List of Tamil films of 2003

Post-amendment to the Tamil Nadu Entertainments Tax Act 1939 on 12 June 2000, Gross fell to 125 per cent of Nett. Commercial Taxes Department disclosed ₹75.07 crore in entertainment tax revenue for the year.

A list of films released in the Tamil film industry in India in 2003:

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Production	Music Director
J A N	11	Dhool	Dharani	Vikram, Jyothika, Reemma Sen		Vidyasagar
	15	Anbe Sivam	Sundar C	Kamal Haasan, Madhavan, Kiran		Vidyasagar
		Annai Kaligambal	Rama Narayanan	Livingston, Ramya Krishnan, Anu Prabhakar		Deva
		Chokka Thangam	K. Bhagyaraj	Vijayakanth, Soundarya, Prakash Raj		Deva
		Kalatpadai	J. Ramesh	Jai, Vidhu		Bharathwaj
		Ramachandra	Raj Kapoor	Sathyaraj, Vijayalakshmi		Deva
		Vaseegara	K. Selva Bharathy	Vijay, Sneha		S. A. Rajkumar
	30	Pop Corn	Nassar	Mohanlal, Simran		Yuvan Shankar Raja
	31	Aasai Aasaiyai	Ravi Mariya	Jiiva, Sharmilee		Mani Sharma
F E B	6	Anbu	Thalapathy Raj	Bala, Deepu, Vadivelu		Vidyasagar
	14	Anbu Thollai	Hayath	Pandiarajan, Ravali		Soundaryan
		Julie Ganapathi	Balu Mahendra	Jayaram, Saritha, Ramya Krishnan		Ilaiyaraaja
		Kadhaludan	Rajakumaran	Murali, Devayani		S. A. Rajkumar
		Student Number 1	Selva	Sibi Raj, Sherin		Maragathamani
	21	Yes Madam	Rajaji	Prabhu, Vijayalakshmi, Vindhya		Bharani
	28	Military	G. Sai Suresh	Sathyaraj, Rambha, Vijayalakshmi		Deva
		Pallavan	Padmamagan	Manoj Bharathiraja, Rathi		Vidyasagar
M A R	20	Manasellam	Santhosh	Srikanth, Trisha		Ilaiyaraaja
		Nilavil Kalangamillai	V. Sabrivel	Agnivesh, Malar, Babilona		Naani
		Pavalakkodi	Ram-CP Saravanan	Vijay Sarathi, Robert, Paval, Shaama, Nirosha		Sirpy
	21	Ennai Thalatta Varuvala	K. S. Ravindran	Ajith Kumar, Vignesh, Reshma		M. Abniram
A P R	11	Magic Magic 3D	Jose	Suraj Balajee, S. P. Balasubramaniam, Pooja Kumar, Tirlok Malik		Sharreth
	13	Dum	A. Venkatesh	Silambarasan, Rakshita		Deva
		Kadhal Sadugudu	V. Z. Durai	Vikram, Priyanka Trivedi		Deva
		Sena	Sujith	Sathyaraj, Aravind Akash, Rakshita		D. Imman
	14	Arasu	Suresh	Sarathkumar, Simran, Roja		Mani Sharma
		Banda Paramasivam	T. P. Gajendran	Prabhu, Abbas, Rambha, Monika		Sirpy
	25	Punnagai Poove	S. D. Sabapathy	Nandha, Kaveri, Rekha Vedavyas		Yuvan Shankar Raja
		Well Done	Ravindran	Jayanth, Chytra Hallikeri		Vidyasagar
M A Y	1	Anbe Anbe	Mani Bharathi	Shaam, Sharmelee		Bharathwaj
		Indru Mudhal	M. A. Murugesh	Mithun Tejaswi, Daisy Bopanna, Nanditha		Deva
		Saamy	Hari	Vikram, Trisha		Harris Jayaraj
	8	Inidhu Inidhu Kadhal Inidhu	Sakthi Chidambaram	Jai Akash, Neha, Hamsavardhan, Monica		Devi Sri Prasad
		Pudhiya Geethai	K. P. Jagannath	Vijay, Ameesha Patel, Meera Jasmine		Yuvan Shankar Raja
	16	Lesa Lesa	Priyadarshan	Shaam, Trisha		Harris Jayaraj
		Parthiban Kanavu	Karu Pazhaniappan	Srikanth, Sneha		Vidyasagar
	30	Parasuram	Arjun	Arjun, Kiran, Gayathri Raguram		A. R. Rahman
J U N	12	Nala Damayanthi	Mouli	R. Madhavan, Geetu Mohandas, Shrutika		Ramesh Vinayakam
	13	Paarai	K. S. Ravikumar	Sarath Kumar, Jayaram, Meena, Ramya Krishnan		Sabesh-Murali
	20	Jayam	M. Raja	Jayam Ravi, Sadha		R. P. Patnaik
J U L	4	Ice	Raghuraj	Ashok, Priyanka Trivedi		Devi Sri Prasad
		Kaadhal Kondein	Selvaraghavan	Dhanush, Sonia Agarwal		Yuvan Shankar Raja
		Kovilpatti Veeralakshmi	K. Rajeswar	Simran, Sonu Sood, Sherin		Adhityan
		Whistle	J.D-Jerry	Vikramaditya, Sherin, Gayathri Raguram		D. Imaan
