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Chithra Lakshmanan is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Indian born on 22 january 1948
Chithra Laksmanan started his career as a journalist. Later when his friend P. Bharathiraja became the director, Chithra Laksmanan had the opportunity of working with him as an associate director and worked more than 25 films with him in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. His maiden venture as a Film Producer was Mann Vasanai directed by Bharathiraja. Revathi and Pandian were introduced in that film which ran for more than 300 days. Then he produced number of films with Sivaji Ganesan, Kamal Haasan, Vijayakanth, Sathyaraj, Prabhu, Karthik and many others.
In 1987 M. G. Ramachandran, then chief minister of Tamil Nadu presided over the 100th day function of “Jallikkattu” produced by Chithra Laksmanan.
His first directorial venture was Soora Samharam with Kamal Hassan and later he directed Peria Thambi with Prabhu and Chinna Raja with Karthik in the lead role.
He served as the Secretary of Tamil Film Producers Council for four years.
And served as the Executive committee member in South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce, Film Federation of India, and Tamil Film Directors Association for many years. He had the opportunity to be the Jury member for National Film Awards in the year of 2002. In the Tamil Film Producers Council elections held in the month of October 2011 he was elected as an Executive committee member of the Council
He turned as an actor in Jappanil Kalyanaraman and acted more than 50 films and his recent film Boss Engira Bhaskaran is a runaway hit. His first entry in small screen was in Ganga Yamuna Saraswathi and he is currently acting in Idhayam with Seetha which is being telecasted in Sun TV.
He published the book 80 Years of Tamil Cinema- Part 1 in 2011. It is an account documenting the History of Tamil cinema with some rare pictures and new informations about the Tamil cinema evolution in the particular period between 1931 to 2011.
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Chithra Lakshmanan
In 1987 M. G. Ramachandran, then chief minister of Tamil Nadu presided over the 100th day function of “Jallikkattu” produced by Chithra Laksmanan.
His first directorial venture was Soora Samharam with Kamal Hassan and later he directed Peria Thambi with Prabhu and Chinna Raja with Karthik in the lead role.
He served as the Secretary of Tamil Film Producers Council for four years.
And served as the Executive committee member in South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce, Film Federation of India, and Tamil Film Directors Association for many years. He had the opportunity to be the Jury member for National Film Awards in the year of 2002. In the Tamil Film Producers Council elections held in the month of October 2011 he was elected as an Executive committee member of the Council
He turned as an actor in Jappanil Kalyanaraman and acted more than 50 films and his recent film Boss Engira Bhaskaran is a runaway hit. His first entry in small screen was in Ganga Yamuna Saraswathi and he is currently acting in Idhayam with Seetha which is being telecasted in Sun TV.
He published the book 80 Years of Tamil Cinema- Part 1 in 2011. It is an account documenting the History of Tamil cinema with some rare pictures and new informations about the Tamil cinema evolution in the particular period between 1931 to 2011.
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Vaaliba Raja (2016)
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Santhanam, Vishakha Singh, Nushrat Bharucha, V. Jayaprakash, Sriranjini, VTV Ganesh
Rating43%
Janda Pai Kapiraju (2015)
Directed by Samuthirakani
Genres Thriller, Action, Romance
Actors Nani, Amala Paul, Meghana Raj, Ragini Dwivedi, Subbu Panchu, R. Sarathkumar
Rating60%
Arvind who came to the city from a rural area, is a naive employee in a company. He cannot tolerate corruption, bribert, breaking rules, lavishness and the urban culture of youth in cities. He is caught by traffic police for a minor mistake through not of his own. Although he has all documents with him, he is asked a bribe by traffic policeman. When he refuses to pay the bribe, a complaint is booked against him and he is sentenced by the court, even though he complains about the bribe.
