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Jayendra Panchapakesan
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Jayendra Panchapakesan is an Indian writer and advertisement maker, especially for the film industry. With Senthil Kumar, he co-founded Real Image Media Technologies and Qube Cinema and he is also accredited with the invention of QJam, a digital jukebox system. In 1986, Jayendra teamed up with P. C, sreeram to start JS Films, in Chennai
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Umarji Anuradha
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Umarji Anuradha is an Indian writer known for her works in Telugu cinema and journalism. She wrote continuously on The Legends of Indian Cinema for Sitara Film Weekly Magazine and she also wrote number of dramas for All India Radio and television channels, for daily serials like Pelli Chesukundamra, for E TV. Vaisaali Serial for Zee Telugu and Gharshna serial for E TV, Umarji Anuradha was born to a Marathi-speaking Madhva family. While continuing her studies, she continued her habit of drama writing from school days to post-graduation. She was born to G. Nagarajan and Vemaganti Susheela and grew up for time with Kuppu Rao Nagubai and Kuppu Rao Srinivasa Rao. She was born in the midst of a well-educated, sensible family with a literary background and her mother Vemaganti Suseela was also a writer and an Artist of All India Radio Madras. She served as English teacher in the Kendriya Vidyalaya a Central School, Government of India and she has an excellent track record of writing talent and literary taste. Later he joined with film director Padma Shri P. Bharathi Raja, Anuradha was recognized as the first woman staff reporter for Eenadu News Daily. She worked as an in-charge for the Eenadu Tamil Nadu edition, later, since her husband Gautham Kashyap Sridhar Kumar was absorbed as script writer in Ramoji Film City, for Ushakiran Movies Films Division, she was transferred to Hyderabad. Umarji Anuradha wrote many articles, columns, features on various personalities for Eenadu Cinema Page. Later she was promoted as desk in charge for Maharashtra Desk and she went on a special assignment to establish Mumbai Eenadu. She supervised the starting ceremony of Eenadu Mumbai Edition and she worked for Eenadu as Staff Reporter, as Cinema Desk In-Charge, and as Maharashtra Desk in charge. She was also Central desk in-charge for the pages of all district editions of Eenadu daily news paper. Umarji Anuradha debuted with writing a script for Ye Maaya Chesave directed by Gautham Menon, the dialogues in the movie were so phenomenally popular that the name of this movie was referred to very often with her original name. She has written four T. V. serials, then she was introduced to the film field by Manjula Ghattamaneni, the daughter of famous Telugu hero Ghattamaneni Krishna and sister of famous Telugu hero Mahesh Babu. The meaning of this super hit feature film Ye Maaya Chesave, is What magic have you done and it is a 2010 Telugu-language romantic drama film story written by Gautham Menon, dialogues by Umarji Anuradha and directed by Gautham Menon. The film stars Naga Chaitanya and Samantha Ruth Prabhu in the lead roles and it was produced by Manjula Ghattamaneni under the banner Indira Productions. Other credits include cinematography by Manoj Paramahamsa, dialogues by Umarji Anuradha, the film was simultaneously shot in Telugu as Ye Maaya Chesave and Tamil as Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa with a different cast and climax
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Siddharth (actor)
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Siddharth is an Indian film actor who has appeared in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, and Malayalam language films. Apart from acting, he has also involved in films as a screenplay writer, producer. He has been described as one of the few actors in India who is able to achieve pan-Indian appeal. After completing his business management studies, Siddharth chose to work in making and assisted Mani Ratnam. In 2011, he returned to Tamil films after a sabbatical, Siddharth was born to a Tamil-speaking family in Chennai, India. He began his education at DAV Boys Senior Secondary School, Chennai and then studied at Sardar Patel Vidyalaya and he subsequently graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Kirori Mal College, New Delhi. Siddharth participated extensively in extra-curricular activities during college, serving as the president of the debating society. Siddharths first tryst with media came through dubbing for the Banish mosquito repellent ad in eight different languages in 1988, as instructed by his fathers close friend, ad director Jayendra. He then briefly pursued amateur theatre during his time in Delhi through live performances with the theatre group Players, while also honing his writing. After finishing his education, he apprenticed with ad film maker Jayendra, sreeram, who both helped him join as an assistant director for Mani Ratnams Kannathil Muthamittal. He worked on the film throughout 2001, also making an appearance as a passenger on a bus. The script writer of film, Sujatha, was insistent that Siddharth audition for Shankars ongoing project Boys. After consulting with Mani Ratnam, Siddharth met Shankar for an audition and was signed on the day to play the lead role of Munna. The film opened to mixed reviews but became a success at the box office. He also was insistent that he dubbed for himself and learned the Telugu language during the making of the film, the film opened in January 2005 to unanimously positive reviews, with critics dubbing it a must see. Similarly Sify. com added the surprise packet is Siddharth as the hyperactive, young man, the film consequently went on to become an all-time blockbuster in the Telugu film industry, and Siddharth became a much sought after actor in Telugu films. The film also dominated award ceremonies the following year, with his performance winning him his first Filmfare Best Telugu Actor award for his portrayal of Santhosh. He then wrote the story and worked on the screenplay for his next release, described as a sophisticated comedy film for multiplex crowds, it opened to mixed reviews with Siddharths contribution described as a redeeming factor, but failed at the box office
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Priya Anand
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Priya Anand is an Indian film actress and model who appears in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi and Kannada films. After pursuing higher studies in the US, she began a career in modelling in 2008 before making her acting début in the Tamil film Vaamanan and then her Telugu début in Leader a year later. She made her Bollywood début in 2012 with a role in English Vinglish and subsequently appeared in the films Fukrey as Priya. Priya was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu as the child to a Tamil mother Radha. Because of her mixed regional background, she was brought up in both her parents hometowns, Chennai and Hyderabad, Telangana, becoming fluent in Tamil and Telugu, besides her mother tongues, Priya is proficient in English, Bengali, Hindi, Marathi and Spanish languages as well. She moved to the US, where she pursued her higher studies, keeping her later career in mind, she studied Communications and Journalism at SUNY Albany. After completing her education, she returned to India in 2008 and since, however, she then ventured into modelling, appearing in various television advertisements like Nutrine Maha Lacto, Prince Jewellery and Cadbury Dairy Milk. She was signed for the project in late 2008 to portray Divya, a simple girl next-door, however the film got a lukewarm reception and fared only averagely at the Chennai box office. Priya enacted the character of one of the student roles, a Malayali Christian named Shiney George, the film opened to mixed reviews and proved to be commercially unsuccessful. She next starred in her first Telugu film, AVM Productions Sekhar Kammula directed political drama Leader, alongside newcomers Rana Daggubati and Richa Gangopadhyay. She recalls that an assistant director of