Telugu movies of 1969

Tollywood Desk lists 24 Telugu films dated 1969; 22 have an exact release date on file and 2 are known only by year or month. October and March were the busiest months, with 3 releases each. The most widely covered films of the year, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Aggi Veerudu, Mathru Devata and Sipayi Chinnayya. The first dated release of the year on file is Adrushtavanthalu (3 January 1969) and the last is Bhale Tammudu (18 November 1969).

21 directors are credited on these films. V. Madhusudhan Rao has the most, with three films, followed by Kovelamudi Surya Prakash Rao (2) and B. Vittalacharya (2). On music, Thotakura Venkata Raju scored nine films of the year, ahead of K. V. Mahadevan (5) and S. Rajeswara Rao (3). N. T. Rama Rao appears in ten films dated 1969, the most of any actor on file, followed by Akkineni Nageswara Rao (8) and Gummadi Venkateswara Rao (8). The credits on file for the year name 9 music directors and 35 credited actors.

Of the 17 films with a runtime on file, the longest is Nindu Hrudayalu at 188 minutes and the shortest is Aggi Veerudu at 124 minutes. That is the same number as 1968, which has 24 films on file.

Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.