Radha Ravi & Kaali Venkat Movies Together List — 7 Films
Complete Movies List & Collaboration History
Last updated: 2026-06-02 · Data sources: Wikipedia, TMDB
Radha Ravi and Kaali Venkat appeared together in 7 Tamil films between 2016 and 2025. Their highest-rated collaboration was Ratsasan (2018 — 7.9/10). Films span Irudhi Suttru (2016) through Middle Class (2025).
The Radha Ravi & Kaali Venkat partnership
2016 was their peak — 3 films in twelve months. From Irudhi Suttru (2016) to Middle Class (2025). For 9 years, a Radha–Kaali film arrived almost every year.
Iraivi (2016, 7.6/10) is the underseen one in the catalogue. Their most recent film, Middle Class, came out in 2025 — the partnership is still active.
The shape of the work
The 2010s account for 71% of everything they made together. The 2010s belonged to Ratsasan; the 2020s to Don. Radha Ravi acted in every film; Kaali Venkat acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.
Partnership facts
- Kaali Venkat was a theatre actor with zero film experience when director Sudha Kongara cast him opposite Radha Ravi in Irudhi Suttru (2016). Radha Ravi, already a veteran, personally vouched for Venkat after seeing him in a Chennai stage play — that one recommendation got Venkat his first ever film role.
- In Ratsasan (2018), Radha Ravi played the cold, calculating villain while Kaali Venkat played the comic-relief friend. Venkat later admitted that Ravi deliberately slowed down his dialogue delivery in their scenes together — so Venkat's nervous energy would pop more on screen. That pacing trick made their interrogation scene the most quoted bit of the film.
- Their first film together, Irudhi Suttru (2016), launched Kaali Venkat as a go-to character actor in Tamil cinema. Before that film, he was an unknown. After it, he got calls for 12 projects in the next six months — all because Radha Ravi insisted the director keep Venkat's scenes in the final cut.
- On the sets of Mapla Singam (2016), Radha Ravi would pull Kaali Venkat aside after every take and whisper notes in Tamil — not about acting, but about how to handle producers and negotiate contracts. Venkat has said that Ravi taught him 'the business side of cinema' during lunch breaks on that film.
- Kaali Venkat once said about Radha Ravi: 'He doesn't act with you — he acts for you. In Irudhi Suttru, he made me look like I had been acting for ten years.'
7 films across 2 decades
The 2010s brought 5 films together, anchored by Ratsasan (7.9/10).
The 2020s accounted for 2 films, averaging 6.9/10.
- Ratsasan
- Irudhi Suttru
- Don
- Middle Class
The partnership in numbers
Partnership Pattern
7 films across 9 years represents consistent collaboration.
Language Distribution
Linguistic diversity: 1 language, with Tamil being their primary medium.
Where each was in their career
When they first worked together, Radha Ravi had 118 films behind them; Kaali Venkat had 20.
Before Irudhi Suttru, Radha Ravi had starred in 118 films, including Thanneer Thanneer (1981) and Soodhu Kavvum (2013).
After Middle Class, Radha Ravi went on to appear in 3 more films, including Con City (2026) and Love Insurance Kompany (2026).
Before Irudhi Suttru, Kaali Venkat had starred in 20 films, including Mouna Guru (2011) and Pannaiyarum Padminiyum (2014).
After Middle Class, Kaali Venkat went on to appear in 6 more films, including Karuppu (2026) and Parasakthi (2026).
Collaboration Journey
A chronological view of Radha Ravi & Kaali Venkat's professional partnership
Actors and musicians who worked on most of their films
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