We could not afford to watch every Tamil movie released in our small hometown in Malaysia. However, here is our very own list of films that we managed to catch at our local cinemas.
15. Vishwaroopam 2
Following the events of the first film, Wisam and his team leave New York for London to return their friend, Dawkins' body to his family. During this time, they learn of how terrorists are planning to blow sunken cesium weapons brought to the UK by American soldiers during the second World War to create a tsunami that will destroy London. Although Wisam manages to stop the terrorists, they manage to escape to India. Wisam is forced to return to his homeland and confront his past...
15. Vishwaroopam 2
Following the events of the first film, Wisam and his team leave New York for London to return their friend, Dawkins' body to his family. During this time, they learn of how terrorists are planning to blow sunken cesium weapons brought to the UK by American soldiers during the second World War to create a tsunami that will destroy London. Although Wisam manages to stop the terrorists, they manage to escape to India. Wisam is forced to return to his homeland and confront his past...
14. Tik Tik Tik
Following a meteor shower in Chennai, the Indian Space Research Organisation predicts an asteroid will hit India in less than a week. Army officers Swathi (Nivetha Pethuraj) and Raguram (Vincent Asokan) recruit Vasu (Jayam Ravi) and his friends, who are professional magicians and escape artists to break into a Chinese space station and steal an illegal nuclear missile that they can use to destroy the asteroid. Under the pretense of a satellite maintenance project, Vasu and his team are sent into space. However, Vasu receives an anonymous message warning him to sabotage the plan or else his son will die. To make things worse, the Chinese space station captain, Lee Wei (Aaron Aziz), is aware of the Indian space team's plans...
13. U-Turn
Rachana (Samantha Akkineni) is an aspiring journalist who is working on a story about the mysterious deaths of people across the city who are linked to a flyover in the city. She becomes convinced that someone is targeting motorists who move the concrete blocks that divide the road to avoid traffic by making a quick U-turn. She eventually learns that these motorists often do not place these blocks in their original position and this leads to many road accidents. As she investigates even further, she learns that all their deaths are linked but not in a way that she would have imagined...
12. 96
Ram (Vijay Sethupathi) is a freelance photographer who is overcome by memories during an unplanned visit to his former high school. Through his class' social media group, he manages to arrange a reunion party in the city by inviting everyone who graduated in the year 1996. Ram's high school sweetheart, Janaki (Trisha Krishnan) shows up unexpectedly...
11. Imaaika Nodigal
CBI officer Anjali (Nayanthara) was instrumental in the killing of Rudra (Anurag Kashyap), a serial killer who terrorized Bangalore when she was still a rookie. Years later, a copycat killer surfaces, claiming to be the real Rudra, whom Anjali failed to capture. Things become complicated when Krithika (Raashi Khanna), who is the girlfriend of Anjali's doctor brother, Arjun (Atharvaa) is abducted by what appears to be Rudra. When Anjali is suspended and kept under house arrest, Arjun decides to take matters into his own hands and tracks down Rudra, who reveals that Anjali has been harboring a dark secret for many years, one that will destroy her entire reputation...
10. Annanukku Jai
Sekar (Attakathi Dinesh) is a carefree young man who works for his father Murugesan (Mayilsamy) who sells toddy without a license to their fellow villagers. One day, Murugesan is arrested by the police after the jealous bar owner, Selva (Dheena) makes a report against him. Sekar cannot avenge his father since Selva works for Parasuraman (Radha Ravi), the local corrupt politician. Desperate, Sekar decides to join politics himself to take down Selva. One night, someone tries to murder Selva and the entire village starts to suspect Sekar is behind it...
9. Naachiyaar
Naachiyaar (Jyothika), a no nonsense Chennai policewoman and her partner, Feroz (Rockline Venkatesh) save Arasi (Ivana), an underage rape victim from her uncle and his goons who try to force her to undertake an abortion. The prime suspect turns out to be Arasi's boyfriend, Kaathu (G.V. Prakash Kumar), who is sent to a juvenile home, where he is cared for by a warden. When a DNA test is conducted on Arasi's baby, the truth eventually exposes an elaborate underground network of rapists and enablers who prey on unsuspecting young girls from impoverished communities...
Kokila (Nayanthara) is an educated but timid young lady who is struggling to find a job to support her family. When her mother is diagnosed with lung cancer, a desperate Kokila convinces the local gangster to allow her to smuggle cocaine for him. She manages to fool the authorities with her naive appearance and successfully transports drugs across the city. When she tries to quit the business, the gangster threatens her to deliver one last consignment to his partner. However, this consignment is the largest she has ever transported. To complete the task, she recruits her own family and friends to help out...
