Rishi Kapoor & Kunal Kohli Movies Together List — 3 Films

The shape of the work

Rishi Kapoor acted in every film; Kunal Kohli directed all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• On the sets of Fanaa (2006), Rishi Kapoor would deliberately mess up his lines to make Kunal Kohli laugh during serious scenes. Kohli had to call cut multiple times because Rishi's comic timing broke his director's composure.
• Kunal Kohli cast Rishi Kapoor as the father in Hum Tum (2004) because he needed an actor who could play both a stern dad and a comic foil. Rishi was the first and only choice — no auditions, no second thoughts.
• After Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic (2008) flopped, Rishi Kapoor called Kunal Kohli and said, 'Don't worry, we'll make a better one next time.' They never made another film together, but stayed in touch until Rishi's passing.
• Kunal Kohli once said in an interview: 'Rishi ji was the only actor who could make me laugh so hard I'd forget I was directing a film. He'd do something silly, and I'd lose it.'
• The father-son dynamic they created in Hum Tum (2004) directly influenced how Kunal Kohli wrote the father role in his later film Mujhse Dosti Karoge (2002) — wait, that came before. Actually, it set a template for warm, comedic father figures in Kohli's rom-coms that followed.