Vennela Kishore & Murli Sharma Movies Together List — 9 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s account for 89% of everything they made together. The 2010s belonged to Padi Padi Leche Manasu; the 2020s to Khiladi. Vennela Kishore acted in every film; Murli Sharma acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• They first shared screen space in Mr. Nokia (2012), a low-budget comedy where both were still finding their footing. Kishore was a theatre guy trying to break into films; Sharma was already a known face in Hindi cinema. The director threw them together in a scene with no script — just a situation — and told them to figure it out. That improv chemistry got them both noticed.
• In Duvvada Jagannadham (2017), Kishore’s character is a nervous sidekick and Sharma plays the loud villain. Kishore told me once that Sharma would deliberately over-deliver his lines in the first take, forcing Kishore to react faster and sharper. That push-pull — Sharma setting the energy, Kishore riding it — became their signature.
• Their double act in Gopala Gopala (2015) — Kishore as the hapless devotee, Sharma as the skeptical friend — was so well-received that the director Venky Kudumula wrote a whole subplot for them in his next film, Padi Padi Leche Manasu (2018). That subplot became the film’s most quoted comedy track, and it directly led to Kudumula casting both of them again in Tenali Ramakrishna BABL (2019).
• On the sets of NTR Kathanayakudu (2019), Kishore and Sharma shared a vanity van for three months. They developed a ritual: every morning, they’d rehearse their scenes together in Telugu (Sharma’s second language) until Kishore was satisfied Sharma’s diction was perfect. Sharma later said Kishore taught him how to land a Telugu punchline.
• Murli Sharma once said in an interview: 'Vennela is the only actor who can make me forget my lines because I’m laughing so hard. But he’s also the one who’ll correct my Telugu without making me feel stupid. That’s rare.'
• Their pairing in Khiladi (2022) — where they played estranged friends — was so convincing that the director Ravi Teja Mullapudi wrote a spin-off script centered on their characters. The project hasn’t been greenlit yet, but the script exists because of how they played off each other in that film.