Ayngaran International
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Ayngaran International is an overseas film distributor of Tamil language movies. The company distributes Tamil films to countries other than India. They are known for releasing movies in the DVD format. They also change the Indian regional films into North American and European format. Since the company started, they distributed audio in audio cassettes and CDs, and videos in VHS. In 2001 they began to distribute DVDs and later ceased VHS distribution. They provide subtitles in English and a variety of other languages on each DVD film. In 2006, French and German languages were added to subtitle selections.
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[edit] Distributions
Ayngaran internatiaonal is own by Latheepan S. Ayngaran hold a monopoly on international distribution of Tamil films worldwide[citation needed] (excluding India). The company produces and distributes many (not all)[citation needed] Tamil films worldwide to cinemas and for sale to the public. Sometimes they only buy DVD/audio distribution rights and not cinema distribution rights. All DVDs produced by Ayngaran contain at least English subtitles.
[edit] VHS/Audio Cassettes
The company first started to produce and distribute films, customized home videos (such as Isai Thendral), and soundtrack albums in these formats. Ayngaran VHS films also did not have subtitles. VHS distribution stopped in 2001 when DVD use began.
[edit] DVDs
The company started producing and distributing films in 2001 as they stopped production of VHS.
- Digital Isai Thendral - The DVD version of Isai Thendral. collection of video songs from films which are released in volumes.
- Hits of Actor's name goes here - Musicwhich star a specific actor/actress. Example: Hits of Ajith or Hits of Jyothika
[edit] Audio CDs
Ayngaran produces multiple soundtrack albums for the same film. They normally have more than one album on the same audio CD. The different combinations for an audio CD are:
- 2 or more newly released movies (e.g. songs of Pokkiri and Aalwar)
- 1 newly released movie and a selection of songs from older movies (e.g. Guru and Hits of A.R. Rahman)
- 1 newly released movie and 1 related movie which was a huge hit (e.g. Sivaji: The Boss and Chandramukhi
- new release [AZHIGIYE TAMIZH MAGAN]
Some audio albums contain random selected songs released at a time period and is given a special name, such as Konja Neram Konja Neram released in 2005.
[edit] Retail Stores
Ayngaran International has several retail stores across the world, located in cities such as London, Toronto, Paris and Singapore. Other partner sites are located in Sri Lanka and Malaysia.
