1. Sumanth is the eldest grandson of Telugu actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao.
18 Facts About Sumanth
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Sumanth was born in Hyderabad, India, on 9 February 1975.
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Sumanth is the only son of Surendra Yarlagadda and Satyavathi Akkineni.
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Sumanth is the eldest grandchild of the Telugu film actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao.
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Sumanth remained in India on the request of his grandfather Akkineni Nageswara Rao, who was then on a hiatus from films after a major heart surgery.
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Sumanth's father, Surendra Yarlagadda, is a former film producer, noted for several hit films such as Muchataga Mugguru, Collector Gari Abbayi, Rao Gari Illu, Siva, and Gaayam.
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Sumanth has one younger sister: Supriya Yarlagadda, who is the executive director of Annapurna Studios.
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Sumanth studied at the Hyderabad Public School, graduating in 1991.
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Sumanth made his debut as a lead actor in Ram Gopal Varma's Prema Katha in 1999.
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Sumanth altered his path in 2006, starring in Sekhar Kammula's Godavari, which remains one of the most acclaimed films in his career.
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Sumanth next acted in Chinnodu, which released in October 2006 and was an average grosser.
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Sumanth next did the lead in Classmates, which generated a curiosity as it was the first time that its director K Vijaya Bhaskar was without his usual collaborator Trivikram Srinivas as dialogue writer.
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Sumanth's next two films were Pourudu, which was a moderate success, and Boni which was a failure.
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Sumanth's following film Golconda High School in 2011 was a sports drama directed by Mohana Krishna Indraganti.
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Sumanth made a comeback in late 2017 with the romantic drama Malli Raava, under the direction of debutant Gowtam Tinnanuri.
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Sumanth then played the lead role in Kapatadhaari, which was a remake of the Kannada Neo-noir Thriller Kavaludaari.
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The various supporting and cameo roles Sumanth did starting from 2019 received a positive response.
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Sumanth then appeared in an integral cameo role in the Dhanush starrer Vaathi which was successful.