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Good Luck (2000 Film)
''Good Luck'' is a 2000 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film written, directed and produced by Manoj Bhatnaghar. The movie stars Prashanth, Riya Sen and Raghuvaran in main roles. The film released on 4 February 2000. Plot Surya is a carefree Tamil youth living in Malaysia with his brother Chandramohan and sister-in-law Devi. Chandramohan and Devi are childless because of a problem with Chandramohan. Surya falls in love with dancer Priya and manages to steal her heart too. Just when things seem happy, a bombshell is dropped by a Sister Mary who tells Surya that he is the father of a small girl Pooja. Pooja must undergo an operation to save her life but insists on seeing her dad before agreeing to the operation. Surya agrees to pose as her dad and is forced to do so on a more permanent basis even after the operation is done. He is driven out of the house and loses Priya, who agrees to wed an earlier suitor, Shyam. Person who happens to be the dad of Pooja's mother wants to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prashanth
Prashanth Thiagarajan (born 6 April 1973), known professionally as Prashanth, is an Indian actor and businessman, known for his works predominantly in Tamil cinema. Besides Tamil films, he has also appeared in few Telugu, Hindi and Malayalam films. At the peak of his career in the late 1990s, Prashanth was one of the popular actors in South India. He has won a Kalaimamani Award from the Government of Tamil Nadu. The son of actor-director Thiagarajan, Prashanth began his career at 17 by appearing in ''Vaigasi Poranthachu'' (1990) and went on to feature in other films including Balu Mahendra's ''Vanna Vanna Pookkal'' (1992), R. K. Selvamani's ''Chembaruthi'' (1992), K. Rushendra Reddy's ''Tholi Muddhu'' (1993), and Mani Ratnam's action-comedy ''Thiruda Thiruda'' (1993). Prashanth rose to stardom with Shankar's romantic comedy ''Jeans'' (1998) in which he played a dual role alongside Aishwarya Rai. The success of this film saw him garner opportunities to work in bigger film projec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayuri Kango
Mayuri Kango is a former Indian actress from Aurangabad, Maharashtra. She has acted in a number of films, primarily in Bollywood. In 2019, she joined Google India as the Industry Head. Acting career While visiting her mother in Mumbai, she came in contact with director Saeed Akhtar Mirza, who offered her the role of the female protagonist in his film '' Naseem'' (1995), a Bollywood film based on the Babri Masjid demolition. First she declined the offer as she had to appear for her HSC board exams. But later, after some discussion with the director, accepted the role. Mahesh Bhatt was impressed by her performance and offered her the lead role in his next film '' Papa Kehte Hai'' (1996). Though the film was not a critical or commercial success, her acting received generally positive reviews. She was later seen in films like ''Betaabi'' (1997), ''Hogi Pyaar Ki Jeet'' (1999) and ''Badal'' (2000). She moved to television appearing in serials ''Dollar Bahu'' (2001) and ''Karishma - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Drama Films
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2000s Tamil-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 Films
The year 2000 in film involved some significant events. The top grosser worldwide was '' Mission: Impossible 2''. Domestically in North America, '' Gladiator'' won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ( Russell Crowe). ''Dinosaur'' was the most expensive film of 2000 and a box-office success. __TOC__ Overview 2000 saw the releases of the first installment of popular film series ''X-Men'', ''Final Destination'', ''Scary Movie'', and '' Meet the Parents''. Among the films based on TV shows are '' Mission: Impossible 2'', ''Traffic'', '' The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle'', '' Charlie's Angels'' and '' Rugrats in Paris: The Movie'' Among the movies based on books (and TV shows) is ''Thomas and the Magic Railroad''. The most acclaimed films of the year are '' Gladiator''; ''Traffic''; '' Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon''; '' American Psycho''; ''Almost Famous, Requiem for a Dream,'' and ''Erin Brockovich''. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in ... [...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] |
Srinivas (singer)
