Dilip Kumar Salvadi

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Dilip Kumar Salvadi
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Other namesDileep Kumar [1]
Occupations
  • Actor
  • director
  • editor
Years active1994-2006
2012-present

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

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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
Filmography
YearFilmRoleNotes
1994 Number One Young Vijay's brother
Thodi KodalluBoy at funeral
Bhale MammayyaChinni
Punya Bhoomi Naa Desam Young Bangaraiah's son
1995 Pokiri Raja CM's son
Mounam Kiran's son
1996 Dharma Chakram Newspaper boy
College StudentHero's Neighbour
1998 Bavagaru Bagunnara Boy in celebration
Manasichi Choodu Boy on cycle
1999 Sneham Kosam Young Simhadri
ManikyamMeenakshi's brother
Anaganaga Oka Ammai Tea shop boy
2000 Annayya Young Rajaram
ManasichanuHeroine'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
YearFilmRoleLanguageNotes
2005Seenu c/o AnuSeenuTelugu
2006Venkat Tho AliveluVenkatTelugu
2012Steps Malayalam
2013Maiyam KondenTamil
Oke Oka ChanceTelugu
Thiru-pugazPugalTamil
Na Sami RangaSeenuTelugu
2014Kovalanin KadhaliPandianTamil
Pagadai Pagadai Saravanan,
Karthik Kameshwaran
Tamildual roles
2019 Diksoochi DileepTeluguAlso director, writer and editor

Television

List of television roles
YearFilmRoleLanguageNotes
1994VandemataramTeluguChild artist
1996RuthuragaaluVardhanTelugu
1996-97Punarapi JananamTelugu
1996-97DrusthiTelugu
1996-97Dongala BandiTelugu
Malle PandhiriTelugu
1996-97Srimath Virat Potuluri Veerabrahmendra Swami CharithaVeera Brahma SwamiTelugu
2022 She ChinnannaHindi Netflix series; season 2 episode "The Test"

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