Sridevi & Harmesh Malhotra Movies Together List — 4 Films
Complete Movies List & Collaboration History
Last updated: 2026-07-17 · Data sources: Wikipedia, TMDB
Sridevi and Harmesh Malhotra appeared together in 4 Hindi films between 1986 and 1992. Their highest-rated collaboration was Nagina (1986 — 5.6/10). Films span Nagina (1986) through Heer Ranjha (1992).
The Sridevi & Harmesh Malhotra partnership
Between 1986 and 1992, they barely worked apart — 4 films in 6 years. From Nagina (1986) to Heer Ranjha (1992). The unfolded closed with Heer Ranjha in 1992.
It started with Nagina (1986).
The shape of the work
The 1980s belonged to Nagina; the 1990s to Banjaran. Sridevi acted in every film; Harmesh Malhotra directed all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.
Partnership facts
- Harmesh Malhotra didn't just cast Sridevi in Nagina — he built the entire film around her snake-dance skills. He saw her perform a similar dance in a Telugu film and decided she was the only one who could sell the supernatural angle.
- On the set of Nagina, Sridevi would often improvise her snake movements during takes. Malhotra loved it so much that he started writing longer dance sequences into the script just to capture her spontaneous moves.
- Nagina's success directly spawned a sequel trend in Hindi horror-fantasy. Without this pair's first hit, you probably wouldn't have gotten the wave of 'snake woman' films that followed through the late '80s.
- Sridevi and Malhotra had a running joke on every shoot: she'd call him 'Snake Master' because he kept asking for one more retake of her dance. He'd reply, 'You're the real snake — you never get tired.'
- Sridevi once said about Malhotra: 'He didn't direct me — he just let me be the snake. That's why Nagina worked.' She said this in a 1990 interview with Stardust.
- In Nigahen: Nagina Part II, Malhotra deliberately shot Sridevi's transformation scenes in single long takes — no cuts. He wanted her body language to carry the entire horror, and she delivered it without a single flub across three such sequences.
4 films across 2 decades
The 1980s accounted for 2 films, averaging 5.3/10.
The 1990s accounted for 2 films, averaging 3.6/10.
- Nagina
- Nigahen: Nagina Part II
- Banjaran
- Heer Ranjha
The partnership in numbers
Partnership Pattern
4 films across 6 years represents consistent collaboration.
Language Distribution
Linguistic diversity: 1 language, with Hindi being their primary medium.
Where each was in their career
When they first worked together, Sridevi had 54 films behind them; Harmesh Malhotra had 5.
Before Nagina, Sridevi had starred in 54 films, including Padhinaru Vayadhiniley (1977) and Varumayin Niram Sigappu (1980).
After Heer Ranjha, Sridevi went on to appear in 17 more films, including English Vinglish (2012) and Mom (2017).
Before Nagina, Harmesh Malhotra had directed 5 films, including Poonam (1981) and Phaansi Ke Baad (1985).
After Heer Ranjha, Harmesh Malhotra went on to direct 6 more films, including Dulhe Raja (1998) and Akhiyon Se Goli Maare (2002).
Collaboration Journey
A chronological view of Sridevi & Harmesh Malhotra's professional partnership
Actors and musicians who worked on most of their films
Anjana Mumtaz is the through-line — cast on 2 of their 4 films.
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