Mani Ratnam

A plot to murder the king and the two princes of the Chola dynasty is underfoot. Can the Cholas survive the wrath of the Pandiya rebels, who are being led by the vengeful Nandhini?

A secret of turning flesh into glass breaks down _____'s reality when she trips in the BBQ Salon, busting rusting immortal goop onto the faces of herself, Movie Star, and Character Name. Blasts party murder of self inflicting wads of death are in the agenda after a green amulet confusion, forever, until the wood chipper reveals the dusty trick. But who are these men with Gartan Galtar and why do they dance so preciously?

Vandiyathevan, a brave and brilliant young man sets out to cross the Chola land to deliver a message from the Crown Prince Adithya Karikalan. The narrative deals with attempts by his sister Kundavai to bring back Arulmozhivarman to establish political peace in a land seemingly beset with unrest and civil war plotted by vassals and petty chieftains.

Set and filmed during the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic, Putham Pudhu Kaalai brings to you an anthology of 5 stories on love, new beginnings, second chances and hope, made by Tamil cinema`s finest directors.

Vaanam Kottattum is a story based on the lives of real characters from Theni, a hillock town situated in Tamil Nadu India as seen through the eyes of the director who has compiled it through recollection from his years of growing up in the town.

Senapathi`s sons have always desired the power and success their father has enjoyed. So, when a coveted spot in the family business - that of city`s most influential gangster - is up for grabs, the three brothers are lured into a collision course. Blood ties will unravel as a bloody battle for power begins.

Bhupathi Reddy's sons have always desired the power and success their father has enjoyed. So, when a coveted spot in the family business - that of city's most influential gangster - is up for grabs, the three brothers are lured into a collision course. Blood ties will unravel as a bloody battle for power begins.

A doctor separates from her lover, a fighter jet pilot, as he is casual about the relationship, but he comes looking for her after years, when he finds out he has a daughter with her, and accepts their responsibility.

Adi and Tara, after a series of dates, decide to live together. Soon, they fall deeply in love with each other, but their respective career choices threaten to pull them apart.

OK Kanmani is a campus love story laced with comedy and marks Mani Ratnam`s return to the romance genre after a decade. Nithya plays an architect and renowned Indian architect BV Doshi plays her professor in the film.

OK Bangaram is a campus love story laced with comedy and marks Mani Ratnam`s return to the romance genre after a decade. Nithya plays an architect and renowned Indian architect BV Doshi plays her professor in the film.

Raavan is not a story, it is a world. Dev (Vikram) falls in love with Ragini (Aishwarya Rai), a spunky classical dancer who is as unconventional as him. They get married and he takes up his new post in Lal Maati, a small town in northern India. A town where the word of law is not the police but Beera (Abhishek Bachchan), a tribal who has, over the years, shifted the power equation of the place from the ruling to the have-nots of the area. Dev knows that the key to bringing order to any place is to vanquish the big fish; in this case - Beera. In one stroke Dev manages to rip open Beera`s word, and set in motion a chain of events which will claim lives, change fortunes.

Dev (Prithviraj Sukumaran) falls in love with Ragini (Aishwarya Rai), a spunky classical dancer who is as unconventional as him. They get married and he takes up his new post in Lal Maati, a small town where the word of law is not the police but Veeraiya (Vikram), a tribal who has shifted the power equation of the place.

A little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her real mother, she begs to be taken to Sri Lanka, where her mother works with a militant group of activists. Dhileepan and Shyama are Tamil-speaking residents of Mankulam, Sri Lanka, who get married with the blessings of their respective families. After the marriage, Shyama confides that she would like to be a mother of eight children, but she is stunned when her husband tells her that he cannot father any children until there is peace between the mainstream and the Tamils in this country. Nevertheless, they do get intimate, which results in Shyama getting pregnant. Dhileepan goes into hiding because of his connections with the Tamil Tigers, while Shyama returns to her father's house. A storm threatens their village, and they are forced to flee to a Refugee Camp in Rameswaram, India. Alone, without any support, Shyama gives birth to a girl, leaves her, and returns to Sri Lanka to be with her husband. The child gets noticed by noted Tamil author Thiruchelvan, who lives with his sister, her husband, and their son and writes books under the pen-name of Indra, who is actually an attractive TV newswoman who lives next door. When he comes forward to adopt her, he is initially refused, as he must be married in order to adopt any child. He accordingly gets married to Indra, and they adopt the child and name her Amudha. Subsequently, they become parents of two sons, Vinayan and Akhilan. After Amudha completes her ninth year, she is told that she has been adopted, which compels her to start searching for her biological mother. Amudha initially runs aways to Rameswaram, but she is unable to locate her and continues to be distraught until Thiruchelvan promises to take her to Mankulam. They do come across a woman named Shyama, but she denies having any children, and it is then that they find out that there is another Mankulam in the north of Sri Lanka. They travel there, among almost war-like conditions, and it is here that Thiruchelvan and his guide, Dr. Herold Vikramsinghe, will be abducted by Tamil Tigers, who, in turn, will arrange for a meeting with Shyama. Watch what happens when Amudha finally gets to meet her birth mother--who may outrightly disown her or induct her as one of the many child warriors among the Tamil Tigers. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Prabhu(Prasanna), Ilango(Krishna), Sundar(Karthik), Priya and Indra are the best of friends at college, swearing to never lose touch with one another later in life. They manage to get jobs in the same company but Ilango, was whisked away to his village by his dictatorial father(Vijayan) and forced into marriage with Eeswari(Kanika). He then runs away while the friends assume that he is in Bombay with his new wife. A few years later the remaining four are still friends, working in the same company and even living in one house. Prabhu meets Eeswari on the train and without knowing that she is Ilango's wife, falls in love with her. When the truth comes out she becomes good friends with the gang while they promise to find Ilango and reunite them. —venkat