Kammula had found her on Facebook and invited her and how she had to audition thrice for the film to prove herself and eventually got the offer. She played Ratna Prabha, a channel reporter and friend to a young man. The Dil Raju-produced family entertainer Rama Rama Krishna Krishna was her last 2010 release and she next starred in 180, a bilingual Tamil-Telugu project by ad filmmaker Jayendra, which was her only release in 2011. In the second half of 2011, she filmed for her début Hindi film English Vinglish, produced by R Balki, in which she had shared screen with Sridevi, who Priya admires and considers her idol. Priya said, I signed this film just to be up and close to an artist who has influenced me, Im doing this movie as her fan and Im fortunate enough to play a very important part in her journey in the film. She is currently filming simultaneously for three Tamil films, notably featuring the sons of prominent 1980s Tamil actors in the lead roles, arima Nambi features Vikram Prabhu, Irumbu Kuthirai stars Atharvaa and Vai Raja Vai features her opposite Gautham Karthik in the lead role. She has also signed up to play the female lead opposite Vimal in Kannans next film, in which she will play Annapoorni. On 20 June 2011, Anand was chosen as the ambassador for the Save the Children campaign for both Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, Priya Anand at the Internet Movie Database Priya Anand on Twitter
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Nithya Menen
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Nithya Menen is an Indian film actress and playback singer from Bangalore, Karnataka. She has acted in Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, and Tamil and she won 2 Filmfare Awards for the Telugu films Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde and Malli Malli Idi Rani Roju. Nithya Menen was born in Bangalore, Karnataka and studied journalism at the Manipal University and she once said in an interview that she never wished to become an actress but a journalist, as she was an idealist, but felt journalism was not what it used to be. She then decided to become a filmmaker as she could express her ideas better through films, during the educational entrance examination, she met B. V. Nandini Reddy, who brainwashed and convinced her to take up acting. Nandini Reddy would later turn director and sign Nithya for the female role in her first project. Menen appeared first on screen as a child artist when she was ten in the Indian English language film, The Monkey Who Knew Too Much, playing the younger sister to Tabus character. In 2006, she started her career as a lead actor with the Kannada film 7 O Clock directed by Kannadas top cinematographer Santosh Rai Pataje. The 2008 off-beat film Aakasha Gopuram, directed by National Film Award-winning director K. P. Kumaran, marked her Malayalam debut, in which she was paired with Mohanlal. She was in the midst of her 12th class exams when she was offered the role, after Mohanlal had spotted her on the front cover of a tourism magazine and she next made a come back into Kannada films with the super hit film Josh. In 2011, her first release was Nandini Reddys romantic comedy Ala Modalaindi and she eventually won the Nandi Award for Best Actress for her performance and received a nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Actress at the 59th Filmfare Awards South. Further more, she sang two songs for the soundtrack album of the film, tuned by Kalyani Malik. Nandini Reddy, later, went on to describe Nithya as the discovery of the decade, following Ala Modalaindi, she starred in Santosh Sivans historical fiction Urumi as part of an ensemble cast. Nithya quoted that much of her character was based on Santoshs perception of who I am, with Sivan stating that he had written that role for her and that only she could play it. She described the character as bubbly, full of life, nosey, wide-eyed and innocent in life, later the year, she was seen in Sibi Malayils Violin in Malayalam and the Gautham Menon-produced Veppam in Tamil. For the Kannada film Aidondla Aidu she had sung and also choreographed one of the songs, in 2013, she starred in three Telugu films, Okkadine, Jabardasth and Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde and one Kannada movie Mynaa. In 2014, she made a cameo in the Malayalam movie Bangalore Days and she did a minor role in the film S/O Satyamurthy, directed by Trivikram. She appeared opposite Dulquer Salmaan in two films in 2015,100 Days of Love, a romantic Malayalam film and OK Kanmani, bilingual film directed by Mani Ratnam. Dulquer and Nithyas on-screen chemistry was praised in the reviews of both films. For OK Kanmani, she received her first Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Actress nomination and her upcoming release is K. S. Ravikumars bilingual project titled Kotigobba 2
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Sharreth
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Sujith Vasudevan I, better known by his stage name Sharreth, is a music director and singer. He predominantly composes film scores and songs for Malayalam films, but has gone on to compose for Tamil, Telugu and he won the Filmfare Award for the best music director in 2008. He won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Music Director in 2011 for the film Ivan Megharoopan and he was also the first recipient of the Kerala State Film Award for Best Classical Music Singer for his song Bhavayami in the film Meghatheertham. He was one of the permanent judges of Idea Star Singer till the end of Season 5, from 26 September 2011, he has become a judge along with Bhavagayakan P. Jayachandran on the Amrita TV musical reality show Super Star – the Ultimate. From May 2012, he has become a judge along with Ouseppachan, from February 2013, he has become a judge along with K. S. Chithra, Sreenivas and Sujatha on the Mazhavil manorama Indian Voice season 2 and Indian Voice Juinor. His memoir titled Aathmaraagam was published by Litmus Publications in 2014, now he is the permanent judge of Amrita TV musical reality show Superstar. Born as Sujith Vasudevann to Vasudevan and Indiradevi in Kollam, Kerala, India and he made his debut as a film composer in 1990 through the Malayalam language film Kshanakkathu. Prior to debuting as a composer, Sharreth had a presence as a playback singer for films. His first song was Dum dum dum, a duet with K. S. Chithra for the Malayalam film Onningu Vannengil
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Balasubramaniem
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Balasubramaniem is a well-known cinematographer from Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu who completed schooling and college in Thirupattur. Sreeram for nearly 5 years, he worked in award-winning films such as Thevar Magan, Thiruda Thiruda and he is noticed for the cinematography in his debut film, Iraniyan, a historical film set in the Pre-Independence era. Later, his work in director Balas award-winning film Pithamagan earned him high praise, noted for his masterful lighting techniques, he won accolades and fame for the flamboyant visuals in the recent film 180. He was born in Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, where he did his early schooling and he later moved to Thirupattur, near Karaikudi, where he completed his schooling and did his college. He studied B. Sc. Physics in APSA college, Trippattur and he is married to Television newsreader E. Mala. He has two sons, namely - Kavin and Karun, balasubramaniem started his career by assisting noted cinematographer P. C. Sreeram for nearly 5 years, in award-winning films like Thevar Magan, Thiruda Thiruda and he did many films afterwards the prominent ones being Pithamagan, M Kumaran S/O Mahalakshmi, Thambi, Azhagiya Thamizh Magan and 180. Balasubramaniam at the Internet Movie Database K. Balasubramaniam at the Internet Movie Database Official Website
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SPI Cinemas
