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Meera Jasmine
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Meera Jasmine, born Jasmine Mary Joseph, is an Indian actress from Thiruvalla, Kerala, who appears in South Indian cinema. The Hindu called her one of the few actors who could hold her own amongst stars, Meera Jasmine was born on 15 February 1982 in a Syrian Christian family in Kuttapuzha village, Thiruvalla, Kerala to Joseph and Aleyamma. She was the fourth of five children and she has two sisters, Jiby Sara Joseph and Jeny Susan Joseph, who has also acted in films, and two brothers, one of them, George worked as an assistant cinematographer. She completed her schooling in Bala Vihar, Thiruvalla and Marthoma Residential School and she appeared for her Higher Secondary Exams in March 2000. She had enrolled for a BSc degree in Zoology at Assumption College, Changanassery, Meera had initially wanted to study and become a doctor and never had dreamed of becoming a film star. She stated, I was just an ordinary girl, never in my wildest dreams did I imagine being in films. I had not acted even in school plays, I never was the artistic type, I never thought I could dance, and I had not even thought of myself as being beautiful. She also said that Lohithadas is like a figure and my guru. He initiated me into films with Soothradharan and I owe it all to him, Meera Jasmine made her debut in the Malayalam film Soothradharan. Her second film was Gramaphone, directed by Kamal, in which she appeared alongside Navya Nair and her role as a Jewish girl was appreciated by Malayalam critics. Her third film was Swapnakkoodu, a romantic comedy alongside Prithviraj, Kunchako Boban, Jayasurya and her performance was appreciated and the film was a high commercial success. Among the five characters, the one who scored the most was again Meera. She rose to fame in Malayalam cinema with the film Kasthooriman directed by her mentor Lohithadas, in which she enacted comedy and she received her first Filmfare award for her performance in Kasthooriman. The film was also a success at the box office, running for 100 days, the same year, she acted in T. V. Chandrans acclaimed Padam Onnu Oru Vilapam. She played a 15-year-old Muslim girl who was forced to marry a man, for which she was awarded a State Award. It was followed by her performance as Raziya in Perumazhakkalam alongside Kavya Madhavan, in the film Achuvinte Amma, she enacted the young, adorable character Achu. She then paired with Mohanlal in Rasathanthram and she played as a girl pretending to be a boy in the first half of the film. The film went on to become a commercial success and her next film with Dileep – Vinodayathra, which again was directed by Sathyan Anthikkad
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India
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India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and it is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast. It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west, China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast, in the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Indias Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a border with Thailand. The Indian subcontinent was home to the urban Indus Valley Civilisation of the 3rd millennium BCE, in the following millennium, the oldest scriptures associated with Hinduism began to be composed. Social stratification, based on caste, emerged in the first millennium BCE, early political consolidations took place under the Maurya and Gupta empires, the later peninsular Middle Kingdoms influenced cultures as far as southeast Asia. In the medieval era, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam arrived, much of the north fell to the Delhi sultanate, the south was united under the Vijayanagara Empire. The economy expanded in the 17th century in the Mughal empire, in the mid-18th century, the subcontinent came under British East India Company rule, and in the mid-19th under British crown rule. A nationalist movement emerged in the late 19th century, which later, under Mahatma Gandhi, was noted for nonviolent resistance, in 2015, the Indian economy was the worlds seventh largest by nominal GDP and third largest by purchasing power parity. Following market-based economic reforms in 1991, India became one of the major economies and is considered a newly industrialised country. However, it continues to face the challenges of poverty, corruption, malnutrition, a nuclear weapons state and regional power, it has the third largest standing army in the world and ranks sixth in military expenditure among nations. India is a constitutional republic governed under a parliamentary system. It is a pluralistic, multilingual and multi-ethnic society and is home to a diversity of wildlife in a variety of protected habitats. The name India is derived from Indus, which originates from the Old Persian word Hindu, the latter term stems from the Sanskrit word Sindhu, which was the historical local appellation for the Indus River. The ancient Greeks referred to the Indians as Indoi, which translates as The people of the Indus, the geographical term Bharat, which is recognised by the Constitution of India as an official name for the country, is used by many Indian languages in its variations. Scholars believe it to be named after the Vedic tribe of Bharatas in the second millennium B. C. E and it is also traditionally associated with the rule of the legendary emperor Bharata. Gaṇarājya is the Sanskrit/Hindi term for republic dating back to the ancient times, hindustan is a Persian name for India dating back to the 3rd century B. C. E. It was introduced into India by the Mughals and widely used since then and its meaning varied, referring to a region that encompassed northern India and Pakistan or India in its entirety
