With the release of Gautham Menon's 'Vaaranam Aayiram,' Dhayanidhi Alagiri, the producer was born. This was the first film produced under the banner of Dhayanidhi Alagiri's Cloud Nine Movies, and it became one of the highest grossers in Tamil cinema during that year. From then on there has been no looking back for this young producer whose second production venture was 'Tamil Padam' which was a farce on Tamil films.

The film saw RJ Shiva in his first ever lead role and the film became quite popular in Tamil Nadu; the songs in the film were also a hit. Karthi's 'Paiyaa,' 'Naan Mahaan Alla,' and a host of other Tamil films, which were either adopted under his banner or distributed by him, did well at the box office.

Further on Cloud Nine Movies went on and adopted 'Mankatha' a Venkat Prabhu directorial which had Ajith Kumar playing the lead. Apart for this film being Thala's 50th film in Tamil, the movie also had a host of stars to the likes of Action King Arjun, Trisha, Andrea, Vaibhav, Premji, Anjali and Lakshmi Rai. Post release, it hit the jackpot at the box office and is still raking in the moolah big times for its makers.

Dayanidhi Alagiri is celebrating his birthday today. As this young filmmaker blows another candle, here's wishing him good luck in his future projects. He will be teaming up with director Vetrimaran shortly.