Soori & Jangiri Madhumitha Movies Together List — 5 Films
Complete Movies List & Collaboration History
Last updated: 2026-07-17 · Data sources: Wikipedia, TMDB
Soori and Jangiri Madhumitha appeared together in 5 Tamil films between 2013 and 2017. Their highest-rated collaboration was Idharkuthane Aasaipattai Balakumara (2013 — 7.2/10). Films span Idharkuthane Aasaipattai Balakumara (2013) through Saravanan Irukka Bayamaen (2017).
The Soori & Jangiri Madhumitha partnership
Between 2013 and 2017, they barely worked apart — 5 films in 4 years. 2014 was their peak — 3 films in twelve months. For 4 years, a Soori–Jangiri film arrived almost every year.
From Idharkuthane Aasaipattai Balakumara (2013) to Saravanan Irukka Bayamaen (2017). Idharkuthane Aasaipattai Balakumara is the one most viewers reach for.
The shape of the work
Soori acted in every film; Jangiri Madhumitha acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.
Partnership facts
- Soori was already a known comedian when he was cast in Jilla (2014), but Madhumitha was a newcomer. He personally asked director Nesan to give her more screen time after seeing her nervousness on set — that scene where she slaps him? She was terrified to actually hit him, so Soori told her to go for it and took the real slap.
- In Vellaikaara Durai (2014), Soori deliberately slowed down his usual rapid-fire comic timing to match Madhumitha's more natural, understated delivery. He told the director that her pauses were funnier than his punchlines — so they built entire scenes around her reactions instead of his jokes.
- During the shoot of Saravanan Irukka Bayamaen (2017), Soori and Madhumitha developed a ritual: before every comedy scene, they'd whisper a random Tamil film dialogue to each other to break the tension. Madhumitha later said it was the only way she could stop laughing before the camera rolled.
- Their pairing in Jilla (2014) was so well-received that director Nesan cast them again immediately in Vellaikaara Durai (2014) — making them one of the few comedy duos in Tamil cinema to get back-to-back films in the same year. No other actor-comedian pair did that in 2014.
5 films across 1 decade
- Idharkuthane Aasaipattai Balakumara
- Vellaikaara Durai
The partnership in numbers
Partnership Pattern
5 films across 4 years represents consistent collaboration.
Language Distribution
Linguistic diversity: 1 language, with Tamil being their primary medium.
Where each was in their career
Before Idharkuthane Aasaipattai Balakumara, Soori had starred in 17 films, including Kaadhal (2004) and Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu (2009).
After Saravanan Irukka Bayamaen, Soori went on to appear in 29 more films, including Viduthalai (2023) and Viduthalai: Part II (2024).
Before Idharkuthane Aasaipattai Balakumara, Jangiri Madhumitha had starred in 4 films, including Attakathi (2012) and Thoonga Nagaram (2011).
After Saravanan Irukka Bayamaen, Jangiri Madhumitha went on to appear in 19 more films, including Boat (2024) and Madras Matinee (2025).
Collaboration Journey
A chronological view of Soori & Jangiri Madhumitha's professional partnership
Actors and musicians who worked on most of their films
D. Imman is the through-line — music on 3 of their 5 films. D. Imman scored 3 of them.
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