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Poonam Kaur
Poonam Kaur is an Indian actress and model who primarily appears in Telugu and Tamil films. She is also a politician, based out of Telangana and a member of the Congress Party. Career Born and raised in Hyderabad, India, Poonam Kaur did her schooling in Hyderabad Public School, before doing fashion designing at the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) in Delhi. In 2006, after her studies, she signed up for a film to be directed by Teja, which didn't take off for unknown reason. However, she took an offer for another Teja film, ''Oka Vichitram''. Even before the release of that film, Kaur was pursuing a lead role in another Telugu film, '' Mayajalam'', which released first. Subsequently, she appeared in several Telugu films as ''Nikki And Neeraj'', enacting the title role of Nikki, and in ''Souryam'', alongside Gopichand and Anushka Shetty. For her performance in the latter, Kaur received a nomination for the Best Supporting Actress Award for 2008. She made he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyderabad, India
Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the '' de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much of Hyderabad is situated on hilly terrain around artificial lakes, including the Hussain Sagar lake, predating the city's founding, in the north of the city centre. According to the 2011 Census of India, Hyderabad is the fourth-most populous city in India with a population of residents within the city limits, and has a population of residents in the metropolitan region, making it the sixth-most populous metropolitan area in India. With an output of 74 billion, Hyderabad has the fifth-largest urban economy in India. Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah established Hyderabad in 1591 to extend the capital beyond the fortified Golconda. In 1687, the city was annexed by the Mughals. In 1724, Asaf Jah I, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
56th Filmfare Awards South
The 56th Filmfare Awards South ceremony honored its selection of the best 2008 in film, South Indian films of 2008 and was held on Friday, 31 July 2009, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, India. Nominations The nominees for the 56th Filmfare Awards were announced live on Monday, 16 June 2009, at 12:00 a.m. Indian Standard Time, IST (7:30 Coordinated Universal Time, UTC) by Filmfare Awards, Filmfare chief editors in Mumbai. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony scheduled to take place on 31 July 2009, in Hyderabad, India, Hyderabad. The Filmfare Best Film Award is given by the ''Filmfare'' magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films. The award was first given in 1954. Here is a list of the award winners and the nominees of the respective years. Each individual entry shows the title followed by the production company, and the producer. Multiple nominations and awards The following films received multiple nominations. Kannada *Nomi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinayakudu (film)
''Vinayakudu'' is a 2008 Telugu-language romantic drama film written and directed by Sai Kiran Adivi. The film stars Krishnudu and Sonia of ''Happy Days'' fame in the lead roles and Poonam Kaur plays the role of Sonia's friend. The film released on 21 November 2008 to critical and commercial acclaim. The film is about a fat man falling in love with an arrogant woman. The film was partially re-shot in Tamil by Balasekaran as ''Vinayaka'' with extra scenes filmed with Santhanam. It spawned a sequel titled ''Village Lo Vinayakudu'' with Krishnudu. In 2020, Adivi expressed interest in remaking the film in Hindi. Plot Karthik ( Krishnudu), a soft, ever-happy kind of guy, comes to Hyderabad for a job interview at Hi-Rise, an ad agency. He gets selected, and in the office the next day, he sees Kalpana (Sonia) and likes her. He's generally not taken seriously by anyone because of his soft-spoken nature and his rotund personality, but he's the kind who doesn't take that seriously! Kalpana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kannada
Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native speakers, and was additionally a second or third language for around 13 million non-native speakers in Karnataka. Kannada was the court language of some of the most powerful dynasties of south and central India, namely the Kadambas, Chalukyas, Rashtrakutas, Yadava Dynasty or Seunas, Western Ganga dynasty, Wodeyars of Mysore, Nayakas of Keladi Hoysalas and the Vijayanagara empire. The official and administrative language of the state of Karnataka, it also has scheduled status in India and has been included among the country's designated classical languages.Kuiper (2011), p. 74R Zydenbos in Cushman S, Cavanagh C, Ramazani J, Rouzer P, ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition'', p. 767, Princeton Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filmfare Award For Best Supporting Actress – Telugu
