Sonu Sood was born July 30, 1973 and is an Indian actor, producer, and humanitarian who stars primarily in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Punjabi films.

In 2009, he received the Nandi State of Andhra Pradesh Award for Best Villain and the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Telugu for his work in the blockbuster Telugu Arundhati. In 2010, he won the Apsara Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role and the IIFA Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role for the Bollywood blockbuster Dabangg. In 2012, he received the SIIMA award for best actor in a negative role for Julayi. He is best known for his roles in blockbuster films such as Yuva (2004), Athadu (2005), Aashiq Banaya Aapne (2005), Ashok (2006), Jodhaa Akbar (2008), Dookudu (2011), Shootout at Wadala (2013), Happy New Year (2014), Kung Fu Yoga (2017) and Simmba (2018).

He has also appeared in commercials for Apollo Tires and Airtel.

In July 2016, he created the production house Shakti Sagar Productions, which bears the name of his father, Shakti Sagar Sood. He married Sonali in 1996. They have two sons.

Sonu Sood Social work during the COVID-19 pandemic

In May 2020, during the national lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sood helped thousands of stranded Indian migrant workers reach their homes by organizing buses, special trains and charter flights for them. In July 2020, he organized a chartered flight to bring home more than 1,500 Indian students stranded in Kyrgyzstan, transporting them from Bishkek to Varanasi. His charity during the pandemic was praised and he was hailed as a real life hero in India.

On July 25, 2020, a video of a farmer’s daughters plowing a field, like bulls with a yoke on their shoulders, went viral on social media. Sood quickly sent the family a tractor. On August 5, 2020, he helped 101 medical students, mostly from Tamil Nadu, stranded in Moscow during the lockdown, to reach Chennai safely on a chartered flight he organized after contacting his team for help. On his birthday, he launched a website and app called Pravasi Rojgar to help migrant workers find decent jobs amid the pandemic.

Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao (May 28, 1923 – January 18, 1996), known as the NTR, was an Indian actor, producer, director, director, and politician who had served as chief minister for seven years for three terms. He is widely regarded as one of the best actors in Indian cinema. N.T. Rama Rao has received three national film awards for its co-productions with Thodu Dongalu (1954) and Seetharama Kalyanam (1960) under the National Art Theater of Madras and for the realization of Varakatnam (1970). NTR received the former Rashtrapati Awards for his performances in the films Raju Peda (1954) and Lava Kusa (1963). He won the Nandi Award for Best Actor for Kodalu Diddina Kapuram in 1970 and the inaugural Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu in 1972 for Badi Panthulu.

In May 1943, at the age of 20, while pursuing his intermediary, NTR married Basava Rama Tarakam, daughter of his maternal uncle. The couple had eight sons and four daughters.

His eldest son, Nandamuri Ramakrishna Sr., died in 1962, shortly after NTR completed the filming of Irugu Porugu. NTR founded the Ramakrishna Studios movie studio in Nacharam. His fourth son, Nandamuri Harikrishna, who died in a tragic car accident on August 29, 2018, was a child actor turned politician elected to the Rajya Sabha and representing the TDP. Harikrishna’s sons, Nandamuri Kalyan Ram and Jr. NTR, are also actors in the Telugu film industry (Tollywood), the latter being one of the major players in the industry today. His sixth son, Nandamuri Balakrishna, has been one of Tollywood’s leading actors since the mid-1980s. He also began his career as a child artist. Balakrishna challenged the 2014 assembly elections as a TDP candidate. He won the constituency of the Hindupur Assembly. His seventh son, Nandamuri Ramakrishna Jr. is a film producer. His third son, theater owner Nandamuri Saikrishna, died in 2004 as a result of diabetes-related complications. The other sons Jayakrishna and Mohanakrishna are well-known filmmakers. Taraka Ratna, the son of Mohanakrishna, is also a Tollywood actor.

