Red Giant Movies

Red Giant Movies
Company type	Film production; Film distribution
Industry	Entertainment
Founded	2008; 17 years ago
Founder	Udhayanidhi Stalin
Headquarters	Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Area served	Tamil Nadu ; Puducherry
Key people	Arjun Durai; M Shenbagamoorthy;
Products	Motion pictures (Tamil)
Website	www.redgiantmovies.in

Red Giant Movies is an Indian film production and film distribution company headed by Udhayanidhi Stalin. It has distributed nearly all major films in Tamil Nadu in the last few years, and is often accused of having a monopoly in Tamil cinema.^[1]^[2]^[3]

History

The proposed venture of the studio was meant to be a collaboration between director Thamizhvaanan and actor Vishal, but the film never took off.^[4] Subsequently, the first production of Red Giant Movies was the action comedy Kuruvi (2008) starring Vijay, following which the studio financed K. S. Ravikumar's Aadhavan (2009) starring Suriya.^[5] The studio later worked on big budget films including the Kamal Haasan-starrer Manmadan Ambu (2010) and AR Murugadoss's 7 Aum Arivu (2011).

The studio received acclaim in 2010, when all four of its distribution projects, Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa, Madrasapattinam, Boss Engira Bhaskaran and Mynaa became commercial successes.^[6] In the case of Mynaa, the studio received praise for backing and choosing to purchase a small budget film and helping market it as a bigger film.^[7] Since the end of 2011, Red Giant Movies has concentrated solely on producing films starring Udhayanidhi Stalin. The production house revived its widespread operations in the production and distribution of films after 2021. Red Giant Movies is currently established as the leading production house in the Tamil film industry with numerous blockbusters released under their banner including Vikram (2022). Red Giant Movies recently joined hands with Kamal Haasan's Raaj Kamal Films International (RKFI) for the star's greatly anticipated film to be directed by maverick filmmaker Mani Ratnam. Since 2022, films produced by Red Giant Movies would no longer use Udhayanidhi's name in their promotional material, after he became Minister of Youth Welfare and Sports Development of Tamil Nadu.^[8]

Filmography

Films produced

Year	Title	Director	Cast	Ref.
2008	Kuruvi	Dharani	Vijay, Trisha, Suman, Vivek	^[9]
2009	Aadhavan	K. S. Ravikumar	Suriya, Nayanthara, Rahul Dev, Vadivelu	^[10]
2010	Manmadhan Ambu	K. S. Ravikumar	Kamal Haasan, Trisha, Madhavan
2011	7aum Arivu	AR Murugadoss	Suriya, Shruti Haasan, Johnny Tri Nguyen	^[11]
2012	Oru Kal Oru Kannadi	M. Rajesh	Udhayanidhi Stalin, Hansika Motwani, Santhanam	^[12]
2012	Neerparavai	Seenu Ramasamy	Vishnu Vishal, Sunaina, Nandita Das, Samuthirakani	^[13]
2013	Vanakkam Chennai	Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi	Shiva, Priya Anand, Rahul Ravindran	^[14]
2014	Idhu Kathirvelan Kadhal	S. R. Prabhakaran	Udhayanidhi Stalin, Nayanthara, Santhanam	^[15]
2015	Nannbenda	Jagadish	Udhayanidhi Stalin, Nayanthara, Santhanam, Sherin	^[16]
2016	Gethu	Thirukumaran	Udhayanidhi Stalin, Amy Jackson, Sathyaraj, Vikranth	^[17]
2016	Manithan	I. Ahmed	Udhayanidhi Stalin, Hansika Motwani, Prakash Raj	^[18]
2017	Saravanan Irukka Bayamaen	Ezhil	Udhayanidhi Stalin, Regina Cassandra, Srushti Dange, Soori	^[19]
2019	Kanne Kalaimaane	Seenu Ramasamy	Udhayanidhi Stalin, Tamannaah
2022	Kalaga Thalaivan	Magizh Thirumeni	Udhayanidhi Stalin, Nidhhi Agerwal
2023	Maamannan	Mari Selvaraj	Vadivelu, Udhayanidhi Stalin, Fahadh Faasil
2024	Indian 2	S. Shankar	Kamal Haasan, Kajal Agarwal
2025	Kadhalikka Neramillai	Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi	Ravi Mohan, Nithya Menon	^[20]
	Indian 3 †	S Shankar	Kamal Haasan, Kajal Agarval
	Thug Life †	Mani Ratnam	Kamal Haasan, Silambarasan, Trisha, Abhirami	^[21]
TBA	SK25 †	Sudha Kongara	Sivakarthikeyan, Jayam Ravi, Atharvaa, Sreeleela

