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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.
Filmography of Kavithalayaa Productions (77 films)
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Sigaram (1991)
, 2h20Actors S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Radha, Rekha, Anand Babu, Ramya Krishnan, Nizhalgal Ravi
Damodar (S. P. Balasubrahmanyam) is a famous music director and playback singer who won many awards. Gnanam (Nizhalgal Ravi), the man behind his success, works hard for his breakthrough and he considers Damodar as his enemy.
Oru Veedu Iru Vaasal (1990)
Directed by Kailasam Balachander
Genres Drama
Actors Livingston, Vaishnavi
The movie contains two distinct story lines, each story lines revolves around Ganesh and Kumaresh. This movie depicts difficulties women face(d) in a predominantly male dominated society. How these women when pushed to edge fight their ostracized husbands and set a tone and lead a meaningful life.
Unnai Solli Kutramillai (1990)
, 2h25Genres Drama
Actors Karthik, Sithara, Radha Ravi, Nassar, Charle, Vadivukkarasi
Balu (Karthik) is a graduate youth, came from his village to town, who want to become rich. He works as a police informer and fall in love with Janaki (Sithara), the daughter of Inspector Veerapandian. Veerapandian asks Balu to watch closely his daughter if she had a boyfriend. In the same time, Veerapandian's ennemy Kumar (Nassar) tries to kidnap her daughter, they fail due to his opposition. Balu finds an illegal drug trade and his house's owner was sent in jail, then his all family commits suicide. Veerapandian is promoted as assistant commissioner and Balu resigns his job. One day, Veerapandian finds Balu in a crime scene and asks him to say who's the killer but he refuses. Even beaten, he says nothing and he cannot find a job. Baby is killed and Balu decides to steal the money from criminals. Balu becomes rich and Kumar falls in love with Balu's sister Parvathi. Balu was later arrested by Veerapandian and Kumar refuses to save him, his sister realises that she has been cheated by Kumar and Kumar kills her. Janaki tells that the culprit is Darmaraj and Veerapandian releases him. Balu kills Kumar and Darmaraj to revenge his sister death.
Varavu Nalla Uravu (1990)
, 2h19Directed by Visu
Genres Drama
Actors Visu, Rekha, Sunitha Shivaramakrishnan, Omakuchi Narasimhan, Ravi Raghavendra, Sathyakala
Pudhu Pudhu Arthangal (1989)
Directed by Kailasam Balachander
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Rashin Rahman, Sithara, Geetha, Jayachitra, Janagaraj, Sowcar Janaki
This refreshing tale from K. Balachander focuses on the fairly realistic tale of a famous singer Bharathi (Rahman with singing by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam) and his extremely possessive wife named Gowri (Geetha). Tricked into marriage by his convincing mother-in-law, what really irks Bharathi is his wife’s inability to deal with his rabid female fans. Tensions escalate until Bharathi flees from home and ends up encountering someone else named Jyothi (Sithara) who’s also escaping from her life as a dancer because her husband made her dance forcefully and tried forcing her to be a prostitute.
Siva (1989)
, 2h37Genres Drama, Action
Actors Rajinikanth, Raghuvaran, Shobana, Sowcar Janaki, Vinu Chakravarthy, Bob Christo
Rajinikanth and Raghuvaran are close friends like their fathers, in spite of their difference in caste Hindu and Christian. But a villain kills family except Rajinikanth, Raghuvaran and Raghuvaran's mother, one twist is Raghuvaran does not knows that Rajinikanth and his mother was alive and vice versa. Years run, film opens after 20 years. Rajinikanth falls in love with Shobana. He marries her. Then Raghuvaran is a hired goon will do only good deeds. Raghuvaran is hired to kill Rajinikanth and during the fight both get injured and finally they come to know that they are childhood friends. Finally, both of them unite and fight the bad guy who killed their family.
Unnal Mudiyum Thambi (1988)
Directed by Kailasam Balachander
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Kamal Haasan, Seetha, Gemini Ganesan, Manorama, Aachi Manorama, Charle
Udhayamoorthy (Kamal Haasan) is the younger son of an illustrious Carnatic music maestro, Bilahari Marthandam Pillai (Gemini Ganesan). The father is a strict disciplinarian who is very class conscious and cares only for his art. The maestro's elder son (Prasad Babu) is born mute and hence had to take to an instrument, the nadhaswaram, which he is quite adept at.
Penmani Aval Kanmani (1988)
, 2h27Directed by Visu
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Pratap K. Pothen, Seetha, Visu, Madhuri, Delhi Ganesh, Dilip
The movie deals with how Radio mama (Visu) solves the problems in the other household's where he newly moves in.
Manathil Uruthi Vendum (1987)
Directed by Kailasam Balachander
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Political films
Actors Suhasini Maniratnam, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Vivek, Ramesh Aravind, Rajinikanth, Shridhar
This is the story of Nandini, a nurse, played brilliantly by Suhasini. She is the sole bread winner of her huge family who faces many hurdles in her life including a divorce, loss of a brother, an eloped sister, a failed second romance and an organ donation. She handles them with dignity and wins the hearts of one and all including her suspicious ex-husband when she donates him her kidney. S. P. Balasubrahmanyam plays the role of a dedicated Doctor, who inspires Nandini to take the ultimate decision in life to continue serving her patients.
Velaikkaran (1987)
Directed by SP. Muthuraman
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Rajinikanth, Sarath Babu, Nassar, V K Ramasamy, Amala Akkineni, K. R. Vijaya
Young Ragupathy (Rajinikanth) is brought up by his paternal grandfather Valayapathy (V.K.Ramasamy). He decides for him to go to the city in search of a new job and life. While in the city he meets up with Senthil who guides him into an interview in a 5-star hotel owned by Rajkumar (Sarath Babu).
Thirumathi Oru Vegumathi (1987)
, 2h19Directed by Visu
Genres Drama
Actors Pandiyan, S. V. Sekhar, Nizhalgal Ravi, Visu, Jayashree, Kalpana
Punnagai Mannan (1986)
Directed by Kailasam Balachander
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kamal Haasan, Revathi, Sreevidya, Charle, Rekha, Delhi Ganesh
Sethu (Kamal Haasan) and Ranjani (Rekha) arrive at a cliff where they plan to commit suicide due to the pressure put up by Ranjani's parents against their marriage. Sethu who is the son of an ordinary drunkard cook (Delhi Ganesh) and is also a dancer is not accepted as groom for Ranjani by her parents. The parents threaten Ranjani that either they would kill Sethu or commit suicide. While jumping from the cliff Sethu accidentally gets trapped in a tree and escapes but Ranjani dies. Despite the attempts made by Ranjani's father to jail Sethu by framing a fault case that Sethu killed Ranjani, no strong evidence was there to prove it. He is jailed for the offence of attempted suicide for one year.
Sundara Swapnagalu (1986)
, 2h6Directed by Kailasam Balachander
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Shridhar, Ramesh Aravind, Tara, Kuyili, K. S. Ashwath, B. Jayashree
Aval Sumangalithan (1985)
, 2h20Directed by Visu
Genres Drama
Actors Karthik, K. R. Vijaya, Ilavarasi, Visu, Chandrasekhar (Tamil actor), Nisha Noor
Arumugam (Visu), a poor father, looks for a bridegroom for his daughter Uma (Ilavarasi). For Arumugam, the perfect bridegroom seems to be Bhaskaran (Karthik). Bhaskaran gets married with Uma. Bhaskaran understands his in-laws' financial problems and helps them. Bhaskaran suffers from brain tumor and he will die soon.