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Simran (actress)
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Simran Bagga, known professionally only as Simran, is an Indian actress who has predominantly appeared in Tamil, Telugu and a few Malayalam films. She debuted in Bollywood and acted in Hindi films, before starring in her first Tamil film V. I. P, having a string of successes in her early career, in 1999, Simran received critical praise for playing a blind woman in Thulladha Manamum Thullum. However the turning point of her career came with the success of Vaali which made Simran the most successful actress in the industry and she received her first Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Actress for Kannathil Muthamittal, as the mother of an adopted 9-year-old daughter. Other than romantic dramas, Simran had also appeared in two comedy films alongside Kamal Hassan, Pammal K. Sambandam and Panchathantiram, both released in 2002. With the success of the 2004 sci fi film New, Simran left the industry following her marriage with her childhood family friend Deepak Bagga. In 1998, entertainment portal Rediff. com called her one of Tamil cinemas top female draws, in 1999, she was featured in Forbes Magazine as the most prolific actress with a diverse portfolio from the Indian sub continent. Simran was born as Rishibala Naval to Punjabi parents in Mumbai, her father is Ashok Naval, Simran has two sisters, Monal and Jyothi Naval, and a brother named Sumith. She did her schooling from St. Anthonys high school, Versova and she speaks Punjabi, Hindi, English and Tamil. Simran is a dancer and can perform Bharatanatyam and Salsa. She married Deepak, her family friend, on December 2,2003. They have two sons, Adheep and Aadit, Jaya Bachchan saw Simran presenting the show Superhit Muqabla on Doordarshan’s Metro channel, and subsequently offered her a leading role in her production, the romantic drama Tere Mere Sapne. She then starred in supporting roles in Muqaddar, Angaara and Daadagiri, Bal Bramhachari, Agni Morcha, Gunda Gardi opposite Aditya Pancholi, Ayub Khan, meanwhile, she was acting in South Indian languages and was a huge star in Tamil and Telugu cinema. Her first South Indian film was the Malayalam film, Indraprastham with Mammootty in the lead role, in 1997, she appeared in her only Kannada film till date, Simhada Mari opposite Shivarajkumar. Prior to her debut in Tamil films, Simran was associated with two projects which failed to materialize in 1996, Parthiepans Soththukatchi and Bharathirajas Siragugal Murivadhillai and her debut Telugu movie was Abbayi Gari Pelli in 1997 opposite Suman which opened to poor reviews. Following successful debut in Tamil and Telugu films, in 1998 she had her first release in K. S. Ravikumars Kondattam opposite Arjun Sarja and she also appeared in a supporting role with Akkineni Nagarjuna and Deepti Bhatnagar in Auto Driver. Both performed averagely at box office and she tasted her first success with Ajith Kumar in Aval Varuvala, a remake of 1997 Telugu film Pelli. Her role was received by the critics. She revealed that working on the film, she became “alert in her choice of films”
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Vivek (actor)
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Vivekh, better known as Vivek is an Indian film actor, comedian, television personality, playback singer and activist working in the Tamil film industry. Introduced in films by director K. Balachander, he has won three Filmfare Best Comedian Awards for his performances in Run, Saamy and Perazhagan, in 2009, Government of India awarded Vivekh with the Padma Shri award for his contribution to the arts. Sathyabama University has conferred actor Vivek with a doctorate for his contribution to the society through cinema. As a television personality, Vivek has hosted a number of events and has interviewed media personalities, notably A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, A. R. Rahman, and Rajinikanth. While working at the Secretariat in Chennai, Vivekh in his free-time participated at the Madras Humour Club where people would perform stand-up comedy and he helped pioneer the movement to expand and subsequently won the Best Entertainer Award several times during his pantomimes at the Club. Vivekh subsequently left Chennai and went on to obtain a degree in commerce from American College, Madurai and during semester breaks, he would return. Vivekh revealed that four years, Balachandar explained a situation and asked him to write a script for sixteen characters. He later understood that this was actually a test, and through his performance, while assisting with the script for Manathil Uruthi Vendum in 1987, Balachandar offered Vivek an acting role of Suhasinis brother in the film, which he decided to pursue. S. Ravikumars Putham Pudhu Payanam and Vikramans Naan Pesa Ninaipathellam and he then also made appearances in Rajinikanths big budget productions Uzhaippali and Veera, playing secondary cast roles. Vivek had to wait till 1996 to establish himself as a comedian who could help carry the film. He subsequently became amongst the most busy actors in 2000 and 2001, films including Kushi, Priyamanavale and Minnale became blockbusters, while his roles in Mani Ratnams Alaipayuthey, Mugavaree and Dumm Dumm Dumm all won critical acclaim for the actor. The rising success of Viveks films had meant that he was featured on film posters on an equivalent scale to the lead actor, in 2000, director K. Subash had planned a film starring Vivek in the leading role titled Enakkenna Korachal. Vivek worked on more commercially successful ventures in 2002 and 2003, receiving consecutive Filmfare Best Comedian Awards and his comedy track in Run won him multiple accolades, with a critic adding Viveks nods to current social events showed a stroke of brilliance. He played extended comedy roles in Vikrams Dhool and Priyadarshans Lesa Lesa, while winning further acclaim for his portrayal of a teacher in Saamy and a software engineer in Parthiban Kanavu. He then played a more serious role in S. Shankars coming-of-age tale Boys, portraying a mentor to the group of youngsters. In the latter film, the director had requested Vivek to write and appear in a role himself, a film which would feature Vivek in the leading role finally materialised in early 2004 and he completed a project titled Solli Addipean directed by newcomer Ramki. Despite completion, the film has been stuck since 2004 and as a result of a failure to find a distributor, in mid 2004, he suffered an injury during the production of a film and took a break from acting assignments for a period of six months. He returned by portraying a supporting role in Shankars Anniyan
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Moon Moon Sen
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Moon Moon Sen, also credited as Moonmoon Sen, is an Indian film actress, known for her works in Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi and Kannada films. She eventually starred in Bollywood films and she has appeared in 60 films and 40 television series. She has received Andhra Pradesh state Nandi Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1987, Moon Moon Sen was born into a Hindu family in Kolkata to popular Bengali actress Suchitra Sen and Dibanath Sen. Her father, of Ballygunge Place, was the son of one of the wealthiest businessmen of Kolkata and her great grandfather Dinanath Sen was the Diwan or a Minister of the Maharaja of Tripura. She was educated at Loreto Convent, Shillong and at Loreto House, Kolkata, she graduated from Somerville College and she received her masters in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. As a child, Sen learnt drawing from Jamini Roy, one of Indias greatest artists and she loves paintings and collecting antiques. In an interview in 2000, she said she taught at Ballygunge Govt High School for a year and then taught graphics at Chitrabani and she was also active in social work and even thought about adopting a baby, even before she was married. Sen taught English at a well known Boys school in Kolkata before joining films, Moon Moon Sen started her career in films and television after marriage and motherhood. She made her debut in Andar Baahar and her daring role in that film apparently created a storm of controversy. She had also starred in a suspense thriller 100 Days with Madhuri Dixit, after Zakhmi Dil she did not appear in films until 2003 when she starred in an unsuccessful thriller Kucch To Hai. She could not match success of her mother, shed acted in a Telugu movie Sirivennela directed by the legendary Telugu director K. Vishwanath. Before and after entering the industry, she appeared alone in some modelling assignments. She notably modelled for soap ads which were controversial in the 1980s. Apart from doing some television serials, she also did couple of Bengali tele-films, Sen said she would bare all even at 70. Age is not important, the attitude is, sophia is the ultimate glam girl who can manage to look beautiful in such a picture even now. But yes, India too has beautiful women like Rekha and Hema Malini who can carry such an out with aplomb. In fact, I wouldnt mind if the shoot is done aesthetically. She is now doing a few films at a time and she is also apparently writing a cookbook in Bengali, which is yet to be published
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Suniel Shetty
