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Alex (actor)
Alex (1959 – 1 May 2011) was an Indian actor and magician. He appeared in over 100 Tamil films after making his debut in Rajinikanth's production ''Valli'' (1993) and won awards for his portrayal of characters in ''Mitta Miraasu'' and ''Kovilpatti Veeralakshmi''. Career The state government had conferred the Kalaimamani award on the actor, who also received the state award for the best character award for his performance in ''Mitta Miraasu'' (2001). Alex had also worked as an office-bearer of the South Indian Film Artistes' Association. He was in ''The Guinness Book of World Records'' and the ''Limca Book of Records The ''Limca Book of Records'' is an annual reference book published in India documenting world records held by Indians. The records are further categorized into education, literature, agriculture, medical science, business, sports, nature, advent ...'' for performing magic non-stop for 24 hours. He died at a private hospital in Chennai on 1 May 2011 following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajinikanth
Shivaji Rao Gaikwad (born 12 December 1950), known professionally as Rajinikanth, is an Indian actor, producer and screenwriter. In a career spanning over five decades, he has done 160 films that includes films in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, and Malayalam. He is widely regarded as one of the most successful and popular actors in the history of Indian cinema. Known for his uniquely styled lines and idiosyncrasies in films, he has a huge fanbase across South India and has a cult following. The Government of India honoured him with Padma Bhushan in 2000, Padma Vibhushan in 2016, India's third and second highest civilian honours, and Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2019 for his contributions to Indian cinema. Following his debut in K. Balachander's 1975 Tamil drama ''Apoorva Raagangal'', Rajinikanth's acting career commenced with a brief phase of portraying antagonistic characters in Tamil films. His major positive role as a failed lover in S. P. Muthuraman's ''Bhuvana O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasamulla Pandiyare
''Pasamulla Pandiyare'' is a 1997 Indian Tamil language film directed by T. P. Gajendran and produced by Kalyani Murugan. The film stars Rajkiran, Meena, and Roja, while M. N. Nambiar, Nizhalgal Ravi, Alex, Sangili Murugan, Vadivelu, and Senthil play supporting roles. The film had musical score by Deva. Plot Pandiyar (Rajkiran) is a genuine person adopted by Nesamani's ( M. N. Nambiar) family. The family migrates to Malaysia, leaving the house under Pandiyar and other properties under Eswaramoorthi (Alex). Vellayamma is a talented palm reader who falls for Pandiyar. Nesamani's daughter Dhanalakshmi returns to India with her husband Nagaraja (Nizhalgal Ravi) and daughter Revathi (Roja. Revathi falls in love with Pandiyar. Vellayamma reads Dhanalakshmi's palm and finds her untold secret story. Then, Nagaraja kills Vellayamma's associates with Eswaramoorthi, and the innocent man Pandiyar gets arrested for Vellayamma's murder. The rest of the story revolves around how Pandiyar prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krishna Krishna
''Krishna Krishna'' is a 2001 Indian Tamil language comedy film directed by S. Ve. Shekher, making his directorial debut. The film stars S. Ve. Shekher and Sukanya, with Vennira Aadai Moorthy, Sriman, Chinni Jayanth, Thyagu, Ramesh Khanna, Manorama, and Kovai Sarala playing supporting roles. The film had musical score by S. A. Rajkumar and was released on 8 June 2001. The film was adapted from S. Ve. Shekher's stage drama ''Adhirshtakaran''. Plot Gopalakrishnan, a perfect gentleman, wants to get married as soon as possible. His mother 'Bullet' Pushpa only wants an extremely wealthy daughter-in-law so she rejects every marriage proposal. While Bama hates the kind of rich grooms her father brings for her who's only qualification is that they are rich. One day, Bama, having decided to get married to the first bachelor she sees, sees Gopalakrishnan at the bus stop and she falls in love at first sight with him. Finally, after much effort from her end they fall in love with e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ponnana Neram
