List of Tamil films of 2004

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Prior to the amendment of Tamil Nadu Entertainments Tax Act 1939 on 4 October 2004, Gross was 125 per cent of Nett for all films. Post-amendment, Gross fell to 115 per cent of Nett. ^[1] Commercial Taxes Department disclosed ₹59.09 crore in entertainment tax revenue for the year. ^[2]

A list of films released in the Tamil film industry in India in 2004:

List of Tamil films

January—March

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Studio	Ref
J A N	1	Baabi	M. V. Gopalan
		Kadhal Saregama	Ameerjan	Kaushik
	14	Engal Anna	Siddique	Vijayakanth, Prabhu Deva, Swarnamalya, Namitha, Vadivelu
		Image	Alex Pandian	Jaivarma, Abhinayashree		[3]
		Jai	S. Narayan	Prashanth, Anshu Ambani, Thyagarajan, Rajkiran
		Kovil	Hari	Silambarasan, Sonia Agarwal, Rajkiran, Nassar
		Pudhukottaiyilirundhu Saravanan	S. S. Stanley	Dhanush, Aparna Pillai
		Virumaandi	Kamal Haasan	Kamal Haasan, Abhirami, Napoleon, Pasupathy
F E B	6	Thendral	Thangar Bachan	Parthiban, Uma
		Vayasu Pasanga	Bharathi Kannan	Anush, Jai Arvind, Master Manikandan, Vindhya
	13	Kamaraj	A. Balakrishnan	Richard Mathuram, Vijayan, V. S. Raghavan
		Varnajalam	Nakulan Ponnusamy	Srikanth, Sadha, Kutty Radhika
	20	Autograph	Cheran	Cheran, Sneha, Gopika, Mallika, Kanika
		Kangalal Kaidhu Sei	Bharathiraja	Vaseegaran, Priyamani
	26	Ennavo Pudichirukku	Meenakshi Sundaram	Sudeep Sarangi, Bharani, Sindhuri
	27	Campus	Sharvi	Sajith Raj, Nitesh, Divya Dwivedi, Sheetal Shah
M A R	5	Adi Thadi	Shivraj	Sathyaraj, Napoleon, Abbas, Rathi
		Gambeeram	Suresh	Sarath Kumar, Laila, Pranathi
	12	Nee Mattum	Mathi Natesh	Jana, Deepu, Preethi
	19	Aarumugasaamy	Raviraja	Pandiarajan, Preethi Varma
	26	Pethi Solla Thattathea	Dharma	Pandiarajan, Nanditha
		Udhaya	Azhagam Perumal	Vijay, Simran

April—June

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Studio	Ref
A P R	2	Kadhal Dot Com	Selvaraj	Prasanna, Anu Sasi, Shruthi Raj
	14	Kanavu Meippada Vendum	Janaki Vishwanathan	Ramya Krishnan, Asim Sharma, Karthik Srinivasan
		Kuththu	A. Venkatesh	Silambarasan, Divya Spandana, Kalabhavan Mani
	16	Ghilli	Dharani	Vijay, Trisha, Prakash Raj
	23	Aethirree	K. S. Ravikumar	R. Madhavan, Sadha, Kanika, Rahman
		Vaanam Vasappadum	P. C. Sriram	Karthik Kumar, Poongkothai Chandrahasan
		Kavithai	G. Kicha	Vamsi, Chaya Singh, Sarath Babu
M A Y	1	Arul	Hari	Vikram, Jyothika, Pasupathy
		Jana	Shaji Kailas	Ajith Kumar, Sneha
	7	Perazhagan	Sasi Shanker	Suriya, Jyothika, Vivek
	14	Settai	Shivan	Pandiarajan, Livingston, Vindhya
	21	Aaytha Ezhuthu	Mani Ratnam	Suriya, R. Madhavan, Siddharth, Meera Jasmine, Trisha Krishnan, Esha Deol
J U N	11	Jore	Selva	Sathyaraj, Sibiraj, Bhanupriya, Gajala, Ramana
		Maanasthan	Marumalarchi Bharathi	Sarath Kumar, Abbas, Sakshi Sivanand
	25	Machi	K. S. Vasanthakumar	Dushyanth Ramkumar, Shubha Poonja, Pasupathy
		Super Da	Azhagu Raja Sundaram	Ramki, Kunal, Anusha

