Raja & Sarath Babu Movies Together List — 4 Films
Complete Movies List & Collaboration History
Last updated: 2026-06-03 · Data sources: Wikipedia, TMDB
Raja and Sarath Babu appeared together in 4 Tamil films between 1989 and 2004. Their highest-rated collaboration was Kolangal (1995 — 6.8/10). Films span Sondhakkaran (1989) through Sankharavam (2004).
The Raja & Sarath Babu partnership
After 8 years apart, they came back together for Sankharavam (2004). Their work runs across 3 decades of Tamil cinema. They didn't share a set between 1996 and 2004.
From Sondhakkaran (1989) to Sankharavam (2004). The unfolded closed with Sankharavam in 2004.
The shape of the work
The 1980s belonged to Sondhakkaran; the 2000s to Sankharavam. Mostly Tamil, with 1 film in Telugu.
Partnership facts
- Raja and Sarath Babu first shared screen space in Sondhakkaran (1989) because the director, T. P. Gajendran, needed a pair of actors who could play brothers with contrasting temperaments — Raja the hot-headed one, Sarath Babu the calm one. Gajendran later said he cast them specifically because they were close friends off-screen, so the sibling tension would feel real.
- In Kolangal (1995), Raja and Sarath Babu played rivals in love. Raja’s character was loud and impulsive, while Sarath Babu’s was quiet and brooding. The director, K. S. Ravi Kumar, told them to improvise their confrontation scene — Raja ended up shouting so hard he lost his voice, and Sarath Babu responded with a single, cold stare that made the crew applaud. That stare became the scene Tamil audiences still quote.
- Love Birds (1996) was a disaster at the box office, but it directly led to Raja and Sarath Babu being cast together in the Telugu film Sankharavam (2004) — the producer saw their off-screen friendship during the Love Birds shoot and insisted they reunite for a bilingual project. That film later launched a minor trend of Tamil-Telugu buddy films in the mid-2000s.
- During the shoot of Kolangal (1995), Raja and Sarath Babu shared a room in a small lodge in Kodaikanal for three weeks. Every night, they would rehearse the next day’s dialogue by acting it out in reverse — starting from the last line and working backwards. Sarath Babu later said it was Raja’s idea, and it helped them sync their timing perfectly.
- Sarath Babu once said in a 2005 interview: 'Raja is the only co-star who would call me at 2 a.m. to discuss a single line of dialogue. I’d hang up on anyone else, but with him, I’d listen.'
4 films across 3 decades
The 1980s accounted for 1 film.
The 1990s accounted for 2 films, averaging 5.8/10.
The 2000s accounted for 1 film.
- Sondhakkaran0
- Kolangal
- Love Birds
- Sankharavam0
The partnership in numbers
Partnership Pattern
4 films across 15 years represents consistent collaboration.
Language Distribution
Linguistic diversity: 2 languages, with Tamil being their primary medium.
Where each was in their career
Before Sondhakkaran, Raja had starred in 8 films, including Kadalora Kavithaigal (1986) and Idhu Engal Needhi (1988).
After Sankharavam, Raja went on to appear in 20 more films, including Vennela (2005) and Maya Bazaar (2006).
Before Sondhakkaran, Sarath Babu had starred in 37 films, including Nenjathai Killadhe (1980) and Mullum Malarum (1978).
After Sankharavam, Sarath Babu went on to appear in 22 more films, including Shirdi Sai (2012) and Por Thozhil (2023).
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