Rajendra Prasad & Naresh Movies Together List — 4 Films

The shape of the work

The 2020s account for 75% of everything they made together. The 2010s belonged to Mogudu; the 2020s to Anni Manchi Sakunamule. Rajendra Prasad acted in every film; Naresh acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• They first shared screen space in Mogudu (2011), but neither was the original choice. The director had to recast both roles after the initial actors walked out over budget issues. Rajendra Prasad and Naresh stepped in together, turning a crisis into a pairing that would last a decade.
• In Sarileru Neekevvaru (2020), Naresh played the straight-laced, reactive foil to Rajendra Prasad's chaotic comic energy. Prasad would deliberately throw in unscripted lines during takes, and Naresh had to hold his composure without breaking character — a trick they perfected over three films.
• Their only hit together, Sarileru Neekevvaru (2020), directly led to Mahesh Babu signing a similar buddy-comedy with a senior comedian the following year. Industry insiders say the film's success proved that pairing a young hero with an older comic legend could still work at the box office.
• On the sets of Super Machi (2022), the two would spend lunch breaks arguing over old Telugu film trivia. Naresh once bet Rajendra Prasad that he couldn't name the villain in a 1985 film — Prasad won, and Naresh had to buy biryani for the entire unit.
• "Naresh is the only actor who can keep up with my nonsense without rolling his eyes. He lets me fly, but he's the one holding the string." — Rajendra Prasad, in a 2022 interview about Super Machi.