Essential Tamil Movies of 21st century
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- DirectorKamal HaasanStarsKamal HaasanShah Rukh KhanRani MukerjiSaketh Ram's wife is raped and killed during direct action day riots in Calcutta. He is convinced that Mahatma Gandhi is responsible for all the problems happening in the country and sets out to kill him.
- DirectorMani RatnamStarsMadhavanShaliniSwarnamalyaAfter a difficult romance in a class-divided society, the love birds find out marriage is not what they thought it would be.
- DirectorSuresh KrishnaStarsKamal HaasanRaveena TandonManisha KoiralaNandu and Vijay are brothers, who were abused by their stepmother during their younger days. Nandhu, who is mentally ill, decides to kill Vijay's fiancee as he visualizes her as his stepmother.
- DirectorMani RatnamStarsKeerthana ParthiepanSimranMadhavanA little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her real mother, she begs to be taken to Sri Lanka, where her mother works with a militant group of activists.
- DirectorSundar C.StarsKamal HaasanMadhavanKiran RathodTwo men, one young and arrogant, the other damaged - physically but not spiritually - by life, are thrown together by circumstances, and find that they are in some ways bound together by fate.
- DirectorMani RatnamStarsSuriyaMadhavanSiddharthThree men and their accidental meeting on Napier Bridge will change their lives forever.
- DirectorRadha MohanStarsAbbasDevadarshini ChetanKumaravelCircumstances force a struggling filmmaker and a rich girl to marry and live in a flat.
- DirectorK. SelvaraghavanStarsRavi KrishnaSonia AgarwalSuman ShettyA neighborhood good-for-nothing attempts to romance the new girl in town.
- DirectorBalaji SakthivelStarsBharath SrinivasanSandhyaSukumarA wealthy girl falls in love with a young motor mechanic, faced with the imminent threat of an arranged marriage with an American groom she persuades to elope with the motor mechanic.
- DirectorPriyaStarsBorde AbhijeetRegina CassandraDevadarshini ChetanRamya and Krishna end up catching each others throat whenever they happen to meet. Aravind (Krishna's Friend) parents arrange his marriage with Ramya. Its a smooth story on how love blooms between Ramya and Krishna because of circumstances, and who ends up marrying Ramya - Aravind or Krishna ?
- DirectorVasanthabalanStarsPasupathyBharath SrinivasanBhavanaStory of two brothers told from the perspective of older brother who recalls his childhood memories where he runs away from home and returns after 20 years. The rest of the film is all about mental turmoil, as he is caught between the deep love showered by his younger brother who runs a successful advertising agency and his guilt of not being a responsible son or elder brother.
- DirectorAmeer SultanStarsKarthiPriyamaniSaravananA village tough finally succumbs to the unconditional love of his angelic cousin, but his romance faces insurmountable challenges, including family opposition and his own delinquent personality.
- DirectorVetrimaaranStarsDhanushRamyaKishore Kumar G.A contemporary action drama revolving around a young man's love for his bike, including the trials and travails he is forced to undergo when it goes missing.
- DirectorMysskinStarsNarainPrasannaAjmal AmeerSathya and Kiruba are friends. Sathya is reckless and gets into drinking and violent fights whereas Kiruba studies hard to become a Sub-Inspector. Tables are turned when Sathya becomes a Sub-Inspector.
- DirectorSamuthirakaniStarsM. SasikumarVijay VasanthBharaniThree friends decide to do whatever it takes to unite one of their old friends with the girl he is in love with which gradually takes a turn for the worst, but strengthening their bond with each other nonetheless.
- DirectorArivazhagan VenkatachalamStarsAadhiNandhaSindhu MenonVasu investigates the suicide of Ramya since he's not convinced that she killed herself. The main suspects are her husband and neighbors. As the death toll rises, Vasu deals with his own secret past.
- DirectorK. SelvaraghavanStarsKarthiReema SenAndrea JeremiahAnitha, a government official, embarks on a journey to find Chandramouli, an archaeologist, who went to Vietnam to search for any existence of the prince of the Chola dynasty.
- DirectorGautham Vasudev MenonStarsSilambarasan RajendarTrisha KrishnanVTV GaneshAn aspiring filmmaker goes through the ups and downs of romance when he falls for a Christian woman who says she only wants to be friends.
- DirectorVasanthabalanStarsAngadi Theru MaheshAnjaliA. VenkateshThe story on the lives of a salesgirl and sales boy of a popular Saree store in Chennai.
- DirectorVetrimaaranStarsDhanushTaapsee PannuJayabalanFalling in love with Irene as well as refusing to obey his boss Pettaikaran in a rooster fight complicates Karuppu's life.
- DirectorMysskinStarsCheranAnanyaa ShahY.G. MahendranA common man's ability to defeat the devil. A cop identifies the mystery and solves the problem.
- DirectorThiagarajan KumararajaStarsSampath RajJackie ShroffRavi KrishnaA mob boss must deal with a disgruntled mistress and a vanishing bag of cocaine.
- DirectorBalaji SakthivelStarsSriUrmila MahantaMithun MuraliA girl gets in trouble when her boyfriend films her private moments on his mobile phone without her knowledge.