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SPI Cinemas is an Indian multiplex chain and film production company owned by the SPI Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The company began operating multiplexes in Chennai, and eventually expanded to several states in India, originally named Sathyam Cinemas after its first multiplex, the company was later renamed SPI Cinemas as it introduced several other multiplexes. SPI is often lauded for its quality and inexpensive pricing. Its theatres, primarily Sathyam Cinemas, are used by filmmakers for film premieres. Popcorn served at SPI Cinemas has received praise from filmgoers. SPI is notable for being the first multiplex operator in India to equip its screens with the Dolby Atmos, SPI also introduced the first IMAX screens in Chennai with its Luxe Cinemas and Palazzo Cinemas brands. Sathyam Cinemas was originally named the Royal Theatre Complex and was built by Raja from Venkatagiri in April 1974, with a capacity of 1,255 seats, it was the largest multiplex built in Chennai at the time. Kiran Reddy, the current CEO of SPI Group, revealed in a 2012 interview with The Hindu that Sathyam Cinemas was acquired by his family from someone in the 1980s and it was acquired for real estate purposes with no intention of continuing the theatre business. He claimed, The intent was to demolish the Sathyam building, the theatre wasnt a viable business if you looked at the value of the land. However, when he got involved in the business, the family had several improvements to the theatre. Reddy had taken over the business in 1999 and continued developing the theatre, in 2009, Sathyam Cinemas established itself as a film production company, producing its first film, Thiru Thiru Thuru Thuru. In January 2015, PVR Cinemas was revealed to be in talks to all the screens under the SPI Cinemas brand. However, the deal fell through due to the widespread sentimental, Luxe Cinemas, which was opened in April 2014, was sold to Jazz Cinemas in October 2015. In September 2015, SPI revealed that a five-screen multiplex was under construction in Bangalore, SPI also revealed further plans of expansions in several states including Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala and Pondicherry
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Telugu language
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Telugu is a Dravidian language native to India. It is also spoken by significant minorities in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and it is one of six languages designated a classical language of India by the Government of India. Telugu ranks third by the number of speakers in India. It is one of the scheduled languages of the Republic of India. Approximately 10,000 inscriptions exist in the Telugu language, the speakers of the language call it Telugu or Tenugu. The older forms of the name include Teluṅgu, Tenuṅgu and Teliṅga, the etymology of Telugu is not certain. Some historical scholars have suggested a derivation from Sanskrit triliṅgam, as in Trilinga Desa, tradition holds that Shiva descended as a lingam on three mountains, Kaleshwaram, Srisailam, and Bhimeswaram, which are said to have marked the boundaries of the Trilinga Desa. Atharvana Acharya in the 13th century wrote a grammar of Telugu, Appa Kavi in the 17th century explicitly wrote that Telugu was derived from Trilinga. Scholar Charles P. Brown comments that it was a strange notion as all the predecessors of Appa Kavi had no knowledge of such a derivation. George Abraham Grierson and other linguists doubt this derivation, holding rather that Telugu was the older term, another view holds that tenugu is derived from the proto-Dravidian word ten– south to mean the people who lived in the south/southern direction. The name telugu then, is a result of n -> l alternation established in Telugu, according to the natve tradition Telugu grammar has a hoary past. Sage Kanva was said to be the first grammarian of Telugu, a Rajeswara Sarma discussed the hisoricity and content of Kanvas grammar written in Sanskrit. He cited twenty grammatical aphorisms ascribed to Kanva, and concluded that Kanva wrote an ancient Telugu Grammar which was lost, according to the Russian linguist M. S. Andronov, Telugu split from the Proto-Dravidian languages between 1500 and 1000 BC. According to linguist Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, Telugu, as a Dravidian language, descends from Proto-Dravidian, linguistic reconstruction suggests that Proto-Dravidian was spoken around the third millennium BC, possibly in the region around the lower Godavari river basin in peninsular India. The material evidence suggests that the speakers of Proto-Dravidian were of the associated with the Neolithic societies of South India. A legend gives the Lepakshi town a significant place in the Ramayana — this was where the bird Jatayu fell, when Sri Rama reached the spot, he saw the bird and said compassionately, “Le Pakshi” — ‘rise, bird’ in Telugu. This indicates the presence of Telugu Language during Ramayana period, there is a mention of Telugu people or Telugu country in ancient Tamil literature as Telunka Nadu. Telugu words were found in Hebrew literature, inscriptions with Telugu words dating back to 400 BC to 100 BC have been discovered in Bhattiprolu in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh
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Tamil language
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Tamil is a Dravidian language predominantly spoken by the Tamil people of India and Sri Lanka, and also by the Tamil diaspora, Sri Lankan Moors, Burghers, Douglas, and Chindians. Tamil is a language of two countries, Singapore and Sri Lanka. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and it is also used as one of the languages of education in Malaysia, along with English, Malay and Mandarin. Tamil is also spoken by significant minorities in the four other South Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and it is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India. Tamil is one of the classical languages in the world. Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions from 500 BC have been found on Adichanallur and 2 and it has been described as the only language of contemporary India which is recognizably continuous with a classical past. The variety and quality of classical Tamil literature has led to it being described as one of the classical traditions. A recorded Tamil literature has been documented for over 2000 years, the earliest period of Tamil literature, Sangam literature, is dated from ca.300 BC – AD300. It has the oldest extant literature among other Dravidian languages, the earliest epigraphic records found on rock edicts and hero stones date from around the 3rd century BC. More than 55% of the inscriptions found by the Archaeological Survey of India are in the Tamil language. Tamil language inscriptions written in Brahmi script have been discovered in Sri Lanka, the two earliest manuscripts from India, acknowledged and registered by the UNESCO Memory of the World register in 1997 and 2005, were written in Tamil. In 1578, Portuguese Christian missionaries published a Tamil prayer book in old Tamil script named Thambiraan Vanakkam, the Tamil Lexicon, published by the University of Madras, was one of the earliest dictionaries published in the Indian languages. According to a 2001 survey, there were 1,863 newspapers published in Tamil, Tamil belongs to the southern branch of the Dravidian languages, a family of around 26 languages native to the Indian subcontinent. It is also classified as being part of a Tamil language family, the closest major relative of Tamil is Malayalam, the two began diverging around the 9th century CE. According to linguists like Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, Tamil, as a Dravidian language, descends from Proto-Dravidian, linguistic reconstruction suggests that Proto-Dravidian was spoken around the third millennium BC, possibly in the region around the lower Godavari river basin in peninsular India. The material evidence suggests that the speakers of Proto-Dravidian were of the associated with the Neolithic complexes of South India. The next phase in the reconstructed proto-history of Tamil is Proto-South Dravidian, the linguistic evidence suggests that Proto-South Dravidian was spoken around the middle of the second millennium BC, and that proto-Tamil emerged around the 3rd century BC. The earliest epigraphic attestations of Tamil are generally taken to have been shortly thereafter
