Thala Ajith's 'Mankatha' marks his 50th movie in the Tamil Cinema; Read details

Directed by Venkat Prabhu, Mankatha is an action crime movie starring Thala Ajith Kumar in lead role, and movie is marked as Thala Ajith’s 50th movie. action crime drama also featured Arjun, Trisha, Raai Lakshmi, Anjali, Andrea, Vaibhav, Premji and Mahat Raghavendra alongside Thala Ajith. 50th movie turned into a blockbuster and received positive reviews from critics. movie also grossed second-biggest opening of all time after Enthiran at time of its release.

'Mankatha' was Thala Ajith's 50th movie

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Mankatha was released in August 2011 and was also dubbed in Telugu as Gambler. Telugu version of movie was released in Andhra Pradesh after ten days and by time it was already a box-office hit in Kerala as well. Thala Ajith was highly praised for choosing best subject for his 50th movie. Thala Ajith plays a negative role of Vinayak Mahadevan and Arjun plays role of a CID officer.

Tamil movie is produced by Dhayanidhi Alagiri’s Cloud Nine Movies. music of movie is composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja while Sakthi Saravanan worked as a cinematographer. plot of movie revolves around a heist of cricket betting money, which is executed by gang of four thieves who are joined by an unkwn person.  

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Thala Ajith predominantly works in Tamil cinema and has starred in more than 50 movies. He began his acting career with En Veedu En Kanavar in year 1990. He established himself as a romantic actor with Kadhal Kottai, Aval Varuvala and Kadhal Mannan. He is also featured in action movies such as Amarkalam and Vaali.

actor has been awarded four Vijay Awards, three Filmfare Awards South, Three Cinema Express Awards and three Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. Alongside being an actor, Thala Ajith is also a motor car racer and has participated in MRF Racing series in year 2010. actor is married to former actor Shalini. duo started dating on sets of Amarkalam and got married in April 2000 in Chennai. couple is blessed with two children- Aushka and Aadvik.

Im Source: A still from Mankatha

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