Naga Chaitanya: Carrying Baton Of Akkineni Legacy

Carrying forward legacy of iconic personalities in their respective fields is always a challenging task for their heirs. Legendary Akkineni Nageswara Rao has left a strong imprint in the hearts of Telugu people with his iconic performances on-screen. His son Akkineni Nagarjuna continued his legacy forward showing his own mark. Nagarjuna made several pathbreaking choices and proved himself in delivering new wave content in Tollywood. Akkineni Naga Chaitanya has more responsibility to carry both as son of Nagarjuna and grandson of ANR and Iconic Producer D Ramanaidu. 

Naga Chaitanya has made his debut with college politics film 'Josh' directed by Vasu Varma in popular producer Dil Raju's production. Though the film has failed at the box-office, Naga Chaitanya made an impression with his act and screen presence. But, his major breakthrough came with his second film, 'Ye Maya Chesave' costarring Samantha directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon. The film became a cult hit among love stories and Naga Chaitanya proved his legacy as his family is known for delivering iconic love stories right from his grandfather ANR to his father Nagarjuna. 

Naga Chaitanya's successful stint continued with 100% Love, and Tadakha. He has scored hits with mostly love stories rather than action oriented films. He acted in remarkable film 'Manam' which has three generations of Akkineni family and also.marks the last film of Akkineni Nageswara Rao. His success with love stories continued with 'Oka Laila Kosam', 'Premam', and 'Ra Randoi Veduka Chuddam'. After a brief setback he scored superhit with 'Majili' another love story which also costarred his former wife Samantha. 

Naga Chaitanya then scored hat-trick with 'Venky Mama', 'Lovestory', and 'Bangarraju'. Then after facing a couple of failures with 'Thank You' and 'Custody', he is back to score a success with intense love story 'Thandel' which also features talented Sai Pallavi. The film is being made as a pan India affair in Chandoo Mondeti's direction. Naga Chaitanya also forayed into OTT space with web series 'Dootha' directed by Vikram K Kumar. It will stream on Amazon Prime Video from December 1.

CineJosh wishes the charismatic Yuva Samrat Naga Chaitanya a very Happy Birthday and blockbuster year ahead.