Juhi Chawla & Anil Kapoor Movies Together List — 8 Films

The shape of the work

The 1990s account for 63% of everything they made together. The 1990s belonged to Jhooth Bole Kauwa Kaate; the 2010s to Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga. Juhi Chawla acted in every film; Anil Kapoor acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Juhi Chawla on Anil Kapoor: 'He is the only actor who can make you laugh and cry in the same scene. With him, I never had to act — I just reacted.' — from a 2019 interview promoting Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga.
• Their first film together, Benam Badshah (1991), was a flop. But director David Dhawan saw something in their pairing and cast them again in Loafer (1996) — which also flopped. It took three films before they finally clicked with audiences in Deewana Mastana (1997).
• In Jhooth Bole Kauwa Kaate (1998), Anil Kapoor played a blind man. Juhi Chawla had to physically guide him through every scene — she would tap his shoulder to signal where the camera was, and he would react to her voice cues in real time. That film got their highest IMDb rating together (6/10).
• Their 2019 film Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga was the first mainstream Hindi film to center a lesbian romance. Juhi played the mother of the lead, Anil played the father. The film directly launched the careers of its young leads — Rajkummar Rao and Sonam Kapoor — and sparked a national conversation about LGBTQ representation in Bollywood.
• On the sets of Karobaar (2000), Juhi and Anil discovered they both loved playing carrom. They would sneak away between shots to play, and the crew had to drag them back to set. Anil once said Juhi was the only co-star who could beat him at it.