Release year
Telugu movies of 2003
47 Telugu films on file with a 2003 release, listed month by month. Each film links to its cast, director and music.
Tollywood Desk lists 47 Telugu films dated 2003. January was the busiest month, with 8 releases, ahead of July (6). The most widely covered films of the year, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Simhadri, Okkadu and Nijam. The first dated release of the year on file is Naaga (10 January 2003) and the last is Satyam (19 December 2003).
On music, Chakri and M. M. Keeravani scored eight films each of the year, ahead of Mani Sharma (7) and R. P. Patnaik (5). Brahmanandam appears in 19 films dated 2003, the most of any actor on file, followed by Prakash Raj (6) and Ravi Teja (5). The credits on file for the year name 18 music directors and 114 credited actors. Suresh Productions produced three films of the year, more than any other banner on file.
Four of the films have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. Of the 28 films with a runtime on file, the longest is Nijam at 196 minutes and the shortest is Sambaram at 129 minutes. That is 6 more than 2002, which has 41 films on file.
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.
Best-known 2003 films
Month by month
January 2003 · 8
February 2003 · 1
March 2003 · 2
April 2003 · 5
May 2003 · 3
June 2003 · 3
July 2003 · 6
August 2003 · 4
September 2003 · 3
October 2003 · 5
November 2003 · 4
December 2003 · 3
Busiest directors in 2003
- E. V. V. Satyanarayana 2 films
- Puri Jagannadh 2 films
- V. V. Vinayak 2 films
- S. V. Krishna Reddy 2 films
- Suresh Krishna 2 films
- Jyothi Krishna 1 film
- Surya Kiran 1 film
- Neelakanta 1 film
Busiest music directors in 2003
- Chakri 8 films
- M. M. Keeravani 8 films
- Mani Sharma 7 films
- R. P. Patnaik 5 films
- Vandemataram Srinivas 3 films
- Koti 2 films
- Vidyasagar 2 films
- Ramana Gogula 2 films