Siddharth & Lakshmy Ramakrishnan Movies Together List — 3 Films

The shape of the work

Siddharth acted in every film; Lakshmy Ramakrishnan acted in all of them.

Partnership facts

• Siddharth and Lakshmy Ramakrishnan first worked together in 2011's '180' (also released as 'Nootrenbadhu' in Tamil). Lakshmy, primarily a director and character actress, was cast as the female lead opposite Siddharth — a rare instance where a filmmaker stepped in front of the camera for a mainstream hero's film.
• In 'Oh My Friend' (2011), Lakshmy played Siddharth's mother — even though she is only 11 years older than him in real life. Their age gap made the mother-son dynamic feel unusually believable, with Lakshmy's natural gravitas grounding Siddharth's more energetic performance.
• Lakshmy Ramakrishnan has said in interviews that Siddharth was incredibly supportive of her dual role as actress and director. On the sets of '180', he would often ask her for feedback on his scenes, treating her as a co-director even when she was acting opposite him.
• Their collaboration in '180' was a rare bilingual release — shot simultaneously in Telugu and Tamil. The Tamil version, 'Nootrenbadhu', helped Lakshmy gain wider recognition in Tamil cinema, leading to more prominent character roles in films like 'Vishwaroopam' and 'Kaatru Veliyidai'.
• Lakshmy once said about working with Siddharth: 'He never treated me like a newcomer or a director who was acting. He was just a co-star who wanted the scene to work.' She said this in a 2011 interview with The Hindu.