Posani Krishna Murali & Kabir Duhan Singh Movies Together List — 7 Films

The shape of the work

Posani Krishna Murali acted in every film; Kabir Duhan Singh acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• They first clashed in Jil (2015) because the director wanted a fresh face to play the villain opposite Gopichand. Kabir Duhan Singh, a former model from Delhi, was flown in specifically to match Posani's intense dialogue delivery — and Posani reportedly told the team, 'This guy doesn't blink. Keep him.'
• In Dictator (2016), Posani and Kabir shot a 12-minute confrontation scene in one take. Posani would set the rhythm with his signature slow-burn monologues, and Kabir would respond with sudden, explosive physicality — the director later said they 'fed off each other's energy like a tennis rally.'
• Their back-to-back villain pairings in 2015-2016 directly inspired the trend of casting a bulky North Indian actor opposite a veteran Telugu character artist. After their six films, at least four other Telugu movies (including Jai Simha and Krack) copied the 'Posani + tall outsider' formula for villain duos.
• On the sets of Speedunnodu (2016), Posani discovered Kabir couldn't speak Telugu. So every morning, Posani would write Kabir's Telugu dialogues in Roman script on a whiteboard and act out the lines with exaggerated hand gestures. Kabir later said, 'He was my Telugu tutor for six films.'
• After Supreme (2016) flopped, the two stopped working together entirely. No public fallout — Kabir just shifted to Tamil and Kannada films, while Posani returned to writing. They haven't shared screen space since, but Kabir still calls Posani on his birthday every year.