Sun Pictures is a renowned production house in Tamil cinema known for bankrolling big scale projects with leading star heroes. The company's first production venture was the mega sci-fi action thriller, Enthiran, which featured Superstar Rajinikanth and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in the lead roles. Simultaneously, the company involved in the distribution of movies, and some of their notable releases include Suriya's Ayan, Dhanush's Padikadhavan, Nakkhul's Maasilamani, Thalapathy Vijay's Vettaikaran and Sura, Suriya's Singam, Jayam Ravi's Engeyum Kaadhal, Jayam Ravi's Thillalangadi, Vishal's Theeradha Vilaiyattu Pillai, Sasikumar's Kutti Puli and more.

Sun Pictures also released Thala Ajith's 50th film, Mankatha in a grand manner through record number of screens. Mankatha was celebrated by the fans in a great manner and it offered a great amount of entertainment. People felt that Mankatha was the perfect 50th film for Ajith as it had enough goosebumps moments, unexpected twists and turns to keep the audience hooked to the screens. Even today, the interval (kingmaker) sequence and the climax twist is remembered by the fans. Mankatha was directed by Venkat Prabhu and produced by Dhayanidhi Alagiri.

The film featured Trisha as the female lead and had music scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja. Wonder why we are talking about Mankatha now? Well, Sun Pictures delivered a pleasant surprise for all the Ajith fans by releasing an unseen picture from Mankatha featuring Ajith and Trisha. In this unseen picture, we see the lead pair sharing a lighter moment and it looks good. The fans are eagerly looking forward to the sequel of Mankatha and let us hope that it happens soon.

Sun Pictures had last produced Sivakarthikeyan's Namma Veettu Pillai which was a huge success at the box office. The esteemed production house will now produce Suriya's upcoming film (Suriya40), directed by Pandiraj. This film is touted to be a commercial family entertainer that will be high on action and mass. Suriya, who is riding high on the success of Soorarai Pottru will be looking forward to continuing the streak with Suriya 40 as well. Sun Pictures will also be bankrolling Dhanush's D44 (tentative) that will have music scored by rockstar Anirudh Ravichander. The highly celebrated DnA combo will reunite after a long time through D44 and there is a good amount of buzz around that film.

Sun Pictures will also be producing Thalapathy Vijay's highly anticipated Thalapathy65 which is yet to be officially announced. Rumours suggest that director Nelson Dilipkumar of Kolamaavu Kokila and Doctor fame is the frontrunner to helm the film, but let us wait for an official word. For now, check out Sun Pictures' latest tweet about Mankatha here: