Akkineni Nagarjuna best movies list – top box office hits

1. Vikram – 1986

Vikram was directed by V. Madhusudhana Rao and co-starred Sobhana, Satyanarayana and Kannada Prabhakar. It marked debut for Akkineni Nagarjuna and a major hit of the year. Film tells the story of young man kidnapping a girl to save his friend in prison but falling in love with her. He lets her go to her parents and he surrenders before the police before going to jail. After coming from jail antagonist kidnaps girl, father and brother as revenge. Hero come to save their family and impresses her family by saving them.

2. Majnu – 1987

Majnu was directed by Dasari Narayana Rao and co-starred Rajani, Moon Moon Sen and Satyanarayana. Due to its commercial success it was remade in Tamil as Anand released in 1987.

3. Collector Gari Abbai – 1987

Collector Gari Abbai was directed by B. Gopal and co-starred Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Rajani, Sarada, Kota Srinivasa Rao and Nutan Prasad.

4. Kirai Dada – 1987

Kirai Dada was directed by A. Kodandarami Reddy and co-starred Amala Akkineni, Krishnam Raju, Jaya Sudha and Khusboo. Film tells the story of unemployee who was hired to spy on local Zamindar. He goes to Zamindar and start working, here he falls in love with a girl but Zamindar falls in love with him. During his stay he discovers that his father was framed for the murder committed by the Zamindar. Finally he takes revenge against the Zamindar for injustice done to his life.

5. Aakhari Poratam – 1988

Aakhari Poratam was directed by K. Raghavendra Rao and co-starred Sridevi, Suhasini, Amrish Puri and Satyanarayana. Movie is based on popular novel Aakhari Poratam written by Yandamuri Veerendranath. Film tells the story of young lady CBI officer trying to collect evidence against a notorious criminal. She is helped by her boy friend to fight the criminal.

6. Murali Krishnudu – 1988

Murali Krishnudu was directed by Kodi Ramakrishna and co-starred Rajani, Mohan Babu and Gollapudi Maruti Rao.

7. Vicky Daada – 1989

Vicky Daada was directed by A. Kodandarami Reddy and co-starred Radha, Juhi Chawla and Kannada Prabhakar.

8. Geethanjali – 1989

Geethanjali was directed by Mani Ratnam and co-starred Girija Shettar, Vijayakumar and Radhabai. Film was a huge commercial hit and was remade in Hindi as Yaad Rakhegi Duniya released in 1992. Hero is a carefree youngster who was diagnosed with terminal cancer and had only few months to live. He goes to Ooty to spend his last days away from his mother so that he doesn’t feel bad seeing him die every day. In Ooty she falls in love with a girl who is also having serious ailment.

9. Siva – 1989

Siva was directed by Ram Gopal Varma and co-starred Amala Akkineni, Raghuvaran and J.D Chakravarthy. Film was a huge blockbuster hit and was listed in CNN-IBN’s 100 greatest films of all time. Due to its success it was remade in Hindi with same name. Film tells the story of college students who involves in local mafia wars.

10. Khuda Gawah – 1992

Khuda Gawah was directed by Mukul S. Anand and co-starred Amitabh Bachchan, Sridevi, Danny Denzongpa and Shilpa Shirodkar. Film was a huge hit and became second biggest hit of the year. He plays the role of Inspector in the film.

11. Varasudu – 1993

Varasudu was directed by E. V. V. Satyanarayana and co-starred Krishna, Nagma, Srikanth and Brahmanandam. Film was a huge commercial hit and was remade in Malayalam as Parampara released in 1990 film, in Hindi as Phool Aur Kaante released in 1991. Film tells the story of young college student who falls in love with a girl. His father interferes with his life and kills the student who was torturing his son. Finally his father kidnaps his own son to prove his innocence for his son. Unfortunately at the end antagonist kidnaps his son and hero fights them.

12. Hello Brother – 1994

Hello Brother was directed by E V V Satyanarayana and co-starred Ramya Krishna, Soundarya, Nepolian, Brahmanandam, Ali and Sarath Babu. Film was a huge hit and remade in Kannada as Cheluva starring V. Ravichandran and in Hindi as Judwaa starring Salman Khan. Film tells the story of two twins one of them is crook and other businessman. They fall in love with girls and some times they got mixed up.

13. Sisindri – 1995

Sisindri was directed by Shiva Nageswara Rao and co-starred Akhil Akkineni, Tabu,Brahmanandam and Pooja Batra. Film was a huge commercial hit and celebrated 50 days run in 34 centers of state. Film was a remake of Hollywood blockbuster Baby’s Day Out released in 1994. Film tells the story of baby which was kidnapped by few thugs and comedy created thereafter.

