Ram Pothineni

Ram Pothineni
File:Ram Pothineni.jpg
Born	(1988-05-15) 15 May 1988 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Residence	Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Ethnicity	Telugu
Occupation	Actor
Years active	January 2006–present
Website	http://heroram.com

Ram Pothineni (Rām Pōthinēni; born on 15 May 1988(Age 28)) is an Indian film actor of the Telugu film industry. 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. He was born in Hyderabad, Telangana. 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 175 days in over a 17 centers and completed 205 days in Hyderabad Odeon70mm theatre. 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 worldwide with a record collection of 7 crores on day 1, the highest for Ram and is doing extremely well worldwide.

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	Untitled Ram Potheneni movie			Telugu

References

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

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

External links

• Official website