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Anbalippu
''Anbalippu'' () is a 1969 Indian Tamil-language film, directed by A. C. Tirulokchandar and produced by S. Gandhiraj. The film stars Sivaji Ganesan, B. Sarojadevi, Vijayanirmala and Jaishankar. It was released on 1 January 1969, and was a hit at the box-office. Plot Cast *Sivaji Ganesan as Velu *B. Saroja Devi as Valli *Vijayanirmala as Meena *Jaishankar as Raja *Pandari Bai as Raja's mother * M. N. Nambiar as Vasudevan * V. K. Ramasamy as Neelamegam Pillai * T. R. Ramachandran as Nayar *Nagesh as Shanmugam *Sachu as Chandra * Karuppu Subbiah as Thangam * Senthamarai as Veerasamy * Geethanjali as Dancer *Pakoda Kadhar as Shanmugam's sidekick *Loose Mohan as the buyer Soundtrack Music was composed by M. S. Viswanathan and lyrics were written by Kannadasan Kannadasan (; 24 June 1927 – 17 October 1981) was an Indian philosopher, poet, film song lyricist, producer, actor, script-writer, editor, philanthropist, and is heralded as one of the greatest and most i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakoda Kadhar
Pakoda Kadhar was an Indian actor who appeared in Tamil films (Kollywood) in comedic and supportive roles. He acted in over 200 films in the Tamil language during the decades 1960s, 1970s, 1980s. He is notable for his comedian roles along with actors Nagesh, Suruli Rajan and Thengai Srinivasan. Some of his notable movies are Madras To Pondicherry, Raman Ethanai Ramanadi, Aalayam, Anbalippu ''Anbalippu'' () is a 1969 Indian Tamil-language film, directed by A. C. Tirulokchandar and produced by S. Gandhiraj. The film stars Sivaji Ganesan, B. Sarojadevi, Vijayanirmala and Jaishankar. It was released on 1 January 1969, and was a hit ..., Deiveega Uravu, Kann Malar and ''Murugan Kaattiya Vazhi''. Family He has a wife Mumtaz and only son, Nagoor Moideen. Death He died of heart disease on 21 January 1998. Partial Filmography ''This is a partial filmography. You can expand it.'' 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s References External links * {{DEFAULTSOR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karuppu Subbiah
Karuppu Subbiah was an Indian actor who had acted over 300 Tamil language films in comedy roles and minor roles. He also has another name 'Mottai' Subbiah. He is notable for his comedian roles along with actor Goundamani. And also he acted along with most of Sivaji Ganesan Villupuram Chinnaiya Manrayar Ganesamoorthy, better known by his stage name Sivaji Ganesan, (1 October 1928 – 21 July 2001) was an Indian actor and producer. He was active in Tamil cinema during the latter half of the 20th century. Sivaji Ga ...'s films during the 1960s and 1970s in cameo and minor roles. And, He has acted in several films in comedy roles in the 1980s and 1990s. His debut film was Indira En Selvam in 1962. He is well known for his dialogue, Jambalakidi Pamba. Filmography ''This is a partial filmography. You can expand it.'' 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s References External links * {{IMDb name, 0836908, Karuppu Subbiah Indian male comedians Male actors in Tamil cinema Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senthamarai (actor)
Senthamarai was an Indian actor who acted in Tamil cinema and theatre. Career Senthamarai was born on 13 April 1935 at Kancheepuram. His family included his father Thiruvenkadam, his mother Vedammal, and brother Kamalakannan. Thiruvenkadam died when Senthamarai was seven years old. Senthamarai acted many stage plays along with Sivaji Ganesan and M. G. Ramachandran Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran (17 January 1917 24 December 1987), also popularly known as M.G.R., was an Indian politician, actor, philanthropist, and filmmaker who served as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu from 1977 until his death in 1987 ... before entering film. In 1980's, he acted mainly in villainous roles, but also did character roles opposite many leading actors of those times. Family Senthamarai was married to Kousalya who currently acts in Tamil serials. Death Senthamarai died on 14 August 1992 of a heart attack. Filmography 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s References E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vijayanirmala
Vijaya Nirmala (born Nidudavolu Nirmala; 20 February 1946 – 27 June 2019) was an Indian actress, director, and producer known for her works predominantly in Telugu cinema along with a few Malayalam and Tamil films. In a career spanning over six decades, she acted in more than 200 films and directed 44 films. In 2002, she entered the ''Guinness Book of World Records'' as the female director who has directed the most number of films in the world. In 2008, she received the Raghupathi Venkaiah Award for lifetime achievement in Telugu cinema. Born as Nirmala, she ventured into acting as a child artist with films like ''Macha Rekai'' (1950) and ''Panduranga Mahatyam'' (1957). She debuted as a lead actress in the 1964 Malayalam film ''Bhargavi Nilayam'' which became one of the biggest hits of that year. She then acted in the Tamil film ''Enga Veettu Penn'' (1965) produced by Vijaya Productions. She added Vijaya to her name as a mark of gratitude to the production house that gave her a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loose Mohan
