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Babu in a blue striped button-up shirt facing the camera at a slight angle.
Mahesh Babu at the audio launch of Selvandhan, the Tamil dubbed version of Srimanthudu, in 2015

Mahesh Babu is an Indian film actor known for his work in Telugu cinema. He first appeared in the 1979 film Needa when he was four years old.[1][2] He continued to perform as a child actor in several films, most of which featured his father Krishna.[3] His first lead role as an adult was the in the 1999 film Rajakumarudu, for which he won the Nandi Award for Best Male Debut.[4] Afterwards, his career stagnated until successes like Murari (2001), Okkadu (2003) and Athadu (2005) brought him fame.[3][5] In 2006, he played a gangster in Puri Jagannadh's action-thriller Pokiri, which set multiple box office records upon release[6][7][8] and cemented Babu's reputation as a "superstar".[9]

In the wake of his 2007 film Athidhi, Babu took a break that lasted for three years.[10] During that period, he acted in the fantasy action film Khaleja (2010).[11] In 2011, he starred in Dookudu, which became the first Telugu film to gross over ₹1 billion.[12] His next film Businessman (2012) was well received and became one of the year's highest grossing Telugu films at a time that was particularly harsh on other big-budget productions.[13][14] The following year, Babu co-starred alongside Venkatesh in the critically and commercially acclaimed drama film Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu,[15][16] which was considered the first Telugu multi-starrer in decades.[17][18] He then featured in Sukumar's 2014 psychological thriller 1: Nenokkadine.[19] Although Babu's performance as a schizophrenic rock star was lauded by critics, the film itself received mixed reviews and failed to make back its budget.[20][21] Aagadu, his next release that year, suffered a similar fate,[22][23] despite the film's opening gross being his highest at the time.[24]

His 2015 action-drama Srimanthudu was a commercial success[25] and earned Babu his fifth Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu[26] as well as his eighth Nandi Award in any category, the most by any individual.[27] The film was also his first as a producer.[28] His subsequent film Brahmotsavam (2016) and his first bilingual film Spyder (2017) under-performed at the box office.[29][30] The actor's next role was as an inexperienced chief minister in Koratala Siva's political film Bharat Ane Nenu (2018).[31] The film was the year's second highest grossing Telugu production[32] and reviewers praised his performance.[9] His following two films, Maharshi (2019) and Anil Ravipudi's action-comedy Sarileru Neekevvaru (2020), also made substantial profits[33] despite receiving less favorable reception.[34][35]

Filmography

Key
† Denotes films that have not yet been released
  • All films are in Telugu, unless otherwise noted.
Year Film Role(s) Director(s) Notes Ref.
1979 Needa Cameo Dasari Narayana Rao Child actor [1]
[36]
1983 Poratam Bujji Kodi Ramakrishna Child actor [3]
[37]
1987 Sankharavam Raja Krishna Child actor [38]
[39]
1988 Bazaar Rowdy Mahesh Babu A. Kodandarami Reddy Child actor [2]
[40]
1988 Mugguru Kodukulu Surendra Krishna Child actor [2]
[41]
1989 Gudachari 117 Chinna Kodi Ramakrishna Child actor [2]
[42]
1989 Koduku Diddina Kapuram Vinod / Pramod[a] Krishna Child actor [2]
[43]
1990 Anna Thammudu Murali Krishna Child actor [2]
[44]
1990 Balachandrudu Balachandra Krishna Child actor and lead [45]
[46]
1999 Raja Kumarudu Raja K. Raghavendra Rao First adult lead role
Nandi Award for Best Male Debut 		[2]
[27]
2000 Yuvaraju Srinivas Y. V. S. Chowdary [38]
[47]
2000 Vamsi Vamsi B. Gopal [48]
2001 Murari Murari Krishna Vamsi Nandi Special Jury Award [9]
[49]
2002 Takkari Donga Raja Jayanth C. Paranjee Nandi Special Jury Award [27]
[50]
2002 Bobby Bobby Sobhan [8]
[51]
2003 Okkadu Ajay Varma Gunasekhar Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu [52]
[26]
2003 Nijam G. Seetaram Teja Nandi Award for Best Actor [27]
[53]
2004 Naani Vijay "Viju" / Nani[b] S. J. Surya [54]
2004 Arjun Arjun Gunasekhar Nandi Special Jury Award [8]
[27]
2005 Athadu Nanda "Nandu" Gopal / Parthu[c] Trivikram Srinivas Nandi Award for Best Actor [55]
[27]
2006 Pokiri Pandu / Krishna Manohar IPS[c] Puri Jagannadh Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu [26]
[56]
2006 Sainikudu Siddhartha Gunasekhar [8]
[57]
2007 Athidhi Athidhi Surender Reddy [58]
[59]
2008 Jalsa Voiceover Trivikram Srinivas [60]
2010 Khaleja Alluri Seetharama Raju Trivikram Srinivas [61]
[62]
2011 Dookudu G. Ajay Kumar IPS / Bellary Babu[c] Srinu Vaitla Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu
Nandi Award for Best Actor 		[26]
[63]
2012 Businessman Vijay Surya Puri Jagannadh [14]
[64]
2013 Baadshah Voiceover Srinu Vaitla [65]
2013 Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu Chinnodu Srikanth Addala Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu [26]
[66]
2014 1: Nenokkadine Gautham Sukumar [20]
2014 Aagadu Encounter Shankar Srinu Vaitla [67]
2015 Srimanthudu Harsha Vardhan Koratala Siva Also producer
Nandi Award for Best Actor
Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu 		[26]
[68]
[49]
[69]
2016 Brahmotsavam Babu Srikanth Addala Also producer [70]
[71]
[72]
2016 Sri Sri Voiceover Muppalaneni Shiva [73]
2017 Spyder Shiva AR Murugadoss Multilingual film simultaneously shot in Tamil [74]
[75]
2018 Bharat Ane Nenu Bharath Ram Koratala Siva [31]
2018 Manasuku Nachindi Voiceover Manjula Ghattamaneni [76]
[77]
2019 Maharshi Rishi Kumar Vamshi Paidipally [34]
2020 Sarileru Neekevvaru Ajay Krishna Anil Ravipudi Also producer [78]
[79]
2020 Major † — Sashi Kiran Tikka Producer
Simultaneously shot in Hindi 		[80]

Notes

  1. ^ Babu played two characters.
  2. ^ Babu played a single character with two different personalities.
  3. ^ a b c Babu played a single character with two or more names.

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