Tanikella Bharani is a multi-faceted actor in Tollywood. He is a playwright, a dialogue writer and an actor. He worked in around 320 films.
He did stage-plays in the mid 70s and during this time he made acquaintance with Rallapalli, a Tollywood actor. With his help Bharani started writing small dialogues and stage scenes. Later, he took a diploma in Theatre arts. As per Rallapalli's advice he moved to Chennai and for the first time, he wrote dialogues for the film "Kanchu Kavacham" in 1984. And with the release of the film Shiva, he received much recognition and his character Nanaji impressed the whole audience in Andhra Pradesh.
Bharani is married to Bhavani and has a son, Maha Tej and a daughter, Soundarya Lahari.
