Ravi Prakash & Raghu Babu Movies Together List — 8 Films

The shape of the work

The 2000s belonged to Asthram; the 2020s to Itlu Maredumilli Prajaneekam. Ravi Prakash acted in every film; Raghu Babu acted in all of them.

Partnership facts

• Ravi Prakash and Raghu Babu first shared screen space in Asthram (2006) because director Surya Kiran specifically wanted two actors who could switch between comedy and menace in the same scene. He cast them as a pair of henchmen after seeing their individual work in smaller roles.
• In Amar Akbar Anthony (2018), Ravi Prakash played the straight man to Raghu Babu's chaotic energy. Raghu Babu improvised most of his dialogue in their shared scenes, and Ravi Prakash would deliberately pause longer than written to let the laughs land — a rhythm they perfected over six prior films.
• Their double-act in Doosukeltha (2013) was so well-received that the director, Veeru Potla, wrote a separate comedy track just for them in his next film. That track became the most shared clip from the movie on YouTube in 2014.
• On the sets of Itlu Maredumilli Prajaneekam (2022), Ravi Prakash and Raghu Babu shared a room in a small guest house for 45 days. Raghu Babu cooked chicken curry every Sunday, and Ravi Prakash handled the rice. They still call it 'the curry pact'.
• Raghu Babu said in a 2023 interview: 'Ravi is the only actor who can make me forget my lines because he laughs at my jokes before I finish them. That's not a complaint — that's why I keep working with him.'