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Padmini
Padmini

Co-Stars & Directors

Padmini

32Co-Stars
8Directors
8Music Directors
22Films with Sivaji Ganesan

Padmini Co-Stars, Directors & Movies Together

Padmini's collaborators

One pairing towers over the rest: Sivaji Ganesan, with 22 on-screen meetings — far ahead of every other collaborator. A. P. Nagarajan averages 8.1/10 across 7 films with Padmini — the highest-rated active pairing.

30 different collaborators have shared three or more films with Padmini — a deep bench of returning faces. 32 on-screen partners, 8 directors — a balanced spread between cast and crew.

As of June 2026.

Collaborator network

Top 12 collaborators by composite strength score. Distance reflects strength; edge thickness reflects film count; warmer edges are more recent.

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Most acclaimed pairing
Padmini × A. P. Nagarajan
7 films·avg 8.1/10
Longest running
Padmini × Sivaji Ganesan
26+ years·3 decades

Strongest pairings

Sivaji Ganesan pulls ahead of every other pairing — outscoring the next-strongest pairing by 549%.

48Total Co-Stars & Directors
22Most films with Sivaji Ganesan
3Role categories

Top pairings compared

MetricSivaji GanesanM. S. ViswanathanK. V. MahadevanNagesh
Films together2211149
Avg rating7.17.57.57.7
First1960196619621963
Latest1986197819751978
Best filmThillaanaa MohanambalRickshawkaranThillaanaa MohanambalThillaanaa Mohanambal
Role

Multi-decade partnerships

Sivaji Ganesan is the only collaborator who has worked with Padmini in every decade of her career.

Most acclaimed pairings

5 pairings cluster above 7.5/10 — A. P. Nagarajan, Jayalalitha, and G. Devarajan sit at the top of a high bar nothing else in the catalogue reaches.

Collaboration by Decade

1960s
113 films
7.7
A. P. Nagarajan, K. S. Gopalakrishnan, C. V. Sridhar
1970s
88 films
7.4
A. P. Nagarajan, K. S. Gopalakrishnan, P. Madhavan
1980s
3 films
4
Sivaji Ganesan, Ilayaraja

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