Samantha Akkineni & Akkineni Nagarjuna Movies Together List — 3 Films

The shape of the work

Samantha Akkineni acted in every film; Akkineni Nagarjuna acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Nagarjuna personally called Samantha to offer her the role in Manam (2014). She said yes without reading the full script — she trusted him that much.
• In Manam, Nagarjuna played Samantha's father in one timeline and her love interest in another. That weird age-gap dynamic worked only because Samantha played the younger role with a straight face, and Nagarjuna matched her energy without making it creepy.
• Samantha has called Nagarjuna her 'pillar of support' during her divorce from Naga Chaitanya — Nagarjuna's son. She stayed close to the family even after the split, and he never stopped treating her like family.
• Manam (2014) was the first Telugu film to feature three generations of the Akkineni family — Nagarjuna, his son Naga Chaitanya, and his father Akkineni Nageswara Rao. Samantha was the only outsider in that family project, and her presence made the emotional core land with younger audiences.
• Samantha said about Nagarjuna: 'He is the most chilled-out co-star I've ever worked with. He never makes you feel like he's a senior actor. On the sets of Manmadhudu 2, he'd crack jokes between takes and then nail the shot in one go.'
• In Raju Gari Gadhi 2 (2017), a horror comedy, Samantha did most of the heavy lifting with her comic timing while Nagarjuna played the straight man. She set the pace of every scene — he just reacted to her energy, which is the opposite of their Manam dynamic where he led.