Jagapathi Babu & Sachin Khedekar Movies Together List — 3 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s belonged to Yatra; the 2020s to Lakshya. Jagapathi Babu acted in every film; Sachin Khedekar acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Jagapathi Babu and Sachin Khedekar first shared screen in NTR Kathanayakudu (2019). Jagapathi played NTR's father-in-law; Sachin played a journalist. They had zero scenes together. The director, Krish, later admitted he cast them separately and only realized they'd make a good pair when he saw them on set.
• In Yatra (2019), Jagapathi played YSR Congress leader Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and Sachin played his father Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy. The film's emotional core is their father-son conflict. Jagapathi told an interviewer that Sachin would deliberately stay in character between takes, refusing to smile at him, to keep the tension alive for the next scene.
• During the shoot of Lakshya (2021), Jagapathi and Sachin discovered they both speak fluent Marathi. They started having lunch conversations entirely in Marathi, confusing the Telugu crew. The unit used to joke that they were plotting something in a secret language.
• "Sachin is the only co-star who has seen me cry more than my wife has. In Yatra, we had a scene where I break down after his character's death. He stayed in the frame even after 'cut' just to hold my shoulder. That's not in the script." — Jagapathi Babu, in a 2021 interview with The Hindu.
• Their father-son dynamic in Yatra (2019) was so convincing that the real Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy reportedly watched the film twice. A close aide later told media that Jagan personally thanked both actors for 'getting the relationship right' — a rare political endorsement for a biopic performance.