Most Anticipated Tamil Movies of 2024

Captain Miller

Release date: 12 January 2024
Director: Arun Matheswaran
Starring: Dhanush, Shiva Rajkumar, Priyanka Arul Mohan, Aditi Balan, Sundeep Kishan, Edward Sonnenblick, John Kokken
Sypnosis: Set in the 1930s, during the British Raj, it follows a former British Army soldier trying to save his home village from destruction by the British Army.

Ayalaan

Release date: 12 January 2024
Director: R. Ravikumar
Starring: Sivakarthikeyan, Rakul Preet Singh, Sharad Kelkar, Isha Koppikar, Karunakaran, Yogi Babu, David Broughton-Davies, Bhanupriya, Bala Saravanan
Sypnosis: It follows a man who teams up with an alien to stop a rogue scientist from making a deadly Nova gas, which would endanger the Earth.

Merry Christmas

Release date: 12 January 2024
Director: Sriram Raghavan
Starring: Katrina Kaif, Vijay Sethupathi
Sypnosis: Based on Frédéric Dard’s French novel Le Monte-charge (Bird in a Cage). It was filmed simultaneously in Hindi and Tamil.

Mission: Chapter 1

Release date: 12 January 2024
Director: A. L. Vijay
Starring: Arun Vijay, Amy Jackson, Nimisha Sajayan, Abi Hassan, Bharat Bopana, Iyal
Sypnosis: Gunasekhar alias Guna leaves for London in order to get the higher level of treatment for his daughter Sana, who is suffering from a serious medical condition. However, fate plays with Guna’s life as he gets stuck in Wandsworth prison, one of the most secured prisons, where Sandra James is the jailer. Can Guna escape from prison and reunite with Sana forms the rest of the plot.

Lal Salaam

Release date: 9 February 2024
Director: Aishwarya Rajinikanth
Starring: Rajinikanth (cameo appearance), Vishnu Vishal and Vikranth
Sypnosis: A reckless townman tries to mend his thug ways ends up resurrecting himself and proves to be worthy of the world, in the eyes of the same people who chased him away.

Siren

Release date: 16 February 2024
Director: Antony Bhagyaraj
Starring: Jayam Ravi, Anupama Parameswaran, Keerthy Suresh, Yogi Babu, Samuthirakani
Sypnosis: An Ambulance driver turned criminal, who awaits the day of his release from prison. However, the man gets to go out of jail after 14 years on parole.

Indian 2

Release date: 11 April 2024 (expected)
Director: S. Shankar
Starring: Kamal Haasan, S. J. Suryah, Kajal Aggarwal, Siddharth, Rakul Preet Singh, Priya Bhavani Shankar, Nedumudi Venu, Vivek, Kalidas Jayaram, Gulshan Grover, Samuthirakani, Bobby Simha, Brahmanandam, Zakir Hussain, Piyush Mishra.
Sypnosis: Senapathy returns to India from Hong Kong after learning about the ongoing corruption and injustice in the country through social media.

Rathnam

Release date: 26 April 2024
Director: Hari
Starring: Vishal, Priya Bhavani Shankar, Ramachandra Raju, Samuthirakani, Gautham Vasudev Menon, Yogi Babu

Thangalaan

Release date: Expeted in April
Director: Pa. Ranjith
Starring: Vikram, Pasupathy, Parvathy Thiruvothu, Malavika Mohanan, Daniel Caltagirone, and Harikrishnan Anbudurai.
Sypnosis: Set during the British rule in India, Thangalaan, a tribal leader, goes on a valiant struggle against the British, after they plot to seize his land for gold mining.

Viduthalai Part 2

Release date: Expected in 2024
Director: Vetrimaaran
Starring: Soori, Vijay Sethupathi, Bhavani Sre, Gautham Vasudev Menon, Rajiv Menon
Sypnosis: It is a direct sequel to Viduthalai Part 1 (2023), which is adapted from Jeyamohan’s short story Thunaivan. The film follows Kumaresan, a constable, who is recruited to arrest Perumal, a teacher, and leader of a separatist group.

Kanguva

Release date: Expected in 2024
Director: Siva
Starring: Suriya, Bobby Deol, Disha Patani, Natarajan Subramaniam, Jagapathi Babu, Yogi Babu, Redin Kingsley, Kovai Sarala, Anandaraj, Ravi Raghavendra, K. S. Ravikumar, B. S. Avinash
Sypnosis: A warrior in the 1678 dies due to a disease, in the present a girl does research on the disease which killed the warrior in 1678.