Actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi’s son gets engaged

Hyderabad: Young Telugu actor and son of actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi, Ram Charan Teja was engaged to his long-time girlfriend Kamineni Upasana at a lavish ceremony held at a farm house on the city outskirts Thursday night.

The engagement has brought together two most well-known families of Andhra Pradesh. Upasana is the granddaughter of Pratap C. Reddy, Chairman of Apollo Hospitals. Politicians, film stars and prominent personalities from various walks of life attended the ceremony held at "Temple Trees" farmhouse of the Reddy family amid tight security arrangements. The rituals were performed amid chanting of Vedic hymns by a group of priests. It was followed by song and dance programme. Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, Speaker N. Manohar, union minister of state D. Purandareshwari, Telugu Desam Party chief N. Chandrababu Naidu, ministers, leaders of various political parties, veteran actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Nagarjuna, Mahesh Babu, Junior NTR, Murali Mohan and others attended the glittering ceremony. A leading event management company from Delhi made the arrangements for the ceremony, for which flowers were specially flown in from Thailand. IANS