Srinivasan Doraiswamy, known by his stage name Srinivas, is an Indian playback singer who has sung over 2000 songs in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. He has also worked independently as a music composer, working on films and private albums. Early life Singer Srinivas was born On 7 November in Ambasamudram in Tamil Nadu. He was born to Duraiswamy Iyengar and Lakshmi. He learnt Carnatic music from his aunt Padma Narayanan. The great Carnatic stalwarts of the 60s influenced his early days. After which Hindi film music chiefly that of Kishore Kumar & R.D.Burman deeply influenced him in his childhood days.(Later on it was the ghazals of Mehdi Hassan which redefined his singing) He completed his BTech in Dyestuffs And Intermediate Technology from University Department of Chemical Technology of University of Bombay; during which he represented his university in youth festivals. After pursuing his career as a chemical engineer and a marketing professional for ten years, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Keyaar
Kothanda Ramaiah (also known as K.R and Keyaar) is an Indian Tamils, Tamil film director, producer, distributor and exhibitor. He has held various leading positions in different film industry organizations. Career KR studied film processing at the M.G.R. Government Film and Television Training Institute, Adyar Film Institute in Chennai in 1972. Upon graduation in 1975, he spent three years as a technician in DD Chennai, Doordarshan Kendra. KR made his debut film as a director and producer with the Malayalam film ''Sisirathil Oru Vasantham''. Prior to its release, the film faced a number of distribution problems and was eventually released by Suguna Screens in 1980. Although the film failed at the box office, it provided him the incentive to move into film distribution and exhibition across Tamil Nadu covering territories including: Chennai City, North Arcot, South Arcot, Chengelpet, Pondicherry, and Tirupathi. He distributed successful films such as: ''Thillu Mullu'', ''Thai Vee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sa Re Ga Ma
Saregama India Ltd. (Saregama refers to the first four notes of the Indian musical scale); formerly known as The Gramophone Company Of India Ltd. is India's oldest music label owned by the RP- Sanjiv Goenka Group of companies. The company is listed on the NSE and the BSE with its head office located in Kolkata and other offices in Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi. Apart from music, Saregama also produces films under the brand name Yoodlee Films and multi-language television content. Saregama also retails a music-based hardware platform called Carvaan. Saregama owns music repertoire across film music, non-film music, Carnatic, Hindustani classical, devotional music, etc. in over 25 Indian languages. The first song recorded in India by Gauhar Jaan in 1902 and the first film made in Bollywood ‘Alam Ara' in 1931 were under the music label. Saregama purveyor of Carnatic, Hindustani classical, devotional music also promotes dance music likMadhuban mein Radhika Nache. Saregama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Soundtrack
A soundtrack is recorded music accompanying and synchronised to the images of a motion picture, drama, book, television program, radio program, or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video, or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronised recorded sound. In movie industry terminology usage, a sound track is an audio recording created or used in film production or post-production. Initially, the dialogue, sound effects, and music in a film each has its own separate track (''dialogue track'', ''sound effects track'', and '' music track''), and these are mixed together to make what is called the ''composite track,'' which is heard in the film. A ''dubbing track'' is often later created when films are dubbed into another language. This is also known as an M&E (music and effects) track. M&E tracks contain all sound elements minus dialogue, which is then supplied by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soundtrack
A soundtrack is recorded music accompanying and synchronised to the images of a motion picture, drama, book, television program, radio program, or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video, or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronised recorded sound. In movie industry terminology usage, a sound track is an audio recording created or used in film production or post-production. Initially, the dialogue, sound effects, and music in a film each has its own separate track (''dialogue track'', ''sound effects track'', and '' music track''), and these are mixed together to make what is called the ''composite track,'' which is heard in the film. A ''dubbing track'' is often later created when films are dubbed into another language. This is also known as an M&E (music and effects) track. M&E tracks contain all sound elements minus dialogue, which is then supplied by the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
