Release year
Telugu movies of 2002
41 Telugu films on file with a 2002 release, listed month by month. Each film links to its cast, director and music.
Tollywood Desk lists 41 Telugu films dated 2002; 40 have an exact release date on file and 1 are known only by year or month. January was the busiest month, with 5 releases, ahead of December (4). The most widely covered films of the year, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Indra, Manmadhudu and Khadgam. The first dated release of the year on file is Seema Simham (11 January 2002) and the last is Ninu Choodaka Nenundalenu (21 December 2002).
On music, R. P. Patnaik scored eight films of the year, ahead of Mani Sharma (6) and Devi Sri Prasad (5). Brahmanandam appears in 16 films dated 2002, 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 20 music directors and 113 credited actors.
Two of the films have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. Of the 24 films with a runtime on file, the longest is Indra at 173 minutes and the shortest is Gemini at 132 minutes. That is 1 more than 2001, which has 40 films on file.
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.
Best-known 2002 films
Month by month
January 2002 · 5
February 2002 · 3
March 2002 · 4
April 2002 · 2
May 2002 · 3
June 2002 · 4
July 2002 · 2
August 2002 · 4
September 2002 · 2
October 2002 · 3
November 2002 · 4
December 2002 · 4
2002, exact date not on file · 1
Busiest directors in 2002
- Muppalaneni Shiva 2 films
- Jayanth C. Paranjee 2 films
- V. V. Vinayak 2 films
- B. Gopal 2 films
- R. Srinivas 1 film
- K. Vijaya Bhaskar 1 film
- E. V. V. Satyanarayana 1 film
- Krishna Vamsi 1 film
Busiest music directors in 2002
- R. P. Patnaik 8 films
- Mani Sharma 6 films
- Devi Sri Prasad 5 films
- Chakri 3 films
- Koti 2 films
- S. A. Rajkumar 2 films
- Vidyasagar 2 films
- Yuvan Shankar Raja 2 films