Ajay & Posani Krishna Murali Movies Together List — 8 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s belonged to Bharath Ane Nenu; the 2020s to 18 Pages. Ajay acted in every film; Posani Krishna Murali acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Posani Krishna Murali didn't just write dialogues for 'Rowdy Fellow' (2014) — he also played a key supporting role. That film was the first time Ajay and Posani shared screen space, and Posani's intense monologue opposite Ajay in the climax convinced the director to keep them as a pair for future projects.
• In 'Bharath Ane Nenu' (2018), Posani wrote a 7-minute-long courtroom scene for Ajay. Ajay shot it in one take without a single cut. Posani later said he wrote that scene specifically because he knew Ajay could hold the audience's attention without any background music or cuts.
• Their collaboration on 'Kavacham' (2018) directly led to Posani being cast as the writer for Mahesh Babu's 'Sarileru Neekevvaru' (2020). Ajay recommended Posani to the producers after seeing how well their writing partnership worked on set.
• Ajay and Posani have a standing ritual: before every film's first day shoot, they share a cup of filter coffee at the same small canteen in Annapurna Studios. They've done this for all six films, even when schedules were tight.
• Posani once said in an interview: 'Ajay is the only actor who can deliver my longest dialogues without a single rehearsal. He reads it once, then performs it better than I imagined.'
• On the set of '90 ML' (2019), Posani would rewrite Ajay's lines on the spot to match his natural speech rhythm. Ajay, in turn, would suggest small pauses and gestures that made Posani's already sharp dialogue land harder. They'd finish each other's sentences during script readings.