Release year
Telugu movies of 1976
19 Telugu films on file with a 1976 release, listed month by month. Each film links to its cast, director and music.
Tollywood Desk lists 19 Telugu films dated 1976; 16 have an exact release date on file and 3 are known only by year or month. The most widely covered films of the year, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Anthuleni Katha, Seeta Kalyanam and Bhakta Kannappa. The first dated release of the year on file is Vemulawada Bheemakavi (8 January 1976) and the last is Siri Siri Muvva (24 December 1976).
On music, K. V. Mahadevan scored five films of the year, ahead of Chellapilla Satyam (2) and K. Chakravarthy (2). N. T. Rama Rao, Gummadi Venkateswara Rao and Kaikala Satyanarayana each appear in seven films dated 1976, the most of any actor on file, followed by Manjula Vijayakumar (5) and Allu Rama Lingaiah (5). The credits on file for the year name 12 music directors and 50 credited actors.
Of the 12 films with a runtime on file, the longest is Mahakavi Kshetrayya at 172 minutes and the shortest is Seeta Kalyanam at 125 minutes. That is 2 more than 1975, which has 17 films on file.
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.
Best-known 1976 films
Month by month
January 1976 · 2
February 1976 · 1
March 1976 · 1
April 1976 · 2
May 1976 · 2
June 1976 · 1
July 1976 · 1
August 1976 · 1
October 1976 · 2
November 1976 · 1
December 1976 · 2
1976, exact date not on file · 3
Busiest directors in 1976
- C. S. Rao 2 films
- Bapu 2 films
- S. D. Lal 2 films
- Dasari Narayana Rao 2 films
- Kasinathuni Viswanath 1 film
- Singeetam Srinivasa Rao 1 film
- K. S. R. Das 1 film
- A. Bhimsingh 1 film
Busiest music directors in 1976
- K. V. Mahadevan 5 films
- S. Rajeswara Rao 2 films
- Chellapilla Satyam 2 films
- K. Chakravarthy 2 films
- G. K. Venkatesh 1 film
- Satyam 1 film
- Saluri Hanumantha Rao 1 film
- M. S. Viswanathan 1 film