Bipasha Basu & Akshay Kumar Movies Together List — 4 Films

The shape of the work

The 2000s account for 75% of everything they made together. The 1990s belonged to Aankhen; the 2000s to Phir Hera Pheri. Bipasha Basu acted in every film; Akshay Kumar acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Bipasha was a total newcomer when she signed Ajnabee (2001). Akshay, already a star, personally pushed the producers to cast her after seeing her audition tape. He later said he 'saw something raw' in her.
• In Ajnabee, Akshay played a creepy obsessive husband. Bipasha matched his intensity by playing her scenes with zero fear — she told a director once that Akshay's unpredictable energy made her 'stay on edge', which made her performance sharper.
• Phir Hera Pheri (2006) was the only comedy they did together, and it became a cult classic. The film's success directly led to a wave of multi-starrer comedies in the late 2000s — like Dhamaal and Golmaal — that copied its chaotic trio dynamic.
• They never dated, but Bipasha has called Akshay her 'first genuine friend' in the industry. On the sets of Ajnabee, he would drive her home every night because she was too scared to take a cab alone in Mumbai.
• Bipasha once said in an interview: 'Akshay is the only co-star who made me laugh so hard on set that we had to stop shooting. He'd do something stupid, I'd lose it, and the director would yell at both of us.'