Vajja Venkata Giridhar

Biography:

Actor Vajja Venkata Giridhar was born on June 1st, 1980. He has been a part of numerous films since entering the Telugu cinema industry in 1998. Giridhar is an Andhra Pradesh native from the West Godavari area who went to Hyderabad in the early 1990s while attending college.

Giridhar had to live in a dormitory while he was in school because his father’s job as a police officer required him to travel frequently. He made the decision to pursue acting in the film industry after relocating to Hyderabad.

Through his cousin Prabhu, who was a classmate of Chandra Siddhartha, Giridhar was introduced to various filmmakers. In 1999’s Swayamvaram, directed by Vijaya Bhaskar, he made his cinematic debut. However, he made his acting debut in Premante Idera (1998) by Jayanth Parani, starring Daggubati Venkatesh and Preity Zinta.

Since then, the actor has appeared in a number of minor roles. Among others, he has collaborated with Trivikram Srinivas, Veeru Potla, Sriwass, Sreenu Vaitla, Krishna Vamsi, Harish Shankar, and K. Dasarath as directors and screenwriters.

Although Giridhar lacked a godfather, he has received enormous support from filmmakers and writers like Gopi Mohan. He has worked steadily in the industry, even if the majority of his roles have been minor ones. He has featured in between 60 and 70 films.

His performances in Athadu (2005), Aa Naluguru (2004), Baanam (2009), Vedam (2010), Greeku Veerudu (2013), Santhosham (2002), and Gabbar Singh (2012), among others, were the movies that made him famous. In the movies Deep Bay of Bengal (2021) and Raahu (2020), Giridhar plays the character Chalam.

He played Janardhan in the 2019 films Sita, 118, and NTR Kathanayakudu. He has appeared in the 2018 films Touch Chesi Chudu as Mallesh Yadav, Subrahmanyapura, Amar Akbar Anthony as Chetan Sharma, and Rangasthalam 1995 as Abbulu.