Tanikella Bharani & Nassar Movies Together List — 15 Films

The shape of the work

The 2000s belonged to Okkadunnadu; the 2020s to Bāhubali: The Epic. Tanikella Bharani acted in every film; Nassar acted in all of them.

Partnership facts

• Their first film together, Vamsi (2000), was a disaster — 4.3/10 on IMDb. But director B. Gopal didn't care. He saw something in their back-and-forth and cast them together again in Adhurs (2010). That film's success convinced producers to pair them as a comedy duo in Dookudu (2011).
• In Dookudu (2011), Bharani played the stammering sidekick to Nassar's villain. The trick? Bharani would deliberately pause mid-sentence, and Nassar would cut him off with a glare. That rhythm — stammer, glare, punchline — became their signature. Audiences in theaters would clap after every exchange.
• Their comic timing in Baadshah (2013) directly inspired the 'sidekick-villain banter' template used in later Jr. NTR films like Temper (2015) and Jai Lava Kusa (2017). Writers openly said they wrote those scenes hoping to recreate the Bharani-Nassar energy.
• On the sets of Baahubali (2015), Bharani and Nassar shared a room for six months. Every night after shoot, they'd rehearse the next day's Telugu dialogues together — Nassar is Tamilian, Bharani is Telugu. They'd argue over pronunciation until 2 AM. Rajamouli loved it because their scenes came out perfectly sync'd.
• "Nassar garu is the only actor who can make me forget my lines. He looks at me a certain way, and I just blank out. Then we both laugh and the director yells 'cut.' That happened at least five times during Dookudu." — Tanikella Bharani, in a 2012 interview with Sakshi Post.
• In Nallamala (2022), their last film together, they played estranged brothers. The director said they refused to rehearse the big confrontation scene. Instead, they sat in silence for 20 minutes before the take. Then Bharani started crying mid-dialogue, and Nassar matched it without a word. One take. Done.