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Crazy Mohan
Mohan Rangachari (16 October 1952 – 10 June 2019) known professionally as Crazy Mohan, was an Indian actor, comedian, screenwriter and playwright. An engineer by profession, Mohan started writing plays and established his own drama troupe called "Crazy Creations" in 1979. In addition to dramas and tele-serials, Mohan worked as a dialogue writer on a number of comedy films. Mohan had written over 30 plays, worked on over 40 films, having cameo roles in each film, and written 100 short stories. The Tamil Nadu state government in the year 2004, awarded him the Kalaimamani title for excellence in the field of arts and literature. Career Mohan was a student at the College of Engineering, Guindy, where he graduated as a mechanical engineer in 1973. His guide was his classmate S. Ravi, who was the President of Tamil Mandram. Before becoming a full-time writer, Mohan was working at Sundaram - Clayton Limited. At the College of Engineering, Guindy, in February 1972, he first wro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maadhu Balaji
Maadhu Balaji, born as Balaji, is an Indian actor and comedian known for his roles in Tamil theatre plays and Tamil television serials. Balaji has acted in a number of stage plays and films. He is the brother of the late ace humorist and playwright Crazy Mohan. He gave himself the prefix "Maadhu" after Nagesh's name in '' Ethir Neechal'' (1968). Balaji graduated from the Vivekananda College, Madras University in Chennai. His stage career started during his college days where he started acting in a number of stage plays and dramas and was touted as a prospective stage and film actor. With Crazy Mohan and close friends, Maadhu Balaji established ''Crazy Creations'' in 1979, one of the leading drama troupes in Tamil stage today, with an impeccable history of 15 launches and over 5000 shows all around the globe. Balaji acts as Maadhu, the lead role in all these dramas and has the amazing track record of not missing even one of these shows. Theatre Some of popular Tamil dramas a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian (1996 Film)
''Indian'' () is a 1996 Indian Tamil-language vigilante action film written and directed by Shankar and produced by A. M. Rathnam. The film stars Kamal Haasan in a dual role opposite Nedumudi Venu, Sukanya, Manisha Koirala and Urmila Matondkar. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by A. R. Rahman, while cinematography was handled by Jeeva. The film focuses on an ex-freedom fighter turned vigilante bent on rooting out corruption, and his son, who is at the other end of the spectrum by facilitating corrupt practices leading to some unfortunate events. He is well trained in Varma Kalai, an ancient lethal martial art used for close-quarters combat. ''Indian'' was released on 9 May 1996 worldwide and opened to high critical acclaim on the way to becoming a major commercial success in the box office. It became the highest grossing Tamil film of all time and also the first film from Tamil and South India to gross 50 crore at worldwide box office. The film was selected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magalir Mattum (1994 Film)
''Magalir Mattum'' () is a 1994 Indian Tamil-language satirical film directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao, produced by Kamal Haasan, and written by Crazy Mohan. The film stars Nassar, Revathi, Urvashi and Rohini. It revolves around three women deciding to gang up on their lecherous office boss who constantly harasses them. Haasan wrote a story inspired by the 1980 American film '' 9 to 5'' which Mohan then expanded into the screenplay of ''Magalir Mattum''. The film was Thirunavukarasu's first as an independent cinematographer and P. N. Satish worked as the editor. Ilaiyaraaja composed the music while Vaali wrote the lyrics. ''Magalir Mattum'' was released on 25 February 1994 and became a commercial success, running for over 175 days in theatres. The film won the V. Shantaram Silver Award. For her performance, Urvashi won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award Special Prize for Best Actress. The film became a milestone in Tamil cinema for the topics it addressed, su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indrudu Chandrudu
