Tinnu Anand & Asrani Movies Together List — 5 Films

The shape of the work

The 1990s account for 60% of everything they made together. The 1980s belonged to Yeh Ishq Nahin Aasaan; the 2000s to Bombay to Goa. Tinnu Anand acted in every film; Asrani acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Their first film together, Yeh Ishq Nahin Aasaan (1984), was a rare leading role for Asrani — and Tinnu Anand was cast as his friend. The film bombed, but the two stayed in touch, and Asrani later said Anand was the only co-star who called him after the flop to say 'chalta hai, next time.'
• In Dhoondte Reh Jaaoge (1998), Tinnu Anand played the straight man to Asrani's manic comic relief. Anand later admitted in an interview that he deliberately underplayed every scene so Asrani's timing could pop — 'I became his pause button.'
• Tinnu Anand directed Asrani in Nyaydaata (1999) — the only time one of them directed the other. Anand gave Asrani a cameo as a judge, a role Asrani initially refused because he thought it was too small. Anand convinced him by writing a new monologue on set that morning.
• Bombay to Goa (2007) was a remake of the 1972 classic — and the only film where Tinnu Anand and Asrani shared screen time with a then-unknown actor named Rajpal Yadav. Yadav later credited both of them for teaching him comic timing on that chaotic shoot.
• Asrani once said about Tinnu Anand: 'He is the only actor who can make me laugh even when the camera is rolling. I broke character three times in Dhoondte Reh Jaaoge because of him.'