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Ilavarasu is a Actor, Producer and Director of Photography Indian born on 1 january 1964
Ilavarasu is an Indian cinematographer-turned-actor, who works in the Tamil film industry. He started his career as a cinematographer and worked for 13 films, winning a Tamil Nadu State Film Award for one of them. He, however, became better known as an actor, after he debuted and appeared in pivotal roles in Bharathiraja's and Cheran's films. He first appeared in a minuscule role in Bharathiraja's 1987 film Vedham Pudhidhu, and has since starred in over 50 Tamil films mostly in supporting roles.
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Aayirathil Iruvar (2017)
Directed by Saran
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Vinay Rai, Sreejith Ravi, Sakshi Chaudhary, Pradeep Rawat, Mayilsamy, Ilavarasu
Rating49%
Ko 2 (2016)
, 2h14Genres Thriller, Action, Romance
Actors Bobby Simha, Prakash Raj, Nikki Galrani, Bala Saravanan, John Vijay, Karunakaran
Roles Home Minister Thillainayagam
Rating52%
Killadi (2015)
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Bharath, Meera Chopra, Vivek, Roja, Ilavarasu, Avinash
Rating40%
Dharani (Bharath), an intrepid college student, drops Anjali (Nila), who is running away from home to escape a marriage with her rowdy uncle Bhavani (Vincent Asokan), at the bus stand but Bhavani and her arrogant mother Angayarkanni (Roja) mistake him for her lover. Now, Dharani and his family become their targets but they hardly realize that he is more than a match for them.
Idam Porul Yaeval (2015)
Directed by Seenu Ramasamy
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Vijay Sethupathi, Vishnu Vishal, Nandita Swetha, Aishwarya Rajesh, Vadivukkarasi, Bala Saravanan
Rajathandhiram (2015)
, 2h15Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films
Actors Veera, Regina Cassandra, Aadukalam Naren, Ilavarasu, Darbuka Siva, Srihari
Roles Sethu Madhavan
Rating75%
Arjun (Veera Bahu) and his two friends make a living out of conning people for a few thousands and are quite good at it. When Arjun falls for a girl, Michelle (Regina Cassandra), he agrees to Deva’s (Ajai Prasath) plan of stepping up to nail a big con job so that he can help her from financial stress. The con job sets off a chain of events that lead to a riveting cat-and-mouse game with a heist at its fulcrum.
En Vazhi Thani Vazhi (2015)
, 2h10Directed by Shaji Kailas
Genres Action
Actors R. K., Poonam Kaur, Meenakshi Dixit, Radha Ravi, Ashish Vidyarthi, Rajiv Krishna
Rating44%
En Vazhi Thani Vazhi is the story of a police officer who takes on corrupt system and criminals.
Papanasam (2015)
, 3h1Directed by Jeethu Joseph
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Kamal Haasan, Gautami, Asha Sarath, Kalabhavan Mani, Niveda Thomas, Anant Mahadevan
Roles Constable Shanmugam
Rating83%
Suyambulingam is a honest and hard working cable operator who along with his assistant Sermadurai (Sree Raam) watches movies through the TV every night and returns home in the morning. He is living happily with his wife Rani (Gautami Tadimalla) and two daughters Selvi (Niveda Thomas) and Pullimeena alias Meena (Esther Anil) in a small town named Papanasam in Tirunelveli District, Southern Tamil Nadu. He is a guy who dropped out in 4th grade but gets knowledge from "cinema" as he is a cinema fanatic. His elder daughter Selvi goes for a nature club where they take them to a camp where Varun, the spoiled son of IG Geetha Prabhakar records a video of Selvi changing her clothes. When he threatens her with the video, she ends up killing him.
36 Vayadhinile (2015)
, 1h55Directed by Rosshan Andrrews
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Actors Jyothika, Rashin Rahman, Abhirami, Nassar, Ilavarasu, Delhi Ganesh
Roles Vegetable merchant
Rating68%
36-year-old Vasanthi Tamizhselvan (Jyothika) is a UD clerk in the Revenue Department. Her husband is Tamizhselvan (Rahman) who works in Akashvaani. Tamizhselvan aspires to emigrate to Ireland, but Vasanthi can't accompany him as most Irish companies turn down her job applications because of her age being a problem.There is nothing interesting about her life; she leads a mundane life but she craves for a change.
Directed by Chimbu Deven
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Arulnithi, Bindu Madhavi, Nassar, Ashrita Shetty, M. S. Bhaskar, Bagavathi Perumal
Rating61%
Three friends Tamil, Malar and Esakki, who are planning to kidnap Isabella, Tamil's girlfriend, who is being forced by her rich father to marry against her wishes. Chakkaravarthy enter the scene with an Main Villain.
Veeram (2014)
, 2h35Directed by Siva
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Ajith Kumar, Tamannaah Bhatia, Santhanam, Bala, Abhinaya, Vidharth
Roles Azhagappan
Rating64%
Vinayagam (Ajith) is a brave person living in a village called Oddanchatram, who lives with his four brothers Murugan (Bala), Shanmugam (Vidharth), Kumaran (Suhail) and Senthil (Munish). The elder brother loves the younger ones to the core, and sacrifices his happiness for their good. They are often caught in fights and they are proud of it. Advocate Bail Perumal (Santhanam), who bails them out whenever legal issues arise because of their brawls. Vinayagam hates the idea of marriage as he feels that his wife might create disharmony among brothers. Though the four younger brothers say that they don't want to either fall in love or get married, when Vinayagam is not around, they all have their secret lovers. Now, in order to get the green light for their love stories, they learn through his brother's childhood friend Collector Subbu (Ramesh Kanna) that Vinayakam, in school, was in love with a girl named Koppuram Devi (fondly called Kopu) and his brothers hatch a plan to find her and reintroduce her to Vinayakam, so he can fall for her all over again. But she's married now and has kids. So the brothers conspire to do the most logical thing, which is to find another woman named Koppuram Devi (fondly called Kopu), because, you see, Vinayakam was not in love with that girl so much as her name, and when he meets another (completely random) girl with that name, he is sure to lose his heart to her, just because she bears that name. Though initially reluctant later Vinayakam himself falls in love with her. He clashes with a goon called Vanangamudi (Pradeep Rawat) to take care of market in the village. Vanangamudi tries to kill Vinayagam's brothers while Vinayagam kidnaps Vanangamudi's son (Amit Kumar Tiwari) after clashing, Vinayagam orders Vanangamudi to leave this village.
