Samantha Akkineni & Rao Ramesh Movies Together List — 8 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s account for 75% of everything they made together. The 2010s belonged to Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu; the 2020s to Pushpa (The Rise Part-01). Samantha Akkineni acted in every film; Rao Ramesh acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Samantha personally requested Rao Ramesh for the role of her father in 'S/O Satyamurthy' (2015). She had just worked with him in 'Manam' and felt only he could pull off the emotional weight of that father-daughter track. The director agreed on the spot.
• In 'Majili' (2019), Rao Ramesh deliberately underplayed every scene with Samantha. He told the director that if he matched her intensity, the audience would lose sympathy for his character. So he stayed quiet and let her anger fill the frame — it made their confrontation scene the most talked-about moment of the film.
• During 'Oh Baby' (2019) shoot, Rao Ramesh would bring homemade pickles from his village for Samantha every Friday. She later said in an interview that those pickles got her through the physically demanding old-age makeup sessions.
• "Rao Ramesh garu is the only co-star who can make me cry just by looking at me. He doesn't need dialogue." — Samantha, during the promotions of 'Majili' (2019).
• Their father-daughter track in 'S/O Satyamurthy' (2015) directly inspired the emotional core of the 2022 film 'Sita Ramam'. The writer admitted in a podcast that he wanted to recreate that specific warmth between a strict father and a rebellious daughter — and cast the same actors to do it.
• In 'Pushpa' (2021), Rao Ramesh played Samantha's on-screen father again, but this time he completely changed his body language. He stood hunched and spoke softly around her character, while in scenes with Allu Arjun he was loud and aggressive. Samantha noticed this and matched his subdued energy — creating a silent, tense family dynamic without a single line of explanation.