Nannbenda (2015)
, 2h31Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Udhayanidhi Stalin, Nayantara, Santhanam, Soori, Sherin, Pooja Ramachandran
Rating38%
Sathya is an unemployed youth from Thanjavur, who goes to Trichy every month to meet his friend Sivakozhundhu and spend his day with the latter's salary. One such time, he meets Ramya and falls in love with her. He believes that if he sees a girl three times a day casually, she will be her lucky lady. He meets Ramya twice and goes all over Trichy with Sivakonzhundhu in search of her. He decides to stay there that night. Just before 12'o clock, he sees Ramya celebrating her birthday in the hostel opposite to Sivakozhundhu's room. The next day he proposes to her in her bank.
Uttama Villain (2015)
, 2h53Directed by Ramesh Aravind
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Jayaram, Kamal Haasan, Andrea Jeremiah, Pooja Kumar, Parvathy, Nassar
Roles PRO Lakshmanan
Rating72%
Manoranjan (Kamal Haasan) is a leading film star who is immensely popular among his fans; however, he is beset with several personal problems. He is an alcoholic and his teenage son Manohar (Ashwin) despises him. 25 years back, he had been forced to marry Varalakshmi (Urvashi), the daughter of noted film director Poornachandra Rao (K. Viswanath), despite being in a relationship with a woman named Yamini. He has a daughter Manonmani (Parvathi Menon) who was born out of wedlock to Yamini and was raised by Yamini's husband Jacob Zachariah (Jayaram) after Yamini's death. She also despises Manoranjan. He has been diagnosed with advanced stage brain cancer and has only a few more months to live, which is unknown to anyone including his own family. He is treated by his family doctor Dr. Arpana (Andrea Jeremiah), with whom he has an extramarital affair.
Sakalakala Vallavan (2015)
Directed by Suraj
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Jayam Ravi, Trisha Krishnan, Anjali, Prabhu, Soori, Vivek
Rating33%
Shakthi(Jayam Ravi) and Chinnasamy(Soori) are family enemies who fight over an election. During that time, Shakthi falls in love with Anjali, whom he later discovers is his enemies cousin. When their love rapidly heats up, Shakthi is forced to marry Divya(Trisha), a city girl. Before starting a life together, Divya tells Shakthi, they must get to know each other, but every time Shakthi tries to do something good, it ends bad. This leads them on a plan for divorce. In exchange, Shakthi tells Divya to agree and stay for a month with his parents so they won't get hurt over the fact that they made Shakthi marry someone who doesn't even like him. To make this worse, Shakthi's father gets Divya to stand for the female election to which she quietly agrees. When she loses in the family generation winning election, Shakthi's father angrily hits him. . That's when Shakthi reveals how he lost in love and life. Seeing how much he loves and respects his family and how his life has been, Divya slowly starts to like her husband. At the end Divya and Shakthi happily live together while they argue over little things; making their life filled with love.
Aranmanai (2014)
, 2h41Directed by Sundar C.
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Hansika Motwani, Raai Laxmi, Sundar C., Vinay Rai, Andrea Jeremiah, Nithin Sathya
Roles Maya's father
Rating52%
Eshwari (Kovai Sarala),her husband (Manobala) and her son,(Nithin Sathya), Eshwari's brother (Chitra Lakshmanan),his daughter Maya (Raai Laxmi), another older brother's son Murali (Vinay Rai) and his newly wedded wife Madhavi (Andrea Jeremiah) have gathered to sell their Palace off to Ayyanar, who had leased the property for five years. Meanwhile, Paalsamy (Santhanam) sneaks into the Aranmanai under the guise of a cook, finds his grandmother's photograph in the palace and he too decides to catch hold of the palace.
