Company type | Private |
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Industry | Entertainment |
Founded | 2014Chennai, India | in
Founder | Subaskaran Allirajah |
Headquarters | , India |
Key people | G.K.M. Tamil Kumaran. Tamilmani.D |
Products | Films |
Parent | Lycamobile |
Website | lycaproductions |
Lyca Productions is a British entertainment company, which was established by Subaskaran Allirajah in 2014. A subgroup of Lycamobile, (Part of Lyca Family) the production studio has been involved in the production and distribution of Tamil films, Hindi films, Telugu films and Malayalam films made in India. It has produced some of Tamil cinema's biggest budget films, such as 2.0 (2018), Ponniyin Selvan: I (2022) and Ponniyin Selvan: II (2023).
Pirivom Santhippom (2008) was the first film produced by A. Subhaskaran under Gnanam films.[ citation needed ] Lyca Productions chose to collaborate with Ayngaran International to produce and signed on AR Murugadoss and Vijay to be a part of their debut project. [1] A social drama tackling the issue of farmers committing suicide due to corporate encroachment, Kaththi was shot throughout early 2014 with Samantha and Neil Nitin Mukesh signed on for other pivotal roles. As the film announced its release plans, several pro-Tamil pressure groups demanded all references to Lyca Productions to be removed from the title and other publicity material. The groups felt it was unacceptable that a business house, allegedly reported to be connected to Mahinda Rajapaksa, would be allowed to produce a Tamil movie in Tamil Nadu when the Tamil Nadu Assembly, citing human rights violations during the civil war in the island nation, had already passed a resolution seeking severance of business ties with Sri Lanka. [2] Unable to reach a compromise with the pressure groups, and fearing a boycott and violence, Lyca Productions chose to remove its name from the copies released in India. [3] Kaththi consequently managed to release in October 2014 to positive reviews, with Rediff.com stating that the film "entertains with a message", while Sify.com similarly stated that it was a "well made entertainer with a powerful message". [4] [5] The film became a very profitable venture at the box office for Lyca Productions, grossing over 100 crore rupees within two weeks of release. [6] [7]
In late 2015, Lyca Productions agreed a deal with Dhanush for the worldwide distribution rights of two of his productions, Naanum Rowdydhaan (2015) and Visaranai (2016). The movie was also met with protests, though Naanum Rowdydhaan released without any problems and also became a profitable venture for the studio. [8] [9] Also throughout 2015, Lyca Productions worked on the pre-production of 2.0 , a sequel to Shankar's earlier Enthiran (2010), and signed on Rajinikanth and Amy Jackson to feature in key roles. Believed to be the most expensive Indian production of all time, the team also negotiated for several months with Arnold Schwarzenegger for a role in the film, but eventually did not sign him. [10] The studio also launched another film titled Enakku Innoru Per Irukku with G. V. Prakash Kumar in the lead role during December 2015. [11]
† | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Language | Director | Cast | Synopsis | Ref. |
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2014 | Kaththi | Tamil | AR Murugadoss | Vijay, Samantha, Neil Nitin Mukesh | Two look-a-likes eventually come together to tackle the burning issues of farmers committing suicide due to corporate encroachment. | [12] |
2016 | Enakku Innoru Per Irukku | Tamil | Sam Anton | G. V. Prakash Kumar, Anandhi, Saravanan | A simpleton is mistakenly earmarked as the successor of an ageing notorious don after falling in love with the don's daughter. | [13] |
2017 | Khaidi No. 150 | Telugu | V. V. Vinayak | Chiranjeevi, Kajal Aggarwal, Tarun Arora | Two look-a-likes eventually come together to tackle the burning issues of farmers committing suicide due to corporate encroachment. | [14] |
Yaman | Tamil | Jeeva Shankar | Vijay Antony, Miya, Thiagarajan | A young man enters politics to fight corruption and avenge the murder of his father. | [15] | |
Ippadai Vellum | Tamil | Gaurav Narayanan | Udhayanidhi Stalin, Manjima Mohan, Daniel Balaji | Two innocent men are mistaken for members of a terrorist organisation. | [16] | |
2018 | Diya | Tamil | A. L. Vijay | Sai Pallavi, Naga Shourya, RJ Balaji | After an abortion, a woman's life takes an unexpected turn when she is visited by the foetus, who is now grown up and is visible to her. | [17] |
Kolamavu Kokila | Tamil | Nelson Dilipkumar | Nayanthara, Yogi Babu, Saranya | A young woman gets involved with a drug smuggling gang to pay for her mother's cancer treatment. | [18] | |
Chekka Chivantha Vaanam | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | Arvind Swami, STR, Vijay Sethupathi, Arun Vijay | A family of gangsters go through a power struggle as they attempt to find the assassin who targeted their father. | [19] | |
