Nassar & Pooja Kumar Movies Together List — 4 Films
Complete Movies List & Collaboration History
Last updated: 2026-06-04 · Data sources: Wikipedia, TMDB
Nassar and Pooja Kumar appeared together in 4 Tamil films between 2013 and 2021. Their highest-rated collaboration was Uttama Villain (2015 — 7.3/10). Films span Vishwaroop (2013) through Kabadathaari (2021).
The Nassar & Pooja Kumar partnership
From Vishwaroop (2013) to Kabadathaari (2021). Uttama Villain is the one most viewers reach for. It started with Vishwaroop (2013).
The shape of the work
The 2010s account for 75% of everything they made together. The 2010s belonged to Uttama Villain; the 2020s to Kabadathaari. Nassar acted in every film; Pooja Kumar acted in all of them. Mostly Tamil, with 1 film in Hindi.
Partnership facts
- Nassar personally recommended Pooja Kumar to Kamal Haasan for Vishwaroopam. He had worked with her earlier in a small film and told Kamal she could pull off the intense role of a RAW agent. Kamal trusted Nassar's instinct and cast her on the spot.
- In Uttama Villain, Nassar played Pooja Kumar's on-screen father. Their scenes together had zero melodrama — Nassar deliberately underplayed his lines to let her carry the emotional weight of their confrontation. She later said that restraint taught her more than any acting workshop.
- Pooja Kumar calls Nassar her 'cinema father' off-screen too. During Vishwaroopam's grueling 2012 shoot in New York, she was homesick and struggling with the action sequences. Nassar would call her every morning to check if she'd eaten breakfast. She still texts him before every major audition.
- "Nassar sir doesn't act. He just becomes the character. I had to stop acting and just react to him, or I'd look fake next to him." — Pooja Kumar, in a 2015 interview about Uttama Villain.
- Their pairing in Vishwaroopam directly led to Pooja Kumar being cast in the Hindi version of the same film. Kamal Haasan told the Hindi producers, 'If she's good enough for Nassar's scenes, she's good enough for Bollywood.' That film became her launchpad into Hindi cinema.
- In Kabadathaari (2021), Nassar and Pooja Kumar played a married couple for the first time. They deliberately avoided rehearsing their domestic arguments. Nassar told her to just 'come at him' with real anger. The take they used was the first one — because both were genuinely startled by each other's intensity.
4 films across 2 decades
The 2010s brought 3 films together, anchored by Uttama Villain (7.3/10).
The 2020s accounted for 1 film.
- Uttama Villain
- Vishwaroopam
- Kabadathaari0
The partnership in numbers
Partnership Pattern
4 films across 8 years represents consistent collaboration.
Language Distribution
Linguistic diversity: 2 languages, with Tamil being their primary medium.
Where each was in their career
44% of Pooja Kumar's screen credits are with Nassar. When they first worked together, Nassar had 131 films behind them; Pooja Kumar had 5. After Kabadathaari, Nassar kept going for 41 more films; Pooja Kumar stepped back.
Before Vishwaroop, Nassar had starred in 131 films, including Anbe Sivam (2003) and Anniyan (2005).
After Kabadathaari, Nassar went on to appear in 41 more films, including 10th Class Diaries (2022) and 800 (2023).
Before Vishwaroop, Pooja Kumar had starred in 5 films, including Anjaana Anjaani (2010) and Kadhal Rojave (2000).
Collaboration Journey
A chronological view of Nassar & Pooja Kumar's professional partnership
Actors and musicians who worked on most of their films
Andrea Jeremiah is the through-line — cast on 3 of their 4 films. Andrea Jeremiah appears alongside them in 3 films — practically a third lead.
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