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Aaha Kalyanam
''Aaha Kalyanam'' () is a 2014 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film directed by debutant A. Gokul Krishna and produced by Aditya Chopra's Yash Raj Films. A remake of Maneesh Sharma's 2010 Hindi film, ''Band Baaja Baaraat'', the film stars Simran, Nani and Vaani Kapoor. Although it was planned for bilingual release, it was shot completely in Tamil, and a dubbed Telugu version was released simultaneously along with the Tamil version. The film was released worldwide on 21 February 2014. Plot Shakthi ( Nani) is street-smart and fun-loving. Intelligent and quirky Shruti (Vaani Kapoor), who assists the wedding coordinator, sees Shakthi at the front of the food serving line and suspects he is gatecrashing to eat for free. She confronts Shakthi, who quickly summons his friend, the videographer at the wedding, and pretends he is part of the film crew and has a right to be there. After seeing Shruti dance at the wedding, Shakthi cannot resist the temptation to make a video of her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Band Baaja Baaraat
''Band Baaja Baaraat'' (; also known as ''Wedding Planners'') is a 2010 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by Maneesh Sharma in his directorial debut from a screenplay by Habib Faisal, and produced by Aditya Chopra for Yash Raj Films. It stars Anushka Sharma and Ranveer Singh in his debut lead acting role. In the film, Shruti Kakkar (Sharma) and Bittoo Sharma (Singh) team up to create a wedding planning enterprise ''Band Baaja Baaraat'' released worldwide on 10 December 2010, and proved to be a commercial success, despite initial competition from ''No Problem'' and ''Tees Maar Khan''. Upon release, it received widespread critical acclaim, with praise for its novel setting, screenplay, soundtrack and the leads' performances. At the 56th Filmfare Awards, ''Band Baaja Baaraat'' received 6 nominations, including Best Film, Best Director (Maneesh Sharma) and Best Actress (Anushka Sharma), and won 2 awards – Best Male Debut (Singh) and Best Debut Director (Mane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deepa Venkat
Deepa Venkat is a Tamil film and television actress. Besides being an actress, she is also a popular dubbing artist and a radio disc jockey at Hello FM Chennai. She has played leading roles in over 80 television serials and a few Tamil movies. She has dubbed for various famous actresses such as Simran, Sneha, Jyothika, Nayanthara, Anushka Shetty, Kajal Aggarwal, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan & other actresses in various films. She was given a Kalaimamani award by the Government of Tamil Nadu. Career Deepa made her acting career with the movie '' Paasamalargal'', along with Arvind Swamy, Revathi, Srividya, M. N. Nambiar, and Chinni Jayanth in 1994. She played ''Jhanvi'', in a supporting child artist role. She started her dubbing career in the movie Appu for Devayani which was successful an box office hit.She has dubbed for various actresses in Tamil movie industry. Awards * 2012: Won Norway Tamil Film Festival Award for Best Dubbing Artist for ''Mayakkam Enna'' * 2012: ''N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sify
Sify Technologies Limited (formerly Satyam Infoway) is an Indian information and communications technology company providing end-to-end ICT solutions including telecom services, data center services, cloud & managed services, transformation integration services and application integration services. Sify Technologies Limited played an important role during the early spread of Internet and e-commerce in India. It has been listed on NASDAQ as SIFY since October, 1999. Merill Lynch was the underwriter for Sify's IPO on the NASDAQ. Sify was founded and led to IPO by R. Ramaraj. History In November 1999, Sify paid crore for a 24.5% stake in IndiaWorld Communications. It acquired the remaining shares for crore on 30 June 2000. In 2000, Sify sponsored the India Olympics team. In March 2002, Sify made an agreement with Makemytrip to run Sify's travel portal. In January 2002, Sify announced prizes for most emails sent under a 6-week contest called "Sify Greenmail", promoting emails ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindustan Times
''Hindustan Times'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi. It is the flagship publication of HT Media, an entity controlled by the KK Birla family, and is owned by Shobhana Bhartia. It was founded by Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, founder-father of the Akali movement and the Shiromani Akali Dal, in Delhi and played integral roles in the Indian independence movement as a nationalist daily. ''Hindustan Times'' is one of the largest newspapers in India by circulation. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 993,645 copies as of November 2017. The Indian Readership Survey 2014 revealed that ''HT'' is the second-most widely read English newspaper in India after ''The Times of India''. It is popular in North India, with simultaneous editions from New Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi and Chandigarh. The print location of Nagpur was discontinued from September 1997, and that of Jaipur from June 2006. ''HT'' launched a youth daily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indo-Asian News Service
Indo-Asian News Service or IANS is a private Indian news agency. It was founded in 1986 by Indian American publisher Gopal Raju as the "India Abroad News Service" and later renamed. Their main offices are located in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The service reports news, views and analysis from the subcontinent about the country, across a wide range of subjects, to subscribers via the Internet. While IANS is primarily known as a wire service in English and Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ..., it also has a publishing division that currently produces newspapers and periodicals for other clients in the media industry. IANS also operates a mobile news service. References Further reading * News agencies based in India Mass media companies established in 1986 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hindu
''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It began as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian newspapers of record and the second most circulated English-language newspaper in India, after '' The Times of India''. , ''The Hindu'' is published from 21 locations across 11 states of India. ''The Hindu'' has been a family-owned newspaper since 1905, when it was purchased by S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar from the original founders. It is now jointly owned by Iyengar's descendants, referred to as the "Kasturi family", who serve as the directors of the holding company. The current chairperson of the group is Malini Parthasarathy, a great-granddaughter of Iyengar. Except for a period of about two years, when S. Varadarajan held the editorship of the newspaper, the editorial positions of the paper were always held by members of the family or held under their direction. Histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baradwaj Rangan
