Actor · Telugu cinema
Bobby Simha
Bobby Simha movies: 9 Telugu films on file, 2012–2024. Earliest on file: Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi (2012). Latest release: Razakar: The Silent Genocide of Hyderabad (15 March 2024).
- Films on file
- 9 (9 as actor)
- Years on file
- 2012–2024
- Born
- 6 November 1983 · November birthdays (Wikidata)
- Selected films on file
- Salaar, Size Zero, Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi
- Record
- Q17090343 on Wikidata
Bobby Simha (born Jayasimha, 6 November 1983) is an Indian actor who works mainly in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films. After small parts in Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi and Pizza (2012), he drew notice as a kidnapper in Soodhu Kavvum and a comic villain in Neram, and won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing the Madurai gangster Assault Sethu in Karthik Subbaraj’s Jigarthanda (2014). In Telugu he played the villain in Waltair Veerayya (2023).
Early life
Simha was born into a Telugu family in Secunderabad. The family comes from Mopidevi in Krishna district, where he went to a Telugu-medium school, Priyadarshini Vidyalayam, before they moved to Kodaikanal in 1995. He attended Pioneer College of Arts and Science in Coimbatore. At a 2005 event in Coimbatore, Sundar C and E. Ramdoss suggested he try acting; he later moved to Chennai, supporting himself with jobs in marketing, insurance and outsourcing while he looked for roles.
Short films and early roles
After an uncredited role in Maya Kannadi (2007), he was given a small part by Balaji Mohan in Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi. Through the short-film maker Manikandan he met Karthik Subbaraj, and the two made several short films together before Subbaraj cast him in his feature debut, Pizza.
Jigarthanda
He played Pagalavan in Soodhu Kavvum (2013) and the antagonist in the bilingual Neram. For Jigarthanda, he met real gangsters to study their behaviour and tanned his skin in the midday sun. Critics called his performance menacing and funny by turns, and it won him the National Film Award, the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Tamil and a Tamil Nadu State Film Award Special Prize. Film Companion later listed it among the 100 greatest performances of the decade.
Lead and supporting roles
The success of Jigarthanda brought lead roles, though several did not do well. Urumeen (2015) was his first film as a solo action hero, and he also appeared in Bangalore Naatkal, Ko 2, Iraivi and Thiruttu Payale 2. He played the villain in Saamy Square (2018) and shared the screen with Rajinikanth in Petta (2019).
Telugu and recent work
In Telugu he played the antagonist opposite Ravi Teja in Disco Raja (2020), appeared in Edaina Jaragocchu and Ammu (2022), and played the villain opposite Chiranjeevi in Waltair Veerayya. He also appeared in Karthik Subbaraj’s Mahaan (2022), made a cameo in the Kannada film 777 Charlie, and played a CBI officer in S. Shankar‘s Indian 2 (2024).
He married his Urumeen co-star Reshmi Menon on 22 April 2016; they have a daughter and a son.
Sources: Wikipedia and Wikidata.
Bobby Simha: quick facts
- Real name: Jayasimha (Wikipedia)
- Born: 6 November 1983 in Secunderabad, into a Telugu family (Wikipedia)
- First film: An uncredited role in Maya Kannadi (2007), followed by brief appearances in Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi and Pizza (2012) (Wikipedia)
- Award: National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor, for Jigarthanda (Business Standard)
- Telugu films: Disco Raja (2020), as the antagonist; Ammu (2022); Waltair Veerayya (2023), as the villain opposite Chiranjeevi; and Salaar (2023) (Wikipedia)
More Bobby Simha Telugu films listed on TMDB
These Telugu-language films are credited to Bobby Simha on TMDB but are not yet part of the filmography table on this page. The credit column is TMDB’s own listing; check the film’s page for full details.
| Year | Film | Credit listed on TMDB |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Edaina Jaragocchu | as Kali |
Career on file
Bobby Simha appears in 9 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 2012 to 2024. The earliest of them is Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi (2012), and the most recent release is Razakar: The Silent Genocide of Hyderabad (2024). The most widely covered of these, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Salaar (2023), Size Zero (2015) and Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi (2012). Other recent releases on file are Waltair Veerayya (2023), Ammu (2022) and Gully Rowdy (2021).
Music on two of them is by S. Thaman. Across these films the credits on file name 9 different directors, 8 music directors and 33 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 6 of them; they average 144 minutes, and the longest is Salaar at 175 minutes. Four of them have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. By decade the list splits into 2010s (3) and 2020s (6).
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.