Company type | Private |
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Industry | Motion picture |
Founded | 2013 |
Founder | Suriya |
Headquarters | Chennai, India |
Key people | Suriya Jyothika Karthi Rajsekar Pandian |
Products | Film production Film distribution Record producer |
Website | 2D Entertainment |
2D Entertainment is an Indian film production and distribution company established by Suriya. [1] Other key people involved are Rajsekar Pandian, Suriya's wife Jyothika and Suriya's brother Karthi. The company was named by the starting letter of Suriya's children Diya and Dev. [2] [3] The company was established in 2013. [4]
2D Entertainment Consistently provides Good Quality Films and Gave Benchmark Success both at the Award Cermony and Box Office.
Debut Production Begun with 36 Vayadhinile in 2015 by Suriya and went on to Produce Many Successful Films as Pasanga 2, 24, Kadaikutty Singam, Uriyadi 2 which ended critically and commercially successful.
Later On 2020, Ponmagal Vandhal entered Amazon as Direct OTT Release. Post that Jyothika entered as the Producer along with Suriya. Their First Collab Soorarai Pottru was a Benchmark Success with 5 National Awards Win, followed by Jai Bhim another great attempt which was also a huge success.
Year | Title | Director(s) | Cast | Producer(s) | Synopsis | Ref.(s) |
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2015 | 36 Vayadhinile | Roshan Andrews | Jyothika, Rahman, Abhirami, Amritha Anil | Suriya | A wife decides to rediscover herself and pursue her creative interests after her husband and daughter leave her to emigrate to Ireland. | [5] |
2015 | Pasanga 2 | Pandiraj | Nishesh, Vaishnavi, Suriya, Amala Paul, Bindu Madhavi, Vidya Pradeep | Suriya, Pandiraj | Two hyperactive, young children and their parents struggle to fit into the norms of school life but a doctor helps change their attitudes. | [6] |
2016 | 24 | Vikram Kumar | Suriya, Samantha, Nithya Menen | Suriya | The evil brother of a scientist hopes to steal his brother's time-travel device, in order to make himself immortal. | [7] |
2017 | Magalir Mattum | Bramma | Jyothika, Urvashi, Bhanupriya, Saranya | Suriya, Christy Siluvappan | Three female school friends reunite after thirty-eight years, despite the pressures put upon them by the men in their lives. | [8] |
2018 | Kadaikutty Singam | Pandiraj | Karthi, Sayyeshaa, Sathyaraj, Priya Bhavani Shankar, Arthana Binu | Suriya | Gunasingam, in spite of being the son of the landlord, still works as a farmer. His life revolves around his large family and relatives and he loves them ardently. The family is disappointed when they get to know that he has fallen in love with the beauty of the village, Iniya, instead of marrying either of his two nieces which leads to problems in Gunasingam's life and family. | [9] |
2019 | Uriyadi 2 | Vijay Kumar | Vijay Kumar, Sudhakar, Vismaya | Suriya | A young man struggles for justice for the victims who are affected by the chemical plant leakage which lead to many deaths in the village. | [10] |
2019 | Jackpot | Kalyaan | Jyothika, Revathi | Suriya | Two con women lock horn with a gangster after knowing that a mystic vessel is hidden in his home. | [11] |
2020 | Ponmagal Vandhal | J. J. Federick | Jyothika, K. Bhagyaraj, R. Parthiban | Suriya | A rookie lawyer leads to the reopening of a notorious 15-year-old case of a dead psycho killer, alleged to have kidnapped and murdered little girls. | [12] |
2020 | Soorarai Pottru | Sudha Kongara | Suriya, Aparna Balamurali, Urvashi | Suriya, Jyothika, Guneet Monga | Nedumaaran Rajangam, a former air force captain takes on the airline industry with the help of his friends and family. | [13] |
2021 | Raame Aandalum Raavane Aandalum | Arisil Moorthy | Vani Bhojan, Ramya Pandian | Suriya, Jyothika | A villager's search for his two lost bulls turns into an expose of the corruption in politics and media. | [14] |
2021 | Udanpirappe | Era. Saravanan | Jyothika, M. Sasikumar Samuthirakani, Soori, Kalaiyarasan, Nivedhithaa Sathish | Suriya, Jyothika | A woman hopes for the reunion of two families caught in the ideological battle between her righteous but hot-headed brother and her law-abiding husband. | [15] |
2021 | Jai Bhim | T. J. Gnanavel | Suriya, Lijomol Jose, Prakash Raj, K. Manikandan, Rajisha Vijayan | Suriya, Jyothika | A pregnant woman from a primitive tribal community, searches desperately for her husband, who is missing from police custody. A High Court advocate rises in support to find her husband and seek justice for them. | [16] |
2022 | Oh My Dog | Sarov Shanmugam | Arun Vijay, Vinay Rai, Mahima Nambiar, Arnav Arun Vijay | Suriya, Jyothika | Young Arjun rescues a blind Siberian Husky puppy and decides to train him for a competition with his father and grandfather. | [17] |
2022 | Viruman | M. Muthaiah | Karthi, Aditi Shankar, Rajkiran, Soori, Prakash Raj, Saranya Ponvannan | Suriya | An intrepid and good-hearted son fights to make his arrogant father pay the price for his sins, which includes his mother's death, and save his brothers from the man's grip. | [18] |
2024 | Sarfira | Sudha Kongara | Akshay Kumar, Radhika Madan | Suriya, Jyothika, Vikram Malhotra | A former air force captain takes on the airline industry with the help of his friends and family. | [19] |
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