Pawan Kalyan

Some Lesser Known Facts About Pawan Kalyan

• Does Pawan Kalyan smoke?: No

• Does Pawan Kalyan drink alcohol?: No

• Pawan learnt acting skills from Satyanand’s Film School in Visakhapatnam.

• He is the 1st South Indian actor who endorsed Pepsi.

• His Ex-wife Renu Desai designed the dresses for most of his films.

• Just before the 2014 general elections, he founded a political party called Jana Sena Party. 

• He is a Black Belt in Martial Arts and likes to do his own film stunt scenes.

• He is a good friend of Tamil superstars like Vijay and Venkatesh.

• He highly admires Che Guevara, an Argentine Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader who was a huge figure of the Cuban Revolution. 

• In 2012, his film Gabbar Singh was a huge hit, which was the remake of Salman Khan’s Dabangg.

• Because he acted infamous Telugu director Puri Jagannadh’s first directorial film, Puri once said, he is like GOD to him.

• A famous South Indian actress once admitted that she once had a crush on him.

• After the failure of his directorial debut film Johnny of 2003, he showed honesty and returned the money of the distributors.

• He donated  5 lakh (INR) to Olympic sports shooter Rekha Chalichemala, 20 lakh (INR) to help Uttarakhand flood victims, and gave 50 lakh (INR) to Hudhud cyclone in Andhra Pradesh.

• He is a vegetarian.

• Telugu actors like Ram Charan Teja, Varun Tej, and Allu Arjun are his nephews.

• His Jana Sena Party contested 21 seats out of 175 assembly seats in the 2024 Andhra Pradesh assembly elections and won all. Jana Sena Party (JSP) contested the election in alliance with the Telugu Desam Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party.

• Pawan Kalyan won the Pithapuram constituency in Kakinada district with 1,34,394 votes, defeating YSRCP’s Vanga Geetha.

• On 12 June 2024, he took oath as the Deputy Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.

• In July 2024, he attended the graduation ceremony of his wife, Anna Lezhneva, in Singapore. Anna graduated with a Master of Arts degree from the National University of Singapore.