Tabu & Sunil Shetty Movies Together List — 6 Films

The shape of the work

The 1990s belonged to Hu Tu Tu; the 2010s to Jai Ho. Tabu acted in every film; Sunil Shetty acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Tabu and Sunil Shetty first shared screen space in Border (1997), but they barely had a scene together. She played a village woman; he played a soldier. Their first real interaction as a pair came later that same year in Qahar (1997), where they played a married couple.
• In Hera Pheri (2000), Sunil Shetty's loud, panicked energy as Shyam perfectly bounced off Tabu's deadpan, exasperated Anu. She played the straight woman to his chaos — and that contrast is what made their scenes together so funny. She didn't try to match his volume; she just stared him down.
• Tabu and Sunil Shetty have known each other since the early 1990s, long before they acted together. They were introduced by a common friend at a party in Mumbai and stayed in touch. Sunil has said in interviews that Tabu is one of the few co-stars he can call at 2 AM.
• Sunil Shetty once said about Tabu: 'She is the most underrated actress we have. She can make you laugh without saying a word. In Hera Pheri, I would just watch her and react — she made my job easy.'
• Their pairing in Hu Tu Tu (1999) — where Tabu played a politician and Sunil played her husband — was one of the earliest Hindi films to show a politically ambitious woman in a marriage where she was the dominant partner. That dynamic was rare for the time.
• Jai Ho (2014) was their last film together — and it was also the only time they played siblings. Sunil played Salman Khan's brother; Tabu played Salman's sister-in-law. After 17 years of playing lovers or friends, they finally played family.