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A. M. Rathnam is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Indian

A. M. Rathnam

A. M. Rathnam
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Nationality Inde
Awards Filmfare Awards South

A. M. Rathnam (Telugu: ఎ. ఎం. రత్నం) is an Indian film producer from Andhra Pradesh, who predominantly works in Telugu and Tamil Cinema.

Under the gamut of Sri Surya Movies Entertainment, Hyderabad, a movie production house owned by him, he has produced blockbusters in Telugu such as Karthavyam (1991), Peddarikam (1992) and Sneham Kosam (1999).

He ventured into Tamil cinema in 1996 with the blockbuster, Indian, which was India's Official Entry for the Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards. He then produced films like Kushi, Run, Boys, Enakku 20 Unakku 18, Dhool, Ghilli and 7G Rainbow Colony.

Usually with

S. Shankar
S. Shankar
(5 films)
Vidyasagar
Vidyasagar
(8 films)
Nassar
Nassar
(8 films)
Sujatha
Sujatha
(9 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of A. M. Rathnam (35 films)

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Director

Sankalpam
Sankalpam (1995)
, 2h18
Directed by A. M. Rathnam
Actors Jagapati Babu, Gautami, Prakash Raj, Jayasudha Kapoor, Kaikala Satyanarayana, Gummadi Venkateswara Rao

The entire story is based around the construction of the Annapurna Biscuit Factory by the young & energetic guy Krishna Murthy (Jagapathi Babu) inspired by his willpower and determination.

Scriptwriter

Jeans
Jeans (1998)

Directed by S. Shankar
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Jumeaux ou jumelles
Actors Prashanth, Aishwarya Rai, Nassar, Raadhika Sarathkumar, Lakshmi Narayan, Raju Sundaram
Roles Lyricist
Rating63% 3.1993353.1993353.1993353.1993353.199335
Nachiappan (Nassar) is a restaurateur in Los Angeles, USA. His twin sons Vishwanathan (Visu) and Ramamoorthy (Ramu) (both played by Prashanth), are medical students, who help him out in the evenings and alongside with the restaurant's chief cook, Juno (Senthil) who enjoys on weekends.One evening, Vishwanathan goes to the airport to check on the family's supply concession and sees that some fellow Indians – Madhumitha (Aishwarya Rai), her brother Madhesh (Raju Sundaram) and their grandmother Krishnaveny (Lakshmi) – have difficulty with an address. He pitches in to help and learns that they just flew in from India so that Krishnaveny can undergo a crucial surgery to remove her brain tumour.

Producer

Yennai Arindhaal
Directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Romance
Actors Ajith Kumar, Anushka Shetty, Trisha Krishnan, Arun Vijay, Vivek, Parvathy Nair
Roles Producer
Rating72% 3.648113.648113.648113.648113.64811
The film begins when Thenmozhi (Anushka Shetty) is in Boston where she comes to meet her niece. In the airport, she gets a free upgrade and sits next to Sathyadev (Ajith Kumar). During the flight, she starts vomiting due to overeating and with Satya's help she feels better. The next day, a criminal named Victor (Arun Vijay) comes to a coffee shop to abduct Thenmozhi, but fails due to Sathya subduing him.
Vedalam
Vedalam (2015)
, 2h28
Directed by Siva
Origin Inde
Genres Action
Actors Ajith Kumar, Shruti Haasan, Lakshmi Menon, Ashwin Kakumanu, Soori, Thambi Ramaiah
Roles Producer
Rating62% 3.1487753.1487753.1487753.1487753.148775
Arrambam
Arrambam (2013)
, 2h38
Directed by Vishnuvardhan
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Ajith Kumar, Arya, Suman Ranganathan, Nayantara, Taapsee Pannu, Jai
Roles Producer
Rating69% 3.498163.498163.498163.498163.49816
The film starts with Ashok setting bombs in three places and informing the police about them. Before the police arrive, the bombs are set off. He along with his lady love Maya (Nayanthara), both threaten her old collegemate hacker Arjun (Arya) who starts hacking one system after the other. Ashok then threatens Sridhar Raghavan (Aadukalam Naren) by trying to kill his baby so that he can extract the truth about black money, Ashok murders him in a fit of rage. Arjun, who is particularly irritated by the things happening around him, complains about the misdeeds of Ashok to inspector Prakash (Kishore). When Ashok gets closer to achieving his goals, he gets arrested by the police.
Gaalipata
Gaalipata (2008)
, 2h26
Directed by Yogaraj Bhat
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Daisy Bopanna, Ganesh, Anant Nag, Diganth Manchale, Rajesh Krishnan, Neethu Shetty
Roles Producer
Rating82% 4.1377154.1377154.1377154.1377154.137715
Three childhood friends — Ganesh (Ganesh), an MBA graduate; Diganth (Diganth), a medical student and Kitty (Rajesh Krishnan), an engineer; are caught by cops drunk driving on a night in Bangalore. They use Ganesh's father (Rangayana Raghu), a legislator's influence to get away. The latter visits the next day to enquire and on learning Ganesh's ways, leaves furiously. To cheer up Kitty who went through a breakup with girlfriend and to free themselves, the three arrive at the house of Diganth's grandfather in Mugilpete.
Bheema
Bheema (2008)
, 2h47
Directed by N. Linguswamy
Genres Action
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Vikram, Trisha Krishnan, Prakash Raj, Raghuvaran, Ashish Vidyarthi, Lakshmi Gopalaswamy
Roles Producer
Rating57% 2.852182.852182.852182.852182.85218
The story follows a tug of war between two underworld gangs trying to outsmart each other. Chinna’s (Prakash Raj) gang, the smaller of the two, struggles to overtake Periyavar’s (Raghuvaran) gang until a man named Sekar (Vikram) gives Chinna’s gang new life. Sekar is a man of steel, physically and mentally, who had idolised Chinna in his childhood; he is similar to the character Bhima from the ancient Hindu epic Mahabharata. Sekar challenges Periyavar’s group and puts Chinna on top.
Viyabari
Viyabari (2007)

