Thyagarajan
Also Known As: Thyagarajan, Thiagarajan Sivanandam, Thiyagarajan
Biography: Thiagarajan is an Indian actor, director and producer of Tamil films. He is the father of Tamil actor Prashanth. Thiagarajan made his acting debut with "Alaigal Oivathillai "appearing as the elder brother of film's lead actress Radha. The film became successful and offers poured in for him. His portrayal of jungle bandit in "Malaiyoor Mambattiyan" provided him major breakthrough in his career. He was also a part of successful films like "Neengal Kettavai", "Payum Puli". He acted in Malayalam film "New Delhi" which became successful and his portrayal of a goon received acclaim. The success of the film prompted Thiagarajan to make his directorial debut titled "Salem Vishnu" based on the character which he had played in that film.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Birthday: June 21, 1945
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Ravimama
Overview: Ravi, a young man, kills his brother-in-law after finding out that he had married his sister to take revenge on her for raising her voice against the village landlord.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 1999-03-19
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Magaadu
Overview: Two brothers are raised under difficult circumstances where one becomes a policeman and the other a gangster. Resultantly, fate pits them against each other causing their relationship to fall apart.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: te
Release Date: 1990-08-09
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Paayum Puli
Overview: When a smuggler kills his sister, a mentally impaired man vows to deliver justice and joins a martial arts school.
Genres: Drama Action Romance
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1983-01-14
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Nalla Naal
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1984-06-01
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Miss Pamela
Overview: Miss Pamela is a 1989 Malayalam language movie starring Silk Smita, Suresh Gopi in lead roles, directed by Kottayam Chellappan
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Bhagavathipuram Railway Gate
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1983-04-14
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Alaigal Oyivadhilai
Overview: A man and a woman fall in love with each other; his mother does not approve of her as she is from a different religion and her brother is a gangster. But they decide to withstand religious differences to be with each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1981-07-18
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Drohi
Overview: Samy and Karuna grow up together in the slums of Royapuram. One day, they witness the brutal murder of their teacher by a gangster. While Karuna manages to kill the gangster, Samy tells to the cops that Karuna was responsible for the murder.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 2010-09-10
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Bodyguard
Overview: Jayakrishnan, a bodyguard, is an innocent man who respects his boss and his daughter. He falls in love with a girl whom he has never met, unaware that she is his boss's daughter.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 2010-01-22
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Daiviyin Thiruvilaiyadal
Overview: Deviyin Thiruvilayadal is a 1982 Indian Tamil film, directed by K. S. Gopalkrishnan. The film stars Sri Devi, Thyagarajan, Rajesh and Vidya in lead roles. The film had musical score by Gopalkrishnan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Manu Uncle
Overview: A group of children witness the robbery of a sword from a museum. However, they, along with Manu, set out to catch the culprits and also discover a shocking truth.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1988-04-07
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Shock
Overview: Shock is an urban supernatural thriller set in urban surroundings.Satya (Prashanth), a married stock analyst is in search of a flat for him and his wife Sumi. He chooses a flat on the 12th floor of a huge building at Chennai. The flat has problem. The previous tenant, a young lady commits suicide in that apartment. On hearing this Sumi starts to lose sleep. She becomes distressed. Each night becomes a nightmare for her. What Satya thinks is a psychological problem begins to unravel into the unexplainable. He becomes helpless in the fight to save Sumi; Satya will have to reach out into the horrifying discovery --- The truth.
