Priyanka Chopra & Irrfan Khan Movies Together List — 3 Films

The shape of the work

The 2000s belonged to Chamku; the 2010s to 7 Khoon Maaf. Priyanka Chopra acted in every film; Irrfan Khan acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Priyanka Chopra personally recommended Irrfan Khan for the role of her husband in 7 Khoon Maaf (2011). She told director Vishal Bhardwaj that only Irrfan could play the quiet, sinister husband — and Bhardwaj agreed on the spot.
• In Gunday (2014), Irrfan played a police officer chasing Priyanka's character. But on set, he kept breaking character to laugh at her improvised lines. Priyanka later said Irrfan told her, 'You make me forget my lines because I'm too busy watching you.'
• During the shoot of Chamku (2008), Priyanka and Irrfan would share a cup of chai between takes and discuss poetry. Irrfan would recite lines from his favorite Urdu poets, and Priyanka would try to guess the poet. It became a daily ritual.
• Irrfan once said about Priyanka: 'She is the only co-star who can make me nervous. Not because she is intimidating, but because she is so present in every scene that I have to raise my own game.'
• Their pairing in 7 Khoon Maaf (2011) directly inspired director Anurag Kashyap to cast them together again in a short film for an anthology — but the project fell through when Irrfan fell ill. Kashyap later said he wanted to 'capture that same unsettling energy' they had in the bedroom scene.
• In Chamku (2008), Irrfan played a cold-blooded assassin. Priyanka played his love interest. She deliberately underplayed every scene opposite him — no big Bollywood expressions — because she said 'Irrfan's stillness is so powerful that if I act too much, the scene breaks.'