# Madras Talkies

Madras Talkies is an Indian entertainment company, which was established by director Mani Ratnam and his brother G. Srinivasan as partners in 1995. Madras Talkies has actively involved in production of films and television serials, which are distributed all over the world. The company has produced fifteen feature films and six television serials.
Prior to Madras Talkies, Ratnam previously served as a film producer on several projects with Aalayam Productions, alongside S. Sriram. Through his own directorial venture, Iruvar (1997), Madras Talkies made its debut as Ratnam's official production studio.

## Films
### As producer

List of Madras Talkies film credits :
| Year | Title | Language | Director | Cast | Synopsis |
| 1997 | Iruvar | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | Mohanlal, Aishwarya Rai, Prakash Raj, Tabu | A struggling actor gradually grows into the Tamil film industry's leading actor and enters politics to become Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister. |
| 1997 | Nerukku Ner | Tamil | Vasanth | Vijay, Suriya, Kausalya, Simran | Following the break up of a passport official and his wife, their respective brothers become enemies. The pair are later forced to reconcile to save their niece, who gets kidnapped by an MLA, who wants to avenge the passport official. |
| 1998 | Dil Se.. | Hindi | Mani Ratnam | Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala, Preity Zinta | Set in the backdrop of the insurgency in Northeast India, an executive of All India Radio falls in love with a mysterious woman, who turns out to be a Liberationists suicide bomber. |
| 2000 | Alaipayuthey | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | R. Madhavan, Shalini | Karthik and Shakthi fall in love against the wishes of their parents in suburban Chennai. Following their secret marriage, the pair experience the tensions of married life and the maturing of their love. |
| 2001 | Dumm Dumm Dumm | Tamil | Azhagam Perumal | R. Madhavan, Jyothika | An unhappy groom and bride draw up plans to stop their wedding, but they fizzle out. Just when they begin to fall in love, a real fight stops the wedding. The pair subsequently rekindle in Chennai. |
| 2002 | Kannathil Muthamittal | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | R. Madhavan, Simran, Nandita Das, Keerthana | A child of Sri Lankan Tamil parentage, who is adopted by Indian parents, demands to return to North Sri Lanka to meet her biological mother in the midst of the Sri Lankan Civil War. |
| 2002 | Five Star | Tamil | Susi Ganesan | Prasanna, Kanika, Krishna | Four college friends investigate the whereabouts of another friend, who was forced into a marriage by his father. After discovering that he fled from his new wife, they decide to try to find him in London. |
| 2002 | Saathiya | Hindi | Shaad Ali | Rani Mukerji, Vivek Oberoi | Aditya and Suhani fall in love against the wishes of their parents in suburban Mumbai. Following their secret marriage, the pair experience the tensions of married life and the maturing of their love. |
| 2004 | Aayutha Ezhuthu / Yuva | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | Suriya, R. Madhavan, Siddharth, Esha Deol, Meera Jasmine, Trisha | A goon – who dreams of making it big in life, a student leader – who strives to keep politicians away from college election and a youngster – who wants to settle abroad, have their lives change after an incident on a bridge. |
| 2004 | Aayutha Ezhuthu / Yuva | Hindi | Mani Ratnam | Ajay Devgan, Abhishek Bachchan, Vivek Oberoi, Rani Mukherji, Kareena Kapoor, Esha Deol | A goon – who dreams of making it big in life, a student leader – who strives to keep politicians away from college election and a youngster – who wants to settle abroad, have their lives change after an incident on a bridge. |
| 2007 | Guru | Hindi | Mani Ratnam | Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, R. Madhavan, Vidya Balan, Mithun Chakraborty | An ambitious man leaves his small village behind to pursue his dream of opening his own business. He gradually grows into India's largest business magnate and is faced with questions concerning the integrity of his success. |
| 2010 | Raavan / Raavanan | Hindi | Mani Ratnam | Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Vikram | A bandit leader kidnaps the wife of the policeman who killed his sister. The kidnapped woman later begins to develop feelings for her kidnapper, blurring the line of who is good and who is evil. |
| 2010 | Raavan / Raavanan | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | Vikram, Aishwarya Rai, Prithviraj | A bandit leader kidnaps the wife of the policeman who killed his sister. The kidnapped woman later begins to develop feelings for her kidnapper, blurring the line of who is good and who is evil. |
| 2013 | Kadal | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | Gautham Karthik, Thulasi Nair, Arjun, Arvind Swamy | A wayward youth believes that bad will triumph over good. He implicates his classmate, who is good hearted and god fearing, into a case of adultery and murder after several years. The pair consequently influence the life of a young fisherman. |
| 2015 | O Kadhal Kanmani | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | Dulquer Salmaan, Nithya Menen, Prakash Raj, Leela Samson | Aditya and Tara opt to briefly have a live-in relationship, before they go their separate ways for their respective careers. The pair's reflection on the idea of marriage gets gradually influenced by the intimacy of their elderly landlords. |
| 2017 | Ok Jaanu | Hindi | Shaad Ali | Aditya Roy Kapur, Shraddha Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Leela Samson | Aditya and Tara opt to briefly have a live-in relationship, before they go their separate ways for their respective careers. The pair's reflection on the idea of marriage gets gradually influenced by the intimacy of their elderly landlords. |
| 2017 | Kaatru Veliyidai | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | Karthi, Aditi Rao Hydari | A military pilot, being held as a prisoner of war in Pakistan, remembers his intense romance with a local doctor. |
| 2018 | Chekka Chivantha Vaanam | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | Arvind Swami, STR, Vijay Sethupathi, Arun Vijay, Jyothika, Aditi Rao Hydari | A family of gangsters go through a power struggle as they attempt to find the assassin who killed their father. |
| 2020 | Vaanam Kottatum | Tamil | Dhana Sekhar | Sarathkumar, Radhika, Vikram Prabhu, Aishwarya Rajesh, Shanthanu Bhagyaraj, Madonna Sebastian | A man's relationship with his wife and kids is jeopardised by a revelation from his past. |
| 2020 | Putham Pudhu Kaalai | Tamil | Various | Various | OTT film |
| 2022 | Ponniyin Selvan: I | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | Vikram, Karthi, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Jayam Ravi, Trisha, Aishwarya Lekshmi | Based on the epic 5 part novel by Kalki Krishnamurthy, the crown prince of the powerful Chola Empire battles enemy kingdoms with the aid of his shrewd siblings while regional chieftains and disgruntled members of royalty conspire to usurp the throne by overthrowing the ailing emperor, whose past secrets are about to change the realm's present and future. |
| 2023 | Ponniyin Selvan: II | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | Vikram, Karthi, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Jayam Ravi, Trisha | The conclusion to the saga as foes turn friends and allies become adversaries in 10th century South India. In the aftermath of wars, political gamesmanship and covert regal intrigue, one man will rise above all to become a legend among kings, flying the flag of his forefathers to lands beyond and establishing a legacy that will stand the test of time. |
| 2025 | Thug Life † | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | Kamal Haasan, Silambarasan, Trisha, Abhirami | |
Key :
| † | Denotes films that have not yet been released |

