Suman (actor)

For other people with similar names, see Suman.

Suman
Born	Suman Talwar (1959-08-28) 28 August 1959 Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Other names	Kevin Sumunt
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1977 - Present
Spouse(s)	Sirisha
Children	Prathyusha
Website	http://www.mysuman.com

Suman (born Suman Talwar in Mangalore) is an Indian film actor from Karnataka, India, known for his work predominantly in Telugu cinema. He was one of the most prominent stars of Telugu cinema in 80's. He has also played the roles of Gods like Venkateswara, Shiva and Rama in Telugu. Suman has also starred in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada films.^[1] He enacted the historic character Pazhayamveedan Chandhu Nambiar in the biopic Pazhassi Raja.^[2]

Suman started his career as a police officer in Tamil nanmovie Neechal Raram (1977) produced by T.R.Rammanna. Then he appeared in Tamil film Thee (1981) where he played a sincere police officer. In more than 3 decades, he acted more than 150 films as a hero in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and English language films. He returned to acting by playing the villain in the Tamil films Sivaji and Kuruvi. He was cast as the main antagonist in the Malayalam movie Sagar alias Jacky.^[3] He won Nandi Award for Best Actor for the film Bava Bavamaridi & Filmfare Award for Best Actor - Telugu for the film 20va Shatabdam.^[4]

Suman has also done the Hollywood film Death And Taxis.^[5]

Early life

Born in Mangalore, his family moved to Chennai where he did his schooling from The Besant Theosophical High School, Chennai and B.A. in English Literature. His mother, Kesari Chandra, was the Principal of the Ethiraj College for women in Chennai. His father, Susheel Chandra, worked for I.O.C. Chennai.His mother tongue is Tulu. Suman learnt music and Sanskrit from H.A.S. Shastri.^[6]

Filmography

Main article: Suman filmography

References

↑ Suman recalls services of Jayashankar - The Hindu
↑ Mangalore: Telugu Actor Suman Talwar's Heart Beats for Tulunadu
↑ Actor Suman talks about 'Amma Nanna O Sneham' - Video | The Times of India
↑ From 16th February to 30th August 1991 - Bhishma Narain Singh. books.google.co.in.
↑ "Angel Of Death". youtube. Retrieved 2015-05-01.
↑ Tuluva Hero. Mangalore Today News Network. Mangalore, October 24, 2012, mangaloretoday.com

External links

Suman at the Internet Movie Database

Nandi Award for Best Actor

Nandi Awards

1964–2000	Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1964) Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1965) Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1967) Sobhan Babu (1969) Sobhan Babu (1971) Sobhan Babu (1972) Sobhan Babu (1973) Krishna (1974) Sobhan Babu (1975) Krishnam Raju (1977) Hemasundar (1978) Gokina Ramarao (1979) M. Prabhakar Reddy (1980) M. Prabhakar Reddy (1981) Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1982) Kamal Haasan (1983) Krishnam Raju (1984) Murali Mohan (1985) Kamal Haasan (1986) Chiranjeevi (1987) Venkatesh (1988) Kamal Haasan (1989) Rajendra Prasad (1990) Dasari Narayana Rao (1991) Chiranjeevi (1992) Jagapati Babu and Suman (1993) Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1994) Naresh (1995) Jagapati Babu and Venkatesh (1996) Akkineni Nagarjuna (1997) Venkatesh (1998) Venkatesh (1999) Jagapati Babu (2000)

2001-present	Nandamuri Balakrishna (2001) Chiranjeevi and Akkineni Nagarjuna (2002) Mahesh Babu (2003) Rajendra Prasad (2004) Mahesh Babu (2005) Akkineni Nagarjuna (2006) Venkatesh (2007) Ravi Teja (2008) Dasari Narayana Rao (2009) Nandamuri Balakrishna (2010) Mahesh Babu (2011)

Category

Nandi Special Jury Award

Karthik (1987)
Chiranjeevi (1988)
Venkatesh (1988)
Jagapati Babu (1990)
Naresh (1992)
Suman (1997)
Ravi Teja (1999)
Venu Thottempudi (1999)
AVS (2000)
Srihari (2000)
Akkineni Nagarjuna (2000)
Manjula Ghattamaneni (2001)
Mahesh Babu (2001)
Surya (2001)
N. T. Rama Rao Jr. (2002)
Ravi Teja (2002)
Mahesh Babu (2002)
Pavan Malhotra (2003)
Saritha (2004)
Mahesh Babu (2004)
Allu Arjun (2004)
Sneha (2005)
Priyadarshini Ram (2005)
Vadde Naveen (2005)
Gangaraju Gunnam (2006)
Jyothika (2006)
Genelia D'Souza (2006)
Ram Charan Tej (2007)
Bhumika Chawla (2007)
Allu Arjun (2008)
Anushka Shetty (2008)
Genelia D'Souza (2009)
Ram Charan Tej (2009)
Srikanth (2009)
Manchu Manoj (2010)
Sunil (2010)
Samantha Ruth Prabhu (2010)
Akkineni Nagarjuna (2011)
Charmy Kaur (2011)

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