Sarath Babu & Vijayakumar Movies Together List — 3 Films
Complete Movies List & Collaboration History
Last updated: 2026-06-04 · Data sources: Wikipedia, TMDB
Sarath Babu and Vijayakumar appeared together in 3 Tamil films between 1982 and 2020. Their highest-rated collaboration was Theerpu (1982 — 7.5/10). Films span Theerpu (1982) through Entha Manchivaadavuraa (2020).
The Sarath Babu & Vijayakumar partnership
After 24 years apart, they came back together for Entha Manchivaadavuraa (2020). They didn't share a set between 1996 and 2020. Their work runs across 3 decades of Tamil cinema.
From Theerpu (1982) to Entha Manchivaadavuraa (2020). Entha Manchivaadavuraa (2020, 7.5/10) is the underseen one in the catalogue.
The shape of the work
The 1980s belonged to Theerpu; the 2020s to Entha Manchivaadavuraa. Sarath Babu acted in every film; Vijayakumar acted in all of them.
Partnership facts
- For Theerpu (1982), director R. Sundarrajan was looking for a fresh pair of antagonists. He cast Sarath Babu and Vijayakumar together on a hunch — and their first scene together was shot in a single take because they kept feeding each other lines so naturally.
- In Love Birds (1996), Sarath Babu played the calm, measured husband while Vijayakumar played the hot-headed father. Off-camera, they swapped roles: Vijayakumar would calm Sarath Babu down before intense scenes, and Sarath Babu would push Vijayakumar to go louder when the scene needed it.
- Their 2020 film Entha Manchivaadavuraa was originally a Telugu project. But because both actors insisted on dubbing their own lines in Tamil, the film got a simultaneous Tamil release — directly inspiring two other Telugu-Tamil bilinguals that same year.
- Between 1982 and 2020, they never once had a meal together on set. Both were strict about eating only home-cooked food. So they'd sit side by side, each eating from their own tiffin box, and discuss the next day's scenes.
- Vijayakumar once said in a 2021 interview: 'Sarath Babu is the only co-actor who would call me at 5 AM to rehearse a scene. I'd be half asleep, but he'd already be in character.'
3 films across 3 decades
The 1980s brought 1 film together, anchored by Theerpu (7.5/10).
The 1990s accounted for 1 film, averaging 4.9/10.
The 2020s brought 1 film together, anchored by Entha Manchivaadavuraa (7.5/10).
- Theerpu
- Love Birds
- Entha Manchivaadavuraa
The partnership in numbers
Partnership Pattern
3 films across 38 years represents consistent collaboration.
Language Distribution
Linguistic diversity: 2 languages, with Tamil being their primary medium.
Where each was in their career
When they first worked together, Sarath Babu had 18 films behind them; Vijayakumar had 51.
Before Theerpu, Sarath Babu had starred in 18 films, including Nenjathai Killadhe (1980) and Mullum Malarum (1978).
After Entha Manchivaadavuraa, Sarath Babu went on to appear in 4 more films, including Por Thozhil (2023) and Vakeel Saab (2021).
Before Theerpu, Vijayakumar had starred in 51 films, including Aval Oru Thodar Kathai (1974) and Neeya (1979).
After Entha Manchivaadavuraa, Vijayakumar went on to appear in 4 more films, including Oh My Dog (2022) and Amaichar (2022).
Collaboration Journey
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