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Jackson Durai
''Jackson Durai'' () is a 2016 Tamil-language horror comedy film based on the theme in the classic goth story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the movie is written and directed by Dharani Dharan, starring Sathyaraj, Sibiraj, and Bindu Madhavi in the leading roles, while Karunakaran, Rajendran, and Yogi Babu play supporting roles. Featuring music composed by Siddharth Vipin and editing by Vivek Harshan, the film released on 1 July 2016. The film was dubbed and released in Telugu as ''Dora'' The film was dubbed in Hindi as ''Jackson The Paying Guest''. Plot Sub-Inspector Sathya (Sibiraj) is sent to Aynpuram, a village in which a large bungalow from British times is claimed to be haunted by a ghost called Jackson (Zachary Coffin) according to the villagers. Sathya's mission is to prove that there are no ghosts in the village. Will he succeed in proving it or not forms the rest of the story. Cast * Sathyaraj as Durai * Sibiraj as Sub-Inspector Sathya * Bindu Madhavi as Viji * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dharani Dharan
Dharani Dharan is an Tamil language, Indian film director and screenwriter, working primarily in the Tamil cinema, Tamil film industry. Career After quitting his IT job he worked as an assistant director for Susi Ganesan in ''Kanthaswamy''. he made his directorial debut with ''Burma (2014 film), Burma'' in 2014. His second directorial venture ''Jackson Durai'' is a horror comedy released in July 2016 under Sri Green Productions. His third directorial venture ''Raja Ranguski'' is a murder mystery, music composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja and produced under his own banner "Burma Talkies", released in September 2018. His Fourth directorial venture ''Ranger (2020 film), Ranger'' is a Tiger based movie, Shoot completed by Feb 2020, now movie in the post-production stage. Filmography References External links * {{Authority control Tamil film directors Tamil screenwriters Living people Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burma (film)
''Burma'' is a 2014 Tamil language crime thriller directed by Dharani Dharan and produced by Sudharshan Vembutty under the banner Square Stone Films. It stars Michael Thangadurai and Reshmi Menon, while Sampath Raj, Atul Kulkarni, Karthik Sabesh and Madhu Raghuram play supporting roles. The music was scored by Sudharshan M Kumar, while cinematography and editing were handled by Yuva and Vivek Harshan. The film released on 12 September 2014. Cast * Michael Thangadurai as Paramanandan (Burma) * Reshmi Menon as Kalpana (Noodles) * Sampath Raj as Guna * Atul Kulkarni as Bothra Seth * Karthik Sabesh as Boomer * Kani Kusruti as Clara * Deepak Paramesh as Charles * Madhu Raghuram as Maaran * Tarun Master as Shankar, Kalpana's father * K. G. Mohan as Velu * Thanjai Mahendran as Kumar * Sai Dheena as Broker Ravi * Diana Vishalini as Devi * Sharath as Maruthi * C. M. Bala as Arunachalam * Rajkumar as Thaadi Mohan * Chandana as Jessica * Jayaraj as Karuppu * Ram as Brucelee * Hitler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Films
2016 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, and a list of films released and deaths. Evaluation of the year In his article highlighting the best films of 2016, Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' stated, "Hollywood is the world's best money-laundering machine. It takes in huge amounts of money from the sale of mass-market commodities and cleanses some of it with the production of cinematic masterworks. Earning billions of dollars from C.G.I. comedies for children, superhero movies, sci-fi apocalypses, and other popular genres, the big studios channel some of those funds into movies by Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, James Gray, and other worthies. Sometimes there's even an overlap between the two groups of movies, as when Ryan Coogler made '' Creed'', or when Scorsese made the modernist horror instant-classic ''Shutter Island'', or when Clint Eastwood makes just about anything." Highest-gross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groundhog Day (film)
