The man who revolutionized Tamil-language cinema, Mani Ratnam is the biggest director in South India and one of the most respected directors in all of India. Each of his films contains its own unique style, with beautifully photographed songs and unique back-lighting, and deal with a wide variety of topics, from the classic Indian love story to political thrillers.
The Film brings to its viewers, a hitherto unseen and unheard narrative of one of the greatest musicians the world has ever known: A. R. Rahman
Release Date2014-01-01
Charactersd self
Vote Count3
In a world ruled by crime and betrayal, mafia kingpin Sakthivel and his brother Manikkam rescue a young boy, Amaran, during a violent police shootout and raise him as their own. Years later, when an assassination attempt shakes Sakthivel's empire, suspicion turns inward. Consumed by vengeance, Sakthivel sets out to destroy the very family he once built.
Release Date2025-06-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count23
After a few years, Chitra learns that her child, who was believed to be dead, is alive but is suffering from a mental illness. However, her family faces many challenges while looking after her child.
Release Date1990-07-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count22
A villager, Gurukant Desai, arrives in Bombay in 1958, and rises from its streets to become the biggest tycoon in India.
Release Date2007-01-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count132
Romance is in the air as the lives of Fighter Pilot Varun & Medical Doctor Leela collide amidst the scenic beauty of Kashmir. While Leela yearns for Varun’s affection in the delicate of ways, Varun’s idea of love is all give-give, not give-take. Just as the avalanche of built-up emotions sets rolling, Varun becomes a PoW post the Kargil episode. Do their paths cross later?
Release Date2017-04-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count30
Velu Naicker, who witnesses the brutal murder of his father, kills a corrupt policeman and escapes to Mumbai, only to become a gangster.
Release Date1987-10-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count88
A simple father's life whose one mistake breaks him away from his dear family. Even after many years, when he finally meets his family, the same mistake haunts him back in a different form.
Release Date2020-02-07
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count7
A goon, who dreams of making it big in life, a student leader, who strives to keep politicians away from college election and a third guy who wants to settle abroad. Their lives change after an incident on a bridge.
Release Date2004-05-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count38
A Hindu man and a Muslim woman fall in love in a small village and move to Mumbai, where they have two children. However, growing religious tensions and erupting riots threaten to tear the family apart.
Release Date1995-03-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count77
The story focuses on five friends at the Madras Institute of Technology, who want to remain friends and hope to join the same company after graduation. During a vacation, one of the friends, Ilango, goes home, where he is forced to get married to his rustic cousin, While their dream to work together becomes true, Ilango alone gets a transfer to Bombay. The friends force Elango to visit his wife before leaving for Bombay and put him on a train. But Elango manages to get off the train and from there loses touch with his friends and family in the village. The friends part and six years later, two of the five come back to join the two girls in Chennai. On the train in the journey back, Prabhu, one of the friends, and Ilango's wife Eashwari meet each other. Prabhu falls in love with Eashwari without realizing who she is.
Release Date2002-10-04
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count3
A fictionalized account of the lives of 1980s Tamil Nadu political icons M. G. Ramachandran and M. Karunanidhi, continuing the tryst between Tamil cinema and Dravidian politics.
Release Date1997-01-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count51
Durga is in love with Anith; he is all set to marry her and settle down in life. But things change when his brother Mohanakrishna is killed by a rival gang supported by Gurunarayana, the local MLA. Durga wants to settle the scores with the rival gand and in turn becomes a gangster. But Anitha does not approve of his ways and leaves him to marry a cop. Their paths cross again when the cop is posted to the same city where Durga is a leading gangster.
Release Date1993-04-22
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count6
The Chola kingdom is under threat from forces both internal and external, and with crown prince Aaditha Karikalan, his younger brother Arunmozhi Varman and the emperor, Sundara Cholar separated by situations, it is up to a messenger to ensure the safety of the kingdom. Can he succeed in his mission, especially with Karikalan's former girlfriend, Nandhini, plotting to bring down the entire Chola empire?
Release Date2022-09-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count89
Surya, a courageous man who was raised in the slums, fights for the rights of the poor and befriends Deva, who hires him as his commander and changes his life completely.
Release Date1991-11-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count58
A little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her birth mother, her family eventually agrees to take her to Sri Lanka, where they encounter the militant group known as the Tamil Tigers.
Release Date2002-02-14
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count48
After inspector Dev stirs the reign of Veeraiya, a tribal outlaw, the latter responds by kidnapping his wife, Ragini. While she tries to escape from him, Dev fights many resistances to find her.
Release Date2010-06-18
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count47
Raghu and Shanti are divorced couple which sparks problems between both respective younger brothers.
Release Date1997-09-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count11
Divya, a college student, is forced to marry Chandrakumar due to family pressure. However, she asks for a divorce as a wedding gift, revealing her past.
Release Date1986-08-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count23
A man kills his wife when she learns that he lusts after her sister. He then begins to make his moves for his sister-in-law. When he tries to sabotage the girl's marriage, her fiance gets suspicious.
Release Date1995-09-25
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count12
Social drama realistically traces the trials and travails in the life of sincere men from impoverished backgrounds, who find themselves unable to get employment due to the stranglehold of powerful trade unions in Kerala.