Films distributed

In addition to the films produced by Red Giant Movies since 2008, the following films from other banners were distributed by the company:


Year	Title	Director	Cast	Ref.
2010	Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa	Gautham Vasudev Menon	Silambarasan, Trisha
	Madrasapattinam	A. L. Vijay	Arya, Amy Jackson
	Boss Engira Bhaskaran	M. Rajesh	Arya, Nayanthara, Santhanam
	Mynaa	Prabhu Solomon	Vidharth, Amala Paul
2011	Ko	K. V. Anand	Jiiva, Ajmal, Karthika, Piaa Bajpai
	Maaveeran	S. S. Rajamouli	Ram Charan, Srihari, Kajal Aggarwal, Dev Gill.
	Mankatha	Venkat Prabhu	Ajith Kumar, Arjun Sarja, Trisha, Andrea Jeremiah
2013	Kanna Laddu Thinna Aasaiya	KS Manikandan	Santhanam, Vishakha Singh, Dr. Srinivasan
	Udhayam NH4	Manimaran	Siddharth, Ashrita Shetty
	Neram	Alphonse Puthren	Nivin Pauly, Nazriya Nazim, Bobby Simha
	Kutti Puli	M. Muthaiah	Sasikumar, Lakshmi Menon
	Aadhalal Kadhal Seiveer	Suseenthiran	Santhosh Ramesh, Manisha Yadhav
	Thagaraaru	Ganesh Vinaayac	Arulnithi, Poorna
	Endrendrum Punnagai	I. Ahmed	Jiiva, Trisha, Vinay, Santhanam, Andrea Jeremiah
2014	Nedunchaalai	N. Krishna	Aari Arujunan, Sshivada
	Saivam	A. L. Vijay	Nassar, Vidya Pradeep
	Aranmanai	Sundar C	Sundar C, Hansika Motwani, Vinay Rai, Andrea Jeremiah
2015	Tamiluku En Ondrai Aluthavum	Ramprakash Rayappa	Nakul, Attakathi Dinesh, Bindu Madhavi, Aishwarya Dutta
2015	Inimey Ippadithan	Muruganand	Santhanam, Ashna Zaveri, Akhila Kishore
2017	Ippadai Vellum	Gaurav Narayanan	Udhayanidhi Stalin, Manjima Mohan,
2018	Nimir	Priyadarshan	Udhayanidhi Stalin, Namitha Pramod, Parvati Nair
	Oru Kuppai Kathai	Kaali Rangaswamy	Dinesh, Manisha Yadhav
	Silukkuvarupatti Singam	Chella Ayyavu	Vishnu Vishal, Regina Cassandra
2019	Nerkonda Paarvai	H. Vinoth	Ajith Kumar, Shraddha Srinath, Abhirami Venkatachalam
	Namma Veettu Pillai	Pandiraj	Sivakarthikeyan, Anu Emmanuel, Aishwarya Rajesh
	Bakrid	Jagadeesan Subu	Vikranth, Vasundhara Kashyap
2020	Psycho	Mysskin	Udhayanidhi Stalin, Nithya Menen, Aditi Rao Hydari
2021	Aranmanai 3	Sundar C	Sundar C, Raashii Khanna
2021	Annaatthe	Siva	Rajinikanth, Khushbu, Meena, Nayanthara, Keerthy Suresh
2022	FIR	Manu Anand	Vishnu Vishal, Gautham Vasudev Menon, Manjima Mohan, Reba Monica John
	Etharkkum Thunindhavan	Pandiraj	Suriya, Priyanka Mohan, Vinay Rai
	Radhe Shyam	Radha Krishna Kumar	Prabhas, Pooja Hegde
	Beast	Nelson	Vijay, Pooja Hegde
	Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal	Vignesh Shivan	Vijay Sethupathi, Nayanthara, Samantha
	Don	Cibi Chakaravarthi	Sivakarthikeyan, Priyanka Mohan, SJ Suryah
	Nenjuku Needhi	Arunraja Kamaraj	Udhayanidhi Stalin, Shivani Rajashekar
	Vikram	Lokesh Kanagaraj	Kamal Haasan, Vijay Sethupathi, Fahadh Faasil
	Rocketry: The Nambi Effect	R. Madhavan	R. Madhavan, Simran
	Gulu Gulu	Rathna Kumar	Santhanam, Adhulya Chandran
	Laal Singh Chaddha (Tamil)	Advait Chandan	Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor
	Thiruchitrambalam	Mithran R Jawahar	Dhanush, Nithya Menen, Raashii Khanna, Priya Bhavani Shankar
