Background
He was born in Vasantha Rao Veedhi, near Kurupam Market in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
He was born in Vasantha Rao Veedhi, near Kurupam Market in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
He was an accompolished theatre artist before joining films. He worked and retired as an Assistant Engineer in Visakhapatnam Portuguese Trust. He mostly acted in films shot in and around Visakhapatnam.
He acted in many Telugu films in comic roles.
Most of the Telugu comedy film directors like East. V. V. Satyanarayana, South.V.Krishna Reddy, and Relangi Narasimha Rao, had given him exclusively comic roles in their films. In 1995, the Telugu socio-fantasy film Ammoru, directed by Kodi Ramakrishna, brought Kallu Chidambaram critically acclaimed for his performance.
In 2008, he had founded a artistes federation, Sakala Kalakalrula Samakhya, for artistes and organised monthly programmes.