Producer, writer and director · Telugu cinema

A. M. Rathnam

A. M. Rathnam movies: 11 Telugu films on file (11 as producer, 3 as writer, 2 as director), 1990–2025. Earliest on file: Kartavyam (1990). Latest release: Hari Hara Veera Mallu (24 July 2025).

Films on file
11 (11 as producer, 3 as writer, 2 as director)
Years on file
1990–2025
Selected films on file
Hari Hara Veera Mallu, Kartavyam, Bangaram
Record
Q4648138 on Wikidata

Career on file

A. M. Rathnam has 11 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 1990 to 2025: 11 films as producer, three films as writer and two films as director. The earliest of them is Kartavyam (1990), and the most recent release is Hari Hara Veera Mallu (2025). The most widely covered of these, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Hari Hara Veera Mallu (2025), Kartavyam (1990) and Bangaram (2006). Other recent releases on file are Oxygen (2017), Nee Manasu Naaku Telusu (2003) and Naaga (2003).

Music on three of them is by Raj-Koti, with Vidyasagar (2) next. Sri Surya Movies produced six of them, more than any other banner on file. Across these films the credits on file name 8 different directors, 8 music directors and 49 other credited actors.

Runtime is on file for 10 of them; they average 157 minutes, and the longest is Kushi at 177 minutes. Two of them have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. By decade the list splits into 1990s (5), 2000s (4), 2010s (1) and 2020s (1).

Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.

Films produced (11)

Writing credits (writer or screenplay) (3)

Films directed (2)

Music directors on their films

  1. Raj-Koti 3 films
  2. Vidyasagar 2 films
  3. M. M. Keeravani 1 film
  4. Yuvan Shankar Raja 1 film
  5. A. R. Rahman 1 film
  6. Mani Sharma 1 film
  7. S. A. Rajkumar 1 film
  8. Koti 1 film