Nithiin

Nithin Reddy (born 30 March 1983), known professionally as Nithiin, is an Indian film actor and producer known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema.[3] Nithiin made his film debut in the year 2002 with Jayam, for which he received the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut – South.[4]

Nithiin
Nithiin in 2020
Born	Nithin Reddy[1] 30 March 1983 (age 37)[2] Nizamabad, Andhra Pradesh (now in Telangana), India
Occupation	Film actor producer
Years active	2002–present
Spouse(s)	Shalini ( m. 2020)
Parent(s)	Sudhakar Reddy[1] (father)

He has been listed as Brand Ambassador for Swachh Bharat Campaign along with 9 other personalities for Telangana state by former Indian Union Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu in 2015.[5][6] He was married to Shalini on July 27, 2020.

Personal life

Nithiin was born to film distributor Sudhakar Reddy and Laxmi Reddy.[1] He has an elder sister named Nikitha Reddy.[7] Nithiin married his partner, Shalini, in 2020.[8] His father later turned a producer and produced two movies with him - Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde and Chinnadana Nee Kosam.

Career

2002−2004: Successful career debut

Nithiin started his career with the movie Jayam in 2002, directed by Teja. Sadha played the female lead role and Gopichand played the villan role in the movie.[9] It was remade by Jayam Ravi in Tamil. In 2003, Nithiin acted in the film Dil, directed by V. V. Vinayak. This film is produced by Raju, who got the title "Dil Raju" after this film. Later in the same year, Nithiin acted in the film Sambaram, directed by Dasarath. K. In 2004, Nithiin starred in Sri Anjaneyam, directed by Krishna Vamsi. He played the role as devotee of Lord Hanuman in the movie. This is first time Nithiin dubbed his own voice for his movie, Sivaji dubbed his voice for his earlier films. Shivaji won Nandi Award for Best Male Dubbing Artist for his voice for Nithiin in the movie Dil.[10]

2004−2011: Consecutive Failures

Following his 2004 blockbuster Sye, directed by S. S. Rajamouli, Nithin appeared in a number of films, some of which are Dhairyam, Agyaat and Seeta Ramula Kalyanam. However, none of these films were commercially successful.[11] Nithiin also has the distinction of most consecutive flops (12) by any actor in Telugu cinema.[12] He tasted success after many years with 2012 Vikram Kumar-directed romantic drama film Ishq.[13]

2012−2016: Comeback

In Ishq, Nithiin paired opposite Nithya Menen.[14] The music of this film was composed by Anup Rubens and Aravind Shankar. The film is produced by Nithiin's father Sudhakar Reddy and Vikram Goud. Nithiin sang the song "Lachhamma" in this movie. He was nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Actor in Telugu for Ishq. He acted in the film Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde in 2013.[15] Isha Talwar and Nithya Menen played the lead roles along with Nithiin. Indian badminton player Jwala Gutta made a special appearance.[16] Nithiin sang the song "Ding Ding Ding" along with Chaitra, Ranjith, Anup Rubens, Thagubothu Ramesh and Dhananjai in this movie. Later, he acted in Chinnadana Nee Kosam, a film written and directed by A. Karunakaran in 2014.[17] The film was produced by Nithiin's father N. Sudhakar Reddy and sister Nikhita Reddy under their home banner Sresht Movies.[18] In the same year he acted in the film Heart Attack, directed by Puri Jagannadh. He made the role of a hippie and the movie got a mixed reviews.[19] Nithiin has planned to work again with Director Puri Jaganath, but Nithiin announced that the movie was cancelled and that he will see to work with Puri Jaganath in future. He acted in the role of a courier boy in the movie Courier Boy Kalyan, released in 2015, directed by Premsai and produced by Gautham Menon.[20] Nithiin acted in the film A Aa in 2016, written and directed by Trivikram Srinivas,[21] produced by S. Radha Krishna under his banner Haarika & Haasine Creations, the female lead roles were played by Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Anupama Parameswaran. The film became the biggest grosser in Nithin's career.[22]

2017−present

In 2017, Nithiin acted in the film LIE which was directed by Hanu Raghavapudi. It garnered average reviews from critics, but the song "Bombhaat" which was composed by Mani Sharma became famous. Despite this, the film could not do well at the box office and ended up as a double disaster.[23]