''Indrudu Chandrudu'' is a 1989 Indian Telugu-language black comedy film directed by Suresh Krissna and produced by D. Ramanaidu, starring Kamal Haasan, Vijayashanti and Charan Raj. It was released on 24 November 1989. The film is based on the 1988 American film ''Moon over Parador''. Plot G. K. Rayudu is a corrupt Mayor. Along with his assistant Tripathi, he takes a bribe, sells a market to a rich businessman, and forces the poor people doing business in the land to move out, threatening physical harm. Although Rayudu is married to Janaki, he has a mistress who is his secretary. Rayudu knows that a journalist Sandhya is investigating. He and his henchmen go to her place to destroy the evidence. She reveals to Rayudu that his mistress and Tripathi are married and have been cheating him out of his money for a long time. He goes to Tripathi's house and finds stash of diamonds and takes it. Rayudu gets a change of heart and returns to his house and spends sometime with his younge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unnai Solli Kutramillai
''Unnai Solli Kutramillai'' () i a 1990 Indian Tamil-language film, directed by Ameerjan, starring Karthik and Sithara. The film, produced by Kavithalayaa Productions, was released on 17 March 1990. Plot Balu is a graduate youth who came from his village to town, who wants to become rich. He works as a police informer and falls in love with Janaki, the daughter of Inspector Veerapandian. Veerapandian asks Balu to watch his daughter closely, to see if she had a boyfriend. In the same time, Veerapandian's enemy Kumar tries to kidnap her daughter, they fail due to his opposition. Balu finds an illegal drug trade and his house's owner was sent to jail, then his all family commits suicide. Veerapandian is promoted as assistant commissioner and Balu resigns his job. One day, Veerapandian finds Balu in a crime scene and asks him to say identify the killer, but he refuses. Even after being tortured, he says nothing. After being released from prison, he cannot find a job. Baby is k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katha Nayagan (1988 Film)
''Katha Nayagan'' () is a 1988 Indian Tamil-language comedy film, directed by Muktha Srinivasan and produced by Ramaswamy Govind and Muktha S. Ravi. The film stars Pandiarajan, S. V. Sekhar, Rekha and Manorama. It is a remake of the Malayalam film ''Nadodikkattu''. Plot Friends Mani and Ramani are B.Com and SSLC graduates respectively. They have difficulties finding a job suited to their qualification. Even if they find a job, they are unable to sustain in their job for long due to their attitude. Due to their innocence, Mani and Ramani are often fooled by people. One man sells them a cow saying it will give them many litres of milk per day, but the cow ends up hardly giving them any milk. After such failed endeavours, they meet an agent, who promises them to take them to Dubai and give them a job there. They give all their money to the agent, and he tells them to get on a boat. But they are fooled because the boat goes to Kerala instead. In Kerala, a drug smuggling gang m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinna Mapillai
''Sinna Mapplai'' (), also spelt ''Chinna Mappillai'', is a 1993 Indian Tamil-language comedy film directed and co-written by Santhana Bharathi. The film stars Prabhu and Sukanya, with Radha Ravi, Anand, Sivaranjani and Visu in supporting roles. It was released on 14 January 1993. This film ran over 175 days and declared as block buster. The film was remade in Telugu as ''Chinna Alludu'' (1993), in Kannada as ''Coolie Raja'' (1999) and twice in Hindi as ''Coolie No.1'' ( in 1995 and in 2020). Plot Thangavel rabhuis a coolie in a bus stand and a bachelor too. One day, he goes to look a bride for him in someone's house, there he was insulted as if he has been working there in a bus stand for the small wages. On that day night, he comes feeling upset and notice the marriage broker Ambalavanan isuwhom he had helped before from the morons the other day was also sitting there. Then he is sharing the bad incident how it was happened and also was neglected in a bride's place. Whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
14th Cinema Express Awards
The 14th Cinema Express Awards Cinema Express Awards are presented annually by Indian Express Group on behalf of Cinema Express film magazine to honour artistic excellence of professionals in the south Indian film industry which comprises Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam ... were held on 30 April 1994, and honoured the best of South Indian films released in 1993. The awards were announced on 12 March 1994. Tamil Telugu Kannada Malayalam NEPC Groups Awards References {{Reflist 1994 Indian film awards Cinema Express Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venpa
