Sidhu Jonnalagadda
Biography
Siddhu Jonnalagadda is an Indian actor, screenwriter, playback singer, and editor who works in Telugu cinema. He debuted, as a lead, with Life Before Wedding (2011). He also went on to make his debut in Tamil cinema with Vallinam, which was highly acclaimed.
Jonnalagadda later went onto to co-write and star in films such as Guntur Talkies (2016), Krishna and His Leela (2020), Maa Vintha Gaadha Vinuma (2020), and DJ Tillu (2022), which have cemented him as a lead actor.
Siddhu Jonnalagadda was born and brought up in Hyderabad. He pursued an MBA before venturing into a career in film.
Jonnalagadda made his lead debut with Praveen Sattaru's LBW: Life Before Wedding and then in between he did a Tamil film Vallinam (2014), and Ice Cream 2 (2014) before playing the lead role in Sattaru's Guntur Talkies (2016).
Siddu plays the lead role in Krishna and His Leela, a romantic drama film starring Shraddha Srinath, Shalini Vadnikatti, and Seerat Kapoor. In a review of the film by The Times of India, the reviewer wrote that "Siddhu is an absolute delight and a revelation in this one.
The key to his character lies in being effortless and he plays it well". He will reprise the role of Rajkummar Rao in That Is Mahalakshmi, the Telugu remake of Queen.