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Aadu Puli
''Aadu Puli'' () is a 2011 Indian Tamil language action drama film written and directed by newcomer Vijay Prakash and produced by S. Michael Rayappan. The film stars Aadhi, Poorna, and Prabhu, while Suresh, Ravichandran, K. R. Vijaya, Anupama Kumar, and Yuvarani play supporting roles. The music was composed by Sundar C. Babu with editing by Kishore Te and cinematography by Rajavel Olhiveeran. The film released on 18 February 2011. It opened to negative reviews and was a flop at the box office. The film was dubbed into Telugu as ''Chelgatam''. Plot Bhagyanathan (Prabhu) is a crazy fan of MGR and has named his son Idhayakani (Aadhi). Idhayakani is a nice guy who watches movies, plays basketball, flirts with girls like Anjali ( Poorna), and has a happy family consisting of his father, loving mother Kalaiarasi ( Anupama), sister, grandfather Sabapathy (Ravichandran), and grandmother Sampoornam (K. R. Vijaya). However, Thillainayagam (Suresh), Anjali's father, is a cunning minister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aadhi (actor)
Aadhi Pinisetty is an Indian actor who appears in Tamil language, Tamil and Telugu language, Telugu films. He is the recipient of a Nandi Awards, Nandi Award and a SIIMA Award, in addition to two nominations for Filmfare Awards South. Born to film director Ravi Raja Pinisetty, he debuted in 2006 with the Telugu film ''Oka V Chitram.'' His first prominent role was in the Tamil film ''Eeram'' (2009), produced by director S. Shankar. Early life Aadhi Pinisetty was born into a Telugu language, Telugu-speaking family. His father, Ravi Raja Pinisetty has directed over 50 films. He grew up in Chennai and was schooled at Don Bosco Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Chennai, Don Bosco. Career Pinisetty made his debut in 2006 with the Teja (director), Teja-directed ''Oka V Chitram''. He later appeared in the Tamil film ''Mirugam'' (2007). In 2009, he starred in the supernatural thriller ''Eeram''. In 2010, he had two releases, ''Ayyanar (film), Ayyanar'' and ''Aadu Puli'', which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaali (poet)
Tiruchirapalli Srinivasan Rangarajan, professionally credited by his pseudonym Vaali (born 29 October 1931 – 18 July 2013) was an Indian poet who is the highest songs wrote lyricist in cinema and whose works were in Tamil, had a five-decade long association with the Tamil film industry, wrote over 15,000 songs. He acted in a number of films, including '' Sathya'', ''Hey Ram'', '' Paarthale Paravasam'' and '' Poikkal Kudhirai''. He was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour in 2007. Biography Vaali was born in a Iyengar brahmin family as T. S. Rangarajan on 29 October 1931 to Srinivasan Iyengar and Ponnammal Iyengar. His native place is Thirupparaithurai, Tiruchirappalli district. Growing up, he studied at Higher Secondary School for Boys, Srirangam, Srirangam till he finished his SSLC. He went to Madras in the 1950 seeking an opportunity in Tamil film industry. In the 1960s and 1970s, he received patronage from actor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Action Drama Films
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Sujatha Mohan
Sujatha Mohan (credited as Sujatha) is an Indian playback singer who is popular for singing in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu movies. She has also sung for Kannada, Badaga, Hindi and Marathi movies. In a career spanning 48 years, she has recorded more than 7,000 songs to date. Personal life Sujatha Mohan is the granddaughter of Parur T. K. Narayana Pillai, the first Chief Minister of the erstwhile Travancore-Cochin State after India gained Independence. Her father, the late Dr. Vijayendran died when she was two years old. She completed her graduation in Economics from the St. Teresa's College, Ernakulam. She married Dr. V. Krishna Mohan on 9 May 1981. Her only daughter, Shweta Mohan, is also a singer. Radhika Thilak and G. Venugopal are her cousins. Career Sujatha shot to fame in the seventies as ''Baby Sujatha'', the schoolgirl who regularly used to sing with K. J. Yesudas in his stage shows all over the world. She recorded her first song, "Kannezhuthy Pottuthottu" when s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hariharan (singer)
Hariharan (born 3 April 1955) is an Indian playback, bhajan and ghazal singer who predominantly sings in Tamil, Hindi and Telugu languages. He has also sung over 15,000 notable songs in 10 regional languages including Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Sinhala and Bhojpuri. He is an established ghazal singer and one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music. In 2004, he was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India and is a two-time National Award winner. Hariharan, associating with Lesle Lewis, formed Colonial Cousins, a two-member band. They have cut many private music albums and also scored music for few feature films in Tamil and Hindi. On 9 October 2021 at 13:47, Hariharan and late Gulshan Kumar's Hanuman Chalisa recorded under the label of T-Series crossed the 2-billion views mark on YouTube, making it the first devotional song in the world to do so. Personal life and education Hariharan was born to classical musicians H A S Mani and Alamelu Mani. HAS Mani - h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jyotsna Radhakrishnan
Jyotsna Radhakrishnan (born 5 September 1986) is an Indian playback singer. She predominantly works in 12+ languages including Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. She has sung more than 1000 songs. She is based in Thrissur, Kerala. Jyotsna gained wider recognition for singing popular songs such as “''Karuppinazhaku''” from '' Swapnakoodu'' (2003), “''Themma Themma Themmadikkatte''” from '' Rain Rain Come Again'' (2004) and "''Raftara''" from ''Lucifer'' (2019). Early life Jyotsna was born in Kuwait. At a very young age she moved to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. She did her schooling at the Asian International School in Ruwais, an industrial area west of Abu Dhabi, where she excelled at singing. Singing career Jyotsna's interest in music started at a very young age. She learned the Carnatic vocal style under Mangad Natesan, and the Hindustani classical vocal style under Guru Dinesh Devdas. Although she started her career in Malayalam cinema with the song "Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suchithra
