Rao Ramesh & Murli Sharma Movies Together List — 5 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s account for 60% of everything they made together. The 2010s belonged to Hyper; the 2020s to Ala Vaikunthapuramulo. Rao Ramesh acted in every film; Murli Sharma acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Murli Sharma said in a 2022 interview: 'Rao Ramesh is the only co-actor who can make me forget my lines with his eyes. I have to look away sometimes or I'll laugh.'
• In 'Ala Vaikunthapuramulo' (2020), Rao Ramesh played the strict father and Murli Sharma the villainous uncle. Their face-off in the climax courtroom scene was shot in one continuous take because both actors refused to break character — they kept feeding each other energy, making the director Trivikram let the camera roll longer than planned.
• On the sets of 'Duvvada Jagannadham' (2017), Murli Sharma and Rao Ramesh discovered they both trained under the same acting guru in Hyderabad years apart. They started a ritual of sharing a cup of chai before every scene together — a habit they kept through all five films.
• Their first film together, 'Hyper' (2016), almost didn't happen. The director Santosh Srinivas wanted a younger actor for Murli's role, but Rao Ramesh personally called Murli and said, 'I need someone who can match my timing — come do this with me.' Murli signed without reading the script.
• The success of their father-son dynamic in 'Ala Vaikunthapuramulo' (2020) directly inspired the casting of Rao Ramesh and Murli Sharma as brothers in 'Khiladi' (2022). The director Ramesh Varma said in a pre-release interview that he wrote the brother characters specifically for them after watching their chemistry in AVPL.