Nithya Menen & Sripriya Movies Together List — 3 Films
Complete Movies List & Collaboration History
Last updated: 2026-06-03 · Data sources: Wikipedia, TMDB
Nithya Menen and Sripriya appeared together in 3 Telugu films between 2013 and 2016. Their highest-rated collaboration was Malini 22 Vijayawada (2013 — 6.9/10). Films span Malini 22 Vijayawada (2013) through Ghatana (2016).
The Nithya Menen & Sripriya partnership
From Malini 22 Vijayawada (2013) to Ghatana (2016). It started with Malini 22 Vijayawada (2013).
The shape of the work
Nithya Menen acted in every film; Sripriya directed all of them.
Partnership facts
- Nithya Menen and Sripriya first worked together because Nithya specifically requested Sripriya for the role of her mother in Malini 22 Vijayawada (2013). Nithya felt only Sripriya could pull off the emotional weight of that mother-daughter dynamic.
- In Malini 22 Vijayawada, Sripriya played Nithya's on-screen mother. Their real-life age gap is only 14 years, which made the mother-daughter scenes feel unusually raw — Sripriya wasn't playing a typical 'old mother', she played a woman still figuring out her own life while raising a daughter.
- The success of Malini 22 Vijayawada directly led to the Tamil remake Malini 22 Palayamkottai (2014), where both actresses reprised their roles. That remake flopped hard, but it's the only time a Telugu film's lead pair was carried over entirely into a Tamil remake — a rare cross-industry experiment that failed but is still talked about.
- During the shoot of Malini 22 Vijayawada, Nithya and Sripriya would often rehearse their emotional confrontation scenes in Sripriya's vanity van, running lines until both were actually crying. Sripriya later said those sessions made them trust each other completely on set.
- Sripriya said about Nithya: 'She doesn't act like a star. She acts like a co-actor. That's rare. In Malini 22 Vijayawada, she would correct my Telugu diction, and I would help her with the emotional beats. We were each other's director.'
3 films across 1 decade
- Malini 22 Vijayawada
- Ghatana
The partnership in numbers
Partnership Pattern
3 films across 3 years represents consistent collaboration.
Language Distribution
Linguistic diversity: 2 languages, with Telugu being their primary medium.
Where each was in their career
When they first worked together, Nithya Menen had 6 films behind them; Sripriya had 83.
Before Malini 22 Vijayawada, Nithya Menen had starred in 6 films, including Ala Modalaindi (2011) and Veppam (2011).
After Ghatana, Nithya Menen went on to appear in 14 more films, including RRR (2021) and Thiruchitrambalam (2022).
Before Malini 22 Vijayawada, Sripriya had directed 83 films, including Enakkul Oruvan (1984) and Aval Oru Thodar Kathai (1974).
After Ghatana, Sripriya went on to direct 1 more film, including Maadan Kodai Vizha (2025).
Collaboration Journey
A chronological view of Nithya Menen & Sripriya's professional partnership
Actors and musicians who worked on most of their films
Kota Srinivasa Rao is the through-line — cast on 3 of their 3 films. Kota Srinivasa Rao appears alongside them in 3 films — practically a third lead. Aravindh-Shankar scored 3 of them.
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