My Autobiography - Chiranjeevi 
1. An Elderly Childhood
I was born to a police constable as his first son in a remote village called ‘MOGALTUR’ in Andhra Pradesh. As my father’s job was subject to transfers, I was to live with my grandparents, in order to have my studies unaffected. As my grandparents were old, I had to perform all the household [...]
2. Discipline - Enforced
During one of my annual vacations at my father’s place, when I was nine years old, me and my brother were playing with sticks, throwing them into the air. One of the sticks accidently hit a passer by who ridiculed our indisciplined up-bringing. My father, who was a strict disciplinarian heard this. Enraged, he made [...]
3.Hard Realities of N.C.C. Training and Its Contribution to my Life
It taught me how to enjoy even diffculties and unpalatable realities of life besides developing wonderful qualities like discipline, simplicity and comradeship in me. Though all the trainees were given the same food, shelter, treatment and training each of us learnt different lessons from that training. At times the food we were given containing worms [...]
4.My Preference For food
I attach least importance to food. In a way this trait helped me and my producers. At times I eat cheap food available even on the road side to get on with my work without any waste of time. As already mentioned my brothers got used to tasty food right from their childhood which they [...]
5.What Made Me an Artiste
Right from my Childhood, I always wanted to be the center of attraction. So I used to entertain people by dancing mimicking etc., Added to this a challenge thrown by my classmate whom I laughed at while reharsing his role in a drama, to render the same dialouge and impress the people present there, also [...]
6.Film Institute and Its Contribution.
During my silence effort, in imbibing the training imparted at the Institute, a doubt cropped up in my mind as to whether any of my seniors were doing well on the silver screen after the passing out of the institute. To my dismay I found that expecting Rajanikant who also was playing only small roles. [...]
7.Transformation of Sivasankara Vara Prasad into Chiranjeevi
During my tennure at the Film Institute I felt that my name was lengthy and I wanted a small name for the cinema world. One early morning I had a peculiar dream in which I was sleeping in Rama’s temple when someone started calling me by a name ‘CHIRANJEEVI’ asking me to wake. I was [...]
8. Benefit of My Observation & Imitation.
I observe peculiarities in people, I come across in my day to day life and adopt them to my professional advantage.
If I get the opportunity to play any such characters, then I recall their gesticulations, modulations and body movements and present them in my own style to the liking of my audience.
From my childhood, it [...]
9.My Uncommitted Commitment
My guru Siva Shankara Varaprasad who is a disciple of Swami Vivekananda told me to reach the heights of success one should have an aim, urge and dedication and should have a single mindes approach towards the goal forgetting everything else, as a secret to success. Having known the secret of success I put [...]
10.A Useful Shock
People in the North till recently were under the impression that South India meant only Madras and were incognisent of the existence of Telugu speaking people and the Telugu Film Industry, which ironically is bigger in size and money today than the Hindi Cinema Industry. But for Mr. N.T. Rama Rao and Mr. P.V. Narasimha [...]
