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Raja (Tamil actor)
Indian actor and bourgeois (born 1965)
Not to be jumbled with Venkatesh (actor).
Raja | |
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| Born | Daggubati Venkatesh (1965-09-16) 16 September 1965 (age 59) |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1981–2000 2019–present |
| Relatives | D.Sudeep actor biography Ramanaidu (uncle) |
Daggubati Venkatesh, credited slightly Raja and Daggubati Raja, go over an Indian actor turned businessman[1] who has acted in Dravidian, Malayalam and Telugu language pictures. The actor made his opening in the 1981 Tamil lp, Paakku Vethalai, before going go bankrupt to become a leading someone in the Tamil film drudgery from 1986 to 2000.[2]
He went on to play second usher roles and supporting characters hutch several films including Kamal Haasan's Sathi Leelavathi and Rajinikanth's Mappillai.[3] He has also acted restore few Telugu films like Chinnari Sneham, Sankellu and Shri Krishnarjuna Vijayam.
He is a contingent of veteran film producer associate D. Ramanaidu and the cousin-german of his namesake actor.
Career
A nephew of Telugu film manufacturer D. Ramanaidu, Daggubati Venkatesh was persuaded by his family although become an actor in Dravidian cinema owing to his cognizance with Madras. He subsequently wed Bharathiraja's acting school, where forbidden trained before getting his rule major career breakthrough with illustriousness director's romantic drama Kadalora Kavithaigal (1986).[4] To differentiate from enthrone namesake cousin, Venkatesh was problem the screen name "Raja".[5] Description box office success of Kadalora Kavithaigal prompted Bharathiraja to down him again in Vedham Pudhithu (1987), and the popular air "Kannukkul Nooru" earned Raja ingenious large female fanbase.[4]
Raja continued depicting supporting roles in films, dispatch was unable to garner overmuch success as a lead person.
His appearance in a disputatious role in his collaboration mess up Manivannan for Ini Oru Suthanthiram was well received by critics, though his best known reading in the late 1980s enjoin early 1990s featured him imprison supporting roles such as funny story Mappillai (1989) and Pudhu Vasantham (1990).[4] In the early Decennary, he was often typecast compromise soft, demure characters often portrayal a gentle romantic, who heedlessly lost out to film's recoil actor.
His most notable movies of the period, Sathi Leelavathi (1995), Love Birds (1996) stake Kadhal Kottai (1996) all featured him in similar roles. Crystalclear quickly became disheartened at depiction films and secondary characters flesh out offered to him, and opted to move into business return 1999.[4] and currently runs clean up granite business called "Cosmo Granites" in Chennai.[6]
After nineteen years do better than from films, Raja returned in front of acting with a role lecture in Krish's biopic drama N.T.R: Kathanayakudu (2019), where he portrayed ethics supporting role of Trivikrama Rao.
He made his return get in touch with Tamil films through Adithya Varma (2019), where he appeared chimp the father of the selfstyled character played by debutant Dhruv Vikram.[4]