Ajith Kumar (Tamil: அஜித் குமார்) (born in Hyderabad, India on May 1, 1971) is a Tamil film actor. He began his career doing various temp jobs in Andhra Pradesh, while also attending a theatre for stage plays, to follow his dream to act. After three years of acting in minor roles and small-budget ventures in Tamil films, Ajith Kumar gained the Tamil cinema's attention in 1995 by playing the role of Jeeva in Aasai, his first blockbuster and since then he has acted in over forty Tamil films. He is affectionately addressed as Thala (meaning literally the head) by his fans and credited as Ultimate Star in his movies. He has high fan followings in the Indian subcontinent and Europe. Ajith Kumar was also a motor car racer until 2005 and took part in Formula 3 championships for the minor outfit, Mango Racing. In 2004, he became the third participant ever from India after Narain Karthikeyan and Karun Chandok.
An accomplished dramatic actor and celebrity, he has won several awards at a...
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Thirupathi (Tamil: திருப்பதி) is a 2006 Tamil film directed by Perarasu. The movie stars Ajith and Sadha in the leading role. In this film the Ajith plays the role of a sound and microphone man. This film sees Ajith in yet another get up and with the new style of wearing a belt around his shirt collar. It has all the perfect ingredients of a typical masala film.
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Varalaru - History of Godfather (Tamil: வரலாறு) is a Tamil film released during Diwali of 2006. The film stars Ajith, Kanika Subramaniam and Asin, and was directed by K.S. Ravikumar. Ajith plays three roles in the movie: a father and his two sons. The female lead is played by Kanika. Ramesh Khanna and Suman Shetty are featured in supporting roles. The film's score and soundtrack were composed by A. R. Rahman.
The film's release was originally scheduled for May 1, 2005, Ajith's birthday, but was delayed; it opened November 14, 2006 in India. It was successful at the box office in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Pondicherry and Andhra Pradesh.
Shivshankar (Ajith Kumar) is bound to a wheelchair and has a son, Vishnu (also played by Kumar), who is playful, spoiled, irresponsible, and young. To teach him a lesson, Shivshankar sends Vishnu to Thottapuram to help the poor. Vishnu doesn't want to go, but the owner of a pizzeria tells him and his friends that the village is one big brothel, so...
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Paramasivan (2006) (Tamil: பரமசிவன்) is a Tamil action film directed by P. Vasu, director of Chandramukhi. Paramasivan has Ajith in a new avatar. He has shed flab and years for this role and looks younger and fitter. His fights are one of the USPs of the movie, and a treat for his fans, who had not seen him in a new release for long. Music is by Vidyasagar.Subramania Siva (Ajith) is in jail, awaiting the death sentence for killing corrupt and evil members of the police force who had killed his father and sister. SP of Police, Nethiadi Nandakumar (Prakash Raj) is an honest, fearless and upright police officer who has been given the mission to flush out the terrorist outfit behind the Coimbatore blasts. He decides to employ unconventional methods to fulfill his mission and engages Siva to assist him, renaming him Paramasivan, and giving him a single point agenda – trace out and erase the persons responsible for the Coimbatore blasts. Unaware to Paramasivam, Nandakumar intends on killing...
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Aalwar (2007) (Tamil: ஆழ்வார்) is a Tamil film directed by Chella. The film stars Ajith Kumar and Asin Thottumkal in the lead roles. This will be the second project that the pair will be in after the blockbuster Varalaru directed by K.S. Ravikumar. The film was released for Pongal in January 2007, where Ajith faces competition from Vijay. Shooting had taken place in India and Europe. The film's score and soundtrack by Srikanth Deva was released on 15 December 2006. Upon release, the film received mixed reviews but opened successfully in the UK Box-office. The story is the metamorphosis of a simple, straight as rod, Aalwar into an avenging machine named Shiva. Why does Aalwar end up as Shiva? Well, Aalwar is a traditional priest. He is devoted to his mother and sister. But the villainous elements Lal, Vincent Asokan, take out the sister and mother. If this is not reason enough for Aalwar’s blood to boil, then what is? Aalwar, with revenge ringing in his mind, ends up as Shiva the...
Ji (Tamil: ஜி) is a 2005 Tamil movie. The movie stars Ajith and Trisha. The film is directed by Lingusamy of Run fame. The score and soundtrack, composed by Vidyasagar, was released on February 21 2005.
Vasu (Ajith), a final year college student is happy go lucky. But he is forced to contest elections in the college after being persuaded by his friends (Venkat Prabhu and Arun). He, however, incurs the wrath of the local MLA Varadharajan (Charanraj), whose son is studying in the college, contests the elections too.
Following threats, Vasu backs out from the polls and eventually Charanraj's son gets elected.
In the course of events, the MLA's gang attacks Vasu and his friends. It's here that Vasu's father (Vijayakumar) advises the students to take a plunge in politics and teach the bad apples like Varadharajan a lesson.