	11	Priyamaana Thozhi	Vikraman	R. Madhavan, Jyothika, Sridevi Vijayakumar		S. A. Rajkumar
	18	Aahaa Ethanai Azhagu	Kanmani	Mithun Tejaswi, Charmee		Vidyasagar
		Kadhal Kisu Kisu	P. Vasu	Bala, Charmee		Vidyasagar
		Thayumanavan	Saravanan	Saravanan, Prema		Vaikundavasan
	25	Ilasu Pudhusu Ravusu	L. C. Selva	Deepak Dinkar, Suja Varunee, Vadivelu		Biju
A U G	1	Idhayamae	Raviraja	Ishaq Hussaini, Krishnana, Vadivelu		Pradeep Ravi
		Kaakha Kaakha	Gautham Menon	Suriya, Jyothika		Harris Jayaraj
		Thithikudhe	Brinda Sarathy	Jiiva, Sridevi Vijayakumar, Shrutika		Vidyasagar
		Vikadan	Arun Pandian	Harish Raghavendra, Arun Pandian, Gayathri Raguram, Radhika Chaudhari		Jerom Pushparaj
	8	Eera Nilam	Bharathiraja	Manoj Bharathiraja, Nanditha		Sirpy
	15	Alaudin	Ravi Chakravathy	Prabhu Deva, Ashima Bhalla		Mani Sharma
		Thennavan	Nandakumaran	Vijayakanth, Kiran Rathod		Yuvan Shankar Raja
	22	Diwan	Surya Prakash	Sarath Kumar, Kiran Rathod		S. A. Rajkumar
	29	Boys	S. Shankar	Siddharth, Genelia, Vivek, Bharath, Nakul, Thaman, Manikandan		A. R. Rahman
S E P	5	Success	Prashanthshekhar	Dushyanth, Sonia Agarwal, Nandana		Deva
		Thiruda Thirudi	Subramaniam Siva	Dhanush, Chaya Singh		Dhina
	12	Alai	Vikram Kumar	Silambarasan, Trisha		Vidyasagar
		Aalukkoru Aasai	V. Sekhar	Sathyaraj, Meena, Manthra		S. A. Rajkumar
	19	Naam	Saba Kailash	Prakash Raj, Reshmi		Kalyan Malik
		Unnai Charanadaindhen	Samuthirakani	Venkat Prabhu, S. P. B. Charan, Meera Vasudevan, Santhoshi		S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
		Dhivya Teacher	Kuha Jayaraj	Anand, Vinitha, Jagan		S. P. Bhoopathi
	27	Bheeshmar	Ranjith	Ranjith, Devayani		S. P. Venkatesh
		Galatta Ganapathy	Karthik Kumar	Pandiarajan, Sanghavi		Soundaryan
		Kaiyodu Kai	Rajan Sarma	Aravind Akash, Yugendran, Sona		Banapathra
		Ragasiyamai	Amuthan	Prasanna, Neelan Singh		Karthik Raja
		Three Roses	Parameswar	Rambha, Jyothika, Laila		Karthik Raja
		Winner	Sundar C.	Prashanth, Kiran		Yuvan Shankar Raja
O C T	10	Vadakku Vaasal	B. M. Sundar	Karthik Kumar, Rithana		S. P. Venkatesh
	24	Anjaneya	N. Maharajan	Ajith Kumar, Meera Jasmine		Mani Sharma
		Ottran	Ilankannan	Arjun, Simran, Tejashree		Pravin Mani
		Pithamagan	Bala	Vikram, Suriya, Laila, Sangeetha		Ilaiyaraaja
		Thirumalai	Ramana	Vijay, Jyothika, Kausalya		Vidyasagar
N O V	14	Jay Jay	Saran	R. Madhavan, Pooja, Amoga		Bharathwaj
	21	Iyarkai	S. P. Jananathan	Shaam, Arun Vijay, Kutti Radhika		Vidyasagar
		Kurumbu	Vishnuvardhan	Allari Naresh, Nikita Thukral, Diya		Yuvan Shankar Raja
	28	Nadhi Karaiyinile	Ponvannan	Saranya Ponvannan		Sirpy
D E C	5	Anbe Un Vasam	R. Balu	Ashwin, Rathi Arumugam, Yogan		Dhina
		Mullil Roja	Kasthuri Pandian	Vishnu, Lahari, Lakshmi		Amudha Bharathi
	12	Konji Pesalaam	R. Kaleeswaran	Sreeja, Vamsi, C. Mukesh Kumar, Avinash		Ilaiyaraaja
		Ooruku Nooruper	B. Lenin	Hans Kaushik, Archana, Kripa		Aravind Jayashankar
	19	Enakku 20 Unakku 18	Jyothi Krishna	Tarun Kumar, Trisha, Shriya		A. R. Rahman
		Joot	Azhagam Perumal	Srikanth, Meera Jasmine		Vidyasagar
		Thathi Thavadhu Manasu	Azhagu Rajusundaram	Mumtaj, Kalabhavan Mani		Deva
		Soori	Shelvan	Vignesh, R. Parthiepan, Uma, Vijayalakshmi		Deva
	25	Indru	Naveen Muthuraman	Karthik, Tanu Roy		Deva
		Sindhamal Sitharamal	K. A. Shanmugavel	Abbas, Nanditha		Bharani
	26	Kadhal Kirukkan	Sakthi Chidambaram	R. Parthiepan, Richa Pallod, Vineeth		Deva
		Oruththi	Amshan Kumar	Ganesh Babu, Poorvaja, Bala Singh		L. Vaidyanathan