July—September

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Studio	Ref
J U L	9	New	S. J. Surya	S. J. Surya, Simran, Devayani, Kiran
		Singara Chennai	Suriyan	Abhinay, Rathi, Kalabhavan Mani
	16	Saga	Ramesh Krish
		Sema Ragalai	Ram	Sathyaraj, Devayani, Kalabhavan Mani
	23	Shock	Thyagarajan	Prashanth, Meena, Abbas
		Sullan	Ramana	Dhanush, Sindhu Tolani, Pasupathy
	30	Azhagiya Theeye	Radha Mohan	Prasanna, Navya Nair, Prakash Raj
		Loves	K. Jayapandian	Thamizh, Sona, Sweety
		Kadhale Jayam	Natarajan	Natarajan, Sudeep Sarangi, Preethi Varma
		Uyirosai	Hariram	Bharath, Soni
A U G	6	Sound Party	Aarthi Kumar	Sathyaraj, Prathyusha
	10	Arivumani	M. K. Kennedy	Murali, Meera Vasudevan
	15	Vasool Raja MBBS	Saran	Kamal Haasan, Sneha, Prabhu, Prakash Raj
	22	Azhagesan	Aarthi Kumar	Sathyaraj, Prema
	29	Kalamulla Kalam Varai	Udhaya
		Madhurey	Ramana Madhesh	Vijay, Rakshitha, Sonia Agarwal, Tejashree
S E P	3	Kudaikul Mazhai	Parthiban	Parthiban, Madhumitha
	10	Chellamae	Gandhi Krishna	Vishal, Reemma Sen, Bharath
	17	Arasatchi	N. Maharajan	Arjun, Lara Dutta, Raghuvaran
		Gajendra	Suresh Krishna	Vijayakanth, Laya, Flora

October—December

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Studio	Ref
O C T	1	Giri	Sundar C	Arjun, Reemma Sen, Divya Spandana, Devayani
		M. Kumaran Son of Mahalakshmi	M. Raja	Jayam Ravi, Asin, Nadhiya, Prakash Raj
		Oru Murai Sollividu	A. Jawahar	Rohit, Janapriya, Yugendran
	8	Bose	Senthil Kumar	Srikanth, Sneha, Kalabhavan Mani
		Rush	S. Rajkumar	Rajkumar, Mangai
	15	Adhu	Ramesh Balakrishnan	Sneha, Abbas, Aravind, Suha
	22	7G Rainbow Colony	Selvaraghavan	Ravi Krishna, Sonia Agarwal
		Vishwa Thulasi	Sumathy Ram	Mammooty, Nandita Das
29	En Purushan Ethir Veetu Ponnu	Barani Kumar	Pandiarajan, Sanghavi, Radhika Chaudhari, Abhinayashree
N O V	5	Neranja Manasu	Samudrakani	Vijayakanth, Susan
	12	Attahasam	Saran	Ajith Kumar, Pooja
		Chatrapathy	Srimahesh	Sarath Kumar, Nikita Thukral
		Dreams	Kasthuri Raja	Dhanush, Diya, Parul Yadav
		Manmadhan	A. J. Murugan	Silambarasan, Jyothika, Sindhu Tolani
D E C	3	Amma Appa Chellam	Suriyan	Bala, Chaya Singh
		Maha Nadigan	Sakthi Chidambaram	Sathyaraj, Namitha, Mumtaj
	17	Aai	A. Venkatesh	Sarath Kumar, Namitha
		Jaisurya	Manoj Kumar	Arjun, Laila, Chaya Singh
		Jananam	Ramesh Selvan	Arun Vijay, Priyanka Trivedi, Raghuvaran
		Kaadhal	Balaji Sakthivel	Bharath, Sandhya
		Meesai Madhavan	S. Ramu	Ramana, Kutty Radhika
	24	Gomathi Nayagam	Ponvannan	Ponvannan, Haripriya, Karthika
	26	Kadhale Engal Desiya Geetham	Vijay Anand	Sriram Raghavan, Varshini, Ramesh Aravind
		Ramakrishna	Agathiyan	Jai Akash, Sridevika, Vani
		Remote	Karvannan	Napolean, Anamika

Other releases

The following films also released in 2004, though the release date remains unknown. ^[4]

Title	Director	Cast	Studio	Ref
Jollyman	K. K. Muthukumaar	Pandiarajan, Aishwarya	Varshini
Kizhakku Boomi	D. K. Bose		Poornakala Production
Pinju Nenjangal Puthiyathor Ulagam	Ilayavan		APN Pictures
Pithan	N. Manikandan	Ashwathaman, Devan, Priya
Senthalam Poove	Benjamin	Livingston, Devayani	NS Pictures

Awards

Category/Organization	Dinakaran Cine Awards 23 May 2005 [5]	Filmfare Awards South 23 July 2005 [6]	Tamil Nadu State Film Awards 13 February 2006 [7]
Best Film	Autograph	Autograph	Autograph
Best Director	Cheran Autograph	Cheran Autograph	Cheran Autograph
Best Actor	Vijay Ghilli	Suriya Perazhagan	Jayam Ravi M. Kumaran Son of Mahalakshmi
Best Actress	Jyothika Perazhagan	Sandhya Kaadhal	Jyothika Perazhagan
Best Music Director	Yuvan Shankar Raja Manmadhan	Bharadwaj / Yuvan Shankar Raja Autograph / 7G Rainbow Colony	Srikanth Deva M. Kumaran Son of Mahalakshmi

References

1. "Tough action against video piracy". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 16 September 2009. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
2. CTD reports ₹59.09 crore ET collection in 2004-05
3. "Image". Chennai Online. Archived from the original on 16 October 2006. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
4. "List of tamil films released in 2004". Lakshman Sruthi. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
5. "Balaji's Thots: 2004 Dinakaran-Medimix Awards".
6. "Filmfare awards for South India - Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam & Kannada - Telugu Cinema".
7. "Tamil Nadu state awards announced".