Suchitra Ramadurai, known by the mononym Suchitra, is an Indian radio jockey, popular playback singer, songwriter, composer, voice artist, dubbing artist and film actress. She has sung in multiple languages including Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu. Early life Suchitra was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, as the daughter of Ramadurai and Padmaja. She has a sister named, Sunitha. Suchitra is a BSc graduate from Mar Ivanios College (Trivandrum). Later on she moved to Coimbatore for her MBA from PSG Institute of Management. She was part of a music band at PSG. Career Suchitra joined Sify for a year, after graduating. She responded to an ad for the post of an RJ in Radio Mirchi. She became known as Rj Suchi, with her popular morning show ''Hello Chennai''. Her distinct and bold voice made her very popular with the younger crowd. She still does a radio show called ''Flight983'' on Radio Mirchi, on Sunday evenings (7–9 pm). The show deals with interesting international ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinmayi
Chinmayi Sripaada is an Indian playback singer, working mainly for the South Indian film industry. She is also a voice actor, television presenter, radio jockey, and an entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of a translation services company ''Blue Elephant'', a Skincare company importing K-beauty to India - ''Isle Of Skin'', and a medi-spa ''Deep Skin Dialogues'' in Chennai and Hyderabad. She is often credited as Chinmayee and Indai Haza. She rose to fame for her critically acclaimed song "''Oru Deivam Thantha Poovae''" from the National Award winning movie ''Kannathil Muthamittal''. Early life and background Chinmayi received the CCRT Scholarship for Young Talent for Carnatic Music from the Government of India at the age of 10. She won the gold medal from All India Radio for Ghazals in 2000 and the Silver for Hindustani Classical Music in 2002. She learned German as a language in the Max Mueller Bhavan in Chennai and completed certification courses from NIIT and SSI in we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karthik (singer)
Karthik (born 7 November 1980) is an Indian playback singer and composer. Karthik started his professional singing career as a backing vocalist and has since been working as a playback singer. He has sung more than 8000 songs in 15 Indian languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Odia, Bengali, Marathi and Hindi. Early and personal life Karthikeyan hails from Tiruvarur district. He is a trained Carnatic music vocalist. He was part of a college band and regularly participated in IIT Madras Fest ''Saarang''. An ardent fan of A. R. Rahman, Karthik's dream was to meet Rahman and sing for him. Playback singer Srinivas, who collaborated often with Rahman was Karthik's close friend's cousin. Srinivas encouraged Karthik to look at singing as a career, which prompted Karthik to resume his singing lessons. One year later, Srinivas recommended Karthik's name to Rahman, who needed fresh voices for backing vocalists for a song from '' Pukar''. Karthik eventually got the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shankar Mahadevan
Shankar Mahadevan (born 3 March 1967) is an Indian singer and composer who is part of the Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy trio that writes music for Indian films. Personal life and early career Shankar Mahadevan was born in Chembur, Mumbai into a Tamil speaking family from Palakkad, Kerala. He learned Hindustani classical and Carnatic music as a child, and began playing the veena at the age of five under Shri Lalitha Venkataraman. Mahadevan studied music under Pandit Shrinivas Khale and T.R. Balamani. He is an alumnus of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour High School, Chembur and graduated in 1988 with a degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology in Navi Mumbai, affiliated to Mumbai University, and was a software engineer for the company, Leading Edge.After working for Leading Edge Systems (now Trigyn Technologies Limited), Mahadevan ventured into music. Musical career Mahadevan got early fame as a indipop star with his fusion of Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thoonga Nagaram
''Thoonga Nagaram'' () is a 2011 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film written and directed by debutant Gaurav Narayanan, starring himself along with Vimal, Bharani, Nishanth, and Anjali. The film, produced by Dhayanidhi Alagiri's Cloud Nine Movies, was shot entirely in Madurai, the city where the story takes place and which the title refers to. It was released on 4 February 2011 to relatively positive reviews and excellent box office collection. The film was dubbed in Telugu under the title ''Naluguru Snehithula Katha''. Plot Kannan ( Vimal), Ayyavu (Bharani), Rajamani (Gaurav Narayanan), and Mariappan (Nishanth) are four friends who live their lives in their own way in Madurai. They are callous youths who go hammer and tongs to make both ends meet. Kannan, a wedding videographer, comes across his cousin Radha ( Anjali), who is a compere in a local cable TV channel, and love blossoms between them. However, one event changes the course of their life. Kannan bashes a yout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viruthagiri
''Virudhagiri'' is a 2010 Indian Tamil-language action film written and directed by Vijayakanth, making his directorial debut, besides playing the title character as well. This was also his final film in his cinematic career before his full-fledged career into politics. It was later dubbed in Hindi as ''Inspector Dabangg''. It is a remake of the English language French film '' Taken''. Although this movie is supposed to occur in Australia, it was actually shot in Malaysia. Plot Virudhagiri (Vijayakanth), a sincere police officer endeavors in safeguarding the societal peace. Gaining international recognition for accomplishing a security task in foreign countries, he returns to Chennai handling a serious case of transgenders being scourged to death for organ racketing. On an unexpected turn, his niece Priya (Madhuri Itagi) undertakes a trip to Australia, where she gets kidnapped by a group of strangers. Using his high-skilled intelligence activities, Virudhagiri flies down to the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
