Venu

04 Jun, 1976 |

Actor

Biography

Venu is a Telugu film actor. He is the nephew of director B. Gopal. Venu started his career with Swayamvaram co-starring Laya. Venu has done so many films in the Telugu film industry. The first film Swayamvaram was a big hit. Career After finishing his engineering from Dharwad Engineering College, Venu started pursuing acting as his career. For his first acting job, he was cast as the main lead in a movie directed by P. Bharathiraja. After a brief period of shooting, the movie was stalled and later cancelled due to production problems. After this, Venu's friends namely Shyamprasad, Sai and Prabhu helped him become an actor. To promote Venu, Venkata Shyamprasad formed S. P. Entertainments banner and the other two friends were involved in design and planning. Under this banner, in 1999, Venu started his career with the movie Swayamvaram, directed by K. Vijaya Bhaskar. Co-starring Laya, the movie was very successful at the box-office and Venu won a Nandi Special Jury Award for the movie. Venu became well known for his dialogue delivery, timing, expressions and a clear portray of emotions. In 2000, Venu won the box office once again with Chiru Navvuto. G. Ramprasad, who earlier worked with B. Gopal as an assistant director was roped in as the director for this movie. This movie co-starring Shaheen Khan was produced once again by S.P. Entertainments. Chiru Navvuto became one of the milestones in Venu's career. Having two good hits in the early stages of his career, Venu landed up with a bunch of offers. Later, he appeared in a few unsuccessful films like Manasu Paddanu Kaani directed by Veeru and Veedekkadi Mogudandi directed by E. V. V. Satyanarayana. He later bounced back with a couple of hits like Hanuman Junction directed by M. Raja and Pellam Oorelithe directed by S. V. Krishna Reddy. In 2003, his movie Kalyana Ramudu, co-starring Prabhu Deva and Nikita Thukral, was directed by G. Ram Prasad & Cheppave Chirugali. His next releases were Sadaa Mee Sevalo (2005) directed by Neelakanta, Bahumati directed by S. V. Krishna Reddy and Allare Allari directed by Muppalaneni Siva. In 2007, his movie Yamagola Malli Modalayindi co-starring Srikanth, Meera Jasmine and Reemma Sen was released. This movie was successful at the box office. In 2008, he was seen in a small yet vital role in the movie Chintakayala Ravi starring Venkatesh. In 2009, he was seen in Gopi Gopika Godavari directed by Vamsy and co-starring Kamalinee Mukherjee. In 2011, Venu was seen in Dileep Polan's Mayagadu opposite Charmy Kaur. His next release was titled Ramachari, directed by Eshawar. He was paired opposite Kamalinee Mukherjee in this movie. Soundtrack of the movie was released in October 2011. Venu was also seen in N. T. Rama Rao Jr.'s movie Dammu, directed by Boyapati Srinu.