Telugu movies of 2021

Tollywood Desk lists 85 Telugu films dated 2021; 84 have an exact release date on file and 1 are known only by year or month. March was the busiest month, with 15 releases, ahead of October (10). The most widely covered films of the year, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Pushpa: The Rise, Shyam Singha Roy and Vakeel Saab. The first dated release of the year on file is Krack (9 January 2021) and the last is Arjuna Phalguna (31 December 2021).

78 directors are credited on these films, none with more than one. On music, Mani Sharma scored six films of the year, ahead of Thaman S (4) and Devi Sri Prasad (3). Jagapati Babu appears in seven films dated 2021, the most of any actor on file, followed by Murali Sharma (5) and Naveen Chandra (4). The credits on file for the year name 57 music directors and 168 credited actors.

56 of the films have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. Of the 60 films with a runtime on file, the longest is Pushpa: The Rise at 179 minutes and the shortest is Super Over at 83 minutes. That is 63 more than 2020, which has 22 films on file.

Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.