Sripriya & Vidyullekha Raman Movies Together List — 3 Films

The shape of the work

Sripriya directed every film; Vidyullekha Raman acted in all of them.

Partnership facts

• Sripriya handpicked Vidyullekha for Malini 22 Vijayawada after seeing her in a stage play. The director was initially hesitant about casting a comedian in a serious role, but Sripriya insisted she had the range.
• On the sets of Malini 22 Palayamkottai, Sripriya would deliberately mess up her lines to make Vidyullekha laugh during serious scenes. Vidyullekha later said that Sripriya’s goofy energy helped her loosen up for the film’s tense moments.
• Their first film together, Malini 22 Vijayawada, directly inspired a wave of female-led investigative thrillers in Telugu cinema. Two years later, films like Kshanam and Anamika followed the same template of a woman solving her own kidnapping.
• After Ghatana flopped, the two stopped speaking for nearly a year. They patched things up at a mutual friend’s wedding in 2018, where Sripriya reportedly walked up to Vidyullekha and said, “We should’ve just done a comedy next.”
• Vidyullekha once told a Hyderabad radio station: “Sripriya is the only co-star who made me forget I was acting. She’d whisper inside jokes during takes, and I’d have to bite my tongue to not break character.”