Pics & Clips! From Keerthy Suresh and Payal Rajput to Pranitha, Tollywood celebs enjoy quarantine with their pets

With the nationwide lockdown likely to be extended for a couple more weeks, celebrities are making most of their free time at home by reading, cooking, indoor workouts, playing board games, eating one’s favourite snacks or catching up on hobbies. Especially for those who have furry friends at home, this has become the best few weeks of their lives. Besides spending some quality time with them, our favourite actors and actresses are capturing those playful moments with their furry friends and sharing them on social media.From Keerthy Suresh and Payal Rajput to Pranitha Subhash, Sushanth and Sonam Bajwa, here is how Tollywood celebs are enjoying with their dogs/cats during quarantine times.


On April 12, Keerthy Suresh took to Instagram and shared a couple of pictures featuring herself and her pet dog enjoying the sunset from their terrace. In 2019, the 27-year-old actress won the Best Actress trophy at the 66th National Film awards for her impeccable performance as Savitri in the yesteryear heroine’s biopic titled Mahanati. Presently busy with a pipeline of Telugu and Tamil films, Keerthy will be next seen in the female-centric project titled Miss India. Besides playing the leading lady in Rajinikanth’s Annaatthe and Nithiin’s Rang De, she is also essaying the role of a sharpshooter in Nagesh Kukunoor’s sports-drama ‘Good Luck Sakhi’.

Since the beginning of self-quarantine, Pranitha Subhash has been sharing a series of photos and videos of her pet doggo Blu on social media. A recent clip of Pranitha trying to grab a pizza with her husky growling from behind went viral on the internet. In her latest post on Instagram, the 27-year-old Bengaluru beauty can be seen having a playful time with her furry friend.

After an impressive debut in Tollywood with Em Pillo Em Pillado and Baava, Pranitha shifted her focus to Kannada and Tamil cinema. She returned as the second leading lady with Attarintiki Daredi in 2013 and went on to play the same in a string of Telugu films. Finally, the 26-year-old actress bagged her big Bollywood debut opposite Ajay Devgn in the forthcoming war–drama Bhuj: The Pride of India.

In the first week of March, Payal Rajput boarded a flight from Hyderabad to Delhi with her furry friend, Candy. The one-month-old pomchi (mixed breed Pomeranian and Chihuahua), the pup was the cynosure of attention of her fellow passengers. A huge dog lover, the 29-year-old actor already has a four-year-old Chihuahua, Bunny and even has a social media page in his name. Taking to Instagram, Payal shared a cute video of her pomchi and termed it as the most satisfying watch. She captioned the post as “Most satisfying watch 💟 . Finding my inner peace ☮️ The steadiness of her breath brings peacefulness and a feeling of warmth. Watching them play with each other, relax with a chew toy, sleep soundly, or explore their surroundings on our walks provide me “ah ha” moments. #Candy 💟”

Charmme Kaur is a huge pet lover and she often shares cuddling pics with her dogs on social media. A couple of days ago, the 32-year-old diva went nostalgic and remembered her playful time with director Jayanth C. Paranjee’s golden retriever. Sharing the video, she wrote “Gemme a hug babby 😘😘 Miss u @jayanthparanji n ur cutest retriever 😘😘😘😘 #pets #love”

After enjoying a fruitful stint as an actress, Charmme turned into a producer with her self-starrer Jyothi Lakshmi in 2015 and subsequently started to co-produce films with Puri Jagannadh on Puri Connects. Currently, she is occupied with the pan-Indian project ‘Fighter’ starring Vijay Deverakonda and Ananya Pandey in lead roles.

Sushanth has always been a big dog lover and at present, he own two golden retrievers; Thor and Leia. Recently, the Akkineni hero took to his social handle and urged everyone not to abandon their pets amid these tough times. Mentioning that pets cannot get COVID-19 or transmit it, he wrote on his handle “Hope you are keeping safe.. Do keep your pets close! They don’t get the virus, they can’t give it to you.. pls don’t abandon them 🙏 #StayHomeStaySafe”

Nidhhi Agerwal
Stepping foot into the showbiz arena with the 2017 Bollywood film Munna Michael, Nidhhi Agerwal made her Telugu debut with Savyasachi opposite Naga Chaitanya. After romancing Akhil Akkineni in Mr Majnu, the 26-year-old actress bagged her maiden mainstream success with Puri Jagannadh’s ‘iSmart Shankar’. She has effectively portrayed the pivotal role of Sarah in the actioner and her electrifying presence in songs like Undipo and Dhimak Kharab has literally shaken up the masses. Amid this lockdown, the Hyderabad-born diva is spending some quality time at home with her family members, pet dog and trying her hands at cooking and drawing.