Vivekananda Pictures is an Indian film production and distribution company, based at Chennai, India. The production company was established in 1977 by its founder, Tiruppur Mani. He produced around thirty movies under his banner . After a hiatus it produced the blockbuster movie Kaithi under Tiruppur Vivek who is now at the heilm of the Company All their films had Sivakumar and Sathyaraj as lead actor.

History

The production house first feature film ''Kannan Ori Kaikuzhandai (1978)'' was directed by Venkatesh, in which Sivakumar and Sumithra played the lead roles. Following this film, Sivakumar has been their choice for the lead actor for ''Rosappu Ravikkaikaari,

Vandichakkaram ''Vandichakkaram'' () is a 1980 Indian Tamil-language film directed by K. Vijayan and written by Vinu Chakravarthy. The film stars Sivakumar and Saritha. It revolves around a ruffian who, after falling in love, resolves to mend his ways. Chakr ...

, Aaniver, Aayiram Muthangal.'' Though first five films has got Sivakumar as male lead, the female leads were Sumithra for ''Kannan Ori Kaikuzhandai,'' Deepa for ''Rosappu Ravikkaikaari'', Saritha for ''

'' and ''Aaniver,'' Radha for ''Aayiram Muthangal''. Late actor

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was introduced as story and screenplay writer in ''

'' and it was directed by

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. It is the debut movie for Silk Smitha in Tamil. ''

'' won third prize at Tamil Nadu state award for best film for the year 1980.

was introduced as actor in ''Rosappu Ravikkaikaari'' and comedian

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rose to fame through the same movie. In 1983, the company produced '' Imagial'' starring

Sivaji Ganesan Villupuram Chinnaiya Manrayar Ganesamoorthy, better known by his stage name Sivaji Ganesan, (1 October 1928 – 21 July 2001) was an Indian actor and producer. He was active in Tamil cinema during the latter half of the 20th century. Sivaji Ga ...

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and others, music was composed by Gangai amaran. Their next was '' Eetti'' starred by

Vijayakanth Narayanan Vijayaraj Alagarswami (born 25 August 1952), better known by his stage name Vijayakanth, is an Indian politician and former actor who has worked predominantly in Tamil cinema. He was the Leader of the Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Leg ...

, Vishnuvardhan, Nalini,

Viji Viji was an Indian actress, who appeared in Tamil films. She made her debut in '' Kozhi Koovuthu'' and acted in over 40 films. Biography Viji made her debut in Gangai Amaren's '' Kozhi Koovuthu''. It went on to become a super hit and she was o ...

and directed by Rajasekhar. '' Vidinja Kalyanam'' was their next which had Sathyaraj,

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, Sujatha in lead roles and was directed by

Manivannan S. Manivannan Rajagopal (31 July 1953 – 15 June 2013), better known by his mononym Manivannan, was an Indian film director, actor and activist who worked mainly in Tamil cinema and also worked in a few Telugu & Malayalam films. In a car ...

. In 1988, they remade

Mohanlal Mohanlal Viswanathan (born 21 May 1960), known mononymously as Mohanlal, is an Indian actor, film producer, playback singer, film distributor, and director who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema besides also having sporadically app ...

and Karthika starrer Malayalam movie ''

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'' as ''Anna Nagar Mudhal Theru''. Sathyaraj and Radha did the lead roles in this movie. In the late 1990s, Mani planned a film titled ''Kadhal Sugamanathu'' starring his son Vivekanand in the lead role. However, the project eventually did not materialise. After a hiatus of two decades, the production company made its comeback by co-producing and distributing ''Kaithi'' (2019).

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{{Reflist Film production companies based in Chennai 1977 establishments in Tamil Nadu Mass media companies established in 1977 Indian companies established in 1977