Vijay & Atlee Kumar Movies Together List — 5 Films

The shape of the work

Vijay acted in every film; Atlee Kumar directed all of them. Mostly Tamil, with 1 film in Telugu.

Partnership facts

• Their first film together, Nanban (2012), was a remake of 3 Idiots — but Vijay and Atlee made it a hit in Tamil, setting the stage for four more blockbusters.
• Theri (2016) was the film that turned Vijay into a mass action hero with a family angle — Atlee wrote that template, and they never looked back.
• Mersal (2017) had that scene where Vijay as a doctor slaps a villain and says 'Enna koduma sir idhu' — Tamil audiences still quote it at every family gathering.
• Mersal (2017) and Bigil (2019) both crossed 250 crores at the box office — making Atlee the only director to give Vijay two back-to-back 250+ crore blockbusters.
• Atlee once said in an interview: 'Vijay sir gave me the confidence to dream big. He treated me like a younger brother, not a director.'
• Their last film together, Bigil (2019), was the first Tamil film to have a female football team as the central plot — Atlee convinced Vijay to play a coach, and it worked.