South Indian cinema which consists of Tamil, Telugu Malayalam, and Kannada cinema industries, is giving tough competition to Bollywood. They accumulate together 50 to 60 % of the total revenue of Indian cinema.
Here we are listing the topmost Must Watch South Indian Movies Dubbed in Hindi which you will find on various platforms like YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, etc.
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1- Bahubali: The Beginning
Star Cast: Prabhas, Rana Dagubati, Anushka Shetty, Tamannah
Available On: Netflix, Youtube, Amazon Prime, Hotstar
IMDb Rating: 8/10
Bahubali when released in 2015, It had broken several records the highest-grossing film in India, the highest-grossing Indian, film worldwide, and the highest-grossing South Indian film.
The budget for the film was 180 crore (One of the highest at its time of release). Directed by the known director of South Cinema S.S Rajamouli with production company Arka Media Works. It is a two-part movie the other one is Bahubali2: The Conclusion which was released in 2017.
2- Magadheera
Star Cast: Ram Charan, Kajal Aggarwal
Available On: Hotstar, MX Player, YouTube
IMDb Rating: 7.7/10
Magadheera is a fantasy Action film directed by S.S. Rajamouli, which explores the lives of two people Harsha (Ram Charan) and Indu (Kajal Aggarwal), who were lovers in the past life as Kala Bhairava and Mithravinda in the year 1609.
The budget of the movie was 35 crore, it was released on 31 July 2009. K.K. Senthil Kumar has done a great job in cinematography in the movie. The film won several no. of awards in Filmfare, Nandi, and CineMAA Awards. It had won the National Award for Choreography too.
3- Nenokkadine (Ek Ka Dum in Hindi)
Star Cast: Mahesh Babu, Kriti Sanon
Available On: YouTube
IMDb Rating: 8.1/10
Nenokkadine is a psychological thriller released on 10 January 2014. The film is on the list of “25 Greatest Telugu films of the decade” by Fim Companion.
It is directed by Sukumar. Production Company 14 Reels Entertainment produced this movie on a budget of 70 crores. The release date of the film was 10 January 2014. Mahesh Babu is playing the role of an Indian musician named Goutham and Kriti Sanon as Sameera.
4- Vedam
Star Cast: Allu Arjun, Manoj Bajpayee, Anushka Shetty
Available On: MX Player, Amazon Prime
IMDb Rating: 8.1/10
Vedam is a film that was applauded by not only the audience but also by Critics. Rediff’s Review “Vedam is a must-watch for its story, screenplay, direction, and technicalities. It offers hope to the audience interested in good and sensible cinema that such a film can be made in Telugu.
Vedam is a beautiful confluence of writing and technical aspects. It has set a benchmark in Telugu cinema.” The film was released on 4 June 2010 & directed by Krish.
5- Anniyan
Star Cast: Vikram, Sadha
Available On: MX Player, ZEE5
IMDb Rating: 8.3/10
Anniyan (Aparachit) revolves around the character Ramanujam “Ambi” Iyengar (Vikram) who has a disease called multiple personality disorder and Nandhini Krishna (Sadha) is playing his love interest in the movie.
Amazing story and brilliant screenplay with Vikram’s acting, this movie comes under a must-watch movie list. It was directed by S. Shankar who is known for his film Gentleman (1993). It was released on 17 June 2005.
6- U-Turn
Star Cast: Samantha Akkineni, Aadhi Pinisetty, Rahul Ravindran, Bhumika Chawla.
Available On: Amazon Prime Video,
IMDb Rating: 7/10
This Songless film is highly underrated. Samantha Akkineni is the Protagonist in the film, who is playing the role of a character called Rachana, an intern working with Times Of India. U-Turn is a mystery thriller, made under the direction of Pawan Kumar. It is a remake of the Kannada film U-turn which was released in 2016. Though the film was released on 13 Sept. 2018, it was made available on Amazon Prime Video on 25 Oct. 2018.
7- Dear Comrade
Star Cast: Vijay Devarakonda, Rashmika Mandanna, Shruti Ramachandran
Available On: YouTube, Amazon Prime, MX Player,
IMDb Rating: 7.4/10
Dear Comrade explores the life of Chaitanya Makineni aka Bobby, who is a communist in college life. Later in the film, he finds a girl named Aparna Devi aka Lilly, which changes his life completely. This film was made available in Hindi on the YouTube channel Goldmines Telefilms on 19 Jan 2020 and it has crossed 242 million views. The film is directed by Bharat Kamma.
