Shankar & Sivakumar Movies Together List — 3 Films
Complete Movies List & Collaboration History
Last updated: 2026-07-14 · Data sources: Wikipedia, TMDB
Shankar and Sivakumar appeared together in 3 Tamil films between 1974 and 1980. Their highest-rated collaboration was Pattikkaattu Raja (1975 — 6.5/10). Films span Vellikizhamai Viradham (1974) through Vandichakkaram (1980).
The Shankar & Sivakumar partnership
From Vellikizhamai Viradham (1974) to Vandichakkaram (1980). The played out closed with Vandichakkaram in 1980. It started with Vellikizhamai Viradham (1974).
The shape of the work
The 1970s belonged to Pattikkaattu Raja; the 1980s to Vandichakkaram. Shankar scored every film; Sivakumar acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.
3 films across 2 decades
The 1970s accounted for 2 films, averaging 6.5/10.
The 1980s accounted for 1 film.
- Pattikkaattu Raja
- Vellikizhamai Viradham0
- Vandichakkaram0
The partnership in numbers
Partnership Pattern
3 films across 6 years represents consistent collaboration.
Language Distribution
Linguistic diversity: 1 language, with Tamil being their primary medium.
Where each was in their career
After Vandichakkaram, Sivakumar kept going for 81 more films; Shankar stepped back.
Vellikizhamai Viradham was Shankar's acting debut.
After Vandichakkaram, Shankar went on to appear in 46 more films, including Robot (2010) and Indian (1996).
Before Vellikizhamai Viradham, Sivakumar had starred in 26 films, including Arangetram (1973) and Annai Velankanni (1971).
After Vandichakkaram, Sivakumar went on to appear in 81 more films, including Agni Sakshi (1982) and Anandha Ragam (1982).
Collaboration Journey
A chronological view of Shankar & Sivakumar's professional partnership
Actors and musicians who worked on most of their films
Sankar Ganesh is the through-line — music on 3 of their 3 films. Sankar Ganesh scored 3 of them.
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