Arbaaz Khan & Vivek Oberoi Movies Together List — 3 Films

The shape of the work

The 2000s belonged to Shootout at Lokhandwala; the 2020s to Rosie: The Saffron Chapter. Arbaaz Khan acted in every film; Vivek Oberoi acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Arbaaz Khan personally recommended Vivek Oberoi to director Apoorva Lakhia for 'Shootout at Lokhandwala' (2007). They had never worked together before, but Arbaaz insisted Vivek was the only guy who could play the volatile cop. That film became their biggest hit together.
• In 'Shootout at Lokhandwala', Arbaaz played the calm, calculating gangster while Vivek played the hot-headed cop. They deliberately rehearsed their face-off scenes in opposite styles — Arbaaz would whisper his lines, forcing Vivek to lean in and stay tense. That push-pull made their confrontation the most talked-about scene in the film.
• During the making of 'Fool n Final' (2007), both actors were going through messy public breakups. They ended up spending hours in Arbaaz's vanity van just venting about relationships. Vivek later said that van became their 'therapy room' and they bonded more over those talks than any scene they shot.
• Vivek Oberoi said about Arbaaz Khan in a 2007 interview: 'He's the only co-star who will tell me to my face that my scene was crap. No sugar-coating. That's rare in this industry.'
• Their pairing in 'Shootout at Lokhandwala' directly inspired the casting of two real-life gangster-cop duos in later films. The director of 'Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai' (2010) has admitted he watched their Lokhandwala scenes to study how to balance a calm villain against a loud cop.
• For 'Rosie: The Saffron Chapter' (2026), Arbaaz and Vivek hadn't spoken in nearly a decade. The producer had to arrange a dinner where they sat next to each other for three hours before either said yes. They finally agreed only after Arbaaz joked, 'Let's see if we still have it.'