	Diary	Innasi Pandiyan	Arulnithi, Pavithra Marimuthu
	Cobra	R. Ajay Gnanamuthu	Vikram, Srinidhi Shetty
	Captain	Shakti Soundar Rajan	Arya, Aishwarya Lekshmi
	Vendhu Thanindhathu Kaadu	Gautham Vasudev Menon	Silambarasan, Siddhi Idnani
	Ponniyin Selvan: I	Mani Rathnam	Vikram, Karthi, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Jayam Ravi, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Trisha, Aishwarya Lekshmi
	Sardar	P. S. Mithran	Karthi, Raashii Khanna
	Coffee with Kadhal	Sundar C	Jai, Jiiva, Amritha Aiyer
	Love Today	Pradeep Ranganathan	Pradeep Ranganathan, Ivana
	Gatta Kusthi	Chella Ayyavu	Vishnu Vishal, Aishwarya Lekshmi
	Sembi	Prabhu Solomon	Ashwin, Kovai Sarala
2023	Varisu	Vamshi Paidipally	Vijay, Rashmika Mandanna
	Thunivu	H. Vinoth	Ajith Kumar, Manju Warrier
	Dada	Ganesh K Babu	Kavin, Aparna Das	^[22]
	Agilan	N. Kalyanakrishnan	Jayam Ravi, Priya Bhavani Shankar
	Kannai Nambathey	Mu. Maran	Udhayanidhi Stalin, Aathmika
	Viduthalai Part 1	Vetrimaaran	Soori, Vijay Sethupathi
	Ponniyin Selvan: II	Mani Ratnam	Vikram, Karthi, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Jayam Ravi, Trisha
	Kazhuvethi Moorkkan	SY Gowthamraj	Arulnithi, Dushara Vijayan, Santhosh Prathap
	Maaveeran	Madonne Ashwin	Sivakarthikeyan, Aditi Shankar
	Jawan	Atlee	Shah Rukh Khan, Nayanthara, Vijay Sethupathi
	Chithha	S. U. Arun Kumar	Siddharth, Nimisha Sajayan
	Jigarthanda DoubleX	Karthik Subbaraj	Raghava Lawrence, SJ Surya; Nimisha Sajayan
	Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire	Prashanth Neel	Prabhas, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Shruti Hassan
2024	Singapore Saloon	Gokul	RJ Balaji, Meenakshi Chaudhary, Sathyaraj, Kishen Das
	Vadakkupatti Ramasamy	Karthik Yogi	Santhanam, Megha Akash, Rajendar
	Lal Salaam	Aishwarya Rajinikanth	Rajinikanth, Vishnu Vishal, Vikranth
	Siren	Antony Bhagyaraj	Jayam Ravi, Anupama Parameswaran, Keerthy Suresh
	Premalu	Girish A. D.	Naslen K. Gafoor, Mamitha Baiju, Shyam Mohan
	Aadujeevitham	Blessy	Prithviraj Sukumaran, Amala Paul, Jimmy Jean-Louis
	Romeo	Vinayak Vaithianathan	Vijay Antony, Mirnalini Ravi, VTV Ganesh, Yogi Babu
	Raayan	Dhanush	Dhanush, Dushara Vijayan
	Raghu Thatha	Suman Kumar	Keerthy Suresh, M. S. Bhaskar, Devadarshini, Ravindra Vijay
	Demonte Colony 2	Ajay Gnanamuthu	Arulnithi, Priya Bhavani Shankar, Arun Pandian, Archana Ravichandran
	Vaazhai	Mari Selvaraj	Ponvel, Raghul, Kalaiyarasan, Nikhila Vimal, Dhivya Duraisamy
	Vettaiyan	T. J. Gnanavel	Rajinikanth, Amitabh Bachchan, Fahadh Faasil, Manju Warrier, Dushara Vijayan
	Amaran	Rajkumar Periasamy	Sivakarthikeyan, Sai Pallavi
	Miss You	N. Rajasekar	Siddharth, Ashika Ranganath
	Viduthalai Part 2	Vetrimaaran	Soori, Vijay Sethupathi
2025	Vidaamuyarchi	Magizh Thirumeni	Ajith Kumar, Arjun Sarja, Trisha Krishnan
	Nilavuku En Mel Ennadi Kobam	Dhanush	Pavish, Anikha Surendran, Priya Prakash Varrier, Mathew Thomas	^[23]
	Idly Kadai	Dhanush	Dhanush, Nithya Menen, Shalini Pandey, Arun Vijay, Prakash Raj, Samuthirakani

