Lakshmi Movie Makers
Lakshmi Movie Makers is an Indian film production and distribution company headed by K. Muralidharan, V. Swaminathan and G. Venugopal.[1]
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| Type | Film production Film distribution |
|---|---|
| Industry | Entertainment |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | K. Muralidharan V. Swaminathan G. Venugopal |
| Products | Motion pictures (Tamil) |
History
Lakshmi Movie Makers experienced significant success in the mid-1990s, with several projects such as Gokulathil Seethai (1996) and Unnidathil Ennai Koduthen (1998) becoming profitable.[2] V. Swaminathan, one of the producers occasionally made cameo appearances in his productions.[3]
Producer V. Swaminathan's son Ashwin Raja made his debut as an actor in Boss Engira Bhaskaran (2010) and has since appeared in comedy roles.[4][5]
By the end of the 2010s, the studio remained largely inactive owing to the rising costs of operating in the Tamil film industry.[6]
Filmography
| Title | Year | Director | Cast | Synopsis | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aranmanai Kaavalan | 1994 | Selva Vinayagam | Sarathkumar, Sivaranjani, Raghuvaran | A taxi driver is forced to go to his village to save the people from an evil landlord. | |
| Veluchami | 1995 | Arul | Sarathkumar, Vineetha | Veluchami faces a struggle to marry his lover. | |
| Mr. Madras | 1995 | P. Vasu | Prabhu, Sukanya, Vineetha | A model ends up becoming the bodyguard for a rich woman. | |
| Gokulathil Seethai | 1996 | Agathiyan | Karthik, Suvalakshmi, Karan | A rich man mends his womanizing ways after a girl enters his life. | |
| Dharma Chakkaram | 1997 | K. S. Ravikumar | Vijayakanth, Rambha, Deepti Bhatnagar | A respectable rich man in village clashes with a cruel landlord | |
| Ulavuthurai (distribution only) | 1998 | Ramesh Selvan | Vijayakanth , Meena | An ex naval officer whose wife was killed by terrorists returns to the Navy to solve a series of murders happening in the sea | |
| Priyamudan | 1998 | Vincent Selva | Vijay, Kausalya | A young man, who goes on to extreme lengths to achieve his goals, takes the identity of his friend to get his lover. | |
| Unnidathil Ennai Koduthen | 1998 | Vikraman | Karthik, Roja, Ajith Kumar | A small-time thief gets reformed by a girl and helps the same girl become a singer. | |
| Veeram Vilanja Mannu | 1998 | Kasthuri Raja | Vijayakanth, Kushboo, Roja | A villager is forced to become a bandit in the forest and his long-lost son grows up to be a cop assigned to arrest him. | |
| Unnai Thedi | 1999 | Sundar C. | Ajith Kumar, Malavika, Swathi | A man who visits his friend's village comes to know that he is related to his friend's family. | |
| Oruvan | 1999 | Suresh Krissna | Sarathkumar, Pooja Batra, Devayani | A fireman finds out that a dreaded criminal, who killed his family, is still alive. | |
| Unakkaga Ellam Unakkaga | 1999 | Sundar C. | Karthik, Rambha | A spoiled, rich young man is forced into a marriage by his parents, but he is already in love with someone else. | |
| Unnaruge Naan Irundhal | 1999 | Selva | Parthiban, Meena, Rambha | A poor taxi driver helps a rich girl by paying off her debts. | |
| Kannan Varuvaan | 2000 | Sundar C. | Karthik, Manthra, Divya Unni | A man is forced to take up the identity of the deceased person to make the family happy. | |
| Ullam Kollai Poguthae | 2001 | Sundar C. | Prabhu Deva, Karthik, Anjala Zaveri | When his girl friend loses her eyesight after her fiance dies in an accident, her friend mimics his voice to make her believe he is alive. | |
| Dosth | 2001 | S. A. Chandrasekhar | Sarathkumar, Abhirami, Prakash Raj | A man who is accused of murdering his friend finds out he is part of a conspiracy. | |
| Unnai Ninaithu | 2002 | Vikraman | Suriya, Laila, Sneha | A man who gets cheated by his lover, meets her again and ends up helping her. | |
| Bagavathi | 2002 | A. Venkatesh | Vijay, Reemma Sen | A tea shop owner becomes a gangster after his younger brother gets murdered. | |
| Anbe Sivam | 2003 | Sundar C. | Kamal Haasan, Madhavan, Kiran Rathod | Two different personalities meet together during a trip and face a lot of problems during their journey. | |
| Kangalal Kaidhu Sei | 2004 | Bharathiraja | Vaseegaran, Priyamani | A girl joins as a personal assistant to a rich man to expose his kleptomaniac ways. | |
| Daas | 2005 | Babu Yogeswaran | Jayam Ravi, Renuka Menon | A boy and a girl from different religions falls in love with each other. | |
| Oru Naal Oru Kanavu | 2005 | Fazil | Srikanth, Sonia Agarwal | A girl who plays pranks on a man ends up falling in love with him. | |
| Pudhupettai | 2006 | Selvaraghavan | Dhanush, Sonia Agarwal, Sneha | A simpleton who arrives in the city transforms into a gangster. | |
| Silambattam | 2008 | S. Saravanan | Silambarasan, Sana Khan, Sneha | A meek priest comes to know about his sad past and decides to avenge the death of his family. | |
| Aattanayagann | 2010 | Krishnaram | Shakthi, Remya Nambeesan, Adithya Menon | An unemployed man hides the fact from the family that his elder brother is a gangster. | |
| Sakalakala Vallavan | 2015 | Suraj | Jayam Ravi, Trisha, Anjali | A naive villager is forced to marry a city bred girl and both do not get along with each other. | [7] |
References
- https://corporatedir.com/company/lakshmi-movie-makers--india--limited
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 April 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2018.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20040626130641/http://www.dinakaran.com/cinema/english/gossip/23-10-98/vijayaka.htm
- http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/promising-youngster/article3627378.ece
- https://www.indiaglitz.com/lakshmi-movie-makers-kmuralidharan-birthday-celebration-tamilfont-event-56430.html
- https://www.thelede.in/tamil-nadu/2020/02/24/madurai-anbu-tamil-film-industrys-biggest-shylock
- http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/cinema-reviews/sakalakala-vallavan-old-crass-and-hostile/article7488820.ece
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