Rakul Preet Singh & Jagapathi Babu Movies Together List — 8 Films

The shape of the work

Rakul Preet Singh acted in every film; Jagapathi Babu acted in all of them. Mostly Telugu, with 2 films in Tamil.

Partnership facts

• Rakul Preet Singh and Jagapathi Babu first shared screen space in Puthagam (2013), but they didn't share a single scene together. Their first actual on-screen interaction came a year later in Current Theega (2014), which became a hit and convinced producers to pair them again.
• In Nannaku Prematho (2016), Jagapathi Babu played the cold villain while Rakul played the love interest. Their scenes together were deliberately kept minimal — director Sukumar used Jagapathi's menacing silence to make Rakul's fear feel real, and she played off that tension without any dialogue in their key confrontation.
• Jagapathi Babu once said in an interview that Rakul was the only co-star who would call him 'Anna' (elder brother) on set, and she'd bring him homemade sweets during breaks. He admitted that made him go easier on her during intense scenes.
• Their pairing in Pandaga Chesko (2015) was so well-received that the film's producer, Dil Raju, immediately signed them both for his next project — Winner (2017). That film launched a trend of pairing a young heroine with a veteran villain in family entertainers.
• Rakul Preet Singh told a Telugu news channel in 2019: 'Jagapathi Babu garu is the only actor who can make me laugh between takes and then scare me the moment the camera rolls. I don't know how he does it.'