Best Tamil Drama Movies of 2005

S. Shankar · 181 min · Oscar Films

Ambi is a meek lawyer, who wishes to change the society. But, because of his oft-repeated concern, people don't take him seriously. Besides, Nandini, the girl whom he loves, also rejects her because of this. This makes Ambi shattered, not before he encounters a website Aparichit.com, visiting which creates an alter ego inside Ambi's mind. For the girl he loves, he becomes a supermodel named Remo, and for the entire nation, to reform it, he becomes a vigilante named Aparichit, who not only teaches people the importance of following the rules, but also punishes them if they don't follow.

Cast: Vikram, Sadha, Prakash Raj

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P. Vasu · 166 min · Sivaji Productions

Senthil and Ganga marry against the wishes of their extended family, and move into a mansion right next to where the cousin intended as Senthil's bride Shweta lives. Several members of Shweta's family are miffed at Senthil's "unauthorized" wedding, and his mother start's fearing for the newlyweds' safety when they move next-doors to their cousins. Soon after moving into their new house, strange things start happening, whether these are caused by the apparent ghost of a former occupant, Chandramukhi, or any one of the suspicious members of the extended family, will be looked into by "psychiatrist extraordinaire" Dr. Sarvanan.

Cast: Rajinikanth, Jyotika, Prabhu

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AI verdict: Based on aggregated scores (7.2/10 on IMDb (7,474 votes)), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

Jayadevi

Aatma is an international fusion singer and social activist, who protests for the emancipation of women and writes books on the subject. His latest book, Marana Sasanam, proves to be controversial and leads to him being put under house arrest.

Cast: Kushboo, Hariharan, Riyaz Khan

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Vincent Selva · Radaan Mediaworks

A shy high school student, Surya, finds himself invisible after making a wish at a beach. Using his newfound power, he secretly accompanies his crush Priya and plays pranks on her rival Ajay. However, when Surya's intentions become clear, Priya is scared and the police launch an investigation to catch him. As Surya threatens to cause chaos if Priya doesn't love him, a determined officer must outsmart him.

Cast: Jithan Ramesh, Pooja, Sarath Kumar

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Ashokan

Ilangovan makes plans to marry his sister to a rich man until he learns money is not everything.

Cast: Parthiban, Vadivelu, Raai Laxmi

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Hari · Kavithalayaa Productions

Ayya is a 2005 Indian Tamil film, directed by Hari and produced by K. Balachander, Pushpa Kandaswamy. The film stars Sarath Kumar, Nayanthara, Prakash Raj, Napoleon and Vadivelu in lead roles. The film had musical score by Bharadwaj. Watch the full movie, Ayya, only on Eros Now.

Cast: Sarath Kumar, Nayanthara, Napoleon

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Selva · Vasan Visual Ventures

Vijay (Arjun) is an ex-cop who was framed up after he cleaned the city of the scum of the earth including nine encounter killings of dreaded gangsters. Now out of work, he is persuaded by his former boss to be the bodyguard of 8-year-old Priya whose parents (Manoj K. Jayan and Sanghavi) are millionaires. He is hired to protect the little girl from kidnappers who are on the prowl. The kidnappers are led by a loony militant called 'Ahmed Khan' who manages to kidnap Priya and humiliate Vijay. The rest of the film is how Vijay assisted by two glam girls (Namitha and Keerthi Chawla) mete out vigilante justice in a cat-and-mouse game with the kidnappers.

Cast: Arjun Sarja, Namitha, Keerthi Chawla

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Boopathy Pandian · Roja Combines

Watch the full movie, Devathayai Kanden, only on Eros Now. Babu (Dhanush) is a struggling youngster who makes a living out of selling milk tea, carrying the business on his bicycle. He falls in love with a college girl named Uma (Sridevi Vijaykumar). Gradually, Uma also reciprocates Babu's feelings and things go smoothly for a while. Uma's parents find her a wealthy groom who is well educated. Uma is in a dilemma on whom to choose as her life partner. She thinks of her future if she chooses the impoverished Babu where she visualizes herself giving birth to a child in a government hospital, her husband unable to raise required money for her medical expenses and overall a very difficult life; in contrast to a life where she is pampered by everyone, her every need taken care of almost instantly if she chooses to marry the groom selected by her parents. While Babu is on a religious trip to Sabarimala, the girl decides to marry the groom Bala (Kunal) so that she can continue to lead a comfortable life. Babu is devastated when he learns of this and heartbroken when Uma goes to the extent of slapping him when he accuses her parents of changing her mind. In a unique way, Babu files a case against Uma for not holding the promise made to him of sharing a life together for a good 50 years. The case soon gathers momentum and has the public discussing it everywhere. As the case progresses, several sacrifices made by Babu for the sake of Uma come into light through revelations made by people known to him and by his close friends. Uma has a change of heart and on the final day of the hearing, decides to re-unite with Babu. In a final twist, when Uma offers a rose to Babu, he refuses to accept her, saying that the case was filed not to win her back, but to teach a lesson to her and every girl with an attitude identical. He justifies further by saying that yesterday she hated him because of his status but today she loves him and tomorrow she may again find him unattractive. Fee

Cast: Dhanush, Sridevi Vijaykumar, Kunal

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Sundar C · Sri Sri Chitra

Chinna is a 2005 Tamil romantic action thriller film directed by Sundar C. It stars Arjun and Sneha in the lead roles. It did reasonable business at the box-office. The second half is partially inspired by the Hindi film Darr (1993) which has Sunny Deol, Shahrukh Khan, and Juhi Chawla in lead roles. It was dubbed in Telugu as Koti. It was remade in Odia as Criminal .

