Krishna Ghattamaneni

Krishna Ghattamaneni

Birth : 1944-05-31, Burripalem, Madras Presidency, British India (Now Andhra Pradesh, India)

History

Ghattamaneni Siva Rama Krishna, known professionally as Krishna, was an Indian actor, director and producer known for his works predominantly in Telugu Cinema. In a film career spanning five decades, Krishna starred in more than 350 films in a variety of roles. In 2008, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Andhra University. In 2009, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Bhushan for his contributions to Indian Cinema. He was elected as a Member of Parliament for the Congress party in 1989. In 1997, he received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award – South.

Profile

Krishna Ghattamaneni

Movies

Hero
Presenter
Arjun is a middle-class guy who wants to become an actor. Along with his friend, he tries to audition for various roles and meet different directors. He has a girlfriend, Subbu, whose father is against Arjun becoming an actor. One day, he accidentally receives a gun as a parcel, which turns his life upside down.
Sarileru Neekevvaru
Alluri Seetarama Raju (cameo appearance - archive footage)
A tough army major is deployed to Kurnool on a mission to keep the country safe from external threats.
Sri Sri
Sri Sri
Sripada Srinivasa Rao aka Sri Sri (Krishna) is a well-known law professor in Visakha. Sri Sri's Daughter Swetha prepares a Documentary on the negative impact of the violations of JK Industries on the tribals in the agency. That's when she gets killed by the Son of JK Industries MD & two other Youth. Sri Sri moves court but justice was denied. What path he choose to take revenge on the accused forms the rest of the story..!
Baladur
Baladur (Telugu: బలాదూర్), is a 2008 Telugu movie directed by Uday Shankar. Ravi Teja plays the lead role while Krishna, Anushka shetty, Chandra Mohan, Pradeep Rawat, Sunil and Suman Setty play supporting roles. K. M. Radha Krishnan was the music director, B. Balamurugan handled cinematography and the movie was edited by Marthand K. Venkatesh. The film released on August 15, 2008.The film is dubbed in Hindi as "Dhamkee".
Takkari Donga
Special Appearance
Shaka killing his own brother for particular information about a hidden treasure. Another man who knows about it is Veeru Dada. In the encounter of Veeru Dada jumps off into a river from a cliff. After 18 years, we have Veeru Dada with a leg cut off giving info to Raja a mischievous thief who robs off the money from banks in a style. Raja gives Veeru Dada a share of 50% for his entire tip offs. Raja becomes more daring as the price tag on his head increases by thousands. There is another mischievous thief Panasa along with uncle follows Raju so that she can dupe him and escape with all the looted money of Raja. As the things go on a frolicking way between Panasa and Raja, the desperate Shaka is searching for Veeru Dada in all the places. Rest of the story is for whom will get that treasure
Vamsi
Arjun
Vamsi (also known as Vamsee, Vamshi, or Vamshee) is a 2000 Tollywood film written by Satyanand and directed by B.Gopal which has Mahesh Babu and Namrata Shirodkar in the lead roles Vamsi (Mahesh Babu) is a fashion designer who gets an opportunity to participate a designer's contest held in Australia. Vamsi has a colleague called Sneha (Mayuri Kango) who is selected to model his creations in the fashion contest. Since Vamsi has to study the culture of Australia to design the best outfit, he is asked to tour the Australia extensively for a month. Shilpa (Namrata Shirodkar) is the daughter of an industrialist Aakineedu Prasad (Nassar), who is studying in Australia. She decides to take a vacation after exams by touring the Australian country. Vamsi meets Shilpa in the tour and they slowly fall in love.
Ravanna
Retired Army Major
Ravanna, a wayward youth, is misguided and used by the local MLA to threaten those who oppose him. Things start to change and he goes through a behavioural shift after falling in love with Sirisha.
Rajakumarudu
Krishnamurthy
