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Kalanjiyam
Mu. Kalanjiyam is an Indian film director who has made Tamil films. A winner of the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Story Writer, Kalanjiyam has also featured in the lead role in his films. Career Kalanjiyam's first film, ''Poomani'' (1996), featuring Murali and Devayani, won commercial and critical acclaim, and the director won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Story Writer for 1996. His next venture, the rural drama ''Kizhakkum Merkkum'', starring Napoleon with Devayani, also won positive reviews. A proposed film titled ''Sangeetha Thirunaal, '' produced by music composer Ilaiyaraaja, was planned, but did not materialize. He returned with another film, ''Poonthottam'' (1998), with the cast of his first film, but the film went unnoticed as a result of the bigger budget films released around the same time. He then made ''Nilave Mugam Kaattu'' (1999), starring Karthik and Devayani, which became his fourth consecutive film with the actress, though the film was panne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karungali (film)
''Karungali'' is a 2011 Tamil-language film written and directed by Kalanjiyam and produced by Vivekanandan. The film stars the director himself alongside Srinivas, Anjali, and Sunitha Verma in the lead roles, while Asmitha and Alex play supporting roles. The music was composed by Srikanth Deva, while editing was done by LVK Doss. The film released on 29 July 2011 and became a critical and commercial failure. Plot Dr. Kanimozhi (Sunitha Verma) is drawn to Pottalam Ravi (Kalanjiyam) because of his life-saving act and ultimately decides to marry him. She overlooks Ravi's brutal past life, during when he had murdered many, including Sengudi (Asmitha), who was with him right from their childhood days. She loves him, but he appears quite satisfied by using her whenever he is driven by his sexual urge. Believing that she could change him for the better, Kani marries him after his return from prison after a jail term. Ravi looks like a changed man after emerging from jail and tells his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilave Mugam Kaattu
''Nilave Mugam Kaattu'' () is a 1999 Indian Tamil-language film directed by Kalanjiyam and starring Karthik, Ramki and Devayani. The film, produced by S. Rajaram, has a musical score by Ilaiyaraaja and was released on 30 April 1999 to negative reviews. The film is a remake of the Kannada film '' Anuraga Sangama'' (1995) which itself was inspired by Charlie Chaplin's '' City Lights''. Plot Murthy ( Karthik) and Prakash (Ramki) become best friends since Prakash's father ( Nizhalgal Ravi) killed Murthy's mother in a car accident. Despite his father's refusal, Prakash takes Murthy into his house. But Prakash's parents do not like their son making friendship with Murthy who is poor and they consider it to be a status issue. A few years later, when Prakash goes to the US to study. Meanwhile, Prakash's parents scold Murthy with a plan to make him leave their house. Murthy feels bad and decides to leave Prakash's house without informing anyone. An old police constable accommodate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kizhakkum Merkkum
''Kizhakkum Merkkum'' () is a 1998 Tamil-language drama film directed by Kalanjiyam. The film stars Napoleon, Nassar, Devayani and Geetha, with Manivannan, Thalaivasal Vijay, Vichithra, Theni Kunjarammal, Kalyanjiyam, and Chaplin Balu playing supporting roles. The film produced by Amudha Durairaj had musical score by Ilaiyaraaja and was released on 14 January 1998. Plot Suryamurthy (Napoleon) and Thillai ( Geetha) are siblings. They were expelled from their home by their stepmother Chinnamma (Theni Kunjarammal) at a young age. The siblings worked hard to come up in life. Many years later, Suryamurthy looks for a groom for his sister and finds Kathalingam ( Nassar), who is from another village. So Suryamurthy inquires the villagers about Kathalingam's character, and everyone praised Kathalingam, but they lied. Kathalingam is actually a bad person and drunkard, and he has an affair with the village belle Valli (Vichithra). Without knowing the truth, Kathalingam and Thillai g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitta Miraasu
''Mitta Miraasu'' is a 2001 Tamil-language film directed by Kalanjiyam. The film stars Prabhu and Roja, while Napoleon, Alex, and Vadivelu play supporting roles. The music was composed by Aslam Mustafa, and the film released on 18 October 2001. Plot Chellaiya has two missions in life. The first is to remove the taint on the family name and expose the man behind his family's misfortunes. The second is to make his younger sibling a lawyer so that it will help him in achieving the first mission. The villain of the piece is Chellaiya's uncle Masilamani, who had turned the villagers against Chellaiya's father Singaperumal. Humiliated by the same people who had revered him once, Singaperumal dies of shock soon after (a laborious death scene). A few decades have passed since the incident, but Chellaiya seems nowhere near to fulfilling his mission, nor has Masilamani given up his wicked ways. In fact, Masilamani is stronger now, what with his two sons grown up and matching their father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poonthottam
