Acting

Raja Goutham

Biography

Raja Goutham Kanneganti was born in Andhra Pradesh. He is son of Bharamanandam and Lakshmi Kanneganti. His father is an Indian movie actor and comedian who worked in many Telugu movies. Siblings he has a younger brother named "sid Kanneganti". Goutham is B.B.A graduate from St. Mary's College Hyderabad. He made his debut in Tollywood with a movie "Pallakilo Pellikoothuru".Though it was a high profile launch involving big names like K Raghavendra and MM Keeravani, Pallakilo Pelli Koothuru didn't give positive result at the box office but earned hearts of the audience and was a musical hit. Later on he acted in a film Vaareva in 2011 which was failed at the box office. Later Goutham was seen in director Chaitanya Dantuluri's film "Basanti". It featured actress Alisha Baig as female lead. In this film Goutham was seen in the lead role as Arjun. The great music director Mani Sharma has composed music for the movie which was released in 2014. Now Raja Goutham is doing doing a project with Director Phanindra Narsetti who directed a short-film Madhuram is fairly well known to online movie buffs. His next project 'Manu' is a one of its kind crowdfunded indie project in Tollywood. After a successful crowdfunding campaign, and Chandni Chowdary will be playing the lead character in this film. The film has already generated a great amount of curiosity among avid film buffs with its first teaser.