‘Call me Anna Konidala’: Pawan Kalyan’s wife makes heartfelt request

4 min readNew DelhiJul 30, 2026 07:00 PM IST Actor and deputy chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, Pawan Kalyan’s wife, Anna Konidala, has requested that everyone not address her by her maiden surname, Lezhneva. Married since 2013, Anna recently took to Instagram to make the special request to her followers. “A name is such a personal thing. With my birthday coming up soon, I felt like it’s finally the right moment to write this. I’ve been meaning to do it ever since I started this Instagram account. I wrote it, deleted it… came back to it again. And I just couldn’t find the right way to say it. Most people first got to know me as Anna Lezhneva, because that’s the name that was everywhere when news about our marriage came out. The funny thing is, our marriage certificate is actually the last