Ashish Vidyarthi & Prakash Raj Movies Together List — 4 Films

The shape of the work

The 2000s account for 75% of everything they made together. The 2000s belonged to Ghilli; the 2020s to Guntur Kaaram. Ashish Vidyarthi acted in every film; Prakash Raj acted in all of them. Mostly Telugu, with 1 film in Tamil.

Partnership facts

• In Okkadu (2003), Prakash Raj was cast as the villain first. Ashish Vidyarthi was brought in later to play a smaller but key role — the two never shared a single scene together in that film. Their first actual face-off on screen happened a year later in Ghilli (2004).
• In Ghilli (2004), Prakash Raj played the main antagonist while Ashish Vidyarthi played his henchman. Ashish later said in an interview that Prakash Raj would deliberately slow down his dialogue delivery in their scenes together — forcing Ashish to match that pace, which made their exchanges feel more menacing and controlled.
• The success of Ghilli (2004) — a blockbuster — directly led to both actors being cast together again in multiple Telugu films over the next two decades. Before that, no one thought of pairing them as villain and sidekick. After Ghilli, it became a template.
• Despite playing enemies on screen, Ashish Vidyarthi and Prakash Raj are close friends off-screen. During the shoot of Guntur Kaaram (2024), they were spotted having lunch together every single day — often sitting away from the rest of the cast.
• Ashish Vidyarthi once said about Prakash Raj: 'He doesn't just act with you — he wrestles with you in the scene. You have to bring your A-game or he'll eat you alive.' He said this in a 2022 podcast about their Ghilli experience.