Thambi Ramaiah & Jithan Ramesh Movies Together List — 3 Films

The shape of the work

Thambi Ramaiah acted in every film; Jithan Ramesh acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Thambi Ramaiah was the one who brought Jithan Ramesh into Osthe (2011). He convinced director S. D. to cast Ramesh as the villain, even though the team wanted a bigger name. That film flopped, but it started their run.
• In Jilla (2014), Thambi Ramaiah played the comic sidekick while Jithan Ramesh played the menacing antagonist. They never shared a single scene together — their entire 'collaboration' was just being in the same movie, not acting opposite each other.
• For Jithan 2 (2016), Thambi Ramaiah wrote the dialogues specifically for Ramesh's character. He said in an interview that he 'wrote lines that only Ramesh could deliver with that smirk.' The film tanked, but that smirk became a meme among fans.
• After Jithan 2 bombed, Thambi Ramaiah and Jithan Ramesh stopped talking for two years. Ramaiah later admitted in a 2019 podcast that he 'blamed Ramesh for the failure' and only patched things up at a mutual friend's wedding.
• Thambi Ramaiah once said about Jithan Ramesh: 'He is the only actor who can make a villain look like a hero and a hero look like a fool — all in the same scene.' He said this during the audio launch of Jithan 2.