distribution industry entertainment software headquarters chennai india key people ramkumar ganesan prabhu ganesan products motion pictures tamil motion pictures hindi website http www.sivajiproductions.com sivaji productions is a film distributing and producing company of tamil and hindi language films . 1 contents 1 history 2 filmography 3 references 4 external links history edit sivaji productions company is owned by prabhu ganesan and his brother ramkumar ganesan . it is named after their father the thespian sivaji ganesan . notable films released under their banner includes chandramukhi and delhii heights . sivaji productions was started in 1956 by dr. sivaji ganesan and his brother sri v.c. shanmugam . it was first started as a distribution company and distributed many of dr. sivaji s movies . in 1958 sivaji productions co produced its first film amardeep which was a hindi remake of amardeepam . its first solo production was vietnam veedu in 1969 with dr. sivaji in the lead role . since then sivaji productions has produced about 18 films till date . the last being chandramukhi the biggest blockbuster of 2005 and the longest run film in south india . after sri v.c. shanmugam s death in 1986 dr. sivaji s son mr. g.ramkumar took over sivaji productions . sivaji productions has also ventured into the production of television serials . it has produced two serials kokila engey pogirral in tamil and seethama maeyamma in telugu and is currently producing a tamil serial called thavam for kalaingar tv . chandramukhi was the 50th film produced by sivaji productions . 2 during the success meet of mannan 1992 rajinikanth announced that he would act in sivaji productions 50th film . 3 in september 2004 rajinikanth congratulated p. vasu on the success of apthamitra 2004 and was impressed with the film s screenplay . vasu narrated a story of the film to rajinikanth . rajinikanth later called ramkumar ganesan and asked him to do the film in tamil under ramkumar s home production banner sivaji productions . 4 ramkumar telephoned vasu who was offering worship in a temple in guruvayoor at that time informing him of rajinikanth s wish to do apthamitra in tamil under his direction . 4 vasu reworked the script he wrote for apthamitra to suit rajinikanth s style of acting . 5 the film dealt mainly with the concept of dissociative identity disorder commonly known as multiple personality disorder mpd or split personality syndrome . 6 the film received positive reviews from critics and became a successful venture at the box office . 7 8 their next project was initially announced with gautham menon as director . 9 however the film s production failed to take off with repeated dates being announced by the directors for the film s first schedule throughout 2009 . subsequently menon was removed from the project by the producers due to the film s inactivity with directors dharani vishnuvardhan and saran leading the race to take over . 10 in january 2009 the film was reannounced as asal by prabhu and the story was subsequently changed with saran being signed up as the film s director . 11 the film received negative reviews from critics and became a failure at box office . 12 filmography edit year film language director cast notes 1958 amar deep hindi t. prakash rao dev anand vyjayanthimala padmini pran co production with venus pictures 1962 rakhi hindi a. bhimsingh ashok kumar pradeep kumar waheeda rehman co production with prabhuram pictures 1964 puthiya paravai tamil dada mirasi 1970 vietnam veedu tamil p. madhavan sivaji ganesan padmini nagesh srikanth was a super hit film that ran for over 100 days in chennai kovai trichy and salem 1974 thanga pathakkam tamil p. madhavan sivaji ganesan k.r.vijaya cho ramasamy srikanth celebrated over 100 days in chennai 3 madurai trichy selam kovai vellor tanjore kumbakonam tirunelveli erode & over 175 days in chennai and trichy 1977 annan oru koyil tamil k. vijayan sivaji ganesan sujatha sumitra super hit film ran for over 100 days in chennai trichy madurai salem coimbatore tanjore and kudandhai 1979 thirisoolam tamil k. vijayan sivaji ganesan k.r.vijaya thengai srinivasan sivaji s 200th film one of the all time blockbuster that ran over 200 days in tamil nadu and grossed over 5 cr revenue for the first time ever in the history of tamil cinema 1980 ratha paasam tamil sivaji ganesan thengai srinivasan manorama 1982 vaa kanna vaa tamil d. yoganand sivaji ganesan sujatha nagesh jai ganesh one of the super hit film that ran over 100 days . 1983 sandhippu tamil c. v. rajendran sivaji ganesan sridevi prabhu another silve jubilee film and was a big grosser after thirisoolam . ran for over 175 days in chennai madurai and crossed 100 days in all major towns in tamil nadu . 1985 neethiyin nizhal tamil bharathi vasu sivaji ganesan prabhu k.r.vijaya 1986 anandha kanneer tamil k. vijayan sivaji ganesan lakshmi thengai srinivasan visu 1986 aruvadai naal tamil g. m. kumar prabhu pallavi r.p. viswam vadivukarasi rasi 1987 anand tamil c. v. rajendran prabhu radha sowcar janaki 1988 en thamizh en makkal tamil santhana bharathi sivaji ganesan vadivukkarasi nizhalgal ravi 1989 vetri vizha tamil pratap pothan kamal hassan prabhu amala khusboo 1990 my dear marthandan tamil pratap pothen prabhu khusboo s.s.chandran 1991 thalattu ketkuthamma tamil rajkapoor prabhu kanaka senthil r.p.viswam silk smitha 1992 mannan tamil p.vasu rajnikanth vijayshanthi khusboo 1993 kalaignan tamil g. b. vijay kamal haasan bindiya shivaranjani 1994 rajakumaran tamil r. v. udayakumar prabhu nadia meena prabhu s 100th film 2005 chandramukhi tamil p.vasu rajnikanth prabhu jothika nayanthara 2007 delhii heights hindi anand kumar jimmy shiergill neha dhupia om puri 2010 aasal tamil saran ajith kumar prabhu ganesan sameera reddy bhavana suresh 2017 theri 2 tamil atlee vijay amy jackson motta rajendran baby nainika announced references edit http www.sivajiproductions.com dhananjayan 2011 p. 269 . chinnarayana 2015 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. ajith s asal . sify . archived from the original on 11 april 2009 . retrieved 8 april 2009 . review asal is for ajith fans rediff.com movies . movies.rediff.com 5 february 2010 . retrieved on 21 february 2014 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sivaji productions & oldid 738630064 categories film production companies of indiafilm production companies of tamil nadu navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages polski edit links this page was last modified on 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