List of Telugu films of 2001

{{Short description|None}} {{more citations needed|date=February 2022}} {{Tollywood films}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}} {{Use Indian English|date=November 2022}} This is a list of films produced by the Telugu language film industry based in Hyderabad in the year 2001.

== Box office collection == The highest-grossing Tollywood films released in 2001, by worldwide box office gross revenue, are as follows: {| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; margin:auto;" |+Highest worldwide gross of 2001 !Rank !Title !Production company !Worldwide gross !Ref |- !1 | scope="row" |''Kushi'' |Sri Surya Movies |₹23.4 crore distributors' share(initial run) ₹7.46 crore(rerelease) |<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2024-07-29 |title=This 2001 Pawan Kalyan Film Collected Rs 36.9 Crore At The Box Office |url=https://www.news18.com/movies/this-2001-pawan-kalyan-film-collected-rs-36-9-crore-at-the-box-office-8982889.html |access-date=2024-09-13 |website=News18 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=April 7, 2025 |title=Top Re Release Movies Collections RECORDS |url=https://t2blive.com/top-re-release-movies-collections-records/ |access-date=April 12, 2025 |website=T2BLive}}</ref> |- !2 |''Narasimha Naidu'' | Venkata Ramana Productions |₹25 crore distributors' share | rowspan="9" |<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 19, 2019 |title=Tollywood Top 10 Box Office Collection Movies In 2001 |url=https://t2blive.com/tollywood-top-10-box-office-collection-movies-in-2001/ |access-date=April 12, 2025 |website=T2BLive}}</ref> |- !3 |''Nuvvu Naaku Nachav'' |Sri Sravanthi Movies | rowspan="2" |₹18 crore distributors' share |- !4 |''Manasantha Nuvve'' |Sumanth Art Productions |- !5 |''Nuvvu Nenu'' |Anandi Art Creations | rowspan="2" |₹16 crore distributors' share |- !6 |''Daddy'' |Geetha Arts |- !7 |''Murari'' |Ram Prasad Arts |₹13 crore distributors' share |- !8 |''Student No. 1'' |Swapna Cinema |₹12 crore distributors' share |- !9 |''Anandam'' |Ushakiran Movies |₹10 crore distributors' share |- !10 |''Preminchu'' |Suresh Productions |₹8 crore distributors' share |- |}

