Birbal & Urmila Bhatt Movies Together List — 3 Films

The shape of the work

The 1980s belonged to Jwala Daku; the 1990s to Izzat Ki Roti. Birbal acted in every film; Urmila Bhatt acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Birbal and Urmila Bhatt first shared screen space in 'Patthar Se Takkar' (1980), a film where Birbal played the lead hero and Urmila played his mother — even though she was only about 10 years older than him in real life.
• In 'Jwala Daku' (1981), Urmila played Birbal's on-screen mother again, but this time she also played a second role — a comic village woman. Birbal later said she made him laugh so hard during their scenes together that the director had to do multiple retakes.
• Urmila Bhatt personally recommended Birbal to the producer of 'Izzat Ki Roti' (1993) when the original actor dropped out. She told the press she trusted Birbal's timing more than any other actor she'd worked with.
• Birbal once said in a 1995 interview: 'Urmila ji was the only co-star who could scold me on set like a real mother and then laugh about it over chai five minutes later.'