Bharathiraja & Suseenthiran Movies Together List — 5 Films
Complete Movies List & Collaboration History
Last updated: 2026-06-05 · Data sources: Wikipedia, TMDB
Bharathiraja and Suseenthiran appeared together in 5 Tamil films between 1980 and 2023. Their highest-rated collaboration was Margazhi Thingal (2023 — 6.4/10). Films span Valli Mayil (1980) through Margazhi Thingal (2023).
The Bharathiraja & Suseenthiran partnership
After 39 years apart, they came back together for Kennedy Club (2019). They didn't share a set between 1980 and 2019. They saved their best for last — Margazhi Thingal (6.4/10) came 43 years in.
Their work runs across 3 decades of Tamil cinema. From Valli Mayil (1980) to Margazhi Thingal (2023).
The shape of the work
The 2020s account for 60% of everything they made together. The 1980s belonged to Valli Mayil; the 2020s to Margazhi Thingal. Bharathiraja acted in every film; Suseenthiran directed all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.
Partnership facts
- Bharathiraja discovered Suseenthiran as an assistant director on 'Valli Mayil' (1980). Suseenthiran was just a teenager then, and Bharathiraja essentially trained him from scratch on set.
- On 'Kennedy Club' (2019), Bharathiraja let Suseenthiran direct him for the first time. The veteran actor later admitted he had to unlearn his own directorial habits and just follow the younger man's cues.
- After 'Valli Mayil', they didn't work together for 39 years. But Suseenthiran kept visiting Bharathiraja at his farmhouse every Pongal, without fail, for decades.
- Suseenthiran said in a 2022 interview: 'Bharathiraja sir is the reason I became a director. When I called him for Kennedy Club, he said, "You tell me where to stand and what to say." That trust shook me.'
- Their third film 'Kuttram Kuttrame' (2022) was the first time Bharathiraja played a full-length comedic role in his entire career. Suseenthiran convinced him to do it by writing a character that mocked Bharathiraja's own serious image.
5 films across 3 decades
The 1980s accounted for 1 film.
The 2010s accounted for 1 film, averaging 4.0/10.
The 2020s accounted for 3 films, averaging 5.6/10.
- Valli Mayil0
- Kennedy Club
- Margazhi Thingal
- Kuttram Kuttrame
The partnership in numbers
Partnership Pattern
5 films across 43 years represents consistent collaboration.
Language Distribution
Linguistic diversity: 1 language, with Tamil being their primary medium.
Where each was in their career
33% of Bharathiraja's screen credits are with Suseenthiran.
Before Valli Mayil, Bharathiraja had starred in 6 films, including Padhinaru Vayadhiniley (1977) and Niram Maaratha Pookkal (1979).
After Margazhi Thingal, Bharathiraja went on to appear in 4 more films, including Kalvan (2024) and Thiru.Manickam (2024).
Valli Mayil was Suseenthiran's directorial debut.
After Margazhi Thingal, Suseenthiran went on to direct 1 more film, including 2K Love Story (2025).
Collaboration Journey
A chronological view of Bharathiraja & Suseenthiran's professional partnership
Actors and musicians who worked on most of their films
People who worked on Bharathiraja & Suseenthiran's films together
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