Actor and producer · Telugu cinema
Charmy Kaur
Charmy Kaur movies: 36 Telugu films on file (30 as actor, 7 as producer), 2002–2024. Earliest on file: Nee Thodu Kavali (2002). Latest release: Double iSmart (15 August 2024).
- Films on file
- 36 (30 as actor, 7 as producer)
- Years on file
- 2002–2024
- Born
- 17 May 1987 · May birthdays (Wikidata)
- Selected films on file
- Liger, ISmart Shankar, Bhale Dongalu
- Record
- Q3595538 on Wikidata
Charmy Kaur (born 17 May 1987), whose name is also spelt Charmme or Charmi, is an Indian film producer and former actress. She worked mainly in Telugu cinema, with a few films in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi, and her better-known films include Mass (2004), Anukokunda Oka Roju (2005), Lakshmi (2006), Pournami (2006) and Rakhi (2006). She has won two Nandi Awards. Since 2019 she has worked only as a producer, chiefly with director Puri Jagannadh.
Early films
Charmy made her acting debut at the age of 15 in the Telugu film Nee Thodu Kavali (2002), playing a housewife. The film failed commercially but brought her to the notice of the South Indian film industry. She then acted in T. Rajendar’s Tamil film Kadhal Azhivathillai, alongside Silambarasan, and around the same time in Kattuchembakam, a Malayalam film directed by Vinayan.
Return to Telugu
She came back to Telugu films with Neeke Manasichaanu, followed by Krishna Vamsi‘s Sri Anjaneyam and the drama Chanti, in which she was paired with Ravi Teja. Her big break in Telugu came with Gowri, opposite Sumanth. She was paired with Ravi Teja again in Ram Gopal Varma‘s Dongala Mutha.
Awards and notable roles
Anukokunda Oka Roju won her the Santosham Best Actress Award in 2005. Her performance in Mantra (2007) earned her the Nandi Award for Best Actress, and Mangala (2011) brought her a Nandi Special Jury Award. In between she appeared in Manorama (2009) and Kavya’s Diary (2009). She also acted alongside Amitabh Bachchan in the Hindi film Bbuddah… Hoga Terra Baap.
Later acting work
She made special appearances in films including Dhamarukam, Naayak and Yaare Koogadali, and appeared in the Hindi films Zila Ghaziabad and R… Rajkumar. She produced and starred in Jyothi Lakshmi (2015), directed by Puri Jagannadh. Her next film, Pratighatana, in which she played a journalist, was her 50th.
Producer with Puri Connects
Charmy went on to co-produce Rogue, a Telugu–Kannada bilingual that introduced the actor Ishan, and Paisa Vasool, starring Nandamuri Balakrishna. Like Jyothi Lakshmi, both were directed by Puri Jagannadh, who founded Puri Connects, a production house that also handles events, marketing, design and talent management. Under the Puri Connects banner she co-produced Mehbooba with Puri, who directed the film and co-produced it through Puri Jagannadh Touring Talkies to launch his son Akash Puri.
In May 2019 she announced that she had given up acting and would continue working as a film producer.
Career on file
Charmy Kaur has 36 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 2002 to 2024: 30 films as actor and seven films as producer. The earliest of them is Nee Thodu Kavali (2002), and the most recent release is Double iSmart (2024). The most widely covered of these, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Liger (2022), ISmart Shankar (2019) and Bhale Dongalu (2008). Other recent releases on file are Romantic (2021), Mehbooba (2018) and Paisa Vasool (2017).
Brahmanandam is the most frequent co-star, sharing 14 films with Charmy Kaur, followed by Kota Srinivasa Rao (7) and Chandra Mohan (7). Among directors, Krishna Vamsi cast Charmy Kaur most often, in four films; next are Raghava Lawrence (2) and V. V. Vinayak (2). Music on five of them is by Mani Sharma, with Devi Sri Prasad (4) and Chakri (3) next. Puri Connects produced four of them, more than any other banner on file. Across these films the credits on file name 27 different directors, 26 music directors and 81 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 25 of them; they average 152 minutes, and the longest is Prema Oka Maikam at 174 minutes. Six of them have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. By decade the list splits into 2000s (22), 2010s (11) and 2020s (3). 2006 is the busiest single year, with six films.
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.