List of Telugu films of 2016

This is a list of Telugu language films produced in the Tollywood in India that were released in the year 2016.

Box office collection

The top films released in 2016 by worldwide box office gross revenue are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 2016

Rank	Title	Production Company(s)	Worldwide gross	Ref.
1	Janatha Garage	Mythri Movie Makers Eros International	₹134.80 crore (US$16 million)	[ citation needed ]
2	Sarrainodu	Geetha Arts	₹127.60 crore (US$15 million)	[ citation needed ]
3	Oopiri	PVP Cinema	₹97.8 crore (US$11 million)	[ citation needed ]
4	Dhruva	Geetha Arts	₹87.6 crore (US$10 million)	[ citation needed ]
5	Nannaku Prematho	Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra Reliance Entertainment	₹87.20 crore (US$10 million)	[ citation needed ]
6	Sardaar Gabbar Singh	North Star Entertainment Eros International Pawan Kalyan Creative Works	₹85.55 crore (US$9.9 million)	[ citation needed ]
7	Soggade Chinni Nayana	Annapurna Studios	₹82.46 crore (US$9.5 million)	[ citation needed ]
8	A Aa	Haarika & Hassine Creations	₹75.4 crore (US$8.7 million)	[ citation needed ]
9	Brahmotsavam	PVP Cinema G. Mahesh Babu Entertainment	₹63.70 crore (US$7.4 million)	[ citation needed ]
10	Ghazi	PVP Cinema Matinee Entertainment	₹62 crore (US$7.2 million)	[ citation needed ]