References

^ "Dominance of Red giants". Thecommunemag. Archived from the original on 15 December 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
^ "Giant strides". Cinema Express. Archived from the original on 6 September 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
^ Chellappa (12 April 2022). "The unhealthy dominance of Red Giant, Sun Pictures". Inmathi. Archived from the original on 30 November 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
^ "How to impress Udhayanidhi Stalin? – Behindwoods.com Tamilvaanan Udhayanidhi Red Giant Movies Kuruvi Vishal Kalvanin Kadhali S J Suryah PICTURE IMAGE GALLERY STILLS WALLPAPERS". www.behindwoods.com.
^ "Surya to star in the second venture of Red Giant Movies". 17 February 2009 – via www.thehindu.com.
^ "Udhayanidhi Stalin: Right Heir, Right Now". India Today. Archived from the original on 4 May 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
^ "Udhayanidhi Stalin – Tamil Movie News – Udhayanidhi Stalin had sleepless nights – Udhayanidhi Stalin – Mynaa – Prabhu Solomon – D Imman – Behindwoods.com". www.behindwoods.com. Archived from the original on 15 August 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
^ "Udhayanidhi Stalin's Name To Not Appear In Films Distributed By His Company". News18. 19 December 2022. Archived from the original on 20 December 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
^ "What happened Dharani? – Kuruvi". 9 May 2008. Archived from the original on 20 January 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2018 – via www.thehindu.com.
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^ Rangarajan, Malathi (14 April 2012). "Rock-solid humour" – via www.thehindu.com.
^ Rangarajan, Malathi (1 December 2012). "Neerparavai: Soaring high". Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2018 – via www.thehindu.com.
^ Rangan, Baradwaj (12 October 2013). "Naiyaandi and Vanakkam Chennai: Crazy little thing called love". Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2018 – via www.thehindu.com.
^ Rangan, Baradwaj (15 February 2014). "Idhu Kathirvelan Kadhal: Laughing through tears". Archived from the original on 31 March 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2018 – via www.thehindu.com.
^ Srinivasan, Sudhir (2 April 2015). "Nanbenda: A comedy that isn't funny". Archived from the original on 12 September 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2018 – via www.thehindu.com.
^ Srinivasan, Sudhir (14 January 2016). "Gethu: A beautifully shot thriller that isn't particularly thrilling". Archived from the original on 2 December 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2018 – via www.thehindu.com.
^ Rangan, Baradwaj (29 April 2016). "Manithan: Court of the day". Archived from the original on 19 January 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2018 – via www.thehindu.com.
^ Anantharam, Chitra Deepa (12 May 2017). "'Saravanan Irukka Bayamaen' review: comedy of horrors". Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2018 – via www.thehindu.com.
^ Kumar, Akshay (1 January 2025). "Jayam Ravi and Nithya Menen's Kadhalikka Neramillai gets a release date". Cinema Express. Archived from the original on 2 January 2025. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
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^ "Dada: THIS platform has bagged the digital rights of Kavin, Aparna Das' rom-com". OTTPlay. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
^ Kumar, Akshay (11 December 2024). "Dhanush's NEEK to release in February". Cinema Express. Archived from the original on 11 December 2024. Retrieved 12 December 2024.

