Tamannaah Bhatia & Ali Movies Together List — 4 Films
Complete Movies List & Collaboration History
Last updated: 2026-06-02 · Data sources: Wikipedia, TMDB
Tamannaah Bhatia and Ali appeared together in 4 Telugu films between 2012 and 2016. Their highest-rated collaboration was Oopiri (2016 — 7.8/10). Films span Rachcha (2012) through Oopiri (2016).
The Tamannaah Bhatia & Ali partnership
Between 2012 and 2016, they barely worked apart — 4 films in 4 years. For 4 years, a Tamannaah–Ali film arrived almost every year. They saved their best for last — Oopiri (7.8/10) came 4 years in.
From Rachcha (2012) to Oopiri (2016). Oopiri is the one most viewers reach for.
The shape of the work
Tamannaah Bhatia acted in every film; Ali acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.
Partnership facts
- In Oopiri (2016), Tamannaah and Ali's comic timing in the 'auto rickshaw chase' scene became a meme template on Telugu social media for years after release.
- Oopiri (2016) is the only film where Tamannaah and Ali shared screen space in a non-comic role — Ali played a serious friend, and their emotional scene in the hospital was the first time they didn't trade punchlines.
- After Speedunnodu (2016) flopped, both Tamannaah and Ali publicly said they'd only work together again if the script was 'not a comedy caper' — and they never made another film together after that.
- Ali once joked in a 2016 interview: 'Tamannaah and I have done four films — in three of them, I'm the one who gets slapped by her hero. In Oopiri, I finally got to slap someone else.'
- In Cameraman Ganga Tho Rambabu (2012), their 'bathroom door lock' scene — where Ali gets stuck and Tamannaah has to rescue him — is still played on Telugu comedy TV channels during reruns.
- Their first film together, Rachcha (2012), collected ₹42 crore worldwide — the highest opening weekend for any film featuring both of them, but also the lowest-rated collaboration critically.
4 films across 1 decade
- Oopiri
- Cameraman Ganga Tho Rambabu
The partnership in numbers
Partnership Pattern
4 films across 4 years represents consistent collaboration.
Language Distribution
Linguistic diversity: 1 language, with Telugu being their primary medium.
Where each was in their career
After Oopiri, Tamannaah Bhatia kept going for 36 more films; Ali stepped back. By the time of Rachcha, both already had careers — Tamannaah Bhatia with 22 films, Ali with 41.
Before Rachcha, Tamannaah Bhatia had starred in 22 films, including Kedi (2006) and Sri (2005).
After Oopiri, Tamannaah Bhatia went on to appear in 36 more films, including Baahubali 2 (2017) and Kanne Kalaimaane (2019).
Before Rachcha, Ali had starred in 41 films, including Hungama (2005) and Nenunnanu (2004).
After Oopiri, Ali went on to appear in 16 more films, including Raju Gari Gadhi - 3 (2019) and Khaidi No:150 (2017).
Collaboration Journey
A chronological view of Tamannaah Bhatia & Ali's professional partnership
Actors and musicians who worked on most of their films
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