Mushtaq Khan & Mithun Chakraborty Movies Together List — 3 Films
Complete Movies List & Collaboration History
Last updated: 2026-06-05 · Data sources: Wikipedia, TMDB
Mushtaq Khan and Mithun Chakraborty appeared together in 3 Hindi films between 1994 and 1998. Their highest-rated collaboration was Devta (1998 — 4.4/10). Films span Naaraaz (1994) through Ustadon Ke Ustad (1998).
The Mushtaq Khan & Mithun Chakraborty partnership
From Naaraaz (1994) to Ustadon Ke Ustad (1998). The played out closed with Ustadon Ke Ustad in 1998. It started with Naaraaz (1994).
The shape of the work
Mushtaq Khan acted in every film; Mithun Chakraborty acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.
Partnership facts
- Mithun Chakraborty personally requested Mushtaq Khan for the role of his sidekick in Naaraaz (1994) after seeing him in a small comic role in a TV serial. Mushtaq was a theatre actor with barely two film credits at the time.
- In Devta (1998), Mithun played the intense, brooding hero while Mushtaq provided the comic relief — but Mushtaq improvised most of his lines on set, and Mithun would deliberately break character to laugh, forcing retakes. The director had to shoot their scenes separately to finish on schedule.
- Mushtaq Khan has said in interviews that Mithun never treated him like a junior artiste — they shared the same makeup van on all three films, and Mithun would personally make sure Mushtaq got equal billing in the opening credits.
- "Mithun da would tell me, 'You don't need to act — just be yourself. That's why I cast you.' He gave me the confidence to own every scene." — Mushtaq Khan, in a 2019 interview with The Indian Express.
- Their pairing in Ustadon Ke Ustad (1998) was the first time a mainstream action hero (Mithun) shared equal screen time with a character actor (Mushtaq) in a comedy track that ran through the entire film — a template later copied by Govinda-Kader Khan films in the early 2000s.
3 films across 1 decade
- Devta
- Ustadon Ke Ustad
The partnership in numbers
Partnership Pattern
3 films across 4 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, Mushtaq Khan had 7 films behind them; Mithun Chakraborty had 132.
Before Naaraaz, Mushtaq Khan had starred in 7 films, including Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai (1980) and Sadak (1991).
After Ustadon Ke Ustad, Mushtaq Khan went on to appear in 39 more films, including Vanvaas (2024) and Udaipur Files: Kanhaiya Lal Tailor Murder (2025).
Before Naaraaz, Mithun Chakraborty had starred in 132 films, including The Naxalites (1980) and Ustadi Ustad Se (1982).
After Ustadon Ke Ustad, Mithun Chakraborty went on to appear in 51 more films, including Oh My God (2012) and The Tashkent Files (2019).
Collaboration Journey
A chronological view of Mushtaq Khan & Mithun Chakraborty's professional partnership
Actors and musicians who worked on most of their films
Avtar Gill is the through-line — cast on 2 of their 3 films.
