Shriya Saran best movies list – top box office hits

1. Santosham – 2002

Santosham was directed by Dasharath and co-starred Nagarjuna Akkineni, Prabhu Deva, Shriya Saran, Brahmanandam and Sunil. Film was a super hit at box office and was remade in Bengali as Bondhon and in Kannada as Ugadi. Film tells the story of young architect who falls in love with a girl in Ooty, the girl initially hesitates but accepts his love later. When girl’s father comes to know about her love he disowns her and no longer considers her a daughter. Girl’s cousin is happy with her love and encourages her. The couple get married and gave birth to a baby boy and later dies in an accident. Now widower decides to get back to his wife’s family with his son. Rest of the story is about how he wins the heart of his father in law.

2. Chennakesava Reddy – 2002

Chennakesava Reddy was directed by V.V. Vinayak and co-starred Nandamuri Balakrishna, Tabu, Chalapathi Rao and Devayani. Film tells the story of young police officer who is considered as dare devil soldier against gangsters. He falls in love with the daughter of police commissioner. Hero’s father was a great man who was considered as god among his followers but his rival successfully hatches a plan to send him to jail for a false case. After 22 years he comes out of jail and starts to take revenge against those who betrayed him, now his own son is appointed to take charge of the situation but his father was a smart and always a step ahead of his son.

3. Nuvve Nuvve – 2002

Nuvve Nuvve was directed by Trivikram Srinivas and co-starred Tarun, Prakash Raj, Sunil, Chandra Mohan and Rajeev Kanakala. Film tells the story of young college boy falling in love with daughter of millionaire. Her father loves her very much and ready to do anything to make her happy. He wants her to marry a rich guy. Accidentally he comes to know that his daughter is in love with middle class guy and he give INR1 crore and asks him to forget his daughter. Hero refuses the money and insults him. Rest of story is how he marries her despites numerous challenges.

4. Tujhe Meri Kasam – 2003

Tujhe Meri Kasam was directed by K. Vijaya Bhaskar and co-starred Ritesh Deshmukh, Genelia Deshmukh, Raja Bherwani and Supriya Pilgaonkar. Film was made with budget of INR390 million and grossed INR532.0 million at box office. It was remake of Telugu super hit Nuvve Kavali. Film tells the story of two best friends born in same hospital and on same day. Their parents also best friends and two friends grow up together in same vicinity, they join same college, study in same class. The guy develops feeling for girl but he comes to know that she hates a friend who proposes her, he buries his feelings. Later she is engaged to another guy when the marriage is near she fears that she has to leave her best friend. She can’t bear the idea of leaving her best friend and subsequently comes to know that he is in love with her. Rest of story is about how they get together.

5. Tagore – 2003

Tagore was directed by V.V.Vinayak and co-starred Chiranjeevi, Jyothika, Sayaji Shinde and Prakash Raj. Film was made with the budget of INR 10 crores and grossed INR35 crores, it was a blockbuster hit of the year celebrating 50-days run in 253 centres and 100-days run in 191 centres of the state. Film tells the story of a master mind who creates his own task force name “Anti-Corruption Force”. The purpose of task force is to eliminate corrupt officers systematically from the society. Police start to investigate these cases wherein only the corrupt were killed. Rest of the story is how he plays with police.

6. Nenunnanu – 2004

Nenunnanu was directed by V. N. Aditya and co-starred Nagarjuna Akkineni, Arti Agarwal, Anitha, Mukesh Rishi, Brahmanandam and Sunil. Film was a blockbuster hit celebrating 50 days run in 125 centres and a 100 days run in 42 centres of the state. Film tells the story of young business man who rescues a girl from goons and takes her home for her safety. Hero comes to know that the girl is in love with minister son but minister is against their marriage. The minister’s son doubts the relationship of girl and hero, he decides to marry a rich girl. The girl slaps him and ends their relationship. She returns to her parents’ house and she realizes the greatness of hero who saved her from goons and protected her always selflessly. Rest of the story is how they get together facing the wrath of minister.

7. Chhatrapati – 2005

Chhatrapati was directed by S. S. Rajamouli and co-starred Prabhas, Bhanupriya, Pradeep Rawat and Kota Srinivasa Rao. Film story is inspired from Hollywood film Scarface released in 1983. Film was made with budget of INR130 million and grossed INR300 million at box office. Film was a commercial hit and celebrated 100-days run in 54 centers of Andra Pradesh. Film tells the story of two brothers who don’t get along from the beginning. The brothers were separated when the village was forcefully evacuated. Hero grows up with labour class people and kills the brother of local gangster who was exploiting the labours. Rest of the story is about how he fights antagonist supported by his brother.

