Vaibhav Reddy & Aravind Akash Movies Together List — 4 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s belonged to Chennai 600028 II: Second Innings; the 2020s to The Greatest of All Time. Vaibhav Reddy acted in every film; Aravind Akash acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Venkat Prabhu handpicked both of them for Chennai 600028 II: Second Innings (2016) because he wanted actors who could actually play cricket — Vaibhav and Aravind were the only ones in the cast who had played at a competitive level.
• In LKG (2019), Vaibhav played the straight-laced politician while Aravind played his chaotic campaign manager — Aravind improvised most of his lines on set, and Vaibhav would react in real time, which gave the scenes a live-wire energy that the director kept in the final cut.
• Their hit RK Nagar (2020) directly launched the trend of small-town political comedies in Tamil cinema — two films that followed its template were released within the next year, both trying to copy the Vaibhav-Aravind buddy dynamic.
• During the shoot of Chennai 600028 II, Vaibhav and Aravind shared a room for three months — they'd rehearse scenes at 2 AM after everyone else had slept, and still do a 5 AM run together every morning.
• Aravind Akash said in a 2020 interview: 'Vaibhav is the only actor who can make me laugh even when I'm supposed to be angry in a scene. We'd ruin takes because we couldn't stop giggling.'