Lyca Productions
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Lyca Productions () is an Indian entertainment company founded by Subaskaran Allirajah in 2014. Subaskaran Allirajah is a British citizen of Sri Lanka Tamil ethnicity. A subsidiary of Lycamobile (part of the Lyca Group), the studio has been involved in the production and distribution of Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, and Sinhala films. It has produced some of Tamil cinema's most expensive films, including 2.0 (2018), Ponniyin Selvan: I (2022), and Ponniyin Selvan: II (2023) and L2: Empuraan (2025).
Infobox
Company type
Private
Industry
Entertainment
Founded
2014; 11 years ago (2014) in Chennai, India
Founder
Subaskaran Allirajah
Headquarters
Chennai, India
Key people
G.K.M. Tamil Kumaran
Products
Films
Parent
Lycamobile
Website
lycaproductions.in
Tables
Key · Produced films
| † | Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released |
List of films produced by Lyca Productions · Produced films
2017
2018
2019
2020
2022
2023
Role(s)
Mani Ratnam
Notes
Vikram, Karthi, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Jayam Ravi, Trisha, Jayaram, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Sobhita Dhulipala, Vikram Prabhu
2024
Role(s)
T. J. Gnanavel
Notes
Rajinikanth, Fahadh Faasil, Amitabh Bachchan, Manju Warrier, Rana Daggubati, Ritika Singh, Dushara Vijayan
2025
2026
JasonSanjay01 †
Role(s)
Jason Sanjay
Notes
Sundeep Kishan
| Year | Title | Language | Director | Cast | Ref. |
| 2014 | Kaththi | Tamil | A. R. Murugadoss | Vijay, Samantha, Neil Nitin Mukesh | |
| 2016 | Enakku Innoru Per Irukku | Sam Anton | G. V. Prakash Kumar, Anandhi, Saravanan | ||
| 2017 | Khaidi No. 150(Remake of Kaththi) | Telugu | V. V. Vinayak | Chiranjeevi, Kajal Aggarwal, Tarun Arora | |
| Yaman | Tamil | Jeeva Shankar | Vijay Antony, Miya, Thiagarajan | ||
| Ippadai Vellum | Gaurav Narayanan | Udhayanidhi Stalin, Manjima Mohan, Daniel Balaji | |||
| 2018 | Diya | A. L. Vijay | Sai Pallavi, Naga Shourya, RJ Balaji | ||
| Kolamavu Kokila | Nelson Dilipkumar | Nayanthara, Yogi Babu, Saranya | |||
| Chekka Chivantha Vaanam | Mani Ratnam | Arvind Swami, STR, Vijay Sethupathi, Arun Vijay | |||
| Vada Chennai | Vetrimaaran | Dhanush, Andrea Jeremiah, Aishwarya Rajesh | |||
| 2.0 | S. Shankar | Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson | |||
| 2019 | Vantha Rajavathaan Varuven | Sundar C. | STR, Megha Akash, Catherine Tresa | ||
| Kaappaan | K. V. Anand | Mohanlal, Suriya, Arya, Sayyeshaa | |||
| 2020 | Darbar | A. R. Murugadoss | Rajinikanth, Nayanthara, Sunil Shetty | ||
| Mafia: Chapter 1 | Karthick Naren | Arun Vijay, Priya Bhavani Shankar, Prasanna | |||
| 2022 | Don | Cibi Chakaravarthi | Sivakarthikeyan, S. J. Suryah, Priyanka Mohan | ||
| Panni Kutty | Anucharan Murugaiyan | Yogi Babu, Karunakaran | |||
| Good Luck Jerry(Remake of Kolamavu Kokila) | Hindi | Sidharth Sengupta | Janhvi Kapoor | ||
| Ponniyin Selvan: I | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | Vikram, Karthi, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Jayam Ravi, Trisha, Jayaram, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Sobhita Dhulipala, Vikram Prabhu | ||
| Ram Setu | Hindi | Abhishek Sharma | Akshay Kumar | ||
| Pattathu Arasan | Tamil | A. Sarkunam | Atharvaa, Rajkiran | ||
| Naai Sekar Returns | Suraj | Vadivelu | |||
| Raangi | M. Saravanan | Trisha, Anaswara Rajan | |||