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Tanikella Bharani
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Tanikella Bharani is an Indian film actor, screenwriter, dialogue writer, poet, theatre actor, playwright and director predominant in Telugu cinema. He has worked in more than 750 films and he has garnered three Andhra Pradesh State Nandi Awards. Tanikella Bharani’s ancestry includes poets and literary figures of Telugu literature, diwakarla Venkatavadhani and Viswanatha Satyanarayana were his grand uncles. Divakarla Tirupati Sastry one of the Telugu poet duo Tirupati Venkata Kavulu were his great-grand-uncles and he is fluent in Tamil and Hindi in addition to his native Telugu. Bharani did stage plays in the mid 70s and during this time he made the acquaintance of Rallapalli, with his help Bharani started writing small dialogues and stage scenes. Later, he took a diploma in Theatre arts, following Rallapallis advice he moved to Chennai. Bharani also penned and sung the lyrics of Gundammagaari Manavadu and he has acted in more than 500 movies starting with Ladies Tailor & Sri Kanaka Mahalakshmi Recording Dance Troupe in which he was seen as Dora Babu. In 1989 he appeared in the hit film Shiva by Ram Gopal Varma which starred Nagarjuna, with the release of the film Shiva, he received much recognition and his character Nanaji impressed the whole Telugu audience. He also played the role in the Hindi comedy film Main Tere Pyar Mein Pagal in 1999. His powerful antagonism in Samudram won him the Nandi award as the Best Villain, after 2000, he started playing more mature roles in movies like Manmadhudu, Okariki Okaru, Samba, Malliswari, Godavari, and Happy. Tanikella Bharani directed Telugu Drama film Mithunam is a 2012 featuring S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Tanikella Bhranai received CineMAA Award Special Jury Award for Best Direction for this film. Tanikella Bharini wrote seven Telugu devotional songs song for the album Nalona sivudu galadu and he also sang the title song for Nalona sivudu galadu and Shahabash Raa Shankara which were written by him. Is composition by Bharani about the Concept of Siva, spiritual Books Aata gadaraa siva Sabhashuraa Sankara http, //www. tanikellabharani. com Tanikella Bharani at the Internet Movie Database Interview on telugucinema. com
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Red Digital Cinema Camera Company
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The Red Digital Cinema Camera Company is an American company that manufactures digital cinematography and photography cameras and accessories. The company’s headquarters are in Irvine, California, with studios in Hollywood and it has offices in London, Shanghai and Singapore, retail stores in Hollywood, New York and Miami as well as various authorized resellers and service centers around the world. Red Digital Cinema was founded in 2005 by Jim Jannard, who had previously founded Oakley, the company started with the intent to deliver an affordable 4k digital cinema camera. At the 2006 NAB show, Jannard announced that Red would build a 4K digital cinema camera, in March 2007, director Peter Jackson completed a camera test of two prototype Red One cameras, which became the 12-minute World War I film Crossing the Line. On seeing the film, director Steven Soderbergh told Jannard. I have to shoot with this, Soderbergh took two prototype Red ONEs into the jungle to shoot his film. Red Digital delivered the first Red camera in August 2007, called the Red One it was able to capture 4K images at up to 60 frames per second in the proprietary Redcode format. The Red One provided filmmakers customizable features and out-of-the-box functionality with feature film quality known to 35mm film cameras, in 2009, Red released Redcine-X, a post-production workflow for both motion and stills, the R3D Software Development Kit, and introduced the world to the concept of DSMC. In 2010, Red offered an upgrade to owners of the original Mysterium sensor to the newer M-X sensor. Also in that year, Red acquired the historic Ren-Mar Studios in Hollywood. In 2013, Red began taking pre-orders for their newest camera, in 2015, Red announced a new camera body called DSMC2. The Weapon 8K VV and Weapon 6K were the first two cameras announced within this line of cameras followed by Red Raven 4. 5K and Scarlet-W 5K, all of these cameras leveraged Red Dragon sensor technology. In 2016 a new 8K S35 sensor, called Helium was introduced two new cameras Red Epic-W and Weapon 8K S35. In early January 2017 this was given the highest sensor score ever,108, the Red One was Red Digital Cinema’s first production camera. It was able to capture up to 120 frames per second at 2K resolution and 30 frames per second at 4K resolution, later an upgrade to new sensor with 14 megapixel sensor was offered. The DSMC camera system was introduced with the Epic-X as a digital stills. After this a new line called Scarlet was introduced that provided lower end specifications at a more affordable price. Initially equipped with a 5K imaging sensor, upgrades to a 6K sensor with higher dynamic range were announced later, the DSMC2 family of cameras was introduced in 2015 as the new form factor for all cameras up to 2020
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Chennai
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Chennai /ˈtʃɛnnaɪ/, formerly known as Madras /məˈdrɑːs/ or /-ˈdræs/) is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal, it is one of the biggest cultural, economic, according to the 2011 Indian census, it is the sixth-largest city and fourth-most populous urban agglomeration in India. The city together with the adjoining regions constitute the Chennai Metropolitan Area, Chennai is among the most visited Indian cities by foreign tourists. It was ranked 43rd most visited city in the world for year 2015, the Quality of Living Survey rated Chennai as the safest city in India. Chennai attracts 45 percent of tourists visiting India, and 30 to 40 percent of domestic health tourists. As such, it is termed Indias health capital, as a growing metropolitan city in a developing country, Chennai confronts substantial pollution and other logistical and socio-economic problems. Chennai has the third-largest expatriate population in India at 35,000 in 2009,82,790 in 2011, tourism guide publisher Lonely Planet named Chennai as one of the top ten cities in the world to visit in 2015. Chennai is ranked as a city in the Global Cities Index and was ranked the best city in India by India Today in the 2014 annual Indian city survey. In 2015 Chennai was named the hottest city by the BBC, National Geographic ranked Chennais food as second best in the world, it was the only Indian city to feature in the list. Chennai was also named the ninth-best cosmopolitan city in the world by Lonely Planet, the Chennai Metropolitan Area is one of the largest city economies of India. Chennai is nicknamed The Detroit of India, with more than one-third of Indias automobile industry being based in the city, in January 2015, it was ranked third in terms of per capita GDP. Chennai has been selected as one of the 100 Indian cities to be developed as a city under PM Narendra Modis flagship Smart Cities Mission. The name Madras originated even before the British presence was established in India, the name Madras is said to have originated from a Portuguese phrase mae de Deus which means mother of god, due to Portuguese influence on the port city. According to some sources, Madras was derived from Madraspattinam, a north of Fort St George. However, it is whether the name was in use before the arrival of Europeans. The British military mapmakers believed Madras was originally Mundir-raj or Mundiraj, Madras might have also been derived from the word Madhuras meaning juice of honey or sugarcane in Sanskrit. The nativity of name Chennai, being of Telugu origin is clearly proved by the historians. The first official use of the name Chennai is said to be in a deed, dated 8 August 1639
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Hyderabad
