Media Dreams

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Media Dreams
Type Film production
Film distribution
Industry Entertainment
Founded1997
Headquarters
Chennai
,
India
Key people
 Sujatha
Products Motion pictures
(Tamil)
Owner Pentamedia Graphics

Media Dreams was an Indian film production and distribution company formed in 1997. It produced several Tamil language films in the early 2000s, and was later acquired by Pentamedia Graphics. [1]

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History

Media Dreams was set up in 1997 as an Indian entertainment business unit catering to the television, theatre and the internet. It was acquired by Pentamedia Graphics in December 2000. [2] [3] [4] The group's key partners included prominent writer Sujatha as its managing director. [5]

The studio's first feature film Bharathi , a biopic of poet Subramania Bharati, opened to critical and commercial acclaim, prompting the producers to take on several more projects in the early 2000s. [6] [7] Other notable films that the group made during the period included Cheran's family drama Pandavar Bhoomi (2001), Singeetam Srinivasa Rao's multilingual fantasy film Little John (2001) and Moulee's comedy drama Pammal K. Sambandam (2002) starring Kamal Haasan. [8] [9] [10] [11] The group also subsequently moved onto distribute films, make television serials such as Balu Mahendra's Kadhai Neram, and release audio albums. [12]

In early 2001, Media Dreams announced that they would produce Robo , a science fiction film by Shankar, starring Kamal Haasan and Preity Zinta. However, the film was later stalled due to escalating costs. [13] The team had also announced that they would produce the film version of Sundara Ramaswamy's novel Oru Puliyamarathin Kathai, which would mark the directorial debut of art director P. Krishnamoorthy, but the project eventually did not materialise. [14] The commercial failure of some of its films forced the group to stop making films, with its final release Whistle (2003), having a delayed release. [15]

Filmography

Films as producer
TitleYearLanguageDirectorCastSynopsisRef.
Bharathi 2000Tamil Gnana Rajasekaran Sayaji Shinde, Devayani, Nizhalgal Ravi The film is a biography of renowned Tamil poet Subramaniya Bharathi. [16]
Nila Kaalam 2001Tamil Gandhi Krishna Udayaraj, Dinesh, Ranjani, Roja Daughter of a film actress befriends two boys who work in a mechanic shop.
Little John 2001English, Hindi, Tamil Singeetam Srinivasa Rao Bentley Mitchum, Jyothika, Anupam Kher A foreigner who arrives to India to do a research on Mookuthi Amman temple is accused of stealing ring of the goddess. [17]
Krishna Krishna 2001Tamil S. Ve. Shekher S. Ve. Shekher, Sukanya, Sriman Gopalakrishnan faces problems after his wife suspects and mistakes him for everything.
Pandavar Bhoomi 2001Tamil Cheran Arun Vijay, Shamitha, Rajkiran, Ranjith Dhanasekar hires an engineer, to rebuild his ancestral house. When he falls in love with Dhanasekar's niece, Dhanasekar narrates his family's past, which changes his mind to sacrifice his love.
Pammal K. Sambandam 2002Tamil Moulee Kamal Haasan, Simran, Abbas, Sneha A stuntman who works in film industry and a female doctor both hate the word "Love". [18]
Whistle 2003Tamil J. D.- Jerry Vikramaditya, Sherin, Gayathri Raguram Sarawathi, a young girl, commits suicide after being bullied by Anjali and her friends. Years later, when her friends start turning up dead, she fears that Sarawathi has returned to exact revenge. [19]
Films as distributor

In addition to the films produced by Media Dreams, the following films from other banners were distributed by the company.

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