Top 10 Movies in Tamil 2011

List of top Tamil films

Rank	Film	Net gross ()	Studio	cast
1	Mankatha	103 Crores (50 days)[1]	Cloud nine movies	Ajith
2	7aum Arivu	82 Crores (50 days)[2]	Red Giant Movies	Suriya
3	Velayudham	61 Crores (50 days)[3]	Aascar Films	Vijay
4	Mayakkam Enna	97,09,345[4]	Aum Productions	Dhanush
5	Venghai	89,87,013[5]	Produced by Vijaya Productions	Dhanush
6	Aadukalam	Five Star Films	Vetrimaran	Dhanush
7	Avan Ivan	89,03,727[6]	AGS Entertainment	Vishal,Ariya
8	Mappillai	82,28,430[7]	Nemichand Jhabak	Dhanush
9	Deiva Thirumagal	80,40,330[8]	Rajakalimannan Media	vikram
10	Ko	75,39,478[9]	RS Infotainment	Jiva

 Aadukalam


Directed by Vetrimaran
Produced by Kathiresan
Written by Vetrimaran
Starring Dhanush
Taapsee Pannu
V. I. S.Jayabalan
Kishore
Music by G. V. Prakash Kumar
Cinematography Velraj
Editing by Kishore Te.
Distributed by Sun Pictures
Release date(s) 14 January 2011
Country India
Language Tamil
Budget INR15 crore (US$3.04 million)
Box office INR30 crore (US$6.08 million)

Director Vetrimaran proved that he is a man of substance in 'Polladhavan'. He reiterates it with more conviction and courage in 'Aadukalam'. With Dhanush again in the company, he has crafted a story that is meaningful and loaded with faces whom we often see in our midst. The core word is realistic and touchy.



Siruthai


Directed by Siva
Produced by K. E. Gnanavel Raja
S. R. Prakash Babu
S. R. Prabhu
Written by Siva
Screenplay by Siva
Story by S. S. Rajamouli
Based on Vikramarkudu
Narrated by Avinash
Starring Karthi,Tamannaah, Bhatia, Santhanam, Avinash, Rajiv Kanakala
Music by Vidyasagar
Cinematography Velraj
Editing by V. T. Vijayan
Studio Studio Green
Distributed by Studio Green
Release date(s) 14 January 2011
Running time 154 minutes
Country India
Language Tamil
Budget INR11 crore (US$2.23 million)
Box office INR40 crore (US$8.11 million)

Karthi seems to be having a dream run in Kollywood. He is like a batsman in in prime form smashing all deliveries to boundary. As long as you are not ready to complain that 'Siruithai' lacks logic, the film would work big time, as it is an out and out commercial fare.



Kullanari Koottam


Directed by Sribalaji
Produced by V. Ashish Jain
Written by Sribalaji
Starring Vishnu Vishal
Remya Nambeesan
Music by V. Selvaganesh
Cinematography J. Laxman
Editing by Mu. Kasivishwanathan
Studio Darshan Creations
Release date(s) 25 March 2011
Country India
Language Tamil

Filmmaker Sri Balaji, once an associate of director Susindran had narrated the story of ‘Kullanari Koottam’ to Vishnu. Though it took a long time for the project to commence, Sri Balaji has made it happen now. It was expected that the film would be a romantic comedy as it was very much signifying with the posters. But what we watch on the screens turns out to be out of expectations. Of course, the film belongs to the genre of ‘romantic comedy’ all for the sake of name, but when it comes down the entire film, there is nothing much interesting to mark upon.



Ko


Directed by K. V. Anand
Produced by Kumar
Jayaraman
Written by K. V. Anand
Subha
Starring Jeeva
Ajmal Ameer
Karthika Nair
Piaa Bajpai
Music by Harris Jayaraj
Cinematography Richard M. Nathan
Editing by Anthony
Studio R. S. Infotainment
Distributed by Red Giant Movies
Release date(s) 22 April 2011
Running time 166 minutes
Country India
Language Tamil
Budget INR15 crore (US$3.04 million)
Box office INR50 crore (US$10.14 million)

The story starts at Dinanjali, a newspaper office where Ashwin (Jeeva), is a photographer while Renu (Karthika Nair) and Saraswathi (Piaa Bajpai) are seen as journalists working woth the same newspaper. All three of them try to break the news and stand up on their toes for all getting the latest happenings news. Ashwin’s lens is creative and he captures all well.

