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Balaji Venugopal is a Actor Indian
Balaji Venugopal is an Indian actor, who has worked in Tamil films. Beginning his career as a radio host, Balaji appeared in bit roles in films including Madrasapattinam (2010) and Nanban (2012), before playing a leading role in the noir comedy Sutta Kadhai (2013).
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Thottal Thodarum (2015)
Genres Thriller, Romance
Actors Thaman Kumar, Arundhati, Vincent Asokan, Balaji Venugopal
Rating49%
Idhu Enna Maayam (2015)
Directed by A. L. Vijay
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Vikram Prabhu, Keerthy Suresh, Kavya Shetty, Navdeep, Nassar, Ambika
Roles Bharath
Rating55%
Arun (Vikram Prabhu) is a struggling theatre artiste. With the help of his friends, who are also struggling theatre artistes, he starts a website called UMT which helps men struggling in love to successfully unite with the woman of their dreams with the help of theaterics. One day, UMT gets a rich client in the form of Santhosh (Navdeep), the owner of a real estate company. Santhosh is in love with a singer Maya (Keerthy Suresh) and offers ₹1,00,00,000 if Arun and his friends can help him in winning Maya's heart. Arun has second thoughts over the offer because Maya is his ex-girlfriend. They had broken up due to a serious misunderstanding between them. Though he still has feelings for Maya, he reluctantly agrees to help Santhosh. However, he foils all the plans to bring Santhosh and Maya together. A frustrated Santhosh then directly proposes to Maya, but she rejects him as she has still not forgotten Arun.
Naaigal Jaakirathai (2014)
, 1h54Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs
Actors Sibiraj, Manobala, Arundhati, Balaji Venugopal, RJ Balaji, Mayilsamy
Roles Anbu Das
Rating62%
A gang has kidnapped a girl and several police officers, including Karthik (Sibiraj), attempt to rescue her. During a shootout, one man from the gang and a police officer, a good friend of Karthik, are killed, while Karthik himself gets injured. He is put out of action and also suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder.
Aadama Jaichomada (2014)
, 2h13Genres Comedy
Actors Karunakaran, Bobby Simha, Vijayalakshmi (Tamil actress), Balaji Venugopal, K.S.Ravikumar, Radha Ravi
Roles Dhayalan
Rating54%
Sutta Kadhai (2013)
Genres Comedy
Actors Nassar, M. S. Bhaskar, Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli, Balaji Venugopal, Venkatesh Harinathan, Lakshmy Ramakrishnan
Roles Ramki
Rating54%
Settai (2013)
, 2h16Directed by R. Kannan
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Arya, Hansika Motwani, Anjali, Santhanam, Premgi Amaren, Nassar
Roles Neelakantan
Rating46%
The story revolves around three roommates, journalist J K Boss(Arya), photographer Nagaraj(Santhanam) and Cheenu (Premji) leading an unkempt and debt-ridden life in a shoddy apartment. J K's ditsy fiancée, Madhumita, is an air hostess who agrees to deliver a package for Vladimir Dragunsky (Kim Bodnia) to Nassar, without realizing its contents or that Nassar is a gangster. Madhumita asks J K to deliver the package. JK, in turn, asks Nagaraj to do so. But Nagaraj is unable to do so as he is experiencing 'Chennai Belly'. Nagaraj hands Madhumita's package to Cheenu for delivery to Nassar, along with a package containing his stool sample for delivery to Nagaraj's doctor. Cheenu mixes up the two packages which makes Nassar furious and he starts the investigation by interrogating Vladimir.
