Jeeva & Raghu Babu Movies Together List — 9 Films

The shape of the work

The 2000s belonged to Kabaddi Kabaddi; the 2020s to Focus. Jeeva acted in every film; Raghu Babu acted in all of them. Strictly Telugu cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Jeeva and Raghu Babu first shared screen space in Anveshana (2002), but the pairing that clicked was their second film together — Kabaddi Kabaddi (2003). That film's director, P. Vasu, specifically cast them as a comic duo after seeing their contrasting energies in the earlier film.
• In Chakram (2005), Raghu Babu played the sidekick to Jeeva's lead. Their rhythm worked because Raghu Babu would deliberately slow down his delivery, letting Jeeva's faster, more frantic reactions land the punchline. Jeeva later said Raghu Babu 'controlled the tempo' of every scene they shared.
• Their hit film Raa Raa (2018) directly launched the career of director R. S. Raju. Before that, Raju was an assistant; after Raa Raa's success, he got his next project greenlit purely on the strength of the Jeeva-Raghu Babu combo's box office pull.
• On the sets of Autonagar Surya (2014), Jeeva and Raghu Babu had a running bet: whoever flubbed a dialogue first had to buy the entire unit chai. Raghu Babu lost every single day. He later joked he 'kept the tea stall in business for a month.'
• Raghu Babu once said in an interview: 'Jeeva and I don't need to rehearse. I just look at his face, and I know what he's going to do. That's 20 years of trust.'