Actor and producer · Telugu cinema
Nikhil Siddharth
Nikhil Siddharth movies: 16 Telugu films on file (16 as actor, 1 as producer), 2007–2024. Earliest on file: Happy Days (2007). Latest release: Appudo Ippudo Eppudo (8 November 2024).
- Films on file
- 16 (16 as actor, 1 as producer)
- Years on file
- 2007–2024
- Born
- 1 June 1985 · June birthdays (Wikidata)
- Selected films on file
- 18 Pages, Karthikeya 2, Karthikeya
- Record
- Q7034884 on Wikidata
Nikhil Siddhartha (born 1 June 1985) is an Indian actor and producer who works mainly in Telugu cinema. After supporting roles, he broke through as one of the four leads in Sekhar Kammula‘s Happy Days (2007), and has since become known for thrillers and mystery dramas such as Swamy Ra Ra (2013), Karthikeya (2014) and Karthikeya 2 (2022), which established him as one of Telugu cinema’s most bankable young stars.
Early life
Nikhil was born in Begumpet, Hyderabad; his father, Kavali Shyam Siddhartha, came from Mahbubnagar. At Hyderabad Public School his classmates included Rana Daggubati, Ram Charan and Sharwanand. He graduated from Muffakham Jah College of Engineering and Technology.
Happy Days
He started as an assistant director on Hyderabad Nawabs (2006) and played small parts, including in Sambaram (2003), before Sekhar Kammula cast him as one of the four leads in Happy Days. He was paid ₹25,000 for the role and has kept the cheque. The low-budget film was one of the most successful of 2007.
Distinct scripts
His first solo lead was Ankit, Pallavi & Friends (2008), followed by films such as Yuvatha (2008) and Aalasyam Amrutham (2010). Swamy Ra Ra (2013) was a commercial success and marked a shift towards distinctive scripts. Karthikeya (2014) was a critical and commercial success; the source says it was made for ₹4–6 crore and collected more than ₹20 crore. He reunited with Sudheer Varma for the revenge drama Keshava (2017), playing a man with dextrocardia, and his performance was praised.
Later films
Other successes include Surya vs Surya (2015) and Ekkadiki Pothavu Chinnavada (2016). The campus film Kirrak Party (2018), a remake of the Kannada Kirik Party, underperformed, but Arjun Suravaram (2019) was a success. With Karthikeya 2 (2022) he entered the ₹100 crore club, and he has since worked on the pan-Indian film Spy (2023).
Personal life and media
Nikhil married Pallavi Varma on 14 May 2020, and they have one child. He ranked 28th in 2018, 22nd in 2019 and 19th in 2020 on the Hyderabad Times list of the 30 Most Desirable Men.
Career on file
Nikhil Siddharth has 16 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 2007 to 2024: 16 films as actor and one film as producer. The earliest of them is Happy Days (2007), and the most recent release is Appudo Ippudo Eppudo (2024). The most widely covered of these, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are 18 Pages (2022), Karthikeya 2 (2022) and Karthikeya (2014). Other recent releases on file are Kirrak Party (2018), Keshava (2017) and Ekkadiki Pothavu Chinnavada (2016).
Among directors, Sudheer Varma cast Nikhil Siddharth most often, in three films; next is Chandoo Mondeti (2). Music on three of them is by Sunny M. R., with Shekar Chandra (2) next. Abhishek Agarwal Arts produced two of them, more than any other banner on file. Across these films the credits on file name 13 different directors, 15 music directors and 34 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 11 of them; they average 135 minutes, and the longest is Happy Days at 160 minutes. Seven of them have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. By decade the list splits into 2000s (3), 2010s (10) and 2020s (3). 2010 is the busiest single year, with three films.
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.