== January–June == {| class="wikitable sortable" |- style="background:#blue; text-align:center;" ! colspan="2" |Opening !| Title ! style="width:20%;" |'''Director''' ! Cast !! Production house !! Ref |-January! | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center; background:#FFA07A; textcolor:#000;"| '''J A N''' | rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | '''11''' |''Mrugaraju''|| Gunasekhar || Chiranjeevi, Simran, Nagendra Babu || || |- |''Narasimha Naidu''|| B. Gopal || Nandamuri Balakrishna, Simran, K. Vishwanath |||| |- | rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | '''15''' |''Devi Putrudu''|| Kodi Ramakrishna || Venkatesh, Soundarya, Anjala Zaveri || || |- | rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | '''18''' |''Sivudu'' || Gosangi Krishna Rao | Suresh, Satyaprakash, Sudhakar, M. S. Narayana || | |- February! | rowspan="8" style="background:#D8BFD8; textcolor:#000;" valign="center" align="center" | '''F E B''' | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''3''' |''Navvuthu Bathakalira'' || Kodi Ramakrishna | J. D. Chakravarthy, Sangeeta || | |- | rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | '''9''' |''Soori''|| Sankara Kumar || J. D. Chakravarthy, Priyanka Upendra, Tanikella Bharani || || |- |''Malli Inkoka Sari'' || Sahadev Reddy | Sri Madhav, Sahana, Snehita || | |- | rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | '''11''' |''Priyamaina Neeku''||Balasekaran ||Tarun Kumar, Sneha || || |- | rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | '''14''' |''Ammo Bomma'' || Relangi Narasimha Rao || Rajendra Prasad, Suman || || |- | rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | '''17''' |''Murari'' || Krishna Vamsi || Mahesh Babu, Sonali Bendre || || |- | rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | '''27''' |''Maa Ayana Sundarayya'' || Hari Babu | Srihari, Sangeeta, Kota Srinivasa Rao || | |- | rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | '''28''' |''Sorry Aunty'' || Natti Kumar | Uttej, Gundu Hanumantha Rao, Tirupathi Prakash || |-March! | rowspan="7" style="background:#98FB98; textcolor:#000;" valign="center" align="center" | '''M A R''' | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''1''' |''Madhura Kshanam'' || Aalla Rambabu | Chalapathi, Aarti Chhabria || | |- | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''2''' |''Pillalu Techina Annala Rajyam'' || C. H. M. Krishna |Prasad Babu, Ravindra, Narasimha Raju || | |- | rowspan="2" align="center" | '''9''' |''Budget Padmanabham'' || S. V. Krishna Reddy | Jagapati Babu, Ravi Teja, Ramya Krishnan || | |- |''Cheppukondi Chuddam'' ||K Ranga Rao | Suman, M. S. Narayana, Tirupathi Prakash || | |- | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''23''' |''Deevinchandi''|| Muthyala Subbaiah || Srikanth, Raasi, Malavika || || |- | rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | '''30''' |''Railway Coolie'' || Kodi Ramakrishna | Mammootty, Meena, Harish || | |- |''Eduruleni Manishi''|| Srinivasa Rao ||Nagarjuna, Soundarya, Shenaz Treasurywala || || |- April! | rowspan="5" style="background:#FFDEAD; textcolor:#000;" valign="center" align="center" | '''A P R''' | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''11''' |''Preminchu''|| Boyani Subbarao |Sai Kiran, Laya || || |- | rowspan="2" align="center" | '''12''' |''Akka Bavekkada'' || Raja Vannem Reddy | J. D. Chakravarthy, Raasi || | |- |''Orey Thammudu'' || Sai Balaji | Srihari, Sanghavi|| || |- | rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | '''15''' |''Raave Naa Cheliya'' || P Kishore Kumar | Sai Kiran, AVS, Prudhviraj || | |- | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''27''' |''Kushi''||S. J. Suryah || Pawan Kalyan, Bhoomika Chawla, Mumtaj || || |- May! | rowspan="9" style="background:#edafaf; textcolor:#000;" valign="center" align="center" | '''M A Y''' | rowspan="1" align="center" |'''5''' |''Love'' || Ravi Chavali | Sivaji, Manya, Ali, Tanikella Bharani || | |- | rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | '''9''' |''Ammayi Kosam''|| Muppalaneni Siva || Vineeth, Meena, Ravi Teja, Venu || || |- |''Prematho Raa''||Udayasankar ||Venkatesh, Simran || | |- |''Pandanti Samsaram'' || Krishna | Krishna, Babu Mohan, Kota Srinivasa Rao || | |- | rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | '''23''' |''Ninnu Choodalani'' ||V. R. Pratap | Jr. NTR, Raveena Rajput || || |- | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" | '''25''' |''Chinna'' || Dasari Narayana Rao | Dasari Arun Kumar, Shilpa Shinde, Dasari Narayana Rao || | |- |''Maa Aavida Meeda Ottu Mee Aavida Chala Manchidi''|| E. V. V. Satyanarayana || Srikanth, Laya, Raasi, Vadde Naveen || || |-

|''Andhala O Chilaka'' || B. Gopal | Dhanush, Siri || | |- ||''Sarpam'' | Pramod Kumar || || | |- June! | rowspan="10" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#d9c1b0; textcolor:#000;" | '''J U N''' | rowspan="3" align="center" | ''' 1''' |''Family Circus'' || Teja || Jagapati Babu, Rajendra Prasad, Roja || || |- |''Repallelo Radha'' || Sarath | Dileep, Deeksha, Gummadi, Satyanarayana || | |- |''Vayasu''|| Sai Sagar | Ramesh Mitra, Yada Krishna|| || |- | rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | '''7''' |''Bava Nachadu''||KS Ravikumar || Nagarjuna, Simran, Reema Sen || || |- | rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | '''8''' |''6 Teens''||G. Nageswara Reddy || Rohit, Ruthika, Santosh || || |- | rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | '''15''' |''Bhalevadivi Basu''|| P. A. Arun Prasad ||Balakrishna Nandamuri, Shilpa Shetty, Anjala Zaveri || | |- | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''22''' |''Vechi Vunta'' || Sriram Murthy | Raja, Uttej, Krishna Bhagavaan|| || |- | rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | '''29''' |''Kalisi Naduddam'' || Kodi Ramakrishna | Srikanth, Soundarya, Rama Prabha, Brahmanandam || | |- |''Khaki Chokka''|| Vikky || Sai Kumar, Neelambari, Thriller Manju || || |}