Cast: Arjun, Sneha, Livingston

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Sakthi Paramesh

When Mano's girlfriend is kidnapped by Manickam, a truck driver, he seeks the help of Aruchamy to find her. Problems arise when she refuses to recognise Mano and claims to be Manickam's wife.

Cast: Sathyaraj, Pranathi, Vivek

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Saravana Subbiah

Anandh (Shaam), an MBA graduate, runs from pillar to post in search of job. He stays in the house of an old Brahmin whose daughter Chandra (Sneha) returns home following the death of her husband (Sharavana Subbaiya), who had been torturing her since their wedding. She slowly gets attracted towards Anandh for he shows love and affection towards her. Meanwhile, Anandh comes across Bharathy (Nandana Kumar) in a bus who misplaces his academic certificates. Bharathy is a woman with revolutionary ideas and looks after her whole family. A sequence of events brings them close leading to Nandhana developing love towards him. Meanwhile, Anandh comes across one Divya Daisy (Aparna).She is an orphan brought by up church and goes to find a job herself and settles in life all out of her own efforts. Anandh rescues her from an accident and rushes her to a hospital. Over a period of time, they become very close friends eventually leading to Divya Daisy opening her heart to Anandh. Caught in a tight corner, who Anandh decides to marry forms the rest.

Cast: Shaam, Sneha, Nandana

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Jayaprakash

Kadhal FM is a 2005 Tamil film directed by Jayaprakash starring Manikandan, Shivani Singh and Aravind Akash.

Cast: Manikandan, Shivani Singh, Aravind Akash

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Fazil

The story revolves around Maya, a college student, who always wants to triumphs in all her endeavors. She comes across a middle-class youth, Cheenu, a happy-go-lucky-youngster, who strives to work hard to get his sisters married well.

Cast: Srikanth, Sonia Agarwal, Nizhalgal Ravi

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Shivraj · Variety Frames

Arjun (Shaam) heads a dance troupe and Priya (Roshini), one of the dancers in the troupe is in love with him. Their aim is to be the permanent fixture at the hotel of Giriprasad (Richard), a millionaire. They lose the competition ...

Cast: Shaam, Richard Rishi, Tanu Roy

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Radha Mohan

This is the story of Venu, a middle class young man who lives in a typical middle class area. His simple life revolves around his loving mother, sister, his neighbor and his friends. He has an inferiority complex because of the scar on his face.

Cast: Ravi Krishna, Prakash Raj, Gopika

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Ameer Sultan

The story revolves around the relationship between a mother and her son. The movie commences with Rama Krishna and his mother Saradha lying in a pool of blood; The police find Raam is still alive and arrest him on charges of murdering his mother.

Cast: Jiiva, Rahman, Gajala

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Sundar C

An unemployed Indian in London teams up with an aimless man, and circumstances lead them to con a visually impaired elderly couple.

Cast: Prashanth, Ankitha, Mumtaj

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A. N. Rajagopal

This film centers around the pranks of teenagers. Jai Akash comes to Nagerkoil as the Collector. His reminiscences of his school days in Nagerkoil forms the main theme of the film.

Cast: Simran Bagga, Sujibala, Jai Akash

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S. A. Chandrasekhar

Actor Vijay played Guest role.Ravi Shankar (Ravi Krishna) and Sandhya (Natassha), students of a college in Dindigul Tamil Nadu, are love birds. But Sandhya faces problem in her home as her uncle has false eye on her.

Cast: Vijay, Ravi Krishna, Sreeman

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Babu Yogeswaran · Lakshmi Movie Makers

Antony falls in love with Rajeswari who belongs to an upper caste family. When her father kills her sister for marrying a man from the lower caste, she decides to elope with Antony.

Cast: Jayam Ravi, Renuka Menon, Vadivelu

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Durai

Simbu plays a goon who gets reformed after falling in love and later takes revenge on an underworld don who comes across his love life in the movie. Rowdy Silambarasan, works for a don Pradeep Rawat.

Cast: Simbu, Gopika, Pradeep Rawat

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Jiiva

The movie is all about a group of five college friends — Emaan (Arya), Shaam (Shaam),Priya (Asin),Pooja (Laila) and Irene (Pooja). The friends gather for the wedding of Emaan, years after everyone has parted ways.

Cast: Arya, Shaam, Laila

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K. S. Adiyaman

The film is a contemporary Indian take on life and pregnancy topics, and was also made in Hindi as Shaadi Karke Phas Gaya Yaar with Salman Khan and Shilpa Shetty in the lead.

Cast: Madhavan, Sadha, Ramesh Khanna

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Shafi

The story is about Govindan (Manivannan) and his two foster sons Aadi (Pasupathy) and Mathi (Vikram). All three are petty thieves who decide to reform and settle down in a new place.

Cast: Vikram, Asin, Pasupathy

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John

On his way abroad, a man reflects on his college life and failed romance. It is based on the Telugu film Neetho (2002) directed by the same one who did this movie.

Cast: Vijay, Genelia D'Souza, Vadivelu

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Perarasu

A man discovers his brother's sinister behavior when he returns to his hometown; he tries to help his mother and sister regain their old lives.

Cast: Vijay, Asin, Prakash Raj

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