Akkineni Nagarjuna filmography

Akkineni Nagarjuna in 2010

Akkineni Nagarjuna (born August 29, 1959) is an Indian film actor and producer who works primarily in the Telugu Cinema. He is often called "King" of Telugu Movie Industry. He has acted in over ninety films as an actor in a lead, supporting and cameo roles, including Bollywood and Tamil films. He has received nine state Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awards South and one Special Mention at the National Film Awards. The 1996 film Ninne Pelladata which he produced, was declared the Best Telugu film of the year at the National Film Awards.

He enacted the role of 15th century composer Annamacharya in the 1997 film Annamayya; as Yavakri (the son of the ascetic Bharadwaja) in the 2002 film Agni Varsha; as Major Padmapani Acharya in the 2003 war film, LOC Kargil; as 17th-century composer Kancherla Gopanna in the 2006 film Sri Ramadasu; as Sai Baba of Shirdi in the 2012 film Shirdi Sai; and as Chandaludu (Lord Siva in disguise) in the 2013 film Jagadguru Adi Sankara.^[1]

In 1989, he starred in the Maniratnam directed Romantic drama film, Geetanjali, which won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. In the same year, he acted in Siva, an action blockbuster directed by Ram Gopal Varma, premiered at the 13th International Film Festival of India.^[2] In 1990, he subsequently made his Bollywood debut with the Hindi remake of the same film titled Shiva, and tasted success. In 1997, he received the National Film Award for producing Ninne Pelladata. In 1998, he received the National Film Award-Special Mention for his performance in the historical film Annamayya.

In 2013, he represented Cinema of South India at the Delhi Film Festival's 100 Years of Indian Cinema's celebration, alongside Ramesh Sippy and Vishal Bharadwaj from Bollywood.^[3] In 1995, he ventured into film production, with a production unit operating in Seychelles, and was a co-director of an Emmy Award-winning film animation company in Michigan, U.S.^[4] Along with his brother, Venkat Akkineni, Nagarjuna is the co-owner of the production company, Annapurna Studios and is the president of the non-profit film school Annapurna International School of Film and Media based in Hyderabad.^[5]^[6]^[7]

