AGS Entertainment
Parent Kalpathi Investments | | |
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AGS Entertainment is an Indian film production, distribution company, and
Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It was established in 2006 by Kalpathi brothers: S. Aghoram, S. Ganesh, and S. Suresh. AGS has four multiplex movie theaters across Chennai
.
History
AGS Entertainment ventured into film production in 2006 with
Nandha, the K. V. Anand-Suriya project Maattrraan (2012) and Atlee directed sports action film Bigil (2019), while the distribution of films includes Kandhakottai, Inidhu Inidhu, Mynaa and Payanam
.
In 2013, AGS Entertainment started their first movie theatre in
and in 2018, another theatre in Maduravoyal.Productions
Year | Title | Cast | Director | Synopsis | Notes |
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2006 | Thiruttu Payale | Jeevan, Sonia Agarwal, Abbas, Malavika | Susi Ganesan | Manikkam captures a video of illicit affair between businessman's wife and her lover and threatens her for money. She also tries to outsmart him. | [3] |
2008 | Santosh Subramaniam | Jayam Ravi, Genelia D'Souza, Prakash Raj | Mohan Raja | A man who feels irritated by over influence of his father wants to make his own decisions of his life and falls in love. | [4] |
2009 | Maasilamani | Nakul, Sunaina |
R. N. R. Manohar | Good hearted gangster is hated by a girl due to his nature, he adopts a different persona pretending to be a twin to impress the girl. | [5] |
2010 | Madrasapattinam | Arya, Amy Jackson | A. L. Vijay | The film is set in 1940s during country's struggle for independence, Parithi a villager falls in love with Amy, daughter of British General. | [6] |
Irumbukkottai Murattu Singam | Raghava Lawrence, Raai Laxmi, Sandhya | Chimbu Deven | Cowboys bring a lookalike of deceased cowboy Singam to rescue village from thieves. | [7] | |
Bale Pandiya | Vishnu Vishal, Pia Bajpiee, Vivek | Siddharth Chandrasekhar | A man who faces ill luck approaches a gangster to murder him, the gangster who is surprised by his decision gives him a chance to be happy for few days through which he gains a new lease of life after falling in love but ends up in a different problem. | [8] | |
2011 | Engeyum Kaadhal |
Jayam Ravi, Hansika Motwani | Prabhu Deva | Young Celloist living in a Paris who loves a man coming from India, but he doesn't believe her love. | [9] |
Yuddham Sei | Cheran, Dipa Shah | Myshkin |
A cop who is deeply depressed by the disappearance of his sister investigates the case of missing girls and series of murders in the city. | [10] | |
Avan Ivan | Janani Iyer, Madhu Shalini |
Bala | Two stepbrothers avenges the death of village zamindar. | [11] | |
Vellore Maavattam | Nandha, Poorna |
R. N. R. Manohar | [12] | ||
2012 | Maatrraan | Surya Sivakumar, Kajal Aggarwal |
K. V. Anand | Two conjoined twins discover a shocking secret about their birth. | [13] |
2013 | Naveena Saraswathi Sabatham | Niveda Thomas |
K. Chandru | Lord Shiva decides to teach lesson to a gang of friends and make them realize their life. | [14] |
2014 | Tenaliraman |
Vadivelu, Meenakshi Dixit | Yuvaraj Dhayalan | [15] | |
Irumbu Kuthirai | Atharvaa, Priya Anand, Raai Laxmi | Yuvraj | [16] | ||
2015 | Anegan | Dhanush, Amyra Dastur | K. V. Anand | A boy and a girl realizes they were lovers in their previous generation. | [17] |
Vai Raja Vai | Gautham Karthik, Priya Anand | Aishwarya R. Dhanush |
Man with extrasensory perception uses his talent to earn money through gambling which lands him in trouble. | [18] | |
Thani Oruvan | Arvind Swami |
Mohan Raja | A honest cop is on pursuit to apprehend a cruel businessman. | [19] | |
2017 | Kavan | Vijay Sethupathi, T. Rajendar, Madonna Sebastian, Vikranth | K. V. Anand | Leading TV channel goes on the extent of publishing false news to raise TRPs however his own employees go against him and exposes his true colours. | [20] |
Thiruttu Payale 2 | Bobby Simha, Prasanna, Amala Paul | Susi Ganesan |
Cop who earns money by overhearing other conservations meets face to face with a rich hacker who harasses cop's wife. | [21] | |
2019 | Bigil | Vijay, Nayanthara, Jackie Shroff, Vivek, Yogi Babu | Atlee Kumar |
Mobster and Former football player decides to coach a girls football team whose coach get attacked by his rivals. | [22] |
2022 | Naai Sekar | Sathish, Pavithra Lakshmi | Kishore Rajkumar | A guy gets bitten by a dog and starts to behave like a dog | [23] |
Love Today | Pradeep Ranganathan, Ivana | Pradeep Ranganathan | Lovers' phones swapped by the girls father for a day to expose them to each other. | [24] | |
2023 | Conjuring Kannappan | Sathish, Regina Cassandra, Nassar, Saranya Ponvannan | Selvin Raj Xavier | [25] | |
TBA | The Greatest of All Time † | Vijay, Prashanth, Prabhu Deva, Mohan, Meenakshi Chaudhary | Venkat Prabhu |
Distribution
Year | Title | Cast | Director | Notes |
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2009 | Kandhakottai | Nakul, Poorna |
S. Sakthivel | [26] |
2010 | Inidhu Inidhu | Narayan, Arun Iswaran, Vimal, Sharan Sharma, Reshmi Menon, Sonia Deepti | K. V. Guhan | |
Mynaa | Vidharth, Amala Paul, Sethu, Thambi Ramaiyaa | Prabhu Solomon | [27] | |
2011 | Payanam | Nagarjuna Akkineni, Prakash Raj, Poonam Kaur |
Radha Mohan | [28] |
Avan Ivan | Vishal , Arya | Bala | [11] | |
2014 | Tenaliraman | Vadivelu, Meenakshi Dixit | Yuvaraj Dhayalan | [15] |
2015 | Anegan | Dhanush, Amyra Dastur | K. V. Anand | [17] |
Thani Oruvan | Nayantara |
Mohan Raja | [19] | |
2017 | Kavan | Vijay Sethupathi, T. Rajendar, Madonna Sebastian, Vikranth | K. V. Anand | [29] |
2019 | Bigil | Vijay, Nayanthara, Kathir | Atlee Kumar |
[30] |
Multiplexes
Year | Multiplex Name | # of Screens | Locality | City | State | Ref. |
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2013 | AGS Cinemas, Villivakkam | 5 | Villivakkam | Chennai | Tamil Nadu | [3] |
2014 | AGS Cinemas, Navalur | 4 | Navalur | Chennai | ||
2016 | AGS Cinemas,T Nagar | 4 | T Nagar
|
Chennai | ||
2018 | AGS Cinemas, Maduravoyal | 5 | Maduravoyal | Chennai | [31] |
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