Vada Chennai | Tamil | Vetrimaaran | Dhanush, Andrea Jeremiah, Aishwarya Rajesh | Set in North Chennai, a young man is drawn into a gang war. | [20] | |
2.0 | Tamil | S. Shankar | Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson | Scientists help the government investigate a threat beyond understanding. | [21] | |
2019 | Vantha Rajavathaan Varuven | Tamil | Sundar C | STR, Megha Akash, Catherine Tresa | The heir of a billionaire tries to unite his estranged aunt with his family again. | [22] |
Kaappaan | Tamil | K.V. Anand | Suriya, Mohanlal, Arya, Sayyeshaa | An SPG Commander cum organic farmer tries to save the nation from an evil businessman | [23] | |
2020 | Darbar | Tamil | AR Murugadoss | Rajinikanth, Nayanthara, Sunil Shetty | A daredevil cop is on a rampage to eliminate a drug syndicate in Mumbai | [24] |
Mafia: Chapter 1 | Tamil | Karthick Naren | Arun Vijay, Priya Bhavani Shankar, Prasanna | An NCB Officer and his batch mates, bring down a drug lord who is also a successful entrepreneur. | [25] | |
2022 | Don | Tamil | Cibi Chakaravarthi | Sivakarthikeyan, S. J. Suryah, Priyanka Mohan | A reluctant engineering student repeatedly clashing with the college discipline mentor, while still trying to discover his passion in life and prove his eligibility to his father. | [26] |
Panni Kutty | Tamil | Anucharan Murugaiyan | Yogi Babu, Karunakaran | A down-on-luck man has to run over a piglet that had caused a minor accident to get lucky in life. But the animal belongs to a man who has to keep it safe for his wedding to happen. | [27] | |
Good Luck Jerry | Hindi | Sidharth Sengupta | Janhvi Kapoor | A young woman gets involved with a drug smuggling gang to pay for her mother's cancer treatment. | [28] | |
Ponniyin Selvan: I | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | Vikram, Karthi, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Jayam Ravi, Trisha, Jayaram, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Sobhita Dhulipala, Vikram Prabhu | Set in the 10th century, it tells the story of early life of chola emperor Arunmozhi Varman. | [29] | |
Ram Setu | Hindi | Abhishek Sharma | Akshay Kumar | Aryan Kulshrestha, an Atheist Archaeologist, sets out on a journey to unveil and prove the mysterious secrets of Ram Setu, a man-made structure built by Lord Rama | [30] | |
Pattathu Arasan | Tamil | A. Sarkunam | Atharvaa, Rajkiran | Chinnadurai along with his grandfather, a Kabbadi player, try to bring justice for his brother's death. | [31] | |
Naai Sekar Returns | Tamil | Suraj | Vadivelu | Naai Sekar, who makes money by kidnapping dogs, learns about his long-lost pet dog that was taken away during his childhood. | [32] | |
Raangi | Tamil | M. Saravanan | Trisha, Anaswara Rajan | A brave journalist, tries to solve an issue of a minor girl, but eventually trapped into an international issue. | [33] | |
2023 | Thiruvin Kural | Tamil | Harish Prabhu | Arulnithi, Bharathiraja, Aathmika | An unforeseen accident at a construction site puts the lives of a speech and hearing impaired youngster and his father in trouble. | [34] |
Ponniyin Selvan: II | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | Vikram, Karthi, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Jayam Ravi, Trisha, Jayaram, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Sobhita Dhulipala, Vikram Prabhu | Set in the 10th century, it tells the story of early life of chola emperor Arunmozhi Varman. | [35] | |
Theera Kaadhal | Tamil | Rohin Venkatesan | Jai, Aishwarya Rajesh, Sshivada | A mild mannered man's life turns upside town, when he meets a woman from his past. | [36] | |
Chandramukhi 2 | Tamil | P.Vasu | Raghava Lawrence, Kangana Ranaut, Vadivelu | A family tries to install a god's temple, but their plans are thwarted by a woman's spirit. | [37] | |
2024 | Mission: Chapter 1 | Tamil | A. L. Vijay | Arun Vijay, Amy Jackson, Nimisha Sajayan | A prisoner confined in a jail in London faces several roadblocks as he tries to reunite with his ailing daughter. | [38] |
Lal Salaam | Tamil | Aishwarya Rajinikanth | Rajinikanth Vishnu Vishal Vikranth | A rivalry between two local cricket teams bring about a situation of religious unrest between the Hindu-Muslim population of a village in Tamil Nadu. | [39] | |
Indian 2 | Tamil | S Shankar | Kamal Haasan, Siddharth SJ Surya, Kajal Aggarval | After a group of idealistic youngsters attract his attention to the corruption happening here, Senapathy aka Indian thatha returns to India, calling for the fight to begin at homes. | [40] | |
Vidaa Muyarchi † | Tamil | Magizh Thirumeni | Ajith Kumar, Arjun, Trisha Krishnan, Regina Cassandra, Aarav | Filming | ||
L2: Empuraan† | Malayalam | Prithviraj Sukumaran | Mohanlal, Prithviraj Sukumaran | [41] [42] | ||
Vettaiyan† | Tamil | TJ Gnanavel | Rajinikanth, Fahadh Faasil, Amitabh Bachchan, Manju Warrier, Rana Daggubati, Dushara Vijayan | |||
In addition to the films produced by Lyca Productions since 2014, the following filmsfrom other banners were distributed by the company:
† | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Language | Director | Cast | Synopsis | Ref. |
