Subaskaran Allirajah

Subaskaran Allirajah (born 2 March 1972) is a British-Sri Lankan Tamil entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of Lycamobile, a telecommunications company and also its entertainment subsidiary called Lyca Productions, based in Chennai, India, and began the production with its first tamil film Kaththi (2014). It produced the science fiction thriller 2.0 (2018), which was India's most expensive film and the 5th most expensive non-English-language film at the time of its release.^[1] Lyca Productions has also produced Ponniyin Selvan: I (2022) and Ponniyin Selvan: II (2023) which are both Tamil cinema releases.

Subaskaran Allirajah
Born	(1972-03-02) 2 March 1972 (age 52) Jaffna, Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
Occupations	Businessman Film producer
Organization(s)	Founder & chairman Lycamobile, Lyca Productions
Spouse	Prema Subaskaran
Children	3

In September 2021, he was announced as the new owner of the Jaffna Kings for the Lanka Premier League (LPL). Lyca Kovai Kings, a cricket team representing Coimbatore city of Tamil Nadu in the Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) tournament, is owned by Lyca Productions.^[2][3]

Filmography

Produced films

Key

†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

List of Lyca productions

Year	Title	Language	Director	Cast	Synopsis	Ref.
2014	Kaththi	Tamil	A. R. Murugadoss	Vijay, Samantha, Neil Nitin Mukesh	Two look-a-likes eventually come together to tackle the burning issues of farmers committing suicide due to corporate encroachment.	[4]
2016	Enakku Innoru Per Irukku	Tamil	Sam Anton	G. V. Prakash Kumar, Anandhi, Saravanan	A simpleton is mistakenly earmarked as the successor of an ageing notorious don after falling in love with the don's daughter.	[5]
2017	Khaidi No. 150	Telugu	V. V. Vinayak	Chiranjeevi, Kajal Aggarwal, Tarun Arora	Two look-a-likes eventually come together to tackle the burning issues of farmers committing suicide due to corporate encroachment.	[6]
	Yaman	Tamil	Jeeva Shankar	Vijay Antony, Miya, Thiagarajan	A young man enters politics to fight corruption and avenge the murder of his father.	[7]
	Ippadai Vellum	Tamil	Gaurav Narayanan	Udhayanidhi Stalin, Manjima Mohan, Daniel Balaji	Two innocent men are mistaken for members of a terrorist organisation.	[8]
2018	Diya	Tamil	A. L. Vijay	Sai Pallavi, Naga Shourya, RJ Balaji	After an abortion, a woman's life takes an unexpected turn when she is visited by the foetus, who is now grown up and is visible to her.	[9]
	Kolamavu Kokila	Tamil	Nelson Dilipkumar	Nayanthara, Yogi Babu, Saranya	A young woman gets involved with a drug smuggling gang to pay for her mother's cancer treatment.	[10]
	Chekka Chivantha Vaanam	Tamil	Mani Ratnam	Arvind Swami, STR, Vijay Sethupathi, Arun Vijay	A family of gangsters go through a power struggle as they attempt to find the assassin who targeted their father.	[11]
	Vada Chennai	Tamil	Vetrimaaran	Dhanush, Andrea Jeremiah, Aishwarya Rajesh	Set in North Chennai, a young man is drawn into a gang war.	[12]
	2.0	Tamil	S. Shankar	Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson	Scientists help the government investigate a threat beyond understanding.	[13]
2019	Vantha Rajavathaan Varuven	Tamil	Sundar C	STR, Megha Akash, Catherine Tresa	The heir of a billionaire tries to unite his estranged aunt with his family again.	[14]
	Kaappaan	Tamil	K. V. Anand	Mohanlal, Suriya, Arya, Sayyeshaa	An SPG Commander cum organic farmer tries to save the nation from an evil businessman	[15]
2020	Darbar	Tamil	A. R. Murugadoss	Rajinikanth, Nayanthara, Nivetha Thomas, Sunil Shetty	A daredevil cop is on a rampage to eliminate a drug syndicate in Mumbai	[16]
	Mafia: Chapter 1	Tamil	Karthick Naren	Arun Vijay, Priya Bhavani Shankar, Prasanna	An NCB Officer and his batch mates, bring down a drug lord who is also a successful entrepreneur.	[17]
2022	Don	Tamil	Cibi Chakaravarthi	Sivakarthikeyan, S. J. Suryah, Priyanka Mohan	A reluctant engineering student repeatedly clashing with the college discipline mentor, while still trying to discover his passion in life and prove his eligibility to his father.	[18]
	Panni Kutty	Tamil	Anucharan Murugaiyan	Yogi Babu, Karunakaran	A down-on-luck man has to run over a piglet that had caused a minor accident to get lucky in life. But the animal belongs to a man who has to keep it safe for his wedding to happen.	[19]
	Good Luck Jerry	Hindi	Sidharth Sengupta	Janhvi Kapoor	A young woman gets involved with a drug smuggling gang to pay for her mother's cancer treatment.	[20]
	Ponniyin Selvan: I	Tamil	Mani Ratnam	Vikram, Karthi, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Jayam Ravi, Trisha, Jayaram, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Sobhita Dhulipala, Vikram Prabhu	Set in the 10th century, it tells the story of early life of chola emperor Arunmozhi Varman.	[21]
	Ram Setu	Hindi	Abhishek Sharma	Akshay Kumar	Aryan Kulshrestha, an Atheist Archaeologist, sets out on a journey to unveil and prove the mysterious secrets of Ram Setu, a man-made structure built by Lord Rama	[22]
	Pattathu Arasan	Tamil	A. Sarkunam	Atharvaa, Rajkiran	Chinnadurai along with his grandfather, a Kabbadi player, try to bring justice for his brother's death.	[23]
	Naai Sekar Returns	Tamil	Suraj	Vadivelu	Naai Sekar, who makes money by kidnapping dogs, learns about his long-lost pet dog that was taken away during his childhood.	[24]
	Raangi	Tamil	M. Saravanan	Trisha, Anaswara Rajan	A brave journalist, tries to solve an issue of a minor girl, but eventually trapped into an international issue.	[25]
2023	Thiruvin Kural	Tamil	Harish Prabhu	Arulnithi, Bharathiraja, Aathmika	An unforeseen accident at a construction site puts the lives of a speech and hearing impaired youngster and his father in trouble.	[26]
	Ponniyin Selvan: II	Tamil	Mani Ratnam	Vikram, Karthi, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Jayam Ravi, Trisha, Jayaram, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Sobhita Dhulipala, Vikram Prabhu	Set in the 10th century, it tells the story of early life of chola emperor Arunmozhi Varman.	[27]
	Theera Kaadhal	Tamil	Rohin Venkatesan	Jai, Aishwarya Rajesh, Sshivada	A mild mannered man's life turns upside town, when he meets a woman from his past.	[28]
	Chandramukhi 2	Tamil	P. Vasu	Raghava Lawrence, Kangana Ranaut, Vadivelu	A family tries to install a god's temple, but their plans are thwarted by a woman's spirit.	[29]
2024	Mission: Chapter 1	Tamil	A. L. Vijay	Arun Vijay, Amy Jackson, Nimisha Sajayan	A prisoner confined in a jail in London faces several roadblocks as he tries to reunite with his ailing daughter.	[30]
	Lal Salaam	Tamil	Aishwarya Rajinikanth	Rajinikanth, Vishnu Vishal, Vikranth	A rivalry between two local cricket teams bring about a situation of religious unrest between the Hindu-Muslim population of a village in Tamil Nadu.	[31]
	Indian 2	Tamil	S. Shankar	Kamal Haasan, Siddharth, Bobby Simha, S. J. Suryah, Kajal Aggarwal, Rakul Preet Singh, Priya Bhavani Shankar	After a group of idealistic youngsters attract his attention to the corruption happening here, Senapathy aka Indian thatha returns to India, calling for the fight to begin at homes.	[32]
	Vettaiyan	Tamil	T. J. Gnanavel	Rajinikanth, Amitabh Bachchan, Manju Warrier, Fahadh Faasil, Rana Daggubati, Ritika Singh, Dushara Vijayan	The film follows an IPS officer who takes on the drug mafia. However, things take a serious turn when the woman who tipped him off about the drugs gets raped and murdered.	[33]
2025	Indian 3†	Tamil	S. Shankar	Kamal Haasan, Siddharth, Bobby Simha, S. J. Suryah, Kajal Aggarwal, Rakul Preet Singh, Priya Bhavani Shankar	Filming	[34]
	Vidaa Muyarchi†	Tamil	Magizh Thirumeni	Ajith Kumar, Arjun, Trisha Krishnan, Regina Cassandra, Aarav		[citation needed]
	L2: Empuraan†	Malayalam	Prithviraj Sukumaran	Mohanlal		[35][36]

