on 22 August 1955 [2] as Siva Shankara Varaprasad to Konidela Anjana Devi [10] and Konidela Venkat Rao [11] in Mogalthur, a small village near Narsapur . [10] He was quite interested in acting at a very young age. After completion of his high school, he did his Intermediate in C.S.R.