8- Bhaagamathie
Star Cast: Anushka Shetty, Jayaram, Unni Mukundan
Available On: YouTube, ZEE5
IMDb Rating: 7/10
The movie revolves around Bhaagamathie, as known as IAS Chanchala (Anushka Shetty) who in the film exposes the corrupt minister Eashwar Prasad’s (Jayaram) scam. Bhaagamthie is a horror-thriller film. It has a Hindi Remake called Durgamati which was released in the year 2020.
After Sridevi, Anushka Shetty (with this film) became the second Indian actress who has $ 1 million grosser at the US box office. It was directed and written by G. Ashok. Release date 26 January 2018.
9- Arjun Reddy
Star Cast: Vijay Devarakonda, Shalini Pandey
Available On: Disney+Hotstar
IMDb Rating: 8.1/10
The film explores the life of Dr. Arjun Reddy (Vijay Devarakonda) who is an alcoholic doctor and has anger issues, his downfall starts when his girlfriend Dr. Preethi Shetty gets married to another guy. The film’s origin language is Telugu and it has one remake in Hindi as Kabir Singh which was released in 2019 and two in Tamil called Adithya Varma and Varmaa. It is in the Flim Companion’s list of “25 Greatest Telugu Films Of The Decade” and “100 Greatest Performances of the Decade.”
The Vanga brothers Sandeep Reddy Vanga and Pranay Reddy Vanga, Directed/Wrote, and Produced this film respectively. It was released on 25 Aug. 2017.
10- Lucifer
Star Cast: Mohanlal, Vivek Oberoi, Manju Warrier
Available On: Amazon Prime Video
IMDb Rating: 7.5/10
Malayalam megastar Mohanlal starrer Lucifer has become the first Malayalam film that has crossed the 200 crore mark at the box office. It is directed by Prithviraj Sukumaran, written by Murali Gopy, and produced by Antony Perumbavoor. The release date of the film was 28 March 2019. Mohanlal is in the role of Stephen Nedumpally/ Khureshi Ab’raam, Vivek Oberoi as Bimal Nair aka Bobby who is Priyadarshini Ramdas’s (Manju Warrier) second husband.
Mohanlal beats its own previous movie Pulimurugan’s record to become one of the highest-grossing Malayalam Movies ever.
11- Vikram Vedha
Star Cast: R.Madhavan, Vijay Sethupathi
Available On: ZEE5, Disney+ Hotstar, MX Player
IMDb Rating: 8.4/10
It is an action thriller film which was released on 21 July 2017. R. Madhavan is playing the role of an honest cop Vikram who is on a mission to track down the evil guy Vedha (Vijay Sethupati).
The Budget of the film was around 12 Crore and it earned around 60 Crore plus in the box office despite facing problems because of the implementation of GST. It won four Filmfare awards. Directed and written by Pushkar-Gayathri.
12- Na Peru Surya, Naa Illu India
Star Cast: Allu Arjun, Arjun Sarja, R.Sarathkumar
Available On: ZEE5
IMDb Rating: 6.8/10
Allu Arjun is in the role of a character called Surya an impatient man who had a dream to join the Indian army. However, when he joins the army, gets into a brawl with a terrorist and kills him with a stolen inspector’s gun. He gets court-martialed for it and is asked to bring approval from top psychologist Dr. Rama Krishnam Raju (Arjun Sarja) if he wants to continue further his dream job. The film is directed and written by Vakkantham Vamsi. It was released in Hindi dubbed as Surya: The Soldier on 7 Sept. 2018.
13- Sarrainodu
Star Cast: Allu Arjun, Rakul Preet Singh, Catherine tresa
Available On: YouTube, MX Player
IMDb Rating: 6.6/10
Sarrainodu was the second highest-grossing film of 2016 in Telugu films. It was released on 22 April 2016.
The Hindi dubbed was made available on YouTube on 26 Dec. 2016 and it has crossed over 700+ million views. The film is directed and co-written by Boyapati Srinu and is produced by Allu Aravind under his banner Geetha Arts.