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Hyderabad is the capital of the southern Indian state of Telangana and de jure capital of Andhra Pradesh. At an average altitude of 542 metres, much of Hyderabad is situated on hilly terrain around artificial lakes, established in 1591 by Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, Hyderabad remained under the rule of the Qutb Shahi dynasty for nearly a century before the Mughals captured the region. In 1724, Mughal viceroy Asif Jah I declared his sovereignty and created his own dynasty, the Nizams dominions became a princely state during the British Raj, and remained so for 150 years, with the city serving as its capital. The city continued as the capital of Hyderabad State after it was brought into the Indian Union in 1948, since 1956, Rashtrapati Nilayam in the city has been the winter office of the President of India. In 2014, the formed state of Telangana split from Andhra Pradesh. Relics of Qutb Shahi and Nizam rule remain visible today, the Charminar—commissioned by Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah—has come to symbolise Hyderabad, Golconda fort is another major landmark. The influence of Mughlai culture is evident in the regions distinctive cuisine. The Qutb Shahis and Nizams established Hyderabad as a cultural hub, the Telugu film industry based in the city is the countrys second-largest producer of motion pictures. Hyderabad was historically known as a pearl and diamond trading centre, many of the citys traditional bazaars remain open, including Laad Bazaar, Begum Bazaar and Sultan Bazaar. Special economic zones dedicated to technology have encouraged companies from India. The emergence of pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries in the 1990s led to the naming as Indias Genome Valley. With an output of US$74 billion, Hyderabad is the fifth-largest contributor to Indias overall gross domestic product, according to John Everett-Heath, the author of Oxford Concise Dictionary of World Place Names, Hyderabad means Haydars city or lion city, from haydar and ābād. It was named to honour the Caliph Ali Ibn Abi Talib, andrew Petersen, a scholar of Islamic architecture, says the city was originally called Baghnagar. One popular theory suggests that Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, the founder of the city, named it Bhagyanagar or Bhāgnagar after Bhagmati and she converted to Islam and adopted the title Hyder Mahal. The city was renamed Hyderabad in her honour, French traveller Jean de Thévenot visited the Deccan region in 1666–1667 refers to the city in his book Travels in India as Bagnagar and Aiderabad. Archaeologists excavating near the city have unearthed Iron Age sites that may date from 500 BCE, the region comprising modern Hyderabad and its surroundings was known as Golkonda, and was ruled by the Chalukya dynasty from 624 CE to 1075 CE. The Kakatiya dynasty was reduced to a vassal of the Khilji dynasty in 1310 after its defeat by Sultan Alauddin Khilji of the Delhi Sultanate and this lasted until 1321, when the Kakatiya dynasty was annexed by Malik Kafur, Allaudin Khiljis general. During this period, Alauddin Khilji took the Koh-i-Noor diamond, which is said to have mined from the Kollur Mines of Golkonda
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San Francisco
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San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. It is the birthplace of the United Nations, the California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856, after three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines, San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co. Dolby, Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, as of 2016, San Francisco is ranked high on world liveability rankings. The earliest archaeological evidence of habitation of the territory of the city of San Francisco dates to 3000 BC. Upon independence from Spain in 1821, the became part of Mexico. Under Mexican rule, the system gradually ended, and its lands became privatized. In 1835, Englishman William Richardson erected the first independent homestead, together with Alcalde Francisco de Haro, he laid out a street plan for the expanded settlement, and the town, named Yerba Buena, began to attract American settlers. Commodore John D. Sloat claimed California for the United States on July 7,1846, during the Mexican–American War, montgomery arrived to claim Yerba Buena two days later. Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco on January 30 of the next year, despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography. The California Gold Rush brought a flood of treasure seekers, with their sourdough bread in tow, prospectors accumulated in San Francisco over rival Benicia, raising the population from 1,000 in 1848 to 25,000 by December 1849. The promise of fabulous riches was so strong that crews on arriving vessels deserted and rushed off to the gold fields, leaving behind a forest of masts in San Francisco harbor. Some of these approximately 500 abandoned ships were used at times as storeships, saloons and hotels, many were left to rot, by 1851 the harbor was extended out into the bay by wharves while buildings were erected on piles among the ships. By 1870 Yerba Buena Cove had been filled to create new land, buried ships are occasionally exposed when foundations are dug for new buildings. California was quickly granted statehood in 1850 and the U. S. military built Fort Point at the Golden Gate, silver discoveries, including the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, further drove rapid population growth. With hordes of fortune seekers streaming through the city, lawlessness was common, and the Barbary Coast section of town gained notoriety as a haven for criminals, prostitution, entrepreneurs sought to capitalize on the wealth generated by the Gold Rush
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Brazil
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Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. As the worlds fifth-largest country by area and population, it is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language. Its Amazon River basin includes a vast tropical forest, home to wildlife, a variety of ecological systems. This unique environmental heritage makes Brazil one of 17 megadiverse countries, Brazil was inhabited by numerous tribal nations prior to the landing in 1500 of explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral, who claimed the area for the Portuguese Empire. Brazil remained a Portuguese colony until 1808, when the capital of the empire was transferred from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, in 1815, the colony was elevated to the rank of kingdom upon the formation of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves. Independence was achieved in 1822 with the creation of the Empire of Brazil, a state governed under a constitutional monarchy. The ratification of the first constitution in 1824 led to the formation of a bicameral legislature, the country became a presidential republic in 1889 following a military coup détat. An authoritarian military junta came to power in 1964 and ruled until 1985, Brazils current constitution, formulated in 1988, defines it as a democratic federal republic. The federation is composed of the union of the Federal District, the 26 states, Brazils economy is the worlds ninth-largest by nominal GDP and seventh-largest by GDP as of 2015. A member of the BRICS group, Brazil until 2010 had one of the worlds fastest growing economies, with its economic reforms giving the country new international recognition. Brazils national development bank plays an important role for the economic growth. Brazil is a member of the United Nations, the G20, BRICS, Unasul, Mercosul, Organization of American States, Organization of Ibero-American States, CPLP. Brazil is a power in Latin America and a middle power in international affairs. One of the worlds major breadbaskets, Brazil has been the largest producer of coffee for the last 150 years and it is likely that the word Brazil comes from the Portuguese word for brazilwood, a tree that once grew plentifully along the Brazilian coast. In Portuguese, brazilwood is called pau-brasil, with the word brasil commonly given the etymology red like an ember, formed from Latin brasa and the suffix -il. As brazilwood produces a red dye, it was highly valued by the European cloth industry and was the earliest commercially exploited product from Brazil. The popular appellation eclipsed and eventually supplanted the official Portuguese name, early sailors sometimes also called it the Land of Parrots. In the Guarani language, a language of Paraguay, Brazil is called Pindorama
