Harish Uthaman & Keerthi Suresh Movies Together List — 3 Films

The shape of the work

Harish Uthaman acted in every film; Keerthi Suresh acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Harish Uthaman was cast as the villain in Bairavaa (2017) only after the original choice, a Bollywood actor, backed out last minute. Keerthi Suresh, who played the lead, personally recommended Harish to director Bharathan after they had just worked together on Thodari.
• In Natpe Thunai (2019), Harish played a menacing rugby coach while Keerthi played a bubbly college student. The film's emotional core came from a scene where Keerthi's character confronts Harish's — she improvised the dialogue on set, and Harish responded by staying completely silent, letting her monologue carry the entire two-minute take. That scene became the film's most shared clip on social media.
• The success of Natpe Thunai (2019) directly led to Harish Uthaman being cast as the antagonist in the 2021 blockbuster Master — director Lokesh Kanagaraj cited the intensity of Harish's face-off with Keerthi in that film as proof he could hold his own against Vijay.
• During the shoot of Thodari (2016), Keerthi Suresh was just 23 and nervous about her first Tamil film with a big star (Dhanush). Harish, a decade older and a former bodybuilder, would calm her down before every scene by cracking jokes in broken Tamil. They still call each other 'Anna' and 'Thangachi' (brother and sister) off-screen.
• "Harish anna is the only co-star who has seen me cry on set. Not because of the scene — because I was homesick during Thodari. He sat with me for an hour and told me stories about his mother. That's when I knew I could trust him as an actor." — Keerthi Suresh, in a 2019 interview with Behindwoods.