Actor · Telugu cinema
Pooja Hegde
Pooja Hegde movies: 13 Telugu films on file, 2014–2022. Earliest on file: Oka Laila Kosam (2014). Latest release: F3 (27 May 2022).
- Films on file
- 13 (13 as actor)
- Years on file
- 2014–2022
- Born
- 13 October 1990 · October birthdays (Wikidata)
- Selected films on file
- Radhe Shyam, Ala Vaikunthapurramloo, Rangasthalam
- Record
- Q7228519 on Wikidata
Pooja Hegde is an Indian actress who works mainly in Telugu, Hindi and Tamil films. She came to film from beauty pageants, finishing runner-up at Femina Miss India South 2010. Her Telugu career peaked with a run of hits: Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava (2018), Maharshi (2019), Ala Vaikunthapurramloo (2020) and Most Eligible Bachelor (2021). She has won four SIIMA Awards.
She was born on 13 October 1990, according to Wikipedia and Wikidata. She was raised in Mumbai in a Tulu-speaking family from Udupi, Karnataka.
Career
Mysskin cast her in the Tamil superhero film Mugamoodi (2012), which brought debut nominations at SIIMA and Filmfare. She entered Telugu cinema in 2014 with Vijay Kumar Konda’s romantic comedy Oka Laila Kosam, opposite Naga Chaitanya, learning Telugu for the role. Srikanth Addala’s Mukunda (2014) followed, and around then she received a Filmfare nomination for Best Actress – Telugu. Her Hindi debut was Ashutosh Gowariker’s Mohenjo Daro (2016), opposite Hrithik Roshan. Harish Shankar’s Duvvada Jagannadham (2017), with Allu Arjun, was a commercial success.
In 2018 she performed the song “Jigelu Rani” in Rangasthalam and starred in the fantasy action film Saakshyam. She also starred in Trivikram’s Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava with N. T. Rama Rao Jr. In 2019 she starred opposite Mahesh Babu in Vamshi Paidipally’s Maharshi, and in Harish Shankar’s Gaddalakonda Ganesh, a remake of Jigarthanda, with Varun Tej. She reunited with Allu Arjun and Trivikram in Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo (2020), playing the businesswoman Amulya. The film won her the SIIMA Award for Best Actress – Telugu, and Wikipedia ranks it among the highest-grossing Telugu films. Most Eligible Bachelor (2021), directed by Bhaskar, won her a second SIIMA Best Actress award.
In 2022 she starred opposite Prabhas in the period romance Radhe Shyam, played a role in Acharya and appeared in F3. Several poorly received films followed, including the Hindi Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan (2023) and Deva (2025). She found success again with Karthik Subbaraj’s Tamil film Retro (2025), opposite Suriya, and in 2026 she appeared in Jana Nayagan. She runs a foundation, All About Love, that supports education and healthcare for children.
Awards
- SIIMA Award for Best Actress – Telugu for Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo and Most Eligible Bachelor (Wikipedia winners list; The Hans India).
- Four SIIMA Awards in all and four Filmfare Awards South nominations, according to Wikipedia, including a Best Actress – Telugu nomination listed in Filmfare’s 62nd nominations.
Upcoming films
No upcoming Telugu film is on our records. Wikipedia lists Kanchana 4 and Sri Sri, with Dulquer Salmaan, as her next films. New Telugu films appear on upcoming Telugu movies as they are recorded.
Where to watch her films
- F3: SonyLIV and Netflix, from 22 July 2022, per Wikipedia (OTT details)
- Acharya: Prime Video, from 20 May 2022, per Wikipedia (OTT details)
- Radhe Shyam: Prime Video, from 1 April 2022, per Wikipedia (OTT details)
- Most Eligible Bachelor: Aha and Netflix, from 19 November 2021, per Wikipedia (OTT details)
- Ala Vaikunthapurramloo: Sun NXT, from 27 February 2020, per Wikipedia (OTT details)
- Gaddalakonda Ganesh: Disney+ Hotstar, from 4 November 2019, per Wikipedia (OTT details)
- Saakshyam: ZEE5, from 27 December 2018, per Wikipedia (OTT details)
- Rangasthalam: Prime Video, from 12 May 2018, 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
Pooja Hegde appears in 13 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 2014 to 2022. The earliest of them is Oka Laila Kosam (2014), and the most recent release is F3 (2022). The most widely covered of these, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Radhe Shyam (2022), Ala Vaikunthapurramloo (2020) and Rangasthalam (2018). Other recent releases on file are Acharya (2022), Most Eligible Bachelor (2021) and Gaddalakonda Ganesh (2019).
Jagapati Babu is the most frequent co-star, sharing five films with Pooja Hegde, followed by Murali Sharma (4) and Varun Tej (3). Among directors, Harish Shankar and Trivikram Srinivas each cast Pooja Hegde in two films, more than any other director. Music on four of them is by Devi Sri Prasad, with Mickey J. Meyer (2) and S. Thaman (2) next. Sri Venkateswara Creations produced three of them, more than any other banner on file. Across these films the credits on file name 11 different directors, 10 music directors and 54 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 13 of them; they average 158 minutes, and the longest is Maharshi at 178 minutes. Ten of them have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. By decade the list splits into 2010s (8) and 2020s (5).
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.