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Rio de Janeiro
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Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas. The metropolis is anchor to the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area, Rio de Janeiro is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazils third-most populous state. Part of the city has designated as a World Heritage Site, named Rio de Janeiro. Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, the city was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, later, in 1763, it became the capital of the State of Brazil, a state of the Portuguese Empire. Rio stayed the capital of the pluricontinental Lusitanian monarchy until 1822 and this is one of the few instances in history that the capital of a colonising country officially shifted to a city in one of its colonies. Rio de Janeiro has the second largest municipal GDP in the country, the home of many universities and institutes, it is the second-largest center of research and development in Brazil, accounting for 17% of national scientific output according to 2005 data. The Maracanã Stadium held the finals of the 1950 and 2014 FIFA World Cups, the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, the city is divided into 33 administrative regions. Europeans first encountered Guanabara Bay on 1 January 1502, by a Portuguese expedition under explorer Gaspar de Lemos captain of a ship in Pedro Álvares Cabrals fleet, allegedly the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci participated as observer at the invitation of King Manuel I in the same expedition. The region of Rio was inhabited by the Tupi, Puri, Botocudo, in 1555, one of the islands of Guanabara Bay, now called Villegagnon Island, was occupied by 500 French colonists under the French admiral Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon. Consequently, Villegagnon built Fort Coligny on the island when attempting to establish the France Antarctique colony, Rio de Janeiro was the name of Guanabara Bay. Until early in the 18th century, the city was threatened or invaded by several, mostly French, pirates and buccaneers, such as Jean-François Duclerc, on 27 January 1763, the colonial administration in Portuguese America was moved from Salvador to Rio de Janeiro. The kingdoms capital was transferred to the city, which, thus, as there was no physical space or urban structure to accommodate hundreds of noblemen who arrived suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their homes. The first printed newspaper in Brazil, the Gazeta do Rio de Janeiro, from the colonial period until the first independent decades, Rio de Janeiro was a city of slaves. There was an influx of African slaves to Rio de Janeiro, in 1819. In 1840, the number of slaves reached 220,000 people, the Port of Rio de Janeiro was the largest port of slaves in America. As a political center of the country, Rio concentrated the political-partisan life of the Empire and it was the main stage of the abolitionist and republican movements in the last half of the 19th century. Rio continued as the capital of Brazil after 1889, when the monarchy was replaced by a republic, until the early years of the 20th century, the city was largely limited to the neighbourhood now known as the historic city centre, on the mouth of Guanabara Bay. Expansion of the city to the north and south was facilitated by the consolidation and electrification of Rios streetcar transit system after 1905, though many thought that it was just campaign rhetoric, Kubitschek managed to have Brasília built, at great cost, by 1960
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Lakshmy Ramakrishnan
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She won the title Mrs. Coimbatore in 2002. Lakshmy Ramakrishnan lived in Muscat, Oman from 1985 to 2005 and she returned to India and directed six short films. Director A. K. Lohithadas wanted to use Ramakrishnans house for shooting his Malayalam film Chakkara Muthu, karu Pazhaniappans Pirivom Santhippom in which she played the mother of Snehas character was her first Tamil film, following which she played supporting roles in numerous films. She portrayed a mother who wants to avenge her daughters death in Mysskins Yuddham Sei. She also tonsured her head for the once-in-a-lifetime role and she has worked in television shows. She acted in the serial Aval in STAR Vijay and hosted the reality show Solvathellam Unmai in Zee Tamil. She has featured in more than 25 TV Commercials. In 2012, she completed her first feature film, Aarohanam, the dialogue was parodied in the TV show Adhu Idhu Edhu which became famous. Lakshmi threatened legal action against the makers of show for demeaning her show. The dialogue was parodied in films like Darling, Massu Engira Masilamani, Naanum Rowdy Dhaan, Miruthan. The dialogue also inspired a song of the same name composed by D. Imman for Rajini Murugan, as actress As director Television Lakshmy Ramakrishnan at the Internet Movie Database
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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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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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Magic Magic 3D
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Magic Magic 3D is a 2003 Indian Tamil-language fantasy film in stereoscopic 3D directed by Jose Punnoose. The film stars Suraj Balajee, S. P. Balasubramaniam, Tirlok Malik and it was dubbed in Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi, with the Hindi dub being titled as Chota Jadugar. It won the National Film Award for Best Special Effects, a group of children search for Indrajeet to convey the news that his father Krishna has returned from the United States. But Indrajeet scares them away with his magic tricks, Indrajeet lives with his grandfather, a magician Acharya in Mayapuri. The boys mother died when he was an infant, Acharya teaches him all the magic but never sent him to school for basic education. Krishna, who runs a successful Indian channel in the US, Indrajeet refuses to leave his grandfather but is forcibly sent to New York City. Indrajeet wakes up in another house where he finds an American woman waking him up and he meets his stepmother but soon he runs away from home and befriends three run-away orphans and a wonder dog who belongs to Mahesh and Lude, two funny petty thieves. Suraj Balajee as Indrajeet S. P. Balasubramaniam as Acharya Tirlok Malik as Indrajeets father Krishna Pooja Kumar as Indrajeets stepmother Deepti Mohan V, according to Jose, the film took roughly 140 days to complete. The music was composed by Sharreth and Jagan, however, IdleBrain said, Dont forget to take kids along with you. They need to watch this movie more than you, the film won the National Film Award for Best Special Effects. Magic Magic 3D, made on a budget of ₹10 million, Magic Magic 3D at the Internet Movie Database Chota Jadugar on YouTube
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Mani Ratnam