The Telugu Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award is given by the ''Filmfare'' magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Telugu films. The award was introduced and first given at the 50th Filmfare Awards South in 2002. Superlatives *''Sivagami Devi'' is the only character to win most Best Supporting Actress awards. Ramya Krishna won for portraying the character in both '' Baahubali: The Beginning'' and '' Baahubali: The Conclusion'', respectively in 2015 and in 2017. Winners Nominations * 2020–2021: Tabu – ''Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo'' ** Madonna Sebastian – ''Shyam Singha Roy'' **Priyanka Jawalkar – ''Gamanam'' **Ramya Krishna – ''Republic'' **Saranya Pradeep – ''Jaanu'' **Vijayashanti – '' Sarileru Neekevvaru'' *2018: Anasuya Bharadwaj as Rangamma Attha – ''Rangasthalam'' ** Malavika Nair as Sisira Bharadwaj- ''Taxiwaala'' ** Asha Sarath as Vaishnavi Natarajan – '' Bhaagamathie'' ** Samantha Akkineni as Madhuravani– ''Mahanati'' ** Mehreen Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oka `V` Chitram
''Oka V Chitram'' (styled ''Oka 'V' Chitram'') is a 2006 Indian Telugu-language comedy film written and directed by Teja, and produced by Dasari Narayana Rao and Siri Media Pvt Ltd. It stars Aadhi Pinisetty, Vamsi Krishna and Madhu Shalini. The music was composed by Sri Murali. The film is inspired by the American film, '' Bowfinger''. Aadhi Pinisetty made his debut in the film under the name Pradeep Pinisetty. Cast * Aadhi Pinisetty as P. Balaram * Vamsi Krishna as Santosh Babu * Madhu Shalini as Supraja * Poonam Kaur as Deepa * Pooja Bharti as Supriya * Tanikella Bharani as Devam * Krishna Bhagavaan as Cameraman Krishna Krishna * Telangana Shakuntala as Lakshmamma * Satyam Rajesh as Free Free, a poet * Madhunandan as Microsoft * Raghu Babu as PP Pulla Rao * Srinivasa Reddy as Balaram's friend Mahi * M. S. Narayana as Dr. Gasagasa Rao * Duvvasi Mohan as Head Constable * Ravi Prakash as Supraja's husband * Rallapalli as Balaram's boss * Bharath Reddy as Bharath * Kondav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohanlal
Mohanlal Viswanathan (born 21 May 1960), known mononymously as Mohanlal, is an Indian actor, film producer, playback singer, film distributor, and director who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema besides also having sporadically appeared in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and Kannada-language films. Mohanlal has a prolific career spanning over four decades, during which he has acted in more than 400 films. Mohanlal's contributions to the Malayalam cinema have been praised by his contemporaries in the Indian film industry. The Government of India honoured him with Padma Shri in 2001, and Padma Bhushan in 2019, India's fourth and third highest civilian honours, for his contributions to Indian cinema. In 2009, he became the first actor in India to be awarded the honorary rank of Lieutenant colonel in the Territorial Army. Mohanlal made his acting debut at age 18 in the Malayalam film ''Thiranottam'' in 1978, but the film was delayed in its release for 25 years due to censorship iss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamal Haasan
Kamal Haasan (born 7 November 1954) is an Indian actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, playback singer, television presenter and politician who works mainly in Tamil cinema and has also appeared in some Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada and Bengali language, Bengali films. He has been recognised as an influence for actors and filmmakers in the Tamil film industry. He is also known for introducing many new technologies and cosmetics to the Indian film industry. He has won numerous accolades, including four National Film Awards and 20 Filmfare Awards South, Filmfare Awards. He was awarded the Kalaimamani, Kalaimamani Award in 1984, the List of Padma Shri award recipients (1990–1999), Padma Shri in 1990, the List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2010–2019), Padma Bhushan in 2014 and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (''Chevalier'') in 2016. Haasan started his career as a child artist in the 1960 Tamil language, Tamil-language film ''Kalathur Kannamma'', for which he won the Rashtr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Wednesday!