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Suniel Shetty is an Indian film actor, producer and entrepreneur predominantly active in Bollywood who has acted in more than 110 films. His major works have been action films, suneil Shettys debut film was Balwaan opposite the late Divya Bharti. The film was an average grosser and launched his career as an action hero. In 2014, he changed the spelling of his name from Sunil to Suniel for numerological reasons, Shetty was involved primarily in action films throughout the 1990s, playing the male protagonist in most of the movies he acted in during the decade. From early 2000, he appeared in multi-starrers in across genres. He also starred opposite Isha Koppikar in Arjun Rampals debut movie Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat, Shetty won the Filmfare Award for Best Villain in 2001 for Dhadkan. Shetty also produced such as Khel – No Ordinary Game, Rakht. He hosted Biggest Loser Jeetega on Sahara One, Suniel Shetty is captain of the Mumbai Heroes cricket team in the Celebrity cricket league. Suniel Shetty was born in a Tulu speaking ethnic Bunt family on 11 August 1961 in Mulki, Mangalore, Karnataka and he is married to Mana Shetty and has two children, actress Athiya Shetty and Ahan. Athiya made her debut opposite actor Aditya Pancholis son Sooraj Pancholi in Hero. Mana runs an NGO for under-privileged kids, Shetty has a Black Belt in Kickboxing. He owns clothing boutiques as well as specializing in Udupi cuisine
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Harris Jayaraj
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Harris Jayaraj is an Indian film composer from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He composes scores and soundtracks predominantly for Tamil films, while also composed for a few films in Telugu, Harris Jayaraj was brought up in Chennai, He was born into a middle class Tamil Christian family. He studied at Krishnaswamy Matric School, K. K. Nagar and his father, S. M. Jayakumar, was a noted film guitarist and an assistant to Malayalam music director Shyam and later became a noted musician and film composer. At age six, Harris began his training in carnatic music. His father wanted him to become a guitarist and made him learn classical guitar from Mr. A. Abdul Sattar, Harris scored the highest mark in Asia on his 4th grade exam of Trinity College of Music, London. He started his career as a guitarist in 1987 at age twelve. He started playing keyboard and developed interest over synthesizers and he worked under noted composers including Raj-Koti, A. R. Rahman, Mani Sharma, Karthik Raja, Vidyasagar. While working as a programmer under Rahman, he composed music for various television commercials including a Coca-Cola commercial featuring actor Vijay. In his early years, he admired music composers M. S. Viswanathan, percussionist Aruljothi Balagopal, A. R. Rahman, Harris debuted as a film composer with Gautham Menons Minnale. The album was received, particularly the song Vaseegara was exceptionally popular. He received the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Tamil for his work in Minnale, the following soundtrack albums 12B and Majunu met with high acclaim and praise. He also composed for the Hindi remake of Minnale titled Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein, most of the tunes from the Tamil version were retained in the Hindi version too, and only two fresh tunes were composed. He then worked in Lesa Lesa directed by Priyadarshan, the title track of Lesa Lesa was the first song in India to be released as a single prior to a film soundtrack album release. Harris made his debut in Telugu cinema with Vasu and he received the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Tamil, Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Music Director and ITFA Best Music Director Award for Kaakha Kaakha, starring Suriya and Jyothika. This film directed by Gautham Menon was a commercial success. In its Telugu remake Gharshana two new songs apart from the Tamil version were added to suit the taste of Telugu audience. The song Uyirin Uyire reused as Cheliya Cheliya in Telugu and Khwabon Khwabon in Hindi had effective use of words which later became a signature element in Harris songs. Harris once again paired up with director Jeeva on Ullam Ketkumae after 12B, the music was appreciated for its excellency and synergy with the atmosphere in and out of the movie
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B. Lenin
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Lenin is an editor, writer and director who has worked in Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi films. He is the son of A. Bhimsingh, a Tamil film maker, Lenin entered the film industry as an assistant editor and went on to work in numerous projects before becoming an independent editor. He made his debut as a full-fledged editor through J. Mahendrans Uthiripookkal in 1979, as of 2013, Lenin has won five National Film Awards including the awards for Best Direction and Best Editing. He was the chairman of the Film Federation of India of India in 2011, Lenin was born in a family consisting of eight children. His father A. Bhimsingh was a known director in Tamil. Lenin has a brother named B. Lenin started his career as an director of his father. He also had experience as a lab technician and sound engineering department as well, after several films as working as an assistant Lenin made his debut as an independent editor in 1979 through Uthiripookkal, a Tamil film directed by J. Mahendran. He made his debut in 1983 through Ethanai Konam Ethanai Paarvai and went on to direct four feature films. His short film Knock-out was critically acclaimed as it went on to win the Islamia critics Award for Best Short Film at the Cairo International Film Festival and it also won the National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film of a Director for Lenin. The jury noted, The director has given us an insight into the labyrinth of the human mind faced with a disaster situation. Three years later, he directed his second short film tilted Kutravali which won the Best Editing at the 43rd National Film Awards, in 2002, Lenin made Ooruku Nooruper. The film fetched him the Best Direction award apart from winning the Best Regional Film, the film dealt with capital punishment and was received with critical response. He has also directed a few TV serials including Solladi Sivasakthi, Lenin has held important positions such as the jury member of 57th National Film Awards and the chairman of Oscar selection committee in 2011. Lenin at the Internet Movie Database
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Romance film
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Romance films make the romantic love story or the search for strong and pure love and romance the main plot focus. Occasionally, romance lovers face obstacles such as finances, physical illness, various forms of discrimination, as in all quite strong, deep, and close romantic relationships, tensions of day-to-day life, temptations, and differences in compatibility enter into the plots of romantic films. In romantic television series, the development of romantic relationships may play out over many episodes. Historical romance - A romantic story with a period setting and this includes films such as Gone with the Wind, Doctor Zhivago and Titanic. Romantic drama usually revolves around an obstacle which prevents deep and true love between two people. Music is often employed to indicate the mood, creating an atmosphere of greater insulation for the couple. The conclusion of a romantic drama typically does not indicate whether a final union between the two main characters will occur. Chick flick is a term associated with romance films as many are targeted to a female audience. As such, the terms cannot be used interchangeably, films of this genre include Dirty Dancing, The Notebook, Dear John, A Walk to Remember, and Romeo + Juliet. Romantic comedies are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as true love is able to surmount most obstacles. Humour in such films tends to be of a verbal, low-key variety or situational, films within this genre include Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually, Moonstruck, As Good as It Gets, Somethings Gotta Give, It Happened One Night, When Harry Met Sally. Romantic fantasies describe fantasy stories using many of the elements and conventions of the romance genre, romantic action comedies are films that blend romantic comedy and action. Examples include Killers, Knight and Day, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, This Means War, romantic thriller is a genre of film which has a storyline combining elements of the romance film and the thriller genre. Some examples of romantic thriller films are The Adjustment Bureau, The Phantom of the Opera, The Tourist, The Bodyguard, Unfaithful, and Wicker Park
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Job interview
