Raghu Babu & Murali Sharma Movies Together List — 8 Films

The shape of the work

The 2020s account for 88% of everything they made together. The 2010s belonged to Oosaravelli; the 2020s to A1 Express. Raghu Babu acted in every film; Murali Sharma acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Murali Sharma and Raghu Babu first shared screen space in A1 Express (2021) because director Dennis Jeevan Kanukolanu specifically wanted two actors who could play off each other's deadpan timing — he wrote the cop and the informant roles as a double act.
• In Cheppalani Undhi (2022), Raghu Babu's character is the comic relief while Murali Sharma plays the straight man — but on set, they swapped roles: Murali would feed Raghu punchlines during rehearsals, and Raghu would improvise a reaction that made Murali break character every single take.
• Their best scene together is in Janaka Aithe Ganaka (2024): a 7-minute single-shot argument where neither actor blinks. Murali later said they both silently agreed not to blink because the first one to do so would lose the scene's tension.
• During the shoot of Andhra King Taluka (2025), Raghu Babu and Murali Sharma shared a hotel room for 45 days because the production budget was tight. They'd rehearse dialogues in the bathroom at 2 AM so they wouldn't wake the crew.
• Murali Sharma said about Raghu Babu during the promotions of S. Saraswathi (2026): 'He is the only co-actor who can make me forget my lines by just raising an eyebrow. I have to look at the floor when he speaks.'
• Their double-act in A1 Express (2021) directly inspired the comic-cop duo in the 2023 OTT series 'Kumari Srimathi' — the showrunner admitted in an interview that he cast two character actors specifically to recreate the Raghu-Murali rhythm.