Usha Kiran Movies

Usha Kiran Movies

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Entertainment
Founded	1983;42 years ago (1983)
Founder	Ramoji Rao
Headquarters	Balayogi Paryatak Bhavan, Greenlands, Begumpet, Hyderabad [1] , India
Products	Films
Owner	Ramoji Group

Ramoji Rao, founder of Usha Kiran Movies

Usha Kiran Movies is an Indian film production company founded by Ramoji Rao in 1983. It is a part of Ramoji Group. ^[2] This film production house has produced over 80 films with the majority of them in Telugu, along with some in Kannada, Hindi and other languages. ^[3]

History

The production house is known for giving an opportunity to young talent and produced many content-oriented films under Usha Kiran Movies banner. ^[4] The production company started with the film Srivariki Premalekha (1984). ^[5]

Partial filmography

Year	Film	Language	Actors	Director	Notes
1984	Srivariki Premalekha	Telugu	Naresh, Poornima	Jandhyala
	Kanchana Ganga		Chandra Mohan, Saritha, Swapna, Sarath Babu	V. Madhusudhana Rao
	Sundari Subbarao [6]		Chandra Mohan, Vijayshanti	Relangi Narasimha Rao
1985	Mayuri		Sudha Chandran, Subhakar	Singeetam Srinivasa Rao	Remade in Hindi as Naache Mayuri Dubbed in to Malayalam and Tamil as Mayoori
	Pratighatana		Vijayshanti, Chandra Mohan	T. Krishna	Dubbed in Malayalam as Pakarathinu Pakaram and remade in Hindi as Pratighaat
	Preminchu Pelladu [7]		Rajendra Prasad, Bhanupriya	Vamsy
1986	Mallemoggalu [8]		Sagarika, Rajesh	V. Madhusudhana Rao
	Poojaki Panikiradani Puvvu		Shekhar Suman, Thulasi	A. Mohan Gandhi
	Karu Diddina Kapuram [9]		Rajendra Prasad, Pavitra	D.V. Narasa Raju
	Naache Mayuri	Hindi	Sudha Chandran, Shekhar Suman	T. Rama Rao	Remake of Mayuri
1987	Chandamama Rave [10]	Telugu	Chandra Mohan, Kalpana	Moulee
	Pratighaat	Hindi	Sujata Mehta	N. Chandra	Remake of Pratighatana
1988	Premayanam [11]	Telugu	Naresh, Jayashree	C. V. Sridhar
	O Bharya Katha		Jayasudha, Chandra Mohan, Sarath Babu	Moulee
1989	Mouna Poratam		Yamuna, Vinod Kumar	Mohan Gandhi
	Paila Pacheesu		Rajendra Prasad, Ramya Krishna, Brahmanandam	Moulee
1990	Judgement [12]		Siva Krishna, Vinod Kumar, Yamuna, Aruna	A.Mohan Gandhi
	Mamasri [13]		Suresh, Ramyakrishna, Liji, Anand	Sharath
	Manasu Mamata		Naresh, Sithara	Moulee
1991	Amma [14]		Suhasini,Sarathbabu, Baby Sunayana	Suresh Krissna
	Aswini		Bhanu Chander, Ashwini Nachappa	Moulee
	People's Encounter		Meka Srikanth, Vinod kumar, Bhanupriya	Mohan Gandhi
1992	Jagannatham & Sons [15]		Suresh, Sindhuja	Anil Kumar
	Teja		Tarun Kumar, Tulasi	N. Hari Babu
	Sriman Brahmachari		Suresh	Sarath
	Vasundhara		Sithara [16]	Suresh Krissna
1993	Jeevithame Oka Cinema		Varunraj	Phani Ramachandra
1998	Padutha Theeyaga [17]		Vineeth, Heera Rajagopal	Kranthi Kumar
	Daddy Daddy [18]		ANR, Jayasudha, Harish, Raasi	Kodi Ramakrishna
1999	Mechanic Mamaiah [19]		Rajasekhar, Rambha	S. V. Rajendra Singh Babu
