Gattamaneni Mahesh Babu was born on August 9, 1974 to Gattamaneni Siva Rama Krishna and Indira in Chennai. He spent his childhood in Chennai under the supervision of his favorite paternal grandmother Smt. Durgamma. His schooling (St Bede’s School) was in Chennai and he was already a promising child artist by that time. Mahesh was graduated in Commerce from Loyola College, Chennai and took a break from the celluloid.