Thambi Ramaiah & Nassar Movies Together List — 20 Films
Complete Movies List & Collaboration History
Last updated: 2026-06-02 · Data sources: Wikipedia, TMDB
Thambi Ramaiah and Nassar appeared together in 20 Tamil films between 2007 and 2024. Their highest-rated collaboration was Thani Oruvan (2015 — 7.8/10). Films span Thottal Poo Malarum (2007) through Thiru.Manickam (2024).
The Thambi Ramaiah & Nassar partnership
Their work runs across 3 decades of Tamil cinema. 2014 was their peak — 5 films in twelve months. For 17 years, a Thambi–Nassar film arrived almost every year.
From Thottal Poo Malarum (2007) to Thiru.Manickam (2024). Their most recent film, Thiru.Manickam, came out in 2024 — the partnership is still active.
The shape of the work
The 2010s account for 70% of everything they made together. The 2000s belonged to Thottal Poo Malarum; the 2020s to Thiru.Manickam. Thambi Ramaiah acted in every film; Nassar acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.
Partnership facts
- Nassar personally recommended Thambi Ramaiah to director Rajesh for 'Indiralohathil Na Azhagappan' (2008) after they worked together in a stage play. That film became their first on-screen pairing.
- In 'Neram' (2013), Thambi Ramaiah improvised the entire 'loan recovery' scene where he chases Nassar on a bicycle. Nassar later said he had to keep a straight face while Thambi kept adding new lines on the spot.
- Thambi Ramaiah calls Nassar 'Anna' off-screen and has said Nassar is the only co-star who calls him to check on his health between films. They share a mentor-mentee bond that started in the late 2000s.
- Their comic track in 'Veeram' (2014) — where Thambi plays a nervous sidekick to Nassar's stern father — was so popular that director Siva wrote a separate spin-off scene for them in the second half, which wasn't in the original script.
- Nassar once said in an interview: 'Thambi can make me laugh even when I'm in a bad mood. On the sets of 'Iru Mugan', I had a fever, but he did this one dialogue and I forgot I was sick.'
- In 'Enemy' (2021), they played father and son for the first time. Thambi later revealed that Nassar deliberately slowed down his dialogue delivery in their emotional scene so Thambi's reactions would land harder — a trick they never rehearsed.
20 films across 3 decades
The 2000s accounted for 2 films, averaging 5.5/10.
The 2010s brought 14 films together, anchored by Thani Oruvan (7.8/10).
The 2020s accounted for 4 films, averaging 5.8/10.
- Thottal Poo Malarum
- Indiralohathil Na Azhagappan
- Thani Oruvan
- Nimirndhu Nil
- Thiru.Manickam
- Enemy
The partnership in numbers
Partnership Pattern
20 films across 17 years represents consistent collaboration.
Language Distribution
Linguistic diversity: 1 language, with Tamil being their primary medium.
Where each was in their career
44% of Thambi Ramaiah's screen credits are with Nassar. When they first worked together, Thambi Ramaiah had 14 films behind them; Nassar had 102.
Before Thottal Poo Malarum, Thambi Ramaiah had starred in 14 films, including Imsai Arasan 23m Pulikesi (2006) and Magudam (1992).
After Thiru.Manickam, Thambi Ramaiah went on to appear in 11 more films, including Thalaivar Thambi Thalaimaiyil (2026) and Yaadhum Ariyaan (2025).
Before Thottal Poo Malarum, Nassar had starred in 102 films, including Anbe Sivam (2003) and Anniyan (2005).
After Thiru.Manickam, Nassar went on to appear in 9 more films, including Euphoria (2026) and Tanvi the Great (2025).
Collaboration Journey
A chronological view of Thambi Ramaiah & Nassar's professional partnership
Actors and musicians who worked on most of their films
G. V. Prakash Kumar scored 3 of them. Santhanam appears alongside them in 5 films — practically a third lead.
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