Actor and producer · Telugu cinema
Raadhika Sarathkumar
Raadhika Sarathkumar movies: 60 Telugu films on file (59 as actor, 1 as producer), 1980–2026. Earliest on file: Yuvatharam Kadilindi (1980). Latest release: Comrade Kalyan (9 October 2026).
- Films on file
- 60 (59 as actor, 1 as producer)
- Years on file
- 1980–2026
- Born
- 21 August 1962 · August birthdays (Wikidata)
- Selected films on file
- Swati Mutyam, Aadavaallu Meeku Johaarlu, Abhilasha
- Record
- Q3522039 on Wikidata
Raadhika Sarathkumar, also spelt Radikaa, is an Indian actress, film producer, director and politician who works mainly in Tamil and Telugu cinema and television, and who has also acted in Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada films. Her awards include a National Film Award, two Nandi Awards, three Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards South. Alongside her screen career she runs the television production company Radaan Mediaworks.
Family background
Raadhika is the daughter of the actor M. R. Radha and Geetha. Her father was a Telugu from Chennai and her mother a Sinhalese from Wennappuwa in Sri Lanka. She was educated in India and Sri Lanka and began a course in London that she did not complete. Her younger sister, Nirosha, is also an actress, and she has two younger brothers, Raju and Mohan, as well as two half-brothers, Radha Ravi and M. R. R. Vasu.
Film debut
She came into films after a chance meeting with the director Bharathiraja, who launched her in the Tamil film Kizhakke Pogum Rail (1978). From there she went on to act in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi and Malayalam films, and through the late 1970s and all of the 1980s she was one of the busiest leading ladies in South Indian cinema.
Awards and producing
She won the Best Telugu Actress award for Nyayam Kavali (1981), and Best Tamil Actress awards for Dharma Devathai (1986), Neethikku Thandanai (1987) and Keladi Kanmani (1990). She also moved into production early: Meendum Oru Kaathal Kathai (1985), which she produced, won the Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director.
With her husband-to-be, the actor R. Sarathkumar, she was paired in Namma Annachi (1994) and Suryavamsam (1997). In September 2019 she was honoured with the title “Nadigavel Selvi” at the audio launch of Market Raja MBBS.
Television
In 1994 she founded Radaan Mediaworks to produce for television, and she both produced and starred in several hit serials under the banner. Its productions include the Telugu serial Idi Katha Kadu as well as Chitti, Annamalai, Selvi, Arasi, Chellamay, Vani Rani, Thamarai and Chithi 2. She also served as a judge on the fourth season of Vijay TV’s Jodi Number One.
Politics
She joined the AIADMK with Sarathkumar ahead of the 2006 Assembly elections and was expelled from the party in October 2006. She later served as vice-president of the All India Samathuva Makkal Katchi before resigning. In the 2024 general election she stood as the BJP candidate in Virudhunagar and finished third.
Personal life
Raadhika married Sarathkumar on 4 February 2001; the two had been friends for years before. They have a son, Rahul, born in 2004. She also has a daughter, Rayanne, who married the cricketer Abhimanyu Mithun in 2016.
Sources: Wikipedia and Wikidata.
Raadhika Sarathkumar: quick facts
- Also spelt: Radikaa Sarathkumar (Wikipedia)
- First film: The Tamil film Kizhakke Pogum Rail (1978), directed by Bharathiraja (Wikipedia)
- Telugu awards: Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu for Nyayam Kavali (1981) (Wikipedia list); Nandi Award for Best Supporting Actress for Karthika Purnima (1987) and Prema Katha (1999) (Wikipedia list)
- Other honours: Wikipedia lists a National Film Award, two Nandi Awards, three Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards South (Wikipedia)
- Television: She produced serials including Idi Katha Kadu (Telugu), Chithi and Selvi (Wikipedia)
- Husband: Actor R. Sarathkumar, whom she married on 4 February 2001 (Wikipedia); see R. Sarathkumar
More Raadhika Sarathkumar Telugu films listed on TMDB
These Telugu-language films are credited to Raadhika Sarathkumar 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Priya | Cast |
| 1982 | Eenadu | Cast |
| 1987 | Ummadi Mogudu | Cast |
| 1987 | Karthika Pournami | Cast |
| 1990 | Idem Pellam Baboi | Cast |
Career on file
Raadhika Sarathkumar has 60 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 1980 to 2026: 59 films as actor and one film as producer. The earliest of them is Yuvatharam Kadilindi (1980), and the most recent release is Comrade Kalyan (2026). The most widely covered of these, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Swati Mutyam (1986), Aadavaallu Meeku Johaarlu (2022) and Abhilasha (1983). Other recent releases on file are S Saraswathi (2026), Meghalu Cheppina Prema Katha (2025) and Operation Raavan (2024).
Chiranjeevi is the most frequent co-star, sharing 21 films with Raadhika Sarathkumar, followed by Kaikala Satyanarayana (15) and Allu Rama Lingaiah (11). Among directors, A. Kodandarami Reddy cast Raadhika Sarathkumar most often, in eight films; next are Dasari Narayana Rao (5) and Kodi Ramakrishna (3). Music on 18 of them is by K. Chakravarthy, with Ilaiyaraaja (4) and K. V. Mahadevan (4) next. Across these films the credits on file name 43 different directors, 30 music directors and 109 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 25 of them; they average 144 minutes, and the longest is Aranyakanda at 170 minutes. Seven of them have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. By decade the list splits into 1980s (42), 1990s (8), 2000s (2), 2010s (1) and 2020s (7). 1983 is the busiest single year, with ten films.
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.