Shankar & Major Sundarrajan Movies Together List — 4 Films
Complete Movies List & Collaboration History
Last updated: 2026-07-13 · Data sources: Wikipedia, TMDB
Shankar and Major Sundarrajan appeared together in 4 Tamil films between 1974 and 1992. Films span Vellikizhamai Viradham (1974) through Urimai Oonjaladugiradhu (1992).
The Shankar & Major Sundarrajan partnership
After 12 years apart, they came back together for Urimai Oonjaladugiradhu (1992). They didn't share a set between 1980 and 1992. Their work runs across 3 decades of Tamil cinema.
From Vellikizhamai Viradham (1974) to Urimai Oonjaladugiradhu (1992). It started with Vellikizhamai Viradham (1974).
The shape of the work
The 1970s belonged to Vellikizhamai Viradham; the 1990s to Urimai Oonjaladugiradhu. Shankar scored every film; Major Sundarrajan acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.
4 films across 3 decades
The 1970s accounted for 2 films.
The 1980s accounted for 1 film.
The 1990s accounted for 1 film.
- Vellikizhamai Viradham0
- Thai Meethu Sathiyam0
- Maria, My Darling0
- Urimai Oonjaladugiradhu0
The partnership in numbers
Partnership Pattern
4 films across 18 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, Shankar had 0 films behind them; Major Sundarrajan had 52.
Vellikizhamai Viradham was Shankar's acting debut.
After Urimai Oonjaladugiradhu, Shankar went on to appear in 24 more films, including Robot (2010) and Indian (1996).
Before Vellikizhamai Viradham, Major Sundarrajan had starred in 52 films, including Major Chandrakanth (1966) and Server Sundaram (1964).
After Urimai Oonjaladugiradhu, Major Sundarrajan went on to appear in 11 more films, including Chakravarthy (1995) and Iruvar (1997).
Collaboration Journey
A chronological view of Shankar & Major Sundarrajan's professional partnership
Actors and musicians who worked on most of their films
Sankar Ganesh is the through-line — music on 4 of their 4 films. Sankar Ganesh scored 4 of them.
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