List of Telugu films of 2002

This is a list of films produced by the Telugu language film industry based in Hyderabad in the year 2002.

Box office

Highest-grossing films of 2002

Rank	Title	Studio	Worldwide gross	Ref.
1	Indra	Vyjayanthi Movies	₹40–55 crore	[1] [2]

January–June

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Production house	Ref
J A N	11	Seema Simham	G. Ram Prasad	Nandamuri Balakrishna, Simran, Reemma Sen, P. Vasu
	12	Takkari Donga	Jayanth C. Paranjee	Mahesh Babu, Lisa Ray, Bipasha Basu, Krishna Ghattamaneni
	14	Nuvvu Leka Nenu Lenu	Y. Kasi Viswanath	Tarun, Aarthi Agarwal, Laya, Sarath Babu
	18	Premaku Swagatam	S. V. Krishna Reddy	J. D. Chakravarthy, Soundarya
	25	Priya Nestama	R. Ganapathy	Venu, Shama, Malavika
		O Chinnadana	E. Sathibabu	Srikanth, Raja, Gajala, Asha Saini, Shruthi Raj		[3]
F E B	1	Neethone Vuntanu	T. Prabhakar	Upendra, Sanghavi, Rachana Banerjee
		Raghava	Y. Nageswara Rao	Suresh, Rajasri, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Brahmanandam
	8	Kalusukovalani	Raghu Raj	Uday Kiran, Gajala, Pratyusha
		Kondaveeti Simhasanam	Dasari Narayana Rao	Mohan Babu, Soundarya, Udaya Bhanu
	14	Nenu Ninnu Premistunnanu	G. Haribabu	Prasanna, Keerthi Shaheen, Amrutha, Ahuti Prasad		[4]
	15	Chandravamsam	J. K. Bharavi	Krishna Ghattamaneni, Jaya Pradha, Sivaji, Rohit
		Action No. 1	Sagar	Ram, Lakshman, Thriller Manju, Vani Viswanath
	26	Ramana	Siva Nageswara Rao	Rajendra Babu, Mahi, Brahmanandam, Tanikella Bharani		[5]
		Lagna Patrika	Subburaju	Babloo Prithviraj, Sanghavi, Brahmanandam, Phaniraj Kumar
	28	Seshu	Jeevitha Rajashekar	Rajasekhar, Kalyani, Nassar
M A R	1	Nee Premakai	Muppulaneni Siva	Vineeth, Abbas, Laya, Sonia Agarwal
	7	Parasuram	Mohan Gandhi	Srihari, Sanghavi
	8	Neetho Cheppalani	B. Satya Naidu	Akash, Anupriya, Ashita
	9	Naga Pratista		Raasi, Sreejith
	15	Mee Kosam	V. Janardhan	Ramyasri, Samaram, Sharmila
	22	Nuvvunte Chaalu	Achyuth Reddy	Adarsha, Sonali Raj
		Entha Bagundo	Bharadwaja Thammareddy	Sai Kiran, Laya
		Chelia Chelia Chiru Kopama	Sai Shyam	Nivas, Shikha Sinha
	28	Aadi	V. V. Vinayak	Jr. NTR, Keerthi Chawla
		Nee Thodu Kavali	Bheemaneni Srinivas Rao	Deepak, Charmy Kaur, Rimi Sen
A P R	4	Aaduthu Paaduthu	Devi Prasad	Srikanth, Sunil, Gayatri Jayaraman
	10	Vasu	A. Karunakaran	Venkatesh, Bhoomika Chawla
		Priyadarshini	Dhavala Mallik	Surya Vamsi, Sunitha Varma, Brahmanandam
	13	Bejawada Police Station	Chimakurthi Hari Babu	Keshav, Shilpa Shivanand, Brahmaji, Ali, Chinna
		Friends	Bandi Ramesh	Sivaji, Ali
	19	Narahari	Thriller Manju	Sai Kumar, Thriller Manju, Sreedevi
	25	Manasunte Chaalu	Jonnalagadda Srinivasa Rao	Sai Kiran, Sivaji, Jennifer Kotwal
		Mounamelanoyi	Shyam Prasad	Sachin, Sampadha, Chalapathi Rao
M A Y	1	Lahiri Lahiri Lahirilo	Y. V. S. Chowdary	Nandamuri Harikrishna, Bhanupriya, Rachana Banerjee, Ankitha
	3	Vendi Mabbulu	Raviraja Pinisetty	Balayya, Pulakit, Anil, Mona Chopra, Meghana Naidu, Mitika		[6]
	9	Santosham	Dasaradh	Nagarjuna, Gracy Singh, Prabhu Deva, Shriya Saran
	10	Allari	Ravi Babu	Naresh, Anuradha Mehta
	17	Manasutho	Ravi Kumar Chowdary	Jai Akash, Arzoo Govitrikar, Khayyam
		Sahasa Baludu Vichitra Kothi	Dasharatha Raju	Vijayashanti, Brahmanandam, Sarath Babu, Sudha
	22	Tappu Chesi Pappu Koodu	A. Kodandarami Reddy	Mohan Babu, Srikanth, Gracy Singh
	24	Hai	E. V. V. Satyanarayana	Aryan Rajesh, Nikita Thukral
	31	Vooru Manadiraa	R. Narayana Murthy	R. Narayana Murthy, Siddappa Naidu
J U N	1	Devi Nagamma	Alahari	Prema, Baby Deepika, Jackie, Mani Chandana, Mada, Somayajulu, Jeeva
	6	Adrustam	Sekhar Suri	Tarun, Gajala, Reemma Sen, Asha Saini
	14	Jayam	Teja	Nitin, Sadha, Tottempudi Gopichand
		Hrudayanjali	A. Raghurami Reddy	Sanjay Mitra, Girija Shettar
	21	Sreeram	V. N. Aditya	Uday Kiran, Anitha Hassanandani, Ashish Vidyarthi
	27	Neetho	John Mahendran	Suryaprakash, Mahek Chahal,
	28	Kanulu Moosina Neevaye	Manjula Naidu	Deepak, Archana

