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A. Jagannathan
A. Jagannathan (26 November 19357 October 2012) was an Indian film director who worked in the Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi film industries and he was introduced by R.M. Veerappan in his Sathya Movies banner for Manipayal. He directed nearly 50 films in Tamil. Film career He made his debut as director in ''Manipayal'' in 1973 after working as an assistant to T. Prakash Rao and P. Neelakantan for almost 15 films, most of them being MGR movies. He directed the MGR film ''Idhayakkani'', under the tutleage of R.M.Veerappan and went on to direct five other blockbuster films for RMV's Sathya Movies including Moondru Mugam with Rajinikanth and Kadhal Parisu with Kamal Hasaan. He also directed some television serials. He directed Sivaji Ganesan's ''Vellai Roja'' which won awards including the Filmfare Award. Another successful venture in his career was ''Moondru Mugam ''Moondru Mugam'' () is a 1982 Indian Tamil-language action film directed by A. Jagannathan. The film stars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiruppur
Tiruppur or Tirupur ( ) is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Tiruppur is the administrative headquarters of Tiruppur district and the fifth largest city as well as an urban agglomeration in Tamil Nadu. Located on the banks of Noyyal River, it has been ruled at different times, by the Early Pandyas, Medieval Cholas, Later Cholas, Mysore Kingdom and the British. It is about southwest of the state capital Chennai about east of Coimbatore south of Erode and north of Dharapuram. Tiruppur is administered by municipal corporation which was established in 2008 and the total area of the corporation is 159.6 km2 divided into 60 wards. The total population of the city as per the 2011 census is 877,778. Tiruppur is a part of the Tiruppur constituency that elects its member of parliament. Tiruppur is a major textile and knit wear hub contributing to 90% of total cotton knit wear exports from India. The textile industry provides employment to over six lakh people and co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karpoora Deepam
''Karpoora Deepam'' is a 1985 Indian Tamil-language film, directed by A. Jagannathan and produced by Mylai RV. Gurupatham. The film stars Sivakumar, Sujatha, Ambika and Goundamani. It is a remake of the Telugu film ''Karthika Deepam''. The film was released on 31 May 1985. Plot Cast *Sivakumar * Sujatha *Ambika * Ashwini *Goundamani Soundtrack Soundtrack was composed by Gangai Amaran. Reception Jayamanmadhan of ''Kalki Kalki ( sa, कल्कि), also called Kalkin or Karki, is the prophesied tenth and final incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. He is described to appear in order to end the Kali Yuga, one of the four periods in the endless cycle of exist ...'' felt it has become a fashion to give new colour to old plots and added all the actors performed well but none of them gets registered in the mind and concluded that director should be asked for this. References External links * {{A. Jagannathan 1980s Tamil-language films 1985 films Films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oh Maane Maane
''Oh Maane Maane'' () is a 1984 Indian Tamil-language romance film directed by A. Jagannathan. The film stars Mohan and Urvashi. It is a remake of the 1974 Malayalam film '' Chattakari'', which itself was based on a Malayalam novel of the same name. The film was released on 22 October 1984. Plot Cast * Mohan as Mahesh *Urvashi as Stella *Thengai Srinivasan as George *Sivachandran as Joseph * Calcutta Viswanathan *Vennira Aadai Moorthy as Sivaraman *Vadivukkarasi as Victoria * Manorama *Vasantha as Meenakshi * Sangeeta *Arundhathi as Kasthuri Soundtrack The music composed by Ilaiyaraaja. Lyrics written by Vaali, Vairamuthu, Gangai Amaran, Na. Kamarasan and Mu. Metha. Kamal Haasan Kamal Haasan (born 7 November 1954) is an Indian actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, playback singer, television presenter and politician who works mainly in Tamil cinema and has also appeared in some Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada and Bengali l ... recorded a song in his voice for the film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gumnaam
''Gumnaam'' (translation: ''Unknown'' or ''Anonymous'') is a 1965 Indian Bollywood thriller film directed by Raja Nawathe, starring Manoj Kumar, Nanda, Pran, Helen and Mehmood. The film is a loosely-inspired adaptation of the 1939 mystery novel ''And Then There Were None'' by Agatha Christie. The film came to wider attention in the English-speaking world when its opening song "Jaan Pehechan Ho" (a Hindi-Urdu phrase roughly translated as "we should get to know each other") was included in the opening credits of '' Ghost World'' and used in the 2011 commercial ''The Date'' for Heineken. The song was sung by Bollywood music legend Mohammed Rafi. The lead dancer in the song as shot in the film was Laxmi Chhaya. The psychedelic choreography was done by Herman Benjamin, who also sang the song as picturised in the film. It was remade in Tamil as '' Naalai Unathu Naal'' Plot Khanna, a wealthy man, hires an assassin to murder his rival, Sohanlal. Khanna then informs the victim's niec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naalai Unathu Naal
