Prabhu & Mansoor Ali Khan Movies Together List — 5 Films

The shape of the work

The 1990s belonged to Seethanam; the 2020s to Rajaputhiran. Prabhu acted in every film; Mansoor Ali Khan acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• For Seethanam (1995), director R. K. Selvamani cast Prabhu first, then asked Mansoor Ali Khan to play the villain. Mansoor was so nervous acting opposite a star that Prabhu personally rehearsed scenes with him in the makeup room before every shot.
• In Thaalikaatha Kaaliamman (2001), Prabhu played the calm, righteous hero while Mansoor Ali Khan went full manic as the antagonist. Mansoor later said Prabhu’s stillness on set forced him to raise his own energy — he called it “acting with a mirror that doesn’t blink.”
• After Unnodu Ka (2016) flopped, Prabhu and Mansoor Ali Khan didn’t speak for nearly seven years. They only reconciled in 2023 when a mutual friend brought them together for a coffee — and that meeting directly led to Rajaputhiran (2025).
• Mansoor Ali Khan once said in a 2017 interview: “Prabhu is the only hero who made me feel like a co-star, not a villain. He never treated me like the bad guy off-camera.”
• Their 1995 film Seethanam was one of the first Tamil movies to show a villain (Mansoor) using a mobile phone as a plot device — a detail that later inspired a whole wave of tech-driven villain entries in late-90s Tamil cinema.