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A job interview is a one-on-one interview consisting of a conversation between a job applicant and a representative of an employer which is conducted to assess whether the applicant should be hired. Interviews are one of the most popularly used devices for employee selection, a job interview typically precedes the hiring decision. The interview is usually preceded by the evaluation of submitted résumés from interested candidates, next, after this screening, a small number of candidates for interviews is selected. Potential job interview opportunities also include networking events and career fairs, the job interview is considered one of the most useful tools for evaluating potential employees. It also demands significant resources from the employer, yet has been demonstrated to be unreliable in identifying the optimal person for the job. An interview also allows the candidate to assess the corporate culture, multiple rounds of job interviews and/or other candidate selection methods may be used where there are many candidates or the job is particularly challenging or desirable. Earlier rounds sometimes called screening interviews may involve fewer staff from the employers and will typically be much shorter, an increasingly common initial interview approach is the telephone interview. This is especially common when the candidates do not live near the employer and has the advantage of keeping costs low for both sides, since 2003, interviews have been held through video conferencing software, such as Skype. Once all candidates have been interviewed, the employer typically selects the most desirable candidate, researchers have attempted to identify which interview strategies or constructs can help interviewers choose the best candidate. Research suggests that interviews capture a variety of applicant attributes. Constructs can be classified into three categories, job-relevant content, interviewee performance, and job-irrelevant interviewer biases, job-relevant interview content Interview questions are generally designed to tap applicant attributes that are specifically relevant to the job for which the person is applying. The job-relevant applicant attributes that the questions purportedly assess are thought to be necessary for one to perform on the job. The job-relevant constructs that have been assessed in the interview can be classified into three categories, general traits, experiential factors, and core job elements, the first category refers to relatively stable applicant traits. The second category refers to job knowledge that the applicant has acquired over time, the third category refers to the knowledge, skills, and abilities associated with the job. These behaviors may not be related to the constructs the interview questions were designed to assess. Applicants without realizing it may engage in a number of behaviors that influence ratings of their performance, the applicant may have acquired these behaviors during training or from previous interview experience. These interviewee performance constructs can also be classified into three categories, social skills, interpersonal presentation, and personal/contextual factors. These factors are not relevant to whether the individual can do the job, thus
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Vaishnavi (Tamil actress)
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Vaishnavi was an Indian television actress. Vaishnavi appeared in the serials Anni, Muhurtham, and Malargal and she acted in many TV serials and also acted as Sherins friend in Whistle. She was also the jockey for the programme titled Kondattam for SUN TV. On 17 April 2006, Vaishnavi hanged herself in her home after a fight with actor Dev Anand, her married co-star in the Tamil serial Manaivi, on 19 April 2006, Anand was arrested in connection with Vaishnavis death. Vaishnavis parents and her sister had been to her grandfathers house to celebrate his birthday. Vaishnavi, who stayed alone at home, used this time, the reason for her suicide is not known. 2002 Baba - Chamundeeswaris Sister 2003 Whistle - Mayas friend 2003 Kadhal Sadugudu - Sureshs friend 2001 12B - Shakthis Sister 2001 Dheena - Lailas friend
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Bangalore
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Bangalore /bæŋɡəˈlɔːr/, officially known as Bengaluru, is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of about 8.42 million and a population of about 8.52 million, making it the third most populous city. It is located in southern India on the Deccan Plateau and its elevation is over 900 m above sea level, the highest of Indias major cities. In 1638, the Marāthās conquered and ruled Bangalore for almost 50 years, after which the Mughals captured and it was captured by the British after victory in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, who returned administrative control of the city to the Maharaja of Mysore. The old city developed in the dominions of the Maharaja of Mysore and was capital of the Princely State of Mysore. In 1809, the British shifted their cantonment to Bangalore, outside the old city, and a grew up around it. Following Indias independence in 1947, Bangalore became the capital of Mysore State, the two urban settlements of Bangalore – city and cantonment – which had developed as independent entities merged into a single urban centre in 1949. The existing Kannada name, Bengalūru, was declared the name of the city in 2006. Bangalore is sometimes referred to as the Silicon Valley of India because of its role as the leading information technology exporter. Indian technological organisations ISRO, Infosys, Wipro and HAL are headquartered in the city, a demographically diverse city, Bangalore is the second fastest-growing major metropolis in India. Numerous state-owned aerospace and defence organisations, such as Bharat Electronics, Hindustan Aeronautics, the city also houses the Kannada film industry. The name Bangalore represents a version of the Kannada language name. It is the name of a village near kodegehalli and was copied by Kempegowda to the city of Bangalore, Bangalore was built on a venue earlier called as Shivanasamudram in the 16th century. The earliest reference to the name Bengalūru was found in a ninth-century Western Ganga Dynasty stone inscription on a vīra gallu, in this inscription found in Begur, Bengalūrū is referred to as a place in which a battle was fought in 890 CE. It states that the place was part of the Ganga Kingdom until 1004 and was known as Bengaval-uru, an apocryphal story recounts that the 12th century Hoysala king Veera Ballala II, while on a hunting expedition, lost his way in the forest. Tired and hungry, he came across an old woman who served him boiled beans. The grateful king named the place benda-kaal-uru, which evolved into Bengalūru. On 11 December 2005, the Government of Karnataka announced that it had accepted a proposal by Jnanpith Award winner U. R. Ananthamurthy to rename Bangalore to Bengalūru, on 27 September 2006, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike passed a resolution to implement the proposed name change
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S. J. Surya
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S. J. Surya is an Indian film director, screenwriter, actor, music composer and producer who has worked in the Tamil, Telugu and Hindi film industries. Born in Sankarankovil, Tamil Nadu, Suryah did various works before joining film industry to become an actor but ended up assisting Vasanth, Surya made his directorial debut with Vaali in 1999 whose success catapulted him to stardom. His other notable films include Kushi, New, Anbe Aaruyire, in order to be financially self-dependent, he began working in hotels and as a steward, before receiving an offer to apprentice under K. Bhagyaraj. While working in the team of Ullaasam, the lead actor Ajith Kumar recognised Surya from their collaboration in Aasai. Ajith, impressed with the narration, subsequently helped approach S. S. Chakravarthy to produce the film, keerthi Reddy was announced to be the lead actress before she was replaced by Simran, while Surya also chose to introduce Jyothika in the film. A thriller film, it told the story of a deaf and mute brother setting his eyes on his brothers wife. The film opened to positive reviews in May 1999 and went on to become amongst the most profitable films of the year. The reviewer from Indolink. com labelled the film as a classic in its own right, the New Indian Express mentioned the film as outstanding while mentioning Surya does a good job and succeeds. The films commercial success meant that it provided a breakthrough for both Suryas and the actors careers. After watching the show of Vaali, producer A. M. Rathnam offered Surya an opportunity to make another film and thus Kushi. Telling the story of a pair of lovers with a college backdrop. The film opened to reviews from critics in May 2000. Rediff. com gave a positive verdict stating that the movie is a family entertainer, praising the directors story-telling. The Hindu featured the film as runner-up in their list of top Tamil films in 2000, the team then approached Pawan Kalyan to star in a Telugu version of the film and after a positive narration session, the actor prioritised the venture over two other films. Bhumika Chawla was added to the cast to play Jyothikas role, while a few changes were inserted to make it fit for the Telugu audiences. The film also titled as Kushi, opened to positive reviews, a film critic noted Surya has come up with another winner this time. There is no story in film, but it runs with a neat screenplay. Surya then made a version of the film, Khushi in Hindi, for producer Boney Kapoor, with Fardeen Khan
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Vaali (film)