''Naalai Unathu Naal'' () is a 1984 Indian Tamil-language crime thriller film, directed by A. Jagannathan and produced by Kalavathi C. The film stars Vijayakanth, Nalini and Jaishankar. The film had musical score by Ilaiyaraaja. The movie is heavily inspired by Agatha Christie's ''And Then There Were None'' (1939), and is a remake of the Hindi movie ''Gumnaam'' (1965). Plot The movie is about a group of lucky draw winners getting stranded in an unknown, unspecified jungle while traveling to the US. Seven people mysteriously win a free vacation. On the way to their destination, the plane has engine trouble and they are left abandoned in a remote seaside location. They find shelter in a large mansion inhabited by a comical butler Angalamma. One by one, they are murdered and the remaining vacationers try to figure out why they were chosen for the trip and what they have in common. Cast *Vijayakanth as Arun * Nalini as Kalpana *Jaishankar as Devadas *Senthamarai as Dr. Nagaraj * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komberi Mookan
''Komberi Mookan'' () is a 1984 Indian Tamil-language film directed by A. Jagannathan. It stars Thyagarajan, Saritha and Urvashi. The film was remade in Telugu as ''Kala Rudrulu''. Plot Mookan, a young boy, lives with his parents in a village. Alavanthar is a wealthy and influential person in the village. He is also a womaniser. One night, he forcibly enters Mookan’s house and rapes his mother and with the help of his henchmen kills and burns his father. His mother initially attempts suicide but changes her mind upon seeing the boy and vows to raise him to be a strong and ethical man who will avenge the injustice committed by Alavanthar. The boy is made to wear a hair bun on his head as a vow to fulfill the duties of revenge and hence he is given the name komberi mookan. He grows up to become a strong man and his mother on her deathbed informs him about the sins committed by Alavanthar and asks him to take revenge. How he proceeds to do that forms the rest of the story. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filmfare Award For Best Director – Tamil
The Filmfare Best Director Award is given by the ''Filmfare'' magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South for Tamil language, Tamil (Kollywood) films. The awards were extended to "Best Director" in 1972.#Film world, Film world, p 43 Superlatives *K. Balachander has the record of winning most Awards 7 and winning the Award twice in a row, on two separate occasions (1974–1975 and 1980–1981). Mani Ratnam have received the award for five times which is the second most wins. Cheran (director), Cheran have received the award four times. *Sudha Kongara was the first of two women to have won this award for Irudhi Suttru in 2016, the second being Gayathri of Pushkar–Gayathri duo for Vikram Vedha in 2017. Other woman Director to have been nominated is Suhasini Maniratnam for Indira (film), Indira . *S. Shankar remains the only Director to have won the Award for his first two films, Gentleman and Kadhalan . *S. Shankar, Cheran (director), Cheran , Bala (director), Bala , and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thanga Magan (1983 Film)
''Thanga Magan'' () is a 1983 Indian Tamil-language action film directed by A. Jagannathan, starring Rajinikanth and Poornima Jayaram. The film was released on 4 November 1983 and became a success. Plot Arun is the haughty and belligerent son of rich parents Chidambaram and Annapoorani. Arun runs into constant tiffs with a pretty but combative hotel dancer, Chitra and eventually they both fall in love. One night, when a hit man Kali, sent by his rivals attempts to murder Arun in his house and Chidambaram seems to recognise the hitman and lets him escape, Arun confronts his father to know the truth. Chidambaram reveals to Arun that he is not his real son and years ago he and Kali had been deputed to kill the infant Arun and his mother by Arun's own father. But the kind-hearted Chidambaram had decided to adopt and raise Arun as his son. In another twist, Arun finds out that his real mother is Laxmi, an abandoned woman who had been living in Chitra's house. Arun is distraught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prem Menon (actor)
Prem Menon (born 15 October 1953) is an Indian businessman, former actor and director, who has appeared in Tamil films. He became known with his role in the film '' Krodham'' (1982) and has since regularly produced and made his own projects. Career Prem Kumar Menon is the son of entrepreneur K. T. B. Menon, who had vast business interests and investments in Kuwait. Prem Menon heads company Laksola, which produces insulating materials, and his financial success prompted him to pursue other interests in Tamil films. He has subsequently worked in the film industry as an actor director, screenwriter and producer, specialising in making action-thriller films. He made a breakthrough in films by producing and starring in A. Jagannathan's '' Krodham'' (1982), before helming and playing the lead role in a series of action films in the early 1990s including '' Vetri Karangal'' (1991) and '' Veeramani'' (1994). In 2000, Prem directed and featured in a sequel to ''Krodham'' titled ''Krodham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krodham (1982 Film)
''Krodham'' () is 1982 Indian Tamil language, Tamil-language crime thriller film, directed by A. Jagannathan. The screenplay and story were written by Prem Menon (actor), Prem Menon and dialogue written by K. Rangarajan respectively. Music was by Shankar–Ganesh. The film stars Prem Menon, Rani Padmini (actress), Rani Padmini and S. A. Ashokan. Inspired by the American film ''Death Wish (1974 film), Death Wish'' (1974), it revolves around a man who becomes a ruthless vigilante after his wife is murdered by street punks, after which he randomly goes out and kills would-be muggers on the streets after dark. In 2000, Prem Menon acted and directed the sequel to this film ''Krodham 2''. Plot Prem is an architect living in Chennai, Madras with his wife Indhu and sister Subha and her husband Siva. The film begins with scenes of a recent outing Prem and their family and had taken to a restaurant. One day, Indhu and Subha are followed from a shopping mall by two thugs who invade the ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