External links

Official website

[1] "Dominance of Red giants". Thecommunemag. Archived from the original on 15 December 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2023.

[2] "Giant strides". Cinema Express. Archived from the original on 6 September 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2023.

[3] Chellappa (12 April 2022). "The unhealthy dominance of Red Giant, Sun Pictures". Inmathi. Archived from the original on 30 November 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2023.

[4] "How to impress Udhayanidhi Stalin? – Behindwoods.com Tamilvaanan Udhayanidhi Red Giant Movies Kuruvi Vishal Kalvanin Kadhali S J Suryah PICTURE IMAGE GALLERY STILLS WALLPAPERS". www.behindwoods.com.

[5] "Surya to star in the second venture of Red Giant Movies". 17 February 2009 – via www.thehindu.com.

[6] "Udhayanidhi Stalin: Right Heir, Right Now". India Today. Archived from the original on 4 May 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2018.

[7] "Udhayanidhi Stalin – Tamil Movie News – Udhayanidhi Stalin had sleepless nights – Udhayanidhi Stalin – Mynaa – Prabhu Solomon – D Imman – Behindwoods.com". www.behindwoods.com. Archived from the original on 15 August 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2018.

[8] "Udhayanidhi Stalin's Name To Not Appear In Films Distributed By His Company". News18. 19 December 2022. Archived from the original on 20 December 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2025.

[9] "What happened Dharani? – Kuruvi". 9 May 2008. Archived from the original on 20 January 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2018 – via www.thehindu.com.

[10] Rangarajan, Malathi (22 October 2009). "Sprightly jump and then a hobble!". Archived from the original on 5 April 2023. Retrieved 19 January 2018 – via www.thehindu.com.

[11] Rangarajan, Malathi (29 October 2011). "Does Seven make complete Sense?". Archived from the original on 14 December 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2018 – via www.thehindu.com.

[12] Rangarajan, Malathi (14 April 2012). "Rock-solid humour" – via www.thehindu.com.

[13] Rangarajan, Malathi (1 December 2012). "Neerparavai: Soaring high". Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2018 – via www.thehindu.com.

[14] Rangan, Baradwaj (12 October 2013). "Naiyaandi and Vanakkam Chennai: Crazy little thing called love". Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2018 – via www.thehindu.com.

[15] Rangan, Baradwaj (15 February 2014). "Idhu Kathirvelan Kadhal: Laughing through tears". Archived from the original on 31 March 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2018 – via www.thehindu.com.

[16] Srinivasan, Sudhir (2 April 2015). "Nanbenda: A comedy that isn't funny". Archived from the original on 12 September 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2018 – via www.thehindu.com.

[17] Srinivasan, Sudhir (14 January 2016). "Gethu: A beautifully shot thriller that isn't particularly thrilling". Archived from the original on 2 December 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2018 – via www.thehindu.com.

[18] Rangan, Baradwaj (29 April 2016). "Manithan: Court of the day". Archived from the original on 19 January 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2018 – via www.thehindu.com.

[19] Anantharam, Chitra Deepa (12 May 2017). "'Saravanan Irukka Bayamaen' review: comedy of horrors". Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2018 – via www.thehindu.com.

[20] Kumar, Akshay (1 January 2025). "Jayam Ravi and Nithya Menen's Kadhalikka Neramillai gets a release date". Cinema Express. Archived from the original on 2 January 2025. Retrieved 2 January 2025.

[21] Bureau, The Hindu (6 November 2023). "'Thug Life' is the title of Kamal Haasan-Mani Ratnam's 'KH234'; Trisha, Dulquer Salmaan, Jayam Ravi join cast". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 6 November 2023. Retrieved 25 November 2023. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)

[22] "Dada: THIS platform has bagged the digital rights of Kavin, Aparna Das' rom-com". OTTPlay. Retrieved 26 March 2023.

[23] Kumar, Akshay (11 December 2024). "Dhanush's NEEK to release in February". Cinema Express. Archived from the original on 11 December 2024. Retrieved 12 December 2024.

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