Raj Kumar (Mahesh Babu) goes on holiday in Khandala and stays with his uncle Dhanunjay (Prakash Raj). He comes across Rani (Preity Zinta) and falls for her. However, he ends up teasing her and she begins to despise him. She is determined to avoid him, but he won't leave her alone. Raj Kumar saves Rani from some thugs, and she is impressed by his heroism. After spending some time together she begins to like him and eventually love him. Raja Kumarudu is a 1999 Telugu movie directed by K. Raghavendra Rao. It stars Mahesh Babu and Preity Zinta. In the movie Krishna made a guest appearance as the father of Mahesh Babu. Raja Kumarudu received positive reviews and was commercially successful. It was dubbed into hindi as prince no 1
Osey Ramulamma
CBI officer Krishna
Ramulamma,an innocent young girl, works as a maid in a Dora’s residence as a slave. She gets raped and impregnated by the Dora. and he orders his men to throw the baby and kill Ramulamma. The baby was found by naxals and was raised by them. Injured Ramulamma was taken care by a Dalit couple who treat her as their own sister. When Ramulamma kills Dora's son who tries to forcefully sleep with her, Dora wants to kill Ramulamma but she was rescued by Naxal leader Komaranna. He teaches her to rebel against the people who tormented her, tells her nothing is lost in a combat and gives her heaps of courage. When Komaranna dies in a battle with the government which despises any resistance, or questions their wrongdoings, Ramulammma dedicates her life in searching for those people who made her life an irreparable suffering.
Subhakankshalu
Special Appearance
The tale of two lovers from feuding families- whether they unite or not forms the crux of the story.
Ramudochadu
A village is split into two because of rivalry between two families. Years later, a young man returns from America and tries to reconcile the differences between the two village heads who were, once upon a time, close friends.
Jagadeka Veerudu
Telugu Veera levara
seeta rama raju
Telugu Veera Levara is the 300th movie of super star Krishna. Ramaraju is a Special Investigation Team officer who works as a worker to hide his identity. Investigating the case of underworld don, Gudal who wants to rule the nation. How Ramaraju exposes Gudal and saves his country forms the crux of the story.
Amma Donga
Chakri is framed in multiple murder cases and sent to jail. On release from prison, he heads to the village to bring to book the real culprits.
Varasudu
Vinay (Nagarjuna) studies in college where Keerthi (Nagma) enters as a new student. Vamsi (Srikanth) is also a student in the same college. His character has negative shades. The first half of the movie revolves mostly around the love story of the hero and heroine. Dharma Teja (Krishna) happens to rescue the hero from the villains (Srikanth's father and his friend), but hero hates Dharma Teja. Interval arrives disclosing the fact that Dharma Teja is the father of Vinay.
Naa Ille Naa Swargam
Alludu Diddina Kapuram
Gautam injures his maternal uncle in a drunken stupour. This incident takes him on a journey to redeem himself and rescue the love of his life, Sita, from the clutches of her step-mother.
Alludu Diddina Kapuram
Director
Gautam injures his maternal uncle in a drunken stupour. This incident takes him on a journey to redeem himself and rescue the love of his life, Sita, from the clutches of her step-mother.
Balachandrudu
Writer
Balachandra, a branded terrorist, seeks revenge for the brutal murder of his father. However, he has to join forces with police officer Ranjit Kumar to punish a group of smugglers
Balachandrudu
Director
Balachandra, a branded terrorist, seeks revenge for the brutal murder of his father. However, he has to join forces with police officer Ranjit Kumar to punish a group of smugglers
Koduku Diddina Kapuram
Director
Chakravarthy and Sasirekha gets married. But false allegations on Chakravarthy regarding a murder creates misunderstandings between them. Their sons who are identical twins, decides to reunite their parents.
Koduku Diddina Kapuram
Chakravarthy
