Raghu Babu & Raghu Karumanchi Movies Together List — 13 Films

The shape of the work

The 2000s belonged to Dil; the 2020s to Prathinidhi 2. Raghu Babu acted in every film; Raghu Karumanchi acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Raghu Babu and Raghu Karumanchi first worked together in Dil (2003), but their real breakthrough as a pair came seven years later in Adhurs (2010). Karumanchi was a junior artist on Dil; by Adhurs, Babu had pulled him into a proper supporting role that got him noticed.
• On the sets of Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy (2019), Raghu Babu would deliberately mess up his lines in the first take to make Raghu Karumanchi laugh, breaking the tension before they locked the scene. Karumanchi later said that looseness helped him deliver his best comic timing in the film.
• Their back-and-forth in Oollalla Oollalla (2020) was so well received that the director wrote a separate comedy track for them in the second half, which wasn't in the original script. That track became the most shared clip from the film on social media.
• Raghu Babu and Raghu Karumanchi share the same hometown (Kakinada) and have a standing rule: whenever one of them lands a new film, the other gets a call before the press release goes out. They've kept this up for over 20 years.
• "He doesn't act with me. He reacts to me. That's why our scenes feel like a real conversation." — Raghu Karumanchi on Raghu Babu, during a 2021 interview about Zombie Reddy.