Actor · Telugu cinema
Rakul Preet Singh
Rakul Preet Singh movies: 18 Telugu films on file, 2013–2021. Earliest on file: Venkatadri Express (2013). Latest release: Konda Polam (8 October 2021).
- Films on file
- 18 (18 as actor)
- Years on file
- 2013–2021
- Born
- 10 October 1990 · October birthdays (Wikidata)
- Selected films on file
- Sarainodu, Manmadhudu 2, Spyder
- Record
- Q7286816 on Wikidata
Rakul Preet Singh is an Indian actress who works mainly in Telugu, Hindi and Tamil films. She was one of Telugu cinema’s busiest leading actresses in the mid-2010s, with Nannaku Prematho, Sarainodu and Dhruva (all 2016). She has won a SIIMA Award and received four Filmfare Awards South nominations.
She was born on 10 October 1990 in New Delhi, according to Wikipedia, citing Outlook India, and Wikidata. Her father was an Indian Army officer. She went to school at Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan, and took a mathematics degree from Jesus and Mary College, Delhi. She began modelling at 18.
Career
She made her debut in the Kannada film Gilli (2009), a remake of 7G Rainbow Colony, and appeared in the Telugu-Tamil Keratam (2011). Venkatadri Express (2013) brought her first Filmfare nomination for Best Actress – Telugu. After the Hindi Yaariyan (2014), she starred in Sriwass’s Loukyam, which brought a second Filmfare nomination, and G. Nageswara Reddy’s Current Theega, both 2014. Rough followed the same year, and Gopichand Malineni’s Pandaga Chesko (2015), opposite Ram Pothineni, was a commercial success.
She then led a run of high-profile Telugu films: Surender Reddy’s Kick 2 with Ravi Teja and Srinu Vaitla’s Bruce Lee – The Fighter with Ram Charan (2015). In 2016 came Sukumar’s Nannaku Prematho with N. T. Rama Rao Jr., which won her the SIIMA Award for Best Actress – Telugu, Boyapati Srinu’s Sarainodu with Allu Arjun, and Dhruva. In 2017 she starred in Winner, Rarandoi Veduka Chudham, which brought a fourth Filmfare nomination, Jaya Janaki Nayaka and A. R. Murugadoss’s bilingual Spyder with Mahesh Babu.
In 2019 she played Sridevi in a guest role in N.T.R: Kathanayukudu and starred in Manmadhudu 2, while also appearing in Hindi and Tamil films such as De De Pyaar De and NGK. In 2021 she starred in Chandra Sekhar Yeleti’s Check and Krish’s Konda Polam, where The Times of India called her “a delight”. Her recent films are mostly in Hindi and Tamil, including Indian 2 and Ayalaan (2024). Wikipedia reports she will play Shurpanakha in Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana.
Awards
- SIIMA Award for Best Actress – Telugu for Nannaku Prematho (Wikipedia winners list).
- Four nominations for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu, for Venkatadri Express, Loukyam, Nannaku Prematho and Rarandoi Veduka Chudham (Filmfare).
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
- Check: Sun NXT, from 14 May 2021
- N.T.R: Kathanayukudu: Prime Video, from 8 February 2019, per Wikipedia (OTT details)
- Rough: Aha, from Aha’s listing (OTT details)
- Digital rights only, no streaming date on file: Konda Polam (Prime Video), Nannaku Prematho and Kick 2 (Sun NXT), per Wikipedia
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Personal life
She married the actor and producer Jackky Bhagnani in Goa on 21 February 2024 (Hindustan Times).
Sources: Wikipedia and the references it cites (linked above), Wikidata, and Tollywood Desk’s film, release and OTT records.
Career on file
Rakul Preet Singh appears in 18 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 2013 to 2021. The earliest of them is Venkatadri Express (2013), and the most recent release is Konda Polam (2021). The most widely covered of these, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Sarainodu (2016), Manmadhudu 2 (2019) and Spyder (2017). Other recent releases on file are Check (2021), N.T.R: Kathanayukudu (2019) and Jaya Janaki Nayaka (2017).
Jagapati Babu is the most frequent co-star, sharing five films with Rakul Preet Singh, followed by Brahmanandam (4) and Sampath Raj (3). Music on five of them is by S. Thaman, with Devi Sri Prasad (3) and M. M. Keeravani (2) next. Across these films the credits on file name 14 different directors, 11 music directors and 46 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 17 of them; they average 153 minutes, and the longest is N.T.R: Kathanayukudu at 171 minutes. 11 of them have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. By decade the list splits into 2010s (16) and 2020s (2). 2017 is the busiest single year, with four films.
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.