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Kavithalayaa Productions

Kavithalayaa Productions
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Foundation date 1 january 1981
Creator Kailasam Balachander

Kavithalayaa Productions is a Tamil cinema film production company and film distribution company founded by film director, screenwriter and producer K. Balachander. Located in Kodambakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, it has released several acclaimed Tamil language features of the Chennai film Industry, including Sindhu Bhairavi, Mani Ratnam's Roja and K. S. Ravikumar's commercially successful film Muthu. It has also produced films in Telugu, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam.

Balachander's wife Rajam Balachander and his daughter Pushpa Kandaswamy also produce for the banner.
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Filmography of Kavithalayaa Productions (77 films)

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Production

Thiruvannamalai
Thiruvannamalai (2008)

Directed by Perarasu
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Arjun Sarja, Pooja Gandhi, Perarasu, Karunas Sethu, Sai Kumar, Vaiyapuri

Easwaran (Arjun Sarja) is upright and honest youth, who runs a local cable channel in Kumbakonam. He is known to fight for the cause of the society and the common man. He enters into fisticuffs with local MLA (Sai Kumar) after he exposes his corrupt and greedy ways through his cable TV channel. Fearing trouble, his mom takes him to a saint in Thiruvannamalai. The Swami resembles Easwaran. A sequence of events forces them to swap places. The soft-spoken Swami tries to sort all issues through non-violent means (Gandhian philosophy). Half way through Karunas dies in the hand of (Vidharth) and the corrupt MLA. In the climax Easwaran kills off the MLA.
Idhaya Thirudan
Idhaya Thirudan (2006)

Directed by Saran
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Jayam Ravi, Kamna Jethmalani, Prakash Raj, Jyothirmayi, Santhanam, Nassar

Deepika (Kamna) can't bear with the control her mother (Vani Viswanath)imposes on her life by . In order to make her mother angry, she uploads some hot pictures of herself and emails them to a fictitious name, "T.Mahesh". However, there seems to exist a T.Mahesh (Ravi) who is a catering student. The more Deepika and Mahesh run into each other.Then T.Mahesh starts following Deepika wherever she goes.The more Mayilravanan (Prakash Raj), a policeman who wants to marry Deepika, gets angry. In hopes of creating a distance between Deepika and Mahesh, Mayilravanan seeks a relationship with Deepika's mother. The relationship between Deepika and Mahesh grow into love as they both try to separate Mayilravanan and Deepika's mother in hopes of setting life to how it originally was.
Saamy
Saamy (2003)
, 2h41
Directed by Hari
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Vikram, Trisha Krishnan, Vijayakumar, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Vivek, Aachi Manorama

Aarusaamy (Vikram) is the Deputy Commissioner of Police of Tirunelveli who efficiently brings the city under control. Aarusaamy arrives at Tirunelveli after being in exile for some years after being wrongly accused of bribery by corrupt politicians. In an early scene in the film, he eats idli with beer and performs some drunken antics, which had a negative impact on the viewing public. At the outset, he pretends to be a corrupt cop by accepting bribes from the very influential Annachi. Later Saamy starts to rebel against him and the rest is about how he succeeds in overcoming the corrupt politicians.
Paarthale Paravasam
Paarthale Paravasam (2001)

Directed by Kailasam Balachander
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors R. Madhavan, Simran, Raghava Lawrence, Sneha, Vaali, Cochin Haneefa

Madhava (Madhavan) is a doctor, and a single appearance as hero in a film has made him the heartthrob of thousands of girls. He marries Simi (Simran), but a revelation about his past separates them and takes them as far as divorce. They remain friends though, even going so far as to fix up each other's second marriages.
Rojavanam
Rojavanam (1999)
, 2h30
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Karthik, Malavika, Aachi Manorama, Laila, M. N. Nambiar, M.S.Viswanathan

