Release year
Telugu movies of 2017
62 Telugu films on file with a 2017 release, listed month by month. Each film links to its cast, director and music.
Tollywood Desk lists 62 Telugu films dated 2017; 60 have an exact release date on file and 2 are known only by year or month. September was the busiest month, with 10 releases, ahead of November (7). The most widely covered films of the year, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, Arjun Reddy and Duvvada Jagannadham. The first dated release of the year on file is Khaidi No. 150 (11 January 2017) and the last is 2 Countries (29 December 2017).
61 directors are credited on these films, none with more than one. On music, Devi Sri Prasad scored eight films of the year, ahead of Mani Sharma (6) and S. Thaman (6). Jagapati Babu appears in seven films dated 2017, the most of any actor on file, followed by Nassar (5) and Rakul Preet Singh (4). The credits on file for the year name 30 music directors and 138 credited actors. Sri Venkateswara Creations produced six films of the year, more than any other banner on file.
18 of the films have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. Of the 50 films with a runtime on file, the longest is Arjun Reddy at 182 minutes and the shortest is Keshava at 117 minutes. That is 14 fewer than 2016, which has 76 films on file.
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.
Best-known 2017 films
Month by month
January 2017 · 4
February 2017 · 3
March 2017 · 6
April 2017 · 2
May 2017 · 4
June 2017 · 4
July 2017 · 5
August 2017 · 6
September 2017 · 10
October 2017 · 3
November 2017 · 7
December 2017 · 6
2017, exact date not on file · 2
Busiest directors in 2017
- Nimmala Shankar 1 film
- Vi Anand 1 film
- Vikram Kumar 1 film
- Venu Sree Raam 1 film
- Gowtham Tinnanuri 1 film
- B.V.S.Ravi 1 film
- Jyothi Krishna 1 film
- Mallela Pavan 1 film
Busiest music directors in 2017
- Devi Sri Prasad 8 films
- Mani Sharma 6 films
- S. Thaman 6 films
- Anoop Rubens 5 films
- Bheems Ceciroleo 3 films
- Gopi Sundar 2 films
- Sai Karthik 2 films
- Ilaiyaraaja 2 films