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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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Munthanai Mudichu
Munthanai Mudichu (1983)
, 2h30
Directed by K. Bhagyaraj, Balakumaran V
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Urvashi, K. Bhagyaraj, Deepa Unnimary, Poornima Bhagyaraj, Sujitha, Kovai Sarala

Parimalam (Urvasi) is a mischievous nubile lady who perennially plays pranks on unsuspecting villagers, aided by her gang of preteen children. These often end her and the gang in the panchayat. A widower (K. Bhagyaraj) enters the village with his infant child (Sujitha) to take up the vacant teacher's post in the local school and is immediately pranked by Parimalam's gang upon his arrival. Parimalam's playful nature transforms into love when she learns that he's a widower. She tries many ways to win the teacher's heart, but fails every time. The teacher believes that a stepmother could not care for his child. As a desperate measure to attain him, Parimalam falsely accuses the teacher of molesting her. She even swears upon the teacher's child's life to prove her case at the panchayat. The teacher is then forced to marry her against his wishes. However, he vows never to touch Parimalam and to remain forever in celibacy. Parimalam relentlessly tries to seduce him by various methods. All her advances are ignored by the husband. Faced with the prospect of never attaining her husband's love, Parimalam decides to take the drastic measure of going through a tubal ligation procedure. With this she hopes that her husband will understand that she would never ill treat his son as a stepmother. Shocked upon hearing of Parimalam's decision, the husband rushes to the hospital to prevent her from undergoing the procedure. He reaches the hospital to find Parimalam unconscious on the bed and assumes she has already undergone treatment. However, the doctor assures him that she has not been operated as he found Parimalam to be a virgin and realized that she must have wanted the operation under duress. The story ends with the couple happily united and in the process of planning for another child.
Thoongadhey Thambi Thoongadhey
Thoongadhey Thambi Thoongadhey (1983)

Directed by SP. Muthuraman
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families
Actors Kamal Haasan, Radha, Sulakshana, Dilip, Jamuna, V K Ramasamy

The film had Kamal Haasan playing dual roles; An unemployed guy from a middle class society and a guy from a rich society returning from abroad after his father's death. In order to claim the property of the Kamal Haasan, Vinuchakravarthy with his mob guys assaults him and make him a drug addict by repeated injections of some harmful sedatives. Radha's father (Danaal Thangavelu) who is a family friend of the rich-one's father with Radha who is also a lover of the another Kamal comes as an excursion. Due to her curiousness she sees the rich-one and finds out that he is in a dangerous state of his health due to the drug addiction. With the help of the house's servant Radha replaces the other Kamal to this house and saves him and his properties from the hands of Vinuchakravarthy and Senthamarai.
Paayum Puli
Paayum Puli (1983)

Directed by SP. Muthuraman
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Rajinikanth, Jaishankar, Aachi Manorama, Thiagarajan Sivanandam, V K Ramasamy, Sathyaraj

When a smuggler kills his sister, a naive, immature man (Rajinikanth) vows to deliver justice for her death and joins a martial arts school. He trains hard there to become a master fighter, honing his fighting skills. Taking on a new identity, Paayum Puli (Pouncing Tiger), he sets off for revenge, but the affection of a beautiful woman (Radha) soon puts a hitch in his plans.
Sagalakala Vallavan
Sagalakala Vallavan (1982)
, 2h18
Directed by SP. Muthuraman
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Kamal Haasan, Ambika, SP. Muthuraman, Raveendran (Ravindher), Y. G. Mahendran, Thengai Srinivasan

A young agriculturist Velu (Kamal Hassan) goes to extremes to attain revenge against his devious landlord and her family. He is an upright young man, but when his family gets cheated out of money, he decides it's time to take a stand. Donning various disguises, he—with help from his sister Valli (Thulasi)—sets out seeking justice against the landlord and her confrontational daughter Geetha (Ambika) and son Pazhani (Raveendran).
Pokkiri Raja
Pokkiri Raja (1982)

Directed by SP. Muthuraman
Actors Rajinikanth, Sridevi, Aachi Manorama, Raadhika Sarathkumar, R. Muthuraman, Y. G. Mahendran

Ramesh (Rajinikanth) starts managing the office of an industrialist who strongly suspects his relatives to be looting him. Ramesh finds the culprit and keeps a tight leash on everything happening in the office, thereby earning the wrath of the industrialist's relatives. Ramesh and Sridevi (the industrialist's daughter) initially find themselves at loggerheads, but eventually fall in love with each other. The industrialist is happy about this development until he sees Ramesh cheating on his daughter. He fires Ramesh the very same day.
Red Jasmine
Red Jasmine (1981)

Directed by Rama Narayanan
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Shanthi Krishna, Chandrasekhar (Tamil actor), Sangili Murugan, S. S. Chandran

