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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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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.
Sindhu Bhairavi (1985)
, 2h39Directed by Kailasam Balachander
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Sivakumar, Suhasini Maniratnam, Sulakshana, Delhi Ganesh, Janagaraj, Pratap K. Pothen
J.K. Balaganapathy (Sivakumar), popularly known as JKB, is a gifted carnatic musician but his wife Bhairavi (Sulakshana), despite her love and loyalty, fails to satisfy or challenge him intellectually. For JKB, this, and her inability to have children, is a problem. Gajapathi (Janagaraj) works for JKB as a tambura musician, and he is a compulsive liar. The film starts with an introduction of all characters of the film followed by JKB going to a concert where he finds Gurumoorthy (Delhi Ganesh), who works for JKB as a Mridangam musician, drunk. He instructs Gurumoorthy to leave the premises and performs in the concert without the use of Mridangam which is considered a basic/compulsory instrument to perform a carnatic concert. When Gurumoorthy is asked to permanently leave the band, he promises not to drink again. While Bhairavi's grandfather is going to receive his pension, which he does on the first of every month, Gajapathi lies to him that his pension has been cancelled. The old man starts crying and JKB intervenes to confirm that his pension is not canceled and that he can go and collect it. JKB then scolds Gajapathi for it and tells him the old man could have died on hearing such a lies, as he is very particular about his pension. Following this, when JKB finds out that Gajapathi has lied to him too and others causing problems he asks him to promise to speak the truth.
Kalyana Agathigal (1985)
, 2h28Directed by Kailasam Balachander
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Saritha, Seema, Raveendran (Ravindher), Kuyili, Nassar, Nisha Noor
The movie begins with a group of six women who live together as friends after their attempt at living a successful married life is thwarted due to various reasons, majorly because of men, sexual abuse, dowry harassment and the backward society. They also form a music band called "kalyana agathigal" to raise funds for charity to the underprivileged.
Achamillai Achamillai (1984)
, 2h40Directed by Kailasam Balachander
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Delhi Ganesh, Rajesh, Saritha, Charle
Thenmozhi (Sarita), a worker in a textile factory, resides in a small village with her blind father, a former freedom fighter. She develops a mutual attraction to Ulaganathan (Rajesh), an idealist in the same village who is respected for his integrity and unselfishness. Upon the approval of Ulaganathan's father, they marry on 15 August, coinciding with India's Independence Day. The couple lead a happy life and work for the welfare of the village. With elections around the corner, two political parties try to garner support by enlisting Ulaganathan to their side. Initially reluctant, Ulaganathan joins one of the parties when it promises to provide him with a ministerial position.
Enakkul Oruvan (1984)
, 2h29Directed by SP. Muthuraman
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Films about families, Films about religion
Actors Kamal Haasan, Aachi Manorama, Shobana, Sathyaraj, Sripriya, V K Ramasamy
Madan (Kamal Haasan) is a dancer by profession who is a dream boy of all young girls. Kalpana (Shobana),a young woman, is irritated by Madan's fame and she badly criticizes his performances which attracts attention of Madan on her. He challenges that he would make her long for him and his love, but he falls in love with her. He tries to win her love in several ways but eventually fails. One night he gets into her house with a face mask which makes Kalpana to misunderstand that he is a thief and screams and alerts her home. Madan is trapped and handed over to the police. Madan, who is a son of pickle businessman Ooruga Ulaganathan (V. K. Ramaswamy) rescues him from Police custody and finds the reason for incident to be his love for Kalpana. Kalpana's father, who is a psychiatrist, finds that Madan is the son of his old friend Ulaganathan. Madan-Kalpana's marriage is approved and fixed then.
Naan Mahaan Alla (1984)
Directed by SP. Muthuraman
Actors Rajinikanth, Radha, Cho Ramaswamy, M. N. Nambiar, Sathyaraj, V K Ramasamy
Viswanath (Rajinikanth), a famous lawyer, stays with his widowed mother (Vijayakumari) and physically handicapped sister (Uma). He sends Jegan, a rich magnate's son (Sathyaraj) and Lokaiya, two criminals to jail on the charge of rape and murder of an innocent girl. Jagan’s father, GMK (M N Nambiar) uses his influence and starts creating trouble in Viswanath’s life. GMK succeeds in getting Viswanath imprisoned on a trumped up charge. His heartbroken mother dies. Once out of jail, Viswanath sets out to punish the culprits when he temporarily loses his eyesight…
Pudhiavan (1983)
, 2h27Actors Murali, Raveendran (Ravindher), N. Viswanathan, Delhi Ganesh, Rajeev, Charle
Agni Sakshi (1982)
Directed by Kailasam Balachander
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Sivakumar, Kamal Haasan, Saritha, Rajinikanth, Charuhasan, Seema