Sunil Shetty & Arbaaz Khan Movies Together List — 4 Films

The shape of the work

The 2000s account for 75% of everything they made together. The 1990s belonged to Hulchul; the 2000s to Shootout at Lokhandwala. Sunil Shetty acted in every film; Arbaaz Khan acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• They first shared screen space in 'Hulchul' (1995) because producer-director duo had a budget crunch — both were rising stars willing to work for lower pay. The film flopped, but they stayed friends.
• In 'Shootout at Lokhandwala' (2007), Shetty played the intense cop and Arbaaz played the slick lawyer. They deliberately didn't rehearse their courtroom face-off — both wanted the scene to feel raw and unpredictable. It worked.
• Arbaaz Khan once said in an interview that Sunil Shetty is the only co-star who still calls him by his childhood nickname 'Bobby' — a habit from their early days that stuck for decades.
• Their pairing in 'Qayamat: City Under Threat' (2003) was one of the first Hindi films to use a multi-star ensemble for a heist-gone-wrong plot — a template that later inspired films like 'D-Day' and 'Special 26'.
• Arbaaz Khan once told a tabloid: 'Sunil and I never had ego issues. If a scene needed him to look stronger, I'd step back. He did the same for me. That's why we worked.'
• In 'Dus Kahaniyaan' (2007), they played estranged brothers in one segment. Shetty improvised a line about their mother's cooking that made Arbaaz genuinely laugh — the director kept it in the final cut.