Moving forward the next character Vasanth (Ajmal Ameer) gets introduced and he is an engineer. Though is an engineer his aim is to become a politician and aspires to change the society. Vasanth plans to contest in the upcoming elections. Ashwin who has good political contacts he makes his friend Ajmal a politician for a good cause. But after turning as a politician Vasanth turns into a corrupted politician like all other politicians and kicks out Ashwin from his camp. Yogi (Prakash Raj) is the Chief Minister of that political party. Vasanth joins his hands with Yogi and forgets to do good for the society. During some unexpected mishap Saro gets killed in a bomb blast. Bu seeing all these Ashwin plans to bring down Vasanth by using the same political contacts. But Vasanth who is annoyed with the chain reactions plans to take revenge on Ashwin. The rest of the story forms the interesting plans of Jeeva with a twist in the story.



Avan Ivan


Directed by Bala
Produced by Kalpathi S. Aghoram
Kalpathi S. Ganesh
Kalpathi S. Suresh
Written by S. Ramakrishnan (dialogue)
Screenplay by Bala
Story by Bala
Starring Vishal Krishna
Arya
G. M. Kumar
Janani Iyer
Madhu Shalini
Music by Yuvan Shankar Raja
Cinematography Arthur A. Wilson
Editing by Suresh Urs
Studio AGS Entertainment
Distributed by AGS Entertainment
GK Media (United States)
FiveStar (Malaysia)
Ayngaran International (worldwide)
Release date(s) June 17, 2011
Running time 130 minutes
Country India
Language Tamil

Bala one of the popular directors in Tamil film industry is coming back with another full fledged commercial movie Avan Ivan with an aim to make a profit.

Vishal, Aarya, Madhu Shalini and Janani Iyer are playing the leading roles in the film.

Normally director Bala films will have comedy scenes but Avan Ivan has more comedy scenes. The film is family oriented but at the same time it carries loads of action, comedy and sentiment etc. Avan Ivan is the story of two siblings where Vishal sported the look of a squint eyed boy throughout the film which is perhaps the first time in the history of Tamil cinema. Apart from doing this daring act, Vishal is going to play as a transgender which is yet again a bold attempt. Yuvan Shankar Raja has rendered the music with the smashing experimental songs and he changed his regular style and tried something different where flowered with success.



Deiva Thirumagal


Directed by A. L. Vijay
Produced by M. Chinthamani
Ronnie Screwvala
Written by A. L. Vijay
Starring Vikram, Baby Sarah, Anushka Shetty, Amala Paul, Nassar, Santhanam
Music by G. V. Prakash Kumar
Cinematography Nirav Shah
Editing by Anthony
Studio Sree Rajakaliamman Medias
Distributed by UTV Motion Pictures
Release date(s) July 15, 2011
Country India
Language Tamil

Krishna (Vikram) is a man with a mental growth of a five-year-old and works in a chocolate factory in Ooty. His wife has passed away and he looks after his daughter Nila (Sara) whom he is very attached to. One day she is taken away from him by his father-in-law Rajendran (Sachin Khedkar), a powerful man in society. His wife’s sister Shwetha (Amala Paul) takes care of the daughter. Now its Krishna's turn to search for the daughter. Steps in advocate Anuradha (Anushka) and Vinod (Santhanam), her junior promising him to get back the custody of daughter through court. The rest is legal battle and arguements in court and who wins at last.



Mankatha

Directed by Venkat Prabhu
Produced by Dhayanidhi Alagiri
Vivek Rathnavel
Screenplay by Venkat Prabhu
Story by Venkat Prabhu
Starring Ajith Kumar,Arjun,Trisha Krishnan,Vaibhav Reddy,Premji Amaren,Mahat Raghavendra,Ashwin ,Kakumanu,Lakshmi Rai,Andrea Jeremiah,Anjali
Music by Yuvan Shankar Raja
Cinematography Sakthi Saravanan
Editing by Praveen K. L.
N. B. Srikanth
Studio Cloud Nine Movies
Distributed by Sun Pictures
Radaan Mediaworks
Ayngaran International (United Kingdom)
FiveStar (Malaysia)
Release date(s) August 31, 2011 (Worldwide)
Running time 149 minutes[4]
Country India
Language Tamil
Budget INR40 crore (US$8.11 million)
Box office INR80 crore (US$16.22 million)

