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Mohan Rajan
Mohan Rajan is an Indian lyricist working on Tamil language films. Career Hailing from Valayapatti near Tiruchirappalli, Mohan Rajan arrived in Chennai in 2001, hoping to become a lyricist in the Tamil film industry. However, he failed to get a breakthrough and instead qualified himself by pursuing master's degree in Tamil literature and later media arts at Loyola College, Chennai. Mohan Rajan was launched as a lyricist by James Vasanthan during the making of '' Yathumaagi'' (2010). Soon after the release of the song, he became acquainted with Vasanthan's friend, the film-maker Sasikumar, who began to regularly hand lyric-writing assignments to Mohan for his projects. Notably, he wrote the song "Jilla Vittu" from ''Easan'' (2010) and then "Kondaadum Manasu" from ''Sundarapandian'' (2012) for Sasikumar's projects. Mohan Rajan's breakthrough song was "Kanave Kanave", a pathos song featured in Bejoy Nambiar's anthology film ''David'' (2013), featuring Vikram and Jiiva. The son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demographics Of India
India is the second most populated country in the world with a sixth of the world's population. According to official estimates, India's population stood at 1.38 billion. Between 1975 and 2010, the population doubled to 1.2 billion, reaching the billion mark in 2000. India is projected to surpass China to become the world's most populous country by 2023. It is expected to become the first country to be home to more than 1.5 billion people by 2030, and its population is set to reach 1.7 billion by 2050. However, its pace of population growth is slowing. In 2017 its population growth rate was 0.98%, ranking 112th in the world; in contrast, from 1972 to 1983, India's population grew by an annual rate of 2.3%. In 2022, the median age of an Indian was 28.7 years, compared to 38.4 for China and 48.6 for Japan; and, by 2030; India's dependency ratio will be just over 0.4. However, the number of children in India peaked more than a decade ago and is now f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bala (director)
Balasubramanian known as Bala is an Tamil film director, screenwriter, and producer, working in Tamil cinema. Bala has been praised for "revolutionizing Tamil cinema" through his realistic, dark and disturbing depiction of the working class on celluloid screen. Shaji N. Karun, who headed the jury of the 56th National Film Awards, said, "Bala is unique in many ways. The way he changed Tamil cinema's character was commendable ... There were many who tried for a change. Among the new generation of filmmakers, Bala leads the pack in bringing a change in Tamil cinema's outlook and approach." Film career Bala was introduced by lyricist Arivumathi to director Balu Mahendra. Initially he was working as a production assistant in Balu Mahendra movie. Later Bala turned to work with him as assistant director in his movies. Bala made his directorial debut with '' Sethu'' in 1999, that gave a break to Vikram, the film's lead actor, who was also struggling in the Tamil film industry for alm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siddharth Vipin
Siddharth Vipin is an Indian composer, who mainly produces film scores and soundtracks in the Tamil film industry. He recently married Shriya Mohandas who is an advocate. Early life Siddharth was born in Salem,Tamil Nadu. Finished his schooling in Muscat, Oman, he chose to attend Loyola College, Chennai for a B.Com degree and also is a professional Sound Engineer from SAE Institute. He lost his father, Vipin Chandra in 2005. He is the nephew of Radha Vinod Raju. Career He worked as a sound engineer for the Delhi-based rock band Euphoria and also worked on the sound effects for some Indian version of Hollywood films. He was selected to do the sound designing for Major Ravi's ''Mission 90 Days'' (2007) and also acted as the Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Siddharth Vipin then made his composing debut in Major Ravi's next Malayalam war film '' Kurukshetra'' (2008), gaining positive reviews for his work. Siddharth's debut in Tamil was ''Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom'' (2012 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muthina Kathirika
