Charan Raj

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Charan Rajkumar is an Indian actor, director, film producer, and writer who works predominatly in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, and Malayalam films. Career Charan Raj is a versatile actor who is popular for his villainy and character roles in South Indian film industry. Charanraj started his movie career with Kannada movie Parajitha (1982) directed by Siddalingaiah which became commercially hit...

Charan Rajkumar is an Indian actor, director, film producer, and writer who works predominatly in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, and Malayalam films. Career Charan Raj is a versatile actor who is popular for his villainy and character roles in South Indian film industry. Charanraj started his movie career with Kannada movie Parajitha (1982) directed by Siddalingaiah which became commercially hit cinema. Charan Raj is not only an actor, but a producer, music composer and director too. He is popular for his villainy roles in Telugu film industry starting his career in Telugu with Pratighatana (1985), Indrudu Chandrudu (1989) and Karthavyam (1990). He has also acted with Rajinikanth in the Hindi movie Phool Bane Angaray (1991) and Tamil films like Panakkaran (1990), Dharma Dorai (1991), Pandian (1992), Veera (1994) and Baashha (1995). His character role in Tamil film Gentleman (1993) showed him as a different Charan Raj and he got good applause for his performance in that film. He made his debut as a director in 1999, through the film Annan Thangachi. In this film he acted as the hero as well as did the direction. The film did not perform well at th box office. He has also acted as Suriya’s father in the film Vel (2007) with Saranya Ponvannan as his pair. After wowing the audiences in negative roles, Charan has signed the Kannada film Sorry Kane (2014). In 2023, Charan Raj played in the Telegu movie Narakasura. Controversy In 2014, Charan Raj was accused of carrying a gun at Sri Varasiddhi Vinayak Temple, Andhra Pradesh. However, he apologised for the incident. Partial filmography Kannada Tamil Telugu Hindi Malayalam Other languages Jaa Devi Sarva Bhuteshu (1989; Odia) Nyaya Chakra (1989; Bengali) Television Director Annan Thangachi (1999) Yadartha Prema Katha (2012) Kuppan (2024) Awards Nandi Award for Best Villain - Pratighatana (1985) References External links Charan Raj at IMDb