Raghu Babu & Rajiv Kanakala Movies Together List — 10 Films

The shape of the work

The 2000s belonged to Ashok; the 2020s to Samajavaragamana. Raghu Babu acted in every film; Rajiv Kanakala acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• "We were like two old uncles who forgot why they were angry. One coffee later, we were laughing about it." — Rajiv Kanakala, on the 2022 reconciliation with Raghu Babu before filming Cheppalani Undhi.
• For Parama Veera Chakra (2011), director Dasari Narayana Rao specifically paired Raghu Babu and Rajiv Kanakala as on-screen brothers because he wanted two actors who could trade rapid-fire dialogue without breaking rhythm. He cast them together without a single audition — just a phone call to each.
• In Naayak (2013), Raghu Babu and Rajiv Kanakala played characters on opposite sides of the law. Raghu Babu later said in an interview that Rajiv would deliberately slow down his delivery in their confrontation scene to make Raghu's angry outbursts land harder — a trick they never rehearsed.
• Between 2013 and 2022, Raghu Babu and Rajiv Kanakala didn't speak for nearly six years after a personal misunderstanding. They only reconciled on the sets of Cheppalani Undhi (2022) when director Venu Udugula locked them in a room and told them to sort it out before the first shot.
• Their reunion in Cheppalani Undhi (2022) directly led to both of them being cast together again in Andhra King Taluka (2025) — the producer saw their behind-the-scenes photos from the 2022 film and insisted they play a father-son duo.