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Kaalam (1982 Film)
''Kaalam'' is a 1982 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Hemachandran and produced by R. S. Kothandaraman. The film stars Jagathy Sreekumar, Menaka, Jayamalini and Jayaram in the lead roles. The film has musical score by Shankar–Ganesh. Cast * Jagathy Sreekumar as Gopalan *Menaka as Jaya *Jayamalini as Dancer *Jayaram (old) *K. R. Vijaya as Janaki * Kaduvakulam Antony as Kurup *Meena Menon as Asha *Raveendran (actor) as Rajan *Radhadevvi as Ammini Soundtrack The music was composed by Shankar–Ganesh and the lyrics were written by Bichu Thirumala B. Sivasankaran Nair, popularly known as Bichu Thirumala (13 February 1942 – 26 November 2021), was an Indian lyricist and poet. He is known for creating the style of arranging beautiful words in Malayalam film songs. In Malayalam cinema, Bich .... References External links * 1982 films 1980s Malayalam-language films Films scored by Shankar–Ganesh {{1980s-Malayalam-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemachandran (director)
Hemachandran may refer to: * Hemachandra (born 1988), Indian playback singer and music director * Hemachandran (actor) Hemachandran is an Indian actor in the Tamil film industry. His films include '' Nanda Nanditha'' and '' Krishnaveni Panjaalai''. Career Hemachandran was born on 23 September in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Hemachandran did his schooling in Stanes A ..., Indian film actor * J. Hemachandran (1932–2008), Indian politician and trade unionist {{hndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaduvakulam Antony
Kaduvakkulam Antony (9 November 1936 – 4 February 2001) was an Indian actor from Kerala who performed in more than 300 films as a comedian during the 1960s and 1970s. One journalist considers him to have been one of the best and most popular comedians in Malayalam cinema. Filmography * 1996 Aramana Veedum Anjoorekkarum. * 1995 Mannar Mathai Speaking as drama booking agent * 1995 Highway * 1995 Arabia (film) as PC Velapp * 1995 Thumboli Kadappuram * 1991 Mimics Parade * 1990 Kadathanadan Ambadi * 1987 Nee Allenkil Njan as Philip * 1987 Kaalathinte Sabhdam as Kunjan Nair * 1987 Kottum Kuravayum * 1987 Narathan Keralathil * 1986 Kulambadikal * 1986 Arorui Arangorungi * 1985 Azhi * 1985 Chorakku Chora as Paramu * 1985 Kiratham as Narayana Pilla * 1985 Njaan Piranna Naattil as Police constable * 1984 Kadamattathachan as Thomachan * 1984 Krishna Guruvaayoorappa * 1983 Ahankaram * 1983 Ee Yugam as Pappan * 1983 Ankam as Krishna Pilla * 1982 Kakka * 1982 Vidhichathum Kothicha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1982 Films
The following is an overview of events in 1982 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Highest-grossing films North America The top ten 1982 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Outside North America The highest-grossing 1982 films in countries outside of North America. Worldwide gross revenue The following table lists known worldwide gross revenue figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1982. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1982. Events * January 1 - Terry Semel becomes president of Warner Bros. * June 11 ** '' E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'' is released; it became the highest-grossing film to date. ** Michelle Pfeiffer appears in her first leading role, in ''Grease 2'', the sequel to the top-grossing film of 1978. * June 22 – The Coca-Cola Compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vani Jairam
Vani Jairam (born as Kalaivani on 30 November 1945), also credited as Vani Jayaram, is an Indian singer. She is best known as a playback singer in South Indian cinema. Vani's career started in 1971 and has spanned over five decades. She has done playback for over one thousand Indian movies recording over 10,000 songs. In addition, she has recorded thousands of devotionals and private albums and also participated in numerous solo concerts in India and abroad. Renowned for her vocal range and easy adaptability to any difficult composition, Vani has often been the choice for several composers across India through the 1970s until the late 1990s. She has sung in several Indian languages, such as Kannada, Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Gujarati, Haryanvi, Assameese, and Bengali languages. Vani won the National Film Awards for Best Female Playback Singer three times and also has won State Government awards from the states of Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malaysia Vasudevan
Vasudevan (15 June 1944 – 20 February 2011), known as Malaysia Vasudevan, was a Malaysian-Indian playback singer and actor in Tamil cinema. Early life Malaysia Vasudevan's parents were from Palakkad. Chattu Nair of Ottappalam and Ammalu of Polpulli, along with their families migrated to British Malaya in search of a livelihood. After a few years, Chattu Nair married Ammalu in an arranged marriage. Vasudevan was born on 15 June 1944 as their eighth and youngest child. Even though he was a Malayali, as was the case with the majority of contemporary South Indian migrants to Malaya then, his surroundings in Malaysia was dominated by the Tamil language and culture. As such, Tamil became his language of choice, at school and at home. Chattu Nair was musically inclined and all his children grew up with a natural ability to sing and appreciate music. Malaysia Vasudevan had once said that all his family members, except his mother Ammalu, were singers. Chattu Nair used to entert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bichu Thirumala
B. Sivasankaran Nair, popularly known as Bichu Thirumala (13 February 1942 – 26 November 2021), was an Indian lyricist and poet. He is known for creating the style of arranging beautiful words in Malayalam film songs. In Malayalam cinema, Bichu Thirumala led the group of lyricists who wrote songs for readymade tunes. He won the Kerala State Film Award for the best lyricist two times. His prolific Malayalam film repertoire includes work with eminent composers like Shyam, G. Devarajan, V. Dakshinamurthy, M.S. Baburaj, K. Raghavan, M.S. Viswanathan, A.T. Ummer, K.J. Joy, Shankar–Ganesh, Jaya Vijaya, Raveendran, Jerry Amaldev, Johnson, Ouseppachan, Ilaiyaraaja, A. R. Rahman and the list goes on. Life and career Bichu Thirumala was born to C.G. Bhaskaran Nair and Sasthamangalam Pattanikkunnu Veettil Parukutty Amma in Thiruvananthapuram. He was the eldest child of his parents. His siblings are the late Balagopalan (who died at a young age, on whose remembrance he wrote the all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raveendran (actor)
