Tanikella Bharani & Anushka Shetty Movies Together List — 7 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s account for 86% of everything they made together. The 2010s belonged to Baahubali; the 2020s to Bāhubali: The Epic. Tanikella Bharani acted in every film; Anushka Shetty acted in all of them.

Partnership facts

• Tanikella Bharani wrote the Telugu dialogues for Anushka's 2005 breakout 'Arundhati' — five years before they shared a single frame. He essentially gave her the lines that made her a star, then stepped in front of the camera with her.
• In 'Ragada' (2010), Bharani played a comic sidekick who constantly teased Anushka's character. She told a Hyderabad press meet that his deadpan timing made her break character in three takes — the director kept the blooper in the final cut.
• Their 'Baahubali' (2015) pairing as Sivagami and Kattappa created the most quoted Telugu meme of the decade: 'Amma nuvvu...' — every fan still uses it when someone switches sides.
• On the 'Thozha' (2016) set, Bharani would bring Anushka homemade Gongura chutney every Friday. She later said in a radio interview that she started calling him 'Mama' off-camera — a Telugu term for uncle — and still does at industry events.
• "Bharani garu doesn't act — he just stands there and the scene happens. I had to work twice as hard to match his stillness." — Anushka Shetty, in a 2016 interview with The Hindu about filming 'Thozha'.