Muthu (Karthik) is the favourite employee at Rojavanam, a home for the aged owned jointly by two friends (Ravikumar and "Nizhalgal" Ravi). Sindhu (Malavika) is a psychology student staying at the home. Muthu falls in love with Roja (Laila), the daughter of his boss but learns that the boss and his friend, had decided long ago that their children would be married and this has resulted in the friend's son growing up enamoured of Roja. Roja's father accepts Muthu as his son-in-law but his friend, angered at this, decides to bulldoze Rojavanam to the ground.
Pooveli
Pooveli (1998)
, 2h20
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Karthik, Abbas, Aachi Manorama, Kausalya, Heera, Radha Ravi

The movie opens with the main characters revealing their thoughts on love. Kousalya feels one must love before the wedding while Heera feels love is for after the wedding. Radharavi is totally opposed to love and feels it is a way in which children cheat their parents while Karthik is totally for it.
Kasalavu Nesam
Kasalavu Nesam (1998)

Directed by Kailasam Balachander
Actors Venu Arvind, Revathi Sankaran, Jai Ganesh, Nizhalgal Ravi

Gautam (Venu Arvind) is unemployed and when all his efforts in securing a job fail miserably, his friend recommends him for a job with a large business magnate. The catch is that in order to get the job, Gautam must marry the boss' dark-complexioned daughter. Against his better judgement, he marries her, but her lack of beauty makes him cringe. As fate would have it, he falls in love with a beautiful ghazal singer. Soon thereafter, his wife dies in an accident. The coast now being clear, Gautam happily marries the ghazal singer. However, his happiness is short-lived as he soon realizes that he now has two fathers-in-law. Life becomes miserable for Gautam with both his fathers-in-law enforcing their influence and their crazy ideas to his everyday life. Gautam laments that one can afford to have two living wives, but not two living fathers-in-law. To make matters worse, Gautam's first wife returns as a spirit. With the constant appearance of the first wife's spirit, visible only to Gautam, events take a more uproarious turn. A series of mind-boggling comic interludes develop and utter confusion reins amidst the family members.
Duet
Duet (1994)
, 2h36
Directed by Kailasam Balachander
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Meenakshi Seshadri, Prakash Raj, Prabhu, Ramesh Aravind, Charle, Mohan Raman

In a bridge across a sea, saxophone music is heard which is played by Guna. He recollects about the tragedy which happened two years back in his life.
Jathi Malli
Jathi Malli (1993)

Directed by Kailasam Balachander
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Mukesh, Kushboo Sundar, Nassar, Vineeth, Yuvarani, Vikram

The story begins with Kushboo a Ghazal Singer who visits a hill station to try and forget the murder of her mother who was very close to her. She meets Mukesh who is a taxi driver. He shares his own pain regarding his father murdering his mother and siblings in a drunken rage. Horrified by this story, Kushboo starts thinking less of her own loss. A situation arises that Kushboo starts living in house as a paying guest and their relationship remains aloof in spite of mutual admiration.
Annamalai
Annamalai (1992)
, 2h44
Directed by Suresh Krissna
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Rajinikanth, Kushboo Sundar, Sarath Babu, Meena, Radha Ravi, Janagaraj

Annamalai (Rajinikanth) and Ashok (Sarath Babu) have been best friends since childhood. Annamalai is a milkman while Ashok is the only son of a rich businessman (Radharavi). When Ashok falls in love with Geetha (Rekha), a poor girl, his father is naturally against the wedding. Annamalai holds the wedding and earns his ire. Meanwhile, Annamalai falls for Subu (Kushboo Sundar), whom he subsequently marries.
Vaaname Ellai
Vaaname Ellai (1992)

Directed by Kailasam Balachander
Genres Drama
Actors Anand Babu, Bhanupriya, Ramya Krishnan, Madhoobala Shah, Rajesh, Prithviraj Sukumaran

Five young people decide that life is not worth living anymore for various reasons.