Venpa or Venba ('' வெண்பா'' in Tamil) is a form of classical Tamil poetry. Classical Tamil poetry has been classified based upon the rules of metric prosody. Such rules form a context-free grammar. Every venba consists of between two and twelve lines. The venpa meter is used in songs of the types neṭu veṇ pāṭṭu ('long song in venpa meter'), kuṟu veṇ pāṭṭu 'short song in venpa meter', kaikkiḷai "one-sided love," and paripāṭṭu 'song that is quite accommodative' and in satirical compositions (aṅkatac ceyyuḷ). Popular books written in venba style # All 1330 couplets from the Thirukkural, composed by Thiruvalluvar, are examples of venba. Tirukkural comes under a sub-category of venba called Kural venba, wherein each kural or couplet has only two lines. # Nala venba 1 is another classical work written in venba style. # Niti venba 2 is another venba style book that preaches values. # Acharakkovai 3 is another venba style book that preaches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameo Role
A cameo role, also called a cameo appearance and often shortened to just cameo (), is a brief appearance of a well-known person in a work of the performing arts. These roles are generally small, many of them non-speaking ones, and are commonly either appearances in a work in which they hold some special significance (such as actors from an original movie appearing in its remake) or renowned people making uncredited appearances. Short appearances by celebrities, film directors, politicians, athletes or musicians are common. A crew member of the movie or show playing a minor role can be referred to as a cameo role as well, such as Alfred Hitchcock's frequent cameos. Concept Originally, in the 1920s, a "cameo role" meant "a small character part that stands out from the other minor parts". The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' connects this with the meaning "a short literary sketch or portrait", which is based on the literal meaning of " cameo", a miniature carving on a gemstone. More re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry (film)
''Jerry'' is a 2006 Indian Tamil romantic comedy film directed by S. B. Khanthan, produced by V. Vishwanathan, and written by Crazy Mohan. The film stars Jithan Ramesh as the titular character, while Shruthi Raj, Mumtaj, and Meera Vasudevan play the female leads. The music was composed by Ramesh Vinayagam with editing done by Krishnakumar. The film released on 19 May 2006. Plot Jayaram alias Jerry ( Jithan Ramesh) is a man who takes risks and hates love. He is challenged by his friends to make three women love him. He makes his classmate Janaki ( Shruthi Raj), an actress Janani (Mumtaj), and a police officer Jeeva (Meera Vasudevan) fall in love with him. Whether the three girls find out and whom he unites with forms the crux of the story. Cast * Jithan Ramesh as Jayaram alias Jerry * Shruthi Raj as Janaki *Mumtaj as Janani *Meera Vasudevan as Jeeva * Santhana Bharathi as Jerry's father *Madhan Bob as Janaki's father * Raaghav as Gausik *Crazy Mohan as Rukku * Maadhu Balaji ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasool Raja MBBS
''Vasool Raja MBBS'' () is a 2004 Indian Tamil-language comedy drama film directed by Saran. It is a Tamil remake of the 2003 Hindi film '' Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.'', which is inspired by the 1998 American film '' Patch Adams''. The film stars Kamal Haasan in the title role, while Prabhu, Sneha, Prakash Raj, Nagesh, Rohini Hattangadi, Jayasurya, Malavika, Crazy Mohan, Lakshmi Bhaskaran and Karunas play supporting roles. The film's music was composed by Bharathwaj. The film released on 12 August 2004. Plot Rajaraman, nicknamed "Vasool Raja", is a local don in Chennai who makes a living by collecting money from people who refuse or dilly-dally in paying their debts to others (adithadi), with the help of his right-hand man Vatti. Given that his father Sriman Venkataraman had wished him to be a doctor, he creates the faux Venkataraman Charitable Hospital, and pretends to live in accordance with this wish whenever his father and mother Kasturi visit him in Chennai. One year lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
