Azad (Telugu: ఆజాద్) is a 2000 Telugu movie directed by Tirupathi Swamy. It stars Akkineni Nagarjuna within the lead position and Raghuvaran, Shilpa Shetty, and Soundarya in different vital roles. C. Ashwini Dutt produced the movie and Mani Sharma composed music. The movie was launched on 29 September 2000 and was dubbed into Hindi as Mission Azaad. The movie was later remade into Tamil as Velayudham. The story was impressed from 1989 hindi movie Foremost Azaad Hoon during which Amitabh Bachchan performed the lead position of Azaad.