Vijay & Vijayakumar Movies Together List — 6 Films

The shape of the work

The 1990s belonged to Rasigan; the 2010s to Puli. Vijay acted in every film; Vijayakumar acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Vijay once said in a 2002 interview: 'Vijayakumar sir is like a father to me on screen and off. He taught me how to hold a pause in a emotional scene.'
• Vijay and Vijayakumar's first film together, Sendhoorapandi (1993), was the debut production of Vijay's father S. A. Chandrasekhar's home banner, and it ran for over 100 days in theatres — a rare feat for a debut production at the time.
• In Kushi (2000), Vijayakumar played the strict father who delivers the iconic line 'Enna koduma sir idhu?' — a dialogue that Tamil audiences still quote when faced with absurd situations.
• Rasigan (1994) was the film that first paired Vijay with a young Simran, but more importantly, it marked Vijayakumar's shift from playing villain roles to father figures — a change that defined his second innings in cinema.
• Youth (2002) was the only film in their collaboration where Vijayakumar played a negative role — a corrupt politician — and it was also their lowest-grossing film together, collecting just ₹2.5 crore at the box office.
• The father-son emotional climax in Maanbumigu Maanavan (1996) — where Vijayakumar's character sacrifices his life to save Vijay's — became a template for at least three later Vijay films with other actors.