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Vaali is a 1999 Tamil erotic thriller film written and directed by S. J. Suryah making his directorial debut and was produced by S. S. Chakravarthy under production company Nic Arts. The film stars Ajith Kumar in dual role and Simran in the lead with Jyothika, Vivek, Pandu and it tells the story of Deva and Shiva, two look-alike siblings with Deva being deaf and dumb. When Shiva marries his sweetheart Priya, Deva becomes obsessed and has a lust towards Priya, Surya who was assisting Vasanth in Aasai was approached by Ajith that he will do a film under his direction if he has a good script. Simran was selected as the actress after attempts to sign Keerthi Reddy. The soundtrack was composed by Deva and lyrics were written by Vairamuthu with songs like Oh Sona, the cinematography was handled by Jeeva while the editing was done by duo B. The film was released on 30 April 1999 to positive reviews from critics for direction of S. J. Suryah along with the performance of Ajith Kumar and Simran. The film became a success at box-office and became one of the successful films in the career of the lead actors. Deva and Shiva are the twins, Deva, the elder, is deaf and mute. But he is a genius, an expert at lip-reading and the head of an advertising company. Shiva loves and trusts his brother, Priya wants to marry only someone who is an ex-smoker, an ex-drunkard and ditched by a girl but still pining for her. Learning this, Shiva invents an old romance between him and Sona and finds his way into Priyas heart, Deva meanwhile chances upon Priya and lusts for her. His obsession continues even after his brother gets married to the girl of his dreams and he devises various means of getting close to Priya and keeping Shiva. Some of the methods Deva uses to woo Priya are masochistic and psychotic, Priya realises the not-so-honourable intentions Deva has towards her but Shiva refuses to believe her and has full faith in his brother. He even goes as far as to take Priya to a psychiatrist, to get away from it all, Shiva and Priya go on a long-delayed honeymoon. But Deva shows up there too, Shiva watches Deva kissing the photo of Priya and realises Priya was right all along. While Shiva is away, Priya has to care of Deva. Deva beats Shiva mercilessly, packs the unconscious Shiva in a gunny bag, Deva disguises himself as Shiva and tries to seduce Priya. Priya comes to know he is Deva and escapes from him before shooting him with her revolver, Deva falls in pool and when Shiva comes she narrates the whole incident to him
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Chennai 600028
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Chennai 600028 is a 2007 Tamil coming-of-age sports comedy film written and directed by Venkat Prabhu, in his directorial debut. The film was produced by S. P. B, charan along with J. K. Saravana, a Singapore-based award-winning producer. The films score and soundtrack were composed by Premji Amaran and Yuvan Shankar Raja, the film is based on street cricket played in India, focussing on various themes as friendship, love and rivalry in a suburban area. Following its theatrical release on 27 April 2007, it received acclaim and emerged a surprise sleeper hit. The films title is derived from the pincode for Mandaveli, a suburb of Chennai, the success of the film gained the relatively unknown actors — Jai, Shiva, Premji Amaren and Nithin Sathya, newcomers Vijayalakshmi, Vijay Vasanth and the director Venkat Prabhu popularity. Upon release, the film was dubbed into Telugu and released as Kodithe Kottalira, the film was also remade in Bengali as Le Chakka, Sinhalese as Super Six, and in Kannada as Bangalore 560023. A sequel for the film, Chennai 600028 II, Second Innings, has also since been released, the story revolves around two local cricket league teams that compete against each other in local matches and consider each other as sworn enemies. Royapuram Rockers are on top of the chain and keep bashing the Sharks year after year, the heroes of the movie are the Sharks team. The story begins when Raghus parents move from Royapuram to Visalakshi Thottam, Raghu is a member of the Royapuram Rockers Cricket team, and a college student living with his parents. He has no choice but to move with them although he detests the area and he is not very excited at the prospect of living in the same area as his sworn enemies. Raghu is faithful to his teammates, but they ignore him because of the distance, angered at being replaced by a new guy in the team in one of the matches, Raghu estranges himself from cricket and the Rockers. Raghu informs of Pazhanis sister Selvis love for Karthik to him and this incident initiates Raghus friendship with a few Sharks team players and eventually gets induced into the team. Raghu practices with the Sharks to play against the Rockers in the upcoming Radio Mirchi trophy, Pazhani, who soon comes to know of his sisters and Karthiks love affair is disappointed and then there is a tiff amongst the friends. The team splits up for a while, but Karthik apologizes to Pazhani, the team is united again and they start practicing for the trophy once again. Unfortunately, Karthik gets stabbed by his brothers enemies and is rendered unfit to play the match, Pazhani replaces Karthik as the captain and the team heads for the match. Under tight pressure and with a nail biting finish, the Sharks finally defeat the Rockers in the semi-finals of the tournament, in the finals they meet their nemesis, a bunch of school kids named Bad Boys-II who practice by bunking school to play cricket on the beach. The kids are good and the Sharks know it because they have lost to them once before. The movie ends with the team struggling to keep it up in the game
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Thamizh Padam
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Thamizh Padam is a 2010 Indian Tamil-language parody film written and directed by C. S. Amudhan, in his directorial debut. The film stars Shiva and Disha Pandey in the lead roles, the films plot parodies contemporary commercial films in Tamil cinema, mocking the stereotypical scenes. The film was distributed by Dhayanidhi Alagiris Cloud Nine Movies, and it was released on 29 January 2010 and won critical acclaim, the film was later remade to Telugu as Sudigadu. In the South Indian village of Cinemapatti, male infanticide is predominant, one such baby is headed for such a fate, until he speaks to his caretaker-grandmother and asks to be sent to Chennai on a goods train, where he plans to grow into a hero. The old woman complies, and takes the baby, named Shiva, to Chennai and raises him herself and he manages to defeat gangster Devaraj with a clever exchange of puns and a costumed associate. He spends his time hanging out, drinking and playing carrom with his gang of friends, composed of Nakul, Shiva runs into a headstrong girl named Priya whom he falls in love with. She reciprocates his feelings, and the two start a relationship, Shiva is then challenged by Priyas rich and powerful father Kodeeswaran, who refuses to give his daughter to a poor man. Shiva swears to become a billionaire, and promptly does so, Kodeeswaran accepts Shiva as a suitor, and fixes his engagement to Priya. During the ceremony, Shiva hears a passing comment that he not know his own father. Offended, he travels to Cinemapatti, accompanied by Bharath, to learn his roots, after encountering a host of Tamil-cinema stereotypes of several decades ago, he succeeds in uniting with his family when a woman leads him to his father, mother and sister. He finds them when they sing their family song, the ganglord who commandeered the slain criminals, a mysterious person simply called D, organises the kidnapping of Priya, and has Shiva beaten up. Shiva recovers, saves Prita by fighting off thugs using exaggerated stunts and she explains that she did it to increase the fame of her grandson, and a heartbroken Shiva is forced to arrest her. At the trial, Shiva accidentally kills an assassin who targets his grandmother and he is saved, however, when a man who had helped him in Cinemapatti earlier testifies that Shiva was a victim of circumstance. Both Shiva and D are pardoned, and Shiva who has promoted to DGP, unites happily with Priya, his family. Shiva as Shiva Disha Pandey as Priya M. S. S, the film was given a U certificate by the Indian Censor Board. The film had a wide expectation based on the marketing campaign that the producers undertook with popular film stills being parodied as a part of the promotion strategy. This film released along with Goa and it was a box office success, the Times of India rated it 2. The films soundtrack was composed by debutant Kannan and it was received well by the critics, Karuththamma – The opening scene shows Periyar Dasan as the father of a baby who is about to be killed
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Suriya
