Nassar & Radha Ravi Movies Together List — 15 Films

The shape of the work

The 1990s belonged to Indira; the 2020s to Thalaivii. Nassar acted in every film; Radha Ravi acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Nassar and Radha Ravi first shared screen space in Naane Ennul Illai (2010) — a low-budget psychological thriller where both played cops. The director, S. P. Rajkumar, cast them specifically because he wanted two actors who could switch between stern and vulnerable without dialogue.
• In Irudhi Suttru (2016), Radha Ravi played the loud, corrupt boxing federation boss while Nassar played the quiet, principled coach. Nassar later said in an interview that Radha Ravi's booming voice forced him to act with his eyes and pauses — because any louder would have turned their scenes into a shouting match.
• Their only comedy pairing — Jil Jung Juk (2016) — was a cult flop, but it directly inspired the deadpan double-act style that director Deeraj Vaidy used later in his hit film Sillu Karuppatti (2019). Vaidy admitted he wrote the father-son dynamic in that film after watching Nassar and Radha Ravi's awkward, silent stares in Jil Jung Juk.
• Despite playing rivals in three of their five films, Nassar and Radha Ravi are close friends off-screen. They share a ritual: before every shoot together, they sit silently for two minutes — a habit they picked up from their theatre days in the 1980s, long before either entered cinema.
• Radha Ravi once told a Tamil magazine: 'Nassar is the only actor who can make me forget my lines — because I'm too busy watching him act.' He said this while promoting Si3 (2017), where they played a police commissioner and a villain, respectively.