# Subaskaran Allirajah

Subaskaran Allirajah (born 2 March 1972) is a British-Sri Lankan entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of Lycamobile, a telecommunications company and its entertainment subsidiary, Lyca Productions, based in Chennai, India. The company's first production was the film Kaththi in 2014. It produced the science fiction thriller 2.0 (2018), which was India's most expensive film and the 5th most expensive non-English-language film at the time of its release.
In September 2021, he became the new owner of the Jaffna Kings in the Lanka Premier League (LPL). Lyca Kovai Kings, a cricket team based in Coimbatore in the Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) tournament, is owned by Lyca Productions.

## Filmography
### Produced films

Key :
| † | Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released |
List of films produced by Subaskaran Allirajah :
| Year | Title | Language | Director | Cast | Ref. |
| 2014 | Kaththi | Tamil | A. R. Murugadoss | Vijay, Samantha, Neil Nitin Mukesh | |
| 2016 | Enakku Innoru Per Irukku | Tamil | Sam Anton | G. V. Prakash Kumar, Anandhi, Saravanan | |
| 2017 | Khaidi No. 150 | Telugu | V. V. Vinayak | Chiranjeevi, Kajal Aggarwal, Tarun Arora | |
| 2017 | Yaman | Tamil | Jeeva Shankar | Vijay Antony, Miya, Thiagarajan | |
| 2017 | Ippadai Vellum | Tamil | Gaurav Narayanan | Udhayanidhi Stalin, Manjima Mohan, Daniel Balaji | |
| 2018 | Diya | Tamil | A. L. Vijay | Sai Pallavi, Naga Shourya, RJ Balaji | |
| 2018 | Kolamavu Kokila | Tamil | Nelson Dilipkumar | Nayanthara, Yogi Babu, Saranya | |
| 2018 | Chekka Chivantha Vaanam | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | Arvind Swami, STR, Vijay Sethupathi, Arun Vijay | |
| 2018 | Vada Chennai | Tamil | Vetrimaaran | Dhanush, Andrea Jeremiah, Aishwarya Rajesh | |
| 2018 | 2.0 | Tamil | S. Shankar | Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson | |
| 2019 | Vantha Rajavathaan Varuven | Tamil | Sundar C | STR, Megha Akash, Catherine Tresa | |
| 2019 | Kaappaan | Tamil | K. V. Anand | Mohanlal, Suriya, Arya, Sayyeshaa | |
| 2020 | Darbar | Tamil | A. R. Murugadoss | Rajinikanth, Nayanthara, Nivetha Thomas, Sunil Shetty | |
| 2020 | Mafia: Chapter 1 | Tamil | Karthick Naren | Arun Vijay, Priya Bhavani Shankar, Prasanna | |
| 2022 | Don | Tamil | Cibi Chakaravarthi | Sivakarthikeyan, S. J. Suryah, Priyanka Mohan | |
| 2022 | Panni Kutty | Tamil | Anucharan Murugaiyan | Yogi Babu, Karunakaran | |
| 2022 | Good Luck Jerry | Hindi | Sidharth Sengupta | Janhvi Kapoor | |
| 2022 | Ponniyin Selvan: I | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | Vikram, Karthi, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Jayam Ravi, Trisha, Jayaram, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Sobhita Dhulipala, Vikram Prabhu | |
| 2022 | Ram Setu | Hindi | Abhishek Sharma | Akshay Kumar | |
| 2022 | Pattathu Arasan | Tamil | A. Sarkunam | Atharvaa, Rajkiran | |
| 2022 | Naai Sekar Returns | Tamil | Suraj | Vadivelu | |
| 2022 | Raangi | Tamil | M. Saravanan | Trisha, Anaswara Rajan | |
| 2023 | Thiruvin Kural | Tamil | Harish Prabhu | Arulnithi, Bharathiraja, Aathmika | |
| 2023 | Ponniyin Selvan: II | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | Vikram, Karthi, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Jayam Ravi, Trisha, Jayaram, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Sobhita Dhulipala, Vikram Prabhu | |
| 2023 | Theera Kaadhal | Tamil | Rohin Venkatesan | Jai, Aishwarya Rajesh, Sshivada | |
| 2023 | Chandramukhi 2 | Tamil | P. Vasu | Raghava Lawrence, Kangana Ranaut, Vadivelu | |
| 2024 | Mission: Chapter 1 | Tamil | A. L. Vijay | Arun Vijay, Amy Jackson, Nimisha Sajayan | |
| 2024 | Lal Salaam | Tamil | Aishwarya Rajinikanth | Rajinikanth, Vishnu Vishal, Vikranth | |
| 2024 | Indian 2 | Tamil | S. Shankar | Kamal Haasan, Siddharth, Bobby Simha, S. J. Suryah, Kajal Aggarwal, Rakul Preet Singh, Priya Bhavani Shankar | |
| 2024 | Vettaiyan | Tamil | T. J. Gnanavel | Rajinikanth, Amitabh Bachchan, Manju Warrier, Fahadh Faasil, Rana Daggubati, Ritika Singh, Dushara Vijayan | |
| 2025 | Indian 3† | Tamil | S. Shankar | Kamal Haasan, Siddharth, Bobby Simha, S. J. Suryah, Kajal Aggarwal, Rakul Preet Singh, Priya Bhavani Shankar | |
| 2025 | Vidaa Muyarchi | Tamil | Magizh Thirumeni | Ajith Kumar, Arjun, Trisha Krishnan, Regina Cassandra, Aarav | |
| 2025 | L2: Empuraan† | Malayalam | Prithviraj Sukumaran | Mohanlal, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Tovino Thomas, Indrajith Sukumaran, Manju Warrier | [35][36] [37] |

