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Shriya Saran is an Indian actress and model who has appeared mostly in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi language films. She made her acting debut with the Telugu film Ishtam (2001) and had her first commercial success with Santosham (2002).[1][2] The following year, she made her Hindi cinema debut with a supporting role in Tujhe Meri Kasam, alongside Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D'Souza.[3] It was followed by the commercially successful crime drama Tagore (2003), in which she was paired opposite Chiranjeevi.[4] The same year, she played a supporting role in the Tamil-Telugu bilingual film Enakku 20 Unakku 18,[lower-alpha 1] which marked her debut in Tamil cinema.[3] In 2005, she had ten releases including Mazhai, S. S. Rajamouli's Chatrapathi, and Mogudu Pellam O Dongodu, in which she was among the only three characters of the film.[5] Saran's solitary release as a lead actress in 2006 was the Tamil film Thiruvilaiyaadal Aarambam.
In 2007, Saran was paired opposite Rajinikanth in S. Shankar's Sivaji.[3] It was the most expensive film in Indian cinema and went on to become the highest grossing Tamil film to that point.[6][7][8] The same year, she made a comeback to Hindi cinema with Mohit Suri's Awarapan, where she played a Muslim woman.[9] Following that, she made her American cinema debut with James Dodson's The Other End of the Line (2008),[3] in which she played an Indian woman who works in a call centre.[10] Her subsequent releases include the Tamil films Kanthaswamy (2009) and Kutty (2010), and Pokkiri Raja (2010), which marked her debut in Malayalam cinema.[11]
In 2012, Saran starred in Deepa Mehta's Midnight's Children, an English adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel of the same name. The following years, she played a princess in Roopa Iyer's period fantasy drama Chandra; the film was shot simultaneously in Kannada and Tamil.[12] In 2014, she played dual roles in the Telugu drama film Manam. Saran received critical acclaim for her performance and was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress – Telugu Award at the 62nd Filmfare Awards South.[13][14] The following year, she appeared opposite Ajay Devgn in Drishyam, the Hindi remake of the Malayalam film of the same name, which became a box office success.[15]
† | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Role(s) | Language | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2001 | Ishtam | Neha | Telugu | [16] [17] | |
2002 | Santosham | Bhanu | Nominated — Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu | [18] [19] | |
Chennakesava Reddy | Preethi | [20] | |||
Nuvve Nuvve | Anjali | [21] | |||
2003 | Tujhe Meri Kasam | Girija | Hindi | [22] | |
Neeku Nenu Naaku Nuvvu | Sitalakshmi | Telugu | [23] | ||
Tagore | Devaki | [4] [24] | |||
Ela Cheppanu | Priya | [25] | |||
Enakku 20 Unakku 18 | Reshma | Tamil | Bilingual film | [26] [27] | |
Nee Manasu Naaku Telusu | Telugu | [28] | |||
2004 | Nenunnanu | Anu | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu | [29] | |
Thoda Tum Badlo Thoda Hum | Rani | Hindi | [30] | ||
Arjun | Roopa | Telugu | [31] | ||
Shukriya: Till Death Do Us Apart | Sanam K. Jindal | Hindi | [32] | ||
2005 | Balu | Swetha | Telugu | [33] [34] | |
Naa Alludu | Meghana | [35] | |||
Sada Mee Sevalo | Suryakantham | [36] | |||
Soggadu | Herself | Special appearance | [37] | ||
Subash Chandra Bose | Svarajyam | [38] | |||
Mogudu Pellam O Dongodu | Satyabhama | [5] | |||
Mazhai | Shylaja | Tamil | [39] | ||
Chatrapathi | Neelu | Telugu | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu | [40] | |