Genres: Thriller Horror Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 2004-05-01
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Nenjangal
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1982-12-09
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Garuda Saukiyama
Overview: Deenadayalan is an orphan raised by Mary. He starts with petty crimes and moves on to larger crimes as he grows older. He takes Muthukrishnan under his wing and eventually rises to become a feared, powerful don. Despite this, Deenadayalan has a strong sense of justice and is seen as a protector of the poor and underprivileged. His wife Lakshmi and daughter Radha are completely unaware of his illegal activities. But, as he faces betrayal from those close to him, his work begins to impact his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1982-02-26
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Vaaimai
Overview: A judge decides to bring back the jury system to decide if a woman, who is alleged to have helped her son in assassinating a Gandhian leader, should be hanged or walk free.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 2016-09-09
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Jai
Overview: Jai is dubbing version of Telugu movie Aadi. The movie is all about a young man and how he struggles to uplift of a particular community. Prashanth and Anshu are college students.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-14
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New Delhi
Overview: A journalist is illegally jailed for exposing two corrupt politicians, He exacts revenge through his new mysterious newspaper.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1987-06-24
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Abkari
Overview: Vasu and Chacko are working as drivers and low ranking workers for the Abkari contractor Sreekandan. Sreekandan is heavily involved in the smuggling of liquor from the neighbouring state of Tamil Nadu in order to increase the already high profits in his business. For some time the jobless youngsters try illegal brewing of hooch.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1988-04-14
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State Rowdy
Overview: An aspiring police officer changes the course of his life when he is unable to achieve his dream due to dirty politics. Then, he turns into an outlaw and decides to eliminate crime on his own.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: te
Release Date: 1989-03-22
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Roshagadu
Overview: Roshagadu is an suspense thriller based movie in which, Chiru played the role of CID informer and Thyagaraju and Prabhakar are two gangleaders and CID officer Neelima(Madhavi) is assigned to burst their underworld.Neelima uses Sikander (Chiru), who works for them, as her informer, but before sikander manages to gather enough evidences, Prabhakar comes to know about his reality and kills him. Now, Neelima is left without any support in her mission.Oneday, she spots a Sikander look a like (chiru again) and persuades him to act like sikander, During this process, they fall in love with each other. In the end, sikander manages to liquidate all secret activities of thyagu and bhayankar and helps neelima in completing her mission.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-29
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Salem Vishnu
Overview: Vishnu, a clever student but intolerant to cheating, is detained from college. He then becomes a car mechanic, but his life starts to change when his brother is transferred to the same city.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1990-02-15
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Billa Ranga
Overview: Billa Ranga is action thriller based movie in which, Raviraj (Kannada Prabhakar) is a smuggler who kills people and smuggles their skulls to foreign countries. To get evidences against him and close his business, police commissioner (Thyagaraju) call up Billa (Chiranjeeevi) , a CID officer from delhi and presents him as thief in local area.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: te
Release Date: 1982-10-15
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Adaikalam
Overview: Adaikalam is a 2006 Tamil film directed by Bhuvanaraja. The film stars Prashanth, Uma, Thiagarajan and Saranya Ponvannan in lead roles.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-28
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Oohakachavadam
Overview: Oohakachavadam is a 1988 Indian Malayalam film, directed by K. Madhu. The film stars Adoor Bhasi, Balachandra Menon, Murali Suhasini and Prathapachandran in lead roles. The film had musical score by MG Radhakrishnan.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1988-09-09
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Thilakkam
Overview: Padmanabhan master and his wife are waiting for Unni, their only son who is missing for many years. 10 year old Unni got lost in the crowd during a temple festival where he was along with his neighbour Panikkar, popularly known as Poorappanikkar. Panikkar too did not return since he decided to return only after finding Unni. Ammu is Panikkar's daughter who also believes, like master and his wife, that her father will return one day with Unni. The master finds Unni and brings him back to the Village. The villagers realize that Unni is abnormal and is mentally challenged. He behaves like a small boy and creates all sorts of trouble for the villagers and his parents.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 2003-04-11
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Raja Yuvaraja
Overview: Tamil movie directed by Raja Yuvaraja director Somasundaram. Thiagarajan and Deepa are playing the lead roles.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-15
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Pachakallam
Overview: Maqbool Salman plays lead role in the forthcoming movie ‘Pachakallam’
Genres: Action
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 2016-01-29
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Yaman
Overview: In a malicious world of ruthless politicians and gangsters, a common man develops a dream to make it big in politics and takes on a few big shots.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 2017-02-24
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PT Sir
Overview: The film follows a Physical Training teacher who inspires his students to realize their potential and pursue their aspirations. As he navigates various challenges within the school environment, his mentorship plays a crucial role in their journey of self-discovery and personal growth.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 2024-05-24
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Chekka Chivantha Vaanam
Overview: A bloody power struggle erupts between three brothers who are vying to take over the family business following the death of their father.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 2018-09-27
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Tik Tik Tik
Overview: A fashion photographer gets embroiled in a series of grisly murders.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1981-11-07
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Anthima Theerpu
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: te
Release Date: 1988-07-18
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Malaiyoor Mambattiyan
Overview: Malaiyoor Mambattiyan is the story of a group of youngsters in the village headed by Mambattiyan, who lead the life in a forest by robbing the rich and distributing the wealth to the poor; thus Mambattiyan becomes the local Robin Hood.
Genres: Action Romance Thriller
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Ponmagal Vandhal
Overview: A resident in Ooty named ‘Petition’ Pethuraj reopens a case from 2004 that involved a serial killer ‘Psycho Jyoti’ who was convicted for the kidnapping and murder. Venba, his daughter and a passionate lawyer, seeks to unveil the truth.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 2020-05-29
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Neengal Kettavai
Overview: Poornima, a widow living in Ooty leads a peaceful life with her two sons. Jaishankar, a tourist who visits the place gets tempted and rapes her. In the act, Poornima dies leaving her two sons who witness the murder. With a turn of events leading to both sons joining together and take revenge for their mother's death forms the rest of the story.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1984-06-28
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Oru Muthassi Katha
Overview: The lives of peaceful fishermen living on the western coast of Kerala change when a stranger with ulterior motives visits their village for business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1988-04-03
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