List of Telugu films of 2001

This is a list of films produced by the Telugu language film industry based in Hyderabad in the year 2001.

Box office collection

The highest-grossing Tollywood films released in 2001, by worldwide box office gross revenue, are as follows:

Highest worldwide gross of 2000

Rank	Title	Production company	Worldwide gross	Ref
1	Kushi	Sri Surya Movies	₹44.36 crore crore ₹36.9 crore(initial run) ₹23.4 crore distributors' share(initial run)	[1] [2]
2	Narasimha Naidu	Venkata Ramana Productions	₹25 crore distributors' share	[3]
3	Nuvvu Naaku Nachav	Sri Sravanthi Movies	₹18 crore distributors' share
4	Manasantha Nuvve	Sumanth Art Productions
5	Nuvvu Nenu	Anandi Art Creations	₹16 crore distributors' share
6	Daddy	Geetha Arts
7	Murari	Ram Prasad Arts	₹13 crore distributors' share
8	Student No. 1	Swapna Cinema	₹12 crore distributors' share
9	Anandam	Ushakiran Movies	₹10 crore distributors' share
10	Preminchu	Suresh Productions	₹8 crore distributors' share

January–June

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Production house	Ref
J A N	11	Mrugaraju	Gunasekhar	Chiranjeevi, Simran, Nagendra Babu
		Narasimha Naidu	B. Gopal	Nandamuri Balakrishna, Simran, K. Vishwanath
	15	Devi Putrudu	Kodi Ramakrishna	Venkatesh, Soundarya, Anjala Zaveri
	18	Sivudu	Gosangi Krishna Rao	Suresh, Satyaprakash, Sudhakar, M. S. Narayana
F E B	3	Navvuthu Bathakalira	Kodi Ramakrishna	J. D. Chakravarthy, Sangeeta
	9	Soori	Sankara Kumar	J. D. Chakravarthy, Priyanka Upendra, Tanikella Bharani
		Malli Inkoka Sari	Sahadev Reddy	Sri Madhav, Sahana, Snehita
	11	Priyamaina Neeku	Balasekaran	Tarun Kumar, Sneha
	14	Ammo Bomma	Relangi Narasimha Rao	Rajendra Prasad, Suman
	17	Murari	Krishna Vamsi	Mahesh Babu, Sonali Bendre
	27	Maa Ayana Sundarayya	Hari Babu	Srihari, Sangeeta, Kota Srinivasa Rao
	28	Sorry Aunty	Natti Kumar	Uttej, Gundu Hanumantha Rao, Tirupathi Prakash
M A R	1	Madhura Kshanam	Aalla Rambabu	Chalapathi, Aarti Chhabria
	2	Pillalu Techina Annala Rajyam	C. H. M. Krishna	Prasad Babu, Ravindra, Narasimha Raju
	9	Budget Padmanabham	S. V. Krishna Reddy	Jagapati Babu, Ravi Teja, Ramya Krishnan
		Cheppukondi Chuddam	K Ranga Rao	Suman, M. S. Narayana, Tirupathi Prakash
	23	Deevinchandi	Muthyala Subbaiah	Srikanth, Raasi, Malavika
	30	Railway Coolie	Kodi Ramakrishna	Mammootty, Meena, Harish
		Eduruleni Manishi	Srinivasa Rao	Nagarjuna, Soundarya, Shenaz Treasurywala
A P R	11	Preminchu	Boyani Subbarao	Sai Kiran, Laya
	12	Akka Bavekkada	Raja Vannem Reddy	J. D. Chakravarthy, Raasi
		Orey Thammudu	Sai Balaji	Srihari, Sanghavi
	15	Raave Naa Cheliya	P Kishore Kumar	Sai Kiran, AVS, Prudhviraj
	27	Kushi	S. J. Suryah	Pawan Kalyan, Bhoomika Chawla, Mumtaj
M A Y	5	Love	Ravi Chavali	Sivaji, Manya, Ali, Tanikella Bharani
	9	Ammayi Kosam	Muppalaneni Siva	Vineeth, Meena, Ravi Teja, Venu
		Prematho Raa	Udayasankar	Venkatesh, Simran
		Pandanti Samsaram	Krishna	Krishna, Babu Mohan, Kota Srinivasa Rao
	23	Ninnu Choodalani	V. R. Pratap	Jr. NTR, Raveena Rajput
	25	Chinna	Dasari Narayana Rao	Dasari Narayana Rao, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Sudhakar
		Maa Aavida Meeda Ottu Mee Aavida Chala Manchidi	E. V. V. Satyanarayana	Srikanth, Laya, Raasi, Vadde Naveen
		Andhala O Chilaka	B. Gopal	Dhanush, Siri
		Sarpam	Pramod Kumar
J U N	1	Family Circus	Teja	Jagapati Babu, Rajendra Prasad, Roja
		Repallelo Radha	Sarath	Dileep, Deeksha, Gummadi, Satyanarayana
		Vayasu	Sai Sagar	Ramesh Mitra, Yada Krishna
	7	Bava Nachadu	KS Ravikumar	Nagarjuna, Simran, Reema Sen
	8	6 Teens	G. Nageswara Reddy	Rohit, Ruthika, Santosh
	15	Bhalevadivi Basu	P. A. Arun Prasad	Balakrishna Nandamuri, Shilpa Shetty, Anjala Zaveri
	22	Vechi Vunta	Sriram Murthy	Raja, Uttej, Krishna Bhagavaan
	29	Kalisi Naduddam	Kodi Ramakrishna	Srikanth, Soundarya, Rama Prabha, Brahmanandam
		Khaki Chokka	Vikky	Sai Kumar, Neelambari, Thriller Manju