Taking cue from his words, Vasu does indeed take the plunge in politics with the backing of college students and even files nomination for the Assembly election in...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460836
Attagasam (2004) (Tamil: அட்டகாசம்) is a Tamil film directed by Saran. The film stars Ajith, Pooja, Karunas, and Babu Antony. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Bhardwaj. The story is a full length comedy about Ajith in a dual role as a driving instructor and as a rowdy don. The movie begins with Ajith, a driving instructor leading a happy life with his mother Sujatha. She hides from him the truth that his father, Nizhalgal Ravi, was murdered by a dadha, Babu Anthony. The mother much against the boy’s wish packs off Ajith’s twin brother, who had been witness to the murderer from a close quarter, to a distant town. He goes to Tuticorin and grows to become a gangster there. When the younger Ajith visits Tuticorin, he comes across his elder brother. Seizing the opportunity, the elder brother kidnaps the younger one and decides to go as the driving instructor to Chennai. Initially, he plans to take revenge on his mother for packing him off from their house at a very...
Jana (2004) (Tamil: ஜனா) is a Tamil film directed by Shaji Kailas. The film stars Ajith, Sneha, Raghuvaran, Karunaas, and Sri Vidya. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Dhina. Jana lives in a village in Tamil Nadu, leading life incognito, taking up the cause of the villagers, making enemies around. And then comes the twist in the tale, the caption in the interval reading...'Interval...Wait just see other face'. And when the film re-opens we do get to see the other face of Jana. Jana, a terror to the Mumbai underworld, corrupt politicians and their ilk, killing, maiming and teaching a lesson to them. Both the faces of Jana merge finally, when his bete noire Bhandari, out of jail, comes to the village to have his final round with Jana. The soundtrack features 6 songs composed by Dhina.
Anjaneya (2003) is a Tamil film directed by Maharajan. The film stars Ajith, Meera Jasmine, Raghuvaran, Ramesh Khanna, and Sarala. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Mani Sharma. DCP Paramaguru (Ajith) a nail police officer who fights with the scum of the society. He later masquerades as a thief to infiltrate into the underworld. The bad guys are surprised to find that Paramguru is the DCP, out to get them. So they all gang up against him. In this process a thrilling encounter takes place between the good and the evil. Paramaguru is helped in his fight against injustice by Divya (Meera Jasmine) who falls in love with him.
Villain (2002) (Tamil: வில்லன்) is a Tamil film directed by K.S. Ravikumar. The film stars Ajith, Kiran Rathod, Meena, Karunaas, and Ramesh Khanna. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Vidyasagar. One of the twins is bus conductor and the other is handicapped. The elder one, Shiva, overhears his parents' plot to kill his mildly retarded brother, Vishnu. He runs away to another city with his adorable brother and strives hard to look after Vishnu. As a result of an incident when 'dada' Sundara Moorthy, who runs a beggar trade beats Vishnu brutally, Vishnu becomes a handicap for life. Shiva leaves Vishnu in a home run by a social worker (Sujatha). During the day, Shiva works as a conductor and in the night poses as the handicapped Vishnu to play Robinhood and steal from the rich and corrupt. A gang including Meena, Ramesh Kanna and others assists him in the operations. He is never suspected and so with the stolen money, he takes care of not only Vishnu but also 800 other...
Red (2002) (Tamil: ரெட்) is a Tamil film directed by Ram Sathya. The film stars Ajith, Priya Gill, Manivannan and Rajesh. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Deva. Ajith is Red (it stands for Revolution, Education, Development), an orphan who has since grown up to be the local don in Madurai. Naturally he possesses a heart of gold and when not bashing up bad guys, he spends his time forcing schools to accept students without donations and taking care of orphans. Cheeni(Salim Ghouse) is his biggest enemy. Red falls for Gayatri(Priya Gill), the daughter of his friend and confidante Narayanan(Manivannan) and helps her without her knowledge. She too likes him but wants him to give up his life of violence. Meanwhile a reporter(Rajesh) for Ananda Vikatan begins to serialise Red's story under the name Aadi and it becomes quite the rage among readers. The soundtrack features 6 songs composed by Deva. November Madham - Hariharan, Mahalaxmi Iyer...
