Kovai Sarala & Vijayakanth Movies Together List — 6 Films

The shape of the work

The 1980s account for 67% of everything they made together. The 1980s belonged to Nooravathu Naal; the 2000s to Viswanathan Ramamoorthy. Kovai Sarala acted in every film; Vijayakanth acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Their first film together, Uzhavan Magan (1987), was a gamble. Vijayakanth was already a rising action star, but Kovai Sarala was mostly known for comedy. The director paired them specifically to soften Vijayakanth's rough image — and it worked.
• In Manaivi Oru Mandhiri (1988), Sarala's comic timing forced Vijayakanth to slow down his usual rapid-fire dialogue delivery. He later admitted in an interview that she made him 'listen on screen' for the first time.
• During the shoot of Dharmam Vellum (1989), Vijayakanth would personally drive Sarala to the set every morning because she didn't own a car. They stayed friends long after the films ended — she was one of the few actresses he invited to his political rallies in the 2000s.
• "She was the only one who could make me laugh even when I was angry. On the sets of Santhana Kaatru, I'd forget my lines because she'd crack a joke right before the take." — Vijayakanth, in a 1991 interview with Kumudam magazine.
• Their pairing in Uzhavan Magan directly inspired director K. Bhagyaraj to cast a similar comedic-heroine opposite a serious male lead in his 1988 hit Oru Thottil Sabatham. That film launched a trend of 'comedy queen + action hero' pairings in late-80s Tamil cinema.