== July–December == {| class="wikitable sortable" |- style="background:#blue; text-align:center;" ! colspan="2" |Opening !| Title ! style="width:20%;" |'''Director''' ! Cast !! Production house !! Ref |- July! | rowspan="6" style="background:#d0f0c0; textcolor:#000;" valign="center" align="center" | '''J U L''' | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''1''' |''Simharasi''||V. Samudra ||Rajasekhar, Sakshi Shivanand || || |- | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''9''' |''Atu America Itu India'' ||Gummaluri Shastry | Sunny, Vanessa, Vijay Nainan || | |- | rowspan="2" align="center" | '''13''' |''Ramma Chilakamma'' || Tammareddy Bharadwaja | Sumanth, Laya || | |- |''Sampangi'' || Sanayadi Reddy | Deepak, Kanchi Kaul || | |- | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''18''' |''Naa Manasistha Raa'' || R.R.Shinde |Srikanth, Richa, Soundarya || | |- | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''27''' |''Jackpot'' || G. Kasinath |Kashinath, Naveena, L. B. Sriram, Jaya Prakash Reddy|| || |- August! | rowspan="10" style="background:#C2B280; textcolor:#000;" valign="center" align="center" | '''A U G''' | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''3''' ||''Tholi Valapu'' || Muthyala Subbaiah | Gopichand, Sneha || | |- | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''4''' |''Subhakaryam'' || Ravi Raja Pinisetty | Rajasekhar, Naveen, Asha Saini|| || |- | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''9''' |''Wife'' || Ravipalli Rambabu | Sivaji, Preetha Vijayakumar || | |- | rowspan="2" align="center" | '''10''' |''Nuvvu Nenu''||Teja ||Uday Kiran, Anitha || | |- |''Evadra Rowdy''|| Sarath || Srihari, Sanghavi, Sujatha || || |- | rowspan="2" align="center" | '''17''' |''Tara'' || Maniraj | Akash, Ruthika, Gundu Hanumantha Rao || | |- |''Subhasissulu'' || M Nagarjuna Reddy | Anil Raj, Varsha, Giri Babu || | |- | rowspan="2" align="center" | '''23''' |''Akasa Veedhilo''||Singeetam Srinivasa Rao || Nagarjuna, Raveena Tandon || || |- |''Cheppalani Vundi'' || Chandra Mahesh | Naveen, Raasi, Kanchi Kaul || | |- | rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" |'''31''' |''Chandu'' |Veeru K |Pavan Kumar, Archana, Preethi | |<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 September 2021 |title=Did you know Jeet made his debut in a Telugu film? |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/did-you-know/did-you-know-jeet-made-his-debut-in-a-telugu-film/articleshow/86454325.cms |accessdate=17 September 2022 |newspaper=The Times of India}}</ref> |- September! | rowspan="10" style="background:#F5DEB3; textcolor:#000;" valign="center" align="center" | '''S E P''' | align="center" | '''1''' |''Naalo Unna Prema'' || Pratap | Jagapathi Babu, Gajala, Laya || | |- | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''6''' |''Nuvvu Naaku Nachav''||Vijaya Bhaskar||Venkatesh, Arthi Agarwal || || |- | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''14''' |''Itlu Sravani Subramanyam''|| Puri Jagannadh || Ravi Teja, Tanu Roy || | |- | rowspan="2" align="center" | '''19''' |''Adhipathi''|| Ravi Raja Pinisetty || Mohan Babu, Nagarjuna, Preeti Jhangiani, Soundarya || || |- |''Idhe Naa Modhati Premalekha'' ||G. Nageswara Reddy||Jayaram, Rimmi Sen || | |- | rowspan="2" align="center" | '''21''' |''Chiranjeevulu'' || Radha