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Saravanan Sivakumar, known by his stage name Suriya, is an Indian film actor, producer and television presenter, best known for his work in Tamil cinema. After making his debut in Nerukku Ner, Suriya landed his role in Nandha. Suriya has also found success with science fiction films like 7aum Arivu and 24, as of 2010, he has won three Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and three Filmfare Awards South. In 2013, Suriya founded the production house 2D Entertainment, Suriya is the eldest son of Tamil film actor Sivakumar and his younger brother Karthi is also an actor. Suriya married co-star Jyothika in 2006, after being engaged for several years, in 2008, he began Agaram Foundation, which funds for various philanthropic activities. The year 2012 marked his debut as a presenter with the Star Vijay game show Neengalum Vellalam Oru Kodi. Suriya was born in 1975 to Tamil film actor Sivakumar and his wife Lakshmi as Saravanan and he attended Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan School and St. Bedes Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Chennai, and obtained his under graduate degree B. Com from Loyola College, Chennai. Suriya has two siblings, brother Karthi and sister Brindha. Suriya is married to Jyothika, with whom he worked with in as many as seven films, the couple, after being together for several years, got married on 11 September 2006. They have two children, a daughter named Diya and a son named Dev, before his career in films, Suriya worked at a garment exports factory for eight months. To avoid nepotism, he did not reveal himself to his boss as Sivakumars son and he was initially offered the lead role by Vasanth in his film Aasai, but he rejected the offer citing a lack of interest in an acting career. He later debuted in Vasanths own 1997 film Nerrukku Ner, produced by Mani Ratnam when he was 22 years of age, the stage name Suriya was bestowed to him by Ratnam to avoid a clash of names with established actor Saravanan. The name Suriya was frequently used for characters in Ratnams films, Vijay, who would also go on to become a leading contemporary actor in Kollywood, co-starred with him in the film. This was followed by a series of roles in commercially unsuccessful films in the late 1990s, in 2001, he starred in Siddiques comedy film Friends, also co-starring Vijay. His major break in acting came in the form of Nandha, playing the role of an ex-convict who is very attached to his mother, he received a Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actor. His next venture was Vikramans Unnai Ninaithu followed by Mounam Pesiyadhe directed by Ameer Sultan, in 2003, he starred in Gautham Menons Kaakha Kaakha, a film about the life of a police officer. The film opened to positive reviews with a critic from Rediff. com claiming that Surya as Anbu Selvan fits the role, the film became a Blockbuster at the box office. His portrayal of a happy-go-lucky village crook with a touch in Balas Pithamagan, along with Vikram, won him Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Tamil
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Savitha Reddy
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Savitha Reddy is a dubbing artist in the southern India film industry. She has provided dubbing for heroines in the Tamil and Telugu industries, Savitha Reddy, in Jeans lend her voice to Aishwarya Rais character which wasnt her debut. She also dubbed in Malayalam for Tamil-speaking characters that include Lakshmi Rai for Annan Thambi & Gauthami Nair for Diamond Necklace. An M. B. A. graduate who majored in advertising from Annamalai University, in Telugu, her first work was for Simran in Kalisundam Raa and later she went on to dub for her in all most all the films. She has dubbed for Aarthi Agarwal from her debut film Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, I got the Nandi award for this film, recalls Savitha. She lent voice for Trishas first Telugu film, Varsham, Richas in Nuvve Kavali and her major works are Thulladha Manamum Thullum, Priyamanavale, Panchathantiram, Kushi, Dhool, Chandramukhi, and Sillunu Oru Kaadhal. In the movie Deiva Thirumagal she lent her voice for Amala Paul whereas her daughter lent her voice for Sara Arjun and she dubbed for Jyothika Saravanan in the Telugu version of blockbuster movie Chandramukhi and for Simran & Jyothika Saravanan in 12B. She had also dubbed for actress Ninas character in Chitti serial, actress Sneha in her interview to Tamil magazine Kungumams Thozhi said that Savitha is among the top 5 women who she admires most. Savitha Reddy at the Internet Movie Database
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Thota Tharani
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Thota Tharani is an Indian film art director and production designer who has worked in Tamil cinema, Telugu cinema, Malayalam cinema and Bollywood. As of 2013, he has won two National Film Awards, two Filmfare Awards South and four Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and his work consists of paintings, murals, paper collages, wooden montages, and installations and so on. Thota Tharani has been involved in the art of set design since he was just twelve when he helped his father and his work was very much appreciated in films such as Nayagan, Indian the two films fetched him a National Film Award. His recent works include Dasavathaaram, Kanthaswamy and Leader and he has worked in more than 100 feature films as a production designer, including three foreign productions, Pondichéry, Dernier Comptoir Des Indes, Hanuman and Branchie. His expertise in magnificent and larger than life sets has been appreciated and awarded. His realistic sets for Nayagan are awe inspiring and the grandeur of the sets he created for Thiruda Thiruda, in addition to being an art director, Thota Tharani has worked as a Production designer and in the art department in various films. Thota Tharrani completed his Graduate Diploma in Mural Painting in 1971, additionally, he completed print making courses from the Royal College of Arts, London and New Delhi. Civilian honours 2001 – Padma Shri
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Sliding Doors
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Helen Quilley gets fired from her public relations job. As she leaves the building, she drops an earring in the lift. She rushes for her train on the London Underground and misses it, the plot then splits into two parallel universes, the other detailing what would have happened had she caught that train. In the timeline in which she boards the train, Helen sits alongside James on the Underground and she gets home in time to catch her boyfriend, Gerry, in bed with his American ex-girlfriend, Lydia. Helen dumps him and moves in with her friend Anna, James continues to serendipitously pop into Helens life, cheering her up and encouraging her to start her own public relations firm. She and James fall in love despite her reservations about beginning another relationship so soon after her breakup with Gerry. Eventually, Helen discovers that she is pregnant, believing it is James child, she goes to see him at his office. She is stunned to learn from James secretary that he is married, James finds her on a bridge and explains that he was married but is now separated and planning a divorce. He and his soon-to-be-ex-wife maintain the appearance of a marriage for the sake of his sick mother. After she and James declare their love, Helen walks out into the road and is hit by a van, in the timeline in which Helen misses the train, subsequent services are delayed, she exits the station and hails a taxi. A man tries to snatch her handbag and injures her, so she goes to hospital and she arrives home after Lydia has left and remains oblivious to Gerrys infidelity. Unable to find another PR job, she takes two jobs to pay the bills. Gerry continues to juggle the two women in his life, Lydia, wanting Gerry for herself, makes increasingly aggressive attempts to torment Helen and dropping clues of their affair to her. Helen suspects Gerry of infidelity, but later discovers that she is pregnant and she receives a phone call, allegedly for a job interview with an international PR firm. She tells Gerry the news, but does not manage to tell him of her pregnancy, Lydia calls Gerry to her apartment, apparently to break up. Thinking Helen is at her interview, Gerry goes to see Lydia, while at Lydias, Gerry answers the doorbell and sees Helen standing at the door. Helen is stunned to see Gerry, and Lydia drops the news of her own pregnancy to both, distraught, Helen runs off and falls down Lydias staircase. In both storylines, Helen is taken to hospital and loses her baby
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Jordan
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Jordan, officially The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is an Arab kingdom in Western Asia, on the East Bank of the Jordan River. Jordan is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the east and south, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north, Israel, Palestine and the Dead Sea to the west, Jordan is strategically located at the crossroads of Asia, Africa and Europe. The capital, Amman, is Jordans most populous city as well as the countrys economic, what is now Jordan has been inhabited by humans since the Paleolithic period. Three stable kingdoms emerged there at the end of the Bronze Age, Ammon, Moab, later rulers include the Nabataean Kingdom, the Roman Empire, and the Ottoman Empire. After the Great Arab Revolt against the Ottomans in 1916 during World War I, the Emirate of Transjordan was established in 1921 by the then Emir Abdullah I and became a British protectorate. In 1946, Jordan became an independent state known as The Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan. Jordan captured the West Bank, which it later lost in 1967, during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Jordan is a founding member of the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, and is one of two Arab states to have signed a peace treaty with Israel. The country is a monarchy, but the king holds wide executive and legislative powers. Jordan is a relatively-small, semi-arid, almost-landlocked country with a population numbering at 9.5 million, Sunni Islam, practiced by around 92% of the population, is the dominant religion in Jordan. It