Actor · Telugu cinema
Sanjjana
Sanjjana movies: 10 Telugu films on file, 2008–2017. Earliest on file: Bujjigadu (2008). Latest release: 2 Countries (29 December 2017).
- Films on file
- 10 (10 as actor)
- Years on file
- 2008–2017
- Born
- 10 October 1983 · October birthdays (Wikidata)
- Selected films on file
- Sardar Gabbar Singh, Bujjigadu, Avunu 2
- Record
- Q7418576 on Wikidata
Sanjjana (born Archana Manohar Galrani) is an Indian actress who works mainly in Kannada and Telugu films. After child roles, she had her first starring role in the Kannada film Ganda Hendathi (2006), gained attention in Telugu with a supporting part in Bujjigadu (2008), starring Prabhas, and played Chandri in the Kannada crime drama Dandupalya 2 (2017). In 2025 she was a contestant on the ninth season of the Telugu reality show Bigg Boss.
Early life
Sanjjana was born in Bangalore, the elder daughter of Manohar and Reshma Galrani. Her younger sister, Nikki Galrani, is also an actress. Before films she appeared in advertisements, including one for Fastrack with John Abraham.
Early films
She had child roles in Soggadu and Panduranga Vittala before her first lead. Her first release as a lead was the Tamil film Oru Kadhal Seiveer, credited under her birth name; The Hindu’s reviewer felt she needed to work on her acting. Ganda Hendathi, a Kannada remake of the Hindi film Murder, followed, and it was also released in Telugu as Mogudu Pellam O Boy Friend. Sify called it a decent and daring debut.
Telugu and Kannada work
Her official Telugu debut came in Puri Jagannadh‘s Bujjigadu (2008), alongside Prabhas and Trisha. Though a supporting part, it brought her considerable attention. In 2010 she appeared in the Telugu film Police Police and in Mylari, opposite Shivrajkumar, as a journalist; that film’s success brought her more Kannada offers. She won the Bangalore Times award for Best Actor in a Negative Role (Female) for I Am Sorry Mathe Banni Preethsona.
In 2013 she appeared in the Telugu film Jagan Nirdoshi, made under Padmalaya Films, and in Mahanadhi, her first heroine-centric Kannada film.
Malayalam films
In January 2012 she had one of the lead roles in her first Malayalam film, Casanova, with Mohanlal and Shriya Saran, playing a salsa dancer; director Rosshan Andrrews cast her because she was trained in salsa. She followed it with Shaji Kailas’s The King & the Commissioner, with Mammootty and Suresh Gopi.
Television and other work
Sanjjana has appeared on several reality and game shows, including the first season of Bigg Boss Kannada, Sixth Sense in Kannada and Telugu, and the Hindi show Mujhse Shaadi Karoge, as well as the Telugu soap Ye Devi Varamo Neevu. She has acted in the Telugu web series Shit Happens (2020). In 2015 she entered the Limca Book of World Records by cycling for 104 hours.
She married Azeez Pasha, a Bangalore-based cardiovascular surgeon, in February 2021, and they have two children.
Career on file
Sanjjana appears in 10 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 2008 to 2017. The earliest of them is Bujjigadu (2008), and the most recent release is 2 Countries (2017). The most widely covered of these, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Sardar Gabbar Singh (2016), Bujjigadu (2008) and Avunu 2 (2015). Other recent releases on file are Love You Bangaram (2014), Pattudhala (2013) and Yamaho Yama (2012).
Brahmanandam is the most frequent co-star, sharing three films with Sanjjana. Suresh Productions produced three of them, more than any other banner on file. Across these films the credits on file name 10 different directors, 13 music directors and 29 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 6 of them; they average 139 minutes, and the longest is Sardar Gabbar Singh at 164 minutes. By decade the list splits into 2000s (2) and 2010s (8).
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.