Gopichand

Tottempudi Gopichand (Telugu: గోపిచంద్) (born 12 June 1979), more popularly known as Gopichand, is a Telugu film actor. He is the younger son of the filmmaker T. Krishna and started his career with Tholi Valapu as the main lead.

Personal life

He was 8 years old when his father T. Krishna died. He completed his studies in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. There was no direct influence of his father on him in his childhood. He did his engineering degree in Russia. He was not interested in films and acting at that time.
His elder brother T. Premchand was working as an associate director to Mutyala Subbayya. Premchand made his debut as director and started working on a film under his home banner, but he died in a car accident. Gopichand was in Russia during the death of his brother and could not attend his funeral due to Visa problems. He also has a sister, who is a dentist.
He decided to enter the film industry. After completing his engineering, he did dialogue modulation course for a year. Then he made his debut as hero with the Telugu movie Tholi Valapu.

Early career

He was a news reader for E TV before he was cast as a hero in his first movie Tholi Valapu, which was a disaster at box office. His next movie Jayam gave him success at box office, but this time as a villain. The movie was remade with same title in Tamil with Jayam Ravi as hero. Later on he acted as a villain in movies Nijam and Varsham.
He made a re-entry as hero with the movie Yagnam. This became a box office success which created hype for his capabilities as future hero for the masses.
After doing villain roles in Jayam (2002), Jayam (2003), Nijam and Varsham, he got the lead role in Yagnam. He was noted for his best performance in Ranam in 2006 & Lakshyam in 2007. His next film, Souryam, was released in September 2008. The next year, he acted only in one film, Sankham, which released on 11 September 2009. His next film, Golimar, was released on 27 May 2010. His latest release was Mogudu, which paired him up with Taapsee Pannu.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012	Jagan Mohan IPS	Jagan Mohan	Tamil film Filming
2011	Mogudu	Mogudu
2011	Wanted	Ram Babu
2010	Golimaar	Gangaram/GanguBhai
2009	Sankham	Chandu Sivayya
2008	Souryam	Vijay
2008	Ontari	Vamsi
2007	Lakshyam	Chandu
2007	Okkadunnadu	Kiran
2006	Raraju	Kaali
2006	Ranam	Chinna
2005	Andhrudu	Surendra
2004	Yagnam	Seenu
2004	Varsham	Bhadranna	Negative Role
2003	Nijam	Devudu	Negative Role
2003	Jayam	Raghu	Negative Role, Tamil film
2002	Jayam	Raghu	Negative Role, Winner, Nandi Award for Best Villain
2001	Tholi Valapu	Prem