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Ram Pothineni born on 15 May 1988 is an Indian film actor of the Telugu film industry. He hails from Hyderabad, Telangana.
Personal life
Ram (Full name: Ram Pothineni) is the son of Murali Mohan Pothineni, the nephew of noted film producer Ravi Kishore Pothineni, popularly known as Sravanthi Ravi Kishore.He was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He did his schooling at Chettinad. Dr.Ramesh babu of Ramesh hospitals in Vijayawada and Guntur is his uncle.
Career
Ram made his debut in 2006 with Devadasu and the film went on to become a blockbuster, running for 500 days in over a dozen centers. His second film, Jagadam was directed by Sukumar. Though it did not do well at the box office, it received critical acclaim. He then appeared in Ready alongside Genelia D'Souza directed by Srinu Vaitla with the film becoming a huge success, prompting remakes into other Indian languages and catapulting him to the big league. In 2009, he had two releases, Maska and Ganesh Just Ganesh, the latter was not successful at the box office. Maska had one of the biggest openings at the time, collecting over ₹2.5 crores on the opening day and recovering its investment within the first week. In 2010, Ram had only one release, Rama Rama Krishna Krishna, produced by Dil Raju and directed by Srivaas. Ram's next film Kandireega was a big blockbuster of 2011 and Ram proved to be the man of the masses along with his lover boy image. His next latest release was Endhukante Premanta with Tamannaah, directed by Karunakaran and produced by Sravanthi Ravi Kishore. The movie was shot in the beautiful lavish locales with a huge budget but it turned out to be an average grosser.
In 2013, Ram had yet another release, Ongole Githa with Kriti Kharbanda directed by Bhaskar and produced by B.V.S.N. Prasad. The movie was released on 1 February 2013 was sold for a record price in Ram's career and was commercial failure at the box office. He next starred with Daggubati Venkatesh in Masala, the remake of the Hindi film Bol Bachchan which was directed by K. Vijaya Bhaskar and jointly produced by Sravanthi Ravi KIshore and Suresh Babu. In 2014, a new film Pandaga Chesko has been launched on 29 May 2014 in the direction of Gopi Chand Malineni that will be produced by Paruchuri Kireeti on United Movies Banner .Pandaga Chesko released with not so encouraging reviews but managed to strike the right chord with the masses and stood as a hit film in 2015. Then released Shivam and Nenu Sailaja within a gap of three months in the same year.Both produced by his own production house, Shivam took a great opening but could not sustain due to bad reviews. Surprisingly, the immediate release Nenu Sailaja took a grand opening World Wide with a Record collection of 7 crores on day 1 ,the highest for Ram and is doing extremely well World Wide .
Films & Roles
Year
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Film
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Role
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Co-star(s)
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Language
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Awards
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2006
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Devdas
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Telugu
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2007
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Seenu
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Isha Sahani
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Telugu
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2008
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Chandu
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Telugu
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Nominated, Filmfare Best Telugu Actor Award
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2009
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Krishna alias Krish
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Telugu
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2009
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Ganesh
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Telugu
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2010
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Rama Krishna
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Telugu
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2011
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Srinivas alias Sreenu
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Hansika Motwani, Aksha
Pardasany, Swathi Reddy
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Telugu
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Nominated, Filmfare Best Telugu Actor Award
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2012
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Krishna,
Ram |
Telugu
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2013
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Dorababu / Whiteu
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Telugu
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2013
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Ram / Rehman
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Telugu
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Remake of the Hindi film Bol Bachchan
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2015
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Karthik
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Telugu
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2015
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Shiva/Ram
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Telugu
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2016
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Hari
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Telugu
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