Nayanthara filmography

Indian actress and film producer Nayanthara works in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films. She made her acting debut with Sathyan Anthikad's Malayalam film Manassinakkare in 2003, post the success she became a popular star in the Malayalam industry. She did two more Malayalam films the following year: Shaji Kailas' Natturajavu, and Fazil's psychological thriller Vismayathumbathu. Nayanthara's first appearance in a non-Malayalam film was Hari's Tamil film Ayya which released in 2005. While shooting for the film, she was cast in another Tamil film Chandramukhi, after its director P. Vasu's wife had seen Manassinakkare and recommended her. The film ran for over 100 days in theatres, eventually turning Nayanthara into one of the most-sought after actresses in Tamil cinema.^[1]She is referred as Lady Superstar of South Indian Cinema.

Nayanthara in 2014

Nayanthara made her Telugu cinema debut with Lakshmi in 2006, and followed this with another Telugu film, Boss the same year. She appeared in four Tamil films that year: Kalvanin Kadhali,^[1] Vallavan, Thalaimagan and E. Nayanthara received praise for her performance in Billa (2007).^[2] The success of that film led to Sify describing her as "the glamour queen of Tamil cinema".^[3] Her 2008 release Yaaradi Nee Mohini was her only successful film as a lead actress that year.^[4] She had three releases in 2009: Villu, Anjaneyulu and Aadhavan. In 2010, all her releases, which featured her as the female lead, turned out to be commercial successes: she had five box office hits in the four Southern languages – Adhurs (Telugu), Bodyguard (Malayalam), Simha (Telugu), Boss Engira Bhaskaran (Tamil) and the Kannada film Super, which marked her first and only appearance in Kannada cinema. Her performances in Simha, Boss Engira Bhaskaran and Super eventually fetched her nominations for the Filmfare Best Actress Award in the respective languages.^[5]

In 2011, Nayanthara portrayed Sita in Sri Rama Rajyam, based on an episode in the Hindu epic Ramayana, for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu.^[6] Her performance in Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum (2012) earned her another nomination in the same category. She won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil for Raja Rani (2013)^[7] Naanum Rowdy Dhaan (2015),^[8] and Aramm (2017),^[9] and was nominated for the same for Iru Mugan (2016).^[10] She is also recognised for having made women centric films mainstream in the south Indian industries. She has starred in commercially and critically acclaimed female led films like Maya (2015), Puthiya Niyamam (2016), Aramm (2017), Kolamaavu Kokila (2018), Imaikkaa Nodigal (2018),Mookuthi Amman (2020), Netrikann (2021). She is also known for her Various roles in Rappakkal (2005), Vallavan (2006), Lakshmi (2006),Aadhavan (2009),Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum (2012) , Arrambam (2013) , Naanum Rowdy Dhaan(2015), Thani Oruvan (2015), Velaikkaran (2017), Jai Simha (2018), Kolamaavu Kokila (2018), Imaikkaa Nodigal (2018), Viswasam (2019), Love Action Drama (2019), Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy (2019), Bigil (2019), Mookuthi Amman (2020), Nizhal (2021), Annaatthe (2021), Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal (2022) and Godfather (2022). Nayanthara's highest grossing release came with Jawan (2023), which marked her debut in Hindi cinema.^[11]

