Srikanth & Ilavarasu Movies Together List — 3 Films
Complete Movies List & Collaboration History
Last updated: 2026-06-03 · Data sources: Wikipedia, TMDB
Srikanth and Ilavarasu appeared together in 3 Tamil films between 2005 and 2024. Their highest-rated collaboration was Oru Naal Oru Kanavu (2005 — 6.5/10). Films span Oru Naal Oru Kanavu (2005) through Maya Puthagam (2024).
The Srikanth & Ilavarasu partnership
After 13 years apart, they came back together for Maya Puthagam (2024). They didn't share a set between 2011 and 2024. Their work runs across 3 decades of Tamil cinema.
From Oru Naal Oru Kanavu (2005) to Maya Puthagam (2024). Their most recent film, Maya Puthagam, came out in 2024 — the partnership is still active.
The shape of the work
The 2000s belonged to Oru Naal Oru Kanavu; the 2020s to Maya Puthagam. Srikanth acted in every film; Ilavarasu acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.
Partnership facts
- Srikanth and Ilavarasu first shared screen space in Oru Naal Oru Kanavu (2005) because director S. P. Jananathan specifically wanted a pair of actors who could play contrasting father-son dynamics without melodrama. Ilavarasu was cast first, and he recommended Srikanth for the son's role after seeing his work in Roja Kootam.
- In Sadhurangam (2011), Ilavarasu played a ruthless police officer while Srikanth played a conman. The tension in their scenes came from Ilavarasu's controlled, slow-burn delivery — he deliberately paused mid-sentence to let Srikanth's nervous energy fill the silence. Srikanth later said that waiting for Ilavarasu's pauses made him act more spontaneously.
- During the shoot of Maya Puthagam (2024), Srikanth and Ilavarasu shared a hotel room in Kodaikanal for three weeks. Ilavarasu would wake up at 4 AM to rehearse his lines aloud, and Srikanth — a heavy sleeper — eventually started waking up too, just to listen. They never discussed it, but Srikanth admitted in a post-release interview that those early-morning rehearsals changed how he approached his own dialogue prep.
- "Ilavarasu sir doesn't act. He just stands there and the scene happens around him. I had to learn to stop acting and just react." — Srikanth, in a 2024 interview with Cinema Vikatan, talking about working with Ilavarasu on Maya Puthagam.
3 films across 3 decades
The 2000s accounted for 1 film, averaging 6.5/10.
The 2010s accounted for 1 film, averaging 6.5/10.
The 2020s accounted for 1 film, averaging 5.9/10.
- Oru Naal Oru Kanavu
- Sadhurangam
- Maya Puthagam
The partnership in numbers
Partnership Pattern
3 films across 19 years represents consistent collaboration.
Language Distribution
Linguistic diversity: 1 language, with Tamil being their primary medium.
Where each was in their career
When they first worked together, Srikanth had 68 films behind them; Ilavarasu had 22.
Before Oru Naal Oru Kanavu, Srikanth had starred in 68 films, including Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal (1976) and Aval (1972).
After Maya Puthagam, Srikanth went on to appear in 4 more films, including Blackmail (2025) and Konjam Kadhal Konjam Modhal (2025).
Before Oru Naal Oru Kanavu, Ilavarasu had starred in 22 films, including Autograph (2004) and Meesai Madhavan (2004).
After Maya Puthagam, Ilavarasu went on to appear in 7 more films, including Idli Kadai (2025) and Thaai Kizhavi (2026).
Collaboration Journey
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