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Konidela Siva Sankara Vara Prasad more commonly known by his stage name Chiranjeevi is a 3 time Nandi Award winning actor in the Telugu Cinema Industry. His huge popularity has earned him the title Mega Star. He is also a recipient of the Padma Bhushan Award.

Early Life
Chiranjeevi was born on 22 August, 1955 in Narsapur, a small village in the Godavari District in Andhra Pradesh to Sri Venkat Rao and Anjana Devi. He grew up in his native village with his grand parents, while his family was else where because of his father's occupation.Chiranjeevi has two sisters and two brothers. His first brother, Nagendra Babu is a film producer and a film actor. His second brother, Pawan Kalyan is a Telugu film actor.

After graduation, Chiranjeevi moved to Madras to seek a career in his chosen field of acting in the Film Industry. To get himself ready for the stage, he joined in an acting school in Madras. After struggling for some time, he took to acting by appearing in small roles in films like Pranam Kareedu and Punadhi Rallu. Chiranjeevi got married to Surekha, the daughter of veteran actor sri Allu Ramalingaiah. The couple have three children - two daughters Sushmita and Srija and a son, Ram Charan Teja, who now is also an actor.

His elder daughter, Sushmita is married to Vishnu Prasad, a industrialist's son based in Chennai .His youngest daughter Srija recently got married to her childhood sweetheart after fleeing from home. Chiranjeevi's brother-in-law Allu Aravind is a film producer in the Telugu film industry while his nephew, Allu Arjun is also an actor.

In October 1998 he started a charity called Chiranjeevi Eye & Blood Bank and Charitable Trust to give back to the people whatever he could on the humanitarian ground thus demonstrating a new dimension in his personality.

Career
His first film, Pranam Khareedu, was released in September 1978 and after 10 years of his first film, his 100th film, Trinetrudu, was released in September 1988.

Since then, Chiranjeevi has appeared in primarily Telugu language films, with several of his films being dubbed into Hindi and Tamil.

Awards & Honours
In January 2006, Chiranjeevi was honored with the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award in India for his contributions to the Telugu Film Industry and his social work.

In November 2006, Chiranjeevi was awarded with a honorary doctorate by the Andhra University for his services to the Telugu film industry and for his social work.