Actor · Telugu cinema
Shriya Saran
Shriya Saran movies: 40 Telugu films on file, 2001–2025. Earliest on file: Ishtam (2001). Latest release: Mirai (12 September 2025).
- Films on file
- 40 (40 as actor)
- Years on file
- 2001–2025
- Born
- 11 September 1982 · September birthdays (Wikidata)
- Selected films on file
- RRR, Gopala Gopala, Manam
- Record
- Q292943 on Wikidata
Shriya Saran (Shriya Saran Bhatnagar) is an Indian actress who works in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films. She trained as a dancer and made her film debut in the Telugu film Ishtam (2001). Her Telugu films range from Santosham and Chhatrapati to Manam, Gautamiputra Satakarni and RRR. Her best-known film outside Telugu is Shankar’s Tamil blockbuster Sivaji (2007).
She was born on 11 September 1982, according to Wikipedia and Wikidata. Wikipedia gives her birthplace as Haridwar, now in Uttarakhand, while Wikidata’s preferred entry is Dehradun. She studied literature at Lady Shri Ram College in Delhi and trained in Kathak, partly under Shovana Narayan.
Career
A music video led Ramoji Films to cast her in Ishtam (2001). Santosham (2002), with Nagarjuna, was her first commercial success, and she also starred in Nuvve Nuvve and Chennakeshava Reddy (2002) and Ela Cheppanu (2003). In 2003 she was one of the female leads in Tagore with Chiranjeevi, a commercial success, and she made her Hindi debut in Tujhe Meri Kasam. Nenunnanu (2004) followed. She had nine Telugu releases in 2005, the most notable being S. S. Rajamouli’s Chhatrapati with Prabhas, which brought her first Filmfare nomination for Best Actress – Telugu. She also appeared in Munna (2007).
She played the female lead opposite Rajinikanth in Sivaji: The Boss (2007), then the most expensive Indian film, and earned praise for the Indo-Pakistani Hindi film Awarapan (2007). She made her American debut in The Other End of the Line (2008) and her Malayalam debut in Pokkiri Raja (2010). Her Telugu work of this period includes Nuvva Nena and Sekhar Kammula’s Life Is Beautiful (both 2012), and Pavitra (2013). She also appeared in Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children.
Vikram Kumar’s family drama Manam (2014) was a success and won her the SIIMA Award for Best Supporting Actress – Telugu. She followed it with Gopala Gopala (2015), Oopiri (2016), and Krish’s historical Gautamiputra Satakarni (2017) with Nandamuri Balakrishna. Her later Telugu films include Paisa Vasool and Nakshatram (2017), Gayatri (2018), N.T.R: Kathanayukudu (2019), RRR (2022) and Mirai (2025). In Hindi she appeared in Drishyam (2015) and Drishyam 2.
Awards
- SIIMA Award for Best Supporting Actress – Telugu for Manam (Wikipedia winners list).
- Best Actress at the International Tamil Film Awards, according to Wikipedia.
- A Filmfare nomination for Best Actress – Telugu for Chhatrapati.
Upcoming films
No upcoming Telugu film is on our records for her. New films appear on upcoming Telugu movies as they are recorded.
Where to watch her films
- Mirai: JioHotstar, from 10 October 2025, per Wikipedia (OTT details)
- RRR: ZEE5, from 20 May 2022, per Wikipedia (OTT details)
- N.T.R: Kathanayukudu: Prime Video, from 8 February 2019, per Wikipedia (OTT details)
- Life Is Beautiful: Aha, from Aha’s listing (OTT details)
- Nuvva Nena: Disney+ Hotstar, per Wikipedia; no start date on file (OTT details)
Catalogues change; check the platform before you plan to watch.
Personal life
She married Andrei Koscheev in Mumbai on 19 March 2018, according to Wikipedia, citing Bollywood Hungama; they have a daughter.
Sources: Wikipedia and the references it cites (linked above), Wikidata, and Tollywood Desk’s film, release and OTT records.
Career on file
Shriya Saran appears in 40 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 2001 to 2025. The earliest of them is Ishtam (2001), and the most recent release is Mirai (2025). Measured by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them, the best-known titles here are RRR (2022), Gopala Gopala (2015) and Manam (2014). Other recent releases on file are Gamanam (2021), N.T.R: Kathanayukudu (2019) and Gayatri (2018).
Brahmanandam is the most frequent co-star, sharing 15 films with Shriya Saran, followed by Prakash Raj (8) and Kota Srinivasa Rao (8). Music on seven of them is by Mani Sharma, with M. M. Keeravani (4) and Anoop Rubens (3) next. Suresh Productions produced three of them, more than any other banner on file. Across these films the credits on file name 35 different directors, 22 music directors and 111 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 33 of them; they average 157 minutes, and the longest is RRR at 182 minutes. Ten of them have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. By decade the list splits into 2000s (24), 2010s (13) and 2020s (3). 2005 is the busiest single year, with eight films.
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.