Santhosh Prathap & Dayal Padmanabhan Movies Together List — 2 Films
Complete Movies List & Collaboration History
Last updated: 2026-06-03 · Data sources: Wikipedia, TMDB
Santhosh Prathap and Dayal Padmanabhan appeared together in 2 Tamil films. Their highest-rated collaboration was Kondraal Paavam (2023 — 6.0/10). Films span Kondraal Paavam (2023) through Maruthi Nagar Police Station (2023).
The Santhosh Prathap & Dayal Padmanabhan partnership
From Kondraal Paavam (2023) to Maruthi Nagar Police Station (2023). Their most recent film, Maruthi Nagar Police Station, came out in 2023 — the partnership is still active. It started with Kondraal Paavam (2023).
The shape of the work
Santhosh Prathap acted in every film; Dayal Padmanabhan directed all of them.
2 films across 1 decade
- Kondraal Paavam
- Maruthi Nagar Police Station
The partnership in numbers
Partnership Pattern
2 films across 0 years represents focused partnership.
Language Distribution
Linguistic diversity: 1 language, with Tamil being their primary medium.
Where each was in their career
Before Kondraal Paavam , Santhosh Prathap had starred in 9 films, including Sarpatta Parambarai (2021) and Ori Devuda (2022).
After Maruthi Nagar Police Station, Santhosh Prathap went on to appear in 5 more films, including Aranmanai 4 (2024) and CHAMPION (2025).
Kondraal Paavam was Dayal Padmanabhan's directorial debut.
After Maruthi Nagar Police Station, Dayal Padmanabhan went on to direct 1 more film, including Lakshmikanthan Kolai Vazhakku (2026).
Collaboration Journey
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Actors and musicians who worked on most of their films
Varalaxmi Sarathkumar is the through-line — cast on 2 of their 2 films.
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