Mansoor Ali Khan & Radha Ravi Movies Together List — 9 Films

The shape of the work

The 1990s account for 67% of everything they made together. The 1990s belonged to Naalaiya Theerpu; the 2020s to Pichaikkaran 2. Mansoor Ali Khan acted in every film; Radha Ravi acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Their first film together, Naalaiya Theerpu (1992), was a courtroom drama where Mansoor Ali Khan played the villain and Radha Ravi played the judge. The director cast them specifically because both had strong, authoritative voices — he wanted the courtroom scenes to feel like a real clash of titans.
• In Ezhai Jaathi (1993), Radha Ravi played a wealthy landlord and Mansoor Ali Khan played his loyal servant. The entire emotional weight of the film rested on their silent exchanges — Radha Ravi would set the pace with slow, deliberate dialogue, and Mansoor would respond with quick, reactive body language. It was a rhythm they never repeated in any other pairing.
• After Gandhi Pirantha Mann (1995) flopped hard, both actors went nearly two decades without working together. They reconnected only when director Yuvaraj Dhayalan specifically requested them as a pair for Tenaliraman (2014) — and both agreed without even reading the script, just because they missed working together.
• Their 2023 double-whammy — Bakasuran and Pichaikkaran 2 — released just months apart and both crossed 35 crores. That success directly led to producers greenlighting a new project where they play father and son, a dynamic they've never tried before.
• Radha Ravi once said in a 2023 interview: 'Mansoor is the only actor who can make me laugh even when the scene is supposed to be serious. We did a take in Bakasuran where I had to slap him — he whispered a joke right before, and I couldn't stop laughing. The director kept the take.'