January–June

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Production house	Ref
J A N	1	Chitram Bhalare Vichitram	Bhanu Prakash Balusu	Chandini Tamilarasan, Sowmya, Subhasree, Jeeva, Surya, Venugopal Rao, Prabhas Sreenu, Allari Subhashini	Kartika Dream Creations	[ citation needed ]
		Abbayitho Ammayi	Ramesh Varma	Naga Shourya, Palak Lalwani, Rao Ramesh, Brahmanandam, Mohan	JG Production	[ citation needed ]
		Nenu.. Sailaja...	Kishore Tirumala	Ram Pothineni, Keerthy Suresh, Sathyaraj, Pradeep Rawat, Prince Cecil, Rohini	Sri Sravanthi Movies	[1]
	13	Nannaku Prematho	Sukumar	Jr NTR, Rakul Preet, Jagapathi Babu, Rajendra Prasad	Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra Reliance Entertainment	[ citation needed ]
	14	Express Raja	Merlapaka Gandhi	Sharwanand, Surabhi, Harish Uthaman	UV Creations
		Dictator	Sriwass	Nandamuri Balakrishna, Anjali, Sonal Chauhan	Eros International Vedaashwa Creations	[ citation needed ]
	15	Soggade Chinni Nayana	Kalyan Krishna	Nagarjuna, Ramya Krishnan, Lavanya Tripathi, Nassar, Sampath Raj, Brahmanandam	Annapurna Studios	[ citation needed ]
	29	Lacchimdeviki O Lekkundi	Jagadish Talasila	Lavanya Tripathi, Naveen Chandra	Mayukha Creations	[ citation needed ]
		Seethamma Andalu Ramayya Sitralu	Gavireddy Srinivas Reddy	Raj Tarun, Arthana, Aadarsh, Raja Ravindra	Sri Sailendra Productions	[ citation needed ]
F E B	5	Lajja	Narasimha Nandi	Madhumitha, Varun, Shiva	P.L.K Productions	[ citation needed ]
		Speedunnodu	Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao	Bellamkonda Sreenivas, Sonarika Bhadoria	Good Will Cinema	[2]
		Vennello Hai Hai	Vamsy	Ajmal, Nikitha Narayan	D V Cine Creations	[ citation needed ]
	12	Krishna Gaadi Veera Prema Gaadha	Hanu Raghavapudi	Nani, Mehreen Pirzada, Sampath Raj, Murali Sharma, Harish Uthaman	14 Reels Entertainment	[ citation needed ]
		Garam	Madan	Aadi, Adah Sharma, Brahmanandam	RK Studio	[3]
	19	Krishnashtami	Vasu Varma	Sunil, Nikki Galrani, Dimple Chopade	Sri Venkateswara Creations	[4]
		Malupu	Sathya Prabhas Pinisetty	Aadhi, Nikki Galrani, Mithun Chakraborty, Richa Pallod, Pasupathy	Aadarsha Chitralaya Pvt. Ltd.	[4]
	26	Kshanam	Ravikanth	Adivi Sesh, Adah Sharma, Anasuya	PVP cinema	[ citation needed ]
		Eluka Majaka	Relangi Narasimha Rao	Vennela Kishore, Brahmanandam, Pavani	Naa Friends Art Movies	[5]
		Padesave	Chuniya	Karthik Raju, Nithya Shetty, Sam	Ayan Creations	[ citation needed ]
		Terror	Sathish Kasetty	Srikanth, Nikhita Thukral, Prudhvi, Nassar	Akhanda Bharath Creations	[ citation needed ]
		Veeri Veeri Gu	M V Sagar	Rudra, Venne, Raghu Babu	Shivakruthi Creations	[6]
M A R	4	Guntur Talkies	Praveen Sattaru	Siddu Jonnalagadda, Rashmi Gautham, Shraddha Das	RK Studios	[7]
		Kalyana Vaibhogame	Nandini Reddy	Naga Shourya, Malavika Nair, Raasi	Sri Ranjith Movies	[8]
		Shourya	K. Dasaradh	Manoj Manchu, Regina Cassandra, Prakash Raj	Suraksha Entertainments	[ citation needed ]
	11	Tuntari	Kumar Nagendra	Nara Rohit, Latha Hegde, Kabir Duhan Singh	Sri Keerthi Films	[ citation needed ]
		Tulasi Dalam	R. P. Patnaik	Nischal, Vandana Gupta, R. P. Patnaik	Colours Entertainments	[ citation needed ]
		O Sthree Repu Raa	T. Ashok Kumar Reddy	Ashish Gandhi, Diksha Panth, Shruthi Mol	Rending Lamp creations	[ citation needed ]
		Nenu Maa College	S. S. Dhakar	Manoj Nandan, Sisha, Srihari	Golden Fish Attractions	[ citation needed ]
	18	Drishya Kavyam	Bella Ramakrishna Reddy	Ram Karthik, Kashmira Kulkarni	Pushyami Film Makers	[ citation needed ]