Genres Science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films
Actors S. J. Surya, Tamannaah Bhatia, Prakash Raj, Namitha, Malavika, Vadivelu
Roles Producer
Rating37% 1.895451.895451.895451.895451.89545
Suryaprakash (S. J. Suryah) is a business man who wants to become richer than Bill Gates and in the process, he loses out on family and social life. So he tells a scientist (Nasser) to make a clone of him so that he can keep concentrating on business and the clone can take his place at home. Tamanna is college girl named Savitri who does a research project on Suryaprakash and begins to love him. Suryaprakash is not interested in Savitri but, he marries her to make use of her cooking talent in order to widen his business. Suryaprakash after singing and dancing with both models Namitha and Malavika and humiliating his brother-in-law Vadivelu, finally understand the value of family after his mother (Seetha) dies.
Bangaram
Bangaram (2006)
, 2h58
Directed by Dharani
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Pawan Kalyan, Meera Chopra, Reema Sen, Meera Jasmine, Ashutosh Rana, Sanusha
Roles Producer
Rating45% 2.2611552.2611552.2611552.2611552.261155
Bangaram(pavan kalyan) is a reporter at a news channel. He dreams of getting into an international news channel of BBC. To fulfill his own dream he ends up at Peddi Reddy (Mukesh Rishi) who is a factionist. He needs Peddi's signature to get his dream fulfilled but in the meanwhile he gets entangled with Peddi"s daughter Sandhya(Meera chopra)and Vindhya(Sanusha). Later Bhooma Reddy(Ashutosh Rana) wins over Peddi's heart and is able to convince him to marry Sandhya to him. But Sandhya has already got her own love story with Vinay(Raja).
Kedi
Kedi (2006)

Directed by Jyothi Krishna
Genres Romance
Actors Ravi Krishna, Ileana D'Cruz, Tamannaah Bhatia, Suman Setty, Atul Kulkarni, Adithya Menon
Roles Producer
Rating37% 1.862681.862681.862681.862681.86268
Raghu (Ravi Krishna) is a happy-go-lucky youngster, who is not serious about his studies or life. He has a great time in college playing pranks with fellow students. His dad (M.S.Baskar) dotes on him and so does his close friends (Suman Shetty & gang). A new girl Priyanka (Tamannaah) joins his class and she is the sister of Pukazhenthi (Atul Kulkarni) a powerful gangster turned Minister. Priyanka is born with the silver spoon and the college gets a face lift as her class room is fitted with air conditioner and the canteen gets a hip look.
Sivakaasi
Sivakaasi (2005)
, 3h
Directed by Perarasu
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Vijay, Asin Thottumkal, Prakash Raj, Geetha, Saranya, Venkat Prabhu
Roles Producer
Rating58% 2.9006352.9006352.9006352.9006352.900635
Sivakasi alias Muthappa (Vijay) is a do-gooder in Chennai who works as a welder there. He enjoys life with his friends and forgets the past he left behind. He falls in love with a rich girl Hema (Asin) and her family accepts him as an honest and good man at heart. One day, he lashes out at his lover's brothers and Hema yells at him. Sivakasi gives her one slap and tells her that he was not the way he currently is. He tells her about his past.
Ponniyin Selvan
Directed by Radha Mohan
Genres Drama
Actors Ravi Krishna, Prakash Raj, Gopika, Revathi, Sanjeeda Sheikh, Devadarshini
Roles Producer
Rating49% 2.480572.480572.480572.480572.48057
It is a story of a man named Venu who is very insecure of not being handsome. He has a scar from when his was a kid on his cheek. Nobody in the world uses his scar as a problem, he is left all alone. One day a friend suggests to get a surgery for his scar. His friend from his workplace tells him to get a part-time job.The next day he applies for a part-time job where she works at the pizza store. He works in the pizza store under a mickey mouse mask. There he loves a girl named Priya. Priya doesn't know how he look like. An incident happens where Priya sees him out at shopping plaza and she gets scared at the vase broke. At work he reveals his true face and he quits the job. He goes on with a new job as a garbage truck cleaner. He has no sleep due to lack of sleep. One day Priya comes to visit him seeks to forgive him. His sister and mother though of getting him married, but he didn't want to because of the lack of his handsome. That day he was very furious and got into many fights such as the neighbor will call him to feed her child. That very day his mother was in the hospital, she needed an operation. His mother said don't spend the money for his surgery for her. But she still took out the money for her surgery, but the mother died so soon. With the money now he decides to give it to his sister for an auto. In the end he decides to love Kani who is his neighbor.
7G Rainbow Colony, 3h5
Directed by Selvaraghavan
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Ravi Krishna, Sonia Agarwal, Suman Setty, Vijayan, Chandra Mohan, Aachi Manorama
Roles Producer
Rating78% 3.942813.942813.942813.942813.94281
Kadhir (Ravi Krishna) belongs to a lower middle class family, living with his parents and younger sister in Rainbow Colony. He is perceived as a good for nothing person as he skips classes, fails in exams, and gets involved in fights. Kadhir believes that his father hates him and often quarrels with him, even threatening to leave the house, only to be persuaded not to do so by his mother.