''Ponnana Neram'' () is a 2001 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by the duo Ravi-Raja. The film stars Ramarajan and Prathyusha, while Shanmugasundaram and Sukumar appear in supporting roles. Featuring music composed by Pradeep Ravi, the film was released on 14 November 2001. Plot Ramarajan portrays a police officer and Prathyusha stars as a college student, who is a prankster who often gets others into trouble. Prathyusha witnesses few terrorists planning to kill a minister — but nobody is ready to believe her. Whether Ramarajan stops the terrorist attack forms the crux of the story. Cast *Ramarajan as Manivel *Prathyusha as Pooja * Alex *Shanmugasundaram *Ganthimathi * Mansoor Ali Khan *Sukumar Bandreddi Sukumar (born 23 January 1970) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer who works in Telugu cinema. He is known for his complex, multi-layered screenplays and for infusing grey shades in the character sketches of his pro ... Soundtrack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Kudumbam
''Super Kudumbam'' () is a 2001 Indian Tamil-language comedy film directed by R. K. Kalaimani, starring Prabhu, Roja, Alex, Pratyusha, Vinu Chakravarthy, and Vivek. The music is composed by Adithyan. Plot Arun (Prabhu) and Hari (Vivek) are close friends and bank employees. Abhirami (Prathyusha) sincerely and secretly loves Arun been living in the opposite mansion of Arun for a long time. She always communicates with him through phone and monitors each and every day life of Arun with love. One fine day after much request from Arun she accepts to meet him finally to reciprocate her love for him. Shanthi (Roja) who is a pickpocketeer steals Abhirami's scooter and accidentally comes across Arun. Arun thinking she is Abhirami even helps her financially when conned unknowingly. That night Abhirami calls him to apologise for not able to come for the meet due to her scooter got stolen. Arun insults her for lying and blames her for conning him to give money. Deeply saddened and hear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kadhal Rojavae
''Kadhal Rojavae'' () is a 2000 Indian Tamil-language romance film directed by Keyaar, which was a remake of the 1991 Hindi film ''Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin'' by Mahesh Bhatt. The film stars newcomers George Vishnu and Pooja Kumar, while Sarath Babu, Charle and S. S. Chandran play supporting roles. The film's music is composed by Ilaiyaraaja. Cast *George Vishnu as Vishnu *Pooja Kumar as Pooja *Sarath Babu as Sarath *S. S. Chandran as Dixon *Charle as Nixon *Alex as Gang leader * Suryakanth as Henchman * O. A. K. Sundar as Henchman *Sujith Sagar as Arun *Thyagu as Sadasivam *Loose Mohan as Bus conductor *R. S. Shivaji as Mechanic *Madhan Bob as Hotel manager *S. N. Vasanth as Vishnu's friend *Balu Anand as Van driver *Vengal Rao as Henchman *Keyaar as Himself (cameo appearance) *M. Bhaskar as Himself (cameo appearance) *Ramki in a special appearance Production Keyaar had planned to make the film with Prashanth during 1996, but the actor's commitments to Shankar's ''Jeans'' (1998 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athey Manithan
''Athey Manithan'' () is a 2000 Tamil language horror film directed by K. Rajeshwar. The film stars Livingston, Maheswari and Lakshmi. The film, produced by T. S. Revathi, had musical score by Adithyan and was released on 28 April 2000 to negative reviews. Plot Mandhira Moorthy ( Livingston), a medical representative, will soon marry Bhavani (Maheswari) who is from a rich family. Mandhira Moorthy is deeply in love with Bhagavathi (Lakshmi), a poor dancer, and she becomes pregnant. His miser aunt pressured Mandhira Moorthy for money so he decides to leave the village for the city. Later, Bhagavathi comes to see Mandhira Moorthy after a while. Shocked to see her before his marriage, Mandhira Moorthy brings her to a remote place. He marries her in front of a statue of God and he then kills the harmless Bhagavathi. Mandhira Moorthy feels guilt for his deed. After getting to Bhavani, Mandhira Moorthy suspects Bhavani of being haunted by Bhagavathi. Cast Soundtrack The film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poomaname Vaa
''Poomaname Vaa'' is a 1999 Tamil-language romantic drama film written and directed by V. Azhagappan. The film stars Ramarajan and Sangita, while Easwari Rao and Manivannan portrayed supporting roles. The music for the film was composed by Sirpy and the film opened across Tamil Nadu in April 1999. Cast *Ramarajan *Sangita *Easwari Rao *Manivannan * Kavitha *Vadivelu *Ranjith *Vinu Chakravarthy *Senthil *Alex *Pandu *Halwa Vasu *MLA Thangaraj *Editor Sreedhar *Melur Govindhan *Vasu Vikram *Gajapathi Production The film was produced under the banner of Nalini Cine Arts by Ramarajan's wife Nalini Ramarajan. During production, the film was labelled as the actor's 40th film and 11th film as a director, but V. Azhagappan was later given the post. The initial cast included other actors such as Chandrasekhar, Manorama and Santhana Bharathi, who eventually did not feature. Release Like many of Ramarajan's films in the late 1990s, ''Poomaname Vaa'' and ''Annan'' had a delayed release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kudumba Sangili
