R. Parthiban & Raadhika Sarathkumar Movies Together List — 4 Films

The shape of the work

The 1980s belonged to Anbulla Rajinikanth; the 2010s to Naanum Rowdydhaan. R. Parthiban acted in every film; Raadhika Sarathkumar acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• In Anbulla Rajinikanth (1984), Raadhika was already a star. Parthiban was a newcomer. She pushed the director to cast him opposite her after seeing his screen test. That film launched his career.
• On the sets of Anbulla Rajinikanth, Raadhika would rehearse lines with Parthiban for hours after pack-up. He later said she taught him how to time a punchline — something he carried into his own direction decades later.
• After Anbulla Rajinikanth, they didn't work together for 31 years. But when Parthiban called Raadhika for Naanum Rowdydhaan (2015), she said yes without reading the script. She trusted him that much.
• Raadhika once said in an interview: 'Parthiban is the only co-star who made me feel like I was acting with a director, not an actor.' She meant it as the highest compliment.
• Their third film Mupparimanam (2017) was the only one where Parthiban directed Raadhika. He wrote a role specifically to show her range as a mother — something she rarely got to play in mainstream cinema at that point.