Fans celebrate Megastar's birthday - TeluguPeople.com News

Millions of fans are celebrating Megastar Chiranjeevi's birthday today across the world. Chiranjeevi was born on 22nd August 1955 as Siva Sankara Varaprasad to Konidela Anjana Devi and Konidela Venkata Rao in Mogalthur, a small village near Narsapur,West Godavari District.

After completion of his high school, he did his Intermediate in C. S. R. Sharma College at Ongole. After graduating with a degree in commerce, Chiranjeevi moved to Chennai and joined the Madras Film Institute in 1976 to seek a career in acting.

Since his family worshiped Anjaneya, a Hindu God, his mother advised him to take the screen name of "Chiranjeevi".

Then on he quickly moved to silver screen and exhibiting his acting skills become 'Supreme Hero' after attracting all with his daring stunts, dynamic dances and dashing action. When awards and rewards graced him, he turned to ultimate Mega Star.

Right from his debut film 'Mana Voori Pandavulu' to super sensation 'Khaidi' he showed his class and from then on it is only one way journey to super stardom.

Later he decided to dabble with politics launching his own party PRP but faced with debacle he merged it later with Congress and now he became Rajya Sabha MP.

He showed his noble nature also On October 2, 1998, when he founded the Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust (CCT), which includes Chiranjeevi Blood and Eye Banks.

It is the state's largest recipient of blood and eye donations.Chiranjeevi married Surekha, daughter of veteran Telugu actor Allu Ramalingaiah, on 20 February 1980.

They have two daughters, Sushmita and Sreeja, and a son, Ram Charan Teja. Ram is also an actor in Tollywood. One of Chiranjeevi's brothers, Nagendra Babu, is a film producer and also has acted in several films, and his youngest brother, Pawan Kalyan, is an actor in Tollywood.

Allu Aravind, his brother-in-law, is a film producer.Allu Arjun, son of Allu Aravind, is also an actor in Telugu cinema.

In 2007, he was awarded with a Legendary Honorary Award by Filmfare for his contributions to the film industry In 2011, he was honoured with Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to Indian film industry.

Veteran director K. Balachander once commented "Chiranjeevi has both Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth in him. Not only can he do action, he can also act." Owing to his ability to his box-office appeal, popular entertainment magazine, Filmfare, quoted him "Bigger than Bachchan", a reference to Bollywood's Amitabh Bachchan.

News magazine The Week hailed him as "The new money machine".Chiranjeevi received the Padmabhushan, the third highest civilian honour in India in the year 2006.

He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Andhra University in the same year. He is a seven-time winner of Filmfare Award for Best Actor and a four time winner of Nandi Awards.