''A Wednesday!'' is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language thriller film written and directed by Neeraj Pandey and produced by Ronnie Screwvala, Anjum Rizvi and Shital Bhatia under UTV Motion Pictures and Friday Filmworks. Though a work of fiction, the script is partly inspired by the 11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings. Naseeruddin Shah and Anupam Kher, the only choices for the lead roles, star respectively as people on either sides of the system. Set between 2 pm and 6 pm on a Wednesday, the film depicts an about-to-retire police commissioner narrating a sequence of events that unfolded on a particular Wednesday. There does not exist any written record, as the awareness of the incident exists only in his mind and in those of several individuals who were involved, willingly and unwillingly, and how those events affected the lives of all the concerned people. It later inspired the Tamil and Telugu simultaneously made films '' Unnaipol Oruvan'' and ''Eeenadu'' (both 2009), and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bollywood
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (former name of Mumbai) and " Hollywood". The industry is a part of the larger Indian cinema, which also includes South Cinema and other smaller film industries. In 2017, Indian cinema produced 1,986 feature films, of which the largest number, 364 have been from Hindi. , Hindi cinema represented 43 percent of Indian net box-office revenue; Tamil and Telugu cinema represented 36 percent, and the remaining regional cinema constituted 21 percent. Hindi cinema has overtaken the U.S. film industry to become the largest centre for film production in the world. In 2001 ticket sales, Indian cinema (including Hindi films) reportedly sold an estimated 3.6 billion tickets worldwide, compared to Hollywood's 2.6 billion tickets sold. Earlier Hindi film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unnaipol Oruvan (2009 Film)
''Unnaipol Oruvan'' (also released internationally under the translated title ''Someone Like You'') is a 2009 Indian Tamil-language vigilante thriller film directed by Chakri Toleti in his directorial debut. It stars Kamal Haasan and Mohanlal. The film was simultaneously made in Telugu as ''Eenadu'' () with Venkatesh playing Mohanlal's role, both remakes of the Hindi film ''A Wednesday!''. The film tells the story of Chennai City /Hyderabad City(Telugu) (Police Commissioner/ DGP (Mohanlal / Venkatesh) who gets an anonymous call. The caller (Kamal Haasan) demands that he release militants in exchange for information about many bombs planted across the city. The caller is serious as the police find a bomb planted very close to their headquarters. The commissioner is later cornered between releasing militants who had been responsible for killing innocent people and stopping bomb blasts around the city. Whatever he chooses forms the rest of the plot. Both ''Unnaipol Oruvan'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bandhu Balaga
''Bandhu Balaga'' is a 2008 Indian Kannada-language drama film directed by Naganna and written by Janardhan Maharshi. The film stars Shiva Rajkumar and Poonam Kaur, Hema Chaudhary along with Tejaswini Prakash, Shashi Kumar and Harish Raj in other pivotal roles. Parul Yadav, who played the role of sister in law of the hero, made her Kannada debut through this movie. The film featured original score and soundtrack composed and written by Hamsalekha. Plot The story surrounds the main character, Subramanya, an illegitimate son of a rich man. He lives with his sister in his village and spends most of his time doing good deeds for people who need help. However, he ends up in trouble when his father steps in to make matters confusing. Cast * Shiva Rajkumar as Subramanya * Poonam Kaur * Hema Choudhary * Shashikumar * Srinivasa Murthy * Doddanna * Jyothirmayi * Tejaswini Prakash as Annapoorna * Harish Raj * Parul Yadav * Dharma * Doddanna * M. N. Lakshmi Devi * Honnavalli Kris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
