S. Sashikanth

Birth : , Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

History

S. Sashikanth is an Indian film producer, architect and entrepreneur from Chennai, India. After studying architecture at university, Sashikanth established the Chennai-based design firm Space Scape in 2002, which became involved in major projects such as the British Council and other residential and corporate building designs. Sashikanth later shifted to film production through the establishment of a production studio, Y NOT Studios, and the 2010 release of his first film, Thamizh Padam. Sashikanth's stated goal has been to see himself as having a creative role; Behindwoods has characterized him as a producer of "gutsy new-wave cinema",[1] while The Hindu acknowledged his films Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi, Thamizh Padam, and Va as being "three of the most creative films in recent times".

Movies

Thalaikoothal

Producer

A man's long battle to save his comatose father is met with financial obstacles, and with his family suggesting euthanasia as the best possible option, his hopes of his father coming back to normalcy are tested.

Vikram Vedha

Producer

Vikram, an honest officer with the Lucknow police, is on a mission to find and eliminate gangster Vedha. However, when Vedha surrenders himself to the police and starts narrating stories to Vikram, it blurs the lines between good and evil. Vedha questions Vikram's righteousness while the latter believes he is fair and just. But is he?

Kadaseela Biriyani

Producer

A studious teen who wants a simple life is conned by his violent older brothers into joining their grandiose plan to avenge their murdered father.

Jagame Thandhiram

Producer

When a clever, carefree gangster is recruited to help an overseas crime lord take down a rival, he is caught off guard by the moral dilemmas that follow.

Mandela

Producer

An underprivileged hairdresser becomes the game changer in a local body election in a village where caste politics rules the roost. Will he be able to bring some changes to people's lives?

Aelay

Producer

An embittered son returns to his native village to perform the final rites of his dead father.

Game Over

Producer

Swapna, a nyctophobic game designer on a turbulent road to recovery from an incident that scarred her deeply, has to fight her inner demons to stay alive in the game called life.

Tamizh Padam 2

Producer

A stringent cop tries all the possible ways to nab a dreaded don who poses a big threat to the society.

Tamizh Padam 2

special appearance

A stringent cop tries all the possible ways to nab a dreaded don who poses a big threat to the society.

Vikram Vedha

Producer

A notorious gangster Vedha surrenders himself to encounter specialist Vikram whom he challenges every step of the way by narrating his life events in the form of riddles that needs to be solved in order to capture him.

Guru

Producer

A grumpy boxing coach takes on a young, rebellious woman under his wings and starts training her for the world championship. But their biggest battle has to be fought outside the ring.

Irudhi Suttru

Producer

A grumpy boxing coach takes on a young, rebellious woman under his wings and starts training her for the world championship. But their biggest battle has to be fought outside the ring.

Kaaviya Thalaivan

Producer

The two best disciples of Sivadas Swamigal, the earnest owner of a Drama school, are by design pitted against each other by the guru himself and this create multiple calamities ending in the duo's separation. Years pass by as one finds a good holding and the other wobbles away as a drunk loser only for them to cross paths again when the ongoing Indian Independence Movement gives another chance for the tables to turn!

Vaayai Moodi Pesavum

Producer

A mysterious illness declared as dumb flu spreads in a quaint hill station forcing the town's residents from speaking. Will the problems in the place increase due to this or will it lead to better communication?

Producer

Sundararajan comes to Chennai from Coimbatore on his way to Saudi Arabia. He is received by Marthandam, a veterinary doctor, who is going to marry his sister soon. After the travel agent informs Sura that he cannot taste liquor or women in Saudi, he, along with Marthandam, goes to a wine shop to have the last gulp. It’s a dry day thanks to elections. Though disappointed, Sura is determined to taste the ‘quarter’ and starts his journey to various places in Chennai where he is told that liquor would be available. He goes to a politico who supplies wine for votes, a star hotel, an Anglo-Indian group of youngsters, a fish market, a gambling den, a kulfi shop and a brothel house among other places, all in search of ‘quarter’.

Thamizh Padam

Producer

"Thamizh Padam" is mockumentary comedy film which parodies contemporary commercial films in Tamil cinema, mocking the stereotypical scenes.