		Seesa	Mohamad Issack	Sivaji, Chaswa, Namratha	Laxmi Venkateswara Films	[ citation needed ]
		Dandakaranyam	R. Narayana Murthy	R. Narayana Murthy, Gaddar	Sneha Chitra Pictures	[9]
		Romance With Finance	Rajju Kumpatla	Merina Abraham, Satish Babu	Rishi Entertainments	[ citation needed ]
	23	Run	Anil Kanneganti	Sundeep Kishan, Anisha Ambrose, Bobby Simha	AK Entertainments	[ citation needed ]
	25	Oopiri	Vamsi Paidipally	Nagarjuna, Karthi, Tamannaah	PVP cinema	[10]
		Mohabbat Mein	Mahesh Surya	Karthik, Hamida	Aashisth Movies	[11]
		Ammayi Aaruguru	G. Muraliprasad	Ramachandra, Aashalatha, Ravi	Akshay Prathyusha Entertainments	[ citation needed ]
		Meera	Santhosh Eubulus	Aditya Anand, Ishika Singh	150 M Entertainenrs	[ citation needed ]
A P R	1	7 To 4	Vijay Sekhar Sankranth	Anand Bachu, Raj Bala, Radhika, Loukya	Milk Movies	[ citation needed ]
		Attack	Ram Gopal Varma	Manchu Manoj, Surabhi, Jagapati Babu, Prakash Raj, Abhimanyu Singh, Poonam Kaur	CK Entertainments	[ citation needed ]
		Savitri	Pavan Sadineni	Nara Rohit, Nanditha Raj	Vision film Makers	[12]
	8	Sardaar Gabbar Singh	K. S. Ravindra	Pawan Kalyan, Kajal Aggarwal, Sharad Kelkar	Pawan Kalyan Creative Works North Star Entertainment Eros International	[13]
	14	Eedo Rakam Aado Rakam	G. Nageswara Reddy	Manchu Vishnu, Raj Tarun, Hebah Patel, Sonarika Bhadoria	A.K. Entertainments	[ citation needed ]
	22	Sarrainodu	Boyapati Srinu	Allu Arjun, Srikanth, Aadhi Pinisetty, Rakul Preet Singh, Catherine Tresa, Pradeep Rawat, Sai Kumar, Jayaprakash, Brahmanandam	Geetha Arts	[14]
	29	Raja Cheyyi Vesthe	Pradeep	Nara Rohit, Isha Talwar, Taraka Ratna	Varahi Chalana Chitram	[15]
M A Y	5	Supreme	Anil Ravipudi	Sai Dharam Tej, Raashi Khanna, Master Mikhail Gandhi, Rajendra Prasad, Kabir Duhan Singh, Ravi Kishan, Sai Kumar	Sri Venkateswara Creations	[ citation needed ]
	20	Brahmotsavam	Srikanth Addala	Mahesh Babu, Kajal Aggarwal, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Pranitha Subhash	PVP cinema G. Mahesh Babu Entertainment Pvt. Ltd	[16]
J U N	2	A Aa	Trivikram Srinivas	Nithiin, Samantha, Naresh, Srinivas Avasarala	Haarika & Hassine Creations	[17]
	3	Sri Sri	Muppalaneni Siva	Krishna, Vijay Nirmala
	10	Okka Ammayi Thappa	Rajasimha Tadinada	Sundeep Kishan, Nithya Menen, Ravi Kishan, Ali, Prudhviraj	Anji Reddy Productions	[ citation needed ]
		Parvathipuram	M.A. Chowdary	Madan, Srushti Dange, Tapashree, Kushi Sharma, Leena David		[ citation needed ]
		Right Right	J. B. Murali krishna	Sumanth Ashwin, Pooja Jhaveri, Pavani Gangireddy, Nassar	Sri Satya Entertainments	[ citation needed ]
	17	Gentleman	Mohan Krishna Indraganti	Nani, Niveda Thomas, Surabhi, Srinivas Avasarala, Tanikella Bharani, Vennela Kishore	Sridevi Movies
		Premikudu	Kala Sundeep	Maanas N, Sanam Shetty, Shakalaka Shankar, Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao, Bhanu Chander	SS Cinemas Digipost
		Meeku Meere Maaku Meme	Hussain Sha Kiran	Tarun Shetty, Avantika Mishra, Jenny Honey, Kireeti Damaraju	Nakama Planet Green Studios
		Guppedantha Prema	Vinod Lingala	Sai Ronak, Aditi Singh
	24	Oka Manasu	Rama Raju Gottimukkala	Naga Shourya, Niharika Konidela, Rao Ramesh, Srinivas Avasarala	Madhura Entertainment	[18]
		Kundanapu Bomma	Mullapudi Vara	Chandini Chowdary, Sudhakar Komakula, Sudheer Varma, Aalapati Lakshmi	Sri Satya Entertainments	[ citation needed ]
		Rajadhi Raja	Cheran	Sharwanand, Nithya Menen, Prakash Raj, Santhanam	Brundavan Pictures

