Vennela Kishore & Anasuya Bharadwaj Movies Together List — 7 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s account for 71% of everything they made together. The 2010s belonged to Kshanam; the 2020s to Pushpa (The Rise Part-01). Vennela Kishore acted in every film; Anasuya Bharadwaj acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• They first shared screen space in Soggade Chinni Nayana (2016), but their first scene together almost didn't happen — director Kalyan Krishna Kurasala rewrote the entire comedy track after seeing their chemistry during a test read.
• In Kshanam (2016), Vennela Kishore's deadpan delivery forced Anasuya to dial down her usual high-energy style — she later said she had to 'match his silence' for their interrogation scene to land.
• Their comic bickering in F2 (2019) directly inspired the husband-wife banter in the 2022 hit DJ Tillu — director Vimal Krishna admitted in an interview that he studied their timing from that film.
• On the sets of Winner (2017), Anasuya started calling Vennela 'Babu garu' as a joke because he kept correcting her Telugu diction — the nickname stuck and they still use it off-camera.
• "He is the only co-star who makes me forget my lines because I'm laughing so hard — we had to do 14 retakes for one scene in Kathanam." — Anasuya Bharadwaj, in a 2019 promotional interview for Kathanam.
• Their pairing in Pushpa (2021) — where Vennela played a timid constable and Anasuya a fiery village woman — was so unexpected that fans started a meme trend comparing their dynamic to 'a mouse and a cat' on Telugu Twitter.