Distributed films

In addition to the films produced by Lyca Productions since 2014, the following films from other banners were distributed by the company:

†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Title	Language	Director	Cast	Synopsis	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.	[37]
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.	[38]
	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.	[39]
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.	[40]
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.	[41]
	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.	[42]
	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.	[43]
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.	[44]
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.	[45][46]
	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?	[47]
	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.	[48][49]
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.	[50]
	Merry Christmas	Tamil	Sriram Raghavan	Katrina Kaif and Vijay Sethupathi	The lives of a woman in an unhappy marriage and a man with a mysterious past are turned upside down on Christmas Eve.	[51]
2024	Captain Miller	Tamil	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.	[52]

Awards

In October 2011 Lycatel was ranked 36th out of 250 leading mid-market private companies in The Sunday Times.^[53] Allirajah received a gold award for Best Overall Enterprise in 2010 at the Asian Achievers Award ceremony for the impact he has made on the Asian community in the UK.^[54] The Asian Voice Political and Public Life awarded Allirajah in 2011 its "International Entrepreneur of the Year" award.^[55]

In 2012 the English Asian Business Awards presented Allirajah with the "2011 Power Business of the Year" award, recognizing the growth of the Lycamobile business globally,^[56] as well as the "Social Entrepreneur of the Year" award.^[57]

Since November 2018, Lycatel and its founder have been embroiled in a number of disputes relating to alleged fraud. The company was due for a tribunal hearing in March 2020 to argue against the HM Revenue and Customs. The firm estimates that it would have to pay £60m if it loses – a potential liability that has almost doubled in recent years. Lycamobile declined to say how much is at stake in two other disputes.^[58]

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