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Karthik Raja
Karthik Raja is an India composer based in Chennai, India. He made his debut as film composer in the Tamil film ''Pandiyan'' (1992) and went on to score music for many critically and commercially acclaimed feature films. Personal life Karthik Raja is the eldest son of music composer Ilaiyaraaja. His brother Yuvan Shankar Raja and sister Bhavatharini, who are also Tamil film music directors and playback singers, have worked with him on notable projects. He did his schooling at St. Bede's School and Boston Matriculation higher secondary school in Chennai. On 8 June 2000, Karthik Raja married Raja Rajeswari at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India. Career Born to a family of musicians, he had exposure to various kinds of music at a very early age. He had his formal training in Western classical music from the Trinity School of Music, mainly in piano (affiliated with Jacob John). He also had training in Carnatic music from T. V. Gopalakrishnan and Malayalam composer V. Dakshinamoort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamil Nadu, India
Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India by population, sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil language—one of the longest surviving Classical languages of India, classical languages in the world—is widely spoken in the state and serves as its official language. The state lies in the southernmost part of the Indian peninsula, and is bordered by the Indian union territory of Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh, as well as an international maritime border with Sri Lanka. It is bounded by the Western Ghats in the west, the Eastern Ghats in the north, the Bay of Bengal in the east, the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Strait to the south-eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dumm Dumm Dumm
''Dumm Dumm Dumm'' () is a 2001 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film co-written and directed by Azhagam Perumal and produced by director Mani Ratnam under his home studio, Madras Talkies. It stars R. Madhavan and Jyothika, with Vivek, Manivannan and Murali portraying other pivotal roles. The film featured cinematography by Ramji, editing by Sreekar Prasad and music composed by Karthik Raja. ''Dumm Dumm Dumm'' opened on 13 April 2001 to positive reviews and went on to become a commercial hit. Plot Ganga lives in a small village in Thenkasi district of Tamil Nadu and yet secures state second rank in XII board exams. Although she wishes to pursue civil engineering, her father Veluthambi plans to get her married to young Lawyer Adhithya aka Adhi, who also hails from the same village. The reason for this alliance is that Adhi's rich dad was Veluthambi's former boss who helped him become a rich rice mill owner, and Velu wants to repay the moral debt. Adhi is a fun-loving pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaanchinathan
''Vaanchinathan'' is a 2001 Indian Tamil-language action film directed by Shaji Kailas in his Tamil debut. The script was written by Liaquat Ali Khan. It stars Vijayakanth, Sakshi Shivanand, Ramya Krishnan and Prakash Raj in pivotal roles. The film was released on 14 January 2001. Plot Vanchinathan is a cop who has been transferred from Gujarat. Chidambaram is a media mogul who thrives on chaos and confusion, which will help him boost sales of his paper. Their enmity becomes personal when Chidambaram challenges Vanchinathan to arrest him when he cleverly commits a murder in broad daylight in front of Vanchinathan. Cast *Vijayakanth as Vanchinathan IPS, Deputy Commissioner of Police * Ramya Krishnan as Nandhini * Sakshi Shivanand as Divya *Prakash Raj as Chidambaram *Visu as Chief minister (guest appearance) * Manorama as Kalyani Rajasekar (guest appearance) *Nassar as Babu Rao Patel *Kalabhavan Mani as Maya * Rajeev as Commissioner Venugopal *Delhi Ganesh as Inspector Abdul K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoo Anthiya Uhoo Anthiya