''Muthina Kathirika'' () is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language political satire film directed by Venkat and produced by Khushbu. A remake of the successful Malayalam film ''Vellimoonga'' (2014), the film stars Sundar C., Poonam Bajwa. Following the completion of Sundar's directorial commitments, the film began production in February 2016. Plot In 1996, a 18-year Muthupandi visits the local police station in Kovilur in Thenkasi for a small issue. He gets a good respect in station as his grandfather was an MLA from ADBD party, which is a national party. Muthupandi realises the worth of politics and foolishly joins the party, without realising that ADBD has no hold in Tamilnadu. He tries to woo his college senior Madhavi, but ends up in a scuffle with supr-senior Ravikumar, and drops all hopes of love. 20 years later, Muthupandi is still unmarried and is the State General Secretary of the meek party. His younger brother is married, has kids and works as Government employee and his youn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priyadarshini (singer)
Priyadarshini Ram, also known as Priyadharshi Ram or monomymously as Priyadarshini, is a Singaporean-Indian playback singer who has performed in more than 110 movies in the Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi cinema industries. She began her career as a playback singer by performing a duet song with Hariharan for the Tamil film ''Kadhal Dot Com'', released in 2004. She later sung a duet with S. P. Balasubrahmanyam in the Kannada movie ''Rocky''. She has worked with music directors such as Bharathwaj, D. Imman, Hamsalekha, Mano Murthy, Gurukiran Gurukiran or Gurukiran Shetty is an Indian music director of the Kannada film industry in India. He started his career as a music director of the Kannada movie '' A'', directed and acted by Upendra. His music for his next movie '' Upendra'' fu ..., R. P. Patnaik, Rajesh Ramnath, K. Kalyan, and S. A. Rajkumar, and has also recorded jingles and albums. She has a PhD in film music from the University of Mysore. Playback songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghibran
Ghibran (often credited as M. Ghibran) is an Indian composer. He has composed music for Indian films, advertising films and television commercial jingles in different languages. Early life Ghibran was born and raised in Coimbatore. When he was in the tenth grade, his family relocated to Chennai after his father suffered a severe loss in business. He had to discontinue studies and do several jobs to support his family. Ghibran said that he had developed an interest in music after he had seen Yanni perform on TV, when he was about eight or ten. He had enrolled into a music college, but had to drop out and instead attended keyboard classes and learnt keyboard part-time from Paul Augustine. He completed RSA Grade 8 in both piano and music theory through Trinity College London, and obtained a degree in classical composition and film scoring under Australian Composer Lindsay Vickery at the LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. He received an offer to compose music for animation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kutti Puli
''Kutti Puli'' () is a 2013 Indian Tamil-language action drama film directed by M. Muthaiah, starring Sasikumar and Lakshmi Menon while Saranya Ponvannan and Bala Saravanan play supporting roles. The film opened to mixed reviews but performed well at box office. The movie was remade in Kannada in 2019 as '' Sinnga'' starring Chiranjeevi Sarja. Plot Kutti Puli is a youngster, who respects his mother Deivaani and is a part-time vigilante, who punishes crooked people, along with his friend Pappu. He meets Bharathi at a local store due to misunderstanding. Time passes by, Bharathi understands Kutti Puli's kind nature and develops a mutual respect for Kutti Puli. MMS Moorthy is a hitman, who is hired by an MP to finish an assignment, but his attempts are unknowingly thwarted by Kutti Puli. After an attack involving Moorthy's brother, Kutti Puli is stabbed to death and is taken to the hospital where Bharathi and Deivanai arrange the money for his treatment. Kutti Puli recovers and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anand Aravindakshan
Anand Aravindakshan (born 1989) is an Indian playback singer, and the 2016 title winner of Airtel Super Singer Season 5, a television-based reality singing competition in Tamil televised on Vijay TV. Early life Anand did his school education from Chennai, and while in high school at Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School in Chennai, Anand started representing his school at cultural events and competition. After his graduation in commerce at Vivekananda College in Chennai, Anand completed a course in sound engineering from Soundtech Media School of Sound Engineering and Recording in Chennai and his MBA from Symbiosis College in the same city. Reality show experience During this period Anand also took part in about four reality shows, where he won two shows and was announced first runner-up in the other two. He was the first runner up in the 2007 edition of Gandharva Sangeetham, a reality music show telecast by Kairali channel and in the 2008 edition of Athiradi Singer, a realit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thanjai Selvi
