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Koneru Lakshman Havish
Born25 June
Nationality Indian
Education Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Occupation(s) Educationist, actor, entrepreneur
Years active2011–present

Koneru Lakshman Havish is a businessman, [1] and an Indian actor predominantly in Telugu cinema.

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Personal life

Koneru Lakshman Havish, Vice-President of KL Deemed to be University [2] is the grandson of renowned industrialist Koneru Lakshmaiah who founded the Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation which, under the same trust, has evolved as K L Deemed to be University. He took a degree in Engineering at the Purdue University in the United States.

Career

Koneru Lakshman Havish passion for acting was encouraged by his father Koneru Satyanarayana, chancellor of K L Deemed to be University. [2]

Ushakiran Movies was looking for new talents for the project to be directed by Ravi Babu. Havish [3] was given the lead role in the romantic comedy film Nuvvila [4] [5] in 2011. In 2012, Havish got the main lead in film Genius . [6] [7] It was an unconventional theme unlike Tollywood’s trend to come out with a social message. The film struggled at box office but had good reviews.

His next film was Ram Leela (2015) [8] which also starred Abhijeet and Nanditha Raj in the lead roles. This film was shot in Malaysia and US and released to negative reviews. [9] [10]

Having the success of his latest film Seven (2019). [11] [12] Koneru Lakshman Havish went on to produce his fellow actor Bellamkonda Sreenivas with a box office hit film Rakshasudu bankrolled by Koneru Satyanarayana [13] under the banner "A Havish Lakshman Productions" [13] [14] which has made its mark with its successful debut.

Filmography

Actor
YearFilmRole(s)Notes
2011 Nuvvila Mahesh
2012 Genius Nivas
2015 Ram Leela Ram
2019 Seven Karthik/KrishnamoorthyBilingual film
As a producer
YearFilmNotes
2019 Rakshasudu
2021 Khiladi

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