Adityan and Ganga, who do not wish to marry for their respective reasons, try every trick to stop the wedding. All fails, but the wedding is cancelled for another reason. Then, they meet in the city. The story revolves around an unhappy groom and bride forced into a wedding. The groom backs away because he is reluctant to give up his life of wine and women in the city while the bride is unwilling because she wants to pursue an Engineering degree. The two draw up a few plans to stop the wedding, but they fizzle out. Just when they begin to think that their getting together may not be too bad an idea after all, a real fight stops the wedding; how they reunite forms the crux of the plot. —Anonymous

After a difficult romance in a class-divided society, the love birds find out marriage is not what they thought it would be. Karthik (Madhavan) is frantic after the disappearance of his wife Shakti (Shalini). Told in flashbacks, the film traces their brief marriage as the couple's dreamy romance runs through the usual gamut of highs and lows. —Joyojeet Pal Karthik (Madhavan) is bright young engineering graduate. He meets Shakti (Shalini) at a wedding function. She is a medical student who scorns love and romance as trivial diversions. He is immediately attracted to her, but she spurns him. Karthik is relentless and she is driven to admit that yes, she is attracted to him too. All seems set for a big wedding, but their two families meet, fight and totally disapprove of their union. The couple, after a failed attempt to avoid each other, decide to break all rules, move into a dilapidated apartment and start an at-first-blissful married life. What follows are the difficulties of marriage, the misunderstandings, discontentment and consequent fissures that develop in the relationship, causing friction. Karthik is busy and pre-occupied; Shakti begins to feel that he doesn't love her any more and suspects him of having an affair. They fight frequently. Then Shakti disappears. Has she left Karthik because the marriage has become so painful? Will he go in search of her? What will he find? How will their love story progress? —Santhosh

Amarkanth Varma, an All India Radio presenter, meets a mysterious woman, Megha, and is immediately drawn to her. When he approaches her, she turns him down, but she soon returns to his life. However, Amar is unaware of her ulterior motives.

Iruvar depicts the real-life rivalry between the yesteryear, iconic actor and politician, M.G.R and the veteran politician Karunanidhi.

The story starts with Raghu, a passport-issuing officer, and his wife Shanthi, who live in Chennai. Raghu, being an honest man, tells Shanthi that he cheated on her with a coworker when he was in Goa. She immediately leaves for her mother's house. Raghu, being a transformed gentleman, tries to stop her by apologizing, but in vain. Raghu's brother Vijay, being a good and supportive brother, and Shanthi's brother Suriya, being a non-emotive but supporting brother, meet in a cinema theatre. Vijay blames Shanthi being the cause of the problem, and Suriya blames Raghu for the same. They keep on fighting at every chance. Meanwhile, both Vijay and Suriya find their own lovers in Akhila and Asha respectively and fall in love. One day, Raghu finds a bundle of cash on his table and meets Muthukumaraswamy, the person who kept the money there. Raghu finds out that Muthukumaraswamy is a businessman who is wanted by the police for the crime of forex fraud. Muthukumaraswamy wants to leave the country to escape from the police, and he needs a fake passport to flee the country; otherwise, the police will catch him. Since his passport is confiscated by the police, he tells Raghu to get one for him, but Raghu, being a sincere officer, disagrees and calls the police instead. Muthukumaraswamy gets angry and promises to take revenge on Raghu. Meanwhile, Raghu and Shanthi apply for a divorce according to the Hindu Law of Divorce. Child custody of their daughter Sona, who was in Shanthi's sister's house when the breakup occurred, is given to the mother by the court. One day, Suriya takes Sona to a festival fair and somehow loses her. In the confusion that follows, Sona falls from a Ferris wheel and is taken to the hospital by Vijay. She is brought to Raghu's house once she recovers. Soon, Vijay discovers that Sona has lost her hearing in the accident. Some days later, Suriya finds that Sona is missing. Suriya finds Vijay, and the two get into a huge fight. Then, Raghu tells everyone that Sona is in his sister's house. Since Sona's custody is given to the mother, this action of Raghu's is wrong in the eyes of the law. Shanthi and Suriya, accompanied by a lawyer, come to Raghu's house to get Sona back. At that time, Raghu suffers a serious asthma attack while in the bathroom, and everyone saves him. After recovering, Raghu tells everyone that Sona is not in his sister's house but has been kidnapped by Muthukumaraswamy, who is out on bail. In a turn of events, Raghu issues a fake passport to Muthukumaraswamy, but Raghu does not want him to escape from the police. The two heroes join hands to make sure that this does not happen. Sona is with Muthukumaraswamy's wife and brother-in-law Kachiram in a van. Vijay and Suriya both search for Sona and then find out that she is in a van. Sona, after seeing both Vijay and Suriya on a bike, throws her family photo from the van. Meanwhile, the van reaches the safe place, and Kachiram calls Muthukumaraswamy to share the news of their arrival. They both decide to insert a bomb in Sona's hearing device. Muthukumaraswamy's wife then decides to save the child. Her brother Kachiram fights her and puts her in the van and activates the bomb which will explode in 10 mins. Then, Vijay and Suriya catch the van, and a fight between Kachiram and Vijay ensues. Meanwhile, Suriya takes Sona home along with her hearing device which still has the bomb. In the middle of the fight, Kachiram drives away in a car. Muthukumaraswamy's wife shouts to Vijay to save Sona by telling him about the bomb. At the airport, Kanthaswamy, the Chennai Deputy Commissioner of Police, arrests Muthukumaraswamy. As Suriya reaches home, Vijay follows them. Once Vijay reaches home, he throws away Sona's hearing device before the bomb goes off. The film ends with Vijay and Suriya becoming best friends again after a long time and reconciling with their lady loves, and Raghu and Shanthi also embrace each other with Sona.

