Nivetha Thomas

An eleven-year-old child who questions the fundamentals of mathematics gets his answers from life lessons taught by his school dropout mother.

A night watchman quits his 20-year job after learning his sister sold their family land. He journeys to the mountains to retrieve his loved one's buried ashes, confronting personal loss amid a changed landscape and unexpected encounters. César has been a night watchman at a chemical products factory for over twenty years. One afternoon, he receives a letter from his sister informing him that she has sold the family land in the mountains. César decides to leave his job and embark on a journey to that area, aiming to recover the urn with Elena's ashes buried there. As he walks, he confronts the grief he has kept buried for years. The landscape of his childhood is no longer the same: forest fires and the encroachment of private property have changed everything. Yet the encounters along the way open up a world he had refused to face after years of isolation in his work.

Vakeel Saab revolves around a criminal lawyer who helps three young women to fight a molestation case against a rich brat.

The superstar Rajinikanth plays the role of Aditya Arunachalam, an unconventional cop who likes to do things his way. Darbar is an action thriller that follows this `bad cop` as he solves a group of murders.

Rocky, Rambo and Rahul are three students who are thick as thieves but keep failing every year. Together, they decide to help a woman escape from her overbearing father by pretending to kidnap her - but things go wrong.

A guy falls for a girl's nature to provide for the needy, and the girl is impressed with his happy go lucky side, but the boy gives up on his love on receiving a cheque from the girl's father. The chase of the police after this boy, who keeps escaping from his money lenders, forms the crux of the story.

Triplets Jai, Lava and Kusa are spitting images of each other, but the similarities end there. While Kusa nurtures the dream of going to the US, Lava aspires to climb his way up the corporate ladder. Jai, on the other hand, has gone on to become a gangster dreaded by one and all. Will their vastly different personalities and aspirations put the brothers at odds with each other?

Pallavi and Uma are in love with each other but have to part ways under certain circumstances. As fate would have it, the two bump into each other after many years, however, Pallavi is now happily married to someone else.

Papasanam is the Tamil remake of the Malayalam blockbuster - Drishyam. The film is about the desperate measures taken by a man who tries to save his family from the dark side of the law, after they commit an unexpected crime.

Jilla is a much-awaited Pongal release which stars not one but two big stars - Mohanlal and Vijai. The two superstars have teamed up for this `masala entertainer` which takes place in Madurai. Vijai looks suave in an uber-cool avatar, whereas Mohanlal, clad in white commands respect. Their chemistry has been much-anticipated ever since it was first revealed that Mohanlal plays Vijai`s Godfather in the film.

The Malayalam film, directed by Akku Akbar, makes a poignant point- that housewives are not laborers. Jayaram plays the chauvinistic husband who expects his wife (Gopika) to do all household chores, without taking time off to visit her ailing mother or brother`s engagement. What happens when the wife reaches her breaking point is interesting to watch.

Ex-Special Forces operator Vijay lives what seems to be a quiet life on the beach, hiring himself out as a mercenary ``Kuruvi`` who moves goods, human or otherwise, from one place to another. Carrying out mysterious and sometimes dangerous tasks in his tricked-out BMW, Vijay adheres to a strict set of rules, which he never breaks. Vijay`s newest transport seems no different from the countless ones he`s done in the past. He`s been hired by a underworld goonda (Suman) to make a delivery; but when Vijay stops along the route, he notices his package is moving. He looks inside the bag, finding its contents to be a beautiful, gagged woman (Thrisha). Vijay`s steadfast adherence to his rules, which make up his basic code of survival, also quickly fails, hurtling him and his new companion on a road leading to shocking secrets, deadly complications, and the last thing that Vijay ever expected to come to believe : that rules are made to be broken.