Kader Khan & Nirupa Roy Movies Together List — 12 Films

The shape of the work

The 1980s account for 83% of everything they made together. The 1970s belonged to Suhaag; the 1990s to Humshakal. Kader Khan acted in every film; Nirupa Roy acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Kader Khan and Nirupa Roy first shared screen space in Lootmaar (1980), but they weren't paired as mother-son — she played his mother-in-law. The director, Rajkumar Kohli, cast them specifically because he wanted a stern matriarch opposite Khan's comic villain, and Roy's legendary 'maa' image from Deewaar made her the only choice he considered.
• In Pyar Ka Mandir (1988), Kader Khan wrote his own dialogue as the villain, and Nirupa Roy — playing his on-screen mother — would deliberately flub her lines in rehearsal to make him improvise. He later admitted she was the only co-star who could rattle him into rewriting a scene on the spot.
• Their 1985 disaster Ramkali (2.6/10) was so poorly received that both actors publicly blamed each other's casting in interviews — Kader said Roy's 'over-the-top weeping' ruined the tone, Roy said his 'buffoonery' made her look ridiculous. The feud killed any chance of them working together again after 1988.
• Despite playing mother-son in Mawaali (1983), Kader Khan (then 46) was only 11 years younger than Nirupa Roy (57). On set, he insisted on touching her feet before every shot — a ritual she found awkward but never stopped, because he said it 'kept the respect real' even when the script had him slapping her.
• "She was the only actress who could make me forget my lines. I'd look into her eyes and suddenly feel like a real son about to cry." — Kader Khan, in a 1999 interview with Filmfare, recalling their scene together in Mawaali.