Senapathi (Prakash Raj) is the mafia leader of the most powerful and influential crime family in Chennai. One morning, he and his wife Lakshmi (Jayasudha) are almost killed by assassins disguised as policemen. Senapathi suspects it must be the work of one of their three sons. Varadan (Arvind Swami), the hot-tempered and cold blooded eldest son is Senapathi's closest henchmen. Thyagu (Arun Vijay), the second son is the most educated and is expanding their families' businesses in the middle east. Ethi (Silambarasan) is the youngest and is estranged from his family while running an illegal weapons trading chain across Europe. The whole family show up in Chennai and old family rivalries begin to surface...
5. Ratsasan
Arun (Vishnu Vishal) is a young police officer with aspirations to enter the film industry. A few days after he joins the service, young girls start disappearing and their bodies are found a few days later, brutally mutilated. Having intensively researched the likes of Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac Killer while writing his screenplays, Arun immediately recognizes this is the work of a psychotic serial killer. However, his superiors refuse to listen to him. Things take a turn for the worse when Arun's own niece goes missing...
Four gangsters assassinate their former mentor and leader at an empty restaurant in North Madras. Two of them surrender to the authorities while the remaining two continue to expand their business and influence across the city. The two in jail eventually feel betrayed by their partners in crime when they are not bailed out. In comes Anbu (Dhanush), a talented carrom player who gets into trouble for constantly getting in between gang fights. While it initially appears as if he is not interested in the rivalry between both prison gangs, a twist in fate reveals that there is more to him than meets the eye...
Michael (Sananth Reddy) and his four best friends are deaf and dumb orphans who were raised at a children's shelter after their families were killed in a mercury poisoning incident. As young adults, they return to the hill station they grew up in for a reunion. They unwittingly kill a man (Prabhu Deva) by and try to hide his body at the forest not too far from the site of the mercury poisoning. The following morning, they return to the forest to retrieve something from the body that might incriminate them. Instead, they find that the body is missing and they are then hunted by an otherworldly entity that brutally murders them one by one...
The impoverished people living in the slum of Dharavi in Mumbai are constantly ostracized by politicians, businessmen and gangsters alike. The only people who never fails to stand up for them is Kaala (Rajinikanth) and his family. However, Kaala is soon faced with a foe like no other in the form of Union Minister Hari Dhadha (Nana Patekar) and his goon Vishnu Bhai (Sampath Raj). Even the return of Kaala's highly educated and influential first wife, Zareena (Huma Qureshi) to Mumbai cannot stop Hari Dhadha. Following the assasination attempt on his life that kills his second wife, Selvi (Easwari Rao) and eldest son Selvam (Dileepan), Kaala tries out a new strategy to take down Hari Dhadha once and for all. But Hari Dhadha is always a few steps ahead...
Naachiyaar (Jyothika), a no nonsense Chennai policewoman and her partner, Feroz (Rockline Venkatesh) save Arasi (Ivana), an underage rape victim from her uncle and his goons who try to force her to undertake an abortion. The prime suspect turns out to be Arasi's boyfriend, Kaathu (G.V. Prakash Kumar), who is sent to a juvenile home, where he is cared for by a warden. When a DNA test is conducted on Arasi's baby, the truth eventually exposes an elaborate underground network of rapists and enablers who prey on unsuspecting young girls from impoverished communities...
8. Kolamavu Kokkila
Kokila (Nayanthara) is an educated but timid young lady who is struggling to find a job to support her family. When her mother is diagnosed with lung cancer, a desperate Kokila convinces the local gangster to allow her to smuggle cocaine for him. She manages to fool the authorities with her naive appearance and successfully transports drugs across the city. When she tries to quit the business, the gangster threatens her to deliver one last consignment to his partner. However, this consignment is the largest she has ever transported. To complete the task, she recruits her own family and friends to help out...
7. Chekka Chivantha Vaanam
Senapathi (Prakash Raj) is the mafia leader of the most powerful and influential crime family in Chennai. One morning, he and his wife Lakshmi (Jayasudha) are almost killed by assassins disguised as policemen. Senapathi suspects it must be the work of one of their three sons. Varadan (Arvind Swami), the hot-tempered and cold blooded eldest son is Senapathi's closest henchmen. Thyagu (Arun Vijay), the second son is the most educated and is expanding their families' businesses in the middle east. Ethi (Silambarasan) is the youngest and is estranged from his family while running an illegal weapons trading chain across Europe. The whole family show up in Chennai and old family rivalries begin to surface...
