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AVM Productions

AVM Productions
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Foundation date 1 january 1945
Creator Avichi Meiyappa Chettiar

AVM Productions is an Indian film production studio. It is the oldest surviving studio in India. The filming studios are located in Vadapalani, Chennai. It has produced over 170 films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Bollywood cinema. AVM has introduced numerous actors in the Tamil and Telugu film industries, some of the prominent actors are Vyjayanthimala, Sivaji Ganesan, S. S. Rajendran and Kamal Haasan. The AVM Studios besides the shooting floors, has recording, dubbing and a preview theatre with state of the art equipment. The complex also houses facilities for production and post production processing.
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Filmography of AVM Productions (122 films)

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Production

Bahar
Bahar (1951)
, 2h50
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Vyjayanthimala, Pandari Bai, Pran Krishan Sikand, Karan Dewan, Om Prakash, Leela Mishra

The story revolves around Lata who lives a wealthy lifestyle with her parents and they would like her to get married to wealthy Shekhar she initially approves it. Shortly thereafter she meets with Vasant Kumar and both fall in love with each other and get married. Heart broken and angry Shekhar starts to investigate Vasant's background. Finds out that Vasant's real name is Ashok, an editor for a magazine. What happens in Ashok or Vasant Kumar life?
Jeevitham
Jeevitham (1950)
, 2h50
Directed by Avichi Meiyappa Chettiar
Genres Romance
Actors Vyjayanthimala, S. Varalakshmi, C. H. Narayana Rao, T. R. Ramachandran, Padmini Ramachandran

Mohini is the daughter of Sivashankaralingeswara Prasad, who marries Durgamma following Mohini's mother's death. Durgamma's brother Murthy wants to marry Mohini. Meanwhile, Mohini falls in love with Ashok, who is none other than her neighbour Pati, but she is not aware of that. When Murthy asks Prasad for Mohini's hand in marriage, he is refused by Mohini. An angry Murthy goes to the village and spends some time with Lakshmi and leaves her. When Lakshmi becomes pregnant, she comes to the city in search of Murthy. Before she can find Murthy, she gives birth to a boy in the hospital. She meets Murthy and requests him to accept her and the child. But Murthy refuses so she leaves the child in Pati's car, and goes to the sea to commit suicide. In the meantime, Murthy plans to cancel Mohini's marriage to Pati by using the child. Due to his claim that the child is Pati's and Lakshmi's, the marriage is cancelled. The rest of the story is about how Pati faces problems from Murthy, and how he reunites with Mohini.
Vazhkai
Vazhkai (1949)
, 2h50
Directed by Avichi Meiyappa Chettiar
Genres Romance
Actors Vyjayanthimala, S. Varalakshmi, T. R. Ramachandran, K. Sarangapani, S. V. Sahasranamam, Lalitha

Murthi (S. V. Sahasranamam) comes to a village. He deceives Meenakshi (M. S. Draupadi) and has sex with her. After going back to his home town he tries to marry Mohana (Vyjayanthimala), who loves Nathan (T. R, Ramachandran). Lakshmi discovers she is pregnant and goes to meet Murthi, who pretends ignorance. She jumps into the sea in a suicide attempt. A passerby saves her and she delivers the baby. She leaves the baby with Nathan. He takes care of the baby and faces a lot of problems. Learning about the baby, Mohana gets suspicious. Finally the actions of Murthi are exposed and he accepts Meenakshi as his wife.
Kadhalikka Vanga
Kadhalikka Vanga
, 2h25
Actors Jaishankar, Sreekanth, Sundarrajan, Aachi Manorama, Shabnam

Three young rich girls go to a hotel and discuss a movie, they are: Ganga (Manorama), Yamuna (VijayaGirija) and Kaveri (Kavitha). Kaveri was bet for her own other two sisters. She was do the same cinema robbery in her house. These all news was listen Ramesh (Sreekanth). He is a gangster and robber. Jaishankar worked at a Hotel, his name was Tamilarasu. Kaveri was blackmail for her father Thengai Srinivasan, and she was brought up kin of his diamond, other two sisters was waiting out of her house. Kaveri was shown the diamond for her own sister Ganga & Yamuna. The same time Ramesh was pick up diamond to Kaveri and under carrying for himself. Yamuna was noted Ramesh (Sreekanth) car number, the whole family was complaint to police about diamond robbery, the doubt was turning into robbery leader "Pulipandi". Police are consulted for our Co-Officer. One police Officer says "Pulipandi" lover was dancing at the night club and she name was Jasmine(Shabnam).

Distribution

Idhuvum Kadandhu Pogum
Idhuvum Kadandhu Pogum (2014)
, 53minutes
Actors Ravi Raghavendra, Shivaji Dev

The film starts off on a tragic note and travels back and forth to then and now. Gautam (Shivaji Dev), a young man in his late twenties, and his fiancée in the U.S., Ramya (Shilpa Bhatt), exchange endearments at midnight little aware of the disaster that is to strike in a few hours. The next morning, he finds out that she has met with an accident and succumbed to her injuries. It isn’t easy for Gautam to come out of the trauma that hits him hard.
A Aa E Ee
A Aa E Ee (2009)

Actors Prabhu, Cochin Haneefa, Navdeep, Aachi Manorama, Aravind Akash, Monica (a) M. G. Rahima

Subramaniam (Prabhu), an Ayurvedic physician is a much respected man in his village. His only daughter Anita (Monica) returns home from Chennai after completing a course in fashion designing. Having lost her mother at a very young age, Anita is close to her father and they share a special bond. Soon Anita’s marriage is fixed with Ilango (Arvind), son of Vedachalam (Haneefa).
Evaraina Epudaina
Evaraina Epudaina (2009)