Arumugam Mohanasundaram (8 February 1928 – 16 September 2012), popularly known as Loose Mohan and Raja Gopalakrishnan, was an Indian actor who had acted as a comedian in over 1000 Tamil films. He is credited with popularizing Madras Bashai, a Cockney of Tamil language spoken in Chennai city. Early life Born in Kanchipuram, son of old actor "Loose Arumugam", Mohan migrated to Madras at an early age and debuted at age 16 in the 1944 film ''Harichandra'' as P. U. Chinnappa's son. However, most of his successes were in the late 1970s and 1980s when he acted as a comedian alongside stars such as Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth. Career He acted as servant in the movie "Kaththiruntha Kangal" 1962 film with Savithri and Gemini Ganesan. His breakthrough movie as a comedian was the 1979 film ''Rosapoo Ravikaikari'', after which he acted in more than 1000 films, including four movies in Marathi and one each in Bhojpuri, Hindi and Tulu. In 2000, Mohan was awarded the Kalaimamani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geetanjali (actress)
Geethanjali (1947 – 31 October 2019) was an Indian actress who worked in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Hindi films. In an career spanning close to six decades, she featured in over 500 films across multiple languages. Her first film as a dancer is Rani Ratnaprabha in 1960. NTR introduced her to the silver screen as a heroine with his directorial debut film '' Sita Rama Kalyanam'' in 1961. She was famous for her roles in '' Murali Krishna'' (1964), ''Doctor Chakravarthy'' (1964), ''Illalu'' (1965), ''Sambarala Rambabu'' (1970), '' Kaalam Marindi'' (1972), and ''Abbayigaru Ammayigaru'' (1973). She was also a member of the Nandi Awards committee. Personal life Geethanjali worked in the Hindi film '' Parasmani'' (1963), a Lakshmikant-Pyarelal production. Since her name Mani was already present in the title, the film-maker re-christened her as Geetanjali. Geethanjali worked with actor Rama Krishna in number of films like ''Thodu Needa'' (1965), ''Hantakulostunnaru Jagratta'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Films
The year 1969 in film involved some significant events, with '' Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' dominating the U.S. box office and becoming one of the highest-grossing films of all time and ''Midnight Cowboy'', a film rated X, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1969 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 14 - Louis F. Polk Jr. becomes president and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer * February 23 - Madhubala dies due to a congenital heart disease, at age 36. * June 22 - American singer and actress Judy Garland dies at age 47 of an accidental barbiturate overdose in London. * July 8 - Kinney National Services Inc. acquire substantially all of the assets of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. * July 13 - Al Pacino's film debut (''Me, Natalie''). * Summer - Last year for prize giving at the Venice Film Festival until it is revived in 1980. From 1969 to 1979, the festival is non-competitive. * A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s Tamil-language Films
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xian of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sirkazhi Govindarajan
Sirkazhi Govindarajan (19 January 1933 – 24 March 1988) was an Indian Tamil Carnatic vocalist and a leading playback singer of Indian cinema. Early life Govindarajan, was born on 19 January 1933 at Sirkazhi (a small town in present day Mayiladuthurai district, Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India ...; famed birthplace of Sambandar, one of the 63 Nayanars of the Saiva faith) to Siva Chidambaram and Avayambal Ammal. At the age of eight, Govindarajan began to perform at the Tirupurasundari Temple on the occasion of the Gnana Paal Festival. Musical education He graduated from the Tamil Isai Sangam, Tamil Isai College in Chennai (Madras) in 1949 with the degree 'Isaimani'. He also graduated with the Degree of 'Sangeetha Vidwan'. At the same time, he start ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaana (music Streaming Service)
Gaana is India's largest commercial music streaming service with over 200 million monthly users. It was launched in April 2010 by Times Internet and provides both Indian and international music content. The entire Indian music catalog is available to users worldwide. Gaana features music from 21 Indian languages including the major languages such as Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Urdu, Odia, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Maithili, Malayalam and other Indian regional languages. Gaana allows users to make their playlists public so that they can be seen by other users. They can view and favorite playlists. Its mobile app was launched to support almost all popular operating systems like Android, iOS and Windows. Gaana is priced at per month (within India) or $3.99 per month (outside India). Gaana becomes a subscription-only service after failing to secure fresh funds or find a buyer. And it does not provide customers with free streaming fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kannadasan
Kannadasan (; 24 June 1927 – 17 October 1981) was an Indian philosopher, poet, film song lyricist, producer, actor, script-writer, editor, philanthropist, and is heralded as one of the greatest and most important lyricists in India. Frequently called ''Kaviarasu'', With over 5000 lyrics, 6000 poems and 232 books, Kannadasan is widely known by the sobriquet Kaviarasu (King of poets) and he is also considered to be the greatest modern Tamil poet after Subramania Bharati. including novels, epic poetry, epics, plays, essays, his most popular being the 10-part religious book on Hinduism, ''Arthamulla Indhu Matham'' (''Meaningful Hindu Religion''). He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel ''Cheraman Kathali'' in the year 1980 and was the first to receive the National Film Award for Best Lyrics, given in 1969 for the film ''Kuzhanthaikkaga''. Personal life Kannadasan was born to Sathappan Chettiar and Visalakshi Aachi in a Nagarathar, Nattukottai Nagarathar family in Sir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |