Raj Babbar & Aruna Irani Movies Together List — 14 Films

The shape of the work

The 1980s account for 79% of everything they made together. The 1980s belonged to Hum Paanch; the 1990s to Maharaja. Raj Babbar acted in every film; Aruna Irani acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• They first worked together in Nazrana Pyar Ka (1980), but the film that actually got people talking was Pet Pyaar Aur Paap (1984). That movie paired them as a married couple dealing with a pregnancy crisis — and it was the first time either of them played parents on screen together.
• In Insaaf Ki Awaaz (1986), Raj Babbar played a righteous lawyer and Aruna Irani played his wife who gets kidnapped. The film’s emotional weight rests on their courtroom confrontation scene — Aruna reportedly pushed Raj to improvise his closing monologue, which became the film’s most remembered moment.
• Aruna Irani once said in an interview that Raj Babbar was the only co-star who would call her before every shoot to discuss the scene’s emotional arc. They never had a single argument on set across five films — unusual for two actors known for strong opinions.
• Their pairing in Aurat Teri Yehi Kahani (1988) — a social drama about a woman fighting patriarchal abuse — directly inspired a lesser-known TV series on Doordarshan in 1990 called 'Aurat', which reused the same core conflict and even tried to cast them again (they declined).
• Aruna Irani once told a trade magazine: 'Raj and I never needed a director to tell us what the scene was about. We'd just look at each other and know who was going to cry first.'