Krishna | Ravi Teja, Sanghavi, Sivaji|| || |- |''Chirujallu''|| Sriram Balaji ||Tarun, Richa Pallod || | |- | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''27''' |''Student No.1''||S. S. Rajamouli||Jr. NTR, Gajala || || |- | rowspan="2" align="center" | '''28''' |''Anandam''|| Srinu Vaitla || Jai Akash, Rekha Vedavyas || | |- |''Time Pass'' | Sanfireddy Dasaradh | Ajay, Asha Saini, Janardhan Maharshi || | |- October! | rowspan="7" style="text-align:center; background:#ffb7c5; textcolor:#000;" | '''O C T''' | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''4''' |''Daddy''|| Suresh Krishna ||Chiranjeevi, Simran, Ashima Bhalla || || |- | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''12''' |''Thank You Subba Rao''||E. V. V. Satyanarayana || Srihari, Prakash Raj, Abhirami || | |- | rowspan="3" align="center" | '''19''' |''Manasantha Nuvve'' || V. N. Aditya || Uday Kiran, Reema Sen || | |- |''Prema Sandadi'' || P. A. Arun Prasad | Srikanth, Anjala Zaveri || | |- |''Snehithuda'' ||K S Nageswara Rao |Sivaji, Rakesh, Reena|| || |- | rowspan="2" align="center" | '''26''' |''Snehamante Idera''|| Balasekaran |Nagarjuna, Sumanth, Bhoomika Chawla || | |- |''Muthyam''||Vasan |Rohit, Anu || | |- November! | rowspan="8" style="background:#ACE1AF; textcolor:#000;" valign="center" align="center" | '''N O V''' | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''1''' |''Raa''|| K. S. Nageswara Rao |Upendra, Priyanka Upendra || || |- | rowspan="2" align="center" | '''9''' |''Hyderabad'' ||Ayyappa P. Sharma |Ayyappa P. Sharma, Venu Madhav, P. J. Sarma || | |- |''Ammaye Navvithe''|| Jyothi Kumar || Rajendra Prasad, Bhavana, Brahmanandam || | |- | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''15''' |''Veedekkadi Mogudandi?''|| E. V. V. Satyanarayana || Venu, Shruthi Raj, Geethu Mohandas || || |- | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''29''' |''Jabili''|| S. V. Krishna Reddy || Dileep, Rekha Vedavyas || | |- | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''14''' |''Paravasam''||K.Balachander ||R. Madhavan, Simran Bagga, Sneha, Lawrence Raghavendra || | |- | rowspan="2" align="center" | '''30''' |''Athanu'' |Satyam Babu |Sai Kumar, Rachana, Ravi Varma || | |- | ''Little Hearts'' | Srikanth |R. Venkateswar, Gayathri Priya, Murali Mohan, M. S. Narayana || | |- December! | rowspan="11" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#B8860B; textcolor:#000;" | '''D E C''' | rowspan="1" align="center" | '''6''' |''Bhadrachalam''||N.Shankar|| Srihari, Sindhu Menon || || |- | rowspan="2" align="center" | '''21''' |''Hanuman Junction''|| Mohan Raja || Jagapati Babu, Arjun || || |- |''Subbu''||Rudraraju Suresh Varma||Jr. NTR, Sonali Joshi || || |- | rowspan="2" align="center" | ''' 30''' |''Darling Darling''|| V. Samudra || Srikanth, Shaheen Khan, Sai Kiran || || |- |''Ishtam''|| Vikram Kumar || Charan, Shriya Saran || | |}

===Other releases===

{| class="wikitable sortable" |+The following films were also released in 2001, though the release date remains unknown. |- ! Title!! Director !! Cast !! Studio !! Ref |- | ''Apparao ki Oka Nela Thappindi'' || Relangi Narasimha Rao || Rajendra Prasad, Madhusmita || Vishaka Talkies, Chaplin Comedy Creations || |}

==References== {{reflist}}

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