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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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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.
Muthu
Muthu (1998)
, 2h45
Directed by K.S.Ravikumar
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Actors Rajinikanth, Meena, Sarath Babu, Raghuvaran, Radha Ravi, Jayabharathi

A kind-hearted Zamindar (Rajinikanth) lived with his sister-in-law and cousin Rajasekhar (Raghuvaran), helping people incessantly. His sister-in-law has a son, to whom the Zamindar bequeaths a major portion of his property. At this juncture, a new baby is born to the Zamindar. His wife dies soon after. Brother Rajasekhar cheats the Zamindar as he fears that his son's property might be taken back and given to the Zamindar's own son. When the cheating comes to light, the Zamindar hands over all his property and his baby to his sister-in-law and brother and goes to the Himalayas, making his sister-in-law promise him that the baby should be brought up as a servant, not as a Zamindar. This baby is named Muthu (also Rajinikanth).
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.
Roja
Roja (1992)
, 2h17
Directed by Mani Ratnam
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Romance
Themes Spy films, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about terrorism, Musical films, Political films
Actors Arvind Swamy, Madhoobala Shah, Pankaj Kapur, Nassar, Janagaraj, Vaishnavi

In Srinagar, a Kashmiri terrorist, Wasim Khan (Shiva Rindani), is captured by a team led by Colonel Rayappa (Nassar). In South India, Roja (Madhoo) is a simple village girl born and brought up in Sundarapandianpuram in Tirunelveli district in southern Tamil Nadu. Roja fervently wishes that her sister (Vaishnavi)'s marriage proposal with Rishi Kumar (Arvind Swamy), a cryptologist working with the RAW of India, goes smoothly. Unknown to her and her family, Roja’s sister is in love with the son of her paternal aunt.
Sigaram
Sigaram (1991)
, 2h20
Actors 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.
Azhagan
Azhagan (1991)

Directed by Kailasam Balachander
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Mammootty, Bhanupriya, Geetha, Madhoobala Shah, Babloo Prithiveeraj, Babloo Prithiveeraj

Azhagappan (Mammootty) a successful hotelier and father of four small children has lost his wife (whose face is not shown in the photo) in an accident. College student Swapna (Madhoo) play pranks on him and also falls in love with him but Azhagappan refuses her love considering the age difference between him. Though illiterate Azhagappan studies in a tutorial centre where his teacher Kanmani (Geetha) is smitten by him but Azhagappan is not interested in her. Classical dancer Priya Ranjan (Bhanupriya) and Azhagappan though fall in love. After egos and differences crop up between them, Driver Santhanam blurts out the truth that the four children are the orphans adopted by him. In the end, Swapna understands the situation and would love to call him as "Daddy". With the help of Kanmani and Swapna, four children devises a plan and plays a mediator between Azhagan and Priya by making them speak on the phone. In the end, both reveal their love through the phone and get united in the end.
Oru Veedu Iru Vaasal
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
Unnai Solli Kutramillai (1990)
, 2h25
Genres 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.
Pudhu Pudhu Arthangal
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.