NTR’s second daughter, Daggubati Purandeswari, represented the Indian National Congress at Lok Sabha and was a minister of the Union. She changed allegiance to the Bharatiya Janata party.

Basava Tarakam died of cancer in 1985. In her memory, NTR founded the Basavatarakam Indo-American Cancer Hospital in Hyderabad in 1986. In 1993, NTR married Lakshmi Parvathi, a Telugu writer. She is the author of her two-volume biography of NTR, published in 2004. The first volume, “Eduruleni Manishi”, deals with her childhood as she enters the movies. The second volume, “Telugu Tejam”, deals with his political career.

After his film career, NTR entered politics. He founded the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in 1982 and served three tumultuous terms as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh from 1983 to 1995. He was known for defending the distinct cultural identity of Andhra Pradesh , distinguishing him from the former state of Madras with which he was was often associated. At the national level, he played a key role in forming the National Front, a coalition of non-Congress parties that ruled India from 1989 to 1990.

NTR died of a heart attack on January 18, 1996 at his home in Hyderabad at the age of 72. He was cremated and his ashes were immersed in Srirangapatna by his second wife eight years later, in 2004.

Akkineni Nageswara Rao (September 20, 1924 – January 22, 2014), known as ANR, was an Indian film actor and producer, known for his work mainly in Telugu cinema. He has starred in many landmark films over his seventy-five year career, becoming one of the most prominent figures in the history of Indian cinema. He is considered one of the most important and successful actors in Indian cinema. In the early 1960s, he was one of the actors in the transfer of the Telugu cinema industry from Madras to Hyderabad. He founded Annapurna Studios in 1975 to provide infrastructure support to the Telugu film industry in Hyderabad. In 2011, he then founded the Annapurna International Film and Media School at Annapurna Studios.

Akkineni Nageswara Rao was born on September 20, 1924 to a lower middle-class family in Ramapuram, Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh. He was the youngest of five brothers. His parents, Akkineni Venkatratnam and Akkineni Punnamma, belonged to the farming community. His formal education was limited to primary school because of his parents’ poor economic situation.

Since the age of 10, he has entered the world of fine arts through theater. He became a renowned theater actor, specializing in the game of female characters, because at that time, it was forbidden for women to play. His most famous roles have been in some of the most famous dramas of the day: Harishchandra, Kanakatara, Vipranarayana, Telugu Talli, Aasajyoti and Satyanveshanam. The turning point of his career came when Ghantasala Balaramaiah, a leading film producer at the time, discovered him by chance at the Vijayawada station. He was chosen to interpret the leading role of Rama in Seeta Rama Jananam. It was after his debut in a supporting role in the film Dharmapatni.

Rao married Annapurna on 18 February 1949. Annapurna Studios (established 1985) is named after her, and she was also credited as presenter for several of the studio’s productions. Annapurna died in 2011 after a prolonged illness. The couple had 5 children, namely, Nagarjuna, Venkat Rathnam, Saroja, Sathyavathi, and Naga Susheela.

Nagarjuna, a notable Telugu film actor, was married to Lakshmi Daggubati, daughter of film producer D. Ramanaidu. They have a son, Naga Chaitanya, also an actor. The couple were later divorced, and Nagarjuna married Amala Muherjee, who have a son Akhil Akkineni. Venkat is a film producer who also served as a director of Annapurna Studios. Sathyavathi is married to film producer Yarlagadda Surendra, who have two children, Sumanth and Supriya.

On October 19, 2013, a stomach cancer was diagnosed at the ANR. He continued shooting for his latest film, Manam, two weeks after a major laparoscopic operation, which some doctors feared he would not survive. He had often said that he wanted to act until his death, and Manam proved it. His last public appearance took place during the celebrations of January 14, 2014, the day of Annapurna Studios’ founding. Akkineni died a week later, on January 22, 2014. He was cremated on January 23, 2014 at Annapurna Studios with all the honors he received. greet. Thousands were present to pay their last respects.