Vennela Kishore & Jhansi Movies Together List — 4 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s account for 75% of everything they made together. The 2010s belonged to Routine Love Story; the 2020s to Bangarraju. Vennela Kishore acted in every film; Jhansi acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• They first met on the sets of Routine Love Story (2012). Jhansi was already a known face in comedy, but Vennela Kishore was still finding his footing. The director paired them specifically because both had a background in theater — he wanted actors who could build a scene without relying on canned dialogue.
• In F2 (2019), Vennela Kishore played the nervous, stammering husband while Jhansi played his loud, overbearing wife. The trick was timing: Jhansi would deliberately speed up her lines to throw Kishore off his rhythm, forcing him to react genuinely flustered. That panic you see on screen? Half of it was real.
• Their comic pairing in Manmadhudu 2 (2019) was so well-received that the director of Bangarraju (2022) specifically wrote a new subplot for them — a quarreling elderly couple — after seeing their chemistry in the earlier film. That subplot became one of the most shared clips from the movie on social media.
• On the sets of Bangarraju, Jhansi would bring homemade pickles from her village for Vennela Kishore every single day. He later said in an interview that it was the only reason he didn't complain about the 5 AM call times.
• "She doesn't let me breathe on set. She'll finish her line, then stare at me until I mess up mine. That's how we get the take." — Vennela Kishore, in a 2022 promotional interview for Bangarraju.