Personal life
Ram Charan is engaged to his long time girlfriend, Upasna Kamineni. The event took place in Hyderabad on December 1, 2011. Upasna is the granddaughter of the M.D Prathap Reddy of the Apollo group and the daughter of Shobana Kamineni and Anil Kamineni. She is the vice-president of Apollo Charity and chief editor of B Positive magazine.
Ram Charan made his film debut in 2007 with Chirutha, which was directed by Puri Jagannadh. The movie showed a good performance at the box office. Charan's performance was well-received and eventually received Filmfare Best Male Debut (South) and Nandi Special Jury Award for the role. His second film, S. S. Rajamouli's Magadheera (2009), emerged a critical as well as huge commercial success.[8][9] This film broke all records and ran for an uninterrupted 300 plus days, and became the highest grossing Telugu film earning around 87 crore. The movie was a show stealer at South Indian Filmfare awards for the year 2009 with six awards and Ram Charan getting the Filmfare Best Actor Award and Nandi Special Jury Award.[10] After the mega block buster Magadheera, Ram Charan came with a romantic entertainer Orange. The film was directed by Bommarillu Bhaskar and produced by Nagendra Babu.The movie didn't do well at the box office but the film received appreciations from many of the legendary directors of Telugu.
Presently, Ram Charan next movie is titled Rachaa under the direction of Sampath Nandi's. The movie is being jointly produced by Paras Jain and NV Prasad under Super Good Films banner.[11] Ram Charan recently went to USA for a couple of months to get himself trained in various martial arts. Tamannaah Bhatia is the female lead.[12][13] Ram Charan has two more films in the pipeline one in the direction of V. V. Vinayak[14] to be produced by Danaiah, recently the film's first shot was filmed on Ram Charan at Annapoorna Studios in Hyderabad and another in the direction of Vamsi Paidipally and produced by Dil Raju, this movie is under pre-production phase.
