Posani Krishna Murali & Mukesh Rishi Movies Together List — 8 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s account for 88% of everything they made together. The 2000s belonged to Seetayya; the 2010s to Loukyam. Posani Krishna Murali acted in every film; Mukesh Rishi acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Posani Krishna Murali wrote the role of the villain in Seetayya (2003) specifically for Mukesh Rishi after watching his performance in a Hindi film. Mukesh was hesitant about doing Telugu cinema at first, but Posani convinced him over a single phone call.
• In Loukyam (2014), Posani and Mukesh shot a 12-minute confrontation scene in one take. Posani later said Mukesh's intensity made him forget his own lines twice, but Mukesh silently mouthed the cues to keep the scene alive.
• On the sets of Loafer (2015), Posani and Mukesh had a running bet: whoever flubbed a dialogue first would buy the entire crew dinner. Mukesh lost every single day of the shoot, and Posani still jokes about the ₹80,000 Mukesh spent on biryani.
• Their pairing in Kavacham (2018) directly inspired director Srinivas Mamilla to cast them together again in Sher (2016) — he wrote the villain role specifically to recreate the tension they had in their earlier films.
• Mukesh Rishi once said in an interview: 'Posani doesn't act with you — he fights you on screen. Every scene with him feels like a real argument. That's why I kept saying yes to his films.'
• In Maharshi (2019), Posani and Mukesh improvised the entire climax argument. The director let the camera roll for 18 minutes. The final cut used only 3 minutes, but Posani said Mukesh's unscripted line 'Nuvvu evadra nuvvu' became the film's most quoted dialogue.