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Vijay Deverakonda – The Success Story of Rowdy Vijay

Pramit Mitra

The South Indian hero Vijay Deverakonda is one of the most sensational actors in the year 2019, and he even won South Indian International Movie Critics Award for the Best Actor title in 2019.

At the audio launch of the film, Arjun Reddy that was held in the year 2017 his speech made him famous overnight, and his speech of the same year made him more favored among the youth for the rest of his life. 

In the world of Indian film actors, Vijay Deverakonda is currently among the most talented and followed actors of the present times, with a following of 10 million on his Instagram.

Vijay Deverakonda is known for his boldness, and he has attracted many people with his willingness to express his views without fear of being disagreed with.

 In today’s contemporary media, it commonly refers to Vijay Deverakonda to as a heartthrob among all the young women because of his heart killing looks and outfits. This has made people wonder whose stylist he is.

Based on Google search engine annual reports, Vijay Deverakonda used to be the most searched actor in South Indian cinema, according to Film Companion’s ranking of 100 films in 2019.

His Early Life & Family

In 1989, Mr. Govardhan Rao Deverakonda and Mrs. Madhavi Deverakonda gave birth to a son, Vijay Deverakonda. His father used to be a television actor and an ad-film director where his mother is the Proprietor of SpeakEasy in Hyderabad, a personality development, and soft skills development trainer.

It has been reported that Vijay Deverakonda has a brother named Anand Deverakonda, and he has made his debut in the film Dorasani released in the year 2019.

At first, Vijay Deverakonda attended Eton Temple High School in Saroornagar, Hyderabad. He was later moved to Sri Satya Sai Secondary School in Puttaparthi. Here he studied under a completely different curriculum.

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Vijay Deverakonda feels glad to have studied in such an amazing school. The school encourages students to take extracurricular activities and develop their interests. He says that the peaceful environment helped him with creating, acting, and storytelling.

Vijay Deverakonda Biography

We are covering Vijay Deverakonda Biography too. In his later years, he joined Badruka College in order to pursue his degree after completing his intermediate at Little Flower Junior College, where he studied for three years. Also, Vijay Deverakonda usually had active participation in workshops and plays.

Filmi Carrier

Though he started on working films in 2011, he achieved recognition for his work in the film “Life is Beautiful” by Shekar Kamula in 2012. Nor did he get recognition for his work in the film Nuvvila (His first film) directed by Ravinder Babu.

After his performance in Yevade Subramanyam (YEH HAI ZINDAGI) in the year 2015, he turned the spotlight towards himself. Vijay received high praise for his role in the film, resulting in a breakthrough after his portrayal of this role.

In 2016, Pelli Choopulu (Remade in Bollywood as Mitron) was the turning point in his career, which helped win him the Film Fare Award for Best Film in Telugu and a National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu.

In fact, Arjun Reddy was the film that helped him achieve his ultimate career success. It was the film that has completely changed the perspective of South Indian audiences.

Though the movie was criticized by many, it achieved wonderful performances at the box office and the collections were higher than expected. They have remade the film in several other languages such as Hindi, Tamil, and Malayalam. 

Also, there is the Hindi version of the movie where Popular voice artist Sanket helps the movie to be better for the Hindi Audience. Alongside the Geetha Govindam, Dear Comrade is also the major movie that makes him the star all overseas. 

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His Production Company

For making it easy and finding out the passionate people in acting Vijay Deverakonda even owns a production house named King of the Hill Entertainment. Vijay is the man that helps the people who will do something. That’s until he had run his own film production company. 

“Meeku Mathrame Cheptha” was the first film made on his production in the year 2019. 

Brand Ambassador 

Because of his success in the filmi part, he became an immediate icon for the youth and many of them have tried to adapt his style, such as his way of speaking, speaking, walking. 

It is believed by a great majority of the young persons that Vijay Deverakonda has become a model of excellence. It has also become the obsession of all the girls.

He became an ambassador of many brands since it recognized him as a youth icon, and turned into a brand ambassador of Manyavar, a food delivery app Zomato, and many more brands.

The Real Hero

We also considered him a real-life hero; he joined a non-profitable organization named Devarakonda foundation and worked to assist state government whenever required.

His contribution to the community during the COVID-19 pandemic was commendable as he launched an initiative to combat the crisis. During the pandemic, over 9000+ volunteers gave away over 1.5 crores.

Kerala flood relief funds received a donation of 5,00,000 Rupees and also provided aid of 24,000 Rupees to kickboxer Ganesh Ambari from Vijay’s side.

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Rowdy Vijay

During a conversation once, he said that all his family members and fans like us used to call him ‘Rowdy’ whenever he would do mischievous things and turn out to be naughty. Hence, he used the term identity for his fans and himself.

In the year 2020, taking advantage of this moment as an opportunity, Vijay Deverakonda launched his own fashion brand ‘Rowdy Wear’ on Myntra, an e-commerce site.

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Awards & Nomination

 After 2015, he got awards in his life. And Arjun Reddy, Geetha Govindam, and Dear Comrade are the major movies that multiply his craze, fan following thousands of times. 

So, that’s the reason why he is called the real man. Here’s the award achieved by Rowdy. 

  • Nandi Awards in the year 2015 for Yevade Subramanyam.
  • Telugu Filmfare Award for Best Actor in 2017.
  • The Behindwoods Golden Medal is given under the category of South Indian Sensation.
  • Awarded Zee Telugu Golden Award Best Actor for the movie Arjun Reddy in the year 2017.
  • During the year 2018, Zee Telugu gave the Golden Award for the Best Actor in Geetha Govindam.
  • Best Telugu Actor Award for Geetha Govindam by SIIMA in the year 2019.
  • Best Telugu Actor for the film Dear Comrade in the year 2020.
  • For the film Geetha Govindam, Vijay Devarakonda was nominated for Best Telugu Category for the Filmfare Awards South in the year 2019.
  • In 2019, Vijay Devarakonda received the Hottest Stylist award from HT.

Pramit Mitra

I am Pramit Mitra, a doctor-to-be with a creative instinct and a tenacious spirit. A connoisseur of taste, a part-time food blogger with tremendous curiosity and appetite for new and unknown cuisines. I love to express myself through writing. I'm always in search of new ideas to enact and new avenues to explore.

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