VTV Ganesh & Rajendran Movies Together List — 8 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s account for 63% of everything they made together. The 2010s belonged to Enakku Innoru Per Irukku; the 2020s to Aranmanai 4. VTV Ganesh acted in every film; Rajendran acted in all of them.

Partnership facts

• They first shared screen space in Veera Sivaji (2016) because director Saran needed a pair of comedians who could play off each other without dialogue — VTV Ganesh's deadpan reactions and Rajendran's physical comedy were tested in a single unscripted scene that made the crew laugh so hard they kept the first take.
• In Motta Shiva Ketta Shiva (2017), Rajendran would deliberately flub his lines to make VTV Ganesh break character — Ganesh later admitted in an interview that those unplanned moments became the film's funniest bits, because his natural irritation looked real on screen.
• Their double-act in Anbanavan Asarathavan Adangathavan (2017) was so popular with B and C centres that producer K. E. Gnanavel Raja greenlit a separate comedy track for them in Vantha Rajavathaan Varuven (2019) — that track alone was credited for the film's 'Hit' status at the box office.
• On the sets of Varalaru Mukkiyam (2022), the two would share a single plate of biryani during lunch breaks — a ritual they started because both were on strict diets but couldn't resist cheating together. The unit called it 'the biryani bond'.
• "Rajendran is the only actor who can make me forget my lines — because I'm too busy watching him work." — VTV Ganesh, in a 2022 behind-the-scenes interview for Varalaru Mukkiyam.
• Aranmanai 4 (2024) became their biggest hit together, but the ripple effect was bigger: director Sundar C. directly credited their comic timing for convincing him to write a full-length horror-comedy sequel with them as the lead pair — that film is now in pre-production.