Sunil Shetty & Mohnish Bahl Movies Together List — 3 Films

The shape of the work

The 2000s belonged to Ek Hindustani; the 2010s to Tum Milo Toh Sahi. Sunil Shetty acted in every film; Mohnish Bahl acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• In 'Ek Hindustani' (2002), Sunil Shetty and Mohnish Bahl played brothers for the first time. The director T.L.V. Prasad cast them specifically because both had a reputation for action roles, but wanted to show their softer side in a family drama.
• In 'Tum Milo Toh Sahi' (2010), Mohnish Bahl played a cynical, chain-smoking journalist while Sunil Shetty played a romantic chef. Bahl later said in an interview that Shetty's natural warmth on set helped him loosen up for the role — he'd never played a character that grumpy before.
• Sunil Shetty and Mohnish Bahl have been close friends since the 1990s, long before their first film together. They often vacationed with their families, and Shetty was one of the first people Bahl called when he decided to take a break from acting in the mid-2000s.
• Mohnish Bahl once said about Sunil Shetty: 'He's the only co-star who would call me at 2 AM just to check if I'd reached home safely after a late shoot. That's the kind of bond we share.'
• Their third film together, 'Jai Ho' (2014), was directed by Sohail Khan and starred Salman Khan in the lead. Shetty and Bahl played supporting roles as Salman's brothers — a casting choice that directly came from their on-screen brotherly chemistry in 'Ek Hindustani' 12 years earlier.