''Hoo Anthiya Uhoo Anthiya'' is a 2001 Indian Kannada-language romantic drama film directed by K. Praveen Nayak and produced by N. Bharathi Devi. The film stars Ramesh Aravind, Isha Koppikar and Anu Prabhakar. The film released on 13 October 2001 to generally positive reviews from critics who lauded the lead actors performance and the musical score by Karthik Raja, making his debut in Kannada cinema. Cast * Ramesh Aravind as Shivu * Isha Koppikar as Usha * Anu Prabhakar as Chandana * Karan as Karan * Avinash *Sumanth *Praveen Nayak *Pushpa Swamy Soundtrack The music of the film was composed by Karthik Raja. Bollywood playback singer Sadhana Sargam Sadhana Sargam (née Ghanekar, born 7 March 1969) is an Indian singer known for her playback career in Indian cinema predominantly in Hindi, Bengali, Telugu and Tamil language films. She is a recipient of the National Film Award and Filmfare ... made her first Kannada language recording with this soundtrack. Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filmfare RD Burman Award For New Music Talent
The Filmfare R. D. Burman Award is given by the ''Filmfare'' magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films. Named in honour of music director R. D. Burman, the award recognises new and upcoming talent in the Bollywood music industry. The first R. D. Burman Award was given in 1995. Winners See also *Bollywood *Filmi References External linksOfficial website {{Filmfare Awards Burman Burman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Anneli Burman (born 1963), Swedish curler *Barney Burman Barney Burman is an American makeup artist and character actor. He was part of the team that won an Academy Award in 2009 fo ... Indian music awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander (1996 Film)
Alexander is a 1996 Tamil language action film directed by Keyaar. The film stars Vijayakanth and Sangita in lead roles. The film, produced by Meena Panchu Arunachalam, had musical score by Karthik Raja and was released on 10 November 1996 as a Deepavali release and was an average grosser at box office. Plot Ashok's brothers smuggle drugs and are unstoppable. Only Alexander, a CBI officer, can arrest them. Cast *Vijayakanth as Alexander *Sangita as Priya * Prakash Raj as Ashok *Srihari as Hari *Kavita as Thayamma *Jeeva as Brinda * Nizhalgal Ravi as Gandhirajan *Vadivukkarasi as Lakshmi *Rajasekhar as Rajasekhar *Laxmi Rattan as Choudary *Aditya Kumar *Bobby Soundtrack The film score and the soundtrack were composed by Karthik Raja Karthik Raja is an India composer based in Chennai, India. He made his debut as film composer in the Tamil film ''Pandiyan'' (1992) and went on to score music for many critically and commercially acclaimed feature films. Personal life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enakkoru Magan Pirappan
''Enakkoru Magan Pirappan'' () is a 1996 Indian Tamil language comedy film directed by Keyaar and produced by Pyramid Natarajan. The film stars Ramki, Khushbu, Vivek, Anju Aravind and Vadivukkarasi. It was released on 15 August 1996. The film is a remake of Malayalam film ''Aadyathe Kanmani''. Plot Ranganayaki, a rich women, has three sons : Gopi, Madhu and Balu. Ranganayaki wants absolutely a grandson and she will pass on her whole inheritance to her son who has a male child. The elder sons have only daughters and Balu is still a bachelor. Balu is a singer in the marriage functions and he falls in love with Swathi, a girl from a middle-class family. He marries her and Swathi becomes pregnant. Balu's best friend, Raja, an honest journalist, is married to Shanthi and his wife is also pregnant. Swathi and Shanthi deliver the same day. Balu has a daughter although Raja has a son. In the meantime, Ranganayaki has a severe heart attack and the doctor says to not reveal shock news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanmani (film)
''Kanmani'' () is a 1994 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film, directed by R. K. Selvamani. The film stars Prashanth and Mohini, while Sujatha, Lakshmi and Jaishankar play supporting roles. Plot Prashanth joins S.R.M. Engineering College where he is teased and taunted by the college rowdies, led by Mohini who, among other things, has a video camera in the ladies room to watch women who bathe there!! After a few confrontations Prashanth shows her who's the boss. Meanwhile, Prashanth's sister Lakshmi is a famous criminal lawyer nursing a sad past and wanting revenge against Sujatha, a police officer and her husband Jai Shanker, a judge. She even supports smugglers and represent them in court just to spite Sujatha. One such client of hers is Mansur Ali Khan who is a liquor baron running a medical college (No prizes for guessing who its modeled on). His daughter also pines for Prashanth, and there is this inevitable love triangle. Mohini and Prashanth are soon in love forge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rasa Magan