Kandukondain Kandukondain (Tamil: கண்டுகொண்டேன் கண்டுகொண்டேன்) is a 2000 Tamil film directed by Rajiv Menon. The film was also dubbed into Telugu as Priyuraalu Pilichindi. The movie stars Mammootty, Ajith, Abbas, Aishwarya Rai and Tabu. The film is a contemporary Indian take on Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
Set in modern India, it's a classical tale of a widowed mother and her three daughters: Saumya and Meenakshi who are grown-up and beautiful, and Kamla who is still at school. They live with the widow's father in his grand country house. The father, who is ill, dies unable to communicate that he wants to change his will. Everything is left to his son, Sam, and Sam's mean wife. The family of women, who have spent years looking after the father, are evicted by Sam and his wife and are forced to move to Madras. Before this, both elder daughters have developed a romantic interest: Saumya with Manohar, a budding filmmaker returned from America who wants to make his mark in Tamil...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242572
Mugavari (Tamil: முகவரி) is a Tamil movie starring Ajith, Jyothika, Raghuvaran, Vivek, Cochin Haneefa, K.Vishwanath and Jai Ganesh. The music is composed by Deva. The story was the meanings of dreams and ambitions and the ego to fulfil them. The film was directed by Durai. Sridhar (Ajith) has been trying to become a music director for eight years. In spite of having earned an M.A., his only dream is to become a music director (he even calls the eight-year wait a "penance"). His family, consisting of his father (K.Vishwanath), his brother Shiva (Raghuvaran), his sister-in-law Shantha(Sitara) and his sister, is fully supportive of him. He runs into Viji (Jyothika) and their friendship soon blossoms into love. She helps him get a foot in the door in the industry but bad luck spoils his chances. When Viji's sister's marriage is finalised suddenly, Viji's father (Jaiganesh) asks her to get married too. But he is understandably worried when he learns that Sridhar is unemployed and...
Vaali (1999) (Tamil: வாலி) is a Tamil film directed by S.J. Suryah. The film stars Ajith, Simran, Jyothika Saravanan, Vivek and Balaji. The film's music is composed by the music director, DevaDeva (Ajith) and Shiva (Ajith) are the twins. Deva, the elder, is deaf and mute. But he is a genius, an expert at lip-reading and the head of a successful advertising company. Shiva loves and trusts his brother.
Priya (Simran) wants to marry only someone who is an ex-smoker, an ex-drunkard and ditched by a girl but still pining for her. Learning this, Shiva invents an old romance between him and Sona (Jyothika Saravanan) and finds his way into Priya's heart.
Deva meanwhile chances upon Priya and becomes obsessed with attaining her. His obsession continues even after his younger brother gets married to the girl of his dreams and he devises various means of getting close to Priya and keeping Shiva and her separated.
Priya realises the not-so-honorable intentions Deva has towards her but Shiva...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368400
Amarkalam (Tamil: அமர்க்களம்) is a Tamil film starring Ajith and Shalini in the lead roles. It was released in 1999 and was a silver jubilee movie.Ajith plays Vasu, a drunken rowdy who lives in a cinema theater owned by Vinu Chakravarthy. He had a tortured childhood and spends his days drinking, fighting, and wasting away. During the beginning altercations, Vasu's friend, Dhamu, loses a reel of the movie Annamalai to Mohana (Shalini). Vasu and Mohana clash when he goes to retrieve the reel. Not only that, Mohana's family is made up entirely of cops, headed up by Bose (Nasser), Mohana's father.At this point, an ex-Mafia "thaathaa" who spent many years in jail because of Nasser, Tulasi Dass (Raguvaran), comes to the theater. Because he doesn't like Bose, and therefore hires Vasu to kidnap Mohana and take her away somewhere. When he does, at one point, he screams out his agonies in the superb song "Satham Illatha." Mohana falls in love with him, hearing his pain.When Tulasi Dass realizes...
Unnai Thedi (1999) (Tamil: உன்னை தேடி) is a Tamil film directed by Sundar C. As like other Sundar C films it deals with. The movie stars Ajith, Malavika, Manorama, Vivek, Sivakumar, Swathi, Srividya, Karan and more supporting actors. The film's music is composed by top director, Deva. It was a huge success.Ajith, studying in Australia, goes to New Zealand with a friend and runs into Malavika. They start off having petty fights but end up falling in love. But circumstances force them to separate without exchanging any information about each other.Back home, Ajith makes friends with Karan and chances upon his family photograph which surprisingly includes his mother (Srividya), who as far as he knew had no relations. But on questioning, his mother reveals that she was part of a large family (three brothers and a sister) but had been sent out of the family after deciding to wed someone of her own choice. Ajith travels to the village as Karan's friend and soon endears himself to the...
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Ajith Kumar died
Mughal-e-Azam (Urdu: مغلِ اعظم, Hindi: मुग़ल-ए आज़म) is an Indian epic film, remniscient of the older style of Indian cinema. It was produced and directed by K. Asif and released in 1960. It took nine years to finish and was the most lavish production for its time.
The film broke box office records in India when released and held the record for the highest grossing film ever until the 1975 film Sholay broke its record.[1]Indiatimes Movies ranks the movie amongst the Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films.[2]Its most famous dance sequence takes place in the Sheesh Mahal (Palace of Mirrors) of the Lahore Fort, where a defiant slave-girl (played by Madhubala) dances for the Mughal Emperor and his court, singing Pyar Kiya to Darna Kya, "I have loved, so what is there to fear?" This song was one of three sequences shot on Eastman Kodak color film, while the rest of the movie was in black and white. The singing is, of course, playback singing by Lata Mangeshkar and lip-synched by Madhubala.
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Ajith Kumar was born in Hyderabad, India
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