Kota Srinivasa Rao & Roja Selvamani Movies Together List — 10 Films

The shape of the work

The 1990s belonged to Bobbili Simham; the 2010s to Parama Veera Chakra. Kota Srinivasa Rao acted in every film; Roja Selvamani acted in all of them.

Partnership facts

• Their first film together, Muta Mesthri (1993), was a gamble. Director E. V. V. Satyanarayana paired Kota Srinivasa Rao as the villain opposite Roja Selvamani's heroine — a combo that had no precedent in Telugu cinema at the time. It worked so well that they made six more films together over the next two decades.
• In Mugguru Monagallu (1994), Kota's menacing presence forced Roja to dial up her emotional intensity. She later said in an interview that acting opposite him felt like 'a real fight' — he never gave her a soft take, which made her performance sharper.
• Despite playing bitter on-screen rivals in films like Bobbili Simham (1994), Kota and Roja shared a warm off-screen bond. Roja once revealed that Kota would personally bring her homemade pickles from his village during long outdoor shoots.
• Their pairing in Big Boss (1995) — a rare film where Kota played a comedic role opposite Roja — inspired a wave of 'villain-heroine' comic tracks in late-90s Telugu cinema. Directors started casting heavy antagonists in lighter roles because of how well this duo pulled it off.
• Roja Selvamani once said about Kota: 'He never treated me like a junior artiste. Even when he was the biggest villain in the industry, he would rehearse scenes with me for hours before the director arrived.'
• In Peddannayya (1997), Kota deliberately slowed his dialogue delivery to match Roja's Tamil-accented Telugu. That rhythm — his deliberate pause, her quicker retort — became the signature of their scenes together.