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Gopala Ratnam Subramaniam, commonly known by his screen name Mani Ratnam, is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. Cited by the media as one of Indias influential filmmakers, Mani Ratnam is widely credited with revolutionising the Tamil film industry, although working in the mainstream medium, his films are noted for their realism, technical finesse, and craft. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, acknowledging his contributions to film in 2002, despite being born into a film family, Mani Ratnam did not develop any interest towards films when he was young. Upon completion of his post graduation in management, he started his career as a consultant and he entered the film industry through the 1983 Kannada film Pallavi Anu Pallavi. The failure of his subsequent films would mean that he was left with fewer offers, however, his fifth directorial outing, Mouna Ragam, established him as a leading filmmaker in Tamil cinema. He followed that with the Godfatheresque Nayagan, which is regarded as a film over the years. Mani Ratnam is well known for his Political trilogy consisting of Roja, Bombay, the commercial and critical success of Roja established him as a leading filmmaker in Indian cinema. Mani Ratnam is married to Tamil actress Suhasini and has a son with her and he has won several film awards, including six National Film Awards,7 Filmfare Awards South and three Bollywood Filmfare Awards, and a few awards at various international film festivals. Mani Ratnam was born on 2 June 1955, as the child of a family that was closely associated with film production. His father S. Gopala Ratnam was a distributor who worked for Venus Pictures. His elder brother G. Venkateswaran would go on to some of his films. His younger brother, G. Srinivasan, who like Venkateswaran would co-produce some of his films, Mani Ratnam grew up in Madras, along with his siblings and cousins in a joint-family. Despite being a family, the children were not allowed to watch films as the elders considered it a taboo. During this time, he developed an admiration towards actors like Sivaji Ganesan and Nagesh, by the time when he was 15, he got to know about director K. Balachander, and became a fan of him. Upon completing his schooling, he graduated with a degree in commerce from the Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College, later, he did his Master of Business Administration in finance from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. After finishing his post-graduation in 1977, he was employed in a firm in Madras as a management consultant, Mani is married to Suhasini, an established actress in South Indian cinema then. The two first met in 1988 and got married the same year, the couple have a son Nandhan. The family resides in Alwarpet, Chennai, where he runs his production company, Mani Ratnam was not satisfied with his job as a consultant as he found it to be a mere extension of his academics
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Arya (actor)
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Jamshad Cethirakath, known by his stage name Arya, is an Indian film actor and producer, who mainly appears in Tamil films besides appearing in a number of Malayalam productions. He made his breakthrough portraying rogue characters in Vishnuvardhans Arinthum Ariyamalum and he later won critical acclaim for playing an Aghori in Balas Naan Kadavul. Arya gained further success with the release of the period drama Madrasapattinam, the comedy film Boss Engira Bhaskaran. Arya has won the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut – South, in 2011, he was awarded the Kalaimamani by the Tamil Nadu government. He also produces the films under his production company The Show People and is a partner in production company August Cinema, Arya was born in Trikaripur, Kerala to a Malayali family in 1980. He did his schooling in SBOA Matriculation and Higher Secondary School, Chennai and then graduated with a degree from Crescent Engineering College in Vandalur. His younger brother Sathya has also appeared in Tamil films, Arya participated in the Vätternrundan Motala cycle race and won a medal. While working as an assistant software engineer, Arya was approached by the cinematographer Jeeva to audition for his Ullam Ketkumae in 2003, the pair had lived in the same neighbourhood. Arya signed on for the project and was given the name by Jeeva. Hence, Aryas first appearance was as Kutty, in Vishnuvardhans Arinthum Ariyamalum, with the film becoming a commercial success and being termed a super hit. The film featured Arya as the adopted son of a gangster. Critics reported that Arya in a supporting role walks away with all the applause and has everything in him to make the big league. His next release, the delayed Ullam Ketkumae, portraying Arya as a college cricketer and his third release in 2005, was the campus romance story, Oru Kalluriyin Kathai opposite Sonia Agarwal, took a strong opening but failed to find commercial acceptance. However, after also gaining favourable reviews for his performance, Arya was labelled as the new pin-up of Tamil cinema at the time and attracted offers for films. His next, Igors thriller Kalabha Kadhalan, where he played an engineer pursued romantically by an aggressive sister-in-law, won favourable reviews from critics, Arya collaborated with Vishnuvardhan again in the successful gangster flick, Pattiyal, where Bharath also played another leading role. The film, was shot across the slums of Chennai and told the story of two ruthless underworld hitmen, with Pooja and Padmapriya also playing major roles, the film consequently became a big box office success and placed Arya as a leading actor in Tamil cinema. In 2007, Arya played a guest appearance in Cherans Maya Kannadi as himself before his long-delayed Oram Po, previously known as Auto, released in late 2007. Prior to release the film gained cult status for its trailer, with Arya playing a Chennai-based auto driver who competes in races at nights
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Jayam Ravi
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Ravi Mohan, better known by his stage name Jayam Ravi, is an Indian film actor who works in the Tamil film industry. The son of film maker Editor Mohan, Ravi made his debut as an actor in the romantic drama film Jayam, directed by his elder brother Mohan Raja. Ravi was born to veteran filmmaker, Editor Mohan in Tirumangalam, Madurai and he has two siblings, his elder brother Mohan Raja is a film director, with most of his films featuring Ravi in the lead role, while his sister Roja is a dentist. He completed his schooling at Jawahar Vidyalaya in Ashok Nagar, Chennai and he studied dancing under the Bharatnatyam dancer Nalini Balakrishnan and performed his arangetram at the age of 12. After completing his degree in Visual Communication from Loyola College, Chennai and he also then trained in acting at the Kishore Namit Kapur Institute in Mumbai. Before debuting as an actor, Ravi had been an assistant director to Suresh Krishna for Aalavandhan starring Kamal Haasan, during his childhood, Ravi acted as a child actor in two Telugu films, Bava Bavamaridi and Palnati Pourusham, which were produced by his father. Jayam Ravi made his debut in the action-masala film Jayam, produced by his father. It was a remake of the 2002 Telugu film of the same name and his next venture was the sentimental drama M. Kumaran Son Of Mahalakshmi, the remade version of the Telugu film Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi, in which he starred alongside Asin Thottumkal. The film, considered a family entertainer, received the Tamil Nadu State Film Special Award for Best Film and it also emerged a high financial success. His next release, Daas, another action-masala flick, and his first original film following two remakes, featured him as a football player, the film took an even bigger opening than his previous ones and was declared a hit as well. He garnered positive remarks from critics, with Sifys reviewer claiming that Ravi was hundred percent convincing as an action hero, mazhai, a remake of the Telugu film Varsham, was his other release that year, which was lukewarm at the box office. In 2006 he starred in Sarans Idhaya Thirudan, which was a box office bomb, following which he acted in Unakkum Enakkum, Ravi portrayed a rich, happy-go-lucky NRI from London, who has to live and fight for his love in dire conditions in a rural milieu. The film, which featured Trisha Krishnan alongside Ravi, became a critical as well as financial success, emerging one of the highest-grossing. The N. Linguswamy-produced Deepavali under Ezhils direction became his only 2007 release, in 2008, Ravi appeared in three films. Following a cameo appearance in Velli Thirai, he acted in the family drama Santhosh Subramaniam, once again under his brothers direction in a remake. In the Tamil version of the 2006 Telugu film Bommarillu, starring opposite Genelia DSouza, he played the role of a young man, Ravi received a nomination for the Best Tamil Actor Award at the 56th Filmfare Awards South. Next he starred in the action thriller Dhaam Dhoom, directed by cinematographer-director Jeeva, completed by Jeevas assistant Manikandan, his wife Aneez Tanveer and his guru P. C. Sreeram, Dhaam Dhoom released in mid-2008 in which he portrayed Gautham Subramaniyam, in 2009, he starred in the action film Peranmai, directed by S. P. Jananathan, in which he enacted the role of Dhruvan, a tribal forest officer
