Rohini & Rao Ramesh Movies Together List — 8 Films

The shape of the work

The 2020s account for 88% of everything they made together. The 2010s belonged to Antaku Mundu Aa Taruvaata; the 2020s to Ala Vaikunthapuramulo. Rohini acted in every film; Rao Ramesh acted in all of them.

Partnership facts

• Rohini and Rao Ramesh first shared screen space in 'Antaku Mundu Aa Taruvaata' (2013) because director Mohan Krishna Indraganti specifically wanted a mother-son pair that felt like real family. He cast them after seeing their natural ease in a test reading — no audition, just one conversation.
• In 'Ala Vaikunthapuramulo' (2020), Rohini’s character is the warm, worried mother while Rao Ramesh plays the stern, distant father. The tension in their scenes comes from how they never look at each other during arguments — a choice they both made on set to show emotional distance.
• On the sets of 'Bachhala Malli' (2024), Rohini and Rao Ramesh would share lunch together every single day, even when their call times didn't overlap. They’d sit in Rao Ramesh’s van and talk about old Telugu theatre days — a ritual they started during 'Antaku Mundu Aa Taruvaata' and kept up for every film since.
• Rohini said in a 2021 interview: 'Rao Ramesh is the only co-actor who can make me forget my lines just by looking at me a certain way. We have a rhythm that doesn’t need rehearsal.'
• Their mother-son dynamic in 'Ala Vaikunthapuramulo' (2020) was so well-received that director Trivikram Srinivas wrote an extended family scene specifically for them in the second half — a scene that wasn’t in the original script. That scene became one of the most shared clips from the film on social media.