Azad (Telugu: ఆజాద్) is a 2000 Telugu film directed by Tirupathi Swamy. It stars Akkineni Nagarjuna in the lead role and Raghuvaran, Shilpa Shetty, and Soundarya in other important roles. C. Ashwini Dutt produced the film and Mani Sharma composed music. The film was released on 29 September 2000 and was dubbed into Hindi as Mission Azaad. The film was later remade into Tamil as Velayudham. The story was inspired from 1989 hindi film Main Azaad Hoon in which Amitabh Bachchan played the lead role of Azaad.

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Nagarjuna Akkineni
Chandra Sekhar Azad

Raghuvaran
Deva / CBI Officer Vishwanath / Harkat Ul Ansari Dawood

Soundarya
Anjali

Shilpa Shetty Kundra
Kanaka Mahalakshmi

Prakash Raj
Inspector Salim

Tanikella Bharani
Kanaka Raju

L. B. Sriram
Sastry

Sujitha
Kaveri

Banerjee
Benarjee