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Malayalam
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Malayalam /mʌləˈjɑːləm/ is a language spoken in India, predominantly in the state of Kerala. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and was designated as a Classical Language in India in 2013 and it was developed to the current form mainly by the influence of the poet Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan in the 16th century. Malayalam has official status in the state of Kerala and in the union territories of Lakshadweep. It belongs to the Dravidian family of languages and is spoken by some 38 million people, according to one theory, Malayalam originated from Middle Tamil in the 7th century. However, the current understanding proposes the separation of Malayalam from Proto-Dravidian in the pre-historic era, Malayalam incorporated many elements from Sanskrit through the ages. Before Malayalam came into being, Old Tamil was used in literature and courts of a region called Tamilakam, including present day Kerala state, silappatikaramit was written by Chera prince Ilango Adigal from Chunkaparra, and is considered a classic in Sangam literature. Modern Malayalam still preserves many words from the ancient Tamil vocabulary of Sangam literature, the earliest script used to write Malayalam was the Vatteluttu alphabet, and later the Kolezhuttu, which derived from it. As Malayalam began to borrow words as well as the rules of grammar from Sanskrit. This developed into the modern Malayalam script, many medieval liturgical texts were written in an admixture of Sanskrit and early Malayalam, called Manipravalam. The oldest literary work in Malayalam, distinct from the Tamil tradition, is dated from between the 9th and 11th centuries, the first travelogue in any Indian language is the Malayalam Varthamanappusthakam, written by Paremmakkal Thoma Kathanar in 1785. Due to its lineage deriving from both Tamil and Sanskrit, the Malayalam script has the largest number of letters among the Indian language orthographies, the Malayalam script includes letters capable of representing almost all the sounds of all Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages. Malayalam serves as a language on the islands including the Mahl-dominated Minicoy Island. The word Malayalam originated from the Sanskrit resp, Malayalam words malai or mala, meaning hill, and elam, meaning region. Malayalam thus translates as hill region and used to refer to the land of the Chera dynasty, the language Malayalam is alternatively called Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, and Mallealle. The word Malayalam originally meant only for the name of the region, Malayanma or Malayayma represented the language. With the emergence of modern Malayalam language, the name of the language started to be known by the name of the region, hence now, the word Malayanma is considered by some to represent the olden Malayalam language. The language got the name Malayalam during the mid 19th century, the origin of Malayalam, an independent offshoot of the proto-Dravidian language, has been and continues to be an engaging pursuit among comparative historical linguists. Together with Tamil, Toda, Kannada and Tulu, Malayalam belongs to the group of Dravidian languages
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Kaniha
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Divya Venkatasubramaniam, also known by her stage name Kanika or Kaniha, is an Indian film actress. Kanika made her debut in the 2002 Tamil film Five Star, she went on to work in other South Indian film industries, including Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada, as well. She is perhaps best known for her performances as Eashwari in her debut film Five Star, Gayathri in Varalaru - History of Godfather and she has had a successful run in the Malayalam film industry with back to back hits Bhagyadevatha and Pazhassi Raja. Kaniha was Born, July 3,1982, Madurai, India in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India as the daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Venkat Subramanian. She studied at TVS Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Madurai and also won accolades including the Tamil Nadu State Award for Educational Excellence in 1999 and she then got admitted on merit to BITS, in Pilani, Rajasthan, from where she graduated with a Mechanical Engineering degree. Having developed her talents from her childhood, by participating in pop music and light music shows, Divya was interested in singing. While she was studying, she gave stage performances as a pop singer from time to time. When she was supposed to perform at the Miss Chennai event, despite lack of experience, she emerged victorious at that contest, which would later pave her the way for a film career. Susi Ganesan spotted her on a cover page and insisted on her performing the lead female role in his second feature film. Divya eventually