Actor · Telugu cinema

Anjali

Anjali movies: 12 Telugu films on file, 2013–2025. Earliest on file: Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu (2013). Latest release: Game Changer (10 January 2025).

Anjali
Photo: Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Films on file
12 (12 as actor)
Years on file
2013–2025
Born
11 September 1986 · September birthdays (Wikidata)
Selected films on file
Game Changer, Sarainodu, Vakeel Saab
Record
Q277703 on Wikidata

Anjali is an Indian actress from Andhra Pradesh who works mainly in Tamil and Telugu films. She won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil for Angadi Theru (2010) and Engaeyum Eppothum (2011), and the Nandi Award for Best Actress for the Telugu horror-comedy Geethanjali (2014).

Wikipedia says she was born on 16 June 1986 in Razole, East Godavari district, into a Telugu family, citing The Times of India. Wikidata gives a different date, 11 September 1986, citing a Czech film database. She went to school in Razole and later moved to Chennai, where she studied mathematics.

Career

After modelling, she was spotted by director Siva Nageswara Rao, who cast her in the Telugu thriller Photo (2006). Her breakthrough was Ram’s Tamil film Kattradhu Thamizh (2007). As Kani, a sales girl in a Chennai textile showroom, in Vasanthabalan’s Angadi Theru she won critical praise and her first Filmfare award, followed by a second for Engaeyum Eppothum. She also made her Malayalam debut in Payyans (2011).

Her Telugu career grew in 2013 with the multi-starrer Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu, with Venkatesh, Mahesh Babu and Samantha, in which she played Seetha and won a Nandi Special Jury Award. The same year she starred in Gopichand Malineni’s Balupu opposite Ravi Teja and in Masala, a remake of Bol Bachchan, again with Venkatesh. Geethanjali (2014) brought her the Nandi Award for Best Actress.

She starred in Dictator (2016) with Nandamuri Balakrishna, and her other Telugu films on our records include Sarainodu (2016) and the thriller Chitrangada (2017). In Venu Sriram’s Vakeel Saab (2021) she played Zarina. Her recent Telugu films are Geethanjali Malli Vachindi (2024), Gangs of Godavari (2024) and Game Changer (2025). In Tamil, the long-delayed Madha Gaja Raja, with Vishal, was released in 2025.

Awards

  • Nandi Award for Best Actress for Geethanjali (The Indian Express), and a Nandi Special Jury Award for Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu, per Wikipedia.
  • Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil for Angadi Theru and Engaeyum Eppothum, and a Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Angadi Theru, per Wikipedia.
  • Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress – Telugu for Gangs of Godavari, per Wikipedia’s awards table.

Upcoming films

No upcoming Telugu film of hers is on our records. New films appear on upcoming Telugu movies as they are recorded.

Where to watch her films

  • Game Changer: Prime Video, from 7 February 2025, per Wikipedia (OTT details)
  • Gangs of Godavari: Netflix, from 14 June 2024, per Wikipedia (OTT details)
  • Geethanjali Malli Vachindi: Aha and Prime Video, from 8 May 2024, per Wikipedia (OTT details)
  • Vakeel Saab: Prime Video, from 30 April 2021, per Wikipedia (OTT details)
  • Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu: Prime Video, Disney+ Hotstar, Aha and ETV Win, per Wikipedia (OTT details)

Catalogues change; check the platform before you plan to watch.

Sources: Wikipedia and the references it cites (linked above), Wikidata, and Tollywood Desk’s film, release and OTT records.

Career on file

Anjali appears in 12 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 2013 to 2025. The earliest of them is Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu (2013), and the most recent release is Game Changer (2025). Measured by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them, the best-known titles here are Game Changer (2025), Sarainodu (2016) and Vakeel Saab (2021). Other recent releases on file are Gangs of Godavari (2024), Geethanjali Malli Vachindi (2024) and Macherla Niyojakavargam (2022).

Prakash Raj and Brahmanandam are the most frequent co-stars, each sharing three films with Anjali, followed by Shruti Haasan (2) and Catherine Tresa (2). Music on five of them is by S. Thaman. Sri Venkateswara Creations produced three of them, more than any other banner on file. Across these films the credits on file name 12 different directors, 8 music directors and 38 other credited actors.

Runtime is on file for 11 of them; they average 152 minutes, and the longest is Game Changer at 165 minutes. Eight of them have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. By decade the list splits into 2010s (7) and 2020s (5). 2013 is the busiest single year, with three films.

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

Filmography as actor (12)

Awards (2)

All awards
YearAwardCategoryFilm
2024FilmfareBest Supporting ActressGangs of Godavari
2014NandiBest ActressGeethanjali

Wins in the Nandi, Filmfare South (Telugu), SIIMA (Telugu) and National Film Awards, from Wikipedia’s award lists, matched to Anjali by Wikidata ID. Other awards are not included.

Frequent co-stars

Directors worked with

  1. S. Shankar 1 film
  2. Krishna Chaitanya 1 film
  3. Siva Turlapati 1 film
  4. M. S. Rajashekhar Reddy 1 film
  5. Venu Sree Raam 1 film
  6. G. Ashok 1 film
  7. Boyapati Srinu 1 film
  8. Sriwass 1 film

Music directors on their films

  1. S. Thaman 5 films
  2. Thaman S 1 film
  3. Yuvan Shankar Raja 1 film
  4. Pravin Lakkaraju 1 film
  5. Mahati Swara Sagar 1 film
  6. V. Selvaganesh 1 film
  7. Praveen Lakkaraju 1 film
  8. Mickey J. Meyer 1 film

Anjali movies together with