Thambi Ramaiah & Yogi Babu Movies Together List — 16 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s account for 69% of everything they made together. The 1990s belonged to Magudam; the 2020s to Darbar. Thambi Ramaiah acted in every film; Yogi Babu acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Their first film together, Magudam (1992), was a flop. It took 22 years before they worked again — Veeram (2014) — and that film's success turned them into a regular duo.
• In Velaikkaran (2017), Thambi Ramaiah played the villain and Yogi Babu played his sidekick. Their scenes together had a rhythm where Ramaiah would deliver the serious threat, and Yogi Babu would undercut it with a deadpan one-liner — making the villain feel both dangerous and ridiculous.
• Thambi Ramaiah is 25 years older than Yogi Babu. On the sets of Viswasam (2019), Yogi Babu has said Ramaiah treated him like a younger brother — giving him acting tips between takes and making sure he ate properly during long night shoots.
• Their pairing in Veeram (2014) — where Yogi Babu played a comic sidekick to Ramaiah's character — directly inspired director Siva to cast them together again in Viswasam (2019) and Mr. Local (2019). That run of hits made Yogi Babu a go-to comedy actor in mainstream Tamil cinema.