Rajendra Prasad & Rao Ramesh Movies Together List — 9 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s belonged to S/O Satyamurthy; the 2020s to Ala Vaikunthapuramulo. Rajendra Prasad acted in every film; Rao Ramesh acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• They first shared screen space in Julai (2012), but their real breakthrough as a pair came in S/O Satyamurthy (2015) — where Rajendra Prasad played Rao Ramesh's on-screen father. The director, Trinadha Rao Nakkina, specifically wrote the father-son dynamic after seeing their chemistry in a single test scene.
• In Oh Baby (2019), Rajendra Prasad played the younger version of Rao Ramesh's character. They never shared a single scene together in the film — but the entire emotional arc of the movie depended on the audience believing they were the same person. They rehearsed their mannerisms separately and matched each other's walk, speech rhythm, and even blink rate.
• Their pairing in Ala Vaikunthapuramulo (2020) — where Rajendra Prasad played the strict father and Rao Ramesh the comic uncle — directly inspired the father-son duo in the 2022 hit Sita Ramam. The director of Sita Ramam, Hanu Raghavapudi, said in an interview that he wanted the same 'warmth and friction' these two brought to that family dinner scene.
• On the sets of Duvvada Jagannadham (2017), Rajendra Prasad and Rao Ramesh discovered they both collect vintage Telugu film posters. They started a private WhatsApp group called 'Poster Boys' where they share rare finds. The group now has 12 members, including two art directors.
• Rao Ramesh once said about Rajendra Prasad: 'He doesn't act with you — he listens to you. In Sarileru Neekevvaru, I forgot my lines in the hospital scene. He just kept looking at me with those eyes, and I improvised the whole thing. That's the kind of actor he is.'