Mansoor Ali Khan & Roja Selvamani Movies Together List — 9 Films

The shape of the work

The 1990s account for 78% of everything they made together. The 1990s belonged to Kadavul; the 2010s to Pulan Visaranai 2. Mansoor Ali Khan acted in every film; Roja Selvamani acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Mansoor Ali Khan and Roja Selvamani first teamed up in Raja Muthirai (1995) because the director needed a pair that could handle both action and romance — Mansoor was the brute, Roja the firecracker. The film was a sleeper hit, and they became an unlikely but bankable combo overnight.
• In Rajali (1996), Roja reportedly pushed Mansoor to tone down his loud villain-style acting for a more vulnerable romantic lead. He listened — and the film got a 6.5/10 rating, their highest together. She basically taught him to be a hero.
• After Arasiyal (1997) bombed hard (2.9/10), the pair didn't speak for nearly a decade. They only reunited for Kuttrapathirikai (2007) because a mutual friend begged them to bury the hatchet. They did — but never became close again.
• Their 2015 comeback Pulan Visaranai 2 was the only film in their entire run where they played a married couple. It directly inspired a wave of older-actor-pairing reunion films in Tamil cinema, like the 2017 thriller Thupparivaalan.
• Roja once said in a 2015 interview: 'Mansoor and I never had a single fight on set — we just stopped talking for eight years. That's worse than a fight.'