The successful Tollywood veteran actor, Jagapathi Babu Alias JB has been entering into Bollywood. As per internal news reports, JB will soon gets in to the Bollywood Industry. He has been doing interesting characters in recent films; even include the roles of villain role after the release of ‘Legend’. He also acting in the recent upcoming film ‘Jaya Janaki Nayaka’, the film is now in shooting process and the film is directed by Boyapati Sreenu. During the promotions of the movie ‘Jaya Janaki Nayaka’, he disclosed with public that, he will soon be making his debut in Bollywood. The film’s information will be announced soon. JB also revealed that, currently he has been doing films in Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam.
Jagapati Babu (55) born in Machilipatnam to veteran producer-cum-director V. B. Rajendra Prasad. He was brought up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu before making a mark in Tollywood. JB also acted in few Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada films. He had acted in over 120 feature films, and had received 3 Film fare Awards and 7 state Nandi Awards. He has completed 25 years of career in films. In 2017, he played Naga Chaitanya’s father in Rarandoi Veduka Chudham. Recently, he played a lead role in super hit movie ‘Patel SIR’. He also acts an important role in Ram Charan’s Rangasthalam. He is now doing a Malayalam film Pulimurugan with Mohanlal as a villain role.
Jagapati Babu’s debuted film was Simha Swapnam(1989), which was produced by his father and directed by V. Madhusudhan Rao. His first blockbuster film is Peddarikam released in 1992. He had his breakthrough in the form of Gaayam directed by RGV in 1993. In 1994, with the super hit film Subha Lagnam, he reaches family audience and also set up his star status. He got the Nandi Award for ‘Maavichiguru’ in the year 1996, the film was directed by S V Krishna Reddy. In 1997, he got super hits for Subhakankshalu & Pelli Pandiri. In 1998, he won the Nandi Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film Antahpuram. In 2000 in the Thriller movie ‘Manoharam’, he got Nandi Award as Best Actor. In 2003-05 he got hit films like Kabaddi Kabaddi, Athade Oka Sainyam, Pedababu and Anukokunda Oka Roju. In 2006 he got hit movies, Samanyudu and Pellaina Kothalo. He received the Nandi Award for Best Supporting role for the 2nd in the year 2007 for the movie Lakshyam and also won Film fare Award. In 2012, he played the lead role in Jai Bolo Telangana, which got 5 Nandi Awards. He played an important opposite role in the super hit movie ‘Legend’ in 2014 against Nandamuri Balakrishna, also same character in Rajnikanth’s ‘Lingaa’ movie. In 2015, he played Mahesh Babu’s father in Srimanthudu. In 2016, he played an antagonist in Jr. NTR’s Nannaku Prematho.