Ninaithathu Yaaro (2014)
Directed by Vikraman
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Rejith Menon, Nimisha Suresh, Richard Rishi, Riythvika, Subiksha, Monica (a) M. G. Rahima
Rating57%
Nimirndhu Nil (2013)
, 2h24Directed by Samuthirakani
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Films about families
Actors Jayam Ravi, Amala Paul, R. Sarathkumar, Meghana Raj, Soori, Ragini Dwivedi
Roles Judge Chitra Lakshmanan
Rating60%
Aravindan Sivasamy (Jayam Ravi) is a 26-year-old youth who was brought up in an ashram run by a Harichandra (Nassar). The atmosphere that he grew, taught him high moral values, disciplines, dignity, devotion etc. But when he comes out of the place, his belief and learning will be questioned by the cancerous system. It unsettles him and make him fight against the immoral cultures of the society. He decides to taken on corrupt bureaucrats and his friend (Soori), a lawyer (Subbu Panchu) and journalist (C. Gopinath) along with his girlfriend (Amala Paul) join him in his mission to fight against the corruption.
Settai (2013)
, 2h16Directed by R. Kannan
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Arya, Hansika Motwani, Anjali, Santhanam, Premgi Amaren, Nassar
Roles Murugaraj
Rating46%
The story revolves around three roommates, journalist J K Boss(Arya), photographer Nagaraj(Santhanam) and Cheenu (Premji) leading an unkempt and debt-ridden life in a shoddy apartment. J K's ditsy fiancée, Madhumita, is an air hostess who agrees to deliver a package for Vladimir Dragunsky (Kim Bodnia) to Nassar, without realizing its contents or that Nassar is a gangster. Madhumita asks J K to deliver the package. JK, in turn, asks Nagaraj to do so. But Nagaraj is unable to do so as he is experiencing 'Chennai Belly'. Nagaraj hands Madhumita's package to Cheenu for delivery to Nassar, along with a package containing his stool sample for delivery to Nagaraj's doctor. Cheenu mixes up the two packages which makes Nassar furious and he starts the investigation by interrogating Vladimir.
, 2h8Directed by Siddharth Roy Kapur, Sundar C., Ronnie Screwvala
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Siddharth, Hansika Motwani, Ganesh Venkatram, Santhanam, Vishal, Vidyulekha Raman
Roles Kunchithapadam
Rating61%
Kumar (Siddharth) is a software engineer who lives in a joint family. All of the marriages in his family have been love marriages for generations. He, however, swears off girls and love because of bad experiences in his childhood and teenage. One day, Sanjana (Hansika Motwani) joins his office and he falls in love with her. Unable to convey his feelings, he seeks the help of Mokia (Santhanam), a man who earns a living by helping men impress their lovers. Mokia teaches him to be more assertive and flirtatious. He makes Kumar spread the rumour that Sanjana is seeing her boss, George (Ganesh Venkatraman). As a result, Sanjana stops spending time with George. George then asks her to be his girlfriend, coincidentally when Kumar was planning to confess his love for Sanjana. She accepts, leaving Kumar heartbroken. Mokia then intervenes and breaks up George and Sanjana. Sanjana and Kumar finally get together but Mokia tries to break them apart after he finds out it's his sister he has been helping Kumar with. Then, Kumar admits to Sanjana that he manipulated her feelings but then seeks her forgiveness. Then they get back together, with the acceptance of Mokia who sees Kumar's true love for Sanjana.
