Actor, writer and director · Telugu cinema
Srinivas Avasarala
Srinivas Avasarala movies: 53 Telugu films on file (51 as actor, 3 as writer, 2 as director), 2008–2026. Earliest on file: Ashta Chamma (2008). Latest release: Korean Kanakaraju (7 August 2026).
- Films on file
- 53 (51 as actor, 3 as writer, 2 as director)
- Years on file
- 2008–2026
- Born
- 19 March 1984 · March birthdays (Wikidata)
- Selected films on file
- Kalki 2898 AD, Mahanati, A Aa - Anasuya Ramalingam Vs Anand Vihari
- Record
- Q7586442 on Wikidata
Srinivas Avasarala (born 19 March 1981) is an Indian actor, film director and screenwriter who works in Telugu cinema. He came to films after an engineering career abroad. He made his acting debut in Ashta Chamma and his directing debut with Oohalu Gusagusalade (2014). His awards include two Nandi Awards and a SIIMA Award.
Early life and education
Avasarala was born in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh. His father worked for Andhra Bank and was transferred often, so Avasarala went to school in four cities: Kakinada, Vijayawada, Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam. He earned a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from KL College of Engineering in Vijayawada. He then took a master’s in Mechanical Engineering at the University of North Dakota, focusing on finite element analysis. After that he worked at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. He also played racquetball competitively and represented India at the Racquetball Asian championships.
Training in film
Avasarala earned a screenwriting diploma from the University of California, Los Angeles. He also studied acting for a year at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City. He performed in theatre in New York and worked as an assistant director on a film called Blind Ambition. On television, he hosted the first season of the quiz show Champion on ETV Telugu.
Acting debut
His first film as an actor was Ashta Chamma, an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. He played Anand, the film’s version of Algernon from the play, and the role was widely praised by critics.
Directing and writing
Avasarala made his directing debut with the romantic comedy Oohalu Gusagusalade. He also acted in it as Uday Bhaskar, a role that won him the SIIMA Award for Best Supporting Actor (Telugu). The same film earned him a Nandi Special Jury Award. He later won the Nandi Award for Best Dialogue Writer for Jyo Achyutananda (2016).
Character roles
Alongside his own projects, Avasarala has taken character parts in other directors’ films, including Pilla Zamindar, Anthaka Mundu Aa Tarvatha and Kanche. Kanche won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu for its year.
Career on file
Srinivas Avasarala has 53 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 2008 to 2026: 51 films as actor, three films as writer and two films as director. The earliest of them is Ashta Chamma (2008), and the most recent release is Korean Kanakaraju (2026). The most widely covered of these, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Kalki 2898 AD (2024), Mahanati (2018) and A Aa - Anasuya Ramalingam Vs Anand Vihari (2016). Other recent releases on file are Newton's 3rd Law (2026), Papam Prathap (2026) and Mowgli (2025).
Nani and Eesha Rebba are the most frequent co-stars, each sharing five films with Srinivas Avasarala, followed by Tanikella Bharani (4) and Vennela Kishore (4). Among directors, Mohan Krishna Indraganti cast Srinivas Avasarala most often, in eight films; next are Nag Ashwin (4) and G. Ashok (2). Music on six of them is by Kalyan Malik, with Mani Sharma (4) and Vivek Sagar (4) next. Across these films the credits on file name 41 different directors, 39 music directors and 142 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 45 of them; they average 144 minutes, and the longest is Kalki 2898 AD at 181 minutes. 28 of them have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. By decade the list splits into 2000s (1), 2010s (36) and 2020s (16). 2017 is the busiest single year, with eight films.
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.