CHIRANJEEVI

Chiranjeevi (Telugu: చిరంజీవి) (born Konidela Shiva Shankara Vara Prasad[1] on August 22, 1955), is a popular Telugu Cinema film personality, whom many fondly call as the Mega Star of Telugu Cinema. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan award , the second highest Padma award bestowed by the Government of India. He is the only Telugu Cinema actor to receive seven Filmfare Best Actor awards. He has a huge fan following in Andhra Pradesh. He announced his formal entry into politics on in 2008 by launching the Praja Rajyam Party and participating in 2009 elections. He is a member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly representing Tirupathi.
Contents[hide]
1 Media Reviews
2 Awards
3 Chiranjeevi's Filimography
4 Personal Life
5 The Campaign
6 References
7 Gallery
8 External links
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[edit] Media Reviews
In a career span of 28 years, Chiranjeevi has received rave reviews for his acting performances. Here are the most recent reviews from national newspapers and periodicals.
• The erudite newspaper, The Hindu covered a special story on Chiranjeevi titled ’Man of the Masses’ (dt. April 5, 2004) which said ’Reams have been written on this man yet his feet are firmly on terra firma."
• World Space’s website says of Chiranjeevi "The frenzy that Megastar generates amongst the masses makes him a force to reckon with. The phenomenal fan following places him a llittle par with NTR, MGR and Rajnikanth. Chiranjeevi chose to channelize the collective energy of his fan following towards social causes - the Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust’s good work in the area of eye donations and blood donation is noteworthy. Right now he’s also involved in the campaigns against Child Labour.

[edit] Awards
Padma Bhushan, Nandi and Filmfare Awards
Filmfare Best Actor Award (Telugu)
Shubalekha (1982)
INTIGUTTU (1984)
Rudraveena (1988)
Mutta Mesthri (1993)
chudallani undhi (1999)
indra (2002)
Shankar Dada MBBS (2004)

[edit] Chiranjeevi's Filimography
Chiranjeevi filmography
Chiranjeevi incorporated Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust on October 2nd, 1998. The Trust was set up with Blood and Eye Donation wings. Chiranjeevi’s devoted fans took this movement to great heights and are still working towards spreading awareness in the fields of Blood and Eye Donation. For the last seven years Chiranjeevi Blood Bank contributed 57,000 units on its own particularly to the people Below Poverty Line. The Blood Donation Wing has saved upto 3,500 lives across Andhra Pradesh by providing the required groups of blood within 30 minutes of receiving information.
While the state requires 5,00,000 units of blood per year, the awareness created by Chiranjeevi Blood Bank, pushed the availability to around 3,50,000 units which is a rare feat in itself.
Chiranjeevi Eye Bank has been behind 1460 successful eye implants. It also works towards educating the masses on the importance and need of eye donation.
An appeal for eye donation and blood donation is part of every print of a Chiranjeevi film. Chiranjeevi also ensured an unprecedented amount of space in the news and electronic media for these causes.
Today Chiranjeevi takes more pride in the knowledge that his Blood Bank saved someone’s life than the fact that his film has gone for a Silver Jubilee.
Not limiting himself to the fantasy filled world of films, Chiranjeevi has involved himself in various public welfare activities and acted as a socially responsible citizen…this apart from his own Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust activities. Once convinced about the authenticity and motive of a campaign, Chiranjeevi has always associated with it.
In 2002, he was selected as the Ambassador of Andhra Pradesh to the International Labour Organization. He featured in short films as part of the ’International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour’. He took an oath, on the occasion, that he would not advocate or allow directly or indirectly the employment of child labour in his films and stuck to it so far.

[edit] Personal Life
Chiranjeevi married Surekha , the daughter of veteran actor Sri Allu Ramalingaiah. Chiru has always been a family man - being blessed with two daughters Sushmita & Srija and a son Ramcharan Tej.

[edit] The Campaign
Mr.Prasad Chiranjeevi) made social justice in the Economy of Andhra Pradesh his poll plank and ran a statewide election campaign in the 2009 Election. He campaigned saying "Companies need CEOs who seek profit for their share holders and debt holders, but Andhra needs a social leader for its electorate", "Corruption needs to be rooted out", "I am not interested in laptops or pictures with Bill Clinton and Bill Gates"..[2] His party won 18 out of 294 seats in State Assembly elections and 8% of the popular vote. He won in Tirupathi but could not enjoy the same success in Godavari district of Andhra where he was defeated by some local candidate.Even though he started party to root out corruption,he him self is deeply drowned in corruption when it came to light that most of Legislative tickets were sold during 2009 elections in Andhra Pradesh.His party lost deposits in 240 constituencies and could only settle for 3rd post.Undeterred he is still running his party .Lot of leaders are moving back to their original parties and this leaves the party in tatters