Ashish Vidyarthi & Nassar Movies Together List — 3 Films

The shape of the work

Ashish Vidyarthi acted in every film; Nassar acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• "Nassar sir and I have this unspoken rule — if one of us raises an eyebrow, the other has to counter with a smirk. It started as a joke on Adhurs and became our signature." — Ashish Vidyarthi, in a 2015 interview with The Hindu.
• Their back-and-forth in Adhurs (2010) convinced director V.V. Vinayak to write a longer face-off scene for them in his next film — that scene became a template for how Telugu masala movies pair two senior actors in a single frame, copied in at least three later films.
• Nassar and Ashish Vidyarthi first shared screen space in Adhurs (2010) because director V.V. Vinayak specifically wanted two veteran character actors who could match each other's intensity in a single scene — they ended up filming that confrontation in one continuous take.
• In Baadshah (2013), Ashish Vidyarthi played the villain's right hand while Nassar played the hero's father — they never shared a single scene together, but both later admitted in interviews that they kept adjusting their performances based on the other's off-screen energy during the shoot.
• During the Oka Laila Kosam (2014) shoot, Nassar and Ashish Vidyarthi discovered they both collect vintage film posters — they spent every lunch break trading duplicates and arguing over whose collection had rarer prints.