Actor · Telugu cinema
Harshvardhan Rane
Harshvardhan Rane movies: 12 Telugu films on file, 2010–2018. Earliest on file: Thakita Thakita (2010). Latest release: Kavacham (7 December 2018).
- Films on file
- 12 (12 as actor)
- Years on file
- 2010–2018
- Born
- 16 December 1983 · December birthdays (Wikidata)
- Selected films on file
- Anamika, Fidaa, Thakita Thakita
- Record
- Q16887684 on Wikidata
Harshvardhan Rane (born 16 December 1983) is an Indian actor who works mainly in Hindi and Telugu films. He made his screen debut in the Telugu film Thakita Thakita (2010) and appeared in Telugu successes such as Naa Ishtam (2012), Avunu (2012), Prema Ishq Kaadhal (2013) and Anaamika (2014) before moving to Hindi cinema with Sanam Teri Kasam (2016). He has since won praise for Taish (2020), Haseen Dillruba (2021) and the sleeper hit Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat (2025).
Early life
Rane was born in Rajamahendravaram to a Telugu mother and a Marathi father, Vivek Rane, a doctor in his hometown of Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. He grew up in Gwalior, moved to Delhi at 16 and later settled in Mumbai. He speaks English, Hindi, Telugu and Marathi.
Television and Telugu debut
His first acting job was on television, playing Cadet Rummy Gaur in the second season of the Hindi series Left Right Left in 2007. His film debut came in the Telugu film Thakita Thakita (2010), where he played a college student opposite Haripriya, and Rediff.com found him well suited to the part.
Telugu films
In 2012 he appeared opposite Genelia D’Souza in Naa Ishtam and played the lead opposite Poorna in Avunu, where a reviewer credited the film’s success to the two leads’ acting. He played a musician in Prema Ishq Kaadhal (2013).
2014 brought four releases: Anaamika, as a software engineer opposite Nayanthara; Maaya, as a fashion designer, a performance 123telugu called mature; Geethanjali, opposite Anjali; and a cameo in Brother of Bommali. In 2015 he returned as Harsha in Avunu 2 and had a cameo in Bengal Tiger. He also made cameos in Fidaa (2017), opposite Sai Pallavi, and as a kidnapper in Kavacham (2018).
Hindi films
His Hindi debut in Sanam Teri Kasam (2016), as a lawyer and former convict opposite Mawra Hocane, drew strong notices and a Stardust nomination for Superstar of Tomorrow – Male. He played Major Harbhajan Singh in J. P. Dutta’s Paltan (2018), a ruthless gangster in Taish (2020), released both as a film and a six-episode series, and an adventure lover opposite Taapsee Pannu in the Netflix film Haseen Dillruba (2021).
After Tara Vs Bilal (2022) and a year’s break, he appeared in Dange, Savi and The Miranda Brothers in 2024. In Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat (2025) he played a politician in love with an actress, opposite Sonam Bajwa; the film became a sleeper hit and a major commercial success.
Public image and charity
Rane has appeared on the Times 50 Most Desirable Men list every year from 2016 to 2020. He has raised money for the education of an orphaned girl through the ShirtOff Foundation by selling T-shirts he wore in his films, and in May 2021 he sold his motorbike to fund oxygen concentrators for COVID-19 patients. In 2022 he became the first Indian actor to own a campervan.
Career on file
Harshvardhan Rane appears in 12 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 2010 to 2018. The earliest of them is Thakita Thakita (2010), and the most recent release is Kavacham (2018). The most widely covered of these, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Anamika (2014), Fidaa (2017) and Thakita Thakita (2010). Other recent releases on file are Bengal Tiger (2015), Avunu 2 (2015) and Brother of Bommali (2014).
Brahmanandam is the most frequent co-star, sharing four films with Harshvardhan Rane, followed by Shamna Kasim (2). Among directors, Ravi Babu and Sekhar Kammula each cast Harshvardhan Rane in two films, more than any other director. Music on four of them is by Shekar Chandra. Flying Frogs produced two of them, more than any other banner on file. Across these films the credits on file name 10 different directors, 9 music directors and 27 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 8 of them; they average 131 minutes, and the longest is Bengal Tiger at 145 minutes. Two of them have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. 2014 is the busiest single year, with four films.
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.