coexists with an indigenous Christian minority, Jordan is considered to be among the safest of Arab countries in the Middle East, and has avoided long-term terrorism and instability. The kingdom is also a refuge to thousands of Iraqi Christians fleeing the Islamic State, while Jordan continues to accept refugees, the recent large influx from Syria placed substantial strain on national resources and infrastructure. Jordan is classified as a country of high human development with a middle income economy. The Jordanian economy, one of the smallest economies in the region, is attractive to foreign investors based upon a skilled workforce, the country is a major tourist destination, and also attracts medical tourism due to its well developed health sector. Nonetheless, a lack of resources, large flow of refugees. Jordan is named after the Jordan River, where Jesus is said to have been baptized, the origin of the rivers name is debated, but the most common explanation is that it derives from the word yarad, found in Hebrew, Aramaic, and other Semitic languages. Others regard the name as having an Indo-Aryan origin, combining the words yor and don, another theory is that it is from the Arabic root word wrd, as in people coming to a major source of water. The name Jordan appears in an ancient Egyptian papyrus called Papyrus Anastasi I, the lands of modern-day Jordan were historically called Transjordan, meaning beyond the Jordan River. The name was Arabized into Al-Urdunn during the Muslim conquest of the Levant, during crusader rule, it was called Oultrejordain
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The Hindu
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The Hindu is an English-language Indian daily newspaper. Headquartered at Chennai, The Hindu was published weekly when it was launched in 1878 and it is the second most circulated English-language newspaper in India, with average qualifying sales of 1.45 million copies as of Jan−Jun 2016. The Hindu has its largest base of circulation in southern India, the newspaper and other publications in The Hindu Group are owned by a family-held company, Kasturi and Sons Ltd. In 2010, The newspaper employs over 1,600 workers, most of the revenue comes from advertising and subscription. The Hindu became, in 1995, the first Indian newspaper to offer an online edition, started in order to support the campaign of Sir T. About 80 copies of the issue were printed at Srinidhi Press, Georgetown on one rupee. Subramania Iyer became the first editor and Veera Raghavacharya, the first managing director of the newspaper, the paper initially printed from Srinidhi Press but later moved on Scottish Press, then, The Hindu Press, Mylapore, and finally to the National Press on Mount Road. Started as a newspaper, the paper became a tri-weekly in 1883. A single copy of the newspaper was priced at four annas, the offices moved to rented premises at 100 Mount Road on 3 December 1883. The newspaper started printing at its own press there, named The National Press, the Hindu was initially liberal in its outlook and is now considered left leaning. Its editorial stances have earned it the nickname, the Maha Vishnu of Mount Road, in between, there were more views than news. The partnership between Veeraraghavachariar and Subramania Iyer was dissolved in October 1898, Iyer quit the paper and Veeraraghavachariar became the sole owner and appointed C. However, The Hindus adventurousness began to decline in the 1900s and so did its circulation, Kasturi Ranga Iyengars ancestors had served the courts of Vijayanagar and Mahratta Tanjore. Since then the newspaper has been owned entirely by the members of the Kasturi Ranga Iyengar family, in the late 1980s, when its ownership passed into the hands of the familys younger members, a change in political leaning was observed. Worldpress. org lists The Hindu as an independent newspaper. Joint managing director N. Murali said in July 2003, It is true that our readers have been complaining that some of our reports are partial, but it also depends on reader beliefs. On 3 and 23 September 2003, the letters column carried responses from readers saying the editorial was biased. In 1987–88, The Hindus coverage of the Bofors arms deal scandal, the investigation was led by a part-time correspondent of The Hindu, Chitra Subramaniam, reporting from Geneva, and was supported by Ram in Chennai
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R. Madhavan
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Ranganathan Madhavan is an Indian actor, writer and film producer. Madhavan has received two Filmfare Awards, an award from the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards alongside recognition and nominations from other organisations and he has been described as one of the few actors in India who is able to achieve pan-Indian appeal, appearing in films from seven different languages. Madhavan began his career with television guest appearances, including a role on the Zee TV prime-time soap opera Banegi Apni Baat in 1996. After appearing in commercials and in roles, he later gained recognition in the Tamil film industry through Mani Ratnams successful romance film Alaipayuthey. Madhavan soon developed an image as a hero with notable roles in two of 2001s highest grossing Tamil films, Gautham Menons directorial debut Minnale and Madras Talkies Dumm Dumm Dumm. Madhavan was cast alongside Kamal Haasan in the 2003 drama Anbe Sivam, in 2004, he gave a critically acclaimed performance as the antagonist in the multi-starrer Aayutha Ezhuthu and the film secured him his first Filmfare Award for the intense portrayal of a rogue. He simultaneously worked on Tamil films, gaining acclaim for his portrayal of a vigilante in his home production Evano Oruvan and for the successful bilingual horror film. After appearing in further box office hits, Tanu Weds Manu and Vettai, returning after a three-year sabbatical in 2015, his comeback films, the romantic-comedy Tanu Weds Manu Returns and the sports drama Irudhi Suttru, both won critical and commercial acclaim. In addition to his career, Madhavan has worked as a writer on his films, hosted television programmes and has been a prominent celebrity endorser for brands. He has also worked as a producer, first making Evano Oruvan with Leukos Films. Madhavan is noted for his activities and promotes various causes such as environment, health. He is particularly vocal about the protection of animals and was awarded PETAs Person of the Year recognition in 2012, Madhavan was born on 1 June 1970 in Jamshedpur, Bihar, India, to a Tamil family. His father Ranganathan was a management executive in Tata Steel and his mother and his younger sister, Devika, is a software engineer settled in the United Kingdom. He had a Tamil-speaking upbringing in Bihar, in 1988, Madhavan gained a scholarship to represent India as a cultural ambassador from Rajaram College, Kolhapur and spent a year in Stettler, Alberta, Canada as part of an exchange programme. He returned to Kolhapur and completed his education, graduating with a degree in electronics, as a result of this opportunity, he received training with the British Army, the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force, which he had, at a point, considered joining. However he missed the age cut-off by six months and was unable to join the programme. During the period, he won the Indian Championship for Public Speaking and subsequently represented India at the Young Businessmen Conference in Tokyo. During his stint in Mumbai, he opted to create a portfolio, in early 1996, Madhavan worked on a sandalwood talc advertisement directed by Santosh Sivan, who later recommended him to Mani Ratnam to take part in a screen test for a role in Iruvar
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Rediff.com
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Rediff. com is an Indian news, information, entertainment and shopping web portal, founded in 1996 as Rediff On The NeT. It is headquartered in Mumbai, with offices in Bangalore, New Delhi, according to Alexa, Rediff. com is the No.24 Indian web portal. It has more than 300 employees, most of the visitors to Rediff. com are from India, while the rest come primarily from the US and China. In April 2001, Rediff. com acquired and began offering India Abroad, as of February 2011, it ranked 295 on Alexa. Rediff. com was the domain name registered in India in 1996. However according to the records of Network Solutions, the registrar of Rediff. com, in 2001, Rediff. com was alleged to be in violation of the Securities Act for filing materially false prospectus in relation to an IPO of its American depositary shares. In April 2016, the Company decided to delist from NASDAQ, citing the high cost of reporting requirements, rediffmail – Web based and app-based e-mail which has around 95 million registered usernames. Rediff Shopping – An online and app-based marketplace, headquartered in Mumbai, India, selling mobile phones, shopping, apparel and accessories, valentine gifts and home utility, Rediff News App – On 14 September 2012, Rediff launched its Android App for Rediff News. Rediff iShare – From 10 July 2007, Rediff users were able to upload their videos, music and pictures to the Rediff iShare multimedia platform
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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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Saregama
