P. L. Thenappan

P. L. Thenappan is a Tamil cinema producer. He owns the production company called Sri Rajlakshmi Film (P) Ltd. He debuted as a producer with the Tamil Film Kadhala Kadhala starring Kamal Haasan and Prabhu Deva which was released on 6.4.1998. Till date he has produced about 14 films and his latest being Tamil film Ayyanar starring Aadhi and Meera Nandhan. He is a producer known for making big budget films^[1] and at the same time promotes encouraging fresh talents as well.

Early Years

Today P.L. Thenappan is one of the successful producers in the Tamil Film Industry. However not many have known Thenappan’s humble beginning.

• As a bar-attender in a wine shop
• As a peon in a bank
• As a sub-editor in a weekly
• As an assistant in a pharmacy
• As an office boy
• As a production manager

These are the various jobs held by P. L. Thenappan before he became a film producer.

Career

Filmography

Films as Producer

Year	Movie	Company	Director	Artists
2010	Ayyanar	Sri Rajlakshmi Film Pvt Ltd	S.S.Rajamithran	Aadhi
2008	Durai	Sri Rajlakshmi Film Pvt Ltd	A.Venkatesh	Arjun
2006	Vallavan	Sri Rajlakshmi Film Pvt Ltd	T.R.Silambarasan	T.R.Silambarasan
2005	Priyasakhi	Sri Rajlakshmi Film Pvt Ltd	K.S.Athiyamaan	Madhavan
2005	Kanaa Kanden	Sri Rajlakshmi Film Pvt Ltd	K.V.Anand	Shrikanath & Prithviraj
2003	Diwan	Sri Rajlakshmi Film Pvt Ltd	Surya Prakash	Sarath kumar
2002	Punar Jani (Malayalam)	Sri Rajlakshmi Film Pvt Ltd	Major Ravi	Mohan Lal's Son
2002	Panchathanthiram	Sri Rajlakshmi Film Pvt Ltd	Mouli	Kamal Hassan
2001	Pammal K Sambantham	Sri Rajlakshmi Film Pvt Ltd	K.S.Ravikumar	Kamal Hassan
1998	Kadhala Kadhala	Saraswathi Films	Singetham Srinivasa Rao	Kamal Hassan

Films as Co-Producer

Year	Movie	Company	Director	Artists
2000	Thenali	R.K.Celluloids	K.S.Ravikumar	Kamal Hassan
1999	Padayappa	Arunachala Cine Creation	K.S.Ravikumar	Rajinikanth

Films as Production Executive

Year	Movie	Company	Director	Artists
1999	Thodarum	P. V. Ramana	Ramesh Kanna	Ajith
1997	Natpukaga	Surya Movies	K.S.Ravikumar	Sarath Kumar
1997	Chachi 420 (Hindi)	Raj Kamal Films	Kamal Hassan	Kamal Hassan
1997	Dharma Chakram	Lakshmi Movie Makers	K.S.Ravikumar	Vijaykanth
1996	Pista	Pyramid Films	K.S.Ravikumar	Karthik
1996	Bharathi Kanamma	Pankak Productions	Cheran	Parthiban
1996	Avvai Shanmugam	Mahalakshmi Movies	K.S.Ravikumar	Kamal Hassan
1996	Paramparai	K.B.Films	K.S.Ravikumar	Prabhu
1995	Muthu	Kavithalaya	K.S.Ravikumar	Rajinikanth
1995	Periya Kudumbam	Ravi Shankar Films	K.S.Ravikumar	Prabhu
1995	Muthu Kulika Vaarigala		K.S.Ravikumar	Vignesh
1994	Nattamai	Super Good Films	K.S.Ravikumar	Sarath Kumar
1994	Magalir Mattum	Raj Kamal Films	Singeetham Srinivasan	Revathy & Nasser
1993	Chinna Pasanga Naanga	AGS Movies	Raj Kapoor	Murali
1993	Band Master	AGS Movies	K.S.Ravikumar	Sarath Kumar
1993	Suriyan Chandran	Ayanaar Cine Creations	K.S.Ravikumar	Selva & Saravanan
1993	Oor Mariyadhai	Super Good Films	K.S.Ravikumar	Sarath Kumar
1992	Putham Puthu Payanam	Super Good Films	K.S.Ravikumar	Anand Babu
1992	Cheran Pandian	Super Good Films	K.S.Ravikumar	Sarath Kumar
1991	Perum Puli	Super Good Films	K.S.Ravikumar	Anand Babu
1991	Devar Magan	Raj Kamal Films	Baradan	Kamal Hassan
1990	Puriyadha Pudhir	Super Good Films	K.S.Ravikumar	Raghuvaran

Films as Production Manager

Year	Movie	Company	Director	Artists
1993	Saktivel	AVM	K.S.Ravikumar	Selva
1991	Guna	Swathi Chitra Internationals	Santhana Bharathi	Kamal Hassan
1990	Appuraja (Hindi)	Raj Kamal Films	Kamal Hassan	Kamal Hassan
1990	Raja Raja Thaan			Ramarajan
1990	Enge Oor Maapillai			Ramarajan
1990	Thenpandi Seemaiyeelai		RamaNarayanan	Ramarajan
1990	Poove Ilam Poove			Suresh, Nadia

Notable Artists/Technicians Introduced by P L Thenappan

Year	Movie	Name	Introduces as
2010	Ayyanar	S.S.Rajamithran	Director
2006	Vallavan	T.R.Silambarasan	Director
2005	Kanaa Kanden	K.V.Anand	Director
2005	Kanaa Kanden	Prithiviraj	Artist in Tamil
2003	Diwan	Vijay C Chakravarthy	Cinematographer
2002	Punar Jani	Major Ravi	Director
2001	Pammal K Sambantham	Kabilan	Lyric Writer

Short Film Corner

Apart from the main stream cinema P.L Thenappan has produced two short films in French which were screened at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in France.

Year	Movie	Company	Director
2009	ECLUSE (French)	Sri Rajlakshmi Film Pvt Ltd	Mahendran Bhaskar
2010	LA VILLE NE DORT PAS (French)	Sri Rajlakshmi Film Pvt Ltd	Mahendran Bhaskar

References

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1. ^ "Santhanam to spoof Osama Bin Laden". Oneindia. 10 July 2009. http://entertainment.oneindia.in/tamil/exclusive/2009/ayyanar-santhanam-laden-spoof-100709.html. Retrieved 29 March 2011. 
2. ^ Publication: Tamil Weekly 'Kumudam' - Date: March 25th 2002
3. ^ Publication: Tamil Weekly 'Bhakya' - Date: August 02nd 2002
4. ^ Publication: The Hindu - Metro Plus - Date: May 23rd 2002

External links

• Official website
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