The most proficient director of Telugu cinema SS Rajamouli is celebrating his birthday today. The pre-eminent personality has completed 49 years and entered 50 today. On this special occasion, his beloved actor of his successful venture RRR, Jr NTR has conveyed his heartfelt wishes to the director on social media.
Taking to Twitter, the actor wrote, “Happy Birthday Jakkanna @ SS Rajamouli !! Wishing you the best as always.” Rajamouli as well as Tarak’s fans and several celebs have been showering sweet wishes to the director on various social media platforms.
Well, many people can have a doubt why Rajamouli is called Jakkana? This is because the moniker was coined and given to the director by one of the famous actors of Tollywood, Rajiv Kanakala during the shooting of Student No.1 in which he essayed a villain role. As Rajiv was impressed by the unbeatable director’s spellbounding work, and his style, he named Rajamouli as Jakkana.
SS Rajamouli is the highest paid director in India. He is well known for his action, fantasy and epic genre films. So far, three of his pan-India movies Baahubali, Baahubali 2 and RRR are among the top 5 highest grossing films in India. He acquired various prestigious awards in his directing career such as 3 National Filmfare awards, 4 South Filmfare awards, and 5 Nandi awards. For his contribution to the field of Art, he was honoured with the Padma Shri award by the Indian government in 2016.