Acting
Oct 8, 1974
Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh, India
Harsha Vardhan
Acting
Biography
Harsha Vardhan (born October 9, 1974) is an Indian actor, screenwriter, and film director who works predominantly in Telugu cinema and television. He gained early recognition playing the titular protagonist Icchapurapu Amrutha Rao in the long-running television sitcom *Amrutham* (2001–2007), a role he later reprised in its digital sequel *Amrutham Dhvitheeyam* (2020). Concurrently, he established a prolific career as a character actor, appearing in features including *Aithe* (2003), *Anukokunda Oka Roju* (2005), *Leader* (2010), *Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo* (2020), and *Saripodhaa Sanivaaram* (2024). In addition to acting, Vardhan transitioned into screenwriting, providing dialogues for the thriller *Vishaka Express* (2008) and the sports drama *Guru* (2017). He gained notable industry recognition for writing the screenplay for the romantic comedy *Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde* (2013) and the dialogues for the fantasy drama *Manam* (2014). In 2023, he made his feature directorial debut with the action comedy *Maama Mascheendra*, which he also wrote. His subsequent acting credits include the streaming series *Save the Tigers* (2023), the drama *Court: State vs. A Nobody* (2025), and *Mana ShankaraVaraPrasad Garu* (2026).
Feature Films (77)
A piano player pretending to be visually-impaired, unwittingly becomes entangled in a number of problems as he witnesses the murder of a former film actor.
Maestro
Sundar is a typical middle-class guy, working as a government teacher. He has to come up against a strangely unusual situation after his wife Meenakshi elopes with someone else soon after their marriage and to now convince the entire world that everything is alright.
Pushpaka Vimanam
Vikram is a newly recruit N.I.A. Officer who is getting accustomed with the nuances of his new job, has to handle his first major case due to ironic circumstances, during the course of which his life takes a drastic turn in all aspects.
Raja Vikramarka
A lightman falls for a girl who runs a soda centre. While love blossoms between the couple, caste prejudice that runs deeply rooted in their town will not allow them to prevail.
Sridevi Soda Center
Balamurali, a government employee, gets ready to marry Bhagyalakshmi as soon as he meets her in an arranged marriage setup. Everything goes on smoothly until there comes a day when it is revealed that the groom has fathered a child in the past.
Swathi Muthyam
An investigating officer is assigned to investigate few brutal murders, where he zeroes in on Ravindra, a criminal lawyer who has penchant for secretly committing murders as the mastermind behind the crime.
Ravanasura
A depressed and loyal policeman loses his gun to a killer, who kills people due the circumstances of his life.
Senapathi
Parasuram, shaped by traumatic childhood experiences, evolves into a ruthless enforcer, with the help of his aid Ramadasu, willing to sacrifice even his own family for immense wealth. Several years later, Parasuram's daughter, Vishalakshi falls head over heels for Durga in Visakhapatnam and Meenakshi, Dasu's daughter falls for the renowned DJ in Hyderabad. Parasuram becomes suspicious, suspecting that his nephews, strikingly resembling him, might be plotting revenge under the guise of love.
Maama Mascheendra
Miss Shetty is a feminist living in London and wants to be single forever. Mr. Polishetty from Hyderabad in Telangana, India, wants to be in a committed relationship. The two appear to be in different stages of life but somehow connect.
Miss. Shetty Mr. Polishetty
Upon the death of his father, Arjun Prasad campaigns to become the CM of Andhra. He hopes to eradicate corruption from Indian Politics.
Leader
A dancer trains for an event where she has to perform a special dance in Lord Shiva's temple. But when she suddenly disappears, her younger sister Chandrakala decides to learn the dance.
Pournami
Karthik (Sairam Shankar), Satya (Allari Naresh), Ali (Abhishek), Lakshmi (Swathi) and Radhika Reddy (Shireen) are childhood friends. They set out to a farmhouse for a party to celebrate the prospective marriage of Lakshmi. On the way they collide with a police vehicle and speed away to the party happening in the outskirts of the city. The policemen in the vehicle are badly hurt and one of them takes note of the car number which hit them. The police raid the party in search of the owners of the car. Panic raises among the crowd and the group consisting of the five friends escape from the party and in process of avoiding the chasing cops.
Danger
Television & Series (8)
Revolves around three frustrated husbands who meet by chance and how their rants over their marital problems set off a series of crazy events.
Save the Tigers
Amrutham is a popular sitcom in Telugu. It was produced by Just Yellow Media. It was the longest running and most popular sitcom in Telugu.
Amrutham
Seenu, a young man who is desperate for marriage, lands at a suitable match with great difficulty. While he's relieved about tying the knot at last, comes the twist, when the bride elopes with her boyfriend.
Aha Naa Pellanta
Cleanliness is her obsession. But what happens when this fetish leads to a highly qualified professional getting mistaken for a housemaid?
Miss Perfect
Amrutham Dhvitheeyam is a 2020 ZEE5 Telugu Original comedy series starring Harsha Vardhan, L B Sriram, Vasu, and Sivannarayana. In this sequel of Amrutham, the all-time popular Telugu sitcom, Amrutham and Anji continue to come up with creative ideas for their restaurant and fail with hilarious consequences.
Amrutham Dhvitheeyam
A dramatization of one of India's largest tech scams, where millions of buyers were deceived by the promise of an impossibly cheap phone, leading to a nationwide fraud.