Endrendrum Punnagai (2013)
, 2h32Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Jiiva, R. Madhavan, Vinay Rai, Trisha Krishnan, Santhanam, Sameera Reddy
Rating66%
The movie starts with Gautham (Jiiva) as a kid, being told that women are all bad and are very selfish by his father (Nasser) because his wife had eloped on that day. They then move to Chennai, where Gautham meets Baby (Santhanam) and Sri (Vinay Rai). The trio become inseparable friends. Fifteen years later, it is shown that the trio are running an advertisement agency and Gautham has stopped speaking to his father, the reason being untold. After a heated incident at a friend's bachelor party, the three friends promise to never get married. They get an advertising offer from Sunny (T.M Karthik) and Sunny sends Priya (Trisha Krishnan) to assist them with their ad. Sonia, (Andrea Jeremiah) an international model is assigned to act for the ad. On the day of shoot Sonia falls in love with Gautham and when the ad is finished, she kisses him. Gautham, startled and enraged, retaliates by slapping her. Sunny scolds Guatham for his behaviour and tells Gautham that he will never work with him again, but Priya supports Gautham telling Sunny that it was Sonia's fault for behaving unprofessionally. After the shoot Gautham calls up Priya and thanks her for supporting him. While speaking to Gautham, Priya meets with an accident. He rushes her to the hospital where Priya recovers the next day. After a few days, Baby and Sri decide to get married not telling the reason for their sudden change of heart.When gautham gets to know about it he gets furious and ends their friendship.On the same day of the marriage Gautham's father tells Priya that he had got married second time many years before for the sake of his son and that is the reason for Gautham's anger towards him.He requests priya to take care of gautham. Gautham and Priya get another contract with Sunny and Sonia and they leave for Switzerland for the shooting. On the day of shooting Sonia recalls everything Gautham had done and asks him to apologize for his act. He refuses to apologize because he knows it's not his fault and tells Sonia to leave, Priya then takes the role of Sonia and acts for the advertisement. During the shooting Priya and Gautham fall in love . When they come back from Switzerland, Gautham meets his friend in whom bachelor party he promised never to be in a commitment in the airport, because of his ego he introduces Priya as just a stranger whom he met in the flight. Hurt by Gautham's cheap behaviour, she leaves the airport immediately. When Gautham gets back home he goes into his father's room for the first time and notices many paintings of him being happy,a wish his father wanted. Gautham then discovers that his father was ill and rushes him to the hospital, where the doctors say that his father is suffering from pancreatic cancer and cannot be treated. Gautham is heartbroken and starts weeping. Sri comes to meet Gautham and tells him that he knew that his father was suffering from this disease, Baby then comes and tells that his father was the one who compelled them to get married so that Gautham might change his mind and get married too and be happy. As the three friends reconcile, Priya comes to the hospital to meet Gautham's father, where Gautham apologizes and admits to Priya that he has fallen for her. The film ends a happy ending Gautham and Priya getting engaged in front of Gautham's dad at the hospital.
Directed by Balaji Mohan
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Siddharth, Amala Paul, Suresh, Ravi Raghavendra, Surekha Vani, Sriranjini
Roles Ramakrishnan
Rating70%
Arun (Siddharth) and Parvathi (Amala Paul) give an interview about their love story. But they fight even before the interview gets over. Then the movie rewinds 5 months earlier. Arun meets Parvathi in a college canteen. Soon they become friends. Parvathi's mother, Saroja breaks up with her husband Akilan. Parvathi lives with her mother. As time progresses, they break up but the reason is not revealed. Arun's friend Vignesh tries to propose his junior Rashmi. But Rashmi addresses Vignesh as brother and she introduce her lover who is Vignesh's senior. Arun tries to recover from the break-up. Arun's friend calls him to a trip to Pondicherry to see his friend John.John's girlfriend Cathy starts friendly chat with Arun. Cathy wishes to help Arun and asks him why they broke up. Arun says that he doesn't have any reason and that is his problem. Since Cathy becomes friendly with Arun, Misunderstanding crops up between Cathy and John. Meanwhile Akilan approaches Prabhu for divorce. Prabhu who is Arun's father advice Akilan to reunite with Saroja after knowing that Akilan is Parvathi's Father. Akilan and Saroja unite in Parvathi's grandparents 80th marriage. Consequently, John realise that Arun and Cathy are just being friendly and he reunites with cathy. While Rashmi realise that her lover (vignesh's senior) is a playboy, she realises this and tells this to Vignesh and accepts his true love. At last, Parvathi and Arun reunite after a silly quarrel in the same canteen that they met earlier.
