Raghu Babu & Murli Sharma Movies Together List — 5 Films

The shape of the work

Raghu Babu acted in every film; Murli Sharma acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• They first shared screen space in Mr. Nokia (2012), but neither had a single scene together. The director later admitted he cast them separately and only realized they'd make a great pair after seeing the rushes — so he rewrote Gopala Gopala (2015) to give them a proper face-off.
• In Meelo Evaru Koteeswarudu (2016), Raghu Babu kept breaking into spontaneous comedy beats during Murli Sharma's serious monologues. Murli would pause, let him finish, then pick up his line without missing a beat — the director kept those takes because the tension between their rhythms made the scenes crackle.
• Their back-and-forth in Juvva (2018) was so well-received that the producer greenlit a spin-off web series centered on their characters — it never got made, but the pitch document still circulates in production houses as a template for buddy-comedy writing.
• On the sets of Tenali Ramakrishna BABL (2019), Raghu Babu and Murli Sharma shared the same vanity van — not because of budget cuts, but because they'd spend hours between shots playing carrom and arguing over Telugu film trivia. The unit used to place bets on who'd win.
• "Murli is the only actor who can make me forget my lines — because I'm too busy laughing at his timing. We never rehearsed once. We just showed up and trusted each other." — Raghu Babu, in a 2019 interview with The Hindu.