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2015 | Naanum Rowdy Dhaan | Tamil | Vignesh Shivan | Vijay Sethupathi, Nayanthara, RJ Balaji and Radhika Sarathkumar | Pandiyan, a policeman's son, falls in love with Kadhambari, a girl with hearing impairment. She agrees to have a relationship with him only if he helps her kill a gangster who murdered her parents. | [43] |
2016 | Visaranai | Vetrimaaran | Dinesh, Samuthirakani, Anandhi and Aadukalam Murugadoss | Four labourers are tortured by the police to confess to a theft they have not committed. Just when they feel relieved after being saved by an honest policeman, they find that the worst is yet to come. | [44] | |
Vetrivel | Vasantha Mani | Sasikumar, Miya, Prabhu and Nikhila Vimal | In a bid to help his younger brother unite with the girl he loves, Vetrivel and his friends decide to kidnap her. Things take an ugly turn when their plan goes wrong and results in messy situations. | [45] | ||
2017 | Spyder | A. R. Murugadoss | Mahesh Babu, Rakul Preet Singh and S. J. Surya | Shiva, an intelligence officer, develops a phone software that helps him track those in need of help. He sets out to save the people of Hyderabad when he realises that a serial killer is on the loose. | [46] | |
2018 | Kaala | Pa. Ranjith | Rajinikanth, Nana Patekar, Eswari Rao, Samuthirakani and Huma Qureshi | Karikaalan consistently fights to keep the people of Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai, safe from the clutches of mighty politicians and the land mafia don, Hari Dhadha. | [47] | |
Irumbu Thirai | P. S. Mithran | Vishal, Arjun and Samantha Ruth Prabhu | A military officer borrows money from a bank using fake papers for his sister's marriage. However, when the money goes missing from his account, he begins an investigation that leads him to a hacker. | [48] | ||
Sandakozhi 2 | N. Linguswamy | Vishal, Keerthy Suresh, Rajkiran and Varalaxmi Sarathkumar | Balu returns from New York and sets out to protect his family from an evil-minded man. Complications further arise as he falls in love with a woman, who reminds him of his ex-lover. | [49] | ||
2021 | Pushpa: The Rise | Tamil dubbed | Sukumar | Allu Arjun, Rashmika Mandanna, Fahadh Faasil, Jagadeesh Prathap Bandari, Rao Ramesh and Anasuya Bharadwaj | Violence erupts between red sandalwood smugglers and the police charged with bringing down their organisation in the Seshachalam Hills of Andhra Pradesh state. | [50] |
2022 | RRR | S. S. Rajamouli | N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan, Ajay Devgn, Alia Bhatt, Shriya Saran, Olivia Morris, Samuthirakani, Alison Doody and Ray Stevenson | A tale of two legendary revolutionaries and their journey far away from home. After their journey they return home to start fighting back against British colonialists in the 1920s. | [51] [52] | |
Sita Ramam | Hanu Raghavapudi | Dulquer Salmaan, Mrunal Thakur, Rashmika Mandanna and Sumanth | To not get rusticated A rebellious student leaves to India to fulfill her dead grandfather's wish, to deliver a letter the visit leads her to a love story between an orphan Indian Army soldier and a woman unbeknownst to him a rich heiress in the 60s. Will she deliver the letter to her? | |||
Baba (Re-release) | Tamil | Suresh Krissna | Rajinikanth, Manisha Koirala and Goundamani | The film's story is about a carefree young non-believer of supreme power, Baba, who is a reincarnation of a great saint from the Himalayas. | [53] [54] | |
2023 | Thunivu | H. Vinoth | Ajith Kumar | Radha, a dreaded gangster, and his men plot to rob "Your Bank", one of the biggest privately-owned bank in Chennai, only to realise that another gang led a by mysterious person, nicknamed Dark Devil, has already hijacked the bank. The police, led by DGP Dayalan, is trying to figure out a way to capture Dark Devil, only to realize that his motive is to actually expose the privately-owned banks involved in financial fraud. | ||
Merry Christmas | Tamil | Sriram Raghavan | Katrina Kaif and Vijay Sethupathi | |||
2024 | Captain Miller | Tamil | Arun Matheswaran | Dhanush, Priyanka Mohan, Shivarajkumar |
Year | Title | Language | Music Director |
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2016 | Enakku Innoru Per Irukku | Tamil | G. V. Prakash Kumar |
2018 | Yaman | Vijay Antony | |
Ippadai Vellum | D. Imman | ||
Diya | Sam C. S. | ||
2.0 | A. R. Rahman | ||
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Subaskaran Allirajah is a British-Sri Lankan Tamil entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of Lycamobile, a telecommunications company and also its entertainment subsidiary called Lyca Productions, based in Chennai, India, and began the production with its first tamil film Kaththi (2014). It produced the science fiction thriller 2.0 (2018), which was India's most expensive film and the 5th most expensive non-English-language film at the time of its release. Lyca Productions has also produced Ponniyin Selvan: I (2022) and Ponniyin Selvan: II (2023) which are both Tamil cinema releases.