6. 2.0
The film begins where the first movie ended. Dr. Vaseegaran (Rajnikanth) has dismantled Chitti (also Rajnikanth) and replaced him with Nila (Amy Jackson), a purely domestic humanoid robot to function as his assistant. However, Vasee and Nila are forced to reassemble Chitti following a mass hysteria in Chennai when smartphones around India are sucked into thin air. Vasee, Nila and Chitti trace the source of the phenomenon to the suicide of an elderly ornithologist, Pakshi Rajan (Akshay Kumar) who hanged himself from a cell tower in his own backyard. The cell tower's illegally sanctioned high radiation combined with Pakshi's negative aura energy produces an otherworldly entity that even Chitti cannot handle. When all hope is lost, a desperate Nila decides to revive an old rival from Vasee's past that once caused mass destruction to the city...
The film begins where the first movie ended. Dr. Vaseegaran (Rajnikanth) has dismantled Chitti (also Rajnikanth) and replaced him with Nila (Amy Jackson), a purely domestic humanoid robot to function as his assistant. However, Vasee and Nila are forced to reassemble Chitti following a mass hysteria in Chennai when smartphones around India are sucked into thin air. Vasee, Nila and Chitti trace the source of the phenomenon to the suicide of an elderly ornithologist, Pakshi Rajan (Akshay Kumar) who hanged himself from a cell tower in his own backyard. The cell tower's illegally sanctioned high radiation combined with Pakshi's negative aura energy produces an otherworldly entity that even Chitti cannot handle. When all hope is lost, a desperate Nila decides to revive an old rival from Vasee's past that once caused mass destruction to the city...
5. Ratsasan
Arun (Vishnu Vishal) is a young police officer with aspirations to enter the film industry. A few days after he joins the service, young girls start disappearing and their bodies are found a few days later, brutally mutilated. Having intensively researched the likes of Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac Killer while writing his screenplays, Arun immediately recognizes this is the work of a psychotic serial killer. However, his superiors refuse to listen to him. Things take a turn for the worse when Arun's own niece goes missing...
4. Vada Chennai
Four gangsters assassinate their former mentor and leader at an empty restaurant in North Madras. Two of them surrender to the authorities while the remaining two continue to expand their business and influence across the city. The two in jail eventually feel betrayed by their partners in crime when they are not bailed out. In comes Anbu (Dhanush), a talented carrom player who gets into trouble for constantly getting in between gang fights. While it initially appears as if he is not interested in the rivalry between both prison gangs, a twist in fate reveals that there is more to him than meets the eye...
3. Mercury
Michael (Sananth Reddy) and his four best friends are deaf and dumb orphans who were raised at a children's shelter after their families were killed in a mercury poisoning incident. As young adults, they return to the hill station they grew up in for a reunion. They unwittingly kill a man (Prabhu Deva) by and try to hide his body at the forest not too far from the site of the mercury poisoning. The following morning, they return to the forest to retrieve something from the body that might incriminate them. Instead, they find that the body is missing and they are then hunted by an otherworldly entity that brutally murders them one by one...
2. Kaala
The impoverished people living in the slum of Dharavi in Mumbai are constantly ostracized by politicians, businessmen and gangsters alike. The only people who never fails to stand up for them is Kaala (Rajinikanth) and his family. However, Kaala is soon faced with a foe like no other in the form of Union Minister Hari Dhadha (Nana Patekar) and his goon Vishnu Bhai (Sampath Raj). Even the return of Kaala's highly educated and influential first wife, Zareena (Huma Qureshi) to Mumbai cannot stop Hari Dhadha. Following the assasination attempt on his life that kills his second wife, Selvi (Easwari Rao) and eldest son Selvam (Dileepan), Kaala tries out a new strategy to take down Hari Dhadha once and for all. But Hari Dhadha is always a few steps ahead...
1. Pariyerum Perumal
Pariyerum Perumal (Kathir) comes from an oppressed community. At law school, he befriends Jothi (Anandhi), a naive girl from an upper caste. Jothi's cousin, Sankar (Lijesh), who goes to the same college as Pari and Jothi, disapproves of their friendship. When Jothi invites Pari to her home for her sister's wedding, the men in Jothi's family hatch a plan to teach Pari a lesson by establishing their caste superiority over him. Jothi's father leads Pari into a room to talk. When Sankar and his brothers break into the room, they strip Pari off his pride and dignity in a way that would change the young man's life forever...
Pariyerum Perumal (Kathir) comes from an oppressed community. At law school, he befriends Jothi (Anandhi), a naive girl from an upper caste. Jothi's cousin, Sankar (Lijesh), who goes to the same college as Pari and Jothi, disapproves of their friendship. When Jothi invites Pari to her home for her sister's wedding, the men in Jothi's family hatch a plan to teach Pari a lesson by establishing their caste superiority over him. Jothi's father leads Pari into a room to talk. When Sankar and his brothers break into the room, they strip Pari off his pride and dignity in a way that would change the young man's life forever...