''Groundhog Day'' is a 1993 American fantasy comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, with a screenplay by him and Danny Rubin. It stars Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, and Chris Elliott. Murray portrays Phil Connors, a cynical television weatherman covering the annual Groundhog Day event in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, who becomes trapped in a time loop, forcing him to relive February2nd repeatedly. The film also stars Stephen Tobolowsky, Brian Doyle-Murray, Marita Geraghty, Angela Paton, Rick Ducommun, Rick Overton, and Robin Duke. Rubin conceived the outline of ''Groundhog Day'' in the early 1990s. He wrote it as a spec script to gain meetings with producers for other work. It eventually came to the attention of Ramis, who worked with Rubin to make his idea less dark in tone and more palatable to a general audience by enhancing the comedy. After being cast, Murray clashed with Ramis over the script; Murray wanted to focus on the philosophical elements, whereas Ramis had concentr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sun TV (India)
SUN TV is an Indian Tamil-language General entertainment pay television channel owned by Sun TV Network. It was launched on 14 April 1993. It is the flagship channel of the Chennai-based media conglomerate Sun Group's Sun TV Network. It was founded and is owned by Kalanithi Maran. It was started airing on open network (Antenna) on 14 July 2002 at the time of ''Majunu" Tamil movie premiering. Then it was removed from this open network on 2005. It was also removed from free on 9 November 2007. Sun TV launched its HD version on 11 December 2011. Since its inception, the channel consistently remains the top rated Tamil channel and one of the top rated Indian television channel. History Sun TV is the flagship channel of Sun TV Network which started on the Tamil New Year, 14 April 1993. It started off with a four and a half hour programming per day on a time sharing agreement with ATN. However, in January 1997 it became 24 hours programming channel. Sun TV was listed on the Bombay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karthik (singer)
Karthik (born 7 November 1980) is an Indian playback singer and composer. Karthik started his professional singing career as a backing vocalist and has since been working as a playback singer. He has sung more than 8000 songs in 15 Indian languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Odia, Bengali, Marathi and Hindi. Early and personal life Karthikeyan hails from Tiruvarur district. He is a trained Carnatic music vocalist. He was part of a college band and regularly participated in IIT Madras Fest ''Saarang''. An ardent fan of A. R. Rahman, Karthik's dream was to meet Rahman and sing for him. Playback singer Srinivas, who collaborated often with Rahman was Karthik's close friend's cousin. Srinivas encouraged Karthik to look at singing as a career, which prompted Karthik to resume his singing lessons. One year later, Srinivas recommended Karthik's name to Rahman, who needed fresh voices for backing vocalists for a song from '' Pukar''. Karthik eventually got the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinmayi
Chinmayi Sripaada is an Indian playback singer, working mainly for the South Indian film industry. She is also a voice actor, television presenter, radio jockey, and an entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of a translation services company ''Blue Elephant'', a Skincare company importing K-beauty to India - ''Isle Of Skin'', and a medi-spa ''Deep Skin Dialogues'' in Chennai and Hyderabad. She is often credited as Chinmayee and Indai Haza. She rose to fame for her critically acclaimed song "''Oru Deivam Thantha Poovae''" from the National Award winning movie ''Kannathil Muthamittal''. Early life and background Chinmayi received the CCRT Scholarship for Young Talent for Carnatic Music from the Government of India at the age of 10. She won the gold medal from All India Radio for Ghazals in 2000 and the Silver for Hindustani Classical Music in 2002. She learned German as a language in the Max Mueller Bhavan in Chennai and completed certification courses from NIIT and SSI in we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gana Bala
Bala Murugan, better known by his stage name Gana Bala is an Indian playback singer in Tamil cinema. He rose to prominence after rendering the songs 'Aadi Pona Aavani' and 'Nadukadalula Kappala' from the soundtrack of ''Attakathi''. He has predominantly sung songs belonging to the gaana genre of Tamil Nadu. He has been credited for reviving the gaana genre in Tamil Cinema after 'Thenisai Thendral' Deva. He has also penned lyrics for some of his songs. Career Bala first tripped on 'Gaana' when he was in high school. He gained confidence as a Gaana singer when he joined Presidency College, Chennai to study Botany. He later contested in the TV reality show ''Gana Kuyil Pattu'' that featured on Kalaignar TV and won it. He has worked on a number of devotional albums and also performed on stage. One of his independent albums, ''Vaanavil'' was released by composers Deva and Dhina. He made his debut in the film industry with ''Piragu'' composed by Srikanth Deva, son of the 'Father of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Daasan