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Aari, Shubha Phutela, Subbu Panchu, Sathish, Balaji Venugopal, Karunakaran
Roles Satish
Rating73%
Nanban (2012)
, 3h9Directed by S. Shankar
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Themes Films about education, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Buddy films
Actors Vijay, Jiiva, Srikanth, Ileana D'Cruz, Sathyan, Sathyaraj
Roles ragging senior
Rating77%
Venkat Ramakrishnan (Srikanth), Sevarkodi Senthil (Jiiva) and Panchavan Parivendan aka Pari (Vijay) are three first year engineering students who share a room in the hostel of Ideal Engineering College (IEC), Chennai. Venkat studies engineering to pursue his father's wishes over his own wish – to become a wildlife photographer, while Senthil studies engineering to get his family out of poverty. Pari, on the other hand, studies engineering for his simple passion for machines and devices. He believes that one should follow excellence, not success, as success will take care of itself if excellence is followed. However, this approach to studies is sneered upon by the dean of the college, Professor Virumandi "Virus" Santhanam (Sathyaraj). Virus and the faculty favour Pari's classmate, an NRI student Srivatsan aka "Silencer" (Sathyan), who believes in mindless rote learning over understanding to reach his goals of corporate status. Pari constantly spars with Virus and Silencer due to their differences in their educational approaches.
Madrasapattinam (2010)
, 2h45Directed by A. L. Vijay
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Arya, Amy Jackson, Nassar, Alexx O'Nell, Cochin Haneefa, Lisa Lazarus
Roles Veerasekhara Murali
Rating78%
An elderly English woman Amy Wilkinson (Carole Trangmar-Palmer), almost at her deathbed in London, wants to come down to Madras in search of a young man Ilam Parithi (Arya) whom she last saw on 15 August 1947 to return a thali (traditional wedding threads) of his mother, which he gave her as a sign of stating that she belongs to India and nobody can separate them. However, after a turn of events, she had married another man from her hometown and thus felt that the thali was no longer her property.
Poi Solla Porom (2008)
Directed by A. L. Vijay
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Karthik Kumar, Piaa Bajpai, Nassar, Nedumudi Venu, Lakshmy Ramakrishnan, Cochin Haneefa
Roles Stage Director
Rating65%
Sathyanathan (Nedumudi Venu) is a typical middle class man who has just retired. He wants to buy a plot of land in the city and move in with his wife and children - Uppilinathan(Karthik Kumar), Vishwanathan and Sindhu. But his son Uppilinathan - who is a software engineer - has no interest in the house and is keen to leave India for New York, where he has obtained a job. Sathyanathan buys the plot from "World Famous Properties" which is managed by Vijayakumar(Cochin Hanifa). When he goes to break stone to build his house, he finds a compound wall erected over his plot with the nameplate saying "Baby Properties". After numerous attempts to meet him, Sathyanathan finally meets Baby who wants him to pay half the amount paid for the plot to be paid to Baby in order to vacate the plot. The Sathyanathans try to think of solutions and finally resort to hiring thugs to break the compound at night. Sathyanathan is arrested the next morning. Through all this, Uppilinathan's attitude towards his father's problem changes when he sees how attached he is to the property. Uppili meets a travel agent Asifbhai (bosskey) who was baby's assistant and cheated by him . Uppili with help of his girlfriend convince Daddy (mouli), who is a stage actor and got 136 awards, to act as Varma, an NRI businessman from Dubai who has to India to sell a plot which actually belongs to fisheries board of govt. At last the fishery land is given to Baby and the family get their land.The film ends with family of Sathyanathan living happily ever after. Baby's assistant Johnny reveals there is no man in the name of Varma. Baby acknowledges that he has been cheated and decides cover it up to preserve his reputation.