Film

Key

†	Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released

List of Nayanthara films and roles

Year	Title	Role(s)	Language(s)	Notes	Ref.
2003	Manassinakkare	Gauri	Malayalam		[12][13]
2004	Vismayathumbathu	Reetha Mathews			[14]
	Natturajavu	Katrina			[15]
2005	Ayya	Selvi	Tamil		[16]
	Chandramukhi	Durga			[17]
	Thaskara Veeran	Thankamani	Malayalam		[18]
	Rappakal	Gauri			[13]
	Ghajini	Chitra	Tamil		[19]
	Sivakasi	Herself		Special appearance in the song "Kodambakkam Area"	[20]
2006	Kalvanin Kadhali	Haritha			[21]
	Lakshmi	Nandhinee	Telugu		[22][13]
	Boss	Anuradha			[23]
	E	Jyothi	Tamil		[24]
	Thalaimagan	Mekala			[25]
	Vallavan	Swapna			[26]
2007	Yogi	Nandini	Telugu		[27][28]
	Dubai Seenu	Madhumathi			[29]
	Sivaji: The Boss	Herself	Tamil	Special appearance in the song "Balleilakka"	[30]
	Tulasi	Vasundhara Ram	Telugu		[31]
	Billa	Sasha	Tamil		[32]
2008	Yaaradi Nee Mohini	Keerthi (Komalavalli)[a]			[33]
	Kuselan / Kathanayakudu	Herself	Tamil Telugu	Bilingual film; extended guest appearance	[20][34]
	Satyam / Salute	Deivanayaki alias Deiva (Tamil) Divya (Telugu)	Tamil Telugu	Bilingual film[b]	[36][37]
	Aegan	Mallika	Tamil		[38]
	Twenty:20	Herself	Malayalam	Special appearance in the song "Hey Dil Deewana"	[20]
2009	Villu	Janvi	Tamil		[39]
	Anjaneyulu	Anjali	Telugu		[40]
	Aadhavan	Thara	Tamil		[41]
2010	Adhurs	Chandrakala	Telugu		[42]
	Bodyguard	Ammu	Malayalam		[43]
	Goa	Herself	Tamil	Guest appearance	[44]
	Simha	Gayatri	Telugu		[45]
	Boss Engira Bhaskaran	Chandrika	Tamil		[46]
	Elektra	Elektra Alexander	Malayalam		[47]
	Super	Indira	Kannada		[48]
2011	Sri Rama Rajyam	Sita / Lakshmi	Telugu		[49]
2012	Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum	Devika			[50]
2013	Ethir Neechal	Herself	Tamil	Special appearance in the song "Local Boys"	[51]
	Greeku Veerudu	Sandhya	Telugu		[52]
	Raja Rani	Regina John	Tamil		[53]
	Arrambam	Maya			[54]
2014	Idhu Kathirvelan Kadhal	Pavithra			[55]
	Anaamika / Nee Enge En Anbe	Anaamika	Telugu Tamil	Bilingual film	[56][57]
2015	Nannbenda	Ramya	Tamil		[58]
	Bhaskar the Rascal	Hima	Malayalam		[59]
	Massu Engira Masilamani	Malini	Tamil		[60]
	Thani Oruvan	Mahima			[61]
	Maya	Maya Mathews, Apsara[c]			[62]
	Life of Josutty	Swapna	Malayalam	Cameo	[63]
	Naanum Rowdy Dhaan	Kadambari	Tamil		[64]
2016	Puthiya Niyamam	Vasuki Iyer	Malayalam		[65]
	Idhu Namma Aalu	Myla	Tamil		[66]
	Thirunaal	Vidya			[67]
	Babu Bangaram	Sailaja	Telugu		[68]
	Iru Mugan	Meera George/ Rosy	Tamil		[69]
	Kaashmora	Rathna Mahadevi			[70]
2017	Dora	Pavalakkodi			[71]
	Aramm	Madhivadhani			[72]
	Velaikkaran	Mrinalini			[73]
2018	Jai Simha	Gauri	Telugu		[74]
	Kolamaavu Kokila	Kokila	Tamil		[75]
	Imaikkaa Nodigal	Anjali Vikramadityan			[76]
2019	Viswasam	Niranjana			[77]
	Airaa	Bhavani, Yamuna[c]			[78]
	Mr. Local	Keerthana Vasudevan			[79]
	Kolaiyuthir Kaalam	Shruthi Lawson			[80]
	Love Action Drama	Shobha	Malayalam		[81]
	Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy	Siddhamma	Telugu		[82]
	Bigil	Angel Aasirvaatham	Tamil		[83]
2020	Darbar	Lilly			[84]
	Mookuthi Amman	Mookuthi Amman			[85]
2021	Nizhal	Sharmila	Malayalam		[86]
	Netrikann	Durga/ Nancy	Tamil		[87]
	Aaradugula Bullet	Nayana	Telugu		[88]
	Annaatthe	Adv. Pattammal	Tamil		[89]
2022	Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal	Kanmani Ganguly			[90]
	O2	Parvathy			[91]
	Godfather	Sathyapriya Jaidev	Telugu		[92]
	Gold	Sumangali Unnikrishnan	Malayalam		[93]
	Connect	Susan	Tamil		[94][95]
2023	Jawan	Narmada Rai	Hindi	Partially reshot in Tamil	[96][97]
	Iraivan	Priya	Tamil		[98]
	Annapoorani: The Goddess of Food	Annapoorani Rangarajan			[99]
2024	Nayanthara: Beyond the Fairytale	Herself		Netflix Documentary
2025	Test	Kumudha Saravanan			[100]
2026	Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups †	TBA	Kannada English	Filming	[101]
TBA	Mannangatti Since 1960 †	TBA	Tamil	Completed	[102]
	Dear Students †	Vidya Rudhran	Malayalam	Post-production	[103]
	MMMN †	TBA		Filming	[104]
	Untitled Vishnu Edavan Film †	TBA	Tamil	Filming	[105]
	Rakkayie †	Rakkayie		Filming	[106]
	Mookuthi Amman 2 †	Mookuthi Amman		Filming	[107]

Producer

Year	Title	Language(s)	Notes	Ref.
2021	Netrikann	Tamil
2021	Rocky		Presenter
2021	Koozhangal / Pebbles
2022	Kaathu Vaakula Rendu Kaadhal
2022	Connect
2023	Shubh Yatra	Gujarati		[108]
2025	Love Insurance Kompany	Tamil	Post-production

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Nayanthara

Notes

1. Nayanthara played a character with two names.
2. Nayanthara's scenes were shot in Tamil only.^[35]
3. Nayanthara plays dual role.