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| Company type | Film production Film distribution |
|---|---|
| Industry | Entertainment |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | Chennai, India |
| Key people | K. Muralidharan V. Swaminathan G. Venugopal |
| Products | Motion pictures (Tamil) |
Lakshmi Movie Makers is an Indian film production and distribution company headed by K. Muralidharan, V. Swaminathan and G. Venugopal.
History
Lakshmi Movie Makers' first film was Aranmanai Kaavalan (1994). The studio experienced significant success in the mid-1990s, with several projects such as Gokulathil Seethai (1996) and Unnidathil Ennai Koduthen (1998) becoming profitable. V. Swaminathan, one of the producers occasionally made cameo appearances in his productions.
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.
By the end of the 2010s, the studio remained largely inactive owing to the rising costs of operating in the Tamil film industry.
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, Khushbu, 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 discovers 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 fiancé 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 learns 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. |
References
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- "Friends and fisticuffs". Tamil Star. Archived from the original on 30 December 2002. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
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{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - Srinivasan, Sudhir (1 August 2015). "Sakalakala Vallavan: Old, crass and hostile". The Hindu – via www.thehindu.com.