Bose Venkat & Gajaraj Movies Together List — 4 Films

The shape of the work

Bose Venkat director in some, actor in others. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Bose Venkat and Gajaraj first shared screen space in Kanni Madam (2020) because the director needed two actors who could play contrasting village elders — Bose brought the stern authority, Gajaraj the sly comic relief. The pairing clicked so well that the team immediately greenlit a second film, Kanni Maadam, the same year.
• In Kanni Maadam (2020), Bose Venkat would set the dramatic tempo with his measured dialogue delivery, and Gajaraj would then undercut it with a quick, improvised one-liner. That push-and-pull — serious vs. mischievous — became the duo's signature rhythm across all three films.
• The success of their first two films in 2020 directly led to Nandhi Varman (2023), where the director wrote a whole subplot just to keep Bose Venkat and Gajaraj's banter alive — even though the main story didn't need both characters.
• On the sets of Kanni Madam, Bose Venkat and Gajaraj discovered they both came from the same small town near Tirunelveli. They started a running joke where they'd only speak in their native dialect between takes — confusing the crew but making each other laugh.
• Gajaraj once told a local magazine: 'Bose anna finishes his lines like he's closing a door. I have to kick it open again with my comedy. That's why we work — he locks, I unlock.'