Baradwaj Rangan is an Indian film critic, writer, and formerly the deputy editor of ''The Hindu''. He later became a senior editor of Film Companion. Rangan won the National Film Award for Best Film Critic in 2006. Before joining ''The Hindu'', Rangan wrote for ''The New Indian Express''. He has also authored two books, worked as a screenwriter, and is a teacher at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. Career Baradwaj Rangan had no formal training in filmmaking or cinema writing. He is a chemical engineering graduate from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. According to him, it was a time when "parents considered only medicine or engineering" to be "serious professions", that he did not have interest but continued with it anyway. Rangan claims that he was fascinated with writing and liked reading critical analyses on world cinema, especially those by American critics. He was selected for a workshop by the Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mysore
Mysore (), officially Mysuru (), is a city in the southern part of the state of Karnataka, India. Mysore city is geographically located between 12° 18′ 26″ north latitude and 76° 38′ 59″ east longitude. It is located at an altitude of above mean sea level. Mysore is situated at the foothills of Chamundi Hills about towards the southwest of Bangalore and spread across an area of . Mysore City Corporation is responsible for the civic administration of the city, which is also the headquarters of Mysore district and Mysore division. It served as the capital city of the Kingdom of Mysore for nearly six centuries from 1399 until 1956. The Kingdom was ruled by the Wadiyar dynasty, with a brief period of interregnum in the late 18th century when Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan were in power. The Wadiyars were patrons of art and culture. Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali also contributed significantly to the cultural and economic growth of the city and the state by planting mulber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jabardasth (film)
''Jabardasth'' is a 2013 Telugu-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Nandini Reddy under the banner of Sri Sai Ganesh Productions. It stars Siddharth and Samantha Ruth Prabhu with Nithya Menen in an important role. The film released on 22 February 2013 and was commercially successful at the box office. The film is heavily inspired by 2010 Hindi film ''Band Baaja Baaraat''. Yash Raj Films, producers of the Hindi film, claimed that ''Jabardasth'' is an unofficial remake and planned to take legal action against its makers. Plot This movie shows how business partners fell in love gradually. Cast * Siddharth as Bairraju * Samantha Ruth Prabhu as Shreya * Nithya Menen as Saraswati * Srihari as Javed Ibrahim * Sayaji Shinde as Bihar Yadav * Pragathi as Shreya's mother * Thagubothu Ramesh as Ramesh * Vennela Kishore as Software Subramanyam * Suresh as Vamshi Krishna * Arjunan * Dharmavarapu Subramanyam * Telangana Shakuntala * Dhanraj * Y. Kasi Viswanath * Nall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamannaah
Tamanna Bhatia (born 21 December 1989), known professionally as Tamannaah, is an Indian actress who appears primarily in Telugu and Tamil films, along with a few Hindi films. In 2005, she made her acting debut at the age of 15 in the Hindi film '' Chand Sa Roshan Chehra'' and appeared in the Abhijeet Sawant album song "''Lafzon main''" from the album ''Aapka Abhijeet'', which was also released in 2005, before working in Telugu cinema and Tamil cinema. In the same year, Tamannaah made her Telugu film debut in ''Sri'', and the next year she appeared in her first Tamil film '' Kedi''. In 2007, she starred in two college life-based drama films, ''Happy Days'' in Telugu and ''Kalloori'' in Tamil. Bhatia's notable films in Telugu cinema include ''Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam'' (2009), '' 100% Love'' (2011), ''Oosaravelli'' (2011), ''Racha'' (2012), ''Tadakha'' (2013), '' Baahubali: The Beginning'' (2015), ''Bengal Tiger'' (2015), ''Oopiri'' (2016), '' F2: Fun and Frustration'' (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trisha Krishnan
Trisha Krishnan (born 4 May 1983), known mononymously as Trisha, is an Indian actress and model, who primarily works in Tamil and Telugu films. She was noticed after winning Miss Chennai contest (1999), which marked her entry into the film industry. Trisha is often referred as ''Queen Of South India'' for her performances across all South Indian languages. She has been ranked among the best actresses of South India by ''The Times of India''. After appearing in a supporting role in the 1999 Tamil film ''Jodi'', she had her first lead role in the 2002 film ''Mounam Pesiyadhe''. She later rose to fame starring in the successful films, ''Saamy'' (2003), ''Ghilli'' (2004) and ''Aaru'' (2005) in Tamil cinema and '' Varsham'' (2004), ''Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana'' (2005) and ''Athadu'' (2005) in Telugu cinema. she secured her first Filmfare Award for Best Telugu Actress in a Lead role for ''Varsham'' in 2004. She went on to win the award two more times for ''Nuvvostanante Nenod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravi Teja
Bhupatiraju Ravi Shankar Raju (born 26 January 1968), known professionally as Ravi Teja, is an Indian film actor and producer who predominantly works in Telugu cinema. He is known for his roles in action comedy films. He is one of the highest-paid actors in the Telugu film industry. He has won three state Nandi Awards The Nandi Awards are the awards that recognise the excellence in Telugu cinema, Telugu theatre and Telugu television, and Lifetime achievements in Indian cinema. Presented annually by the Government of Andhra Pradesh, the award is named after ... and one Filmfare Awards South, Filmfare Award South. He is popularly known by the moniker "Mass Maharaja". Ravi Teja started his film career in an uncredited role in the 1990 film ''Karthavyam (1990 film), Karthavyam'', and played minor or uncredited roles in many films such as ''Allari Priyudu'' (1993), ''Ninne Pelladata (1996 film), Ninne Pelladata'' (1996). Then, he appeared in meatier supporting roles in films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
