Kishore & Prakash Raj Movies Together List — 6 Films

The shape of the work

The 2020s account for 83% of everything they made together. The 2010s belonged to Thoongavanam; the 2020s to Viduthalai. Kishore acted in every film; Prakash Raj acted in all of them.

Partnership facts

• Kishore and Prakash Raj first shared screen space in Thoongavanam (2015), but they didn't have a single scene together. The director Kamal Haasan deliberately kept them apart — he wanted their face-off to feel fresh when they finally clashed in Viduthalai (2023).
• In Viduthalai (2023), Prakash Raj played the calm, manipulative police officer while Kishore played the volatile, impulsive constable. Kishore later said in an interview that Prakash Raj would deliberately slow down his dialogue delivery in their scenes together, forcing Kishore to match his rhythm — which made Kishore's anger feel more controlled and dangerous.
• During the shoot of Ponniyin Selvan 2 (2023), Kishore and Prakash Raj shared a hotel room in Hyderabad for three weeks. They spent nights discussing old Tamil films and arguing about which actor had the best screen presence — Prakash Raj always picked Sivaji Ganesan, Kishore always picked Rajinikanth.
• "Prakash Raj sir doesn't act. He just stands there and the scene happens around him. I had to learn to be still to share frame with him." — Kishore, in a 2023 interview with The Hindu, talking about their Viduthalai scenes.
• Their face-off in Viduthalai (2023) — a single, unbroken 4-minute shot where Prakash Raj calmly interrogates Kishore — became a reference point for acting workshops in Chennai. Several theatre groups now use that scene as a case study for 'power dynamics in a two-actor scene'.