14. Ninne Pelladata – 1996

Ninne Pelladata was directed by Krishna Vamsi and co-starred Tabu, Chalapathi Rao, Chandra Mohan and Ravi Teja. Film was a big commercial hit and remade in Kannada as Preethsod Thappa starring V. Ravichandran. Film tells the story of young couple falling in love, guy’s parents accept their and ready to marry them but to their shock girl’s parents come and take her away forcefully.

15. Annamayya – 1997

Annamayya was directed by K. Raghavendra Rao and co-starred Mohan Babu, Suman, Ramya Krishnan, Roja and Kasturi. Film was a blockbuster hit and won two National Film Awards. It is considered as first biggest hit of Akkineni Nagarjuna’s career. Film gets shows the pure love of god towards dedicated devotee.

16. Azad – 2000

Azad was directed by Thirupathisamy and co-starred Soundarya, Shilpa Shetty, Prakash Raj and Brahmanandam. Film was a commercial hit and celebrated 100 day run. It was remade in Tamil as Velayudham starring Vijay, Genelia D’Souza and Hansika Motwani. Film tells the story of young journalist who makes stories of local don who in fact was a terrorist. Hero goes to Hyderabad to get some financial help to save a chit fund but unknowingly saves lives of many people in serial bomb blasts. Finally hero fights the antagonist as revenge for killing his sister and others.

17. Ninne Premistha – 2009

Ninne Premistha was directed by R. R. Shinde and co-starred Srikanth, Soundarya and Rajendra Prasad. Film tells the story of bank manager who was transferred to Godavari Zilla but on his journey his bus meets with an accident and he loses his eyes. He was taken care by the girl next door and he falls in love with the girl. When his parents take marriage proposal to her family she rejects the proposal and tells the story behind her love for him, she was in love with Akkineni Nagarjuna and his eyes were transplanted to him when he dies. But after few heart touching incidents she falls in love with him too.

18. Nuvvu Vastavani – 2000

Nuvvu Vastavani was directed by V.R. Prathap and co-starred Simran, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Brahmanandam and Tanikella Bharani. It was remake of Tamil blockbuster Thulladha Manamum Thullum released in 1999. Film tells the story of young singer who falls in love with a girl. But the girl only knows his voice and loves him but when they face each other she starts to hate him as he looks like a goon in several circumstances. He becomes responsible her blindness and her takes care of her every need. While dying his mother donates her eyes to her but for the operation expenses he had to donate his kidneys. When everything is fine he gets into a big trouble when his luggage mixes up with a terrorist and was arrested. When everything is over he comes back to see his girl who was a city commissioner and she too comes to know her true love in him.

19. Santosham – 2002

Santosham was directed by Dasharath and co-starred Prabhu Deva, Shriya Saran, Gracy Singh, Sunil, Kota Srinivasa Rao and Brahmanandam. Film was huge commercial hit and remade in Bengali as Bondhon and in Kannada as Ugadi. Film tells the story of young architect who falls in love with a girl. But her parents were against their love and forced her to marry a guy of their choice. Girl couldn’t bear it and runs away to marry him. She gave birth to a child and dies in an accident. Hero decides to win the heart of his father in law so that his child can have a nice family. He comes to the village pretending to be someone else and wins the heart of everyone.

20. Manmadhudu – 2002

Manmadhudu was directed by K. Vijaya Bhaskar and co-starred Sonali Bendre, Anshu, Chandra Mohan, Brahmanandam and Sunil. Film turned out to be a biggest hit of the year and was remade in Kannada as Aishwarya and in Bengali as Priyotoma. It was the first Telugu film to celebrate 50 days in USA and celebrated 100days in 30 centers of state. Film tells the story of ad agency manager who never trusts women and hates them. His uncle hires a girl for assistant manager post against the wishes of hero but she could not tolerate his insults and submits her resignation. In flashback his uncle tells the story of his past love and why he started hating girls in first place.

21. LOC Kargil – 2003

LOC Kargil was directed by J.P. Dutta and co-starred Sanjay Dutt, Armaan Kohli, Ajay Devgan, Puru Raajkumar, Saif Ali Khan and Sunil Shetty. Film was made with budget of INR40 crore and grossed INR68.93 crore at box office. Although film achieved moderate success it is one among major films of his career. Film holds the record of being one among few longest movies of Bollywood running 255 minutes. Film tells the story of India – Pakistan war broke in 1999.

22. Sivamani – 2003

Sivamani was directed by Puri Jagannadh and grossed Asin Thottumkal, Rakshitha, Prakash Raj and Mohan Raj. Film story was inspired by English novel Message in a Bottle. Film was a commercial hit and completed 100 days run in 35 centers of state. Film tells the story of firebrand police officer who falls in love with a singer. City is rules by a local don who troubles him a lot. Don is distantly related to the girl and he decides to take revenge by separating the couple. In a fight don hits the singer throat and she loses her voice. The cop subsequently takes revenge against antagonist.

