Cloud Nine Movies was an Indian film production and distribution company, based in Chennai. It is owned by Dayanidhi Azhagiri and Vivek Rathinavel and was founded in 2008 until 2014. He founded another new production company in 2013, Meeka Entertainment.
History The company first distributed the Gautham Vasudev Menon-directed Vaaranam Aayiram in 2008, which was a critical as well as commercial success. Next they produced the parody film Tamizh Padam, which became a box-office hit, too, following which Paiyaa was distributed. The N. Linguswamy-directed romantic-action film, starring Karthi, also went to become highly successful at the box office, emerging one of the highest-grossing Tamil films of that year. Subsequently, their next film was the action-drama film Thoonga Nagaram starring Vimal and Anjali becoming their first production. Simultaneously, they first produced Venkat Prabhu directorial's next film, which stars Ajith Kumar as part of an ensemble cast, but later sold the movie to Studio Green for a whopping price. Later, there was news that they sold the movie to Sun Pictures, and satellite signal also sold to Sun Pictures. But its official now that Cloud Nine Movies and Sun Pictures are presenting it.
Filmography
Production Year Title Actors Language Notes 2010 Tamizh Padam Shiva, Disha Pandey Tamil Released 29 January 2010 2011 Thoonga Nagaram Vimal, Bharani, Nishanth, Anjali Tamil Released 4 February 2011 2011 Mankatha Ajith Kumar, Trisha Krishnan Tamil Released 31 August 2011 2013Thagaraaru Tamil Released 6 December 2013 Final Film
Distribution Year Title Actors Language Notes 2008 Vaaranam Aayiram Surya Sivakumar, Divya Spandana, Sameera Reddy Tamil Released 14 November 2008 2010 Tamizh Padam Shiva, Disha Pandey Tamil Released 29 January 2010Paiyaa Karthik Sivakumar, Tamannaah Bhatia, Milind Soman Tamil Released 2 April 2010 Naan Mahaan Alla Karthik Sivakumar, Kajal Aggarwal Tamil Released 20 August 2010Va Shiva, Lekha Washington Tamil Released 5 November 2010Ratha Charithram Surya Sivakumar, Priyamani Tamil Tamil version onlyReleased 3 December 2010 2011 Vaanam Silambarasan, Bharath, Anushka, Prakash Raj, Saranya Tamil Release 29 April 2011 Azhagarsamiyin Kudhirai Appukutty, Saranya Mohan Tamil Release 12 May 2011
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