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{{short description|Indian motion picture company}}
{{Infobox company
| logo = Cameo Films India.jpg
| type = [[Privately held company|Private]]
| industry = [[Film]]
| founded = 2013
| location_city = [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]]
| location_country = India
| founders = C. J. Jayakumar
| key_people =
| products = [[Film production]], [[Film distribution|distribution]]
| homepage =
}}

'''Cameo Films''' is an Indian [[film production]] and [[film distributor|distribution]] company based in [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]]. It was incorporated in the year 2013 by C. J. Jayakumar. Since then, it has produced three [[Tamil language|Tamil]] films, ''[[Damaal Dumeel]]'', ''[[Trisha Illana Nayanthara]]'', ''[[Imaikkaa Nodigal]]'' and distributed ''[[Kaththi Sandai]]''.

==History==

Cameo Films was incorporated by C. J. Jayakumar in 2013. Its first production was Shree's ''[[Damaal Dumeel]]'' starring [[Vaibhav Reddy]] and [[Remya Nambeesan]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 April 2014 |title='Damaal Dumeel' a comedy thriller: Shree |url=https://www.sify.com/movies/damaal-dumeel-a-comedy-thriller-shree-news-tamil-oeqki6hheaisi.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624212135/https://www.sify.com/movies/damaal-dumeel-a-comedy-thriller-shree-news-tamil-oeqki6hheaisi.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 June 2021 |website=[[Sify]]}}</ref> Their next production was the 2015 film ''[[Trisha Illana Nayanthara]]'', directed by [[Adhik Ravichandran]] starring [[G. V. Prakash Kumar]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Menon |first=Vishal |date=8 August 2015 |title='There's an S.J. Surya in all of us' |url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/adhik-ravi-on-trisha-illana-nayanthara/article7516285.ece |website=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=24 June 2021 |archive-date=28 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628012402/https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/adhik-ravi-on-trisha-illana-nayanthara/article7516285.ece |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=16 January 2017 |title=Trisha Illana Nayanthara teaser |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movies/news/trisha-illana-nayanthara-teaser/articleshow/46955222.cms |website=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=24 June 2021 |archive-date=28 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628142706/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movies/news/trisha-illana-nayanthara-teaser/articleshow/46955222.cms |url-status=live }}</ref> The company then went on to distribute the 2016 film ''[[Kaththi Sandai]]'', directed by [[Suraj (director)|Suraj]] starring [[Vishal (actor)|Vishal]] and [[Tamannaah]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 November 2016 |title=Vishal's Kaththi Sandai pushed further |url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/vishals-kaththi-sandai-pushed-further-53240 |website=[[The News Minute]] |access-date=24 June 2021 |archive-date=24 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624205628/https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/vishals-kaththi-sandai-pushed-further-53240 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2018, they produced [[Nayanthara]] and [[Anurag Kashyap]] starring ''[[Imaikkaa Nodigal]]'', directed by [[R. Ajay Gnanamuthu]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 December 2017 |title=Atharvaa-Nayanthara's Imaikka Nodigal wraps up shooting |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/tamil/atharvaa-nayantharas-imaikka-nodigal-wraps-up-shooting4988594/ |website=[[The Indian Express]] |access-date=24 June 2021 |archive-date=24 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624205907/https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/tamil/atharvaa-nayantharas-imaikka-nodigal-wraps-up-shooting4988594/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=4 December 2017 |title=Vijay Sethupathi acts as cop Nayanthara's husband in Imaikkaa Nodigal |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/tamil/2017/dec/04/vijay-sethupathi-acts-as-cop-nayantharas-husband-in-imaikkaa-nodigal-1717693.html |website=[[The New Indian Express]] |access-date=24 June 2021 |archive-date=24 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624204439/https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/tamil/2017/dec/04/vijay-sethupathi-acts-as-cop-nayantharas-husband-in-imaikkaa-nodigal-1717693.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2019, the company established a Digital Content Workstream for producing [[web series]] and [[Web film|web films]].

== Filmography ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Title
! Director
!Production
!Distribution
|-
| 2014
| ''[[Damaal Dumeel]]''
| Shree
| style="text-align: center;" |{{y}}
| style="text-align: center;" |
|-
|2015
|''[[Trisha Illana Nayanthara]]''
|[[Adhik Ravichandran]]
| style="text-align: center;" |{{y}}
| style="text-align: center;" |
|-
| 2016
| ''[[Kaththi Sandai]]''
| [[Suraj (director)|Suraj]]
| style="text-align: center;" |
| style="text-align: center;" |{{y}}
|-
| 2018
| ''[[Imaikkaa Nodigal]]''
| [[R. Ajay Gnanamuthu]]
| style="text-align: center;" |{{y}}
| style="text-align: center;" |
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Facebook | Cameofilmsindia | Cameo Films India }}
[[Category:2013 establishments in Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Film production companies based in Chennai]]
[[Category:Film production companies of India]]
[[Category:Film production companies of Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Indian companies established in 2013]]
[[Category:Indian film studios]]
[[Category:Mass media companies established in 2013]]
[[Category:Tamil cinema]]

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