entered the Film industry, accepting the offer, while her name was changed to Kanika and her debut film was the Mani Ratnam-produced Five Star with Prasanna, who made his acting debut as well, in which Kaniha portrayed a traditional village girl. She completed the film during her summer holidays, since she was a student. Kanika turned down all projects that were offered to her, including films by S. Shankar. Sreeram, and went on to complete her graduation, even before she finished her graduation, she completed her Telugu debut film Ottessi Chepputunna during her winter vacations, acting under another stage name Sravanthi. In regard to her performance, Idlebrain wrote, Sravanthy looks homely in the film and she is good at dances as well. After completing her studies, Kanika decided to herself a go at the Tinsel towns. She starred in the Kannada film Annavaru, a remake of Mani Ratnams Thalapathi, stepping into Kannada filmdom and she followed the movie with a neat, cameo role in Cherans Autograph, earning critical acclaim. Kanika next appeared in a comedy oriented role in a film by K. S. Ravikumar, Aethiree along with Madhavan, Sada. Sify labelled her performance in the film as outstanding and she proved to be an actress to reckon with in the Kannada film Sye, a remake of Tamil film Dhill
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Joju George
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Jojo George is a Malayalam film actor known for his performance in supporting and comedy roles. He made his debut through Pattallam directed by Lal Jose and he did his schooling from GHS, Kuzhur. He studied at the Christ College, Irinjalakuda before commencing his career in the industry as an assistant director. He is married to Abba Joju in 2008 and has three children Ian, Sarah & Ivan, kerala State Film Awards - Special Jury Mention Joju George at the Internet Movie Database
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Antony Thekkek
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Antony Thekkek, also known as Thampy Antony, is an Indian-American film actor and producer. He is active primarily in Malayalam cinema and he is the elder brother of Malayalam actor Babu Antony. Thampy Antony was born in Ponkunnam into a Kerala Christian family and he is an architect by profession. He migrated to the United States and has lived in the San Francisco bay area for over 2 decades and he is involved in health care business in the United States. Antony made his debut, with ‘Arabia’, a film that starred his younger brother Babu Antony in the lead. He has since acted in many American and Indian productions. He won the Best Actor Award at the Honolulu International Film Festival in 2005 for portraying the role of Dr. Acharya in the English film Beyond the Soul, in 2010, he featured in the Hollywood movie Cash. Thampi Antony produces films under the banner of Kayal Films and has produced critically acclaimed movies like Parudeesa, Sufi Paranja Katha,10 Kalpanakal EMSum penkuttyum Monayi engene anayi ABCD, American-Born Confused Desi. Mannooran and Decon Jose Ivan Megharoopan. Publisher Swamy Dam999. The Architect Abu, ustad A Million Dollars. Thampy Yathra Thudarunnu The Wedding. Michael Ca$h. Bahadurjit Tejeenderpeet Singh Sufi Paranja Katha. Shanku Menon In Ghost House Inn. Dr. Sukumaran Nair Made in United States Nothing But Life. Col, zapher Ali Profile in Rotten Tomatoes Antony Thekkek at the Internet Movie Database Thampi Antony at MSI
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Soundtrack
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In movie industry terminology usage, a sound track is an audio recording created or used in film production or post-production. Initially the dialogue, sound effects, and music in a film each has its own track, and these are mixed together to make what is called the composite track. A dubbing track is later created when films are dubbed into another language. This is also known as a M & E track containing all sound elements minus dialogue which is supplied by the foreign distributor in the native language of its territory. The contraction soundtrack came into public consciousness with the advent of so-called soundtrack albums in the late 1940s and these phrases were soon shortened to just original motion picture soundtrack. More accurately, such recordings are made from a music track, because they usually consist of the isolated music from a film, not the composite track with dialogue. The soundtrack to the 1937 Walt Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first commercially issued film soundtrack. It was released by RCA Victor Records on multiple 78 RPM discs in January 1938 as Songs from Walt Disneys Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and has since seen numerous expansions and reissues. The first live-action musical film to have a commercially issued soundtrack album was MGM’s 1946 film biography of Show Boat composer Jerome Kern, the album was originally issued as a set of four 10-inch 78-rpm records. Only eight selections from the film were included in this first edition of the album, in order to fit the songs onto the record sides the musical material needed editing and manipulation. Needless to say, it was several generations removed from the original, the playback recordings were purposely recorded very dry, otherwise it would come across as too hollow sounding in large movie