Ajay Rao

Ajay Rao

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Ajay Rao Profile

  • Name:
  • Ajay Rao
  • Born:
  • January 24, 1980

Ajay Rao Biography

Ajay Rao popularly known as ‘Sandalwood Krishna’ is one of the most popular and versatile actor of Kannada movies at present. He debut big screen with ‘Excuse me’ in 2003 and later became lead hero of many successful Kannada movies like  Taj Mahal (2008),  Krishnan Love Story (2010) and Krishnan Marriage Story (2011). Taj Mahal released in 2008 was the turning point of his acting career. Tajmahal was one of the big hits of 2008 and revived Ajay's career.

 

Ajay was born in Hospet on 24 Jan 1980. His debut movie was Excuse Me directed by Prem, where he worked aside Ramya and Sunil Raoh. Ajay played the role of a musician and his role was well received. The movie was a musical office hit too and celebrated silver jubilee at Karnataka's biggest theatre Kapali. But he couldn’t repeat the same success in the next few films and he was panned as one-hit wonder. He worked in a series of flops like - Surya the Great, O Priyatama, Green signal,  Hettare Hennanne Herabeku and Amrutavaani. In 2008, he got the dream project, Taj Mahal which gave new life to Ajay. Actually the title role was meant for actor Sunil, with whom Ajay has worked in his debut movie. But due to some reasons, Sunil backed from the project and Ajay got the role. He was casted opposite Pooja Gandhi and the movie turned out to be a super hit. Tajmahal was one of the big hits of 2008.

 

Krishnan Love Story (2010) and Krishnan Marriage Story (2011) are other super successful movies of Rao where he worked aside Radhika Pandit. His recent releases are Breaking News and Manasina Maathu. His upcoming projects are Jai Bajrang Bali, Krishna S/O CM and Rose.

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Updated: April 03, 2014

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