14- Sivaji: The Boss
Star Cast: Rajnikanth, Shriya Saran
Available On: Amazon Prime Video
IMDb Rating: 7.5/10
Rajnikanth is playing the role of a software architect, who returns to India from the U.S. and formed an NGO named Sivaji Foundation in order to help the poor. The film has won a National Award and four Filmfare awards. The Hindi dubbed version of it was released on 8 Jan. 2010. It was directed by the known director S. Shankar, screenplay and story were also written by him.
15- Kanchana 2
Star Cast: Raghava Lawrence, Nithya Menen, Taapsee Pannu
Available On: MX Player
IMDb Rating: 5.6/10
It is an underrated film. The origin language of Kanchana 2 was Tamil later its Telugu and Kannada version has also been released as Ganga which was released on 1 May 2015 and Kalpana 2 in 2016 respectively.
The movie is Written, Produced, and Directed by Raghava Lawrence. Taapsee Pannu is playing the role of Nandini, Nithya Menen as Ganga. Raghava Lawrence is playing the dual character Raghava and Shiva.
The film was released on 17 April 2015. The budget of the film was around 18 crore and it made the business of approx. 120 crore.
16- Jai Bhim
Star Cast: Suriya, Prakash Raj, Rajisha Vijayan, Lijomol Jose, K. Manikandan, Ravi Venkataraman
Available On: Amazon Prime Video
IMDb Rating: 9.6/10
Superstar Suriya’s court drama Jai Bhim is one of the highest-rated South Indian Movies, released on 2nd Nov 2021. The movie is basically a social drama, critically acclaimed by the viewers. The direction of TJ Gnanavel is looking award-worthy, actor Suriya himself produced the film.
17- RRR
Star Cast: Jr. NTR, Ram Charan, Alia Bhatt, Ajay Devgn
Available On: Netflix
IMDb Rating: 8/10
Rajamouli’s magnum opus “RRR” has set several box office records, it was released on March 2022 and went on to become the third highest-grossing film in India and 4th highest grossing Indian film of all time. The film opened with rave reviews from critics and received much love from the audience at the cinema halls. The Hindi version of the film is available on Netflix.
18- KGF-2
Star Cast: Yash, Srinidhi Shetty
Available On: Amazon Prime Video
IMDb Rating: 8.4/10
The most successful Indian film of the year 2022, the monster “KGF-Chapter2” is available on Amazon Prime Video, the film opened with a flying start at the box office so much so that its Hindi version became the highest opening day-grosser Hindi film of all time. It created many records at the BO including the 2nd highest grosser film in India and the 3rd highest grosser Indian film of all time.
19- 777 Charlie
Star Cast: Rakshit Shetty, Raj B.Shetty and Sangeetha Sringeri
Available On: Voot
IMDb Rating: 9.1/10
The pan India film of the sandalwood industry won the hearts of the cinephiles at the box office, the small-budget film even went on to cross the Rs 100 Cr mark in its theatrical run. It is available on Voot and has 9.1 out of 10 ratings on IMDb.
20- Pushpa
Star Cast: Allu Arjun, Rashmika Mandanna
Available On: Amazon Prime
IMDb Rating: 7.6/10
Icon star Allu Arjun’s 2022 release Pushpa emerged as a commercial success in all versions. The Hindi version of the film went on to collect over Rs 100 crores in its entire theatrical run. It is a big feat that too when a film was released in theatres without promotions and marketing. Available on Amazon Prime, IMDb rating .6 out of 10.
21- Kantara
Star Cast: Rishab Shetty, Pramod, Sapthami Gowda
Available On: Amazon Prime Video from 24th Nov
IMDb Rating: 9.3/10
Kannada actor-director Rishab Shetty’s film Kantara put several records on fire at Box Office as the film has just a 15-16 Cr budget but crossed 400 Cr WW, many Bollywood filmmakers to politicians cricketers praised Rishab for his performance, direction, and writing.
Best South Indian Movies of All Time FAQs
A. For the best cinema experience, you can watch Baahubali Part 1 & 2. If You are a dog lover, don’t skip Charlie 777.
A. Virupaksha and Dasara are the best South Indian Movies of 2023.
A. Kamal Haasan, Suriya, Ram Charan, Prabhas, Jr NTR, Allu Arjun, Vijay, Vikram.