Ajith, the 'King of Box Office Openings' has once again proved that he is THALA. Mankatha is an Ajith movie all the way. Venkat Prabhu has been a worthy director to Ajith and given the actor a strong and interesting movie. It is sure to make Ajith fans very happy to see their star in a different role.Arjun has excelled in his role and proves that he is truly the Action King. Yuvan Shankar Raja's music, especially the background score adds to the thrill of the movie.
Ajith's 50th film didn't happen at an ease for the actor took a very long time and scrutinizing efforts to choose the best one. Initially, he was supposed to work with Gautham Vasudev Menon and it failed due to some difference of opinions. The actor later had discussions with more filmmakers including directors Vijay, Vishnuvardhan and many more. In fact, 'Billa-2' was supposed to be his 50th film.
But finally, 'Mankatha' as the title suggests happened on the game of probability as Venkat Prabhu didn't have Ajith in mind while penning the script. Ajith had personally requested Venkat Prabhu to get ready with a script that features him in a negative role. Of course, everything was finalized during 11th hour.



Engeyum Eppothum

Directed by M. Saravanan
Produced by A. R. Murugadoss
Written by M. Saravanan
Screenplay by M. Saravanan
Starring Jai,Anjali,Ananya,Sharvanand
Music by C.Sathya
Cinematography Velraj
Editing by Kishore Te.
Studio Murugadoss Productions
Fox Star Studios
Release date(s) 16 September 2011
Running time 138 minutes
Country India
Language Tamil
Budget INR5 crore (US$1.01 million)
Box office INR20 crore (US$4.06 million)

Bouquet to debutant filmmaker Saravanan for etching out a film that speaks about feelings of people and the value of every single life. With handful of characters, the director has come out with a flick that is filled with fun, joy, tears and other human emotions.

What begins as a journey in a bus takes twists and turns, and when we think all is well that ends well, a shocking incident happens. But hold on! There is no preachy stuff as Saravanan manages to lace the message with lighter moments in the film.



7am arivu


Directed by A. R. Murugadoss
Produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin
Written by A. R. Murugadoss
Starring Suriya,Shruti Haasan,Johnny Tri Nguyen
Music by Harris Jayaraj
Cinematography Ravi K. Chandran
Editing by Anthony
Studio Red Giant Movies
Distributed by Red Giant Movies
Release date(s) 26 October 2011
Running time 168 minutes
Country India
Language Tamil
Budget INR84 crore (US$17.04 million)

7am Arivu is Tamil science fiction thriller film written and directed by A.R Murugadoss. Starring Surya, in double roles, and Shruti Hassan, the film began production in May 2010. The story is said to revolve around a "super machine", which is brought to India. The film, produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin on a budget of 84 crore (US$18.73 million), will release on 26 October 2011. It will also be dubbed and released in Telugu and Hindi.

The teasers and vigorous promotions by the makers would have kicked up your expectations upon the film. The invigorations became irresistible and nothing could stop the masses from craving for the film. 'This will make every Tamilian prouder', 'This is gonna be an important milestone in Tamil film industry' and 'How much ever you may expect, the film will exceed the limits'. Wow! These lines of promotions were more than enough to keep us hooked for this big day to arrive.


Osthi


Directed by S. Dharani
Produced by Mohan Apparao
T. Ramesh
Screenplay by Dileep Shukla
S. Dharani
Story by Dileep Shukla
Abhinav Kashyap
Starring Silambarasan
Githan Ramesh
Richa Gangopadhyay
Sonu Sood
Music by S. Thaman
Cinematography Gopinath
Editing by V. T. Vijayan
Studio Balaji Real Media
Distributed by Reliance Entertainment
Release date(s) 08 December 2011
Country India
Language Tamil
Budget INR30 crore (US$6.08 million)

Director Dharani is one of the masters of commercial cinema. Dabanng is a commercial blockbuster in Bollywood. Simbu is an actor who combines style and substance in Kollywood. What happens when the three come together? A heady cocktail of a mass masala entertainer is the end result. That is Osthi for you.

It is like been on a roller-coaster ride with fun, speed and style from the word go. More of a movie that we had seen in our growing up days, Osthi promises more of action at quick pace.

Simbu rocks all the way. He gives a matured performance and serious about his task. He combines humour with style. Richa is refreshing and bubbles with enthusiasm. Sonu Sood recreates the Dabanng magic here. He enacted the same role in original with greater perfection. Santhanam’s rib-tickling comedy and enough screen space for Jithan Ramesh makes it count.

Dharani has ensured everyone in the film including Nasser, Revathy, Thambi Ramiah, Vaiyapuri or Mayilsamy gets a part to play. Thaman’s music gives a lift to the film. The pacy numbers are foot-tapping with cinematographer Gopinath capturing them in a grand manner.

Osthi is no serious film, but one that may end up entertaining you.