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Saregama India Ltd. is an Indian music label and content producer for Indian television. Its music catalogue consists of more than 117,000 songs in 14 languages and it has daily and weekly TV shows currently on air with television networks in India. Saregama’s head office is located in Mumbai, with offices in Kolkata, Delhi. It is listed on the NSE and BSE, the company was founded in 1901. It produced the first song recorded in India, and later moved into the production of cinema and television content, digital retailing, aggregation, radio programming, in 1901, operations started as the first overseas branch of Electrical & Musical Industries Limited, EMI London. The company was incorporated on 13 August 1946 with the name of ‘The Gramophone Co, the name of the Company was subsequently changed to ‘The Gramophone Co. of India Limited’ effective 1 April 1956. It was converted into a company on 28 October 1968. RPG Group took over the company in 1985 from EMI, the name of the company was then changed from The Gramophone Company of India Limited to ‘Saregama India Limited’ on November 3,2000. The name Saregama refers to the first four notes of the Indian musical scale, in 2005, the remaining EMI stake was sold off to the parent company. The Gramophone Company is better known as HMV in India, RPG Group has been using the brand under license from the former parent company, EMI. On 3 November 2000, RPG Group changed the name to Saregama India Limited. The Recording Studio and the entire Dum Dum establishment of Saregama India Limited was built in 1928 and it is one of the oldest studios in Southeast Asia. Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore had recorded his songs and poems in his own voice at this studio, rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam’s voice was also recorded here. Artistes who have recorded at this studio include K. C. Dey, Hemanta Mukherjee, Sandhya Mukherjee, Manna Dey, Suchitra Mitra, Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Pandit Ravi Shankar, and Ustad Bismillah Khan. Film director Satyajit Ray preferred to record his musical scores for his films at Dum Dum studio, television shows such as Dadagiri, Didi No. 1, Dance Bangla Dance and Saregamapa Lil Champs have been shot at the studio, in March 2015, Saregama relaunched its online music store, consisting of more than 117,000 downloadable songs in 15 languages in lossless WAV format. Saregama has also established relationships with iTunes, OTT services TV channels, Saregama India launched a subscription based mobile application in September 2015 which features its catalogue of Indian classical music. The app, named Saregama Classical has more than 10,000 musical works of over 400 classical music artistes in three major subgenres of Indian Classical music, i. e. Hindustani, Carnatic and Fusion and it also has a curated list of 50 artiste-based stations
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Majunu
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Majunu is a 2001 Tamil romantic thriller film directed by Ravichandran and produced by Sunanda Murali Manohar. The film features Prashanth and Rinke Khanna in the roles with Sonu Sood, Raghuvaran, Rati Agnihotri. The films score and soundtrack were composed by Harris Jayaraj, whilst Priyan handled the cinematography, the film was distributed by London-based Tamil language telechannel – Cee I TV. The film was released on 14 December 2001 and performed well at the box office, Vasanth is a son of a wealthy MP Gajapathy who hates love and against love marriage. Vasanth lives a fun-filled enjoyable life until he meets a girl while rushing to save a baby who is about to fall in a track while the girl also rushed for the same reason. He develops an attraction for that girl and again meets her in his college, meanwhile, a trap is set for MP Gajapathy to kill him by explosion in a public gathering. Heena who is on a trip to Chennai searches for some books in a book shop. The shop-keeper laughs on her fun, but the sound is actually the sound of watch alarm which she kept it inside. Heena comes again to the shop where the meeting is conducted. As planned by the terrorists the bomb explodes but Gajapathy escapes with wounds, the shop-keeper immediately points Heena to be the terrorist keeping in mind about the bomb which she mentioned during her last visit. Also circumstantial evidences are against her, hence police and Gajapathy men are in search of her but Heena escapes from them. Meanwhile, Vasanth dashes one of the terrorist accidentally and finds bombs in his bags and he immediately chases him but the terrorist kills himself by self poisoning when caught by police. Heena hides in a house which happened to be house of Vasanth, Vasanth finds her from the backyard and takes her to his room. Heena resists the charge against her and claims she is innocent, Vasanth assures that he believes her and it is his duty to send her back to Kolkata. Vasanth helps her by keeping her in his room without the knowledge of his parents, both develop an attraction for each other but Vasanth is keen to send her home. Heena finds out that he is the son of the man whom she is charged for killing attempt, Vasanth takes her to railway station and sends her to her native. Vasanth lies to his parents and leaves for Kolkata along with his friend to find his love with the hope of finding her knowing her name alone and he searches her in many colleges and finally finds her. She is happy to see again and takes him to his home, actually her brother is the mastermind in the plot for killing Gajapathy which is not known by his family
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Vasu (film)
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Vasu is a 2002 Telugu film produced by K. S. Rama Rao on Creative Commercials banner, written and directed by A. Karunakaran. Starring Venkatesh, Bhoomika Chawla played lead roles and soundtrack was scored by Harris Jayaraj, the film recorded as Hit at box-office, it was Venkateshs 50th film, has garnered the state Nandi Award for Akkineni Award for Best Home-viewing Feature Film. The movie was dubbed in Tamil as Vetri, the film was emerged as a cult classic. After graduation, Vasu runs a canteen, music school. His father is an IPS officer and he wants Vasu to appear for Civil Services examinations to take up IPS career, but Vasu has different plans for his future. He dreams of becoming a musician and a singer, one fine day a young IPS officer comes to Vasus places to seek the blessings of Vasus father. He admits that Vasus father is the source of inspiration for him to become an IPS officer, Vasus father dejected that his son does not heed his advice of giving civils exams, feels bad about his son. Meanwhile, Vasu spots a beautiful girl Divya on the street and he plays every possible trick to woo her. But all his plans backfire on him and make himself a fool in the eyes of Divya, Vasu father spots Vasu bashing the guys up in the streets and asks him to leave the house and stay outside. Divya comes down to Vasus place along with her luggage when Vasu was about to leave the house, later on, Vasu comes to know that Divya is the daughter of Vasus fathers childhood friend. Vasu sees this as an opportunity to get close to Divya and he returns to his home and promises that he wont touch music again and concentrates only on his studies. But Vasu secretly pursues his music ambitions, Vasu passes the preliminary auditions of Music Talent search conducted by Sony Music Company. When Vasus father spots the letter from Sony, he argues with his son and asks him to either be there in house, Divya falls in love with Vasu and vice versa. But they never express their feelings each other. Vasus sister loves the brother of Divya and its okayed by the parents of both parties and it is also revealed that Divya already Okayed a guy called Manohar by looking at his photograph. Now its time for the real test, Vasu is on the stage to prove himself as a singer and musician in the final auditions of Sony Talent Search. Divya is getting married to Manohar on the same day, Vasus sister is also getting married to Divyas brother. Vasu wins the prize at the audition and sits in a park mourning about his Love Failure, then his Father and sister come and meet him and his father apologizes about his thinking on Vasus career
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Minnale
