Krishna Bhagawan & Kondavalasa Lakshmana Rao Movies Together List — 5 Films

The shape of the work

The 2000s account for 60% of everything they made together. The 2000s belonged to Kabaddi Kabaddi; the 2010s to Naa Rakumarudu. Krishna Bhagawan acted in every film; Kondavalasa Lakshmana Rao acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Krishna Bhagawan and Kondavalasa Lakshmana Rao first shared screen space in Kabaddi Kabaddi (2003) because the director needed two actors who could play off each other's deadpan timing — neither was a lead, but their bickering track became the film's surprise comic highlight.
• In Blade Babji (2008), Kondavalasa's loud, frantic energy set the pace, while Krishna Bhagawan stayed stone-faced and slow — the comedy came from that mismatch. Bhagawan would deliberately pause his lines to let Kondavalasa's reactions land first.
• On the sets of Daggaraga Dooranga (2011), the two shared a room during the outdoor schedule in Araku Valley. Kondavalasa would rehearse his lines aloud at night, and Krishna Bhagawan would correct his diction — a ritual they kept for every film after.
• Their double-act in Srirama Chandrulu (2003) directly inspired the comic duo track in the later hit 'Mithunam' (2012) — the writer admitted in an interview that he wanted 'that same bickering-old-men vibe' after watching their scenes together.
• Krishna Bhagawan once said in a 2014 interview: 'Kondavalasa garu is the only co-actor who made me forget my lines because I was laughing so hard. We never rehearsed — we just trusted each other to catch the ball.'
• After Naa Rakumarudu (2014), they stopped working together not because of a fight, but because Kondavalasa's health declined. Krishna Bhagawan visited him in the hospital every week until his passing in 2020 — no one in the industry knew about those visits.