Nassar & Suhasini Maniratnam Movies Together List — 12 Films

The shape of the work

The 1980s belonged to En Purushan Than Enakku Mattundhan; the 2020s to Balamevvadu. Nassar acted in every film; Suhasini Maniratnam acted in all of them. Mostly Tamil, with 4 films in Telugu.

Partnership facts

• Nassar was the one who pushed Suhasini to act in 'En Purushan Than Enakku Mattundhan' (1989). She was hesitant about the script, but he convinced her it would be a hit. It was their first film together.
• In 'Indira' (1995), Suhasini played a mother to Nassar's character — a rare age-gap reversal. She later said Nassar's intensity in the climax scene made her forget he was her co-star and feel like she was really watching her son suffer.
• Nassar and Suhasini are close friends off-screen. He was one of the first people she called when she decided to marry Mani Ratnam — and Nassar actually helped arrange their first meeting.
• Suhasini once said in an interview: 'Nassar is the only actor who can make me laugh so hard I forget my lines. We had to do retakes on 'Chinna Kannamma' because I kept giggling.'
• Their pairing in 'En Purushan Than Enakku Mattundhan' (1989) was so well-received that it directly led to director K. S. Ravikumar casting them again in 'Chinna Kannamma' (1993) — a film that otherwise had no connection to the first.
• On the set of 'Baadshah' (2013), Nassar and Suhasini improvised an entire argument scene in one take. The director kept it in the final cut because their real-life friendship made the fight feel authentic.