Rajinikanth & Sudarshan Nag Movies Together List — 3 Films
Complete Movies List & Collaboration History
Last updated: 2026-07-13 · Data sources: Wikipedia, TMDB
Rajinikanth and Sudarshan Nag appeared together in 3 Hindi films between 1984 and 1987. Their highest-rated collaboration was Insaaf Kaun Karega (1984 — 4.4/10).
The Rajinikanth & Sudarshan Nag partnership
The played out closed with Insaaf Kaun Karega in 1987. It started with Insaaf Kaun Karega (1984).
The shape of the work
Rajinikanth acted in every film; Sudarshan Nag directed all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.
Partnership facts
- Rajinikanth was already a superstar in Tamil when he agreed to do 'Insaaf Kaun Karega' (1984) with Sudarshan Nag — a director who had never worked with a South Indian star before. Nag flew to Madras to narrate the script, and Rajini said yes on the spot because the role had a double-role twist.
- On the sets of 'Asli Naqli' (1986), Rajinikanth would often improvise his dialogue in Tamil and Sudarshan Nag would translate it into Hindi on the fly. Nag later admitted that Rajini's spontaneous one-liners became the film's most memorable scenes.
- Sudarshan Nag was one of the few Hindi directors Rajinikanth trusted enough to let him dub his own lines in Hindi. For most other Hindi films, Rajini used a dubbing artist — but with Nag, he insisted on doing the voice himself.
- The 1987 version of 'Insaaf Kaun Karega' was actually a re-release with a new climax — Sudarshan Nag added a courtroom scene specifically to cash in on Rajini's growing popularity in North India. That re-release ran for 25 weeks in Delhi.
- Sudarshan Nag once told a trade magazine: 'Rajini sir would finish his shot in one take and then sit with me to discuss the next scene. He treated me like a co-writer, not just a director.'
3 films across 1 decade
- Insaaf Kaun Karega
- Asli Naqli
The partnership in numbers
Partnership Pattern
3 films across 3 years represents consistent collaboration.
Language Distribution
Linguistic diversity: 1 language, with Hindi being their primary medium.
Where each was in their career
60% of Sudarshan Nag's screen credits are with Rajinikanth. When they first worked together, Rajinikanth had 67 films behind them; Sudarshan Nag had 0. After Insaaf Kaun Karega, Rajinikanth kept going for 56 more films; Sudarshan Nag stepped back.
Before Insaaf Kaun Karega, Rajinikanth had starred in 67 films, including Padhinaru Vayadhiniley (1977) and Aarilirunthu Arubathu Varai (1979).
After Insaaf Kaun Karega, Rajinikanth went on to appear in 56 more films, including Robot (2010) and Petta (2019).
Insaaf Kaun Karega was Sudarshan Nag's directorial debut.
After Insaaf Kaun Karega, Sudarshan Nag went on to direct 2 more films, including Shankara (1991) and Dharamyudh (1988).
Collaboration Journey
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