Sathyanathan, Punyakodi and their partners are an atrocious lot. They keep suppressing the villagers and do not even allow them to get proper education due to fear of losing control over the village.
Kasethan Kadavulada
Kasethan Kadavulada (1972)
, 2h
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors R. Muthuraman, Venniradai Moorthy, Thengai Srinivasan, Aachi Manorama, Sreekanth, Lakshmi Narayan

Parvathi (Manorama) is an extremely domineering second wife to Sivaswamy (Vennira Aadai Moorthy) and controls all his money treating him with scorn and disdain. When Sivaswamy's son Ramu (Muthuraman), son of his first wife, requires a sum of Rs. 3000 for his Sister's husband, she refuses instantly. With plenty of worry, Ramu and his cousin Shekar hatch a plot with Appaswamy (Thengai Sreenivasan) who pretends to be a fake swamiji in order to get to her money safe and steal a sum of Rs. 50,000.
Main Sunder Hoon
Main Sunder Hoon (1971)
, 2h27
Directed by Nazir Hussain
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Mehmood Ali, Leena Chandavarkar, Biswajit Chatterjee, Waheeda Rehman, Sulochana, Aruna Irani

Sunder (Mehmood) works in a hotel owned by Ram Swarup (David Abraham) as a waiter. He is a very funny, uneducated man, with a suitably funny face, opposite to his name. Radha (Leena Chandavarkar) is the daughter of Ram Swarup. She often comes to the hotel, and Sunder happens to meet her and amuse her with funny jokes. One day, in a casual remark, she says,"I like your innocence". He does not understand the word 'innocence', and thinks that she likes him. He also likes her, but is afraid to tell her, as he works in her father's hotel.
Bomma Borusa
Bomma Borusa (1971)

Directed by Kailasam Balachander
Actors Chandra Mohan, S. Varalakshmi, Chalam, Allu Rama Lingiah, Mukkamala Krishnamurthy, Rama Prabha

It is an old classical family drama. Sundaram (Ramakrishna) is a rich businessman and he has an younger brother Sekhar (Chandra Mohan) is a college going guy who loves his brother so much. Sundaram's mother-in-law Parvatham (S. Varalakshmi) who cares for his assets and shows her dominating character on Sekhar and Sundaram. She bets with Sekhar that she would separate him from his brother and puts some conditions that he should not tell his brother about the bet to prove his strength. Parvatham second son-in-law (Chalam) identifies that his mother-in-law has moved to Sundaram's house. Soon second son-in-law comes to he house and places a bet with Parvatham that she only should reveal that he is the son-in-law of her. Since then both of them starts proving their capacity to win in the bet. The film revolves around who wins the bet and how it brings about a change in Parvathamma's beliefs.
Uyarndha Manidhan
Uyarndha Manidhan (1968)
, 2h40
Genres Drama
Actors Sivaji Ganesan, Sowcar Janaki, S. A. Ashokan, Sundarrajan, Vanisri, Bharathi Vishnuvardhan

Rajalingam (alias Raju) (Sivaji Ganesan) is the son of a wealthy Madurai-based industrialist, Sankaralingam (S. V. Ramadoss). Living with Raju is his driver and friend, Sundaram (Major Sundarrajan). While vacationing in his family estate at Kodaikanal with Sundaram and his family doctor, Gopal (S. A. Asokan), Raju meets Parvathi (Vanisri) and falls in love with her. Gopal too becomes smitten with Parvathi when he meets her whilst conducting her father's (Poornam Vishwanathan) medical treatment. Parvathi, who knows Raju through her father, as he is also an accountant of Raju's family estate, reciprocates Raju's feelings. Gopal decides not to reveal his love for Parvathi to Raju for Raju's sake. Raju and Parvathi marry in secret with the help of Gopal and the consent of Parvathi's father. The couple live together in Kodaikanal without disclosing the knowledge of their marriage to Raju's father, Sankaralingam.
Anbe Vaa
Anbe Vaa (1966)
, 2h54
Directed by A. C. Tirulokachandar
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors M. G. Ramachandran, Nagesh, B. Saroja Devi, T. R. Ramachandran, S. A. Ashokan, Aachi Manorama

JB (M.G. Ramachandran) is a wealthy industrialist who decides to take a vacation at his residence in Shimla. Upon his arrival, he discovers that his caretaker (P. D. Sambandam) has rented his house to a Bangalore-based couple, Punyakodi (T. R. Ramachandran) and Pappamma (T. P. Muthulakshmi), and their daughter, Geetha (B. Saroja Devi). The caretaker and his wife leave for Varanasi after taking the money for the rent, leaving the caretaker's daughter, Kannamma (Manorama), and brother-in-law, Ramaiah (Nagesh), in charge of the house and the guests. JB decides not to reveal his true identity, pretending to be JB's personal secretary Balu, and pays the rent for a place in his own house. Ramaiah, who has never met JB, takes the money and gives JB's room to Balu.