Sathya Jyothi Films

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Sathya Jyothi Films
Company typeFilm production and distribution
IndustryMotion pictures and television
Founded1977
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Website sathyajyothifilms.com

Sathya Jyothi Films is an Indian film production and distribution company in Tamil Nadu. It was established in 1977 by T. G. Thyagarajan.

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History

Sathya Jyothi Films was founded by T. G. Thyagarajan in the 1970s. Thyagarajan, an MBA graduate from the United States, is the son of film producer, late Venus T. Govindarajan, who had made films from the 1960s to the 1980s under Venus Pictures. [1] Thyagarajan initially ventured into film productions under the studio Sathya Movies, production company of his father-in-law R. M. Veerappan before founding Sathya Jyothi Films to make "slightly offbeat films". [2] The first film distributed by the company was the Tamil-dubbed version of Yashoda Krishna . [3] [4] The company's first film as producers was Moondram Pirai (1982). [5]

Productions

Films

YearFilmDirectorCastNotesRef.
1982 Moondram Pirai Balu Mahendra Kamal Haasan, Sridevi
1985 Pagal Nilavu Mani Ratnam Murali, Revathi, Sathyaraj [6]
1986 Manithanin Marupakkam K. Rangaraj Sivakumar, Radha, Jayashree
Sathya Jyothi K. Rangaraj Vishnuvardhan, Sumalatha, Urvashi Kannada film
1988 Jeeva Pratap Pothen Sathyaraj, Amala [7]
1990 Kizhakku Vaasal R. V. Udayakumar Karthik, Revathi, Khushbu [8]
1991 Idhayam Kathir Murali, Heera [9]
1992 Endrum Anbudan Bhagyanathan Murali, Sithara, Heera [10]
1993 Vedan Suresh Krissna Sarathkumar, Khushbu [11]
1994 Honest Raj K. S. Ravi Vijayakanth, Gautami, Aamani [12]
1998 Harichandra Cheyyar Ravi Karthik, Meena
2003 Parthiban Kanavu Karu Palaniappan Srikanth, Sneha [13]
2006 Em Magan Thirumurugan Bharath, Gopika, Nassar
2008 Jayamkondaan R. Kannan Vinay, Bhavana, Lekha Washington
2010 Baana Kaathadi Badri Venkatesh Atharvaa, Prasanna, Samantha
2016 Thodari Prabhu Solomon Dhanush, Keerthy Suresh
2017 Sathriyan S. R. Prabhakaran Vikram Prabhu, Manjima Mohan, Aishwarya Dutta
Vivegam Siva Ajith Kumar, Vivek Oberoi, Kajal Aggarwal, Akshara Haasan
2019 Viswasam Siva Ajith Kumar, Nayanthara, Jagapathi Babu
2020 Pattas R. S. Durai Senthilkumar Dhanush, Mehreen Pirzada
2021 Sivakumarin Sabadham Hiphop Tamizha Hiphop Tamizha Adhi, Madhuri Co-produced by Indie Rebels [14]
2022 Anbarivu Aswin Raam Hiphop Tamizha Adhi, Kashmira Pardeshi, Napoleon [15]
Maaran Karthick Naren Dhanush, Malavika Mohanan, Samuthirakani, Smruthi Venkat, Krishna Kumar, Mahendran [16]
2023 Veeran ARK Saravan Hiphop Tamizha, Athira Raj, Vinay Rai [17]
2024 Captain Miller Arun Matheswaran Dhanush, Sundeep Kishan, Priyanka Arul Mohan [18]

Television

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