Filmography

Actor

#	Year	Title	Role	Notes
1	1986	Vikram	Vikram	Remake of Bollywood film Hero first debut
2	1986	Captain Nagarjun	Nagarjuna
3	1986	Aranyakanda	Chaitanya
4	1987	Majnu	Rajesh
5	1987	Sankeertana	Kaasi
6	1987	Collector Gari Abbai	Ravi
7	1987	Agni Putrudu	Kalidaasu
8	1987	Kirai Dada	Vijay	Remake of Bollywood film Jaal
9	1988	Aakhari Poratam	Vihari
10	1988	Chinababu	Venu Gopal
11	1988	Murali Krishnudu	Murali Krishna
12	1988	Janaki Ramudu	Ramu / Ranga
13	1989	Vijay	Vijay
14	1989	Vicky Daada	Vikram
15	1989	Geetanjali	Prakash
16	1989	Agni	Pavan Kumar
17	1989	Siva	Siva
18	1990	Shiva^[8]	Shiva	Hindi film
19	1990	Prema Yuddham	Kalyan
20	1990	Neti Siddhartha	Siddhartha	Remake of Hindi film Dharmatma
21	1990	Iddaru Iddare	Ravi
22	1991	Nirnayam	Vamsi Krishna	Ramake of Malayalam film Vandanam
23	1991	Chaitanya	Chaitanya
24	1991	Shanti Kranti	Kranti
25	1991	Jaitra Yatra	Teja	25th Film
26	1992	Killer	Eeshwar Prasad / Prem Krishna
27	1992	Khuda Gawah	Raja Mirza	Hindi film
28	1992	Antham	Raghav / Shekar
29	1992	Drohi	Raghav / Shekhar	Hindi film
30	1992	President Gari Pellam	Raja
31	1993	Rakshana	Bose
32	1993	Varasudu	Vinay	Remake of Hindi movie Phool Aur Kaante
33	1993	Allari Alludu	Kalyan & Rajesh (just name sake role)
34	1993	Govinda Govinda	Seenu
35	1994	Hello Brother	Deva & Ravi Varma	Dual role
36	1994	Criminal	Dr. Ajay Kumar	Telugu Hindi bilingual film
37	1995	Sisindri	Raja
38	1995	Gharana Bullodu	Raju
39	1995	Vajram	Chakri	Remake of Malayalam film Spadikam
40	1996	Ninne Pelladatha	Seenu	Also producer, National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu Filmfare Award for Best Film – Telugu
41	1996	Mr. Bechara	Ajay	Hindi film
42	1996	Ramudochadu	Ram
43	1997	Ratchagan	Ajay	Tamil film
44	1997	Annamayya^[9]	Annamacharya	National Film Award-Special Mention Nandi Award for Best Actor Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu
45	1998	Zakhm	Raman Desai	Hindi film
46	1998	Chandralekha	Seeta Rama Rao
47	1998	Angaarey	Raja Lokhande	Hindi film
48	1998	Auto Driver	Jagan
49	1998	Aavida Maa Aavide	Vikranth
50	1999	Ravoyi Chandamama	Sashi	Remake of Bollywood film, Mann 50th Film
51	1999	Seetharama Raju	Ramaraju
52	2000	Azad	Chandra Sekhar Azad	Nandi Award for Best Feature Film - Silver
53	2000	Ninne Premistha	Srinivas	Remake of Nee Varuvai Ena Guest Appearance
54	2000	Nuvvu Vastavani	Chinni Krishna	Remake of Thulladha Manamum Thullum
55	2001	Eduruleni Manishi	Surya Murthy & Satya	Dual role
56	2001	Akasa Veedhilo	Chandu / Chandra Shekar
57	2001	Bava Nachadu	Ajay
58	2001	Adhipathi	Jagan	Guest appearance
59	2001	Snehamante Idera	Aravind	Remake of Friends
60	2002	Agni Varsha	Yavakri	Hindi film
61	2002	Santosham	Karthikeya	Nandi Award for Best Actor
62	2002	Manmadhudu	Abhiram
63	2003	LOC Kargil	Major Padmapani Acharya	Hindi film
64	2003	Shivamani	Shivamani
65	2004	Mass	Mass / Ganesh	Dubbed in Hindi as "Meri Jung"
66	2004	Nenunnanu	Venu Madhav
67	2005	Super	Akhil	Dubbed in Hindi as "Robbery"
68	2006	Sri Ramadasu^[10]	Kancherla Gopanna	Nandi Award for Best Actor
69	2006	Boss - I Love You	Gopal Krishna	Dubbed in Hindi as "Yeh Kaisa Karz"
70	2007	Don	Suri	Dubbed in Hindi as "Don No.1"
71	2008	Krishnarjuna	Lord Krishna (Bangaram)
72	2008	King	King / Bottu Seenu / Sarath	Dubbed in Hindi as "King No.1"
73	2010	Kedi	Ramesh (Rummy)
74	2010	Ragada	Satya Reddy	Dubbed in Hindi as "Ragada"
75	2011	Payanam	Major Raveendran	Tamil film 75th film
76	2011	Rajanna	Rajanna
77	2012	Shirdi Sai	Lord Sai Baba
78	2012	Damarukam	Mallikharjuna / Malli
79	2013	Greeku Veerudu	Chandu
80	2013	Sri Jagadguru Aadi Sankara	Chandaludu	Guest appearance
81	2013	Bhai	Vijay
82	2014	Manam	Seetharamudu / Nageshwar Rao 'Bittu'
83	2016	Soggade Chinni Nayana	Bangaruraju & Dr. Ram Mohan	Dual role
82	2016	Oopiri	Vikramaditya	Telugu Film
82	2016	Thozha	Vikramaditya	Tamil film
84	2016	Nirmala Convent	Nagarjuna Akkineni
85	2017	Om Namo Venkatesaya	Hathiram Baba	Filming
86	2017	Raju Gari Gadhi - 2
87	2017	Bangarraju	Bangarraju	Prequel to Soggade Chinni Nayana Pre-Production

Cameo Appearances

#	Year	Title	Role	Notes
1	1967	Sudigundalu	Child artist
2	1987	Trimurtulu	Himself
3	1988	Rao Gari Illu	Nagarjuna
4	1995	Ghatothkachudu	Chitha
5	2006	Style	Mass
6	2010	Thakita Thakita	Nag
7	2015	Dongaata	Himself
8	2015	Akhil	Himself
9	2015	'Inji Iduppazhagi	Nagarjuna	Tamil film
9	2015	Size Zero	Nagarjuna	Telugu Film
10	2016	Premam	Vikram's father

Producer

Year	Film
1979	Kalyani
1980	Pilla Zamindar
1980	Buchi Babu
1981	Premabhishekam
1981	Prema Kanuka
1982	Yuvaraju
1983	Sri Ranga Neethulu
1995	Sisindri
1996	Ninne Pelladata
1998	Aaha
	Sri Sita Ramula Kalyanam Chootamu Raarandi
	Chandralekha
1999	Prema Katha
1999	Seetharama Raju
2000	Yuvakudu
2002	Manmadhudu
2003	Satyam
2004	Mass
2005	Super
2005	Amudhey
2011	Rajanna
2013	Bhai
2013	Uyyala Jampala
2014	Manam
2014	Oka Laila Kosam
2016	Soggade Chinni Nayana
2016	Nirmala Convent

