Vijay & Anandaraj Movies Together List — 4 Films

The shape of the work

The 2000s belonged to Pokkiri; the 2020s to Varisu. Vijay acted in every film; Anandaraj acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Their first film together, Pokkiri (2007), was the highest-grossing Tamil film of that year, and Anandaraj played the main villain Bhavani — a role that directly led to him being typecast as a gangster for the next decade.
• In Bigil (2019), Anandaraj played a football coach named 'K. D. R.' — and his line 'Enna da adi potta?' became a meme template among Tamil fans for years after the film's release.
• After Villu (2009) bombed hard at the box office, Vijay reportedly refused to work with Anandaraj for nearly a decade — until Bigil (2019) brought them back together, and that film became a 250+ crore blockbuster.
• Anandaraj once said in an interview: 'Vijay sir gave me a second life in cinema with Bigil. After Villu, I thought my chance was over.'
• In Pokkiri (2007), the scene where Anandaraj's character Bhavani slaps Vijay's character with a chappal is still replayed in Tamil mass gatherings — it's the rare moment a villain physically dominates the hero on screen.
• Their fourth film Varisu (2023) earned over 35 crores in Tamil Nadu alone, but Anandaraj's screen time was less than 8 minutes — the shortest collaboration between the two actors across all four films.