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Minnale is a 2001 Tamil romantic comedy film written and directed by Gautham Menon. The film featured Madhavan, Abbas and Reemma Sen in the lead, with Vivek, the films soundtrack was composed by newcomer Harris Jayaraj, which became very successful prior to release, helping the film at the box office. Marketed as a Valentines Day release, Minnale opened to reviews from critics. This movie was dubbed into Telugu as Cheli, the movie opens in an engineering college in Ooty with a narration of the characters by Rajesh Shivkumar. Rajiv Samuel is an engineering student and is one of the top students in the college. A mutual problem between the two led by both Rajiv and Rajesh puts both of them at loggerheads and they pull pranks on each other to get the other in trouble. It culminates into a fist fight but is broken up by one of their Teacher. In the fight, Rajesh punches Rajiv in the face, which is against the rule, Rajiv goes abroad for job, while Rajesh stays back in India saying that he does not want to leave his motherland. A few years later, Rajesh becomes responsible and settles in an IT job that involves teaching software classes for newcomers and interns. Rajesh lives with his librarian grandfather Subrahmanyam aka Subbuni, who means the world to him, Rajesh, on a trip to a friend’s wedding in Bangalore, comes across Reena and is smitten by her beauty but does not get to meet her. To his pleasant surprise, he sees her again in Chennai, a friend of Rajesh, Chockalingam, spots Reena’s friend Vasuki in a market one day and recognizes her from the wedding pictures. They both extract information about Reenas whereabouts from Vasuki, posing as her family friend, goaded by his Subbuni and his friends, Rajesh decides to enter Reena’s life pretending to be Rajiv. Within a few days of hanging out with other, both fall in love with each other. Before Rajesh could actually tell Reena the truth, the real Rajiv comes to Chennai, Reena is shocked to learn that the person she loves is an imposter. Rajesh comes clean with Reena and pleads to be forgiven, but Reena is adamant that she not want to talk to Rajesh anymore. Chockalingam takes his friends and Rajesh to meet Rajiv to force him to break up the engagement with Reena and they are surprised when they learn that Rajiv is actually Rajiv Samuel, Rajeshs foe from his college days. Rajiv becomes enraged when he learns the truth, but believes that Reena was duped, after repeated attempts to talk to Reena fail and when Rajiv and Reena’s wedding is fixed, Rajesh sadly accepts the bitter truth. Heartbroken and unable to live in the city anymore, he plans to leave, Reena finally realizes that even though she was duped by Rajesh, she had indeed fallen in love with him
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KK (singer)
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Krishnakumar Kunnath, popularly known as KK, K. K. or Kay Kay, On 22 January 2008, KK released his second album Humsafar after a gap of eight years. The songs Aasman Ke, Dekho Na, Yeh Kahan Mil Gaye Hum, besides, KK had also sung an English Rock Ballad Cineraria. The title track, Humsafar is a mix of English and Hindi lyrics, the album Humsafar has 10 songs, out of which eight have been composed by KK. The other two songs were taken from his previous album Pal, KK has also sung many television serial songs like Just Mohabbat, Shaka Laka Boom Boom, Kuch Jhuki Si Palkein, Kavyanjali, Just Dance. He has also sung the song for Star Parivaar Awards 2010 with Shreya Ghoshal. He was invited as member for a talent hunt show Fame Gurukul. KK also has sung a song named Tanha Chala for famous Pakistani TV show THE GHOST which was aired on Hum TV in 2008, the song was composed by Farrukh Abid & Shoiab Farrukh & Momina Duraid penned the lyrics. KK participated in the latest musical venture of MTV India Coke Studio, there he sang one qawwali Chadta Suraj along with Sabri Brothers and a recomposed version of his exquisite track Tu Aashiqui Hai from movie Jhankaar Beats. He also came in Surili Baat in Aaj Tak Chanel and he has also performed in Sony Mix TV Show and MTV Unplugged Season 3, aired on MTV11 January 2014. KK was in Dubai for his concert Salaam Dubai 2014in April. He also did recent concerts in Goa, Dubai & Chennai. Hong kong, after 10 years, He appeared in a Singing reality show as a judge and guest jury member. On 13 September 2015, KK came in Baaton Baaton Mein on Sony Mix, in 2013, KK sang for an international album, Rise Up - Colors of Peace, which consists of songs written by Turkish poet Fetullah Gulen and sung by artists from 12 countries. KK recorded a song named Rose of My Heart for the album, in 2010, the Indi Band BANDISH produced their second self-titled album. The album has a high energy track in the album Tere Bin — a rock ballad sung by KK, drummer Chris Powell said Even though he is a playback singer, he is a true rockstar in his heart. KK has many upcoming songs in his kit such as Musafir Hoon Main composed by Mithoon & written by Amitabh Verma & Mithoon for the film Shab He will soon be recording for Aksar 2 with Mithoon. Waqt Gaya Tham Afreen Afreen O Meri Jaan KK at the Internet Movie Database KK on Twitter
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Sukhwinder Singh
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Sukhwinder Singh is an Indian Bollywood playback singer. Singh is famous for singing Chaiyya Chaiyya for which he won the Best Male Playback Award at the 1999 Filmfare Awards. The song, from Mani Ratnams 1998 film Dil Se. was composed by A. R. Rahman, written by Gulzar, and sung in duet with Sapna Awasthi. It was also featured in the musical Bombay Dreams and, in remixed arrangements, in the titles and credits segments of Spike Lees 2006 film and his rendition for the 2014 released film Haider fetched him the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer. Singh originally comes from Amritsar, Punjab. He first performed on stage at the age of 8, singing the Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar number Sa re ga ma pa, pa, pa, ga ma re, ga re mere sang mere saajna, from the 1970 movie Abhinetri. He also released a Punjabi album called Munda Southhall Da with T. Singh joined Laxmikant-Pyarelal’s troupe and quickly became a music arranger, at this time he did a film called Rakshakudu. Singh got his break in the movie Karma, in which he sang a few lines, then he did a Madhuri Dixit film called Khilaaf, in which he sang the hit song Aa ja Sanam. But the singer realised that something was missing in his voice, took a sabbatical and left Mumbai to tour England and America to see, hear, after this broadening of his musical horizons, he returned to Mumbai to kick-start his musical career. His first effort in Hindi films, Aaja Sanam, went largely unnoticed, then for Dil Se. A. R. Rahman used Sukhwinder for Chaiyya Chaiyya. The other films that followed – including Taal, Biwi No,1,1947 Earth, Daag, Jaanwar, Dillagi, Moksha, Thakshak, Tere Naam, Apna Sapna Money Money, Shadi Se Pehle, Shabd, Chak de. India, Om Shanti Om and Black and White- that have him a household name. He has been received for providing playback singing for Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan in a total of 7 songs. Of these, Chaiyya Chaiyya from Dil Se, dard-E-Disco from Om Shanti Om, Chak De India from Chak De. India, Haule Haule from Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, Marjaani from Billu, in June 2014, he participated in the 7th season of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. It also won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture and he has been awarded the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer at the 62nd National Film Awards for his rendition in the 2014 film Haider composed by Vishal Bhardwaj. India - Chak De India Om Shanti Om - Dard-e-Disco Tashan - Dance Maar, naach Ghilli -Arjunaru Villu Madhoshi Meenaxi, A Tale of Three Cities - Chinnamma Chilakkamma Khakee Sssshhh. - Ishq da mara hai Tere Naam - Lagaan Lagi Calcutta Mail Supari Chalte Chalte - Layi Ve Na Gayee Kaise Kahoon Ke
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Karthik (singer)
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Karthik is an Indian playback singer. Karthik started his career as a backing vocalist and has since been working as a playback singer. He has sung in languages including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada. Karthik is known for his versatility in the industry gave him opportunity to sing a variety of songs. He was born into a Tamil family, Karthik developed an interest in music, early in his life. He is a trained Carnatic music vocalist and has been training since his school days and he was part of a college band and regularly participated in IIT Madras Fest Saarang. An ardent fan of A. R. Rahman, Karthiks dream was to meet Rahman, playback singer Srinivas, who collaborated often with Rahman was Karthiks close friends cousin. Srinivas encouraged Karthik to look at singing as a career, which prompted Karthik to resume his singing lessons, One year later, Srinivas recommended Karthiks name to Rahman, who needed fresh voices for backing vocalists for a song from Pukar. Karthik eventually got the opportunity and recorded for the song, having spent over a year being a backing vocalist, Karthik got his break during the re-recording of One 2 Ka 4. For the background score, A. R. Rahman wanted a high-pitched alap, soon after, Rahman asked him to sing the song Nendhukittaen from the film Star. Karthik has sung a number of songs for popular music directors, including A. R. Rahman, Ilaiyaraaja, Hamsalekha, Vidyasagar, Devi Sri Prasad, Harris Jeyaraj. Karthik has sung songs in several languages – Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, ennaku Oru Girlfriend from the Tamil film Boys was one of the biggest hits of the year as was Oru Maalai. His songs for Telugu films for Kotha Bangaru Lokam, Happy Days, Badhulu Tochanai, Manase Guvvai, Oh Oh My Friend, Yedhuta nlichindhi choodu, Meghama, Yevvaro are very popular. His other popular songs include Ava Enna from the Vaaranam Aayiram, in 2010, he sang a track Behene De, from Hindi film Raavan, which is widely considered as the biggest song in his career. The track, which topped charts for many continuous weeks. Karthik also performed the Tamil and Telugu versions of the song, titled Usure Poghudhey. He also sang Adhigora Choodu in the movie Mirapakaay and he has composed music for a multi lingual Coca Cola Advertisement and Prince Jewellery advertisements. He is the director of Vasanthabalans period film Aravaan and Srinivas Ragas Okkadine starring Nara Rohit