Playblack Singer

Year	Film	Song
1999	Seetharama Raju	Vinudu Vinudu Cigrette
2016	Nirmala Convent	Kotha Kotha Bhaasha

References

↑ Suresh Krishnamoorthy (2013-04-30). "At the end of the day, Nag wants to feel good". Chennai, India: The Hindu. Retrieved 2013-08-25.
↑ "Directorate of Film Festival" (PDF).
↑ Delhi festival to celebrate 100 years of Indian Cinema | NDTV Movies.com
↑ "45th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
↑ "I need a break: Nagarjuna". The Times Of India. 20 April 2012.
↑ "Nagarjuna is brand ambassador for Kalyan Jewellers". Thehindubusinessline.in. 2010-12-01. Retrieved 2012-10-24.
↑ "Swept away by 'Nag' magic". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 11 July 2011.
↑ Chiranjeevi and Nagarjuna's Hindi debuts were Telugu remakes- Times of India . 13 March 2012. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
↑ Nagarjuna, KRR team up once again!- Times of India . 16 June 2014. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
↑ Sri Ramadasu had 82 working days- Times of India . 21 May 2014. Retrieved 11 September 2014.

National Film Award—Special Jury Award (Feature Film)

1978–1980

No Award (1978) No Award (1979) No Award (1980)

Special Mention	Mrinal Sen and Muzaffar Ali (1978) No Award (1979) No Award (1980)

1981–2000

Satyajit Ray (1981) No Award (1982) Mankada Ravi Varma (1983) T. S. Ranga (1984) Sudha Chandran (1985) John Abraham (1986) M. B. Sreenivasan (1987) Ashok Ahuja (1988) Amitabh Chakraborty (1989) Pankaj Kapur, Sunny Deol and Jayabharathi (1990) Soumitra Chatterjee (1991) Sivaji Ganesan and Ketan Mehta (1992) Shashi Kapoor and Pallavi Joshi (1993) Radhu Karmakar and Shaji N. Karun (1994) Shyam Benegal (1995) Amol Palekar and Kirron Kher (1996) Jaimala (1997) Drishyakavya and Ashoke Viswanathan (1998) Kalabhavan Mani (1999) Soumitra Chatterjee (2000)

Special Mention	No Award (1981) No Award (1982) Kumar Shahani (1983) No Award (1984) No Award (1985) Sandip Ray (1986) No Award (1987) Aamir Khan (1988) Anupam Kher and Mohanlal (1989) Anoubham Kiranmala (1990) Mamata Shankar and Raveendran (1991) Sibaprasad Sen (1992) Tahir Hussain, Mahesh Bhatt, Jugal Debata and Susant Misra (1993) Mahesh Mahadevan, Bishnu Kharghoria and S. Kumar (1994) Uttara Baokar, Rohini and Benaf Dadachandji (1995) Dolon Roy and Bhagirathee (1996) Akkineni Nagarjuna and Jomol (1997) Dasari Narayana Rao, Prakash Raj and Manju Warrier (1998) Mohan Joshi, Manju Borah and Kavitha Lankesh (1999) No Award (2000)

2001–present

Janaki Vishwanathan (2001) Prakash Raj (2002) Manoj Bajpai, Roopkatha and Goutam Halder (2003) J. Phillip (2004) Anupam Kher (2005) Vishal Bhardwaj (2006) Anil Kapoor and Feroz Abbas Khan (2007) NFDC and K. M. Madhusudhanan (2008) A. Sreekar Prasad (2009) Bindiya Khanolkar, Sachin Khanolkar and Anant Mahadevan (2010) Anjan Dutt (2011) Rituparno Ghosh and Nawazuddin Siddiqui (2012) Viva In En, Mahesh Limaye, Future East Film Pvt Ltd and Ashim Ahluwalia (2013) Bhaurao Karhade (2014) Kalki Koechlin (2015)

Special Mention	Dilip Doley and Narayan Seal (2001) Jyothirmayi (2002) H. G. Dattatreya and Nedumudi Venu (2003) Gurdas Maan and Pradeep Nair (2004) No Award (2005) Thilakan and Prosenjit Chatterjee (2006) No Award (2007) No Award (2008) Padmapriya Janakiraman (2009) K. Shivaram Karanth and V. I. S. Jayabalan (2010) Mallika and Sherrey (2011) Lal, H. G. Dattatreya, Bishnu Kharghoria, Parineeti Chopra, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Hansraj Jagtap and Thilakan (2012) Gauri Gadgil, Sanjana Rai and Anjali Patil (2013) Musthafa, Palomi Ghosh, Parth Bhalerao (2014) Rinku Rajguru, Jayasurya, and Ritika Singh (2015)

