Konidela Kalyan Babu is youngest son of Sri Venkata Rao and Smt. Anjana Devi. Kalyan was born on 2^nd September, 1973. He is blessed with 2 elder sisters and 2 elder brothers. His eldest brother is Siva Sankara Vara Prasad aka Chiranjeevi is the Telugu film Superstar and another brother Nagendra Babu is also an actor cum producer.

Kalyan saw his actor-brother Chiranjeevi's growth in the film industry and developed fascination towards acting. Kalyan academics were bad and stopped his studies with his intermediate ( Plus 2 ) and pursued his career with a diploma in the computer arena.

Kalyan always wanted to be versatile actor and he does not wish to have his brothers image and influence in his career. Kalyan is having lot of fascination towards marshal arts and he joined in the karate and secured black belt. He performed lot risky martial art feats in his first film Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbai.

Pawan Kalyan Delivered 7 successive hit movies starting from his debutant film Akkada Ammayi Ikkada abbayi till Khushi. He directed a movie named Johnny, where he provides story, screenplay, action sequences apart  doing the main hero role in Johnny Movie. He also sung songs for Johnny and Khushi movies. 

Pawan Kalyan is very selective in choosing the scripts and in a career spanning 11 years he worked for 12 movies and his 13th film is in progress. He enjoys doing cultivation and spends lot of time in his farm house doing gardening.

He spent most of his youth practicing martial arts , which helped him gain the confidence and discipline which are the prime aspects of his character that shows very much on screen. He even directed few song sequences and fight sequences in the Sensational Film "Kushi". Also directed one fight sequence in the film "Daddy" for his brother Megastar Chiranjeevi.