theatres. This made these albums sound flat and boxy, the phrase is also sometimes incorrectly used for Broadway cast recordings. While it is correct in some instances to call a soundtrack a cast recording it is never correct to call a cast recording a soundtrack, contributing to the vagueness of the term are projects such as The Sound of Music Live. Which was filmed live on the set for an NBC holiday season special first broadcast in 2013, film score albums did not really become popular until the LP era, although a few were issued in 78-rpm albums. Like the 1967 re-release of the film, this version of the score was artificially enhanced for stereo, in recent years, Rhino Records has released a 2-CD set of the complete Gone With the Wind score, restored to its original mono sound. One of the film scores of all time was John Williams music from the movie Star Wars. Many film score albums go out-of-print after the films finish their theatrical runs, in a few rare instances an entire film dialogue track was issued on records. The 1968 Franco Zeffirelli film of Romeo and Juliet was issued as a 4-LP set, as a single LP with musical and dialogue excerpts, and as an album containing only the films musical score
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Abu Dhabi
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Abu Dhabi is the capital and the second most populous city of the United Arab Emirates, and also capital of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, the largest of the UAEs seven emirates. Abu Dhabi lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the western coast. The city proper had a population of 1.5 million in 2014, Abu Dhabi houses federal government offices, is the seat of the United Arab Emirates Government, home to the Abu Dhabi Emiri Family and the President of the UAE, who is from this family. Abu Dhabis rapid development and urbanisation, coupled with the high average income of its population, has transformed the city into a large. Today the city is the center of political and industrial activities. Abu Dhabi accounts for about two-thirds of the roughly $400-billion United Arab Emirates economy, Abu Dhabi is the fourth most expensive city for expatriate employees in the region, and in 2014 was the 68th most expensive big city in the world. Abu Dhabi is full of evidence that points to civilizations, such as the Umm an-Nar Culture. Settlements were also found farther outside the city of Abu Dhabi. There is evidence of civilizations around the mountain of Hafeet and this location is very strategic because it is the UAE’s second tallest mountain, so it would have great visibility. It also contains a lot of moisture in its springs and lakes, origin of the name Abu Dhabi The origin of the name Abu Dhabi is uncertain. Meaning Father of the Gazelle, when translated from Arabic. According to Bilal al-Budoor, assistant under-secretary for Cultural Affairs at the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Community Development, The area had a lot of dhibaa, an old story tells about a man who used to chase deer and was named the father of the animal. Abu Dhabis original name was Milh salt, possibly referring to the salty water of the Persian Gulf, some Bedouins called the city Umm Dhabi, while British records refer to the place as Abu Dhabi. According to some accounts, the name Abu Dhabi was first used more than 300 years ago. The first word of Abu Dhabi is pronounced Bu by inhabitants on the western coast. In the eastern part of the city, the pronunciation is Abu, origins of the Al Nahyan family The Bani Yas bedouin were originally centered on the Liwa Oasis. This tribe was the most significant in the area, having over 20 subsections, in 1793, the Al Bu Falah subsection migrated to the island of Abu Dhabi on the coast of the Persian Gulf due to the discovery of fresh water there. One family within this section was the Al Nahyan family and this family makes up the rulers of Abu Dhabi today
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Shreya Ghoshal
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Shreya Ghoshal is an Indian playback singer. She has recorded songs for music and albums in various Indian languages and has established herself as a leading playback singer of Indian cinema. Ghoshal aspired to become a singer from a young age. At the age of four, she started learning music, at the age of six, she started with her formal training in classical music. At the age of sixteen, she was noticed by film-maker Sanjay Leela Bhansali when she entered, apart from playback singing, Ghoshal has appeared as a judge on several television reality shows. She performs in concerts around the world. She has been honored by the U. S. state of Ohio, in April 2013, she was awarded with the highest honour in London by the selected members of House of Commons of the United Kingdom. She was also featured five times in Forbes list of the top 100 celebrities of India, in 2017, Ghoshal became the first Indian singer to have a wax figure of her in Madame Tussauds Museum. Ghoshal was born on 12 March 1984 to a Bengali Hindu family in Murshidabad, Murshidabad district and she grew up in Rawatbhata, a small town near Kota in Rajasthan. Her father, Bishwajit Ghoshal is an engineer and works for the Nuclear Power Corporation of India. She has a brother, Soumyadeep Ghoshal. At the age of four, she started learning music, Ghoshal completed