AGS Entertainment Pvt. Ltd
Company typePrivate
IndustryEntertainment (motion pictures, movie theatres)
Founded2006
Headquarters
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
,
Chennai
Tamilnadu
Key people
Kalpathi S. Aghoram
Kalpathi S. Ganesh
Kalpathi S. Suresh
Revenue1.5 Billion
OwnerKalpathi S. Aghoram, Kalpathi S. Ganesh, Kalpathi S. Suresh
Number of employees
133 Employees
ParentKalpathi Investments
WebsiteAgs cinemas

AGS Entertainment is an Indian film production, distribution company, and multiplex chain in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It was established in 2006 by Kalpathi brothers: S. Aghoram, S. Ganesh, and S. Suresh. AGS has four multiplex movie theaters across Chennai.

History

AGS Entertainment ventured into film production in 2006 with Susi Ganesan's Thiruttu Payale (2006),[1] which was followed by Santosh Subramaniam (2008), both emerging commercial successes.[2][3] Their subsequent productions included the masala flick Maasilamani (2009), Chimbudevan's Western comedy Irumbukkottai Murattu Singam (2010), the period piece Madrasapattinam, Bale Pandiya (2010), Myshkin's crime thriller Yuddham Sei (2011), Bala's comedy entertainer Avan Ivan (2011), Prabhu Deva directed romance film Engeyum Kadhal (2011), Vellore Maavattam (2011) starring Nandha, the K. V. Anand-Suriya project Maattrraan (2012) and Atlee directed sports action film Bigil (2019), while the distribution of films includes Kandhakottai, Inidhu Inidhu, Mynaa and Payanam.

In 2013, AGS Entertainment started their first movie theatre in Villivakkam, Chennai. Subsequently, in the following year, they launched AGS OMR, and in 2016, another theater in T Nagar.[3] and in 2018, another theatre in Maduravoyal.

