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10 Telugu actors who preferred staying single and continued acting in films!

Hemachandra Ethamukkala | Last updated on - Feb 13, 2022, 11:57 IST
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10 South actors who staying single continued acting in films!

Some say that ‘marriages are made in heaven’, donno if really it is, seems like marriage is nothing but hell for our Telugu film celebs. If some stayed away from it all their life, some called off their marriage soon they got engaged into the system of marriage. A few separated ways post-marriage due to compatibility issues. There are hardly any of those, who are married together and continued working for long in the film industry. With the ongoing rumours of separation between Samantha Akkineni and Naga Chaitanya, let's see some of the film stars who skipped their marriage for their passion for films.

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​R Narayana Murthy

The 66-year-old People star who has acted in several super hit movies had remained unmarried all his life. In one of his recent interviews, he revealed the reason for it. Narayana Murthy loved a lower class girl at a young age, and his parents declined the marriage due to inter-caste marriage. Hence, he remained unmarried all his life.

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​Actress Rajitha

Telugu film actress Rajitha who has been active in the film industry since 1987, has acted in more than 100 movies in various roles. She remained single all her life due to unknown reasons. But, she has reportedly been taking care of her relative's kids.

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​Vishal

Actor Vishal Krishna Reddy is a Tamil and Telugu actor, who had reportedly engaged to a Hyderabad-based girl Anisha Alla in March 2019, called off his engagement due to unknown reasons. The 44-year-old Vishal is currently busy shooting for ‘Veerame Vaagai Soodum’, ‘Tupparivaalan – 2’ and waiting for the ‘Enemy’ release.

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​Prabhas

The 41-year-old Macho man of Tollywood and a Pan India star keeps skipping the question of marriage in his interviews. He sometimes says marriage is too much of a responsibility for him, as he is a lazy person. So, it might happen sometime in the future but not immediately. However, he had reportedly been dating Anushka Shetty during the making of Baahubali, and post the film's release, they parted their ways.

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​Sumanth

Sumanth Yarlagadda married former actress Keerthi Reddy. They divorced amicably two years later. Sumanth remained unmarried from then on, Whereas Keerthi Reddy remarried and settled in the USA.

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​Siddharth

Siddharth married a girl named Meghna in November 2003 after they had fallen in love growing up in the neighborhood in New Delhi. Post his success in movies the pair started living separately and later divorced in Jan 2007.

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​Trisha

Trisha Krishnan got engaged to Varun Manian, a Chennai-based businessman, and a film producer. In May 2015, the couple had parted ways ending their engagement due to compatibility issues. Trisha continued her passion for films. Currently, she has 6 films lined up for release.

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​Subbaraju

Penmetsa Subbaraju, who predominantly works in Telugu cinema, has also skipped his marriage by being busy with movies. He was a computer graduate before joining movies, and was about to join a Techie giant 'Dell' but post entering movies he skipped his marriage.

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​Rashmika Mandanna

The 25-year-old pretty actress began dating her co-star Rakshit Shetty during the making of her debut film ‘Kirik Party’. The couple even got engaged on 3 July 2017 in a private ceremony in her hometown. But, they mutually broke off their alliance after one year citing compatibility issues, and both are busy doing their films now.

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Anushka Shetty

This 39-year-old actress too remained single due to unknown reasons. She is a very successful actress with several blockbuster hits in the Telugu film industry but never talked about her marriage for the reasons only she knows best.

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​Mehreen Kaur Pirzada

Mehreen, who was predominantly seen in Telugu movies, has also called off her marriage post engagement with Bhavya Bishnoi the son of former Haryana chief minister Bhajan Lal. The wedding that was postponed due to Covid-29 was called off later in July 2021 due to unknown reasons.

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