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Vidhu Prathap
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Vidhu Prathap is an Indian playback singer. He has sung songs in over four hundred films in mostly Malayalam. He is a singer with several hit songs in several landmark movies and is a regular part of the biggest stage shows in Malayalam both in India and abroad. Vidhu Prathap was born in 1980 in Kaithamukku in Trivandrum, Kerala and he did his early education from Holy Angels and then completed his schooling at Christ Nagar. During his school days in Christ Nagar, he used to participate in mono-acts, Vidhu was the Arts Club Secretary in Mar Ivanios college where he did his graduation. In 1997-98, at the age of 17, he won the Voice of the Year Award in a competition conducted by Asianet. It was after this that he thought about becoming a singer. Vidhu started taking music lessons when he was three years old and has won competitions in several musical categories. He first sang for a movie called Paadamudra, when he was in class IV, but his real break was in 1999 in a movie Devadasi rendering Pon Vasantham, a difficult song with a classical touch. His rendering of the fast number Sukriya in Niram made him a favourite with the masses, besides, with a generation shift in Malayalam films, younger actors like Dileep, Kunchakko Boban and Prithviraj needed a young voice to suit their style. That was where Vidhu fitted in and his depth and range were once again evident in Sayahnam, directed by R. Sarath, which won Vidhu the Kerala State Film award in 2001 for the song Kalame Kaikolluka née. His sensitive rendition of Mohan Sitharas Sukhamani Nilavu a romantic song in the movie Nammal won him the Lux-Asianet best male singer award in 2002, the credit for his mood rendition should go to Devarajan, the famous music director, with whom he trained for four years. He has also trained under Music director Perumbavoor G Ravindranath, Vidhu renders his songs especially emotional ones with a pathos and feeling that only he can. Ilayaraja introduced him in Tamil in a movie Solla Marantha Kathai, later he sang many Tamil songs, most of them became hits. In 2003, he got another hit song Valeduthal Angakali in Meesa Madhavan and he also sang a song for the Malayalam musical album Chempakame, the song Melemanathu got many positive reviews from critics. He has sung the most number of songs for music director Alex Paul and he has completed songs in over a 150 movies, and hundreds of music albums. Vidhu is also a performer in many stage shows in India as well as abroad. He married Deepthi Prasad, a TV anchor and a classical dancer in August 2008
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K. S. Chithra
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Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra, often credited as K. S. Chithra or simply Chithra, is an Indian playback singer from Kerala. Chithra also sings Indian classical, devotional, and popular music and she has sung in a number of Indian languages as well as Urdu, Latin, Arabic, Sinhalese and English. She has recorded more than 25,000 Songs for various films and albums and she is a recipient of six National Film Awards, six Filmfare Awards South and 34 different state film awards. She has won all the four south Indian state film awards and she was honored with Indias civilian honor Padma Shri in 2005. Her song Kannalane/Kehna Hi Kya from the film Bombay was included in The Guardians 1000 Songs Everyone Must Hear list, Chithra is referred to as Chinna Kuyil or Keralathinte Vanambadi or Nightingale of South India. Born in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, into a family of musicians, Chithras father and her elder sister K. S. Beena and her younger brother Mano is also a playback singer. Chithra received her training in Carnatic music from Dr. K. Omanakutty, passed B. A. in music with first class and third rank from the University of Kerala and she was selected for the National Talent Search Scholarship from the Central Government from 1978 to 1984. Malayalam Cinema, Chithra was introduced to Malayalam playback by M. G. Radhakrishnan in 1979 and went on to become a singer for many Malayalam musicians. Attahasam, Snehapoorvam Meera and Njan Ekananu were the first few films in which she recorded her songs and she also performed live concerts with K. J. Yesudas in India and abroad. She worked with directors including Raveendran, Shyam, Jerry Amaldev, Mohan Sithara, Kannur Rajan. Tamil Cinema, She made her debut in the Tamil film industry through the song Poojaikketha Poovithu from the film Neethana Antha Kuyil and she was given the title Chinnakuyil after singing the song Chinna Kuyil Paadum from the 1985 released film Poove Poochudava. Director Fazil cast her for this song after Ilaiyaraaja got impressed with her song sung in original version in Malayalam for the film Nokkethadhoorathu Kannum Nattu in 1985 directed by himself, V. Mahadevan, where she sang a huming portion in K. J. Yesudass song. Then in 1986 she recorded 2 songs for the film Vijrumbhana, mostly all her life-time hits in telugu are composed by M. M. Keeravani. Then she went on recording some songs under A. R. She mostly sang for Anu Malik, where he gave her a chance to sing 8 songs out of 11 in Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon, which was a musical sensation in 2003. By the mid-1980s, she had recorded many songs for composers in Malayalam. She is the singer who has sung the maximum number of songs for the Academy Award winning composer A. R. Rahman for his Tamil film songs. Out of 150 Tamil films from A. R. Rahman, Chithra sang some rare duets with legendary actor and singer Dr. Rajkumar in Kannada
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S. Sowmya
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S. Sowmya is a Carnatic music singer. She learnt music initially from her father Dr. Srinivasan, and later from Dr. S. Ramanathan, in 1998, Sowmya co-founded Carnatica - an institution dedicated to classical music & dance instruction, archival, talent search and other related activities. She also co-authored the first comprehensive reference CD-ROM on Carnatic music and she is also a visiting professor at the Advanced School of Carnatic Music of the Music Academy Madras. Currently pursuing M. A. at the Univ. of Madras Ph. D. for dissertation A study of the effect of variations on the pitch of a double-headed drum II Rank Holder. Meenakshi College, Madras University,1990 M. Sc, indian Institute of Technology, Madras,1992 I. I. T. Blue, for excellence in Academics and cultural activities,1992 I Rank Holder, B. A. University of Madras,1996 I Rank Holder and Gold Medallist in M. A. Sowmya made her debut as an actress in the movie Vaanavil Vaazhkai. Sowmya was a permanent judge in seasons 1 and 2 of Raj TVs Carnatic music reality-talent show, subsequently, Carnatic vocalist Nithyasree Mahadevan replaced her as permanent judge in season 3 of the show, and Sowmya appeared as a guest judge during that season. Sowmya was also a permanent judge in seasons 1 and 2 of Jaya TVs Carnatic music reality-talent show, subsequently, Carnatic vocalist Aruna Sairam replaced her as permanent judge in season 3 of the show. K. T. Muktha Jugal Bandhi with Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarthy, Madras Bengal Association Gandhi Smriti Concert on Martyrs Day, Sowmyas Website Sowmyas Blog & Concert Schedule
