Sivaji Ganesan & Mohan Babu Movies Together List — 3 Films

The shape of the work

The 1970s belonged to Vetrikku Oruvan; the 1980s to Natchathiram. Sivaji Ganesan acted in every film; Mohan Babu acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Sivaji Ganesan personally recommended Mohan Babu for a key role in Annan Oru Koyil (1977) after seeing his work in Telugu. That film became their first collaboration and launched Mohan Babu's Tamil career.
• In Vetrikku Oruvan (1979), Sivaji played the elder brother and Mohan Babu the younger. Sivaji deliberately slowed his dialogue delivery in their scenes together so Mohan Babu's raw energy could pop — a trick he used to make co-stars look good.
• Mohan Babu has said in interviews that Sivaji Ganesan treated him like a son on set. After every day's shoot, Sivaji would sit with him and explain why a particular scene worked or didn't — no other co-star got that level of coaching from him.
• "Working with Sivaji sir was like attending film school every day. He didn't just act — he taught me how to think like a character." — Mohan Babu, in a 2018 interview with The Hindu.
• Their third film Natchathiram (1980) was the first Tamil movie to feature both actors in a double-hero setup where neither played the villain. That template — two stars sharing equal screen time without a clear antagonist — directly inspired later buddy films like Sattam Oru Iruttarai.
• In Annan Oru Koyil, Sivaji's character was the calm, moral center while Mohan Babu played the hot-headed younger brother. Mohan Babu improvised a slap in one scene — Sivaji didn't flinch, stayed in character, and the director kept the take. That moment became the film's most talked-about scene.