her schooling up to eighth grade at the Atomic Energy Central School in Rawatbhata. In 1995, she won the All India Light Vocal Music Competition, New Delhi, organised by Sangam Kala Group, in Light Vocal group in sub-junior level. In 1997, when her father was transferred to the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, she was relocated to Mumbai, with her family and she joined the Atomic Energy Junior College to study science. She withdrew from the college and enrolled at the SIES College of Arts, Science, and Commerce in Mumbai. Her mother used to help her in her rehearsals and she accompanied her on the Tanpura, at the age of six, Ghoshal started with her formal training in classical music. She acquired training from Padmashree Late Kalyanji Bhai and Late Mukta Bhideji and her first stage performance was made at a clubs annual function. When she turned six, she started her lessons in Hindustani classical music, in 2000, at the age of sixteen, she participated and won the television music reality show Sa Re Ga Ma on the channel Zee TV
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Uday Ramachandran
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Uday Ramachandran is an Indian playback singer and a Carnatic musician, who has recorded songs for a number of Malayalam movies and albums. Uday has recorded more than 500 songs in Malayalam, including albums and he has performed more than Hundred stage shows extensively in India and abroad. Uday is born into a family of musicians with rich lineage at Vaikom to Mr. V. N. Ramachandran and his Fathers Elder brother, Sri Vaikom V. N. Rajan was his first guru in the music field in the year 1985. He started his music training at R. L. V. Adjudged winner of the MG University Youth festival with A Grade in light music competition consecutively in 1998,1999 and 2000 and he was one of the finalist in first reality show Gandharvasangeetham in Kairali TV. He associated with Asha Hospital, Vatakara, Kozhikode as Manager Administration and in Lakshmi Hospital, Uday has worked for various audio albums and track recordings for film songs. He has rendered songs for various movies and has released more than 500 audio Cassettes. His entry to playback singing was marked by a song in the movie “Doctor Innocent Aanu” and rendered a beautiful melody Ormakalkkoppam, recently Uday has given voice to an M Mohanan Movie My God under Bijibals Music Composition. Life in Kuwait Uday was instrumental in setting up the first ever Malayalam radio station in Kuwait –98.4 Ufm and he was the Administration head and was the Music Manager of the organization. Uday’s Live show “Heart-Throbs” attracted thousands of listeners and was one of the best shows in 98. 4U FM
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K. J. Yesudas
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Kattassery Joseph Yesudas is an Indian Carnatic musician and film playback singer. Yesudas sings Indian classical, devotional and cinematic songs and he has recorded more than 50,000 songs in a number of Indian languages as well as Malay, Russian, Arabic, Latin and English during a career spanning more than five decades. He has performed in most Indian languages except Assamese, Konkani and he also composed a number of Malayalam film songs in the 1970s and 1980s. Yesudas is fondly called Gana Gandharvan and he was awarded the Padma Shri in 1975, the Padma Bhushan in 2002 and Padma Vibhushan in 2017 by the Government of India for his contributions towards the arts. In 2011 Yesudas was honoured with the CNN-IBN outstanding achievement award having recorded over 20,000 songs in a five-decade career, in 2006, he sang 16 film songs in four South Indian languages on the same day at AVM Studio, Chennai. K. J. Yesudas was born in Fort Kochi, in the erstwhile Kingdom of Cochin, in a Latin Catholic Christian family to late Augustine Joseph and his father, who was a well-known Malayalam classical musician and stage actor, was his first guru. Yesudas was the eldest of five children, followed by three brothers and a younger sister. He started his music training at R. L. V. Later he studied at Swathi Thirunal College of Music, Thiruvananthapuram under the tutelage of the music maestro late Sh. K. R. Kumaraswamy Iyer and the late Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, for a brief period, he was with Sri Vechur Harihara Subramania Iyer, after which he took advanced training from Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar. He completed the Ganabooshanam course at R. L. V, Music Academy, Thripunithura, Cochin and studied at Sree Swathithirunal Music Academy, Trivandrum under the tutelage of the carnatic music maestro late Sh. K. R. Kumaraswamy Iyer. In 2011 he completed his 50 years as a playback singer, the first song sung by Yesudas is Jaathi Bhedam Matha Dwesham on 14 November 1961, which he usually sings on all the special occasions in front of the audience. But the first film song was Attention Penne Attention, which he sang with Santha P. Nair, Yesudas began his career in playback singing in the Malayalam movie Kaalpadukal and Tamil, Telugu and Kannada movies in the early 1960s. He got the first break in his career with the hit Malayalam film named Bharya. In 1967, he sang hit songs in the composition of M. S. Baburaj for the film Udhyogastha directed by P. Venu and he sang in Tamil for Bommai first, but the first released movie was Konjum Kumari. In 1965, he was invited by the Soviet Union government to perform at concerts in various cities in the USSR. The trio of Salil, Yesudas and Prem Nazir entered the Malayalam Cinema Industry of the 1970s, in 1970 he was nominated to head the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy and was the youngest person ever to occupy the post. By the 1970s Yesudas entered Bollywood, the first Hindi song he sang was for the movie Jai Jawan Jai Kissan, but the first released movie was Chhoti Si Baat
