Mahesh Babu was born on 9th of August 1974 at Chennai. He is the son of Super Star Ghantamaneni Krishna. He is a commerce graduate from Loyola College, Chennai. He acted in few of his father starrer Telugu films as a child artist. He performed the given roles with perfection especially in the film “Mugguru Kodukulu” and “Koduku Diddina Kapuram”. As a lead Star (hero) his first film was “Rajakumarudu” with Preity Zinta as his co star directed by the ace director K.Raghavendra Rao released in the year 1999.
Awards:-
1. Nandi Award for the year 1999 as a best debutant actor for the film Rajakumarudu.
2. Special jury Nandi Award for the year 2001 as best actor for the film Murari
3. Special Jury Nandi Award for the year 2002 as best actor for the film Takkari Donga
4. Film fare Award(south) for the year 2003 as best actor for the Movie Nijam
5. Film fare Award(south) for the year 2003 as best actor for the film okkadu
6. Special jury Nandi Award for the year 2004 as best actor for the film Arjun
7. Nandi Award for the year 2005 as best actor for the film Athadu
8. Film fare Award(South) for the year 2006 as best actor for the Film Pokiri
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His latest movie Dookudu is all set to be released in this month (august)
List of films by Mahesh Babu
1. Rajakumarudu(1999)
2. Yuvaraju(2000)
3. Vamsi(2000)
4. Murari(2001)
5. Takkaridonga(2002)
6. Bobby(2002)
7. Okkadu(2003)
8. Nijam(2003)
9. Nani(2004)
10. Arjun(2004)
11. Athadu(2005)
12. Pokiri(2006)
13. Sainikudu(2006)
14. Athidhi(2007)
15. Khaleja(2010)
He has married Actress Namratha Shirodkar in the year 2005.He has a son Gautham Krishna.
Businessoftollywood.com wishes many happy returns of the day to this Prince of Telugu Cinema.