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Kalyan Ram

Birth Name Nandamuri Kalyan Ram
Date of birth 1978-07-05
birth place Hyderabad
spouse(s) Swathi
children Sourya Ram and Taraka Advitha
debut year 1989
debut movie Bala Gopaludu

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Overview

One of the protégée of Nandamuri family, Kalyan Ram came up as a promising hero and also took up the challenge of movie production under ‘NTR Arts’ banner.

Personal Life

Nandamuri Kalyan Ram is born to Hari Krishna and Lakshmi. He is the grandson of legendary actor and former Chief Minister of AP, N. Taraka Rama Rao. He studied in St. Pauls, Hyderabad till 7th class and later shifted to KCP Siddardha Adarsh Residential School, Kanur (Vijayawada) for 8th, 9th and 10th class. He completed intermediate in Vikas and later did his engineering in Coimbatore. Later he went abroad and completed masters in Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

Kalyan Ram is married to Swathi and the couple has two children – Sourya Ram and Advitha.
Career

Kalyan Ram first donned the grease paint as a child artist in Bala Gopaludu film. After completing masters, Kalyan Ram came back to Hyderabad to test his luck in films. He started his career with two flops – Toli Choopulone and Abhimanyu. However, the young lad made a mark on audience with his boy the next door looks. The first and biggest break (till date) of his career came in the form of Athanokkade directed by Surender Reddy. The movie was produced by Kalyan Ram himself on his own NTR Arts banner.

Kalyan Ram bagged his first hit with a debut director and he believed in giving chances for first timers. But he was often disappointed by them. He went on to give chances to three new directors in the next eight movies he acted after Athanokkade. He also acted with established directors like Teja (in Lakshmi Kalynam) and Samudra (in Vijayadasami) but only to meet failure. Hare Ram is the only which got him reasonable success after Athanokkade.

In 2013, Kalyan Ram ventured Om 3D, India’s first action movie. The actor had invested more than 20 crores in the movie and toiled hard for more than 3 years for making it but only to get disappointed once again. Finally he staged a big comeback in 2015 with Pataas directed by Anil Ravipudi. The film brought back success to Kalyan Ram after several years and ended up as a big blockbuster.
Trivia
- Kalyan Ram always says that he do not want other producer to risk when a movie budget exceeds his market. So, he prefers to produce the movie on his own in such cases.
- In an interview, Kalyan Ram revealed that Yevadu was first told to him and NTR but some how it was not materialized. Later Ram Charan and Allu Arjun starred in it.
Upcoming Movies
- Production – Kick2 starring Ravi Teja in the direction of Surrendra Reddy.
- Sher directed by Mallikarjuna
- Pataas directed by a new comer Anil Ravipudi.