''Poonthottam'' () is a 1998 Indian Tamil-language action drama film directed by Kalanjiyam. The film stars Murali and Devayani, while Raghuvaran, Manivannan and Vijayalakshmi play other supporting roles. The film, which has music by Ilaiyaraaja, released in July 1998. Cast * Murali as Moorthy * Devayani as Sundari *Raghuvaran as Panneerselvam "Panneer" *Manivannan as Mani *Vadivelu as Auto driver * M. N. Nambiar as Sundari's grandfather * Manorama as Sundari's grandmother * Vijayalakshmi as Sumathi *Thalaivasal Vijay *Venniradai Moorthy *Vijay Adhiraj as Suresh * Santhana Bharathi as Suresh's father *Vichithra as Guest appearance * Crane Manohar as Guest appearance * Nassar as Guest appearance *Ambika as Guest appearance *Vadivukkarasi as Guest appearance Soundtrack Production Director Kalanjiyam chose to re-collaborate with Murali and Devayani, who he had worked with in his first film ''Poomani Poomani (born 1947) is an Indian writer and novelist. He won the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anjali (actress Born 1986)
Anjali (born 16 June 1986) is an Indian actress and model who appears predominantly in Tamil language, Tamil and Telugu language, Telugu films. Following a stint in modelling, she was cast in starring roles in two Telugu productions; her debut film was the Telugu thriller film ''Photo (film), Photo'' (2006), before bagging a role and gaining attention in the film ''Kattradhu Thamizh'' (2007) with Jiiva. In 2010 and 2011, she won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil, for her performances in ''Angaadi Theru'' and ''Engaeyum Eppothum'' respectively and the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, Tamil Nadu State Film Award for ''Angadi Theru'', subsequently becoming recognised as one of the "finest young actors" in Tamil cinema, and noted for mostly playing "performance-oriented roles"''.'' In 2013, she returned to Telugu cinema and appeared in a string of successful films like ''Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu'', ''Balupu'', ''Masala (2013 film), Masala'', ''Geethanjali (2014 fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poomani (film)
''Poomani'' is a 1996 Indian Tamil-language film, directed by Kalanjiyam and produced by G. V. Anandan. The film stars Murali, Devayani, Prakash Raj and Reshma. Cast * Murali as Poomani *Devayani as Vijaya *Prakash Raj as Thangamani *Reshma as Pottu *Manivannan as Veerappan *Vinu Chakravarthy as Muthuramalingam *Sabitha Anand Soundtrack The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja Ilaiyaraaja (born R. Gnanathesikan, 3 June 1943) is an Indian musician, composer, arranger, conductor, orchestrator, instrumentalist, lyricist and singer, popular for his works in Indian Cinema, prominently in Tamil films. Reputed to be one of .... Reception ''Geocities'' wrote "The main drawback of the movie is the screenplay and the direction (Mu. Kalanchiyam). While watching this movie, it is quite obvious that the director is new and that he needs more experience. .Also, the narration of the story is not smooth." References External links * * 1996 films Indian drama films Films scored b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalavu Thozhirchalai
''Kalavu Thozhirchalai'' () is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language heist film written and directed by T. Krishnasamy. The film features Kathir and Kushi aka Rebecca in the lead roles, while Vamsi Krishna, Kalanjiyam, Senthil, and Renuka play pivotal roles. The music was composed by Shyam Benjamin with cinematography by V. Thyagarajan and editing by Yoga Bhaskar. The film began production during 2013 and was released after several delays on 22 September 2017 to mixed reviews from critics. The movie was also dubbed in Hindi as ''Khazana-The Robbery''. Plot An idol smuggler comes to a village to steal a Shiva idol worth 600 crores. The story begins with an international criminal and idol smuggler named Ram Sanjay arriving at a village in Tanjore with the ulterior motive of smuggling the ancient Maragatha Lingam idol from Marundeeswarar Temple. He enters the temple in the pretext of a journalist who has come to do research on temples. He takes the help of a local guy named Ravi, a small- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sri Priyanka
Sri Priyanka is an Indian actress who has appeared in Tamil language films. After portraying her first major lead role in ''Agadam'' (2014), she appeared in the Tamil film ''Kangaroo'' (2015). In April 2017, she signed to play an important role in Vikram - Tamannaah starrer '' Sketch'' directed by Vijay Chander. Career Sri Priyanka made her acting debut through the low-budget village-centric film, ''Nila Meedhu Kadhal'', for which she worked throughout 2012. Sri Priyanka then appeared in ''Agadam'' (2014), a film which entered the Guinness Record Books for being the longest uncut film, before signing on to appear in director Samy's ''Kangaroo'' (2015). Prior to accepting the offer, she revealed she had not seen any of the director's controversial earlier films. During the making of ''Kodai Mazhai'' in June 2014, Priyanka fainted after being slapped by her fellow actor, Kalanjiyam Mu. Kalanjiyam is an Indian film director who has made Tamil films. A winner of the Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamil Nadu State Film Award For Best Story Writer ...
The Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Storywriter is given by the state government as part of its annual Tamil Nadu State Film Awards for Tamil (Kollywood) films. List of winners ;Key References {{Tamil Nadu State Film Awards Actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Indian Film Directors
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