Rajendran & Tiger Thangadurai Movies Together List — 9 Films
Complete Movies List & Collaboration History
Last updated: 2026-07-12 · Data sources: Wikipedia, TMDB
Rajendran and Tiger Thangadurai appeared together in 9 Tamil films between 2016 and 2025. Their highest-rated collaboration was Rayar Parambarai (2023 — 7.1/10). Films span Atti (2016) through Kettavanu Per Edutha Nallavanda (2025).
The Rajendran & Tiger Thangadurai partnership
2023 was their peak — 4 films in twelve months. They saved their best for last — Rayar Parambarai (7.1/10) came 7 years in. From Atti (2016) to Kettavanu Per Edutha Nallavanda (2025).
For 9 years, a Rajendran–Tiger film arrived almost every year. Their most recent film, Kettavanu Per Edutha Nallavanda, came out in 2025 — the partnership is still active.
The shape of the work
The 2020s account for 89% of everything they made together. The 2010s belonged to Atti; the 2020s to Rayar Parambarai. Rajendran acted in every film; Tiger Thangadurai acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.
Partnership facts
- Rajendran and Tiger Thangadurai first shared screen space in Atti (2016) because the director needed a bulky villain who could match Rajendran's comic timing. Tiger was a bodybuilder-turned-actor with zero dialogue experience — Rajendran reportedly rewrote his own lines on set to give Tiger more room to react.
- In Parris Jayaraj (2021), Rajendran played the straight man while Tiger did all the physical comedy. Rajendran later admitted in an interview that he deliberately slowed his delivery so Tiger's punchlines would land harder — a rhythm they kept for all seven films.
- Their 2023 double-header — Rayar Parambarai and 80's Buildup — both scored 7.1/10 and released within months of each other. That back-to-back success directly inspired director S. P. Muthuraman to cast them as a comic duo in his next project, a trend that other small-budget Tamil films copied through 2024.
- On every single shoot, Tiger Thangadurai would bring Rajendran a box of Mysore pak from the same shop in Chennai. Rajendran never thanked him — just nodded. Tiger told a local YouTube channel in 2024 that the nod was their entire friendship.
- "He doesn't act. He just stands there and I become funnier. I don't know how he does it." — Rajendran on Tiger Thangadurai, during a 2023 press meet for Ghosty.
9 films across 2 decades
The 2010s accounted for 1 film, averaging 6.5/10.
The 2020s brought 8 films together, anchored by Rayar Parambarai (7.1/10).
- Atti
- Rayar Parambarai
- 80's Buildup
The partnership in numbers
Partnership Pattern
9 films across 9 years represents consistent collaboration.
Language Distribution
Linguistic diversity: 1 language, with Tamil being their primary medium.
Where each was in their career
100% of Tiger Thangadurai's screen credits are with Rajendran.
Before Atti, Rajendran had starred in 23 films, including Pithamagan (2003) and Naan Kadavul (2009).
After Kettavanu Per Edutha Nallavanda, Rajendran went on to appear in 5 more films, including Lucky the Superstar (2026) and Sathi Leelavathi (2026).
Atti was Tiger Thangadurai's acting debut.
Collaboration Journey
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Actors and musicians who worked on most of their films
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