### Distributed films

| † | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
List of films distributed by Subaskaran Allirajah :
| Year | Title | Language | Director | Cast | Synopsis |
| 2015 | Naanum Rowdy Dhaan | Tamil | Vignesh Shivan | Vijay Sethupathi, Nayanthara, RJ Balaji and Radhika Sarathkumar | Pandiyan, a policeman's son, falls in love with Kadhambari, a girl with hearing impairment. She agrees to have a relationship with him only if he helps her kill a gangster who murdered her parents. |
| 2016 | Visaranai | Tamil | Vetrimaaran | Dinesh, Samuthirakani, Anandhi and Aadukalam Murugadoss | Four labourers are tortured by the police to confess to a theft they have not committed. Just when they feel relieved after being saved by an honest policeman, they find that the worst is yet to come. |
| 2016 | Vetrivel | Tamil | Vasantha Mani | Sasikumar, Miya, Prabhu and Nikhila Vimal | In a bid to help his younger brother unite with the girl he loves, Vetrivel and his friends decide to kidnap her. Things take an ugly turn when their plan goes wrong and results in messy situations. |
| 2017 | Spyder | Tamil | A. R. Murugadoss | Mahesh Babu, Rakul Preet Singh and S. J. Surya | Shiva, an intelligence officer, develops a phone software that helps him track those in need of help. He sets out to save the people of Hyderabad when he realises that a serial killer is on the loose. |
| 2018 | Kaala | Tamil | Pa. Ranjith | Rajinikanth, Nana Patekar, Eswari Rao, Samuthirakani and Huma Qureshi | Karikaalan consistently fights to keep the people of Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai, safe from the clutches of mighty politicians and the land mafia don, Hari Dhadha. |
| 2018 | Irumbu Thirai | Tamil | P. S. Mithran | Vishal, Arjun and Samantha Ruth Prabhu | A military officer borrows money from a bank using fake papers for his sister's marriage. However, when the money goes missing from his account, he begins an investigation that leads him to a hacker. |
| 2018 | Sandakozhi 2 | Tamil | N. Linguswamy | Vishal, Keerthy Suresh, Rajkiran and Varalaxmi Sarathkumar | Balu returns from New York and sets out to protect his family from an evil-minded man. Complications further arise as he falls in love with a woman, who reminds him of his ex-lover. |
| 2021 | Pushpa: The Rise | Tamil (Dubbed) | Sukumar | Allu Arjun, Rashmika Mandanna, Fahadh Faasil, Jagadeesh Prathap Bandari, Rao Ramesh and Anasuya Bharadwaj | Violence erupts between red sandalwood smugglers and the police charged with bringing down their organisation in the Seshachalam Hills of Andhra Pradesh state. |
| 2022 | RRR | Tamil (Dubbed) | S. S. Rajamouli | N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan, Ajay Devgn, Alia Bhatt, Shriya Saran, Olivia Morris, Samuthirakani, Alison Doody and Ray Stevenson | A tale of two legendary revolutionaries and their journey far away from home. After their journey they return home to start fighting back against British colonialists in the 1920s. |
| 2022 | Sita Ramam | Tamil (Dubbed) | Hanu Raghavapudi | Dulquer Salmaan, Mrunal Thakur, Rashmika Mandanna and Sumanth | To not get rusticated A rebellious student leaves to India to fulfill her dead grandfather's wish, to deliver a letter the visit leads her to a love story between an orphan Indian Army soldier and a woman unbeknownst to him a rich heiress in the 60s. Will she deliver the letter to her? |
| 2022 | Baba (Re-release) | Tamil | Suresh Krissna | Rajinikanth, Manisha Koirala and Goundamani | The film's story is about a carefree young non-believer of supreme power, Baba, who is a reincarnation of a great saint from the Himalayas. |
| 2023 | Thunivu | Tamil | H. Vinoth | Ajith Kumar | Radha, a dreaded gangster, and his men plot to rob "Your Bank", one of the biggest privately-owned bank in Chennai, only to realise that another gang led a by mysterious person, nicknamed Dark Devil, has already hijacked the bank. The police, led by DGP Dayalan, is trying to figure out a way to capture Dark Devil, only to realize that his motive is to actually expose the privately-owned banks involved in financial fraud. |
| 2023 | Merry Christmas | Tamil | Sriram Raghavan | Katrina Kaif, Vijay Sethupathi | The lives of a woman in an unhappy marriage and a man with a mysterious past are turned upside down on Christmas Eve. |
| 2024 | Captain Miller | Tamil | Arun Matheswaran | Dhanush, Priyanka Mohan, Shivarajkumar | Set in pre-Independence era, the British are looking for ’Miller’ , a British soldier turned vigilante. The villagers are tired of the Analeesan’s antics and ask him to stay away from them. Analeesan, who has become ‘Miller’ after joining the British army, has gone rouge. |

## Awards

In October 2011 Lycatel was ranked 36th out of 250 leading mid-market private companies in The Sunday Times. Allirajah received a gold award for Best Overall Enterprise in 2010 at the Asian Achievers Award ceremony for the impact he has made on the Asian community in the UK. The Asian Voice Political and Public Life awarded Allirajah in 2011 its "International Entrepreneur of the Year" award.
In 2012 the English Asian Business Awards presented Allirajah with the "2011 Power Business of the Year" award, recognizing the growth of the Lycamobile business globally, as well as the "Social Entrepreneur of the Year" award.

## Legal issues

Since November 2018, Lycatel and its founder have been embroiled in a number of disputes relating to alleged fraud. The company was due for a tribunal hearing in March 2020 to argue against the HM Revenue and Customs. The firm estimates that it would have to pay £60m if it loses – a potential liability that has almost doubled in recent years. Lycamobile declined to say how much is at stake in two other disputes.