Ram Pothineni

Ram Pothineni
Born (1988-05-15) 15 May 1988[1]
Hyderabad, Telengana, India
Residence Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Occupation Actor
Years active January 2006–present
Website http://heroram.com

Ram Pothineni (Rām Pōthinēni; born on 15 May 1988) is an Indian film actor of the Telugu film industry.[2] He hails from Hyderabad, Telangana.

Personal life

Ram is the son of Murali Mohan Pothineni, the nephew of noted film producer Ravi Kishore Pothineni, popularly known as Sravanthi Ravi Kishore.[3] He was born in Hyderabad, Telangana. He did his schooling at Chettinad.

Career

In 2002, Ram acted in a Tamil short film titled Adayaalam and he won Best actor in European movies festival. The producer and Director were awarded Notable film in New Jersey Art Film Festival. Ram made his debut in 2006 with Devadasu and the film went on to become a blockbuster, running for 175 days in over a 17 centers and completed 205 days in Hyderabad Odeon70mm theatre.[4][5] 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.[6] 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.[7] 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.[8] 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 worldwide with a record collection of 7 crores on day 1, the highest for Ram and is doing extremely well worldwide.Then Hyper released on September 30 in 2016, directed by Santosh Srinivas and produced under 14 reels entertainment. it took a great opening worldwide.Movie bags the mixed reviews from class and mass audience.

Filmography

Year Film Role Co-star(s) Language Notes
2006 Devadasu Devdas Ileana D'Cruz, Shriya Saran Telugu Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut - South

remade in Bengali as Paglu (2011)

2007 Jagadam Seenu Isha Sahani Telugu
2008 Ready Chandu Genelia D'Souza Telugu Nominated, Filmfare Best Telugu Actor Award

remade in Kannada as Raam. remade in Tamil as Uthama Puthiran. remade in Hindi under the same name.

2009 Maska Krishna alias Krish Hansika Motwani, Sheela Telugu remade in Bangladeshi as Hero 420.
2009 Ganesh Just Ganesh Ganesh Kajal Aggarwal, Poonam Kaur Telugu
2010 Rama Rama Krishna Krishna Rama Krishna Arjun Sarja, Priya Anand, Bindu Madhavi Telugu
2011 Kandireega Srinivas alias Sreenu Hansika Motwani, Aksha Pardasany, Swathi Reddy Telugu Nominated, Filmfare Best Telugu Actor Award.

remade in Bengali as Paglu 2. remade into Hindi as Main Tera Hero.

2012 Endukante... Premanta! Krishna,
Ram 		Tamannaah Telugu based on an American romantic comedy fantasy film Just like Heaven (2005).
2013 Ongole Githa Dorababu / Whiteu Kriti Kharbanda Telugu
2013 Masala Ram / Rehman Venkatesh, Anjali, Shazahn Padamsee Telugu Remake of the Hindi film Bol Bachchan
2015 Pandaga Chesko Karthik Rakul Preet Singh, Sonal Chauhan Telugu
2015 Shivam Shiva/Ram Rashi Khanna Telugu
2016 Nenu Sailaja Hari Keerthi Suresh Telugu
2016 Hyper Surya Rashi Khanna Telugu
2017 Untitled Anil Ravipudi Project Blind Man Telugu

References

http://telugusnap.com/ram-shivam-movie-review/

https://www.telugu360.com/nenu-sailaja-movie-review

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