''Kudumba Sangili'' () is a 1999 Tamil language film directed by P. N. Ramachandar. The film stars the producer Kalaipuli G. Sekaran alongside Khushbu, while Manivannan plays a supporting role. The film, which had music composed by Sirpy, opened in November 1999. Cast * Kalaipuli G. Sekaran *Khushbu * Alex *Rajesh *Nithya Ravindran *Vadivukkarasi Vadivukkarasi is an Indian actress. She made her acting debut in the Tamil film ''Sigappu Rojakkal'' (1978) and has acted in more than 350 films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam and 40 television serials in Tamil. Film director A. P. ... *Bayilvan Ranganathan * Senthil Soundtrack Release Post-release, the film was exempted from paying entertainment tax for four weeks. References 1999 films 1990s Tamil-language films {{1990s-Tamil-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumbakonam Gopalu
''Kumbakonam Gopalu'' is a 1998 Indian Tamil-language film directed by Keyaar, produced by A. V. Subba Rao, and starring Pandiarajan, Mayoori, Janagaraj and Thyagu. It has a musical score by Ilayaraja. The film was a remake of 1991 Kannada film ''Gauri Ganesha''. Child actor Mahendran won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Child Artist. Plot Gopal is a petty trickster who cheats and lies to make a false living. One day, he turns himself into an hospital, faking an abdominal issue, solely to get free lodging and food, and also his love interest Geetha. At the hospital Gopal comes across a recent patient named Gauri who has died of heart failure. Gopal gets a sudden idea and he decides to take her belongings and make some money of them, but instead finds her diary. He realizes that Gauri has come across 3 men who had significant influence in her life. The first man was her former boss who had proposed indecently to sleep with her. The second man wanted her to pretend that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sivappu Nila (1998 Film)
''Sivappu Nila'' () is a 1998 Tamil-language action thriller film directed and produced by J. George Prasad. The film stars Raja and Vineetha, with Vinu Chakravarthy, Vennira Aadai Moorthy, Vadivelu, Delhi Ganesh, Chinni Jayanth and Alex playing supporting roles. It was released on 25 December 1998. Plot Raja is a CID inspector of police who is charged to solve the murder of the smuggler Durai. The only clue he would have is that the killer rode a white horse, wore a monster mask and a black coat. In the meantime, Raja falls in love with the soft-spoken college student Raani. He then meets the tomboy Jhansi fighting with some goons who looks exactly like Raani, and she lies to him that she is Raani's twin sister. The same killer murders the smuggler Maruthu. Raja eventually finds the killer, who turns out to be Raani (who is also Jhansi), and Raani tells him about her bitter past. In the past, Ramachandran was an ex-police officer who lived happily with his two daughters: Lak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhagavath Singh (film)
''Bhagavath Singh'' is a 1998 Indian Tamil-language action drama film, written and directed by Chandrakumar. The film stars Napoleon and Sanghavi, while Goundamani and Senthil appear in supporting roles. Music for the film was composed by Deva and the film was released on 12 March 1998. Cast * Napoleon as Bhagavath Singh * Sanghavi as Sarojini * Sangeetha * Goundamani * Senthil * Vinu Chakravarthy * Ajay Rathnam * Nizhalgal Ravi * Visu *Thalaivasal Vijay * Alex * Mahendran * Ra. Sankaran Production The film marked the second venture of film maker Chandra Kumar, with Napoléon, Sanghavi and Sangeetha brought in to play the lead roles. The film marked Sangeetha's debut, after her first project, ''Poonjolai'' was shelved. Soundtrack The film's soundtrack was composed by Deva and lyrics written by Kalidasan. Release The film was ready for release by November 1997, but was delayed as a result of overcrowding at the box office. The film opened in December 1998 to negative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