Release Date1984-02-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A bloody power struggle erupts between three brothers who are vying to take over the family business following the death of their father.
Release Date2018-09-27
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count53
An aimless youth joins a gang out of a sense of gratitude, but complications arise when he falls in love with the sister of the new police officer in town.
Release Date1985-06-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
A group of villagers from Maranur, India, and their clash with a neighbouring village leader as their community begins to prosper. Soon, money and greed threaten a will for peaceful coexistence between the two rivalling communities.
Release Date1995-05-11
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count2
A wrongdoer is caught red-handed and he is not going to forgive the man who exposed him.
Release Date2013-02-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count24
968 AD. The Pandyan assassins gather once again to destroy the Chola dynasty. Now the mighty Chola princes must fight the Pandyas, the Rashtrakutas and other Chola enemies who have joined forces. Also, at play are the rumours of Ponniyin Selvan’s death at sea, the powerful Pazhuvettarayar’s betrayal, and the tragic destiny of Aditha Karikalan, whose heart was long lost to the vengeful Nandini.
Release Date2023-04-28
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count59
Two step sons of an honest noble man choose different professions. One becomes a police office and the other turns into a goon. The rest of the film revolves around how the two confront each other.
Release Date1988-04-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count13
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.
Release Date1993-11-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count13
Adityan, a city slicker's marriage is fixed by his dad in the village to Ganga, a village belle. He is not happy with it, as he wants to marry a city girl and that too after falling in love. On the other hand, Ganga also is not interested, as she wants to marry only after completing her engineering in the city.
Release Date2001-04-13
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count7
Shankar, a budding singer loses his love, Gowri, who commits suicide. When Shankar turns famous, he eventually develops friendship with Surya, a college girl, who falls in love with him.
Release Date1985-09-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Even though Maayan and Machakanni are deeply in love with each other, her brother decides to get her married to someone else. So, Maayan's friends resolve to unite the couple.
Release Date1999-11-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
An honest cop's wife is murdered because of his role in the conviction of a local goon, which forces him to quit the police force.
Release Date1990-10-17
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count3
From amusement to awe, the nine human emotions of Indian aesthetic theory are explored in this anthology series.
Release Date2021-08-06
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count9
Vote Count17
A notorious gangster is incited to transform into a film hero and opts for a filmmaker and their project descends into a scenario they had never anticipated.
Release Date2023-11-10
DepartmentCrew
JobThanks
Vote Count52
Swathi dreams of owning a restaurant. But when a murder derails her plan, she and her lover take an outrageous step — to replace him with her husband.
Release Date2024-01-11
DepartmentCrew
JobThanks
Episode Count8
Vote Count20
A tale of near Biblical proportions, telling the story of Dayavan, a heroic do-gooder who dedicates his life to helping those less fortunate then himself.
Release Date1988-10-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count7
Surya, who was abandoned by his 14-year-old unwed mother Nirmala after his birth, grows up in the slums and finds a friend in a local criminal leader, Anna.
Release Date2003-12-19
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
An accident on a bridge ties together three young men from different social classes, sparking a course of events that will forever alter their lives.
Release Date2004-05-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count50
Journalist Amar falls for a mysterious woman on an assignment, but she does not reciprocate his feelings. However, when Amar is about to get married, the woman shows up at his doorstep asking for help.
Release Date1998-08-22
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count187
Roja lives in a Tamil village, and her sister is about to marry a man from the city, who decides to marry Roja instead and gets a job assignment in Kashmir, where some militants decide to kidnap them.
Release Date1992-08-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count66
Adi and Tara move to Bombay to pursue their dreams. A chance meeting sparks off a heady, no strings attached romance until their careers pull them apart. Will ambition prevail over matters of the heart?
Release Date2017-01-12
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count60
Aadi and Tara fall in love but both hate the idea of marriage and plan to separate when their lives take them to different countries. However, as they grow closer, their emotions are not easily managed.
Release Date2015-04-16
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count68
Karthik and Shakthi marry against the wishes of their families and start their new life. However, they soon realize that marriage is not the bed of roses they had imagined it would be.
Release Date2000-04-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count45
A couple elopes to get married and set up home hoping that just love will do the trick - but that's just the beginning of their story.
Release Date2002-12-20
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count55
A bandit leader kidnaps the wife of the policeman who killed his sister, but later falls in love with her.
Release Date2010-06-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count27
Prakash, who is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and Geethanjali, an equally ill patient, fall in love with each other. However, when she learns about his illness, she decides to move out of his life.
Release Date1989-05-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count16
Dasarathan is a 1993 Tamil language film directed by Kitty. The film features Sarathkumar and Heera in lead roles whilst Sivakumar, Saranya and Gandhimathi play supporting roles.
Release Date1993-02-04
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count2
Putham Pudhu Kaalai brings together 5 of the most celebrated directors in Tamil cinema - Sudha Kongara, Gautham Menon, Suhasini Mani Ratman, Rajiv Menon, and Karthik Subbaraj to create Amazon Prime Video's first Indian anthology film.
Release Date2020-10-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count17
A man falls in love with an older woman who is separated from her husband. As he struggles between the demands of a relationship and those of society, he also tries to find the definition of love.
Release Date1983-01-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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