In 2018, Nithiin's Chal Mohan Ranga directed by Krishna Chaitanya with co-star Megha Akash opened to average reviews from critics. It was criticised for the routine story from Trivikram but was praised for its comedy. The music composed by S. Thaman became very popular. However, this film also ended up as a disaster at the box office.[24] On August 9, 2018, another film of Nithiin's titled Srinivasa Kalyanam released. It was directed by Satish Vegesna and his co-star was Raashi Khanna. It got average reviews from critics and was a "hat-trick disaster" for Nithiin, as Telugu360 stated.[25] Later he acted in Bheeshma pairing Rashmika Mandanna for the first time, which was Mahati Swara Sagar's musical and become box office hit.

Awards

Filmfare Awards South

• Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut – South – Jayam (2002)
• Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu – Ishq (2012)
• Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu – Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde (2013)

Santosham Film Awards

• Young best performer – Sri Anjaneyam and Sye (2004)

Filmography

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

As actor

Year	Film	Role	Director	Notes	Ref
2002	Jayam	Venkat	Teja	Won Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut – South
2003	Dil	Seenu	V. V. Vinayak
	Sambaram	Ravi	Kondapalli Dasaradh Kumar
2004	Sri Anjaneyam	Anji	Krishna Vamsi
	Sye	Pruthvi	S. S. Rajamouli
2005	Allari Bullodu	Raju "Balu" / Munna	K. Raghavendra Rao	Dual role
	Dhairyam	Seenu	Teja
2006	Raam	Raam	N. Shankar
2007	Takkari	Tirupathi	Amma Rajasekhar
2008	Aatadista	Jagan / Chinna	AS Ravi Kumar Chowdury
	Victory	Vijji	Ravi Chavali
	Hero	Radhakrishna	G. V. Sudhakar Naidu
2009	Drona	Drona	J Karun Kumar
	Agyaat	Sujal	Ram Gopal Varma	Hindi Debut
	Rechipo	Siva	Murali Paruchari
2010	Seetharamula Kalyanam	Chandrasekhar "Chandu" Reddy	Y. Eswara Reddy
2011	Maaro	Sathyanarayana Murthy / Siva / Sundaram	Siddique
2012	Ishq	Rahul	Vikram Kumar
2013	Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde	Karthik	Vijay Kumar Konda
2014	Heart Attack	Varun	Puri Jagannadh
	Chinnadana Nee Kosam	Nithin	A. Karunakaran	Also Co-producer
2015	Courier Boy Kalyan	Kalyan	Premsai
2016	A Aa	Anand Vihari	Trivikram Srinivas
2017	LIE	A. Sathyam	Hanu Raghavapudi
2018	Chal Mohan Ranga	Mohan Ranga	Krishna Chaitanya	25th Film by Pawan Kalyan Creative Works
	Srinivasa Kalyanam	Srinivas	Satish Vegesna
2019	Gaddalakonda Ganesh	Himself	Harish Shankar	Cameo appearance
2020	Bheeshma	Bheeshma Prasad	Venky Kudumula
	Rang De	Arjun	Venky Atluri	Filming
	Untitled film with Chandra Sekhar Yeleti	TBA	Chandra Sekhar Yeleti	Filming	[26][27]

As singer

Year	Song(s)	Film	Composer	Notes
2012	"Lachhamma"	Ishq	Anoop Rubens
2013	"Ding Ding Ding"	Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde	Anoop Rubens

As a producer

Year	Film(s)	Director	Actors
2013	Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde	Vijay Kumar Konda	Nithin, Isha Talwar , Nithya Menen
2014	Chinnadana Nee Kosam	A. Karunakaran	Nithin, Mishti
2015	Akhil: The Power of Jua	V. V. Vinayak	Akhil Akhineni, Sayyeshaa

References

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24. "Chal Mohan Ranga Closing Collections". The Hans India. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
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27. World, Republic. "Here are Rakul Preet Singh's upcoming movies that you need to check out". Republic World. Retrieved 6 June 2020.

External links

• Nithiin on IMDb
• Nithin at Rotten Tomatoes
• Nithiin on Twitter