Movies: K. Balachander

Sundaram, a hotel employee, dreams of becoming an actor. He meets Vijaya, who admires his innocence and sincerity, and falls in love with her. But Raghavan, Sundaram's best friend, hides the fact that he is engaged to Vijaya....

Roja lives in a Tamil village, and her sister is about to marry a man from the city, who decides to marry Roja instead and gets a job assignment in Kashmir, where some militants decide to kidnap them....

Naan Avanillai (English: I'm not him) (2007) is a Tamil film directed by Selva. It is a remake of K. Balachander's classic of the same title, starring matinee idol Gemini Ganesan, which was a remake of 1962 Marathi language film To Mee Navhech (Engli...

To rebel against her mother, Deepika, a young girl, sends explicit pictures of herself to a fictitious email address. However, the pictures are received by a real person and the two fall in love....

Bharti, a highly successful singer, escapes from his jealous wife who is unable to deal with his female fan following. He meets Jyothi, a dancer who has also escaped from her cruel husband....

Oonche Log (Hindi: ऊँचे लोग, lit. High Society People) was a 1965 Hindi film directed by Phani Majumdar. It was based on play Major Chandrakant by noted Tamil film director-screenwriter, K. Balachander. The main character roles of this film were play...

An abused homeless male and a mentally-challenged woman become friends....

Superstar Manoranjan learns that he has only a few days to live and approaches his mentor, director Margadarisi to direct his next project — a folklore-ish comedy about a man who keeps cheating death and his role in saving a kingdom. Meanwhile, he ha...

Valluvanar is an upright political leader in Tamil Nadu much respected for his honesty and uprightness. And he refuses to compromise on this trait even when his only son Kamban finds himself in jail for no fault of his. The opposition party takes adv...

Azhagappan, a handsome widower with four children, gets caught in a dilemma where three different women are in love with him. Soon, the children devise a plan so that he gets married to one of them....

A love story between a Tamil man a North Indian woman, who are neighbours in Goa. They come from totally different backgrounds and can hardly speak the other's language. Their parents despise each other and they have regular skirmishes. When they adm...

Ragupathy leaves his village for the city and finds a job at a 5-star hotel owned by a man in a relationship with his mother. When his life is threatened, Ragupathy decides to ensure his safety....

Chandran lies to his boss that his mother is unwell to get a leave but gets caught. In order to save his job, he is forced to pretend to his boss that he has a good-for-nothing twin brother....

Three out of four brothers of a Malayali household are happily married while the fourth brother is engaged. When the beautiful Yamuna Rani becomes their new neighbour, she poses a threat to the wives....

The story revolves around Chakravarthy (Older Rajini) who is a successful textile businessman in Coimbatore. He is a great womaniser (perhaps his only weakness) and picks up any women he wants. He has wife Meenakshi (Lakshmi), his son Santosh (also R...

Punnagai means Smile. Smile which has many emotions and represents many gestures and expressions of life. Punnagai is a story of five friends Satya(Gemini Ganesan), Rajan(Muthuraman), Haniff who studied in the same college, while graduating they took...

Three educated but unemployed youth who have come to live in a bustling, harsh metropolis struggle to earn a living....

Balakrishnan and Ashok are two childhood friends who lose touch with each other. One of them goes on to become a national figure and the other, a village barber....

Thulli Thirintha Kaalam is a 1998 Tamil film directed by Balasekaran. The film stars Arunkumar, Roshini, Kushboo and Ramji in lead roles....

A doctor becomes an instant heartthrob after making an appearance in a movie and soon marries a woman. But just after their marriage, the truth about his past is revealed, which leads to complications, taking the couple a step closer to divorce....