July–December

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Production house	Ref
J U L	1	Arddhanaari	Bhanushanker Chowdary	Arjun Yajath, Mouryaani	Patthikonda Cinemas	[ citation needed ]
		Rojulu Marayi	Murali Krishna Mudidani	Chethan, Parwatheesham, Kruthika Jayakumar, Tejaswi Madivada	Good Cinema Group	[ citation needed ]
	7	Antham	GSSP Kalyan	Rashmi Gautam, Charandeep	Charan Creations	[ citation needed ]
	8	Iddaram	Sudhakar Vinukonda	Sanjeev, Sai Krupa	Javan and Caspian International	[ citation needed ]
	15	Selfie Raja	G. Eshwar Reddy	Allari Naresh, Sakshi Chaudhary, Kamna Jethmalani, Saptagiri	AK Entertainments	[ citation needed ]
		Nayaki	Goverdhan Reddy	Trisha, Ganesh Venkatraman	Giridhar production House	[ citation needed ]
	29	Pelli Choopulu	Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam	Vijay Deverakonda, Ritu Varma	Dharmapada Creations	[ citation needed ]
		Jakkanna	Vamshi Krishna Akella	Sunil, Mannara Chopra, Kabir Duhan Singh, Posani Krishna Murali	RPA Creations	[ citation needed ]
A U G	5	Manamantha	Chandra Sekhar Yeleti	Mohanlal, Gautami, Viswant Duddumpudi, Anisha Ambrose, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam	Varahi Chalana Chitram	[ citation needed ]
		Srirastu Subhamastu	Parasuram	Allu Sirish, Lavanya Tripathi, Prakash Raj, Sumalatha, Rao Ramesh, Sumithra, Subbaraju	Geetha Arts	[ citation needed ]
	12	Babu Bangaram	Maruthi	Venkatesh, Nayanthara	Sithara Entertainments	[ citation needed ]
		Bommala Ramaram	Nishanth Pudhari	Soori, Roopa Reddy, Priyadarshi Pullikonda, Thiruveer	Medieval Storytellers	[ citation needed ]
	13	Thikka	Sunil Reddy	Sai Dharam Tej, Mannara Chopra, Rajendra Prasad	Sri Venkateshwara Movie Makers
	19	Aatadukundam Raa	G. Nageswara Reddy	Sushanth, Sonam Bajwa	Sri Nag Corporation	[ citation needed ]
		Chuttalabbai	Veerabhadram Chowdary	Aadi, Namitha Pramod	Sri Iswarya Lakshmi Movies	[19]
	26	Banthi Poola Janaki	Nellutla Praveen Chander	Dhanraj, Diksha Panth, Sudheer, Chandra	Ujwala Creations	[ citation needed ]
		Avasaraniko Abaddam	Suresh KV	Lokesh, Rajesh, Shashank, Geethanjali	Chakram Creations	[ citation needed ]
S E P	1	Janatha Garage	Koratala Siva	Mohanlal, Jr. NTR, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Nithya Menon	Mythri Movie Makers	[ citation needed ]
	9	Jyo Achyutananda	Srinivas Avasarala	Nara Rohit, Naga Shourya, Regina Cassandra	Varahi Chalana Chitram	[ citation needed ]
	11	Hora Hori	Teja	Dileep Reddy, Daksha Nagarkar
	16	Nirmala Convent	G. Naga Koteshwar Rao	Roshan Meka, Shriya Sharma, Nagarjuna	Matrix Team Works Annapurna Studios	[ citation needed ]
		Siddhartha	K V Dayanand Reddy	Sagar, Sakshi Chaudhary, Kota Srinivasa Rao	Rama Dhuta Creations	[ citation needed ]
	23	Majnu	Virinchi Varma	Nani, Anu Emmanuel	Anandi Art Creations Keva Movies	[ citation needed ]
	30	Hyper	Santosh Srinivas	Ram Pothineni, Raashi Khanna, Sathyaraj, Rao Ramesh	14 Reels Entertainment
O C T	1	Nee Jathaleka	Lawerence Dasari	Naga Shourya, Parul Gulati, Sarayu	Sri Satya Vidhura Movies	[20]
	6	Jaguar	Mahadev	Nikhil Gowda, Deepti Sati, Jagapati Babu, Rao Ramesh, Ramya Krishna, Sampath Raj, Adithya Menon	Chennambika Films	[21]
	7	Abhinetri	A. L. Vijay	Prabhu Deva, Tamannaah, Sonu Sood	Prabhu Deva Studios MVV Cinema	[ citation needed ]
		Eedu Gold Ehe	Veeru Potla	Sunil, Richa Panai, Sushma Raj, Naresh, Puneet Issar	AK Entertainment	[ citation needed ]
		Mana Oori Ramayanam	Prakash Raj	Prakash Raj, Priyamani, Prudhviraj, Satyadev	Prakash Raj Factory	[ citation needed ]
