Hema Malini & Vinod Khanna Movies Together List — 9 Films

The shape of the work

The 1970s belonged to Meera; the 2010s to Tell Me O Kkhuda. Hema Malini acted in every film; Vinod Khanna acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• They first worked together in Meera (1979) because Hema Malini personally recommended Vinod Khanna to director Gulzar. She had seen his work and felt he was the only actor who could play the conflicted Krishna to her Meera.
• In Kudrat (1981), Hema played a double role — a modern woman and a 19th-century ghost. Vinod had to shift his performance between the two, and he later said that Hema's discipline on set pushed him to be more precise with his own timing.
• During the shoot of The Burning Train (1980), Vinod Khanna would often drive Hema Malini home after late-night action sequences. She later recalled that he never once let her feel unsafe, even when they were filming dangerous stunts on moving trains.
• Their 2018 film Ek Thi Rani Aisi Bhi was a TV biopic on Rani Lakshmibai. It marked the first time in 30 years that Hema and Vinod played a romantic couple on screen — and it became a hit, proving their pairing still had pull across generations.
• Vinod Khanna once said in an interview: 'Hema is the only co-star who could make me forget my lines. Not because I was distracted — but because she was so in the moment that I wanted to match her energy.'
• In Rihaee (1988), a film about drought and sexual frustration in a village, Hema and Vinod played a married couple whose relationship breaks down. Neither of them had done anything this raw before. Hema later said Vinod's willingness to be vulnerable made her trust him completely in those uncomfortable scenes.