Chakravarthy and Sasirekha gets married. But false allegations on Chakravarthy regarding a murder creates misunderstandings between them. Their sons who are identical twins, decides to reunite their parents.
Atha Mechina Alludu
Lalithamma, a pious and compassionate woman, opposes the atrocities of Rayudu, so he attempts to destroy Lalithamma's life.
Rajakiya Chadurangam
S.P. Pratap
The story begins with formation of the new government when an honest person, Satya Murthy (Akkineni Nageswara Rao) becomes Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. After that, he forms his government by selecting people with a clean image in his cabinet and brings out several revolutionary changes in the state. This overshadows Joginatham (Kota Srinivasa Rao), who is another strong aspirant for the chairs of CM and his group. They all conduct a secret meeting along with Contractor Papa Rao (Prabhakar Reddy), a political lobbyist and decide to assassinate CM Satya Murthy. Papa Rao contacts a Professional Killer Narang (Charan Raj) to kill CM and he keeps deadline till 1 November. Through the intelligence bureau, Police Department gets secret information regarding it. Here they specially appoint a powerful Police officer, S. P. Pratap (Krishna) for C.M.'s protection. The rest of the story is how S. P. Pratap protects CM from the secret killer
Mugguru Kodukulu
Director
Khalindra, a wealthy businessman takes care of his two brothers, after their parents' are murdered. Later, the brothers seek revenge for their parents' death. Will the trio succeed in their mission?
Khaidi Rudraiah
Rudramaraju "Rudraiah"
Rudramaraju, alias Rudrayya is arrested for brutally hacking a local thug. The judge however frees him with some hidden agenda. It is revealed that Rudraiah had given shelter to Latha, the adopted daughter of a wealthy Easwara Rao, when the latter was forced into marrying the good-for-nothing Venkatagiri by her uncle Phanibhushan Rao.
Jayam Manade
Jayam Manade
Simhasanam
Editor
Maharaja Sharminder Bhupathi of Avanti and his wife, the Rajmata, would like to see peace in the region, and would like their daughter, Alaknanda, to marry the prince of Gandharva, Aditya Vardhan.
Simhasanam
Producer
Maharaja Sharminder Bhupathi of Avanti and his wife, the Rajmata, would like to see peace in the region, and would like their daughter, Alaknanda, to marry the prince of Gandharva, Aditya Vardhan.
Simhasanam
Writer
Maharaja Sharminder Bhupathi of Avanti and his wife, the Rajmata, would like to see peace in the region, and would like their daughter, Alaknanda, to marry the prince of Gandharva, Aditya Vardhan.
Simhasanam
Director
Maharaja Sharminder Bhupathi of Avanti and his wife, the Rajmata, would like to see peace in the region, and would like their daughter, Alaknanda, to marry the prince of Gandharva, Aditya Vardhan.
Simhasanam
Vikrama Simha / Aditya Vardhana
Maharaja Sharminder Bhupathi of Avanti and his wife, the Rajmata, would like to see peace in the region, and would like their daughter, Alaknanda, to marry the prince of Gandharva, Aditya Vardhan.
Iddaru Dongalu
Ranga brings two thieves, Raja and Krishna, on the right path and teams up with them to fight a mobster, Raraju.
Dongalu Baboi Dongalu
Dongalu Baboi Dongalu
Rama Rajyamlo Bheermaraju
Bheemaraju / Krishna Raja Kumar
Krishna is a rich guy goes out act as a poor soul to help common man and helps Sridevi's family
Eenadu
Eenadu is Krishna's 200th movie with huge star cast. It's almost on the same lines of his 100th movie ALLURI SEETHA RAMARAJU. But in this movie, he fights against the politicians and industrialists who are looting the poor, the movie is about Ramaraju (Krishna) a social reformer who fights against the injustice by the political system and stands in support to the poor and down-trodden.Kantha Rao, Jaggayya, Rao Gopal Rao played the villains in the movie. Rao Gopal Rao is a small-time politician and brother-in-law of Krishna and husband of Krishna Kumari. His brother-in-law being a selfish and cruel man, Krishna stays away from them. Jaggayya is a businessman and and old friend of Krishna because of him Krishna lands in Jail without a fault of his. Kantha Rao is a criminal and after coming out of Jail, he enters into politics and becomes a minister.These three create havoc and play with the lives of the poor.
