Akkineni Nagarjuna & Ramya Krishnan Movies Together List — 11 Films

The shape of the work

The 1990s account for 73% of everything they made together. The 1990s belonged to Annamayya; the 2020s to Bangarraju. Akkineni Nagarjuna acted in every film; Ramya Krishnan acted in all of them.

Partnership facts

• Their first film together, Iddaru Iddare (1990), was a remake of a Malayalam hit. Nagarjuna specifically requested Ramya Krishnan for the role after seeing her in a Tamil film. She was hesitant because she didn't know Telugu well. He told her, 'Just say the lines phonetically. I'll help you on set.'
• In Annamayya (1997), Nagarjuna played the saint-poet and Ramya played his wife. The director said Nagarjuna would deliberately slow down his dialogue delivery during their scenes together. He knew Ramya's Telugu was still a work in progress, so he matched her rhythm. That hesitation became the character's devotion on screen.
• After Chandralekha (1998) flopped, they didn't work together for 18 years. Ramya later said in an interview that she thought Nagarjuna was upset with her about the film's failure. He wasn't. He just assumed she was too busy with Tamil cinema. They only reconnected when his son Naga Chaitanya insisted they do Soggade Chinni Nayana (2016) together.
• Ramya Krishnan on Nagarjuna, during the promotions of Soggade Chinni Nayana (2016): 'He is the only hero who never once made me feel like a supporting actress. Even when I had just two scenes, he made sure the director gave me space. That's why I keep coming back.'
• Their 2017 film Hello was a direct remake of the Malayalam film Charlie. But the Telugu version changed the entire climax because Nagarjuna and Ramya's on-screen dynamic was so warm. The original had a bittersweet ending. Their version ended with them together. That choice influenced the Tamil remake too.