Pawan Kalyan (Telugu: పవన్ కళ్యాణ్; born Konidala Kalyan Babu on 2 September 1971) is an Indian film actor, director, screenwriter and action choreographer in Telugu cinema. He is the brother of Indian actor Chiranjeevi. He made his acting debut in 1996 with Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbayi.
In 1998, he starred in Tholi Prema which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu for that year. He is known for his works in other blockbusters like Gokulamlo Seetha, Suswagatham, Tholi Prema, Thammudu, Badri, Kushi, Jalsa and Gabbar Singh.
Personal life:
Born to Konidela Venkata Rao and Anjana Devi, Pawan Kalyan is the younger brother of Chiranjeevi and Nagendra Babu. After his divorce from Nandini, Pawan Kalyan married Renu Desai on 28 January 2009. She co-starred with him in the films Badri and Johnny
and has worked as costume designer for most of his films. The couple
have two children: a son named Akira Nandan born in 2004 and a girl
named Aadhya born in 2010. Akira was named after Pawan Kalyan's favorite
director Akira Kurosawa.
Kalyan is trained in martial arts. He holds a black belt in karate and has displayed his skills in several of his films. He publicly performed his martial arts skills at several auditoriums. He was awarded the title "Pawan", symbolizing Hanuman. From then, Kalyan Babu became popular as Pawan Kalyan.
His brother-in-law Allu Aravind is an Indian film producer. Ram Charan Teja Konidala and Allu Arjun are other actors from the family.
Career
Pawan Kalyan entered the Telugu movie industry with Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbayi (1996) as Kalyan Babu in which he performed martial arts action sequences. His second movie was Gokulamlo Seetha (1997), which is a remake of the 1996 Tamil film Gokulathil Seethai. He also starred in Suswagatham, which is also a remake of a Tamil film Love Today (1997).
In 1998, Tholi Prema released and received six Nandi Awards and National Award for the Best Feature Film (Telugu).[22] After Tholi Prema, Pawan acted in Thammudu (1999) playing the role of a kickboxer. In 2000, he featured in Puri Jagannadh's first directorial venture Badri. Pawan acted in Kushi (2001) directed by S. J. Surya.
After the release of Kushi, Pawan Kalyan took a long gap of two years in his film career. He went to Japan for a brief period to learn the martial art Aikido. He used it in his first directorial venture Johnny. His next releases were Gudumba Shankar, Balu ABCDEFG, Bangaram and Annavaram.
In 2008, Jalsa directed by Trivikram Srinivas released. His subsequent release Puli
arrived on 10 September. The audio sales reached a total of 1.6 lakhs
of CDs in the first three days, which is an all-time record in Telugu
film history.
Pawan Kalyan's first release of 2011 was Theenmaar directed by Jayanth C. Paranjee
in which he portrayed the two contrasting characters of present and
yesteryear generations. Following this, Pawan Kalyan appeared in a
Vishnuvardhan's gangster film Panjaa. It is now set to release in Tamil. Kalyan's first release of 2012 is Gabbar Singh. The movie is directed by Harish Shankar and produced by Bandla Ganesh. The movie is a remake of the Hindi film Dabangg. In 2012,Gabbar Singh was the biggest blockbuster in the Telugu film industry. Now Kalyan is working in Puri Jagannadh's Cameraman Ganga Tho Rambabu The film is going to Release on 11-10-2012.
A social networking community on his name in the popular social networking website orkut is the second most active community in India.