Vayyari Bhamalu Vagalamari Bhartalu
The film is a funny comedy tale which revolves around two pairs. Pedda Babu (N. T. Rama Rao) and Chinna Babu (Krishna) are two brothers belongs to Zamindar family, since their family is joint from generations their elders want to continue the hierarchy in this generation also, so they decide to make siblings as their daughters-in-law. Simultaneously, there are two sisters Indumathi (Sridevi) and Chandramathi (Radhika) who are grown up with a lot of love and affection among each other, so they also want to get married to brothers so that they are not separated in their rest of life.
Edi Dharmam Edi Nyayam
Edi Dharmam Edi Nyayam is a 1982 Indian Telugu-language thriller film simultaneously made in Tamil as Neethi Devan Mayakkam. Directed by Bapu, the film stars Bhanu Chander and Madhavi in the lead roles. Kamal Haasan acted as Military Officer in a guest appearance in the Tamil version and in Telugu by Krishna.
చుట్టాలున్నారు జాగ్రత్త
Ramesh & Gangulu
A man accused of murder and his doppelganger search the real murderer.
Ram Robert Rahim
Three brothers, who were separated at birth, are brought up in different religions and are reunited by fate. Together, they combat the evil man responsible for their separation.
Bhale Krishnudu
Krishna
Krishna is the son of a wealthy man, Madhav Rao. When Madhav Rao's secretary tricks him for his property leading to his death, Krishna takes up a false identity to avenge his father's loss.
Chal Mohana Ranga
Manasaakshi
Manasaakshi (transl. Conscience) is a 1977 Indian Telugu-language social film, directed by Parvataneni Sambasiva Rao. It stars Krishna Ghattamaneni, Bharathi Rao, Kongara Jaggayya, Kantha Rao, and Sowcar Janaki, with music composed by J.V. Raghavulu.
Sri Rajeshwari Vilas Coffee Club
A light breezy comedy about an unemployed Christian (Krishna) who finds employment with a brahmin coffee shop owner, posing as a brahmin. In time, the owner's daughter Jayaprada (absolutely bewitching), a devout Hindu, falls in love with Krishna. Padmanabham plays Krishna's brahmin friend who works at the coffee shop.
Adambaralu Anubandhalu
Adambaralu Anubandhalu is a movie directed by C.S. Rao featuring Krishna Ghattamaneni, Sharada Devi
Alluri Seetha Ramaraju
Alluri Seetharama Raju
Cinematic version of the life of the legendary freedom fighter.
Neramu Siksha
Krishna accidentally blinds Balaiah and kills his brother in a road mishap. After the unfortunate event, Krishna has to bear the consequences of his conduct.
Talli Kodukulu
Vintha Katha
MonagadOstunnadu Jagratha
MonagadOstunnadu Jagratha is a 1972 Telugu Eastman color action film, directed by K.V.S. Kutumba Rao and produced by Y.V. Rao. The film had musical score by Satyam. The action scenes were shot in the villages of Rajasthan.
Pandanti Kapuram
Pandanti Kapuram is a 1972 Telugu, family drama film.
Mosagallaku Mosagadu
Amarvedu dynasty was attacked by Britishers at the time of Bobbili war in South India. Before the Britishers are about to attack the dynasty, a couple of friends Daanaala Dharmayya (Gummadi) and Pagadaala Subbayya hides the treasure in a cave of five doors, very far away.
James Bond 777
Kishore
The adventures of Kishore, a "James Bond 777" CBI agent, as he and heroine Sopa battle criminal mastermind "Boss" and his gang which includes whip-cracking Jamilla and a trio of highly trained dogs.
Ave Kallu
Rich and pretty, Susila returns from college to find that her family is being bumped off one by one. The only clues are a half smoked cigar left at the scene of each murder and a mysterious woman in white running through the courtyard.
Private Master
Sridhar, who is appointed as a home tutor to teach a girl belonging to a rich family, falls in love with his student.
Sakshi
Kishtaiah
A young man changes himself into a hard - hearted person after being dejected by the society.
Goodachari 116
Film starring Krishna Ghattamaneni, Rajanala and Mukkamala