23. Mass – 2004

Mass was directed by Raghava Lawrence and co-starred Jyothika, Charmme Kaur, Raghuvaran and Prakash Raj. Film grossed INR171 million at box office and considered a hit. Film celebrated 100 day run in 74 centres of state. Film tells the story of an orphan who serves a land lord. He falls in love with a college girl who is daughter of mafia don. Despite of her father’s warning the couple run away to marry but during this process hero’s best friend dies. He vows to take revenge against the mafia don and moves to the city hiding his identity to eliminate goons once for all.

24. Nenunnanu – 2004

Nenunnanu was directed by V. N. Aditya and co-starred Shriya Saran, Arti Agarwal, Mukesh Rishi, Brahmanandam and Sunil. Film tells the story of young business man who has no family of his own. He saves a girl from goons and takes her to his home for safety. She is in love with son of local business man who also runs mafia. Business man is not happy with his son’s decision to marry that poor girl and tries to end their love. Girl’s lover marries daughter of minister and ends his relationship with girl. Hero develops feelings for the girl but never expresses feelings and same happens to girl’s heart.

25. Super – 2005

Super was directed by Puri Jagannadh and co-starred Ayesha Takia, Anushka Shetty, Sonu Sood, Brahmanandam  and Sunil. Film tells the story of cab service owner who falls in love with a doctor. She has a brother who is a hi-tech thief, he is a enemy of hero and he tells his sister to end their love. Confused by this doctor goes to her lover seeking explanation for their enmity, film runs in flashback.

26. Sri Ramadasu – 2006

Sri Ramadasu was directed by K. Raghavendra Rao and co-starred Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Suman, Sneha, Brahmanandam and Sunil. It is a devotional film based on the life of devotee Kancharla Gopanna. Film was both critically and commercially successful. Sri Ramadasu celebrated 100 day run in 67 centres of Andra and grossed INR30 crores at box office.

27. Don – 2007

Don was directed by Raghava Lawrence and co-starred Anushka Shetty, Raghava Lawrence, Nikita Thukral and Nassar. Film tells the story of young boy who rose to become don of Andhra Pradesh. When everything is fine a new don enters the state with an intention to extend his business in the state. Hero rejects his offers and insults him. Antagonist decides to kill the don but in vain. Unfortunately his best if killed by the villain and hero takes revenge for the death of his buddy.

28. King – 2008

King was directed by Sreenu Vaitla and co-starred Trisha, Mamta Mohandas, Brahmanandam, Srihari and Sunil. Film was made with budget of INR170 million and grossed INR280 million at box office. Film tells the story of royal family headed by a young man. It is very big joint family and his own uncles are stealing money from him. He faces many challenges within the family and also from his business rivals.

29. Ragada – 2010

Ragada was directed by Veeru Potla and co-starred Anushka Shetty, Priyamani, Pradeep Rawat, Brahmanandam and Kota Srinivasa Rao. Film tells the story of an orphan who wants to earn money to save a charitable hospitable run by a great woman. The doctor was killed by antagonist’s men due to political rivalry and hospital needed crores of rupees to run. Hence hero decides to make money by any means and also wants to take revenge for the death of doctor. He enters the city and joins opposite gang. During this time he falls in love with a girl who was subsequently kidnapped by the goons. He save the girl and kills the villains.

30. Dhamarukam – 2012

Dhamarukam was directed by Srinivasa Reddy and co-starred Anushka Shetty, Prakash Raj, Brahmanandam, Ganesh Venkatraman and Ravi Shankar. Film was made with budget of INR450 million and grossed INR1200 million at box office. Film broke several records at box office and became biggest career of Akkineni Nagarjuna’s career and highest grossing South Indian movie of the year. Film tells the story of atheist who last his family members in a tragedy and takes care of his paralyzed sister. At the same time antagonist is a demon performing a severe penance to please Lord Shiva for boon. In order to please gods he decides to marry a girl and sacrifice her. Subsequently hero falls in love with a girl who was chosen by the demon to sacrifice.

31. Manam – 2014

Manam was directed by Vikram Kumar and co-starred Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Akkineni Nagarjuna, Samantha and Shriya Saran. Film became a blockbuster hit collecting INR50 crores at box office. Film tells the story of couple falling in love for many lives. It is based on concepts of rebirth of pure love and depicts the life of various time periods spreading 1920s to 2013. It was the last film of Akkineni Nageswara Rao and unfortunately died while working for this film.