Nassar & Rohini Movies Together List — 13 Films

The shape of the work

The 1990s belonged to Devathai; the 2020s to Bāhubali: The Epic. Nassar acted in every film; Rohini acted in all of them. Mostly Tamil, with 3 films in Telugu.

Partnership facts

• Nassar and Rohini first worked together in Magalir Mattum (1994) because director Singeetam Srinivasa Rao specifically wanted a real-life couple to play the on-screen pair. He felt their comfort with each other would sell the awkward comedy of a man pretending to be a woman.
• In Virumaandi (2004), Kamal Haasan wrote Rohini's character as a strong-willed village woman who verbally spars with Nassar's character. Nassar later said Rohini's natural intensity forced him to raise his own performance — he couldn't coast because she never gave him a weak take to play off.
• Nassar and Rohini have been married since 1978. They didn't act together for the first 16 years of their marriage because they didn't want their personal life to affect casting decisions. Magalir Mattum (1994) was the first time they agreed to share screen space.
• Their production company, NKR Films, was launched with Nandalala (2010) — a film they produced together and starred in as a couple. The movie won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil, putting their joint venture on the map.
• Rohini once said in an interview: 'With Nassar, I don't have to act. I just react. He knows exactly which button to press to get the emotion he wants from me.' She said this while promoting Neerthirai (2019).
• In Onbadhu Roobai Nottu (2007), they played a middle-aged couple running a small shop. Nassar improvised a scene where he counts coins loudly while Rohini tries to talk — she responded by counting even louder, turning a simple domestic moment into a comic tug-of-war. The director kept the take.