Release year
Telugu movies of 2013
70 Telugu films on file with a 2013 release, listed month by month. Each film links to its cast, director and music.
Tollywood Desk lists 70 Telugu films dated 2013; 68 have an exact release date on file and 2 are known only by year or month. March was the busiest month, with 9 releases, ahead of August (8). The most widely covered films of the year, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Iddarammayilatho, Attarintiki Daredi and Mirchi. The first dated release of the year on file is Naayak (9 January 2013) and the last is Uyyala Jampala (25 December 2013).
67 directors are credited on these films. Devi Prasad has the most, with two films. On music, S. Thaman scored ten films of the year, ahead of Anoop Rubens (6) and Devi Sri Prasad (4). Brahmanandam appears in 18 films dated 2013, the most of any actor on file, followed by Chandra Mohan (7) and Ali (5). The credits on file for the year name 49 music directors and 135 credited actors.
12 of the films have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. Of the 44 films with a runtime on file, the longest is Attarintiki Daredi at 175 minutes and the shortest is The Monsoon Oracle at 60 minutes. That is 10 more than 2012, which has 60 films on file.
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.
Best-known 2013 films
Month by month
January 2013 · 3
February 2013 · 5
March 2013 · 9
April 2013 · 5
May 2013 · 7
June 2013 · 7
July 2013 · 5
August 2013 · 8
September 2013 · 4
October 2013 · 4
November 2013 · 5
December 2013 · 6
2013, exact date not on file · 2
Busiest directors in 2013
- Devi Prasad 2 films
- Siraj Kalla 1 film
- Virinchi Varma 1 film
- Govinda Varaha 1 film
- Rajesh Pulli 1 film
- G.R. Krishna 1 film
- Pavan Sadineni 1 film
- Merlapaka Gandhi 1 film
Busiest music directors in 2013
- S. Thaman 10 films
- Anoop Rubens 6 films
- Devi Sri Prasad 4 films
- M. M. Srilekha 3 films
- Sunny M. R. 2 films
- Sri Kommineni 2 films
- Achu Rajamani 2 films
- Kalyan Malik 2 films