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Venu Thottempudi (born 4 June 1976) is an Indian actor who primarily works in Telugu cinema. He has appeared in several successful Telugu films as a lead actor.

Venu Thottempudi
Thottempudi in 2011
Born	(1976-06-04) 4 June 1976 (age 46)[1] Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India
Other names	Venu
Occupation	Actor, businessman
Years active	1999 – 2013 2022 - present
Spouse	Anupama Choudary[2]

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 Bharathiraja. After a brief period of shooting, the movie was stalled and later cancelled due to production problems. To promote Venu, his friend Venkata Shyamprasad formed S. P. Entertainments. 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 clear portrayal of emotions.^{[citation needed]} In 2000, Venu won at the boxoffice once again with Chiru Navvutho. 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 Navvutho became one of the most successful Telugu movie in the year 2000 and received acclaim for Trivikram Srinivas's writing and Venu's performance as a chef whose marriage gets cancelled due to elopement of the bride.

After a couple of successful films, Venu received several offers.^{[citation needed]} 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.[3] In 2003, his movie Kalyana Ramudu, co-starring Prabhu Deva and Nikita Thukral, was directed by G. Ram Prasad. He also starred in Cheppave Chirugali,[4] directed by noted Tamil director, Vikraman. His next releases were Sadaa Mee Sevalo (2005) directed by Neelakanta,[5] Bahumati directed by S. V. Krishna Reddy[6] and Allare Allari directed by Muppalaneni Siva.[7]

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.[8] In 2011, Venu was seen in Dileep Polan's Mayagadu opposite Charmy Kaur.[9] His next release was titled Ramachari and directed by Eshawar. He is paired with Kamalinee Mukherjee in this movie.[10] Venu was also seen in N. T. Rama Rao Jr.'s movie Dammu, directed by Boyapati Srinu. After 9 years Venu will be Seen in Ravi Teja's movie Ramarao on Duty, directed by Sarath Mandava.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role(s)	Notes
1999	Swayamvaram	Venu
2000	Manasu Paddanu Kaani	Venu
2000	Chiru Navvutho	Venu
2001	Veedekkadi Mogudandi?	Sriram
2000	Durga	Pratap
	Pottu Amman		Tamil film
2001	Hanuman Junction	Sathru
2002	Priyanesthama	Surya
2003	Malli Malli Chudali	Venu
2003	Kalyana Ramudu	Kalyana Ramudu
2003	Pellam Oorelithe	Subbu
2003	Pellamtho Panenti	Madhu
2004	Kushi Kushiga	Sree Kumar
2004	Cheppave Chirugali	Venu
2005	Sadaa Mee Sevalo	Tilak
2006	Illalu Priyuralu	Venu
2006	Sri Krishna 2006	Venkateshwarlu
2007	Bahumati	Venkata Ramana
2007	Allare Allari	Anand
2007	Yamagola Malli Modalayindi	Jr. Chitragupta
2008	Deepavali	Venu
2008	Chintakayala Ravi	Srikanth
2009	Gopi Gopika Godavari	Gopi
2011	Mayagadu	Leela Krishna
2012	Dammu	Rama Chandra's brother in law
2013	Ramachari	Ramachari
2022	Ramarao on Duty

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Film	Result
2000	Nandi Awards[11]	Special Jury Award for Best Performance in Debut film	Swayamvaram	Won

References

External links

• Venu Thottempudi at IMDb

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