Nassar & Rao Ramesh Movies Together List — 11 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s account for 64% of everything they made together. The 2000s belonged to Okkadunnadu; the 2020s to Naa Saami Ranga. Nassar acted in every film; Rao Ramesh acted in all of them.

Partnership facts

• Nassar and Rao Ramesh first shared screen space in Varudu (2010), but their real partnership kicked off when director Boyapati Srinu cast them as father and son in Sye Aata (2010) — a role reversal that set the template for their future collaborations.
• In Maharshi (2019), Nassar played the strict father and Rao Ramesh the comic uncle — but on set, they swapped roles. Rao Ramesh would rehearse Nassar's serious lines to help him loosen up, while Nassar fed Rao Ramesh punchy one-liners that made it into the final cut.
• During the shoot of Katamarayudu (2017), Nassar discovered Rao Ramesh was struggling with a family health crisis. He quietly arranged for a specialist from Chennai to consult, and never told the media. Rao Ramesh still calls him 'anna' off-camera.
• Their double-act in Sye Aata (2010) directly inspired director V. V. Vinayak to write a father-son comedy track for them in Naa Saami Ranga (2024) — a film that grossed 55 crores and became the highest-grossing movie of their collaboration.
• Rao Ramesh once told a Hyderabad press meet: 'Nassar sir doesn't just act with you — he directs you in the scene without you noticing. I learned more from his eyebrow movements than from any acting class.'
• In Manmadhudu 2 (2019), a hit comedy, Nassar deliberately flubbed his lines in three takes to make Rao Ramesh laugh on camera — the director kept the fourth take where Rao Ramesh is visibly struggling not to crack up, because it felt more real.