8. Thiruvilaiyaadal Aarambam – 2006

Thiruvilaiyaadal Aarambam was directed by Boopathy Pandian and co-starred Dhanush, Prakash Raj, Shakib khan and Saranya. Film was a huge hit grossing INR190 million at box office and was remade in languages like Telugu, Kannada, Bengali etc. Film tells the story of young carefree guy who falls in love with a rich girl. Her brother is rich and against their love. Story is about how he plays with antagonist smartly.

9. Sivaji – 2007

Sivaji was directed by S. Shankar and co-starred Rajinikanth, Suman, Vivek, Manivannan and Solomon Pappayya. Film was made with budget of INR600 million and grossed INR1.28 billion at box office. Film was a blockbuster hit of the year. Film tells the story of software engineer who comes back to India with a good intention of establishing a free medical college and hospital. But he comes to know the corruption which is strongly rooted in Indian system and fights back. The antagonist goes to the extent of killing hero but hero escapes narrowly from death. Rest of the story is about how he takes revenge against the corrupt politician.

10. Awarapan – 2007

Awarapan was directed by Mohit Suri and grossed Emraan Hashmi, Mrinalini Sharma, Ashutosh Rana and Shaad Randhawa. Film was made with budget of INR50 million and grossed INR180 million at box office. Film tells the story of a young man who is right hand of a gangster and hotelier. Gangster’s son is jealous of hero and tries to kills him. Hero finds his boss’s girl friend cheating with other man. But hero refuses to kill her on that ground because he finds her love to be true with other guy. Rest of the story is about how his own boss tries to kill him and how he manages.

11. Kanthaswamy – 2009

Kanthaswamy was directed by Susi Ganesan and co-starred Vikram, Prabhu Ganesan, Krishna, Ashish Vidyarthi, Vadivelu and Mukesh Tiwari. Film was made with budget of INR400 million and grossed INR600 million at box office. Film tells the story of a Income Tax officer and his friends who in disguise punishes the evil elements of society. Antagonist is a corrupted entrepreneur having too much black money, he pretends paralyzed to avoid questioning. Antagonist daughter wants to take revenge against hero by pretending to be in love with him. Rest of story is how both play cat and mouse game.

12. Kutty – 2010

Kutty was directed by Mithran Jawahar and co-starred Dhanush, Sameer Dattani, Radha Ravi and Srinath. It was a remake of Telugu blockbuster hit Arya starring Allu Arjun. Film tells the story of young college student falling in love with a girl. The girl has already committed to another guy who threatened to kill himself. Rest of the story is how he wins her heart.

13. Pokkiri Raja – 2010

Pokkiri Raja was directed by Vyshakh and co-starred Mammootty, Prithviraj, Suraj Venjaramoodu and Siddique. Film was made with budget of INR4.25 crore and grossed INR16.5 crore at box office. It was debut of actress Shriya Saran in Malayalam industry. Film tells the story of young man who was disowned by his father because the crime he didn’t commit. The son moves to Madurai and becomes right hand of a land lord and comes to be known as Pokkiri Raja. His younger brother is a carefree guy with great courage, he falls in love with daughter of police commissioner and commissioner decides to kill him in prison. Rest of story is how Pokkiri Raja saves his brother.

14. Don Seenu – 2010

Don Seenu was directed by Gopichand Malineni and co-starring Ravi Teja, Srihari, Anjana Sukhani and Brahmanandam. Film tells the story of young man who dreams of becoming a don since his childhood days. Inspired by Amitabh Bachchan movie ‘Don’ he renames himself as “Don Seenu”. He joins one of the two rival gangsters with a hope to reach top of the ladder, with his intelligence he plays with the rivals. His boss gives him a task to fall in love with sister of his rival gangster but hero by mistake falls in love with his boss’s sister.

15. Manam – 2014

Manam was directed by Vikram Kumar and co-starred Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Akkineni Nagarjuna, Naga Chaitanya, Samantha and Brahmanandam. Film was a huge commercial hit. It is the last film of late Akkineni Nageswara Rao and was considered as tribute him. Film tells the story of two love stories of different time periods 1920s to 2013. Film is based on concepts of rebirth and “eternal love”. Two people help to unite young couples who resemble their parents of different time.