Maanga (2014)
Actors Premgi Amaren, Keerthi Shetty, Leema Babu, Arjunan, Power Star Srinivasan, Thambi Ramaiah
Roles Nambirajan
Rating30%
Lingaa (2014)
, 2h58Directed by K.S.Ravikumar
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Actors Rajinikanth, Anushka Shetty, Sonakshi Sinha, Vadivelu, Santhanam, Karunakaran
Roles Sami Pillai
Rating55%
A dam in the village of Solaiyur, which is the lifeline of that village is under assessment for structural integrity by the Public Works Department. The dam inspector (Ponvannan) assesses that the dam is still strong 75 years after it was built. Later that evening, he is hacked to death by the corrupt local MP Nagabhushan (Jagapathi Babu), who wants the dam destroyed for his own benefit. The dying dam inspector throws a pen drive containing details about the proposed plan to destroy the dam into an abandoned Shiva temple near the dam and warns the village head Karunakara (K. Viswanath) that the temple has to be opened as soon as possible, after which he passes away. Karunakara and the villagers are of the opinion that the temple can only be opened by the descendant of Raja Lingeswaran (Rajinikanth), who built the dam as well as the Shiva temple. Lakshmi (Anushka Shetty), the granddaughter of Karunakara and a television journalist, goes on a search to find the Raja's descendant. She soon manages to find the descendant, whose name is Lingeswaran aka Lingaa (Rajinikanth). Lingaa is the grandson of Raja Lingeswaran, but is a petty thief with his family having now fallen on hard times. He holds a grudge against his grandfather, feeling that he had brought down his family into poverty by squandering all his wealth and hence refuses to go with Lakshmi to Solaiyur. However, Lakshmi implicates Lingaa in a robbery, as a result of which the police pursue Lingaa. Lingaa is forced to accept Lakshmi's invitation to avoid getting caught and travels with her to Solaiyur.
Sathuranga Vettai (2014)
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Natarajan Subramaniam, Ponvannan, Ilavarasu
Roles Chettiyar
Rating80%
The protagonist in the film, Gandhi Babu (Natraj) is a skilled conman. He dreams up ingenious scams and executes them perfectly. He sells ignorant people ordinary snakes claiming that they are exotic and will fetch crores in the international market. He promotes a non-existent 'multi-level marketing' company with its controversial chain referral schemes promising a BMW car within the year. And the climax has him pulling off 'the rice pulling scam', one of the most high-profile scams of recent times. About 40 minutes into the film Gandhi Babu is arrested and multiple cases filed against him. But the money he has scammed over the years comes to his rescue and he is released. He is not in the least remorseful and continues to manipulate everyone. He believes that if a person is foolish or greedy enough to be duped, then the person is to be blamed. He argues that every election voters are conned by the candidates who promise them the moon, but never come through. Banu (Ishara Nair) is from a poor family. She comes to work for him and falls for his charms. Despite having a soft corner for her, money is Gandhi Babu's first priority and he abandons her. Some of his friends betray him and is beaten to pulp. Banu looks after him for some time and they get married. She becomes pregnant. Towards the end of the film, a group of people whom he had tricked, capture him. They threaten him to settle their lump sum of money. He performs a final heist to hand over the money to them. The passage of money results in a tussle. Babu kills each one of them and returns to his wife and child with the money. Finally, the look on her face makes him realise the value of life and leaves the money to the police custody.
Jannal Oram (2013)
Directed by Karu Pazhanaiappan
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Radhakrishnan Parthiban, Vimal, Vidharth, Shamna Kasim, Manisha Yadav, Ramana
Roles Police Inspector
Rating51%
Thillu Mullu (2013)
, 2h20Genres Comedy
Actors Shiva, Isha Talwar, Prakash Raj, Kovai Sarala, Soori, Sathyan
Roles Pasupathy's Uncle
Rating42%
Pasupathy (Shiva) is a go lucky guy who wanders without any purpose. He is living with his younger sister Kavitha (Monisha) and house maid Senthamarai (Kovai Sarala) who is a part-time liquor seller in black market. Pasupathy's sister is in love with his close friend Mano (Soori) which Pasupathy is not aware. His friend indirectly tries to convey that matter to him to which he does not understand. Pasupathy has a maternal uncle (Ilavarasu) who is a lawyer and their care taker since their parents died. Pasupathy loses his house to a bank on a surety crisis which involved his father. Hence he is compelled to settle in job. Pasupathy's uncle applies for an opening in his friend's mineral water company 'Classique' for marketing head post. He gives many instructions about the owner Sivagurunathan (Prakash Raj) who is an ardent devotee of Lord Murugan and who is against recommendations. Pasupathy manages to get job by dressing in a simple Gandhian manner, faking as a Murugan devotee and tells he follows very valuable principles written in the book of Sivagurnathan himself which attracts Sivagurunathan.