| Birth Date: | 1972 3, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Jaffna, Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) |
| Occupation: | Businessman |
| Organization: | Founder & chairman Lycamobile, Lyca Productions |
| Spouse: | Prema Subaskaran |
| Children: | 3 |
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 (2022) and (2023) which are both Tamil cinema releases.
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]
| Year | Title | Language | Director | Cast | Synopsis | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | Vijay Antony, Miya, Thiagarajan | A young man enters politics to fight corruption and avenge the murder of his father. | [7] | ||
| Ippadai Vellum | Tamil | Udhayanidhi Stalin, Manjima Mohan, Daniel Balaji | Two innocent men are mistaken for members of a terrorist organisation. | |||
| 2018 | Diya | Tamil | 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. | [8] | |
| 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. | [9] | |
| 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. | [10] | |
| Vada Chennai | Tamil | Vetrimaaran | Dhanush, Andrea Jeremiah, Aishwarya Rajesh | Set in North Chennai, a young man is drawn into a gang war. | [11] | |
| 2.0 | Tamil | S. Shankar | Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson | Scientists help the government investigate a threat beyond understanding. | [12] | |
| 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. | [13] |
| Kaappaan | Tamil | K. V. Anand | Mohanlal, Suriya, Arya, Sayyeshaa | An SPG Commander cum organic farmer tries to save the nation from an evil businessman | [14] | |
| 2020 | Darbar | Tamil | A. R. Murugadoss | Rajinikanth, Nayanthara, Nivedhaa Thomas, Sunil Shetty | A daredevil cop is on a rampage to eliminate a drug syndicate in Mumbai | [15] |
| 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. | [16] | ||
| 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. | [17] |
| Panni Kutty | Tamil | Anucharan Murugaiyan | Yogi Babu, Karunakaran | [18] | ||
| 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. | [19] | |
| 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. | [20] | ||
| 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 | ||
| Pattathu Arasan | Tamil | A. Sarkunam | Atharvaa, Rajkiran | |||
| Naai Sekar Returns | Tamil | Suraj | Vadivelu | |||
| 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. | ||
| 2023 | Thiruvin Kural | Tamil | Harish Prabhu | Arulnithi, Bharathiraja, Aathmika | [21] | |
| 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. | |||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 2024 | Tamil | A. L. Vijay | Arun Vijay, Amy Jackson, Nimisha Sajayan | |||
| Lal Salaam | Tamil | Aishwarya Rajinikanth | Rajinikanth, Vishnu Vishal, Vikranth | |||
| Indian 2 | Tamil | S. Shankar | Kamal Haasan, Siddharth, Bobby Simha, S. J. Suryah, Kajal Aggarwal, Rakul Preet Singh, Priya Bhavani Shankar | |||
| Vettaiyan† | Tamil | T. J. Gnanavel | Rajinikanth, Amitabh Bachchan, Manju Warrier, Fahadh Faasil, Rana Daggubati, Ritika Singh, Dushara Vijayan | Post-Production | ||
| 2025 | Indian 3† | Tamil | S. Shankar | Kamal Haasan, Siddharth, Bobby Simha, S. J. Suryah, Kajal Aggarwal, Rakul Preet Singh, Priya Bhavani Shankar | Filming | |
| Vidaa Muyarchi† | Tamil | Magizh Thirumeni | Ajith Kumar, Arjun, Trisha Krishnan, Regina Cassandra, Aarav | |||
| † | Malayalam | Prithviraj Sukumaran | Mohanlal | [22] [23] | ||
In addition to the films produced by Lyca Productions since 2014, the following filmsfrom other banners were distributed by the company:
| Denotes films that have not yet been released |
| Year | Title | Language | Director | Cast | Synopsis | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | [24] | |
| 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. | [25] | ||
| 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. | [26] | |||
| 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. | [27] | ||
| 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. | [28] | ||
| 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. | [29] | |||
| 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. | [30] | |||
| 2021 | 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. | [31] | ||
| 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. | [32] [33] | ||
| 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? | ||||
| 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. | [34] [35] | ||
| 2023 | Thunivu | H. Vinoth | 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. | ||||
| Merry Christmas | Tamil | Sriram Raghavan | Katrina Kaif and Vijay Sethupathi | ||||
| 2024 | Captain Miller | Tamil | Arun Matheswaran | Dhanush, Priyanka Mohan, Shivarajkumar |
In October 2011 Lycatel was ranked 36th out of 250 leading mid-market private companies in The Sunday Times.[36] 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.[37] The Asian Voice Political and Public Life awarded Allirajah in 2011 its "International Entrepreneur of the Year" award.[38]
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,[39] as well as the "Social Entrepreneur of the Year" award.[40]
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.[41]