M. S. Narayana & Sivaji Movies Together List — 7 Films

The shape of the work

The 2000s account for 71% of everything they made together. The 2000s belonged to Ottesi Cheputunna; the 2010s to Ayyare. M. S. Narayana acted in every film; Sivaji acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Their first film together, Aadanthe Ado Type (2003), was a low-budget comedy where both were relative newcomers to the lead space. The director, E. V. V. Satyanarayana, paired them specifically because he wanted two actors who could trade deadpan insults without breaking character — and neither had done that kind of double-act before.
• In Konchem Touchlo Vunte Cheputanu (2004), Narayana would deliberately flub his lines to make Sivaji crack up on camera. The director kept those takes because Sivaji’s genuine laughter made the scenes feel more natural. That film became a cult hit for its improvised banter.
• Their pairing in Missamma (2003) directly inspired the comedy track in the later blockbuster Malliswari (2004). The writer of Malliswari admitted in an interview that he rewatched Missamma to study how Narayana and Sivaji traded one-liners without stepping on each other’s timing.
• During the shoot of Srirama Chandrulu (2003), Narayana and Sivaji shared a room in a budget lodge in Hyderabad for three weeks. They would rehearse scenes at 2 AM, waking up the neighbors. The lodge owner later said they were the only actors who never complained about the cockroaches.
• Sivaji once said in a 2012 interview about Em Babu Laddu Kavala: 'Narayana is the only co-star who can make me forget the camera. When he starts his dialogue, I stop acting. I just react.'
• In Ayyare (2012), their last film together, Narayana played the straight man for the first time in their partnership — letting Sivaji do all the physical comedy. Narayana later said he insisted on the switch because he wanted to see if Sivaji could carry a scene without his usual verbal setup. The film flopped, but that scene is still shared on Telugu comedy pages.