Shriya Saran & Murli Sharma Movies Together List — 4 Films
Complete Movies List & Collaboration History
Last updated: 2026-06-02 · Data sources: Wikipedia, TMDB
Shriya Saran and Murli Sharma appeared together in 4 Hindi films between 2012 and 2019. Their highest-rated collaboration was Gopala Gopala (2015 — 6.4/10). Films span Gali Gali Chor Hai (2012) through NTR Kathanayakudu (2019).
The Shriya Saran & Murli Sharma partnership
From Gali Gali Chor Hai (2012) to NTR Kathanayakudu (2019). It started with Gali Gali Chor Hai (2012).
The shape of the work
Shriya Saran acted in every film; Murli Sharma acted in all of them. Mostly Hindi, with 2 films in Telugu.
Partnership facts
- Shriya Saran was the one who pushed for Murli Sharma to be cast in 'Gali Gali Chor Hai' (2012). She had worked with him before in Telugu and told the director he'd nail the comic villain role. He got the part without a formal audition.
- In 'Gopala Gopala' (2015), Murli Sharma deliberately slowed down his comic timing to match Shriya's more measured delivery. He later said in an interview that she made him 'earn every laugh' because she wouldn't react until he hit the exact beat.
- During the shoot of 'Tadka' (2017), Shriya and Murli had a running bet: whoever flubbed a dialogue first had to buy the entire crew chai. Murli lost 11 times in one week. He still jokes that she 'tricked him into funding her chai addiction.'
- Their pairing in 'NTR Kathanayakudu' (2019) was the only time in Hindi cinema that both actors played real-life historical figures who were actually contemporaries — Shriya played Basavatarakam, Murli played the journalist K. R. K. Murthy. No other film has repeated that specific double casting.
- Murli Sharma on Shriya Saran: 'She has this weird superpower — she can make you look good even when you're overacting. In 'Gali Gali Chor Hai', I was going full throttle, and she just stood there with one raised eyebrow. The audience laughed at me, not with me. That's a gift.'
4 films across 1 decade
- Gopala Gopala
- Gali Gali Chor Hai
The partnership in numbers
Partnership Pattern
4 films across 7 years represents consistent collaboration.
Language Distribution
Linguistic diversity: 2 languages, with Hindi being their primary medium.
Where each was in their career
When they first worked together, Shriya Saran had 39 films behind them; Murli Sharma had 6.
Before Gali Gali Chor Hai, Shriya Saran had starred in 39 films, including Tagore (2003) and Nenunnanu (2004).
After NTR Kathanayakudu, Shriya Saran went on to appear in 10 more films, including Drishyam 2 (2022) and RRR (2021).
Before Gali Gali Chor Hai, Murli Sharma had starred in 6 films, including Main Hoon Na (2004) and Sunday (2008).
After NTR Kathanayakudu, Murli Sharma went on to appear in 8 more films, including Hit (2020) and Shyam Singha Roy (2021).
Collaboration Journey
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Actors and musicians who worked on most of their films
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