Dilip Kumar Salvadi

Dilip Kumar Salvadi
Other names	Dileep Kumar [1]
Occupations	Actor director editor
Years active	1994-2006 2012-present

Dilip Kumar Salvadi (born 30 April 1985) is an Indian actor, director, and editor who works predominately in Telugu and Tamil films.

Career

He started his career as a child artist between the early 1990s and 2000s starting with Number One (1994). ^[2] As a child artist, he has performed in more than 20 films, and is most noted for playing the younger version of Gopichand in Jayam (2002) and its Tamil remake. ^{[1] [3]} He began his career as a lead protagonist in the movie Seenu c/o Anu (2005). ^[1] He continued for a decade for several films in Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil. He collaborated with director Arjunaraja for three films: Maiyam Konden, Kovalanin Kadhali and Thiru-pugaz. ^{[4] [5]} He starred in Sasi Shanker's Pagadai Pagadai (2014) in dual roles. ^{[6] [7]}

In 2019, he worked as a director for the period film Diksoochi (2019). ^{[8] [9] [10]} Regarding his performance in the film, a critic wrote that "Dileep Kumar played multiple roles for the film, as an actor, as a director, and as an editor. He played his part very well in the movie. As a story-teller, he is brilliant and at the same time, as an actor, he is good. He scored good marks in the debut". ^[11]

Filmography

Child Artist

• Note: all films are in Telugu, unless otherwise noted.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1994	Number One	Young Vijay's brother
	Thodi Kodallu	Boy at funeral
	Bhale Mammayya	Chinni
	Punya Bhoomi Naa Desam	Young Bangaraiah's son
1995	Pokiri Raja	CM's son
	Mounam	Kiran's son
1996	Dharma Chakram	Newspaper boy
	College Student	Hero's Neighbour
1998	Bavagaru Bagunnara	Boy in celebration
	Manasichi Choodu	Boy on cycle
1999	Sneham Kosam	Young Simhadri
	Manikyam	Meenakshi's brother
	Anaganaga Oka Ammai	Tea shop boy
2000	Annayya	Young Rajaram
	Manasichanu	Heroine's friend
	Maa Annayya	Young Madhu
2001	Daddy	Car accident boy
2002	Jayam	Young Raghu
2003	Jayam	Young Raghu	Tamil film
2005	Bhagmati	Youngster	Hindi film

Lead Actor

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
2005	Seenu c/o Anu	Seenu	Telugu
2006	Venkat Tho Alivelu	Venkat	Telugu
2012	Steps		Malayalam
2013	Maiyam Konden		Tamil
	Oke Oka Chance		Telugu
	Thiru-pugaz	Pugal	Tamil
	Na Sami Ranga	Seenu	Telugu
2014	Kovalanin Kadhali	Pandian	Tamil
	Pagadai Pagadai	Saravanan, Karthik Kameshwaran	Tamil	dual roles
2019	Diksoochi	Dileep	Telugu	Also director, writer and editor
2025	Shambhala	TBA	Telugu	Also director and writer

Television

List of television roles

Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
1994	Vandemataram		Telugu	Child artist
1996-97	Punarapi Jananam		Telugu
1996-97	Drusthi		Telugu
1996-97	Dongala Bandi		Telugu
1996-97	Srimath Virat Potuluri Veerabrahmendra Swami Charitha	Veera Brahma Swami	Telugu
1997–2001	Ruthuragalu	Vardhan	Telugu
	Malle Pandhiri		Telugu
2022	She	Chinnanna	Hindi	Netflix series; season 2 episode "The Test"

References

1. "Audio Function - Seenu c/o Anu". Idlebrain.com . 18 March 2004.
2. "Diksoochi movie audio in markets". The Times of India . 1 February 2019.
3. V. Lakshmi (4 May 2013). "Title change for a reason". The Times of India.
4. Arvind (December 2012). "கோவலனின் காதலி". Thendral (in Tamil).
5. Kumar, S. R. Ashok (11 May 2013). "Audio Beat: Thiru Pugazh - Soothing strains". The Hindu . Archived from the original on 2 March 2024.
6. "Perazhagan director's next film titled Pagadai Pagadai". The Times of India. 12 May 2014.
7. "Pagadai Pagadai". iFlicks . 6 December 2014. Archived from the original on 12 June 2020.
8. "From being a child artiste to a director". Deccan Chronicle . 11 March 2019.
9. "'Diksoochi' Trailer: Dilip Kumar Salvadi's film looks like a promising devotional mystery thriller". The Times of India . 11 March 2019.
10. "Dilip Kumar Salvadi's Diksoochi to release on April 26". The Times of India . 24 April 2019.
11. Vyas (27 April 2019). "Diksoochi Movie Review & Rating {2.75}". The Hans India .

External links

• Dilip Kumar Salvadi at IMDb