Thanjai Selvi is a Tamil singer. She is popular for her rendering of folk songs. She had begun her career in Tamil cinema with the song "Jilla Vittu" from the movie ''Eesan''. Discography Thanjai Selvi has so far sung the following songs. ''Jilla Vittu'' from Easan ''Easan'' ( ta, ஈசன் - The Lord Shiva) is a 2010 Indian Tamil-language drama film written, directed and produced by Sasikumar, directing his second film after the blockbuster, ''Subramaniapuram''. It stars Samuthirakani, Vaibhav, produce ... (won Vijay Award for best folk song that year) and ''Maruthani'' from Marudhavelu are popular ones. Soundtrack References External links Thanjai Selvi Speaks about Easan {{DEFAULTSORT:Selvi, Thanjai Living people Tamil playback singers Indian women playback singers Indian women folk singers Indian folk singers Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benny Dayal
Benny Dayal (born 13 May 1984) is an Indian playback singer. He is a prominent singer in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Gujarati and Marathi and more languages films. He has sung more than 3500 songs in 19+ Indian languages. He is a member of the band S5, launched by SS Music TV channel. He made his acting debut in the Malayalam movie '' By the People'', a suspense thriller. All the songs were sung by S5 members and it was then that A.R. Rahman noticed him and took an audition. Personal life Dayal's parents hail from Kollam district in Kerala. He was born and raised in Abu Dhabi, UAE and completed his schooling there from Abu Dhabi Indian School (ADIS). He went on to complete his B.Com. and Masters in Journalism from Madras Christian College. Dayal worked as an Events Coordinator with RR Donnelley. He quit his job in BPO to accomplish his career with music. On 5 June 2016, the singer married his model girlfriend Catherine Thangam in a close-knit ceremony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaathumagi
''Yathumaagi'' is a 2010 Indian Tamil-language romance film written and directed by S. Balakumar that stars newcomer Sachin and Sunaina in lead roles. The film's score and soundtrack composed by James Vasanthan. The film, produced by Sakthi Sangavi and Mohana Sangavi under the Chola Creations banner, was released on 12 March 2010 to negative reviews. Plot Anand (Sachin) is an advertisement photographer. Quite typical to such genre of films, he comes across Annalakshmi (Sunaina), who is conservative in her looks. After a few initial encounters, Annalakshmi develops love for Anand. However, Anand has other plans. The mystery is soon unraveled and is made known that Anand hails from a family of doctors. When everyone thinks that Anand will tie the knot to Annalakshmi, the twist occurs in the form of Anand accepting an arranged marriage. What transpires between the lead couple forms the rest of the story, which ends in an interesting climax. Cast * Sachin as Anand * Sunaina as Annala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padaiveeran
''Padaiveeran'' () is a 2018 Indian Tamil-language drama film written and directed by Dhana. The film features Vijay Yesudas and debutant Amritha Aiyer in the lead roles, with Bharathiraja and Akhil in supporting roles. The film features music composed by Karthik Raja, editing by Bhuvan Srinivasan, and cinematography by Rajavel Mohan. ''Padaiveeran'' was released on 2 February 2018. Plot The film is based on a true story. Set in modern times in a rural village in Theni in south India, the film portrays communal riots due to caste. Muneeshwaran (Vijay Yesudas) is a young jobless man who spends all his time with his like-minded friends, roaming around in the village with no purpose in life. One day, while Muneesh is accompanying an old lady to the police station, he learns that the villagers have high regard for cops, as they earn easy money and get free liquor. Before leaving, he promises his childhood sweetheart Malar ( Amritha Aiyer) in the village that he will complete the tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
