Soori & Robo Shankar Movies Together List — 6 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s account for 83% of everything they made together. The 2000s belonged to Deepavali; the 2010s to Idharkuthane Aasaipattai Balakumara. Soori acted in every film; Robo Shankar acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Soori and Robo Shankar first shared screen space in Deepavali (2007) because director Ezhil needed two distinct comic foils for the hero. Soori was already a known TV face; Robo Shankar was a stage actor making his film debut. Ezhil paired them on a hunch — and that hunch turned into a decade-long run.
• In Velainu Vandhutta Vellaikaaran (2016), Soori played the fast-talking sidekick while Robo Shankar played the slow-burn buffoon. They built a rhythm where Soori set the pace with rapid-fire lines and Robo Shankar deliberately slowed it down — creating a push-pull that made their scenes feel like a comedy relay race.
• Their double-act in Si3 (2017) — where they played bumbling henchmen to a villain — directly inspired the comic-relief duo template used in later Suriya films like NGK (2019) and Soorarai Pottru (2020). Directors started casting two comedians instead of one after seeing how Soori and Robo Shankar split the laughter load.
• On the sets of Saravanan Irukka Bayamaen (2017), Soori and Robo Shankar shared a single vanity van because the budget was too tight for separate ones. They spent hours rehearsing lines together between shots, and Robo Shankar later said that van became their 'comedy lab'.
• Robo Shankar once said in an interview: 'Soori is the only co-actor who can make me laugh even when the director is yelling at us. We never needed a script — we just looked at each other and knew what the other would do.'