Boman Irani & Sanjay Dutt Movies Together List — 7 Films

The shape of the work

The 2000s belonged to Lage Raho Munna Bhai; the 2020s to The Rajasaab. Boman Irani acted in every film; Sanjay Dutt acted in all of them.

Partnership facts

• Boman Irani was a 43-year-old photographer and theater actor with zero film experience when he auditioned for Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (2003). Sanjay Dutt, already a superstar, saw his audition tape and personally told Rajkumar Hirani: 'Yeh aadmi doctor hai. Isko le lo.' That single call got Boman his first movie role.
• In Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006), Sanjay Dutt deliberately slowed down his usual fast-paced comic delivery to match Boman Irani's more measured, theatrical rhythm. Boman later said Dutt would pause mid-dialogue to let his reactions land — a trick he learned from watching Dutt's patience on set.
• Their on-screen father-son dynamic in the Munna Bhai series directly inspired the casting of Anupam Kher and Akshay Kumar in the 2014 hit 'Special 26' — director Neeraj Pandey admitted he wanted the same 'strict dad vs lovable rogue' energy.
• During the shoot of P.K. (2014), Boman Irani would bring homemade thepla (Gujarati flatbread) for Sanjay Dutt every single day. Dutt, who was battling lung cancer at the time, later said those lunches were the only thing that made him eat properly on set.
• Boman Irani on Sanjay Dutt, during the Sanju (2018) promotions: 'He doesn't act with you. He acts for you. When I played his father in Sanju, he made me feel like I was his real father. That's a gift only he can give.'