July–December

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Production house	Ref
J U L	5	Janam	Ayyappa P. Sharma	Sai Kumar, Vani Viswanath, Thriller Manju, Dasari Arun Kumar, Zarina
		Girl Friend	G. Nageswara Reddy	Rohit, Anitha Patil
	18	Allari Ramudu	B. Gopal	Jr. NTR, Aarti Agarwal, Gajala
	24	Indra	B. Gopal	Chiranjeevi, Sonali Bendre, Aarti Agarwal
A U G	2	Avunu Valliddaru Ista Paddaru!	Vamsi	Ravi Teja, Kalyani
	3	Ninne Cherukunta		Revanth, Shwetha, Chandra Mohan
	9	Kuchi Kuchi Koonamma	Ashok Kumar	Jakeer, Siri, K. Viswanath
		Vachina Vaadu Suryudu	Mandava Gopala Krishna	Krisha, Lakshmana Swamy, Vijayachander, Rahul, Lahari		[7]
	22	Idiot	Puri Jagannadh	Ravi Teja, Rakshita
		Sontham	Srinu Vaitla	Aryan Rajesh, Namitha, Rohit, Sunil
	30	Holi	Vara Prasad	Uday Kiran, Richa Pallod, Sunil
		Prudhvi Narayana	P. Vasu	Srihari, Vijayalakshmi, Meghana Naidu, Lakshmi
		Prema Sakshiga	V. Jyothi Kumar	Vijay, Swetha, Anjali, Sraavan
S E P	6	Bharata Simha Reddy	Surya Prakash	Rajasekhar, Meena, Gajala, Ravali, Brahmanandam
	13	Manamiddaram	Gosangi Subba Ra	Raja Sridhar, Sonali Joshi, Lahari
		Khaidi Brothers	Sahar	Sai Kumar, Lakshman, Ram, Surya Prakash, Rekha
	18	Okato Number Kurraadu	A. Kodandarami Reddy	Nandamuri Taraka Ratna, Rekha Vedavyas, Brahmanandam
	25	Chennakeshava Reddy	V. V. Vinayak	Nandamuri Balakrishna, Shriya Saran, Tabu, Devayani
		Malli Malli Chudali	Pawan Sridhar	Venu, Janani
		Aahuti	Y. Sai Nivas	Chandra Babu
O C T	2	Prema Donga	Ramana	Srihari, Soundarya, Vinod
		Janda	Kodi Ramakrishna	Ajju, Sravan, Akrithi
	10	Nuvve Nuvve	Trivikram Srinivas	Tarun, Shriya Saran, Prakash Raj
	11	Gemeni	Saran	Venkatesh, Namitha, Mumtaj
	18	Dhanalakshmi, I Love You	Siva Nageswara Rao	Allari Naresh, Aditya Om, NAresh, Ankitha
		Pilisthe Palukutha	Kodi Ramakrishna	Jai Akash, Shamita Shetty
		Police Sisters	Vikki	Roja, Raasi, Sridhar, Brahmanandam
	31	Bobby	Sobhan	Mahesh Babu, Aarti Agarwal
N O V	1	Nee Sneham	Parichuri Murali	Uday Kiran, Aarti Agarwal, Jatin Grewal
		Siva Rama Raju	V. Samudra	Jagapathi Babu, Mounika, Venkat, Nandamuri Harikrishna
	10	Eeswar	Jayanth C. Paranjee	Prabhas, Sridevi Vijayakumar, Revathi
	22	2 Much	K. Veeru	Balakumar, Ruthika, Ali
	29	Khadgam	Krishna Vamshi	Ravi Teja, Srikanth, Sonali Bendre, Prakash Raj, Kim Sharma, Sangeetha
		Yuva Rathna	U. Narayana Rao	Nandamuri Taraka Ram, Jeevitha
D E C	6	Thotti Gang	E. V. V. Satyanarayana	Allari Naresh, Prabhu Deva, Sunil, Anitha, Gajala
		Trinetram	Kodi Ramakrishna	Sijju, Raasi
	13	Sandade Sandadi	Muppalaneni Siva	Rajendra Prasad, Jagapathi Babu, Raasi
		Coolie		Srihari, Raasi, Mumtaj
		Premalo Pavani Kalyan	Polur Ghatikachalam	Deepak, Ankitha
	20	Manmadhudu	K. Vijaya Bhaskar	Nagarjuna, Sonali Bendre, Anshu
		Ninu Choodaka Nenundalenu	R. Srinivas	Sachin, Bhavana Pani
	27	Anveshana	Sagar	Ravi Teja, Radhika Varma, Bose

Other releases

The following films were also released in 2002, though the release date remains unknown.

Title	Director	Cast	Studio	Ref
Rifles	Dasari Narayana Rao	Vijaya Shanthi, Dasari Arun Kumar		[8]

References

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