Harish

Harish started his career as a child actor. He is the only male child actor to have worked in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil Kannada and Malayalam films. He then played the lead in many films. He has acted in a total of 280 films.For the film Andhra Kesari, he won the state award for the best child actor of the year 1983 from the Chief Minister Late N. T. Rama Rao. He also received special jury award as the best actor in 1996 for the film Oho Naa Pellanta produced by D.Ramanaidu, and directed by Jandhyala. Harish acted as a lead at a young age of 15. His first film as a lead actor was Daisy, a Malayalam film directed by Prathap K. Pothan. The movie also starred Kamal Hassan. In Tamil, he was introduced by T. Rajendar as a lead in the film Pookal Vidum Thudel, directed by Sridhar Rajan. In Telugu, he was introduced as a lead actor by producer D. Ramanaidu in the film Prema Khaidi in 1990 with Malashree as the female lead. As the film went on to be a success at the box office, Ramanaidu decided to re-make it in Hindi with Harish as the lead and introduced Karisma Kapoor as the female lead opposite Harish in the film Prem Qaidi in 1991 which did well at the box office. Harish has 2 younger siblings. A brother and a sister. They also worked as child actors in films.Their name's are not available. Harish has 3 children. A son named Sagar Rao who is a Legal Associate/Criminal Advocate at JSPK Legal. Harish has a daughter who is training to be a singer. Harish also has another young son named Shivam. In a interview conducted in 1995 which is available on you tube, Harish stated he was 27 years old. This would place his date of birth at 1968/1969, as oppose to 1975 which is listed on all other site's. He also stated he was working in black and white films since he was 5 years old. This also remains a mystery as finding the out the title's of these films has become impossible.