Bobby is now doing lead roles in many films, but he started his film career as a side actor, performing a few extended roles in films like Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi and also in Pizza.Īctress Trisha was initially a model. It was directed by Karthik Subbaraj, who was travelling with him since Bobby’s short film days. He received an award for his supporting role in the film Jigarthanda. Ranjith's directorial debut Attakathi.Īctor Bobby Simha is now a National Film Award winner. Even before becoming such a credible actress, she was first spotted in Pa. She rose to fame through her performance in Kaka Muttai as a mother of two children. Very rarely we get to see such an actress in Tamil cinema. Even before all this, the actor had performed some uncredited roles for some major films like Pudhupettai, Naan Mahaan Alla, and Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu.Īishwarya Rajesh is now an actress who would suit any kind of role. He is a hero, a villain and also he didn’t miss to impress the audience while performing in a multi-starrer film. The actor has rendered his best performance in almost all varieties. Let us look at some of the actors and actresses who did a few uncredited roles in Tamil movies before they had a breakthrough and rose to fame.Īctor Vijay Sethupathi has grown to stardom and now he is one of the leading actors in Tamil cinema. We could see a lot of newcomers performing in a lot of major roles.īut little did we know that the top actors and actresses of the current era were performing as side actors and did a few uncredited roles before they become superstars. Today the platforms have become widespread, and the route to Tamil cinema has broadened. Vijay Sethupathi did a lot of uncredited roles in films like Pudhupettai, Nan Mahan Alla and a few more.These films have proved that a good script and superlative performances are the need of the hour. 3.3 crore, while Rs.3 crore film ‘Thattathin Marayathu’ managed to earn a profit of Rs. Malayalam comedy-drama ‘Ordinary’ collected Rs. 8.5 crore at the box-office, while ‘22 Female Kottayam’, which revolves around a nurse who wants to take revenge on her tormenters, was made on a budget of Rs.
‘Usthad Hotel’, starring newcomer Dulquer Salmaan, collected Rs. These films had fresh and innovative storylines and were, therefore, unanimously accepted at the box-office,” Trinath said and added that other blockbusters were ‘Ordinary’ and ‘Thattathin Marayathu’. “Films such as `Usthad Hotel` and `22 Female Kottayam` were the year`s biggest low-budget hits. The Malayalam film industry had quite a few surprise hits this year.
A Kannada remake of Tamil horror-comedy ‘Kanchana’, it was a Rs.4 crore film and raked in Rs.9 crore, while the Rs.4.5-crore Kannada romantic-drama ‘Addhuri’ collected Rs.16.4 crore. ‘Krantiveera Sangolli Rayanna’ turned out to be the biggest Kannada hit of the year by grossing Rs.18 crore at the box-office. “Tamil films such as `Mounaguru`, `Poraali` and `Subramaniapuram` were remade in Kannada and some successful Telugu films like `Seema Sastry`, and `Blade Babji` were not spared either,” said a trade analyst. Meanwhile, the Kannada film industry survived on remakes. Rajamouli`s ‘Eega’, which collected a combined profit of Rs.58.5 crore in Telugu and Tamil. However, the year`s biggest Telugu hit was S.S. ‘Ee Rojullo’, made under a crore of rupees, collected a gross profit of Rs.7 crore. Other biggies fell flat, while small budget, non-starrers like `Ee Rojullo` reaped gold at the box-office.’ Trinath said: ‘ `Business Man` and `Julayi` were the only two high-budget films that managed to break even and earn some positive response from the audience. Meanwhile, in Telugu, one of the earliest releases was Mahesh Babu- starrer ‘Business Man’, which despite mixed reviews, went on to earn Rs. The budget for ‘Attakathi’ was Rs.2.5 crore and it collected Rs.7.67 crore, while ‘Pizza’, made within Rs.1.5 crore, has raked over Rs.3 crore and is still running in theatres. ‘Marina’, about children who earn their livelihood by doing odd jobs on the Marina beach, collected Rs.5.47 crore on an investment of Rs. Other surprise hits in Tamil were ‘Marina’, ‘Attakathi’ and ‘Pizza’. Made at a shoestring budget of less than Rs.2 crore, it raked in a combined gross collection of Rs.15.86 crore in Tamil and Telugu.
However, the biggest hit in Tamil was romantic-comedy ‘Oru Kal Oru Kannadi’.