Bhageeratha | Mahalakshmi | [41] | |||
Bommalata | Swathi | Cameo appearance | [42] | ||
2006 | Devadasu | Herself | Special appearance | [43] | |
Game | Vijay Raj's girlfriend | Special appearance | [44] | ||
Boss | Sanjana | Special appearance | [45] | ||
Thiruvilaiyaadal Aarambam | Priya | Tamil | [46] | ||
2007 | Munna | Herself | Telugu | Special appearance in the song "Chammakkuro" | [47] |
Arasu | Arpitha | Kannada | Cameo appearance | [48] [49] | |
Sivaji: The Boss | Thamizhselvi | Tamil | [50] | ||
Awarapan | Aliya | Hindi | [51] | ||
Tulasi | Herself | Telugu | Special appearance in the song "Ne Chuk Chuk Bandini" | [52] | |
Azhagiya Tamil Magan | Abhinaya | Tamil | [53] | ||
2008 | Indiralohathil Na Azhagappan | Herself | Special appearance in the song "Mallika Sherawata? Marilyn Monroe va?" | [54] | |
Mission Istaanbul | Anjali Sagar | Hindi | [55] | ||
The Other End of the Line | Priya Sethi | English | [56] | ||
2009 | Ek: The Power of One | Preet | Hindi | [57] | |
Thoranai | Indhu | Tamil | [58] | ||
Pistha | Indhu | Telugu | [59] | ||
Kanthaswamy | Subbulakshmi | Tamil | [60] | ||
Cooking with Stella | Tannu | English | [61] | ||
2010 | Kutty | Geetha | Tamil | [62] | |
Jaggubhai | Monisha Jagannathan | [63] | |||
Na Ghar Ke Na Ghaat Ke | Herself | Hindi | Special appearance | [64] | |
Pokkiri Raja | Aswathy | Malayalam | [65] | ||
Don Seenu | Deepti | Telugu | [66] | ||
Puli | Herself | Special appearance in the song "Dochey" | [67] | ||
Uthamaputhiran | Kalpana | Tamil | Guest appearance | [68] | |
Chikku Bukku | Anu | [69] | |||
2011 | Rowthiram | Priya | [70] [71] | ||
Rajapattai | Herself | Special appearance in the song "Laddu Laddu Rendu Laddu" | [72] | ||
2012 | Casanovva | Sameera Zacharia | Malayalam | [73] | |
Gali Gali Chor Hai | Nisha | Hindi | [74] | ||
Nuvva Nena | Nandini | Telugu | [75] | ||
Life is Beautiful | Paro | [76] | |||
Midnight's Children | Parvati | English | [77] | ||
2013 | Zila Ghaziabad | Herself | Hindi | Special appearance in the song "Chamiya No.1" | [78] [79] |
Pavitra | Pavitra | Telugu | [80] | ||
Chandra | Ammanmani Chandravathy | Kannada | [81] | ||
2014 | Chandra | Ammanmani Chandravathy | Tamil | [82] | |
Manam | Rama Lakshmi, Anjali | Telugu | Nominated —Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress - Telugu | [83] [84] | |
2015 | Gopala Gopala | Meenakshi | [85] | ||
Drishyam | Nandini Salgaonkar | Hindi | [86] | ||
2016 | Oopiri | Priya | Telugu | Cameo appearance | [87] |
Thozha | Priya | Tamil | Cameo appearance | [87] | |
2017 | Gautamiputra Satakarni | Vashishtha Devi | Telugu | [88] | |
Anbanavan Asaradhavan Adangadhavan | Selvi | Tamil | [89] | ||
Nakshathram | Herself | Telugu | Special appearance in the song "Time Ledu Guru" | [90] | |
Paisa Vasool | Sarika | [91] | |||
2018 | Gayatri | Shaarada | [92] | ||
Phamous | Lalli | Hindi | [93] | ||
Veera Bhoga Vasantha Rayalu | Neelima | Telugu | [94] | ||
2019 | NTR: Kathanayakudu | Prabha | Special appearance in the song "Chitram Bhale Vichitram" | [95] | |
2020 | Sab Kushal Mangal | Herself | Hindi | Special appearance in the song "Naya Naya Love" | [96] |
2021 | Gamanam | Kamala | Telugu | [97] | |
2022 | RRR | Alluri Sarojini | [98] | ||
Tadka | Madhura | Hindi | [99] | ||
Drishyam 2 | Nandini Salgaonkar | [100] | |||
2023 | Kabzaa | Madhumathi Bahaddur | Kannada | [101] | |
Music School | Maria D'Cruz | Hindi | Bilingual film | [102] | |
Telugu | |||||
2024 | Showtime | Mandira Singh | Hindi | TV series | [103] |
2025 | Suriya 44 † | Tamil | Filming Special appearance |
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