Ajay & Raghu Babu Movies Together List — 18 Films

The shape of the work

The 2000s belonged to Nagaram; the 2020s to Mazaka. Ajay acted in every film; Raghu Babu acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Ajay and Raghu Babu first shared screen space in Varsham (2004), but they didn't share a single dialogue. Their first real scene together came four years later in Lakshmi Putrudu (2008), where Raghu played a henchman who gets thrashed by Ajay's character.
• In Ontari (2008), Raghu Babu played the comic sidekick who constantly bickers with Ajay's brooding hero. The trick? Raghu would deliberately flub his lines to make Ajay break character — and those genuine laugh-takes made it into the final cut.
• Their 2010 film Kalavar King was the first Telugu movie to feature a full-length rap song in the hero's introduction. The track 'Naa Peru Kalavar King' became a ringtone craze across Andhra, directly inspiring similar hero-intro rap numbers in later films like Baadshah and Temper.
• During the shoot of Yagam (2010), Raghu Babu's father passed away. Ajay quietly took over all of Raghu's dialogue rehearsals and blocking for three days, then handed him a fully rehearsed script when he returned — not a single day of shoot was delayed.
• "Raghu Babu is the only co-star who has slapped me on screen more times than my mother did off screen. And I paid him back in every film after that." — Ajay, during a 2021 promotional interview for Sridevi Soda Center.
• In Autonagar Surya (2014), their fight scene in the auto garage was shot in one continuous take. Raghu Babu improvised the line 'Nee mokam lo auto number plate kuda undadu' — Ajay's stunned reaction was real, not scripted.