Anushka Shetty & Jagapathi Babu Movies Together List — 5 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s account for 80% of everything they made together. The 2000s belonged to Swagatham; the 2010s to Om Namo Venkatesaya. Anushka Shetty acted in every film; Jagapathi Babu acted in all of them. Mostly Telugu, with 1 film in Tamil.

Partnership facts

• They first shared screen space in Swagatham (2008), but it was a blink-and-miss cameo from Jagapathi Babu. Their real partnership kicked off only six years later in the Tamil-Telugu bilingual Lingaa (2014), where Jagapathi played the main villain opposite Anushka's leading lady.
• In Om Namo Venkatesaya (2017), Jagapathi Babu played the calm, wise guru to Anushka's fiery devotee. He deliberately slowed down his dialogue delivery to match her emotional rhythm, creating a rare spiritual mentor-student vibe that neither actor replicated with anyone else.
• Their pairing in Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy (2019) directly launched the career of director Surender Reddy's frequent collaborator, music composer Amit Trivedi, into Telugu mainstream. The film's success proved that a period epic with both actors could work without a romantic angle.
• During the grueling shoot of NTR Kathanayakudu (2019), Jagapathi Babu would bring Anushka homemade Andhra pickles from his mother's kitchen. She later said those jars were the only thing that kept her sane during the 16-hour shifts in heavy period costumes.
• "She doesn't just act with her eyes — she acts with her silence. I learned to pause more because of her." — Jagapathi Babu, in a 2019 interview about working with Anushka on Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy.