Actor and producer · Telugu cinema
Nandamuri Kalyan Ram
Nandamuri Kalyan Ram movies: 23 Telugu films on file (20 as actor, 11 as producer), 1989–2025. Earliest on file: Bala Gopaludu (1989). Latest release: Arjun S/O Vyjayanthi (18 April 2025).
- Films on file
- 23 (20 as actor, 11 as producer)
- Years on file
- 1989–2025
- Born
- 5 July 1978 · July birthdays (Wikidata)
- Selected films on file
- Devara: Part 1, Jai Lava Kusa, 118
- Record
- Q6963172 on Wikidata
Nandamuri Kalyan Ram is an Indian actor and producer in Telugu cinema, the son of the actor-politician Nandamuri Harikrishna and grandson of N. T. Rama Rao. He is best known for action films such as Athanokkade (2005), Hare Ram (2008), 118 (2019) and Bimbisara (2022), and he heads the production company N. T. R. Arts.
He was born on 5 July 1978 in Hyderabad, according to Wikipedia and Wikidata. The actor N. T. Rama Rao Jr. is his half-brother. He went to school in Hyderabad and Vijayawada, took an engineering degree in Coimbatore and a master’s at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.
Career
As a child he appeared with his uncle Nandamuri Balakrishna in Bala Gopaludu (1989). His adult debut, Tholi Choopulone (2003), and Abhimanyu (2003) both failed. In 2005 he founded N. T. R. Arts, named after his grandfather, and produced Athanokkade, which introduced the director Surender Reddy and was a critical and commercial success. Films such as Lakshmi Kalyanam and Vijayadasami (2007), Hare Ram, Jayeebhava (2009), Kalyanram Kathi (2010) and the 3D film Om 3D (2013) followed.
Anil Ravipudi’s Pataas (2015) was a blockbuster with positive reviews. Later that year he starred in Sher and produced Kick 2, with Ravi Teja. He produced and starred in Puri Jagannadh’s Ism (2016) as an undercover journalist, and led MLA and Naa Nuvve (2018). In 2019 he played his father Harikrishna in N.T.R: Kathanayakudu and N.T.R: Mahanayakudu, and K. V. Guhan’s thriller 118 was a critical and commercial success.
Entha Manchivaadavuraa (2020) was a remake of the Gujarati film Oxygen. After Bimbisara and Devil: The British Secret Agent (2023), Arjun S/O Vyjayanthi (2025) was a commercial failure. His company Advitha Creative Studios has provided visual effects for films including Legend and Nannaku Prematho.
Upcoming films
No upcoming film of his is on our records yet. Wikipedia reports that he will reunite with Anil Ravipudi, alongside Venkatesh, for a film planned for Sankranthi 2027. New films appear on upcoming Telugu movies as they are recorded.
Where to watch his films
- Arjun S/O Vyjayanthi: Prime Video, per TMDB/JustWatch provider data (OTT details)
- Bimbisara: ZEE5, from 21 October 2022, per Wikipedia (OTT details)
- Entha Manchivaadavuraa: Disney+ Hotstar, from 16 February 2020, per Wikipedia (OTT details)
- N.T.R: Kathanayakudu: Prime Video, from 8 February 2019, per Wikipedia (OTT details)
- Sher, Hare Ram and Athanokkade: Aha, per the platform listing (Sher)
Catalogues change; check the platform before you plan to watch.
Personal life
He married Swathi on 9 August 2006, according to Wikipedia, citing IndiaGlitz. They have a son and a daughter.
Sources: Wikipedia and the references it cites (linked above), Wikidata, and Tollywood Desk’s film, release and OTT records.
Career on file
Nandamuri Kalyan Ram has 23 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 1989 to 2025: 20 films as actor and 11 films as producer. The earliest of them is Bala Gopaludu (1989), and the most recent release is Arjun S/O Vyjayanthi (2025). The most widely covered of these, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Devara: Part 1 (2024), Jai Lava Kusa (2017) and 118 (2019). Other recent releases on file are Bimbisara (2022), Entha Manchivaadavuraa (2020) and N.T.R: Mahanayakudu (2019).
Brahmanandam is the most frequent co-star, sharing seven films with Nandamuri Kalyan Ram, followed by Suhasini Maniratnam (3) and Nandamuri Balakrishna (3). Among directors, Radhakrishna Jagarlamudi cast Nandamuri Kalyan Ram most often, in two films. Music on four of them is by Mani Sharma, with M. M. Keeravani (3) and S. Thaman (3) next. N. T. R. Arts produced ten of them, more than any other banner on file. Across these films the credits on file name 21 different directors, 17 music directors and 64 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 19 of them; they average 144 minutes, and the longest is Devara: Part 1 at 178 minutes. Ten of them have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. By decade the list splits into 1980s (1), 2000s (6), 2010s (12) and 2020s (4).
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.