Mahat & Silambarasan Movies Together List — 4 Films

The shape of the work

The 2000s belonged to Vallavan; the 2010s to Vantha Rajavathaan Varuven. Mahat acted in every film; Silambarasan acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Their fourth film together, Vantha Rajavathaan Varuven (2019), was the only one to become a commercial hit — despite being their lowest-rated collaboration on paper.
• In Vallavan (2006), the scene where Silambarasan's character slaps Mahat's character in a classroom became a meme template in Tamil social media for years.
• After Kaalai (2008) tanked at the box office, they didn't work together for nine years — and when they finally reunited for Anbanavan Asarathavan Adangathavan (2017), it became the worst-rated Tamil film of that year.
• Silambarasan once said in a 2017 interview: 'Mahat is the only actor who has seen me at my worst and still agreed to do a fourth film with me.'
• The dialogue 'Enna da panra?' from Vallavan (2006), spoken by Mahat to Silambarasan, is still used by Tamil college students to mock a friend who's overacting.
• Their partnership is the only one in Tamil cinema where a lead actor (Silambarasan) directed his co-star (Mahat) in two films — Vallavan (2006) and Kaalai (2008) — and both flopped critically.