2000	Subhavela [20]		Ravi Kanth, Anasuya	Ramana
	Chitram		Uday Kiran, Reema Sen	Teja	Remade in Kannada as Chitra
	Madhuri		Abbas	Mouli
	Moodu Mukkalaata		Jagapati Babu, Soundarya, Rambha, Raasi	K. Raghavendra Rao
	Nuvve Kavali		Tarun Kumar, Richa Pallod	K. Vijaya Bhaskar	Remake of Niram and Remade in Hindi as Tujhe Meri Kasam and Kannada as Ninagagi
2001	Deevinchandi		Srikanth, Raasi, Malavika	Muthyala Subbaiah
	Ninnu Choodalani		Jr. NTR, Raveena Rajput	V. R. Pratap
	Akasa Veedhilo		Nagarjuna, Rajendra Prasad, Raveena Tandon, Kasthuri	Singeetam Srinivasa Rao
	Chitra	Kannada	Nagendra Prasad, Rekha Vedavyas	Dinesh Baboo	Remake of Chitram
	Anandam	Telugu	Aakash, Rekha Vedavyas, Venkat, Tanu Roy	Srinu Vaitla	Remade in Tamil as Inidhu Inidhu Kadhal Inidhu
	Cheluve Ondu Helthini	Kannada	Saurav, Chaitra Hallikeri	R. Saigopal
	Ishtam	Telugu	Charan, Shriya Saran	Vikram Kumar & Raj Kumar
2002	Manasuvunte Chalu [21]		Sai Kiran, Jennifer Kotwal, Sivaji	Jonnalagadda Sreenivasa Rao
	Priya Nestama [22]		Venu Thottempudi, Shanu	R. Ganapathi
	Ninagagi	Kannada	Vijay Raghavendra, Radhika	S. Mahendar	Remake of Nuvve Kavali
	Neetho	Telugu	Prakash Kovelamudi, Mahek Chahal	John Mahendran
	Beeper	English	Ed Quinn, Harvey Keitel, Joey Lauren Adams, Gulshan Grover	Jack Sholder	Co Production with Shoreline Entertainment
	Manase O Manase	Kannada	Ramkumar	M. S. Rajashekar	Remake of Manasu Mamtha
	Dheera		Rockline Venkatesh	Om Sai Prakash	Remake of Evadra Rowdy
2003	Tujhe Meri Kasam	Hindi	Ritesh Deshmukh, Genelia Deshmukh	K. Vijaya Bhaskar	Remake of Nuvve Kavali
	Ananda	Kannada	Naveen Mayur, Ruthika	Vara Mullapudi
	Oka Raju Oka Rani	Telugu	Ravi Teja, Namitha	Yogie
	Ooh La La	Kannada	Krishnamohan	Hemanth Hegde
	Toli Choopulone [23]	Telugu	Nandamuri Kalyan Ram, Akanksha	Y. Kasi Viswanath
	Inidhu Inidhu Kadhal Inidhu	Tamil	Jai Akash, Neha	Sakthi Chidambaram	Remake of Anandam
2004	Anandamanandamaye	Telugu	Jai Akash, Renuka Menon	Srinu Vaitla
	Thoda Tum Badlo Thoda Hum	Hindi	Arya Babbar, Shriya Saran	Esmayeel Shroff
2006	Veedhi [24]	Telugu	Sharwanand, Gopika	V. Dorairaj
2007	Sixer	Kannada	Prajwal Devaraj, Devaki	Shashank
2008	Nachavule	Telugu	Tanish, Maadhavi Latha	Ravi Babu
2009	Ninnu Kalisaka		Santosh Samrat, Chaitanya Krishna, Dipa Shah, Piaa Bajpai, Jagapati Babu	Siva Nageswara Rao
	Savaari	Kannada	Srinagar Kitty, Raghu Mukherjee, Kamalini Mukherjee, Suman Ranganathan	Jacob Verghese	Remake of Gamyam Co Production with Arka Media Works
2010	Betting Bangaraju	Telugu	Allari Naresh, Nidhi	E.Sattibabu [25]
2011	Nuvvila		Avish, Ajay, Prasad Barve, Vijay Sai, Yami Gautam, Sarayu, Remya Nambeesan	Ravi Babu
2015	Beeruva [26]		Sundeep Kishan, Surabhi	Kanmani	Co Production with Anandi Art Creations
	Dagudumootha Dandakor		Rajendra Prasad, Sara Arjun	R.K Malineni	Remake of Saivam Co Production with First Frame Entertainment

