Boman Irani & Kurush Deboo Movies Together List — 5 Films

The shape of the work

The 2000s account for 60% of everything they made together. The 2000s belonged to Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.; the 2010s to Bhoothnath Returns. Boman Irani acted in every film; Kurush Deboo acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Boman Irani and Kurush Deboo first acted together in 'Little Zizou' (2009) because director Sooni Taraporevala specifically wrote the role of the Parsi priest for Deboo, then cast Irani as the villainous Xerxes — both men are Parsi, and the film's community setting made their pairing feel like a natural fit.
• In 'Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi' (2012), Irani played the shy, stammering Shirin and Deboo played his loud, pushy friend — Deboo deliberately overacted in every scene to force Irani to react with quieter, more internal comedy, creating a push-pull rhythm that made their banter land harder.
• Their double-act in 'Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi' (2012) directly led to the casting of both actors in 'Bhoothnath Returns' (2014) — director Nitesh Tiwari saw their comic timing in the Parsi film and wrote the roles of the two ghost-hunting sidekicks specifically for them.
• Boman Irani and Kurush Deboo have been close friends since the 1990s, long before any film — they met at a Parsi theatre workshop in Mumbai and have a standing ritual of eating dhansak together after every film wrap.
• Kurush Deboo once said about Irani: 'With Boman, I don't need to rehearse. We've been doing this since our theatre days — he knows exactly when I'm going to pause, and I know when he's going to jump in.'