Telugu films of the 1930s

A list of films produced by the Tollywood film industry based in Hyderabad in the 1930s:

Title	Director	Cast
1931
Bhakta Prahalada	Hanumantha Muniappa Reddy	Venkata Subbaiah Munipalle, Surabhi Kamalabai
1932
Rama Paduka Pattabhishekam	Sarvottam Badami	Seeta Rama Anjaneyulu Chilakalpudi, Surabhi Kamalabai
Shakuntala	Sarvottam Badami	Yadavalli Suryanarayana, Surabhi Kamalabai
1933
Chintamani	Sadasiva Rao Kallakoori
Prithvi Putra	Patina Srinivasa Rao
Ramadasu	Chittajalu Pullayya, Ghantasala Radhakrishnaiah	Ghantasala Balaramaiah, Satyanarayana Aarani
Savithri	Chittajalu Pullayya
1934
Ahalya	K. Rangarao
Lava Kusa	Chittajalu Pullayya	Parepalli Subba Rao, Sriranjani Sr., Master Bhimarao, Malleshwara Rao
Seeta Kalyanam	Chitrapu Narasimha Rao	Master Kalyani, Bezawada Rajarathnam
1935
Anasuya
Bhakta Kuchela
Harishchandra	Pullaiah Rajopadhyay	Srirama Murthy Addanki, Kannamba
Sati Sakkubai	Ramanandam B.V.	Dasari Kotiratnam
Sri Krishna Leelalu	Chitrapu Narasimha Rao	Vemuri Gaggaiah, Saluri Rajeshwara Rao
Srikrishna Thulabhaaram	Chittajalu Pullayya	Ramanatha Sastri Kapilavayi, Kanchanamala, Lakshmirajyam, Relangi Venkatramaiah
Rani Premalata
1936
Balayogini
Dhruva
Draupadi Manasamrakshana	S. Jagannath, Ramanamurthy	Bellari Raghava, S. Rangaswamy, Sivaramakrishna Rao, H.N. Choudhury
Draupadi Vastrapaharanam	Hanumappa Vishwanath Babu	Yadavalli Suryanarayana, Chilakalapudi Seetha Rama Anjaneyulu, Nagaraja Rao Nellori, Dommeti Suryanarayana
Kabir
Lanka Dahanam
Maya Bazar
Premavijayam	Krithiventi Nageshwara Rao	Ranga Rao, P.S. Sharma, P. Rama Rao, K. Ranga Rao
Premilarjuneyam
Sampoorna Ramayanam
Sasirekha Parinayam
Sulochana
Sati Tulasi	Chitrapu Narasimha Rao	Ghantasala Balaramaiah, Vemuri Gaggaiah, Sriranjani
Veerabhimanyu
1937
Bala Yogini	K. Subramaniam	Arani Satyanarayana, Vangara, Kamala Kumari, Thilakam
Dasavataramulu
Kanakatara	Hanumappa Vishwanath Babu	Dommeti Suryanarayana, Kannamba
Kasula Peru
Mohini Rukhmangadha	Chitrapu Narasimha Rao	Vemuri Gaggaiah, Suryanarayana, Dasari Ramatilakam, Venkateswarlu Pulipati
Nara Narayana
Rukmini Kalyanam
Sarangadhara	P. Pullaiah	Banda Kanakalingeshwara Rao, Santha Kumari P, Kannamba, Sriranjani
Vijayadashami
1938
Bhakta Jayadeva	Hiren Bose	Surabhi Kamalabai, Santha Kumari P, Rentachintala Satyanarayana, Venkateswarlu V
Chal Mohana Ranga
Chitranilayam
Gruha Lakshmi	H. M. Reddy	Chittor V. Nagaiah
Gulebakavali	Kaallakoori Sadasivudu	B. Jayamma
Jarasandha	Chitrapu Narasimha Rao	Vemuri Gaggaiah, Kocherlakota Satyanarayana, M. V. Jayamma
Kacha Devayani
Kasula Peru
Maala Pilla	Gudavalli Ramabrahmam
Markandeya
Mohini Bhasmasura	Chittajalu Pullayya	Pushpavalli, Dasari Kotiratnam, Subba Rao A.V
Narada Samsaram
Satyanarayana Vratam
Tukaram
1939
Amma	Niranjan Pal
Balaji	P. Pullaiah	Seeta Rama Anjaneyulu Chilakalpudi, Santha Kumari P.
Jayapradha	Chitrapu Narasimha Rao	Seeta Rama Anjaneyulu Chilakalpud, K. Pichhaiah
Mahananda	China Kameswara Rao Dronamraju
Malli Pelli	Y.V. Rao	Y.V. Rao, Kanchanamala
Panduranga Vittal
Pasupathastram	Ranga Rao Kocharlakota	Raghuramaiah Kalyanam
Mathru Bhoomi	Hanumantha Muniappa Reddy	S. Santhanam, P.U. Chinnappa
Radha Krishna
Raithu Bidda	Gudavalli Ramabrahmam	Bellari Raghava, G.V. Sitapathy
Sri Venkateshwara Mahathyam (Balaji)	P. Pullaiah	Seeta Rama Anjaneyulu Chilakalpudi, Santha Kumari P, Rajeshwari Devi
Vande Mataram	B.N. Reddi	Chittor V. Nagaiah, Kanchanamala
Vara Vikrayam	Chittajalu Pullayya	Pushpavalli, Bhanumathi Ramakrishna, Balijepalli Lakshmikanta Kavi

External Links

Earliest Telugu language films at IMDb.com (1 to 50)

Indian films by year and decade

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Andhra Pradesh (Telugu)	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Bengali	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Ollywood (Oriya)	1936 1949 1950 1951 1953 1954 1956 1959 1960 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1971 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

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