TV serials

Year	Serial	Language	Actors	Director	Network	Notes
1995 – 1999	Sneha	Telugu	Kaveri	Vamsy	ETV
1997 – 1997	Popula Pette		Naresh, Kinnera, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Sakshi Ranga Rao	Jandhyala
1997 – 2001	Antharangalu		Sarath Babu, Kinnera, Kalpana, Achyuth	Vinay Kumar		Co-produced with Eenadu Television
1997 – 1999	Anveshitha		Achyuth, Yamuna, Raja, Shanmukha Srinivas	Ilyas Ahmed "Pradyumna"
2003 – 2007	Panchatantram

Associated talent

This is a list of notable people introduced by Usha Kiran Movies.

Year	Cast	Film Name	Debut as	Note
1984	Shankar Melkote	Srivariki Premalekha	Actor
	Sudha Chandran	Mayuri	Actress
1989	Vinod Kumar [27]	Mouna Poratam	Actor	Debut in Telugu
	Yamuna [28]		Actress
1990	M. M. Keeravani [29]	Manasu Mamatha	Music Director
	Tarun Kumar		Child Actor
1991	Ashwini Nachappa	Aswini	Actress
	Srikanth [30]	People's Encounter	Actor
2000	Teja	Chitram	Director [31]
	Uday Kiran		Actor [31]
	Reemma Sen		Actress
	Saandip		Playback singer
	Chitram Srinu [32]		Actor
	Ravi Prakash	Subhavela
	Richa Pallod	Nuvve Kavali	Actress	Debut in Telugu
	Sai Kiran		Actor
2001	Rekha Vedavyas	Chitra	Actress
	Shriya Saran	Ishtam
2002	Jennifer Kotwal	Manasuvunte Chalu		Debut in Telugu
	Prakash Kovelamudi	Neetho	Actor
	Mahek Chahal		Actress
	Radhika Kumaraswamy	Ninagagi
2003	Riteish Deshmukh	Tujhe Meri Kasam	Actor
	Genelia D'Souza		Actress
2007	Prajwal Devaraj	Sixer	Actor
2008	Maadhavi Latha	Nachavule	Actress
2009	Chaitanya Krishna	Ninnu Kalisaka	Actor
	Dipa Shah		Actress
	Piaa Bajpai			Debut in Telugu
2011	Yami Gautam	Nuvvila
2015	Sara Arjun	Dagudumootha Dandakor	Child Actress
	Surabhi	Beeruva	Actress

Awards

Ceremony	Year	Category	Nominee	Result
National Film Awards	2000	Best Feature Film Telugu	Nuvve Kavali	Won
Filmfare Awards South	1985	Filmfare Award for Best Film – Telugu	Pratighatana	Won
	2000		Nuvve Kavali	Won
Nandi Awards [33]	1984	Best Feature Film - Silver	Kanchana Ganga	Won
	1985	Best Feature Film - Gold	Mayuri	Won
	1985	Second Best Story Writer Usha kiran Movies Unit	Mayuri	Won
	1989	Best Feature Film - Silver	Mouna Poratam	Won
	1991	Best Feature Film - Bronze	Aswini	Won
	1992	Best Children Film - Gold	Teja	Won

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