Sonu Sood & Murli Sharma Movies Together List — 4 Films
Complete Movies List & Collaboration History
Last updated: 2026-06-02 · Data sources: Wikipedia, TMDB
Sonu Sood and Murli Sharma appeared together in 4 Tamil films between 2016 and 2019. Their highest-rated collaboration was Devi (2016 — 6.2/10). Films span Devi (2016) through Devi 2 (2019).
The Sonu Sood & Murli Sharma partnership
Between 2016 and 2019, they barely worked apart — 4 films in 3 years. 2016 was their peak — 3 films in twelve months. From Devi (2016) to Devi 2 (2019).
It started with Devi (2016).
The shape of the work
Sonu Sood acted in every film; Murli Sharma acted in all of them. Mostly Tamil, with 1 film in Telugu.
Partnership facts
- They first shared screen space in the 2016 trilingual 'Devi' (also shot as 'Abhinetri' and 'Tutak Tutak Tutiya'). The director, Vijay, specifically paired them as the comic villain duo because he wanted two actors who could switch between Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi without dubbing — both Sood and Sharma are fluent in all three languages.
- In 'Devi 2' (2019), Sood played the straight-man hero while Sharma played the over-the-top comic villain. Sharma later admitted in an interview that Sood would deliberately flub his lines during rehearsals to make Sharma laugh, forcing him to stay sharp and improvise — that tension became the comedy on screen.
- Their 'Devi' franchise became the only Tamil horror-comedy series to spawn a direct Hindi remake — 'Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2' (2022) borrowed the core premise of a fake ghost hunter vs real supernatural entity, a dynamic Sood and Sharma first popularized in Tamil cinema.
- During the 'Devi' shoot in 2015, Sood and Sharma shared a hotel room in Hyderabad for three months. Sharma told a journalist that Sood would wake him up at 5 AM every day to practice Tamil dialogues together — even though both are native Hindi speakers.
- Murli Sharma on Sonu Sood: 'He is the only co-star who would call me at midnight before every single shot to discuss the scene. Not the director — Sonu. That's how seriously he takes even a comedy film.'
4 films across 1 decade
- Devi
- Tutak Tutak Tutiya
The partnership in numbers
Partnership Pattern
4 films across 3 years represents consistent collaboration.
Language Distribution
Linguistic diversity: 3 languages, with Tamil being their primary medium.
Where each was in their career
By the time of Devi, both already had careers — Sonu Sood with 35 films, Murli Sharma with 19.
Before Devi, Sonu Sood had starred in 35 films, including Gabbar is Back (2015) and Jodhaa Akbar (2008).
After Devi 2 , Sonu Sood went on to appear in 8 more films, including Tamilarasan (2023) and Acharya (2022).
Before Devi, Murli Sharma had starred in 19 films, including Main Hoon Na (2004) and Gopala Gopala (2015).
After Devi 2 , Murli Sharma went on to appear in 8 more films, including Hit (2020) and Shyam Singha Roy (2021).
Collaboration Journey
A chronological view of Sonu Sood & Murli Sharma's professional partnership
Actors and musicians who worked on most of their films
Prabhu Deva is the through-line — cast on 4 of their 4 films. Gopi Sunder scored 3 of them. Prabhu Deva appears alongside them in 4 films — practically a third lead.
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