July–December

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Production house	Ref
J U L	1	Simharasi	V. Samudra	Rajasekhar, Sakshi Shivanand
	9	Atu America Itu India	Gummaluri Shastry	Sunny, Vanessa, Vijay Nainan
	13	Ramma Chilakamma	Tammareddy Bharadwaja	Sumanth, Laya
		Sampangi	Sanayadi Reddy	Deepak, Kanchi Kaul
	18	Naa Manasistha Raa	R.R.Shinde	Srikanth, Richa, Soundarya
	27	Jackpot	G. Kasinath	Kashinath, Naveena, L. B. Sriram, Jaya Prakash Reddy
A U G	3	Tholi Valapu	Muthyala Subbaiah	Gopichand, Sneha
	4	Subhakaryam	Ravi Raja Pinisetty	Rajasekhar, Naveen, Asha Saini
	9	Wife	Ravipalli Rambabu	Sivaji, Preetha Vijayakumar
	10	Nuvvu Nenu	Teja	Uday Kiran, Anitha
		Evadra Rowdy	Sarath	Srihari, Sanghavi, Sujatha
	17	Tara	Maniraj	Akash, Ruthika, Gundu Hanumantha Rao
		Subhasissulu	M Nagarjuna Reddy	Anil Raj, Varsha, Giri Babu
	23	Akasa Veedhilo	Singeetam Srinivasa Rao	Nagarjuna, Raveena Tandon
		Cheppalani Vundi	Chandra Mahesh	Naveen, Raasi, Kanchi Kaul
	31	Chandu	Veeru K	Pavan Kumar, Archana, Preethi		[4]
S E P	1	Naalo Unna Prema	Pratap	Jagapathi Babu, Gajala, Laya
	6	Nuvvu Naaku Nachav	Vijaya Bhaskar	Venkatesh, Arthi Agarwal
	14	Itlu Sravani Subramanyam	Puri Jagannadh	Ravi Teja, Tanu Roy
	19	Adhipathi	Ravi Raja Pinisetty	Mohan Babu, Nagarjuna, Preeti Jhangiani, Soundarya
		Idhe Naa Modhati Premalekha	G. Nageswara Reddy	Jayaram, Rimmi Sen
	21	Chiranjeevulu	Radha Krishna	Ravi Teja, Sanghavi, Sivaji
		Chirujallu	Sriram Balaji	Tarun, Richa Pallod
	27	Student No.1	S. S. Rajamouli	Jr. NTR, Gajala
	28	Anandam	Srinu Vaitla	Jai Akash, Rekha Vedavyas
		Time Pass	Sanfireddy Dasaradh	Ajay, Asha Saini, Janardhan Maharshi
O C T	4	Daddy	Suresh Krishna	Chiranjeevi, Simran, Ashima Bhalla
	12	Thank You Subba Rao	E. V. V. Satyanarayana	Srihari, Prakash Raj, Abhirami
	19	Manasantha Nuvve	V. N. Aditya	Uday Kiran, Reema Sen
		Prema Sandadi	P. A. Arun Prasad	Srikanth, Anjala Zaveri
		Snehithuda	K S Nageswara Rao	Sivaji, Rakesh, Reena
	26	Snehamante Idera	Balasekaran	Nagarjuna, Sumanth, Bhoomika Chawla
		Muthyam	Vasan	Rohit, Anu
N O V	1	Raa	K. S. Nageswara Rao	Upendra, Priyanka Upendra
	9	Hyderabad	Ayyappa P Sharma	Ayyappa P Sharma, Venu Madhav, P. J. Sarma
		Ammaye Navvithe	Jyothi Kumar	Rajendra Prasad, Bhavana, Brahmanandam
	15	Veedekkadi Mogudandi?	E. V. V. Satyanarayana	Venu, Shruthi Raj, Geethu Mohandas
	29	Jabili	S. V. Krishna Reddy	Dileep, Rekha Vedavyas
	14	Paravasam	K.Balachander	R. Madhavan, Simran Bagga, Sneha, Lawrence Raghavendra
	30	Athanu	Satyam Babu	Sai Kumar, Rachana, Ravi Varma
		Little Hearts	Srikanth	R. Venkateswar, Gayathri Priya, Murali Mohan, M. S. Narayana
D E C	6	Bhadrachalam	N.Shankar	Srihari, Sindhu Menon
	21	Hanuman Junction	Mohan Raja	Jagapati Babu, Arjun
		Subbu	Rudraraju Suresh Varma	Jr. NTR, Sonali Joshi
	30	Darling Darling	V. Samudra	Srikanth, Shaheen Khan, Sai Kiran
		Ishtam	Vikram Kumar	Charan, Shriya Saran

Other releases

The following films were also released in 2001, though the release date remains unknown.

Title	Director	Cast	Studio	Ref
Apparao ki Oka Nela Thappindi	Relangi Narasimha Rao	Rajendra Prasad, Madhusmita	Vishaka Talkies, Chaplin Comedy Creations

References

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3. "Tollywood Top 10 Box Office Collection Movies In 2001". T2BLive. 19 February 2019. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
4. "Did you know Jeet made his debut in a Telugu film?". The Times of India . 25 September 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2022.