTR Jr, Kajal Aggarwal
2016 Sri Sri Krishna, Vijaya Nirmala

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