Boman Irani & Ram Kapoor Movies Together List — 3 Films

The shape of the work

Boman Irani acted in every film; Ram Kapoor acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Karan Johar cast both of them in Student Of The Year (2012) because he wanted two actors who could play rich, over-the-top dads without being cartoonish. He later said he picked them specifically because they had never played fathers before in a mainstream Bollywood film.
• In Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu (2012), Boman Irani and Ram Kapoor played father and son. Ram later admitted in an interview that Boman kept improvising lines during their scenes together, and Ram had to fight to keep a straight face. He said Boman's timing forced him to stay on his toes.
• During the shoot of Santa Banta Pvt Ltd (2016), Boman Irani and Ram Kapoor shared a vanity van for the entire schedule. They reportedly spent hours between shots discussing old Hindi films and theatre — both had started their careers on stage before moving to movies.
• Ram Kapoor said about Boman Irani in a 2016 interview: 'He is the only actor I know who can make you laugh with just a pause. We didn't need to rehearse — we just looked at each other and knew what the other was going to do.'
• Their pairing in Student Of The Year (2012) directly led to a wave of 'quirky father' roles in Bollywood. Within two years, at least five other films cast older character actors as eccentric dads — a trend that started with the way Johar used Irani and Kapoor's comic timing together.