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{{Infobox person
| name = Ajith James
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1951|9|18}}
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| othername =
| yearsactive = 1998-Present
| spouse =
| children = 2 (including [[A.L.Udhaya,A. L. Vijay]])
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| notable role =
| occupation = [[Film actor]], [[Singer]]
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'''Ajith James''' (born 18 September 1951),credited by his mononym A. L. Azhagappan'','' is a [[Tamil people|Tamil]] [[Actor|film actor]], After making films. he has made a career appearing in supporting roles in films. His son [[A. L. Vijay]] are also a part of the Tamil film industry as an actor .His son A.L.Udhaya also acted in movies respectively.

==Career==
He was appointed [[Tamil Film Producers Council|President of Tamil Nadu Producers Council]] in 2004, and controversially threatened to sue television network [[Sun TV Network|Sun TV]] for showing clips of films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/news-feed/nm7/tamil-film-producers-to-sue-sun-network/article1-66883.aspx |title=Tamil film producers to sue Sun Network |publisher=Hindustantimes.com |date=2006-02-23 |accessdate=2015-04-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904005841/http://www.hindustantimes.com/news-feed/nm7/tamil-film-producers-to-sue-sun-network/article1-66883.aspx |archivedate=4 September 2014 }}</ref> Azhagappan's work was halted in June 2006. when he was arrested in a cheating case for failing to return money to a financier Vishal Jain regarding a film that never began production. The arrest was considered highly political as a result of Azhagappan's declining relationship with the then political supremo [[Mu. Karunanidhi|Karunanidhi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sify.com/movies/a-l-alagappan-arrested-news-tamil-kkfvjIjhfdgsi.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140616031942/http://www.sify.com/movies/a-l-alagappan-arrested-news-tamil-kkfvjIjhfdgsi.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-06-16 |title=A.L.Alagappan arrested! |publisher=Sify.com |date=2006-06-17 |accessdate=2015-04-09}}</ref>

Since 2010, Azhagappan has also worked in film as a supporting actor, notably winning award nominations for his negative role in [[M. Sasikumar]]'s ''[[Easan]]'' (2010)

== Filmography ==

===As actor===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="background:#f5f5f5;"
|- style="background:#B0C4DE;"
! Year
! Film
! Role
!class=unsortable| Notes
|-
||2010 || ''[[Easan]]'' || Deivanayagam || Nominated, [[Vijay Award for Best Villain]]
|-
|rowspan="2"|2014 || ''[[Kathai Thiraikathai Vasanam Iyakkam]]'' || || Guest appearance
|-
| ''[[Nerungi Vaa Muthamidathe]]'' || Kaleeshwaran ||
|-
||2017 || ''[[Thiri]]'' || Anganan ||
|-
| 2021 || ''[[Paramapadham Vilayattu]]'' || Kalingan ||
|}

===As producer===

* ''[[Ini Ellam Sugame]]'' (1998)
*''[[Saivam]]'' (2014)
*''[[Idhu Enna Maayam]]'' (2015)
*''[[Oru Naal Iravil]]'' (2016)
*''[[Sometimes (film)|Sometimes]]'' (2017)
*''[[Vanamagan]]'' (2017)

== References ==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|id=6549376}}

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[[Category:21st-century Indian male actors]]
[[Category:Male actors in Tamil cinema]]
[[Category:Tamil film producers]]
[[Category:1951 births]]

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