Akkineni Nagarjuna is an Indian film actor in Tollywood and Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

. He is a producer and one of the lead actors in Telugu cinema

Telugu cinema

The Cinema of Andhra Pradesh, also referred to as Telugu Cinema or Tollywood, is the Telugu film industry in India. The Telugu language film industry is known for being one of the three largest in terms of no.of films produced yearly in India. The Prasads IMAX theatre in Hyderabad is one of the...

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Nagarjuna was born on 29 August 1959 in Chennai

Chennai

Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

, Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 to actor Nageswara Rao Akkineni

Akkineni Nageswara Rao

Akkineni Nageswara Rao , also known as ANR, is a Telugu cinema actor from Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh. Nageswara Rao has worked in several genres of films in his 70-year acting career, including mythological, social, and drama films...

 and Annapurna Akkineni. The family later moved to Hyderabad where he attended Hyderabad Public School

Hyderabad Public School

The Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet or HPS, Begumpet, is a privately funded public school in Hyderabad in the state of Andhra Pradesh.Earlier known as Jagirdar College, it was established in 1923 as a school exclusively for the sons of Jagirdars and other aristrocats. It was renamed as Hyderbad...

, and studied his "Intermediate" from Little Flower Junior College

Little Flower Junior College

Little Flower Junior College is a college in Hyderabad, India offering Intermediate education . It was established by the Montfort Brothers of St. Gabriel. It was started in July 1974 as a part of Little Flower High School, It shifted to its own campus at Uppal in July 1982.Its current Principal is...

 and B.E. (Mechanical) from the College of Engineering, Guindy

College of Engineering, Guindy

College of Engineering, Guindy in Chennai, India, is India's oldest engineering and technical institution, having been established in 1794. Today it is one of the four constituent colleges of Anna University, Chennai....

 and has completed M.S (Automobile Engineering) from Eastern Michigan University

Eastern Michigan University

Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive, co-educational public university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Ypsilanti is west of Detroit and eight miles east of Ann Arbor. The university was founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School...

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Nagarjuna started off as a child actor, in the 1967 Telugu film Sudigundalu

Sudigundalu

Sudigundaalu is a 1967 Telugu film directed by Adurthi Subba Rao and K. Viswanath. It is one of the best movies on contemporary social problems produced by Annapurna Pictures...

 directed by veteran Adurthi Subbarao.