Ya Ya (2013)
, 2h10Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Shiva, Kaadhal Sandhya, Santhanam, Dhansika, Power Star Srinivasan, Srinivasan
Roles Kanaka's father
Rating46%
Two friends Ramarajan (Mirchi Siva) and Rajkiran (Santhanam), who for reasons unknown prefer to call themselves Dhoni and Sehwag. They have nothing better to do than hang around together boozing and teasing pretty girls. Dhoni does not believe in the idea of working, but is still in search of a government job, knowing very well that he is not likely to get it. Kanaka (Sandhya), a police constable, is the daughter of Dhoni’s maternal uncle, and though their families want them to marry neither is interested. Meanwhile, Dhoni while going for an interview meets and falls in love with Seetha (Dhansika). So impressed is he by her that when he meets the ugly looking buck toothed local councillor Aishwarya (Devadarshini), who has promised him a job, he hugs her and declares his undying love for her, believing her to be Seetha. Though he apologizes to her, the much older Devadarshini is now very much in love with Dhoni and is determined to marry him. She gives money to Sehwag so that he separates the love of Dhoni and Seetha. Sehwag arranges friends of Dhoni's sister to pose as his lover to separate him. Seetha believes this rumour and breakup with him. Dhoni blames Seetha as "accused no1" who cheated him. Then Dhoni comes to know that it was the plan of Sehwag to separate him, he breaks his friendship with him. Aishwarya's fat brothers records the speech of Sehwag scolding Aishwarya in an inebriated state. In the early morning, Dhoni attends the marriage of Kanaka. Dhoni is shocked that Sehwag is the marriage groom. Seetha still mistakes Dhoni as a womaniser when she sees the same girl coming out misunderstanding. Girl tells all the truth to Dhoni about the plan which was overheard by Seetha. Aishwarya tries to kidnap Seetha but instead she gets kidnapped by Beerpal (Srinivasan) who mistaking her to be Seetha in order to take revenge on her for rejecting his love. After the marriage, Dhoni scolds Seetha alone himself for loving him then Seetha arrives at that place and again misunderstands him, she urges him to commit suicide. Varadharajan is searching for Dhoni who disappeared from home. Seetha is feeling guilty for his disappearance and also thinks that he might have committed suicide. Dhoni arrives at their home saying he disappeared from home to conduct the marriage of Aishwarya and Beerpal. The film ends with Dhoni and Sehwag uniting with their lovers happily.
Something Something (2013)
Directed by Sundar C.
Genres Romantic comedy
Actors Siddharth, Hansika Motwani, Brahmanandam, Ganesh Venkatram, Santhanam, Rana Daggubati
Naveena Saraswathi Sabatham (2013)
, 2h29Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Jai, Niveda Thomas, Sathyan, VTV Ganesh, Manobala, Rajkumar
Roles Kovai Kamaraj
Rating48%
The Story begins in a modern heaven, where Lord Paramasivan (Subbu Panchu) gives orders to Narada (Manobala) to pick 4 people for his Thiruvilaiyadal to make the world realise the ill effects of smoking and drinking. The candidates picked are Ramarajan (Jai), a Siddha Doctor, Ganesh (VTV Ganesh), a helpless man who is the husband of a local don, Gopi (Sathyan Sivakumar), a
Pattathu Yaanai (2013)
, 2h28Genres Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Vishal, Aishwarya Arjun, Santhanam, Jagan, John Vijay, Ajay
Rating39%
The story opens in Karaikudi, where Gouravam (Santhanam) is a well-known traditional cook making a living undertaking orders for marriage functions. He is forced into taking an order for a local goon’s wedding and is not happy about it. Saravanan (Vishal) and his four friends, who come to work for him as junior cooks, offer to help him but land him in even greater trouble and they are forced to flee from Karaikudi. The story shifts to Trichy, where Saravanan and his friends have grand plans of opening a restaurant with the help of Gouravam and his money. Here, just like in Malaikottai, it is love at first sight for Saravanan when he sees Aishwarya (Aishwarya Arjun). Things go wrong and as their love deepens we are introduced to two rival gangs, Kasi and Manaa along with a ‘Madurai Anachi’ who are constantly at each other’s throat. In a conflict Manaa forces Aishwarya to marry him and in the process of saving his love Saravanan reveals his past. Saravanan is a jail return who had killed 3 people in Madurai including Anachi's only son to avenge the murder of an orphan kid whom Saravanan considers as his little sister. The rest of the story is how Saravanan protects his love and kill the dark forces.
Saguni (2012)
, 2h31Directed by Shankar Dayal. N
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Karthi, Shriya Saran, Pranitha Subhash, Santhanam, Prakash Raj, Kota Srinivasa Rao
Rating49%
The film starts with the demise of CM (Satyamoorthy), a political plot produced by Boopathi(Prakash Raj), thereby starting the film on serious note. Then, we are introduced to Kamala Kannan (Karthi), who tells his story to the auto driver AppaDurai alias Rajini (Santhanam). AppaDurai assumes that Kamala Kannan is rich and drives him around the city to be profited for him.