Sumanth
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Sumanth(Telugu: సుమంత్) born February 9) is a Telugu film actor. He is the nephew of actor Akkineni Nagarjuna and the grandson of veteran Akkineni Nageswara Rao.
[edit] Background
Sumanth studied in a Hyderabad public school until he was 17 years old. After that, he came to USA for six years. During those six years, Sumanth got an under graduate degree in Direction and Screen writing. In August 2004, he married Keerthi Reddy. However in 2005, they registered for divorce. Sources say it was because she wanted to open up her own beauty parlors and start her own tv shows and for this she wanted her husband to help her. Sumanth was already a struggling actor and told her that he couldn't it.
[edit] Career
Sumanth started his career in Tollywood in 1999 with Ram Gopal Varma's Prema Katha. The film became a disaster. His next two films Yuvakudu and Snehamante Idera also didn't fare well either at box office. However in 2003, he delivered his first hit, Sathyam, co-starring Genelia D'Souza. In 2004, he acted in another hit film, Gowri. The year 2005 didn't prove to be lucky for Sumanth as he starred in flop films like Dhana 51 which was said to be recogmended by his ex to do and Mahanandi. However in 2006, Sumanth played the male lead in Sekhar Kammula's Godavari, which is so far the biggest commercial and critically acclaimed film in Sumanth's career.
His most recent film was Chinnodu, co-starring Charmme Kaur, who was cast opposite Sumanth in Gowri. His next upcoming films are Madhumasam and Classmates.
