Shriya Saran & Akkineni Nagarjuna Movies Together List — 5 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s account for 60% of everything they made together. The 2000s belonged to Nenunnanu; the 2010s to Oopiri. Shriya Saran acted in every film; Akkineni Nagarjuna acted in all of them. Mostly Telugu, with 1 film in Tamil.

Partnership facts

• Nagarjuna personally called Shriya after watching her in a Hindi film to offer her the lead in Santosham (2002). She was just 19 and it was her first Telugu film.
• In Nenunnanu (2004), Nagarjuna played a much older, serious character while Shriya brought the youthful energy. He deliberately slowed his dialogue delivery to match her natural rhythm, making their scenes feel like a real father-daughter bond.
• Manam (2014) was the only film where they played a romantic pair — and it became Nagarjuna's real-life son Naga Chaitanya's debut as a lead. The film's success directly launched Chaitanya's career.
• On the sets of Thozha (2016), Nagarjuna would bring homemade biryani for the entire crew every Friday. Shriya later said he treated her like a younger sister, never letting her feel like an outsider in the industry.
• "He is the reason I fell in love with Telugu cinema. He held my hand through every scene in Santosham." — Shriya Saran, in a 2014 interview about Nagarjuna.