The following films also released in 2003, though the release date remains unknown.

Title	Director	Cast	Production	Music director
Adhaanda Idhaanda	Antony	Pandiarajan, Sangeetha		Deva
Beacham	P. Selvam	Aneesh Ravi, Sonia Mohandas		Vidyasagar
Bhayam
E. P. Ko 215
Oru Thadava Sonna	M. Jameenraj	Chinni Jayanth, Swarna, Lavanya		Kumaran
Paththikichu	S. S. Arasan	Devaguru, Manjari, Shakeela, Abhinayashree		Bhoopathy – Ravi Varma
Rekkai	B. Lenin	Narayana Rao, M. S. Vishalakshi, N. Madankumar		Amarji
Vaanam Vaazhthattum	Raveeshwar	Vimalahasan, Rashmi, Kulkarni		Adithyan
Vani Mahal	Jayram	Vignesh, Suvalakshmi		Deva

Awards

Category/Organization	Dinakaran Cinema Awards 10 April 2004	Filmfare Awards South 12 June 2004	Tamil Nadu State Film Awards 13 February 2006
Best Film	Pithamagan	Pithamagan	Eera Nilam
Best Director	Bala Pithamagan	Bala Pithamagan	Karu Pazhaniappan Parthiban Kanavu
Best Actor	Vikram Pithamagan	Vikram Pithamagan	Vikram Pithamagan
Best Actress	Jyothika Kaakha Kaakha Dhool	Laila Pithamagan	Laila Pithamagan
Best Music Director	Dhina Thiruda Thirudi	Harris Jayaraj Kaakha Kaakha	Harris Jayaraj Kaakha Kaakha