Productions

List of AGS Entertainment film productions
Year Title Cast Director Synopsis Notes
2006 Thiruttu Payale Jeevan, Sonia Agarwal, Abbas, Malavika Susi Ganesan Manikkam captures a video of illicit affair between businessman's wife and her lover and threatens her for money. She also tries to outsmart him. [3]
2008 Santosh Subramaniam Jayam Ravi, Genelia D'Souza, Prakash Raj Mohan Raja A man who feels irritated by over influence of his father wants to make his own decisions of his life and falls in love. [4]
2009 Maasilamani Nakul, Sunaina R. N. R. Manohar Good hearted gangster is hated by a girl due to his nature, he adopts a different persona pretending to be a twin to impress the girl. [5]
2010 Madrasapattinam Arya, Amy Jackson A. L. Vijay The film is set in 1940s during country's struggle for independence, Parithi a villager falls in love with Amy, daughter of British General. [6]
Irumbukkottai Murattu Singam Raghava Lawrence, Raai Laxmi, Sandhya Chimbu Deven Cowboys bring a lookalike of deceased cowboy Singam to rescue village from thieves. [7]
Bale Pandiya Vishnu Vishal, Pia Bajpiee, Vivek Siddharth Chandrasekhar A man who faces ill luck approaches a gangster to murder him, the gangster who is surprised by his decision gives him a chance to be happy for few days through which he gains a new lease of life after falling in love but ends up in a different problem. [8]
2011 Engeyum Kaadhal Jayam Ravi, Hansika Motwani Prabhu Deva Young Celloist living in a Paris who loves a man coming from India, but he doesn't believe her love. [9]
Yuddham Sei Cheran, Dipa Shah Myshkin A cop who is deeply depressed by the disappearance of his sister investigates the case of missing girls and series of murders in the city. [10]
Avan Ivan Vishal, Arya, Janani Iyer, Madhu Shalini Bala Two stepbrothers avenges the death of village zamindar. [11]
Vellore Maavattam Nandha, Poorna R. N. R. Manohar [12]
2012 Maatrraan Surya Sivakumar, Kajal Aggarwal K. V. Anand Two conjoined twins discover a shocking secret about their birth. [13]
2013 Naveena Saraswathi Sabatham Jai, Niveda Thomas K. Chandru Lord Shiva decides to teach lesson to a gang of friends and make them realize their life. [14]
2014 Tenaliraman Vadivelu, Meenakshi Dixit Yuvaraj Dhayalan [15]
Irumbu Kuthirai Atharvaa, Priya Anand, Raai Laxmi Yuvraj [16]
2015 Anegan Dhanush, Amyra Dastur K. V. Anand A boy and a girl realizes they were lovers in their previous generation. [17]
Vai Raja Vai Gautham Karthik, Priya Anand Aishwarya R. Dhanush Man with extrasensory perception uses his talent to earn money through gambling which lands him in trouble. [18]
Thani Oruvan Jayam Ravi, Nayantara, Arvind Swami Mohan Raja A honest cop is on pursuit to apprehend a cruel businessman. [19]
2017 Kavan Vijay Sethupathi, T. Rajendar, Madonna Sebastian, Vikranth K. V. Anand Leading TV channel goes on the extent of publishing false news to raise TRPs however his own employees go against him and exposes his true colours. [20]
Thiruttu Payale 2 Bobby Simha, Prasanna, Amala Paul Susi Ganesan Cop who earns money by overhearing other conservations meets face to face with a rich hacker who harasses cop's wife. [21]
2019 Bigil Vijay, Nayanthara, Jackie Shroff, Vivek, Yogi Babu Atlee Kumar Mobster and Former football player decides to coach a girls football team whose coach get attacked by his rivals. [22]
2022 Naai Sekar Sathish, Pavithra Lakshmi Kishore Rajkumar A guy gets bitten by a dog and starts to behave like a dog [23]
Love Today Pradeep Ranganathan, Ivana Pradeep Ranganathan Lovers' phones swapped by the girls father for a day to expose them to each other. [24]
2023 Conjuring Kannappan Sathish, Regina Cassandra, Nassar, Saranya Ponvannan Selvin Raj Xavier [25]
TBA The Greatest of All Time † Vijay, Prashanth, Prabhu Deva, Mohan, Meenakshi Chaudhary Venkat Prabhu

Distribution

List of films distributed by AGS Entertainment
Year Title Cast Director Notes
2009 Kandhakottai Nakul, Poorna S. Sakthivel [26]
2010 Inidhu Inidhu Narayan, Arun Iswaran, Vimal, Sharan Sharma, Reshmi Menon, Sonia Deepti K. V. Guhan
Mynaa Vidharth, Amala Paul, Sethu, Thambi Ramaiyaa Prabhu Solomon [27]
2011 Payanam Nagarjuna Akkineni, Prakash Raj, Poonam Kaur Radha Mohan [28]
Avan Ivan Vishal , Arya Bala [11]
2014 Tenaliraman Vadivelu, Meenakshi Dixit Yuvaraj Dhayalan [15]
2015 Anegan Dhanush, Amyra Dastur K. V. Anand [17]
Thani Oruvan Jayam Ravi, Nayantara Mohan Raja [19]
2017 Kavan Vijay Sethupathi, T. Rajendar, Madonna Sebastian, Vikranth K. V. Anand [29]
2019 Bigil Vijay, Nayanthara, Kathir Atlee Kumar [30]

Multiplexes

List of AGS Entertainment multiplexes
Year Multiplex Name # of Screens Locality City State Ref.
2013 AGS Cinemas, Villivakkam 5 Villivakkam Chennai Tamil Nadu [3]
2014 AGS Cinemas, Navalur 4 Navalur Chennai
2016 AGS Cinemas,T Nagar 4 T Nagar Chennai
2018 AGS Cinemas, Maduravoyal 5 Maduravoyal Chennai [31]

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