Hailing from a Telugu family in Madras, he completed schooling in Chennai and Bhimavaram, earned a B.Tech from Sri Chaitanya College in Hyderabad, and later trained at the Satyanand Film Institute. After debuting with the drama Eeswar (2002), a breakthrough arrived through the action-romance Varsham (2004), followed by a string of commercial hits such as Chatrapathi (2005), Bujjigadu (2008), Billa…