Raveendran (Ravindher), popularly known as Disco Raveendran is an Indian actor, primarily concentrating in Malayalam and Tamil films and he was a very busy actor of both these languages in the 1980s. A multi-faceted personality, Raveendran is also a screenwriter, interior designer, anchor, a film scholar, an acting coach, social activist and director of film festivals like Kochi Metro (Malayalam) Short Film Fest. He is an alumnus of the Adayar film school, Chennai. Career Raveendran had his specialisation in acting and passed out from Adayar film institute, Madras in 1979. He made his feature film debut in the Tamil mega hit ''Oru Thalai Ragam'' (1980) and later he acted in 140 films in different languages including Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. He played the second lead in Kamal Haasan and Rajnikanth movies like '' Sakalakala Vallavan, Per Sollum Pillai, Ram Lakshman, Ranga, Thankamagan and Pokkiri Raja''. Often cited as ''Disco Raveendran'' for his dance movements, he co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meena Menon
Meena Menon (''Mīnā Mēnana'') is an Indian voice-dubbing artist and trained singer who speaks English and Hindi as her mother-tongue languages. Dubbing career Meena Menon was five-years-old, when she started through Allahbad Radio, which is a station at Allahbad. She was a trained classical singer. She sang many songs in which they really liked her talent and wanted her to conduct programs that are aimed for kids in which there were also poetry, songs, etc. She even did dubbing roles for foreign theater films along with her studies. As she got older, she used to modulate her voice and talk to people in kids’ voices. Pretty soon, she came to know about dubbing and started it eventually at Sugar Mediaz. Her Hindi dubbing roles for foreign animation started and she tried more and more voice roles and came out doing well with even dubbing teenage and kids voices of male characters in Hindi. Personal and present Life She currently works at Sugar Mediaz, which is an Indian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malayalam Language
Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was designated a "Classical Language of India" in 2013. Malayalam has official language status in Kerala, and Puducherry ( Mahé), and is also the primary spoken language of Lakshadweep, and is spoken by 34 million people in India. Malayalam is also spoken by linguistic minorities in the neighbouring states; with significant number of speakers in the Kodagu and Dakshina Kannada districts of Karnataka, and Kanyakumari, district of Tamil Nadu. It is also spoken by the Malayali Diaspora worldwide, especially in the Persian Gulf countries, due to large populations of Malayali expatriates there. There are significant population in each cities in India including Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi, Kolkata, Pune etc. The origin of Malayalam remains a matter of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jagathy Sreekumar
Sreekumar P. K. (born 5 January 1951), better known by his stage name Jagathy Sreekumar or simply Jagathy, is an Indian actor, director and playback singer, who has appeared in over 1500 Malayalam films in a career spanning almost four decades. Widely regarded as one of the most influential actor and finest comedian in the history of Malayalam cinema, he is also known for his highly nuanced character roles. He is the son of acclaimed dramaturge and writer, the late Jagathy N. K. Achary. Jagathy Sreekumar won five Kerala State Film Awards among numerous other awards for his roles in various films. He has also directed two films and written screenplays for two more. His stage name is derived from the neighborhood of Jagathy in Trivandrum from where he hails. He is an outspoken orator holding strong views, quite unlike his onscreen image and his speeches are still popular. Jagathy was involved in a vehicle accident in March 2012 and was hospitalized for over a year. He is stil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Of India
The Cinema of India consists of motion pictures produced in India, which had a large effect on world cinema since the late 20th century. Major centers of film production across the country include Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Kochi, Kolkata, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar-Cuttack and Guwahati. For a number of years the Indian film industry has ranked first in the world in terms of annual film output. In terms of box office it ranked third in 2019, with total gross of around (US$2.7 billion). Indian cinema is composed of Multilingualism, multilingual and Multiculturalism, multi-ethnic film art. In 2019, Hindi cinema represented 44% of box office revenue, followed by Telugu cinema, Telugu and Tamil cinema, Tamil film industries, each representing 13%, Malayalam cinema, Malayalam and Kannada cinema, Kannada film industries, each representing 5%.Other prominent languages in the Indian film industry include Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali, Marathi cinema, Marathi, Cinema of O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malayalam Language
Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was designated a "Classical Language of India" in 2013. Malayalam has official language status in Kerala, and Puducherry ( Mahé), and is also the primary spoken language of Lakshadweep, and is spoken by 34 million people in India. Malayalam is also spoken by linguistic minorities in the neighbouring states; with significant number of speakers in the Kodagu and Dakshina Kannada districts of Karnataka, and Kanyakumari, district of Tamil Nadu. It is also spoken by the Malayali Diaspora worldwide, especially in the Persian Gulf countries, due to large populations of Malayali expatriates there. There are significant population in each cities in India including Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi, Kolkata, Pune etc. The origin of Malayalam remains a matter of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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