Sayaji Shinde & Raghu Babu Movies Together List — 14 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s account for 64% of everything they made together. The 2000s belonged to Maayajaalam; the 2020s to Focus. Sayaji Shinde acted in every film; Raghu Babu acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• They first shared screen space in Maayajaalam (2006), but neither was the lead. The film’s real star was a snake — and both actors played supporting roles around it. That odd start made them comfortable enough to try 10 more films together.
• In Adhurs (2010), Sayaji Shinde played the strict father while Raghu Babu was the comic sidekick. Their scenes worked because Shinde set the serious tone, and Raghu Babu broke it with deadpan one-liners — no one else could match that rhythm.
• Their pairing in Amar Akbar Anthony (2018) — a hit — directly led to Ruler (2019) being greenlit with the same lead actor. Producers saw that audiences loved the Shinde-Raghu Babu combo as the hero’s father and friend, and wanted more of that dynamic.
• On the sets of Yamudiki Mogudu (2012), a notoriously low-rated film, the two reportedly kept each other laughing between takes. Raghu Babu later said they treated that shoot like a paid vacation — cracking jokes while the film tanked.
• Raghu Babu once said in an interview: 'Sayaji garu is the only co-actor who can make me forget my lines because I’m laughing so hard. We’ve ruined at least three takes together.'