''Raasamahan'' is a 1994 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film written and directed by Manivannan. The film stars Prashanth and Sivaranjani. The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja. The film opened to mixed reviews from critics. Cast *Prashanth as Prabhakaran *Sivaranjani as Selvi *Chandrasekhar as Chellachamy *Rekha as Chellachamy's wife *Vinu Chakravarthy as Chellachamy's father *Jaiganesh as Prabhakaran's father *Srividya as Prabhakaran's mother * R. Sundarrajan as Appachi *Manivannan as Aandai *Halwa Vasu as Aandai's sidekick * Manobala as Broker (guest appearance) Soundtrack The film score and the soundtrack were composed by Ilaiyaraaja and lyrics were written by Vaali. The soundtrack, released in 1994, features 5 tracks. The song "Vaikasi Vellikilama" set in carnatic ragam known as Shree ranjani and "Kaathirunthen Thaniye" set in Mohanam Mohanam is a rāga in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is an ''audava'' rāga (or ''owda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amaidhi Padai
''Amaidhi Padai'' () is a 1994 Indian Tamil-language political action film, written and directed by Manivannan. Sathyaraj played a dual role as father and son in the film, with Ranjitha playing the female lead. The story revolves around an ordinary man Ammavasai who builds his political career through shortcuts and unethical means, while his son grows up to be an honest law enforcer. The film was followed by the sequel '' Nagaraja Cholan MA, MLA'' in 2013, also starring Sathyaraj. It went on to run more than 25 weeks and was declared a blockbuster. This film is touted as one of Sathyaraj's best performances and over years has developed a strong cult following. Plot In 1967, Amavasai is a lazy transient man, but he is also rather shrewd. He gets acquainted with politician Manimaran, a MLA of the Palladam constituency, near Tiruppur. Amavasai helps Mani with some petty tasks during his election campaign. He later becomes Mani's close associate. Meanwhile, Amavasai lusts after a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakkarai Devan
''Sakkarai Devan'' is a 1993 Indian Tamil-language action drama film, directed by J. Panneer and produced by A. S. Ibrahim Rawuthar. The film stars Vijayakanth, Sukanya, Kanaka and M. N. Nambiar. Plot Sakkarai Devan makes and sells jaggery. On a visit to a neighbouring village, he falls in love with Sarasu, on whom the village landlord Vaiga Perumal had already cust his eye. Sarasu widowed brother Vaiyapuri is arrested following an altercation with the landlord over his sister. Dhanam, an orphan, given refuge by Sakkarai, realising her love is one-sided, marries Vaiyapuri. Sakkarai popularity with the villagers and his attempts to unite them against the landlord invite the evil man's ire. Cast *Vijayakanth as Sakkarai Devan * Sukanya as Sarasu * Kanaka as Dhanam * M. N. Nambiar as Vaiyapuri Sarasu's grandfather *Nassar as Vaiyapuri *Mohan Natarajan as Vairaperumal *Thyagu as Ponnambalam * R. Sundarrajan as Appu *Gandhimathi as Sakkarai Devan's mother *Senthil *Vadivelu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dharmaseelan
''Dharma Seelan'' is a 1993 Tamil language film directed by Cheyyar Ravi. The film stars Prabhu in dual roles as father and son and Khushbu whilst Napoleon, Geetha and Salim Ghouse play supporting roles. The film was released on 16 July 1993. Plot Thamizh Selvan, an orphan who works in a hospital, tries to discover the truth of his parentage. Though the head of his orphanage claims that a recently deceased nun was his mother, others deny it. So Thamizh teams up with a reporter Durga, he meets at the nun's wake, and the two work to unearth the facts. Cast *Prabhu as SP Dharma Seelan (Father) and Thamizh Selvan (Son) *Khushbu as Durga *Napoleon as Vaappa * Geetha as Parvathi *Salim Ghouse as Pradeep Chakravarthi * Manorama as Mother Mary *Goundamani as Aarusamy *Senthil as Dindigul Sahayam Soundtrack The film score and the soundtrack were composed by Ilaiyaraaja. The soundtrack, released in 1993, features 8 tracks with lyrics written by Vaali, Pulamaipithan, Gangai Ama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