A Hindu man and a Muslim woman fall in love with each other but are forced to elope when their families oppose their relationship owing to their difference in religion.

A young woman's brother-in-law is infatuated with her and pulls out all the stops to destroy her love affair with another young man.

An Inspector is assigned to track down a large sum of stolen money. His investigations lead him to a couple of small time crooks, a village belle, a murder, an absconding suspect, and an international drug dealer. Fresh printed bank notes to the value of incredible 10 billion rupies are stolen in India from a train by the henchmen of super-gangster Vikram living in London. The code card only being able to open the container with the money comes into the possession of beautiful Chandralekha. On the way to Vikram she comes across the two thieves Kadir and Azhagu who are on the run from the police - having in tow country-girl Rajathi whom they kept from committing suicide and who then ran away from her ruthless uncle. After some attempts of cheating each other Chandralekha is making friends with the thieves. When she discovers that Vikram is stopping at nothing - especially not at dead bodies - on his hunt after the loot, she informs the three others about the real value of the code card. In the following pursuit between Vikram, the four heroes and a special police brigade which has to get back the money before a state crisis comes about, not only fierce action, but also love comes to its own. —hthiess Portly CBI Inspector Laxminarayan is assigned to track down 1000 Crore Rupees worth of stolen currency from the Government Security Press in Nasik. His assignment will lead him to Ashok Tejani, and then to two burglars in Tamil Nadu, Shankar and Anand, who are on the run from the Police along with a suicidal village belle, Kajri. Laxminarayan's efforts will be frustrated even more after Ashok is killed and his gun-toting Goa-based girlfriend, Chandralekha, is absconding; and the entry of an international drug dealer, simply known as Vikram, who will stop at nothing to get his hands on the loot. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

A newlywed girl fights for her husband`s life after he is held captive by a group of militants in Kashmir.

Surya is abandoned by his mother and is brought up by a kind lady. Surya grows up to be an aggressive man, as a result of which a local don Devarajan invites him to join his gang. Surya works with Deva as his ``Thalapathi`` (commander). But events turn around, and he ends up losing all he values and gaining things he din`t really valued.

Prakash, a terminally ill patient, meets Geethanjali who is enthusiastic and full of life. The two fall in love, but a dark secret lingers behind the girl`s happiness.

The powerful crime-drama Nayagan tells the tragic story of Velu Naicker (Kamal Haasan), inspired by underworld don Varadarajan Mudaliar. Disillusioned after witnessing his father's murder by police, Velu rises as a feared yet respected underworld figure and a protector for Tamil immigrants in the Bombay slums. Though he brings his people justice and dignity, his violent path costs him his family, who reject the man he has become. Torn between duty and love, Velu's life becomes a reflection of power, sacrifice, and the ultimate realization that justice and love rarely coexist peacefully.

Divya, a woman grieving over the death of her lover, is convinced into an arranged marriage with Chandra Kumar. Over a year the couple attempt to adjust to each other's presence and live with each other. Revathi is forced to marry Mohan in an arranged marriage. She lives in the memory of her lost love Karthik and asks for a divorce. The law requires them to stay together for a year before granting the divorce. That gives time for a lot of incidents in their lives and things change. —Edward <ed_stal@hotmail.com>