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Vijay Yesudas
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Vijay Yesudas is an Indian filmi playback singer and occasional actor. The son of acclaimed singer K. J. Yesudas, Vijay made his debut as a singer with the 2000 film Millennium Stars. Vijays known for his work predominantly in the South Indian film industry, especially Malayalam and Tamil films as well as in other Indian languages such as Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi. He has won two Kerala State Film Awards for Best Singer, four Filmfare Awards for Best Singer, and he made foray into acting by playing the villain role in the Tamil film Maari. Vijay met his future wife Dharshana at a concert held in Dubai on 2002 Valentines Day. After five years of dating, he married Dharshana in 2007 at Trivandrum and they have a daughter named Ammeya and a son named Avyan. Vijay Yesudas started learning Carnatic music in the early 2000s and he is popular for songs sung under composer Yuvan Shankar Raja. He has collaborated with other composers such as Dakshinamoorthy Swami, Ilaiyaraja. Vijays latest song Malare which he sang for the hit film Premam went viral among young audiences, the song was reshared countless times soon after its video release. He has sung 178 Malayalam songs and 118 Tamil songs
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International Business Times
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The International Business Times is an online news publication, that publishes seven national editions and four languages. The publication, sometimes called IBTimes or IBT, offers news, opinion, IBT is one of the worlds largest online news sources, IBTs 2014 media kit claims that its online properties receive 40 million unique visitors each month. Its 2013 revenues were around $21 million, IBTimes was launched in 2005, it is owned by IBT Media, and was founded by Etienne Uzac and Johnathan Davis. Its headquarters are in a former Newsweek office in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, founder Etienne Uzac, a native of France, came up with the idea for the global business news site while a student at the London School of Economics. He found that the strongest business newspapers had a focus on the U. S and Europe, Uzac recruited Johnathan Davis to join him in the enterprise. In late 2005, Uzac and Davis moved to New York to launch the site, with Uzac primarily focused on business strategy, on August 4,2013, IBT Media, the owner of IBTimes, announced its purchase of Newsweek and newsweek. com from IAC/InterActiveCorp. The purchase did not include The Daily Beast, peter S. Goodman, previously the executive business editor and global news editor of The Huffington Post, became the editor in 2014. From March to July 2016, IBT laid off an estimated 30 percent of its editorial staff and this period marked a new era for the company as it expanded into branded content and events with its sister publication Newsweek. At the same time, Dev Pragad who had started the EMEA business in 2009 was promoted from managing director of Europe to global CEO of Newsweek and this was followed in January 2017 by the appointment of Alan Press in the “newly-created, strategic role of President”. In late 2011, Google allegedly moved the outlets articles down in search results in response to search engine optimization activity. An internal IBT memo allegedly advised IBT journalists on how to re-work a story already done. Some people have been just re-posting the exact same story, with a new headline, similarly, employees told The Guardian in 2014 that that at times they seemed to operate more as content farms demanding high-volume output than a source of quality journalism. At least two journalists were threatened with firing unless traffic to their articles increased sharply. In 2016, IBT hired John Crowley, the Wall Street Journals Europe, Middle East and Africa digital editor, according to The Guardian, “Crowley said his focus would be on helping the site break exclusives, in-depth storytelling and new forms of digital journalism. He said IBT was putting together a UK business desk and hiring an audience team. ”Crowley stated We are not a service or so-called paper of record. But I have a vision of where I want to take a site, weve got to have a USP. make ourselves distinctive in journalistic terms. The standard of content on IBTimes. co. uk has notably improved in recent years with reputable papers such as The Times quoting exclusive content from the publication, sports and entertainment coverage often gets pick up in the British press and on the BBC. In early 2017, International Business Times UK joined a partnership along with the likes of Bloomberg, Channel 4, Media Matters also criticized IBT for publishing an article with the headline Is Climate Change Real
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
