Kishore & Trisha Krishnan Movies Together List — 4 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s belonged to Thoongavanam; the 2020s to Ponniyin Selvan 1. Kishore acted in every film; Trisha Krishnan acted in all of them. Mostly Tamil, with 1 film in Telugu.

Partnership facts

• Kishore and Trisha first shared screen space in Dammu (2012), but they barely had a scene together. He played a villain, she was the leading lady. Their real collaboration started only in Thoongavanam (2015), where director Rajesh M. Selva deliberately paired them as cop and informant to create tension.
• In Thoongavanam (2015), Kishore’s character was a hardened police officer, and Trisha’s was a sharp-witted informant. Kishore later said in an interview that Trisha’s improvisation in their interrogation scene made him drop his rehearsed intensity — he started reacting in real time, which gave the scene a raw, unpredictable energy.
• During the shoot of Thoongavanam (2015), Kishore and Trisha discovered they both shared a love for old Tamil film songs. They would play Ilaiyaraaja tracks on set between takes. Trisha later joked that Kishore’s encyclopedic knowledge of 80s film trivia made her feel like a rookie.
• Trisha said about Kishore in a 2023 interview: 'He’s the kind of actor who makes you forget you’re acting. In Ponniyin Selvan 2, we had one scene together, and he just looked at me — I didn’t need to do anything. The camera caught everything.'
• Their only scene together in Ponniyin Selvan 2 (2023) — where Kishore’s Vandiyadevan meets Trisha’s Kundavai — became a fan-favorite moment on social media. It directly inspired a wave of fan edits and a short film by a Chennai-based filmmaker that reimagined their characters as a modern-day couple.