Filmfare Award for Best Telugu Actor

1972–1990	N. T. Rama Rao (1972) Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1973) Sobhan Babu (1974) Sobhan Babu (1975) Sobhan Babu (1976) Krishnam Raju (1977) Chandra Mohan (1978) Sobhan Babu (1979) Somayajulu (1980) Kamal Haasan (1981) Chiranjeevi (1982) Kamal Haasan (1983) Krishnam Raju (1984) Chiranjeevi (1985) Krishnam Raju (1986) Venkatesh (1988) Kamal Haasan (1989) Rajasekhar (1990)

1991–2010	Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1991) Chiranjeevi (1992) Chiranjeevi (1993) Rajasekhar (1994) Mohan Babu (1995) Venkatesh (1996) Akkineni Nagarjuna (1997) Venkatesh (1998) Chiranjeevi (1999) Venkatesh (2000) Uday Kiran (2001) Chiranjeevi (2002) Mahesh Babu (2003) Chiranjeevi (2004) Siddharth (2005) Mahesh Babu (2006) N. T. Rama Rao Jr. (2007) Allu Arjun (2008) Ram Charan (2009) Allu Arjun (2010)

2011–present	Mahesh Babu (2011) Pawan Kalyan (2012) Mahesh Babu (2013) Allu Arjun (2014) Mahesh Babu (2015)

CineMAA Award for Best Actor

Chiranjeevi (2003) Mahesh Babu (2004) N. T. Rama Rao Jr. (2004) Akkineni Nagarjuna (2005) Allu Arjun (2005) Mahesh Babu (2006) N. T. Rama Rao Jr. (2008) Allu Arjun (2009) Ram Charan Teja (2010) Nandamuri Balakrishna (2011) Mahesh Babu (2012) Allu Arjun (2014)

Nandi Award for Best Actor

Nandi Awards

1964–1980	Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1964) Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1965) Chandra Mohan (1966) Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1967) S. V. Ranga Rao (1968) Sobhan Babu (1969) N. T. Rama Rao (1970) Sobhan Babu (1971) Sobhan Babu (1972) Sobhan Babu (1973) Krishna (1974) Sobhan Babu (1975) Rallapalli (1976) Krishnam Raju (1977) Hema Sundar (1978) Gokina Rama Rao (1979) M. Prabhakar Reddy (1980)

1981–1990	M. Prabhakar Reddy (1981) Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1982) Kamal Haasan (1983) Krishnam Raju (1984) Murali Mohan (1985) Kamal Haasan (1986) Chiranjeevi (1987) Venkatesh (1988) Kamal Haasan (1989) Rajendra Prasad (1990)

1991-2000	Dasari Narayana Rao (1991) Chiranjeevi (1992) Jagapati Babu and Suman (1993) Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1994) Venkatesh and Naresh (1995) Jagapati Babu (1996) Akkineni Nagarjuna (1997) Venkatesh (1998) Venkatesh (1999) Jagapati Babu (2000)

2001-present	Nandamuri Balakrishna (2001) Chiranjeevi and Akkineni Nagarjuna (2002) Mahesh Babu (2003) Rajendra Prasad (2004) Mahesh Babu (2005) Akkineni Nagarjuna (2006) Venkatesh (2007) Ravi Teja (2008) Dasari Narayana Rao (2009) Nandamuri Balakrishna (2010) Mahesh Babu (2011)

Category

Nandi Special Jury Award

Vijayachander (1983)
Karthik (1987)
Kallu Chidambaram (1988)
Chiranjeevi (1988)
Venkatesh (1988)
Jagapati Babu (1990)
Naresh (1992)
Suman (1997)
Ravi Teja (1999)
Venu Thottempudi (1999)
AVS (2000)
Srihari (2000)
Akkineni Nagarjuna (2000)
Manjula Ghattamaneni (2001)
Mahesh Babu (2001)
Surya (2001)
N. T. Rama Rao Jr. (2002)
Ravi Teja (2002)
Mahesh Babu (2002)
Pavan Malhotra (2003)
Saritha (2004)
Mahesh Babu (2004)
Allu Arjun (2004)
Sneha (2005)
Priyadarshini Ram (2005)
Vadde Naveen (2005)
Gangaraju Gunnam (2006)
Jyothika (2006)
Genelia D'Souza (2006)
Ram Charan Tej (2007)
Bhumika Chawla (2007)
Allu Arjun (2008)
Anushka Shetty (2008)
Genelia D'Souza (2009)
Ram Charan Tej (2009)
Srikanth (2009)
Manchu Manoj (2010)
Sunil (2010)
Samantha Ruth Prabhu (2010)
Akkineni Nagarjuna (2011)
Charmy Kaur (2011)

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