		Premam	Chandoo Mondeti	Naga Chaitanya, Shruti Hassan, Anupama Parameswaran	Sithara Entertainments	[21]
	21	Ism	Puri Jagannadh	Nandamuri Kalyan Ram, Aditi Arya, Jagapati Babu	N. T. R. Arts
		L7	Mukund Pande	Adith Arun, Pooja Jhaveri, Vennela Kishore	Rahul Movie Makers	[ citation needed ]
		Nandini Nursing Home	P. V. Giri	Nawin Vijay Krishna, Shravya, Nithya Naresh, Shakalaka Shankar, Jaya Prakash Reddy, Vennela Kishore	SVC Entertainments PVT Ltd banner	[ citation needed ]
		Shankara	Thathineni Satya Prakash	Nara Rohith, Regina Cassandra, M. S. Narayana, John Vijay, Rajeev Kanakala	Sai Leela Movies	[ citation needed ]
		Thanu Vachenanta	Venkat Kancherla	Rashmi Gautam, Teja Kakumanu, Dhanya Balakrishna, Chalaki Chanti	Sri Atchuyutha Arts	[ citation needed ]
N O V	4	Aavu Puli Madhyalo Prabhas Pelli	Ravi Pachipala	Kalakeya Prabhakar, Ravi Teja, Ashwini Chandrasekhar	Red Carpet Reels	[ citation needed ]
		Manalo Okkadu	R. P. Patnaik	R. P. Patnaik, Anita Hassanandani Reddy	Uni Craft Movies	[ citation needed ]
		Naruda Donoruda	Mallik Ram	Sumanth, Pallavi Subhash, Tanikella Bharani	Rama Reels SS Creations Annapoorna Studios	[22]
	11	Sahasam Swasaga Sagipo	Gautham Vasudev Menon	Naga Chaitanya, Manjima Mohan, Baba Sehgal	Dwaraka Creations	[ citation needed ]
	18	Ekkadiki Pothavu Chinnavada	Vi Anand	Nikhil Siddharth, Hebah Patel, Nandita Swetha, Avika Gor	Meghana Arts	[ citation needed ]
	25	Jayammu Nischayammu Raa	Shiva Raj Kanumuri	Srinivasa Reddy, Shamna Kasim, Posani Krishna Murali, Sree Vishnu, Ravi Varma, Krishnudu	Shiva Raj Kanumuri productions	[ citation needed ]
		Aata	Raaj Kumar Reddy	Shradda Das, Gayathri Iyer
D E C	2	Araku Road Lo	Wassudev	Sairam Shankar, Nikesha Patel	Seshadri Creations & Sri Venkateswara Entertainments	[23]
	9	Dhruva	Surender Reddy	Ram Charan, Rakul Preet Singh, Aravind Swamy	Geetha Arts
	16	Meelo Evaru Koteeswarudu	E. Satthibabu	Naveen Chandra, Shruti Sodhi, Saloni Aswani, Dhanraj, Raghu Babu, Prabhas Sreenu, Pruthviraj Balireddy	Sri Sathya Sai Arts	[ citation needed ]
		Janaki Ramudu	T. Satish Babu	Mouryaani, Naveen Sanjay, Arjun Yajath	Kaveri Media Kaveri Travels	[ citation needed ]
		Naanna Nenu Naa Boyfriends	Bhaskar Bandi	Hebah Patel, Tejaswi Madivada, Noel Sean, Parvateesam, Rao Ramesh, Sana	Lucky Media	[24]
	23	Saptagiri Express	Arun Pawar	Saptagiri, Roshini Prakash, Ali, Posani Krishna Murali, Shayaji Shinde, Shakalaka Shankar	Sai Celluloid Cinematic Creations	[ citation needed ]
		Vangaveeti	Ram Gopal Varma	Sandeep Kumar, Vamsi Nakkanti, Vamsi Changanti, Naina Ganguly, Kautilya	Bad-Cow films	[ citation needed ]
		Sarabha	Narsimha Rao	Aakash Kumar Sehdev, Mishti Chakravarty, Jayaprada, Nassar	AKS Entertainments
	24	Pittagoda	Anudeep K. V.	Vishwadev, Punarnavi Bhupalam	Sunshine Cinemas
	30	Appatlo Okadundevadu	Saagar K Chandra	Nara Rohith, Sree Vishnu, Tanya Hope, Rajeev Kanakala, Posani Krishna Murali	Aran Media Works	[ citation needed ]
		Karam Dosa	Trivikram Gajulapalli	Shivakumar Ramachandravarapu, Surya Srinivas, Y. Kasi Viswanath	Veenaa Vedika Productions	[ citation needed ]
		Intlo Deyyam Nakem Bhayam	G. Nageswara Reddy	Allari Naresh, Kruthika Jayakumar, Rajendra Prasad	Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra	[ citation needed ]
		Nenosta	Parand Kalyan	Gnan Prakash, Surya Srinivas, Priyanka Pallavi	Raising Dreams	[ citation needed ]

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