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Kaththi (transl. Knife) is a 2014 Indian Tamil-language action drama film written and directed by AR Murugadoss. It is produced by Subaskaran Allirajah's Lyca Productions. The film stars Vijay in dual roles, alongside Samantha, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Tota Roy Chowdhury, Sathish, Sudip Mukherjee, Rama, and Jeeva Ravi. In the film, a petty thief assumes the identity of his lookalike and attempts to lead a rebellion by farmers from the latter's village, Thanoothu, and helps them fight against an entrepreneur who exploited Thanoothu's water resources.
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2.0 is a 2018 Indian Tamil-language 3D science-fantasy action film directed by S. Shankar who co-wrote the film with B. Jeyamohan and Madhan Karky. Produced by Subaskaran under the banner of Lyca Productions. As the second instalment in the Enthiran film series, 2.0 is a standalone sequel to Enthiran (2010), featuring Rajinikanth in a triple role as Vaseegaran, Chitti the Robot and Kutti, alongside Akshay Kumar as Pakshi Rajan and Amy Jackson as Nila, Sudhanshu Pandey, Adil Hussain, Kalabhavan Shajohn, and K. Ganesh appear in supporting roles. The soundtrack is composed by A. R. Rahman, with lyrics written by Madhan Karky and Na. Muthukumar. The film follows the conflict between Chitti, the once dismantled humanoid robot, and Pakshi Rajan, a vengeful avian human, who seeks vengeance upon cell phone users to prevent the death of birds due to cellphone radiation.
Enakku Innoru Per Irukku is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language mafia comedy film directed by Sam Anton starring G. V. Prakash Kumar and Anandhi in the lead roles. Produced by Subaskaran Allirajah, who is from Lyca Productions, the film began production during December 2015 and ended in March 2016. It was released on 17 June 2016.
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Ponniyin Selvan: II is a 2023 Indian Tamil-language epic historical action drama film directed by Mani Ratnam, who co-wrote it with Elango Kumaravel and B. Jeyamohan. The film is produced by Mani Ratnam and Subaskaran Allirajah under Madras Talkies and Lyca Productions. The second of two cinematic parts based on the 1954 novel Ponniyin Selvan by Kalki Krishnamurthy, it serves as a direct sequel to Ponniyin Selvan: I (2022). The film stars an ensemble cast including Vikram, Karthi, Jayam Ravi, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Trisha, Jayaram, Prabhu, R. Sarathkumar, Sobhita Dhulipala, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Vikram Prabhu, Prakash Raj, Rahman and R. Parthiban. It continues to follow the prince Arulmozhi Varman and his family as they deal with threats to the Chola Empire.
Ponniyin Selvan: I and Ponniyin Selvan: II are Indian Tamil-language epic historical action drama films directed by Mani Ratnam, who co-wrote them with Elango Kumaravel and B. Jeyamohan. Produced by Ratnam and Subaskaran Allirajah under Madras Talkies and Lyca Productions, they are the cinematic adaptations of Kalki Krishnamurthy's 1955 novel, Ponniyin Selvan.
Lal Salaam is a 2024 Indian Tamil-language sports action film directed by Aishwarya Rajinikanth and produced by Subaskaran Allirajah under Lyca Productions. The film stars Rajinikanth in an extended cameo role, alongside Vishnu Vishal and Vikranth as main protagonists, with an ensemble supporting cast including Vignesh, Livingston, Senthil, Jeevitha, K. S. Ravikumar and Thambi Ramaiah.