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 has acted in over ninety films as an actor in a lead, supporting and cameo roles, including Bollywood and Tamil films. He has received two National Film Awards, nine state Nandi Awards and two Filmfare Awards South.

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 was 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 has 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	1967	Sudigundalu	Child artist	Cameo
2	1986	Vikram	Vikram	Remake of Bollywood film Hero
3	1986	Captain Nagarjun	Nagarjun
4	1987	Aranyakanda	Chaitanya
5	1987	Majnu	Rajesh
6	1987	Sankeertana	Kaasi
7	1987	Collector Gari Abbai	Ravi
8	1987	Agni Putrudu	Kalidaasu
9	1987	Kirai Dada	Vijay	Remake of Bollywood film Jaal
10	1988	Aakhari Poratam	Vihari
11	1988	Chinababu	Venu Gopal
12	1988	Murali Krishnudu	Murali Krishna
13	1988	Janaki Ramudu	Ramu / Ranga
14	1988	Rao Gari Illu	Nagarjuna	Special appearance
15	1989	Vijay	Vijay
16	1989	Vicky Daada	Vikram
17	1989	Geetanjali	Prakash
18	1989	Agni	Pawan
19	1989	Siva	Siva
20	1990	Shiva^[8]	Shiva	Hindi film
21	1990	Prema Yuddham	Kalyan	Remake of Kannada film Bannada Gejje
22	1990	Neti Siddhartha	Siddhartha	Remake of Hindi film Dharmatma
23	1990	Iddaru Iddare	Ravi
24	1991	Nirnayam	Vamsi Krishna	Ramake of Malayalam film Vandanam
25	1991	Chaithanya	Chaithanya
26	1991	Shanti Kranti	Kranti
27	1991	Jaitra Yatra	Teja
28	1992	Killer	Eeshwar / Prem
29	1992	Khuda Gawah	Raja Mirza	Hindi film
30	1992	Antham	Raghav
31	1992	Drohi	Raghav / Shekhar	Hindi film
32	1992	President Gari Pellam	Raja
33	1993	Rakshana	Bose
34	1993	Varasudu	Vinay	Remake of Hindi movie Phool Aur Kaante
35	1993	Allari Alludu	Kalyan, Rajesh	Dual role
36	1993	Govinda Govinda	Seenu
37	1994	Hello Brother	Deva, Ravi Varma	Dual role
38	1995	Criminal	Dr. Ajay Kumar	Hindi film
39	1995	Sisindri	Raja
40	1995	Gharana Bullodu	Raju
41	1995	Ghatothkachudu	Chitha	Special appearance
42	1995	Vajram	Chakri	Remake of Malayalam film Spadikam
43	1996	Ninne Pelladatha	Seenu	Also producer, National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu Filmfare Award for Best Film – Telugu
44	1996	Mr. Bechara	Ajay	Hindi film
45	1996	Ramudochadu	Ram
46	1997	Ratchagan	Ajay	Tamil film
47	1997	Annamayya^[9]	Annamacharya	National Film Award-Special Mention Nandi Award for Best Actor Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu
48	1998	Zakhm	Raman Desai	Hindi film
49	1998	Chandralekha	Seeta Rama Rao
50	1998	Angaarey	Raja Lokhande	Hindi film
51	1998	Auto Driver	Jagan	Remake of Tamil film Oruvan
52	1998	Aavida Maa Aavide	Vikranth
53	1999	Ravoyi Chandamama	Sashi	Remake of Bollywood film, Mann
54	1999	Seetharama Raju	Ramaraju
55	2000	Azad	Chandra Sekhar Azad	Nandi Award for Best Feature Film - Silver
56	2000	Ninne Premistha	Srinivas
57	2000	Nuvvu Vastavani	Chinni Krishna	Remake of Thulladha Manamum Thullum
58	2001	Eduruleni Manishi	Surya Murthy, Satya	Dual role
59	2001	Akasa Veedhilo	Chandu / Chandra Shekar
60	2001	Bava Nachadu	Ajay
61	2001	Adhipathi	Jagan	Guest appearance
62	2001	Snehamante Idera	Aravind	Remake of Friends
63	2002	Agni Varsha	Yavakri	Hindi film
64	2002	Santosham	Karthikeya	Nandi Award for Best Actor
65	2002	Manmadhudu	Abhiram
66	2003	LOC Kargil	Major Padmapani Acharya	Hindi film
67	2003	Shivamani	Shivamani
68	2004	Mass	Mass / Ganesh
69	2004	Nenunnanu	Venu Madhav
70	2005	Super	Akhil
71	2005	Amudhey	Ravindra Varadharajan
72	2006	Style	Mass	Cameo appearance
73	2006	Sri Ramadasu^[10]	Kancherla Gopanna	Nandi Award for Best Actor
74	2006	Boss - I Love You	Gopal Krishna
75	2007	Don	Suri
76	2008	Krishnarjuna	Lord Krishna (Bangaram)
77	2008	King	King / Bottu Seenu / Sarath
78	2010	Kedi	Ramesh (Rummy)
79	2010	Thakita Thakita	As himself	Special appearance
80	2010	Ragada	Satya Reddy
81	2011	Payanam	Major Raveendran	Tamil film
82	2011	Rajanna	Rajanna
83	2012	Shirdi Sai	Sai Baba of Shirdi
84	2012	Damarukam	Mallikharjuna
85	2013	Greeku Veerudu	Chandu
86	2013	Sri Jagadguru Aadi Sankara	Chandaludu
87	2013	Bhai	Vijay
88	2014	Manam	Nageshwar Rao/Seetharamudu/Bittu
89	2015	Soggade Chinni Nayana	Bangaru Raju (Grandfather)/ Grandson	Filming
90	2015	Untitled Vamsi Paidipally project		Filming

Producer

Year	Film
1979	Kalyani
1980	Pilla Zameendaaru
1980	Buchhibabu
1981	Money Hai To Honey Hai
1981	Premaabhishekam
1983	Sri Ranganeethulu
1995	Sisindri
1996	Ninne Pelladata
1998	Aaha
	Sri Seetarama Kalyanam Chutamurarandi
	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

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".
↑ 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)

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)

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) Karthik (1987) Venkatesh (1988) Kamal Haasan (1989) Venkatesh (1990)

1991–2010	Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1991) Chiranjeevi (1992) Chiranjeevi (1993) Akkineni Nageswara Rao (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 Narayan (2005) Mahesh Babu (2006) N. T. Rama Rao Jr. (2007) Allu Arjun (2008) Ram Charan (2009)

2011–present	Allu Arjun (2010) Mahesh Babu (2011) Pawan Kalyan (2012) Mahesh Babu (2013)

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)

Nandi Award for Best Actor

Jagapati Babu (2000) Nandamuri Balakrishna (2001) Chiranjeevi (2002) 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) Complete list (1964–1979) (1980–1999) (2000–present)

Nandi Special Jury Award

Karthik (1987)
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)

Akkineni Nagarjuna filmography

Filmography

Actor

Producer

See also

References