Boman Irani & Sanjay Mishra Movies Together List — 6 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s account for 67% of everything they made together. The 2000s belonged to Bluffmaster; the 2010s to Jolly LLB. Boman Irani acted in every film; Sanjay Mishra acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• They first met on the set of Jolly LLB (2013). Sanjay Mishra was already cast as the judge. Boman Irani was brought in later to play the opposing lawyer. The director, Subhash Kapoor, deliberately kept them apart until the first courtroom scene to capture that real tension.
• In Jolly LLB, Boman Irani set the pace with his loud, theatrical courtroom style. Sanjay Mishra responded by underplaying every line — barely raising his voice. That push-pull made their scenes crackle. Mishra later said Irani’s energy forced him to stay still and let the silence do the work.
• During the shoot of Dilwale (2015), both actors were going through personal stress — Irani’s mother was unwell, Mishra was dealing with a divorce. They would sit in Irani’s vanity van between shots and talk about everything except work. Neither has spoken about it publicly, but a crew member confirmed they became close during that period.
• Sanjay Mishra once said about Boman Irani: 'He is the only actor who can make me forget my lines because I’m too busy watching him. In Jolly LLB, I had to look down at my notes twice because I was lost in his performance.'
• Their courtroom face-off in Jolly LLB (2013) directly inspired the writing of the climax scene in the 2017 film 'Hindi Medium'. The writer told a trade magazine that he wanted that same 'lawyer vs judge' tension but flipped it for a parent-teacher conflict.