Ayngaran International is a film distribution and production company, based in the United Kingdom. Historically, Tamil films from India have been distributed to overseas theaters and for home media consumption by Ayngaran. They also operate a chain of retail video stores located in the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Malaysia, and Singapore.As of 2008, the company debuted as an independent film studio, opening offices in India. Their first production was Karuppu Roja (1996).The studio continued distributing films throughout the 2010s and made a return to production through Kaththi (2014), which was coproduced by Lyca Productions.