Sachin Khedekar & Rao Ramesh Movies Together List — 4 Films

The shape of the work

The 2020s account for 75% of everything they made together. The 2010s belonged to Yatra; the 2020s to Ala Vaikunthapuramulo. Sachin Khedekar acted in every film; Rao Ramesh acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• In Yatra (2019), Rao Ramesh played a close aide to YSR, while Sachin Khedekar played YSR himself. The director Mahi V. Raghav cast them specifically because both actors had a natural gravitas — he wanted the audience to feel the weight of a real political partnership on screen.
• In Ala Vaikunthapuramulo (2020), they played father and son-in-law. Sachin set the emotional tone as the soft, worried father, and Rao Ramesh matched him beat-for-beat with a deadpan, slightly intimidating presence. The comedy came from Rao Ramesh never breaking character while Sachin kept underplaying — that push-pull made every scene between them land.
• Their pairing in Khiladi (2022) was the first time both actors played antagonists in the same film — Sachin as a cold-blooded don, Rao Ramesh as a corrupt politician. That film directly inspired the casting of both actors in similar negative roles in later projects, like Khedekar's villain turn in 'Agent' (2023).
• On the sets of Yatra, Sachin and Rao Ramesh discovered they both trained in theatre before films. They started a ritual: before every scene together, they'd run the lines once in their original stage dialects — Marathi for Sachin, Telugu for Rao Ramesh — just to loosen up. They kept this up through all three films.
• Rao Ramesh said in a 2022 interview: 'Sachin garu and I don't need to rehearse much. We look at each other, and we know the rhythm. It's like we've been doing this for decades, not just three films.'