| 2023 | Thiruvin Kural | Harish Prabhu | Arulnithi, Bharathiraja, Aathmika | ||
| Ponniyin Selvan: II | Mani Ratnam | Vikram, Karthi, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Jayam Ravi, Trisha, Jayaram, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Sobhita Dhulipala, Vikram Prabhu | |||
| Theera Kaadhal | Rohin Venkatesan | Jai, Aishwarya Rajesh, Sshivada | |||
| Chandramukhi 2 | P. Vasu | Raghava Lawrence, Kangana Ranaut, Vadivelu | |||
| 2024 | Mission: Chapter 1 | A. L. Vijay | Arun Vijay, Amy Jackson, Nimisha Sajayan | ||
| Lal Salaam | Aishwarya Rajinikanth | Rajinikanth, Vishnu Vishal, Vikranth | |||
| Indian 2 | S. Shankar | Kamal Haasan, Siddharth SJ Surya, Kajal Aggarval | |||
| Vettaiyan | T. J. Gnanavel | Rajinikanth, Fahadh Faasil, Amitabh Bachchan, Manju Warrier, Rana Daggubati, Ritika Singh, Dushara Vijayan | |||
| 2025 | Rani | Sinhala | Asoka Handagama | Swarna Mallawarachchi, Rehan Amaratunga, Sanath Gunathilake, Sajitha Anthony, Bimal Jayakody, Ashan Dias, Mayura Kanchana, Rithika Kodithuvakku | |
| Vidaamuyarchi | Tamil | Magizh Thirumeni | Ajith Kumar, Arjun, Trisha Krishnan, Regina Cassandra, Aarav | ||
| L2: Empuraan | Malayalam | Prithviraj Sukumaran | Mohanlal, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Tovino Thomas, Indrajith Sukumaran, Manju Warrier | ||
| Devi Kusumasana | Sinhala | Jayantha Chandrasiri | Hemal Ranasinghe, Udari Warnakulasooriya, Sriyantha Mendis | ||
| Lockdown | Tamil | AR Jeeva | Anupama Parameswaran, Charle, Nirosha | ||
| 2026 | Indian 3 † | Tamil | S. Shankar | Kamal Haasan, Siddharth SJ Surya, Kajal Aggarval | |
| JasonSanjay01 † | Jason Sanjay | Sundeep Kishan |
· Distributed films
| † | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
· Distributed films
2016
2018
Role(s)
Pa. Ranjith
Notes
Rajinikanth, Nana Patekar, Eswari Rao, Samuthirakani and Huma Qureshi
2022
Role(s)
S. S. Rajamouli
Notes
N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan, Ajay Devgn, Alia Bhatt, Shriya Saran, Olivia Morris, Samuthirakani, Alison Doody and Ray Stevenson
Role(s)
Hanu Raghavapudi
Notes
Dulquer Salmaan, Mrunal Thakur, Rashmika Mandanna and Sumanth
| Year | Title | Language | Director | Cast | Synopsis | mw- Ref. |
| 2015 | Naanum Rowdy Dhaan | Tamil | Vignesh Shivan | Vijay Sethupathi, Nayanthara, RJ Balaji and Radhika Sarathkumar | Pandiyan, a policeman's son, falls in love with Kadhambari, a girl with hearing impairment. She agrees to have a relationship with him only if he helps her kill a gangster who murdered her parents. | |
| 2016 | Visaranai | Vetrimaaran | Dinesh, Samuthirakani, Anandhi and Aadukalam Murugadoss | Four labourers are tortured by the police to confess to a theft they have not committed. Just when they feel relieved after being saved by an honest policeman, they find that the worst is yet to come. | ||
| Vetrivel | Vasantha Mani | Sasikumar, Miya, Prabhu and Nikhila Vimal | In a bid to help his younger brother unite with the girl he loves, Vetrivel and his friends decide to kidnap her. Things take an ugly turn when their plan goes wrong and results in messy situations. | |||
| 2017 | Spyder | A. R. Murugadoss | Mahesh Babu, Rakul Preet Singh and S. J. Surya | Shiva, an intelligence officer, develops a phone software that helps him track those in need of help. He sets out to save the people of Hyderabad when he realises that a serial killer is on the loose. | ||