### As presenter

* Paradise (2023) (Malayalam)

## Web series

Key :
| † | Denotes series that have not yet been released |
List of series produced by Madras Talkies :
| Title | Year | Director | Cast | Language | OTT | Ref. |
| Navarasa | 2021 | Arvind Swami, Bejoy Nambiar, Gautham Vasudev Menon, Halitha Shameem, K. V. Anand, Karthick Naren, Karthik Subbaraj, Ponram, Rathindran R. Prasad | Suriya, Siddharth, Parvathy Thiruvothu, Pavel Navageethan, Rajesh Balachandran, Sree Raam, Ammu Abhirami, Vijay Sethupathi, Prakash Raj, Revathi, Vikranth, Aishwarya Rajesh, Arvind Swami, Prasanna, Sai Siddharth, Shamna Kasim, Bobby Simha, Sananth, Gautham Karthik, Saravanan, Robo Shankar, Azhagam Perumal, Nithya Menen, Riythvika, Ashok Selvan, Ramesh Thilak, Vidhu | Tamil | Netflix | |

## Television serials

List of Madras Talkies television serials :
| Serial | Director | No. of episodes | Channel | Frequency |
| Ganesh & Vasanth | Suhasini, V. Priya | 43 | Sun TV | Weekly |
| Panchavarnam | Manobala | 39 | Sun TV | Weekly |
| Anbulla Snegidheiye | V. Priya | 127 | Sun TV | Daily |
| Punnagai | Manobala | 30 | Sun TV | Daily |