He completed one year of his Bachelor of Engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University in Madras, and earned his B.S.

The family later moved to Hyderabad, where he attended the Hyderabad Public School and Little Flower Junior College, Hyderabad.

3.2 Ownerships, endorsements and earningsĪkkineni Nagarjuna was born on 29 August 1959 in Madras (present-day Chennai) to the veteran actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao and his wife Annapurna.

He is also the president of the non-profit film school Annapurna International School of Film and Media based in Hyderabad. Nagarjuna is the co-owner of the production company Annapurna Studios. In 1995, he ventured into film production, with a production unit operating in Seychelles, and was a co-director of an Emmy Award-winning film animation company called Heart Animation.

In 2013, he represented the Cinema of South India at the Delhi Film Festival's 100 Years of Indian Cinema's celebration, alongside Ramesh Sippy and Vishal Bhardwaj from Bollywood. He is well known for his works in biographical films, he played 15th-century composer Annamacharya in Annamayya (1997), Yavakri (the son of the ascetic Bharadwaja) in Agni Varsha (2002), Major Padmapani Acharya in the war film LOC Kargil (2003), 17th-century composer Kancherla Gopanna in Sri Ramadasu (2006), Suddala Hanmanthu in Rajanna (2011), Sai Baba of Shirdi in Shirdi Sai (2012), Chandaludu in Jagadguru Adi Sankara (2013), and Hathiram Bhavaji in Om Namo Venkatesaya (2017).

In 1990, he made his Bollywood debut with the Hindi remake of Shiva. The following year, he acted in Siva, an action drama blockbuster directed by Ram Gopal Varma, which premiered at the 13th International Film Festival of India. In 1989, he starred in the Mani Ratnam directed romantic drama film Geetanjali, which won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. He has received nine state Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awards South and two National Film Awards namely, for Ninne Pelladata (1996), which he produced won the Best Feature Film in Telugu and a Special Mention as actor for Annamayya (1997). Nagarjuna has acted in over 100 films, predominantly in Telugu, along with a few Hindi and Tamil language films. Akkineni Nagarjuna Rao (born 29 August 1959) is an Indian film actor, producer, television presenter, and entrepreneur.

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