Sridevi & Thengai Srinivasan Movies Together List — 12 Films

The shape of the work

The 1970s account for 67% of everything they made together. The 1960s belonged to Nam Naadu; the 1980s to Meendum Kokila. Sridevi acted in every film; Thengai Srinivasan acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Sridevi was just 6 years old when she first acted with Thengai Srinivasan in 'Nam Naadu' (1969). He was already a veteran comedian. She played a child role, and he had no idea that tiny girl would become a superstar.
• In 'Priya' (1978), Thengai Srinivasan played Sridevi's father. Their scenes together had a rare warmth — he deliberately softened his usual loud comic style so her teenage innocence could shine. She later said he treated her like a real daughter on set.
• Thengai Srinivasan personally taught a teenage Sridevi how to time her dialogue delivery for comedy. He'd pull her aside between shots and make her repeat lines until she got the rhythm right. She called him 'my comedy guru' in interviews.
• Their film 'Sigappukkal Mookkuthi' (1979) was one of the earliest Tamil films to pair a child star-turned-heroine with a senior comedian as a father figure — a template that later films like 'Samsaram Adhu Minsaram' (1986) copied directly.
• Sridevi once said: 'Thengai Srinivasan sir never made me feel like a child actor. He treated me as an equal. I learned more about comedy from him than from any director.'
• Their last film together, 'Naan Adimai Illai' (1986), was a flop. By then Sridevi had become a pan-Indian star. Thengai Srinivasan's role was reduced to a cameo. They never worked together again — not because of a fight, but because their career paths had simply diverged.