Tarun Kumar

Tarun Kumar (born 8 January 1981) is an Indian actor known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema, with appearances in a few Tamil and Malayalam films.

Tarun began his career as a child actor and received the National Film Award for Best Child Artist for his performance in Anjali (1990), directed by Mani Ratnam. He has also won the Nandi Award for Best Child Actor three times. with ancestral roots in Palasa, Srikakulam district. Chakrapani's grandfather lived in Vizag, while his father worked as a mechanical engineer for Indian Railways at Khurda Road Junction railway station in Orissa, where Chakrapani was raised.

He also worked on the Telugu television serial Wonder Boy for Eenadu TV. He participated on quiz show but left the show after it interfered with his education. He won the Nandi Award for Best Child Actor for Manasu Mamatha (1990), Pillalu Diddina Kapuram (1991) and Teja (1992). Tarun collaborated again with Mani Rathnam in Thalapathi (1991) in a minor role. He also starred in Aditya 369 (1991), the Malayalam films Abhayam (1991), My Dear Muthachan (1992), and Johny (1993) and the Tamil film Meera (1992). Tarun also worked in the unreleased telefilm En Jeevane produced by Radhika. The film ran for more than a hundred days. For the film, he won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu for that year, and Tarun won the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut – South for his work in the film. Post Nuvve Kavali, he and Richa Pallod collaborated again for Chirujallu (2001), which released to negative reviews. He had some successful films such as Priyamaina Neeku (2001), Nuvvu Leka Nenu Lenu (2002) and Nuvve Nuvve (2002) while his other films such as Ela Cheppanu flopped. He made his full-fledged Tamil debut with Punnagai Desam (2002). That same year, he starred in the bilingual Enakku 20 Unakku 18/Nee Manasu Naaku Telusu, which was a failure despite having a notable soundtrack by A. R. Rahman and he stopped taking up Tamil films. He collaborated again with K. Vijaya Bhaskar for Bhale Dongalu (2008), a movie inspired by Bonnie and Clyde, but the film flopped.

After a four year gap, he returned with Chukkalanti Ammayi Chakkanaina Abbayi (2013), Yuddham (2014), Veta (2014) and Idi Naa Love Story (2018), all of which had a low-key release.

Filmography As child artist Year Film Role Language Notes1990 Manasu Mamatha Telugu Nandi Award for Best Child Actor Anjali Arjun Tamil National Film Award for Best Child Artist Bujjigadi Babai 1991 Thalapathi Petty thief Tamil Cameo appearance Surya IPS Surya's step brother Telugu Abhayam Vinu Malayalam Best Child Artist Award - Furoshiki Film Festival Aditya 369 Kishore Kumar Telugu 1992 Meera Jesu Tamil Teja Teja Telugu Nandi Award for Best Child ActorGowramma My Dear Muthachan Manu Malayalam 1993 Pillalu Diddina Kapuram Anji and Prasad Telugu Dual Role; Nandi Award for Best Child Actor Repati Rowdy Johnny Johnny Malayalam 1995 Vajram Young Chakri Telugu

As an actor

Television Wonder Boy (ETV)