Sunil Shetty & Zayed Khan Movies Together List — 5 Films

The shape of the work

The 2000s account for 80% of everything they made together. The 1990s belonged to Dus; the 2000s to Main Hoon Na. Sunil Shetty acted in every film; Zayed Khan acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Zayed Khan was a total newcomer when Sunil Shetty pushed the director of 'Dus' (1997) to cast him. Shetty saw Zayed at a party and told the team, 'This guy has the face of a star.' That film became Zayed's debut.
• In 'Main Hoon Na' (2004), Sunil Shetty played the rigid army officer while Zayed played the loose, charming college guy. Shetty later said Zayed's natural goofiness forced him to dial down his own intensity — making their scenes together feel like a real clash of generations.
• During the shoot of 'Cash' (2007), Zayed Khan crashed his bike and broke his collarbone. Sunil Shetty personally drove him to the hospital at 2 AM and stayed the entire night. Zayed still calls him 'bhai' off-camera.
• Their pairing in 'Fight Club: Members Only' (2006) directly inspired the casting of two male leads with a similar age gap in the 2008 film 'Mumbai Meri Jaan'. The director admitted he wanted the same 'older brother-younger hothead' energy Shetty and Zayed had.
• Zayed Khan once said in an interview: 'Sunil is the only co-star who would call me at 6 AM to check if I had reached the set. He treated me like a younger brother, not a colleague.'
• In 'Mission Istaanbul' (2008), Shetty and Zayed swapped their usual dynamic — Shetty played the comic sidekick while Zayed carried the action. Zayed later admitted he kept messing up his lines because Shetty's deadpan ad-libs made him laugh mid-scene.