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Nandi Awards of 2015

Indian Telugu film and TV awards ceremony

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ43172019 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nandi Awards for the year 2015 announced by Andhra Pradesh Government on 14 November 2017. The S. S. Rajamouli starrer Baahubali: The Beginning emerged as a big winner with a record 13 awards for the year. The NTR National award for the year was conferred on director K. Raghavendra Rao.

The Awards Ceremony was held in Amaravati.

Winners list

Controversy

Director Ram Gopal Varma and Gunasekhar criticised that the selection of awards are biased, the Rudhramadevi (film), which is about women empowerment was not considered as best films.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nandi Awards of 2015” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.