Actor · Telugu cinema
Harish Uthaman
Harish Uthaman movies: 20 Telugu films on file, 2014–2025. Earliest on file: Power (2014). Latest release: They Call Him OG (25 September 2025).
- Films on file
- 20 (20 as actor)
- Years on file
- 2014–2025
- Born
- 5 April 1982 · April birthdays (Wikidata)
- Selected films on file
- Pushpa: The Rise, Vinaya Vidheya Rama, Naa Peru Surya
- Record
- Q16222105 on Wikidata
Harish Uthaman (born 5 April 1982) is an Indian actor who works in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. After a lead debut in Tha (2010), he became known for villain roles in films such as Gouravam (2013), Pandiya Naadu (2013), Power (2014) and Srimanthudu (2015).
Early life
Harish was born in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, into a Malayali family. Before acting he worked as cabin crew for three years with Paramount Airways and three with British Airways, and then briefly at a commercials company in Chennai.
Debut
Director Suriya Prabhakaran cast him as the lead in the low-budget Tamil romance Tha (2010). He grew a beard for five months and darkened his skin for the part; the film went largely unnoticed, but critics found him apt, and at a Tamil film festival in Norway he won a Best Newcomer award and met the director Radha Mohan.
Villain and character roles
Radha Mohan cast him as a villain in the bilingual Gouravam, and his antagonist in Suseenthiran’s Pandiya Naadu won critical acclaim. He has since played many character and police roles alongside leading South Indian stars, including in the Telugu films Power and Srimanthudu. His villain in the Telugu film Naandhi (2021), with Allari Naresh, drew a strong response.
Recent work
He appeared in Suseenthiran’s Veerapandiyapuram and Kuttram Kuttrame (2022), led the thriller Noodles (2023), and appeared in the Malayalam anthology series Manorathangal and opposite Tovino Thomas in Ajayante Randam Moshanam (2024).
Personal life
In 2022 he married the Malayalam actress Chinnu Kuruvila.
Career on file
Harish Uthaman appears in 20 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 2014 to 2025. The earliest of them is Power (2014), and the most recent release is They Call Him OG (2025). The most widely covered of these, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Pushpa: The Rise (2021), Vinaya Vidheya Rama (2019) and Naa Peru Surya (2018). Other recent releases on file are Ramam Raghavam (2025), Naandhi (2021) and V (2020).
Allu Arjun, Brahmanandam and Mehreen Pirzada are the most frequent co-stars, each sharing three films with Harish Uthaman, followed by Nani (2) and Raashi Khanna (2). Among directors, Bobby Kolli cast Harish Uthaman most often, in two films. Music on five of them is by Devi Sri Prasad, with S. Thaman (4) next. Across these films the credits on file name 19 different directors, 13 music directors and 76 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 18 of them; they average 150 minutes, and the longest is Pushpa: The Rise at 179 minutes. Seven of them have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. By decade the list splits into 2010s (14) and 2020s (6). 2016 is the busiest single year, with four films.
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.