| 2018 | Kaala | Pa. Ranjith | Rajinikanth, Nana Patekar, Eswari Rao, Samuthirakani and Huma Qureshi | Karikaalan consistently fights to keep the people of Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai, safe from the clutches of mighty politicians and the land mafia don, Hari Dhadha. | ||
| Irumbu Thirai | P. S. Mithran | Vishal, Arjun and Samantha Ruth Prabhu | A military officer borrows money from a bank using fake papers for his sister's marriage. However, when the money goes missing from his account, he begins an investigation that leads him to a hacker. | |||
| Sandakozhi 2 | N. Linguswamy | Vishal, Keerthy Suresh, Rajkiran and Varalaxmi Sarathkumar | Balu returns from New York and sets out to protect his family from an evil-minded man. Complications further arise as he falls in love with a woman, who reminds him of his ex-lover. | |||
| 2021 | Pushpa: The Rise | Tamil dubbed | Sukumar | Allu Arjun, Rashmika Mandanna, Fahadh Faasil, Jagadeesh Prathap Bandari, Rao Ramesh and Anasuya Bharadwaj | Violence erupts between red sandalwood smugglers and the police charged with bringing down their organisation in the Seshachalam Hills of Andhra Pradesh state. | |
| 2022 | RRR | S. S. Rajamouli | N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan, Ajay Devgn, Alia Bhatt, Shriya Saran, Olivia Morris, Samuthirakani, Alison Doody and Ray Stevenson | A tale of two legendary revolutionaries and their journey far away from home. After their journey they return home to start fighting back against British colonialists in the 1920s. | ||
| Sita Ramam | Hanu Raghavapudi | Dulquer Salmaan, Mrunal Thakur, Rashmika Mandanna and Sumanth | To not get rusticated, a rebellious student leaves to India to fulfill her dead grandfather's wish, to deliver a letter the visit leads her to a love story between an orphan Indian Army soldier and a woman unbeknownst to him a rich heiress in the 60s. Will she deliver the letter to her? | |||
| Baba (Re-release) | Tamil | Suresh Krissna | Rajinikanth, Manisha Koirala and Goundamani | The film's story is about a carefree young non-believer of supreme power, Baba, who is a reincarnation of a great saint from the Himalayas. | ||
| 2023 | Thunivu | H. Vinoth | Ajith Kumar | Radha, a dreaded gangster, and his men plot to rob "Your Bank", one of the biggest privately owned bank in Chennai, only to realise that another gang led a by mysterious person, nicknamed Dark Devil, has already hijacked the bank. The police, led by DGP Dayalan, is trying to figure out a way to capture Dark Devil, only to realize that his motive is to actually expose the privately owned banks involved in financial fraud. | ||
| 2024 | Captain Miller | Arun Matheswaran | Dhanush, Priyanka Mohan, Shivarajkumar | Set in pre-Independence era, the British are looking for ’Miller’ , a British soldier turned vigilante. The villagers are tired of the Analeesan's antics and ask him to stay away from them. Analeesan, who has become ‘Miller’ after joining the British army, has gone rouge. |
· Lyca Music
2018
Role(s)
Vijay Antony
Role(s)
D. Imman
Role(s)
Sam C. S.
Role(s)
A. R. Rahman
| Year | Title | Language | Music Director |
| 2016 | Enakku Innoru Per Irukku | Tamil | G. V. Prakash Kumar |
| 2018 | Yaman | Vijay Antony | |
| Ippadai Vellum | D. Imman | ||
| Diya | Sam C. S. | ||
| 2.0 | A. R. Rahman | ||
| 2022 | Panni Kutty | K | |
| Raangi | C Sathya |
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