Anthony Dasan is an Indian folk singer, who is currently working in the Tamil film industry. He is known for contributing a powerful voice to fusions of Tamil-folk, country, jazz, electronica and rock styles. Before this phase of playback singing, "Antony Dasan" worked as a travelling festival folk singer artist, collaborating with players of Nadaswaram, Thavil and Thappu, dancers and acrobats among others. He has performed with influential movie industry veterans such as Usha Uthup. Apart from his musical performances, he has also made cameo appearances in Tamil films, particularly in songs sung by himself, notable of which is a cameo as a gangster in the Karthik Subbaraj directorial, ''Jigarthanda''. Earlier he also featured in ''The Dewarists'', a musical television series in India, which is partly a music documentary and partly a travelogue. Biography Originally from Reddypalayam, a small town in Tanjore, he has a traditional musician-family background without formal tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hello Naan Pei Pesuren
''Hello Naan Pei Pesuren'' () is a 2016 Indian Tamil language comedy horror film written and directed by S. Baskar and produced by Sundar C., under the banner Avni Cine Makers. Music was composed by Siddharth Vipin, cinematography was handled by Banu Murugan and editing by N. B. Srikanth. Vaibhav plays the male lead, Oviya and Aishwarya Rajesh are the two female leads, and VTV Ganesh and Karunakaran play supporting roles. In the film, the hero interacts with a ghost when he accidentally finds a 'horror-filled' mobile phone. The film released on 1 April 2016. Cast *Vaibhav as Amudhan *Oviya as Sreedevi *Aishwarya Rajesh as Kavitha *VTV Ganesh as Vajram, Kavitha's brother * Karunakaran as Dr. Saravanan *Jangiri Madhumitha as Saravanan's wife *Yogi Babu as Street Singer *Vichu Vishwanath as Gym Manager *Thalapathy Dinesh as Thimingalam *Siddharth Vipin as Seth *Singampuli as Game Samy *Ganeshkar as Cook *Singapore Deepan as Vavval, Kavitha's brother *Bava Lakshmanan *Thanjai Mahen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navarasa Thilagam
''Navarasa Thilagam'' is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language comedy film directed by Kamran, starring Ma Ka Pa Anand and Srushti Dange. Produced by Sudharshan Vembatty, the film began production in early 2015 and released in February 2016. Cast *Ma Ka Pa Anand as Moorthy *Srushti Dange as Chithra *Karunakaran as Alangaram *Meera Krishnan as Chithra's mother *Ilavarasu as Paneerselvam *Jayaprakash as Thangadurai * Mahadevan as Adaikalam *Namo Narayana as Namo Narayana *Siddharth Vipin as Thirunavukkarasu *Revathi as Chithra's grandmother *Amirtha Lingam as Alangaram's uncle *Cheran Raj as Politician *Porali Dileepan as Arul Prasath *Lakshmi Rahul as Meenakshi * Bava Lakshmanan *Hello Kandhasamy *Anjali Varadarajan Production Ma Ka Pa Anand shot for the film simultaneously alongside his commitments for ''Panjumittai'', ''Atti'' and ''Deepavali Thuppakki''. The film was predominantly shot in Pollachi and was completed by September 2015. Songs were also shot in Kutralam and Thenkasi. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Divo (record Label)
Divo is an Indian-based record label known for music and digital media productions. Divo is one of the leading Multi-channel network(MCN) in South India. History Divo was established in 2014 as a startup online video company in South India. Since inception, the company has worked for well known musicians including A. R. Rahman, Dhanush, Anirudh Ravichander, Yuvan Shankar Raja and many others. Services Divo offers video and music distribution, marketing and copyright management for film studios, TV channels, musicians and music platforms. The company also offers reputation management for brands, celebrities, and films. Discography The record label has a catalogue of released albums it has worked on. The table below chronicles some of them: See also *Think Music India *Sony Music India Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt. Ltd. is the record label operated by Sony in Chennai, India. The company began operation in 1997, and it was the first record company in India to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