Actors Varun Sandesh, Vimala Raman, Brahmanandam, Giri Babu, Rama Prabha, Venu Madhav

Venkat (Varun Sandesh) is care free guy, he is a smart youngster who looks for people around him who are in love, he blackmail to tell their family and takes money from the couples. He gets into a fight because he took money from a couple by blackmailing, there he sees a girl Madhumita (Vimala Raman) and it is love at first sight for Venkat. Meanwhile his grandma gets hurt and he takes her to a hospital, an old woman is admitted in the same room, later he finds out she is Madhumita's grandma (Rama Prabha). He gets an opportunity to impress her, he pretends to save her grandma and they both become good friends. Venkat's close friend (Adarsh) confesses him that he is in love with the daughter of Madhumita's father (Giri Babu). He thinks that his friend is going to be engaged to Madhumita. This prompts Venkat to play a spoilsport in the engagement ceremony, he tries to break the engagement and also succeeds in beaking the engagement. Soon after the engagement breaks he realised that his friend is in love with Madhumita's sister and was getting engaged to her. Venkat is shocked and is in a fixed situation as he can't tell the truth to Madhumita and her family as they would hate him after knowing the truth. He gets close to her family in meantime, also Madhumita falls in love with him. In temple she overhears Venkat's friend telling him that it was a good plan to break Adarsh and Madumita's sister's engagement. Venkat sees Madhumita and tries to explain to her that it was an misunderstanding but she was not ready to listen. Venkat then become a responsible person and joins his brother's office, he respects lovers and understands other's feeling. He also manages to get Adarsh and Madhumita's sister together in meantime. He then goes to Madhumita and explains to her and try to convince her that everything was a misunderstanding, he tells her that he is changed person and has got a good job for her. She understand's him and his feeling's, the film ends with Venkat and Madhumita getting together.
Sivaji: The Boss
Sivaji: The Boss (2007)
, 3h5
Directed by S. Shankar
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Themes Films about music and musicians, Politique, Musical films, Political films
Actors Rajinikanth, Shriya Saran, Suman, S. Manivannan, Vivek, Prof. Solomon Pappaiah

Sivaji (Rajinikanth), an Indian software systems architect, returns to India from the United States. He aims to establish a non-profit trust called the Sivaji Foundation to build a network of hospitals and educational institutions to serve the poor free of charge. However, Adiseshan (Suman), an influential businessman, sees Sivaji as his competitor with the fact of the matter being that he runs profit-making educational institutions and hospitals. Sivaji is forced to bribe the corrupt civil service, but eventually, the bribes demanded become so high that he has to mortgage his house and sell his car to pay them. When Sivaji goes to court, he loses the case filed against him by Adiseshan regarding the methods Sivaji had used to open his foundation as a result of bribing numerous government officials. Simultaneously, Sivaji falls in love with a girl named Tamizhselvi (Shriya Saran). However, upon asking for his horoscope, an astrologer warns that their union will result in Sivaji's death. When Tamizhselvi refuses the proposal due to her concern for Sivaji, he calms her fears and convinces her to marry him.
Gemini
Gemini (2002)
, 2h37
Directed by Saran
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Gangster films
Actors Vikram, Kiran Rathod, Kalabhavan Mani, Murali, Murali, Vinu Chakravarthy

Teja (Kalabhavan Mani) is a high-profile gangster in North Madras, who often imitates the behaviour characteristic of different animals for sarcastic effect. Accompanied by his gang, he arrives at a magistrate's court for a hearing. His animal antics are mocked at by "Chintai" Jeeva, another accused. Teja and his gang retaliate and kill Jeeva within the court premises. Jeeva was a member of a rival gang headed by Gemini (Vikram), an aspiring goon from Chintadripet who aspires to dethrone Teja and take his place. To avenge Jeeva's death, Gemini hunts down the murderer Pandian while Isaac, one of Gemini's men, kills him. This incident leads to a feud between Gemini and Teja, and a fight for supremacy ensues. Pandian's mother Annamma (Manorama), a destitute woman, locates the whereabouts of her son's murderers. She approaches Gemini, becomes the gang's cook and awaits a chance to poison them.
Minsara Kanavu
Minsara Kanavu (1997)
, 2h33
Directed by RajivMenon kumar
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Prabhu Deva, Arvind Swamy, Kajol, Nassar, V K Ramasamy, Girish Karnad

Priya Amal Raj (Kajol) loses her mother at a very young age. She is friendly, outspoken, sensitive, yet precocious.Young Priya is brought by her dad, Amal Raj (Girish Karnad) [who is a very rich old-styled clothing industrialist] to a christian residential convent to stay and study. Since her childhood, Priya is interested in singing, music and church.
Sakthivel
Sakthivel (1994)
, 2h30
Directed by K.S.Ravikumar
Genres Drama
Actors Kanaka, Vijayakumar, Selva, Jai Ganesh, Rajeev, Vijayakumar

Sakthivel (Vijayakumar) is an honest head constable and has a daughter (Kanaka). One day, he beats a politician's son. He is subsequently promoted as a Sub-inspector but he is transferred to a ruthless village. A feud between Pannaiyar (Jaiganesh) and Chairman (Rajeev) divides the village in half and every day many villagers die.
Sethupathi I.P.S
Sethupathi I.P.S (1994)
, 2h27
Directed by P. Vasu
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Meena, Sreevidya, M. N. Nambiar, Goundamani, Delhi Ganesh, Senthil

Terrorism against India is escalated heavily by Indians trained abroad. Sethupathi IPS (Vijayakanth) is a very efficient cop whose entire family has served the country at some time — his mother Satyabhama (Srividya) is an IAS Officer, his maternal grandfather was a soldier who got a medal for killing 200 enemies (a medal which Sethupathi secretly covets), and his father in law (Vijayakumar) is an Inspector General of Police.