Raghu Babu & Vennela Kishore Movies Together List — 17 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s account for 76% of everything they made together. The 2010s belonged to Gang Leader; the 2020s to Itlu Maredumilli Prajaneekam. Raghu Babu acted in every film; Vennela Kishore acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Their first film together, Mr. Nokia (2012), was a low-budget comedy where both were relative newcomers. Director Siva Nageswara Rao paired them specifically because he wanted two actors who could trade deadpan insults without breaking character — and neither had done that kind of back-and-forth before.
• In F2 (2019), Raghu Babu played the loud, frustrated husband while Vennela Kishore played the sly, whispering sidekick. The trick was timing: Raghu would deliver his punchline first, then pause exactly one beat so Kishore could undercut it with a quiet one-liner. That rhythm became their signature in every film after.
• Their double-act in Gopala Gopala (2015) directly inspired the comic duo format in later Telugu remakes of Hindi films. Director Kishore Kumar Pardasani admitted in an interview that he cast them specifically to recreate the 'two idiots in a crisis' energy that worked so well in that film.
• On the sets of Amar Akbar Anthony (2018), Raghu Babu and Vennela Kishore shared a room for the entire 45-day shoot. They developed a ritual: every morning, they'd rehearse their scenes together in the hotel lobby before anyone else arrived, often rewriting each other's lines on the spot.
• "Raghu Babu is the only actor who can make me laugh even when the director is yelling at us. He'll do a stupid face from across the set, and I'll lose it. We've ruined so many takes because of that." — Vennela Kishore, in a 2020 interview with The Hindu.