Release year
Telugu movies of 2001
40 Telugu films on file with a 2001 release, listed month by month. Each film links to its cast, director and music.
Tollywood Desk lists 40 Telugu films dated 2001. September was the busiest month, with 6 releases, ahead of November (4). The most widely covered films of the year, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Murari, Ishtam and Student No.1. The first dated release of the year on file is Mrugaraju (11 January 2001) and the last is Subbu (21 December 2001).
On music, Mani Sharma scored eight films of the year, ahead of S. A. Rajkumar (5) and Koti (3). Brahmanandam appears in 15 films dated 2001, the most of any actor on file, followed by Kota Srinivasa Rao (7) and Chandra Mohan (6). The credits on file for the year name 17 music directors and 104 credited actors. Ushakiran Movies produced four films of the year, more than any other banner on file.
Five of the films have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. Of the 30 films with a runtime on file, the longest is Nuvvu Naaku Nachav at 180 minutes and the shortest is Family Circus at 127 minutes. That is the same number as 2000, which has 40 films on file.
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.
Best-known 2001 films
Month by month
January 2001 · 3
February 2001 · 3
March 2001 · 4
April 2001 · 2
May 2001 · 4
June 2001 · 4
July 2001 · 1
August 2001 · 3
September 2001 · 6
October 2001 · 3
November 2001 · 4
December 2001 · 3
Busiest directors in 2001
- S. V. Krishna Reddy 2 films
- Balasekaran 2 films
- Teja 2 films
- Muthyala Subbaiah 2 films
- Kodi Ramakrishna 2 films
- M. Raja 1 film
- Rudraraju Suresh Varma 1 film
- Nimmala Shankar 1 film
Busiest music directors in 2001
- Mani Sharma 8 films
- S. A. Rajkumar 5 films
- Vandemataram Srinivas 3 films
- R. P. Patnaik 3 films
- M. M. Keeravani 3 films
- Koti 3 films
- S. V. Krishna Reddy 2 films
- M. M. Srilekha 2 films