Kalaipuli S. Thanu

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Kalaipuli S. Thanu
Born (1958-06-25) 25 June 1958 (age 67)
North Arcot, Tamil Nadu, India
Occupations
  • Producer
  • distributor
  • director
Years active1985–present
SpouseKala
Children3
HonoursKalaimamani 2020[1]

Kalaipuli S. Thanu (pronounced [ðaːnu]) is an Indian film producer and distributor, known for his films in Tamil cinema. He has produced several films through his two companies, V Creations and Kalaipuli Films International. Many of his films have been commercially successful, three of which are among the top-ten highest grossing Tamil films. He has won two National Film Awards, two Cinema Express Awards and one Filmfare Awards South.

Personal life

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Thanu is married to Kala. Their son Kalaprabhu made his directorial debut with Sakkarakatti (2008).[2] Thanu also has a daughter Kavitha.[3]

Career

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S. Thanu began his career as a film financier and distributor, before becoming a producer and a partner at Kalaipuli Films with S. Thanu and Soori with Yaar? (1985), being their debut film as producers.[4][5] He initially started as a publicity designer being responsible for christening Rajinikanth as "Superstar" and creating a 35 feet cutout of him in a theatre.[6] He started his own company V. Creations and went on to produce commercially successful films with Vijayakanth in Cooliekkaran (1987), Nallavan (1988) and Pudhu Padagan (1990). His Vanna Vanna Pookkal (1992) directed by Balu Mahendra won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil. He also did in a cameo appearance for a film Magalir Mattum in 1994.[7] Kizhakku Cheemayile (1993) and Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000) won the Cinema Express Award for Best Film – Tamil. He has also produced films with Suriya in Kaakha Kaakha (2003), Maayavi (2005) and with Vijay in Sachein (2005), Thuppakki (2012) and Theri (2016). He collaborated with Rajinikanth for the first time for Kabali (2016).[8]

He has produced four films for Dhanush such as Velaiilla Pattadhari 2 (2017), Asuran (2019), Karnan (2021) and Naane Varuvean (2022).

Companies

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Thanu owns Kalaipuli Films and V Creations. The former company was registered as a private company on 8 March 2004, and the CEO of the latter is Thanu's other son Paranthaman.[9][10]

Filmography

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As actor

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Year Film Role
1994 Magalir Mattum Tailor who is fond of Tamil

As producer

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Year Film Director(s) Notes Ref.
1985 Yaar? Sakthi-Kannan [11]
1987 Cooliekkaran Rajasekhar [12]
1988 Nallavan S. P. Muthuraman [13]
1990 Pudhu Padagan S. Thanu Also director, writer and music composer [14]
1991 Thaiyalkaran S. P. Muthuraman [15]
1992 Vanna Vanna Pookkal Balu Mahendra [16]
1993 Kizhakku Cheemayile Bharathiraja [17]
1997 V. I. P. Sabapathy Dekshinamurthy [18]
1999 Mannavaru Chinnavaru P. N. Ramachandra Rao [19]
Mugam Gnana Rajasekaran [20]
2000 Kandukondain Kandukondain Rajiv Menon [21]
2001 Aalavandhan Suresh Krissna [22]
2003 Punnagai Poove Sabapathy Dekshinamurthy [23]
Kaakha Kaakha Gautham Vasudev Menon [24]
2005 Maayavi Singampuli [25]
Sachein John Mahendran [26]
Thotti Jaya V. Z. Durai [27]
2006 Chennai Kadhal Vikraman [28]
2007 Thirumagan M. Rathnakumar [29]
2008 Sakkarakatti Kala Prabhu [30]
2009 Kanthaswamy Susi Ganesan [31]
2012 Thuppakki AR Murugadoss [32]
2014 Arima Nambi Anand Shankar [33]
2016 Kanithan T. N. Santosh [34]
Theri Atlee Kumar [35]
Kabali Pa. Ranjith [36]
2017 Velaiilla Pattadhari 2 Soundarya Rajinikanth [37]
Indrajith Kala Prabhu [38]
2018 Sketch Vijay Chandar [39]
60 Vayadu Maaniram Radha Mohan [40]
Thuppakki Munai Dinesh Selvaraj [41]
2019 Hippi Krishna Telugu film [42]
Asuran Vetrimaaran [43]
2021 Karnan Mari Selvaraj [44]
Naarappa Srikanth Addala Telugu film [45]
2022 Naane Varuvean Selvaraghavan [46]
2024 Max Vijay Karthikeyaa Kannada film
2026 Arasan † Vetrimaaran [47]

As distributor

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Awards and honours

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National Film Awards
Cinema Express Awards
Filmfare Awards South
South Indian International Movie Awards
Vijay Awards
Edison Awards
Ananda Vikatan Cinema Awards
IIFA Utsavam
Norway Tamil Film Festival Awards

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