Actor · Telugu cinema
Aamani
Aamani movies: 45 Telugu films on file, 1992–2026. Earliest on file: Jamba Lakidi Pamba (1992). Latest release: Happy Journey (18 September 2026).
- Films on file
- 45 (45 as actor)
- Years on file
- 1992–2026
- Born
- 16 November 1973 · November birthdays (Wikidata)
- Selected films on file
- Hello Guru Prema Kosame, Aa Naluguru, Bharat Ane Nenu
- Record
- Q4661435 on Wikidata
Aamani (born Manjula, 16 November 1972) is an Indian actress and politician who works mainly in Telugu films, with a few in Tamil and Kannada. Her first lead role came in E. V. V. Satyanarayana’s Jamba Lakidi Pamba (1992), a blockbuster, and she went on to win two Nandi Awards and a Filmfare Award South.
Early life
Aamani was born and raised in Bangalore. Her father, Maadappa, was a Kannada film distributor and her mother, Saroja, a homemaker. She has a brother and a sister.
Career beginnings
She started with small roles in films such as Aadadhi and Chandamama Kathalu before Jamba Lakidi Pamba gave her a lead part. She went on to be paired with leading men including Vishnuvardhan, Nagarjuna, Balakrishna, Krishna, Mammootty, Arvind Swami, Jagapathi Babu and Kamal Haasan.
Acclaimed roles
Bapu’s Mister Pellam (1993), in which she starred, won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu. Her performances in Mister Pellam and Subha Sankalpam (1995) each won her the Nandi Award for Best Actress, and Subha Lagnam (1994) won her the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu. Her other successful films in the 1990s included Amma Donga, Vamshanikokkadu and Nakshatra Poratam.
Return to films
After a gap of many years she returned in Aa Naluguru (2004). In the 2021 romantic comedy-drama Chaavu Kaburu Challaga she played a street vendor and the mother of Kartikeya’s character, and she has played a money lender, Kanaka Ratnam, in Muthyamantha Muddu. She also made a guest appearance on the Telugu reality show Drama Juniors in 2021.
Politics
In December 2025 Aamani joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of the party’s Telangana state president, N. Ramchander Rao, and Union minister G. Kishan Reddy.
Career on file
Aamani appears in 45 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 1992 to 2026. The earliest of them is Jamba Lakidi Pamba (1992), and the most recent release is Happy Journey (2026). The most widely covered of these, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Hello Guru Prema Kosame (2018), Aa Naluguru (2004) and Bharat Ane Nenu (2018). Other recent releases on file are Oh..! Sukumari (2026), Trikala (2026) and Cheekatilo (2026).
Kota Srinivasa Rao is the most frequent co-star, sharing eight films with Aamani, followed by Brahmanandam (7) and Rajendra Prasad (5). Among directors, S. V. Krishna Reddy cast Aamani most often, in three films; next are Bapu (2) and E. V. V. Satyanarayana (2). GA2 Pictures produced three of them, more than any other banner on file. Across these films the credits on file name 41 different directors, 32 music directors and 122 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 30 of them; they average 137 minutes, and the longest is Bharat Ane Nenu at 173 minutes. 12 of them have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. By decade the list splits into 1990s (12), 2000s (2), 2010s (8) and 2020s (23). 2025 is the busiest single year, with eight films.
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.