Tanikella Bharani & Posani Krishna Murali Movies Together List — 18 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s account for 61% of everything they made together. The 2000s belonged to Ek Niranjan; the 2020s to HIT: The 2nd Case. Tanikella Bharani acted in every film; Posani Krishna Murali acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• They first shared screen space in Julai (2012) because director Trivikram Srinivas specifically wanted two actors who could deliver rapid-fire comedic dialogue without breaking a sweat. Both were cast as rival lawyers in the same courtroom scene — and they ended up stealing the show from the lead.
• In Bandipotu (2015), Tanikella Bharani would set up a punchline with a deadpan stare, and Posani Krishna Murali would explode into a rant that escalated the scene into chaos. The director told them to keep the camera rolling because neither knew when the other would improvise — the final cut used three unscripted exchanges.
• Their double-act in Anando Brahma (2017) — where they played bumbling ghost hunters — directly inspired a wave of Telugu horror-comedies that followed. Producers started asking for 'that Bharani-Posani energy' in casting calls for similar films over the next two years.
• On the sets of Ism (2016), the two would sit together during lunch breaks and rewrite each other's lines on napkins. Posani later admitted they never showed those napkins to the director — they just delivered the rewritten version on camera and dared anyone to call cut.
• Posani Krishna Murali once said in a 2018 interview: 'Bharani garu is the only actor who can make me forget my own lines. When he looks at me a certain way, I just start talking nonsense — and that nonsense becomes the scene.'
• In Naa Nuvve (2018), their only hit together, Tanikella Bharani played the calm, weary father while Posani played the loud, overprotective uncle. The film's emotional core came from a single scene where Bharani silently handed Posani a glass of water mid-rant — and Posani stopped shouting, drank it, and walked away. That moment was entirely improvised.