Paradesi (other)
Paradesi may refer to: * ''Paradesi'' (1953 film), a 1953 Telugu-Tamil Bilingual film directed by L. V. Prasad, starring Anjali Devi and Sivaji Ganesan * ''Paradesi'' (1998 film), a 1998 Telugu film directed by K. Raghavendra Rao * ''Paradesi'' (2007 film), a 2007 Indian Malayalam film directed by P. T. Kunju Muhammed and starring Mohanlal * ''Paradesi'' (2013 film), a 2013 Tamil film directed by Bala starring Adharvaa * Paradesi Jews, a community of Sephardic Jews settled among the larger Cochin Jewish community in Kerala See also * Pardesi (other) * Pardes (other) Pardes may refer to: Judaism * Pardes (legend), Jewish account of a Heavenly orchard * Pardes (Jewish exegesis), a Kabbalistic theory of biblical exegesis. * ''Pardès'', the European Journal of Jewish Studies, co-founded by Shmuel Trigano and ...

Paradesi (1953 Film)
''Paradesi'' or ''Poongothai'' is a 1953 Indian Telugu- Tamil bilingual romance film, produced by P. Adinarayana Rao under the Anjali pictures banner and directed by L. V. Prasad. It stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Anjali Devi, Sivaji Ganesan and music also composed by P. Adinarayana Rao. The film is a remake of the Hindi movie ''Raj Rani'' (1950). No print of ''Poongothai'' is known to survive, making it a lost film. Plot synopsis Chandram and Lakshmi who fall in love with each other, consummate their love but are separated by fate. They reunite after a few years and the cause for their reunion makes the rest of the story. Cast * Akkineni Nageswara Rao as Chandram *Anjali Devi as Lakshmi *S. V. Ranga Rao as Rangadu * Ganesan as Anand *Janardhan * Relangi as Devaiah * Pandari Bai as Susheela *Suryakantham as Srugaram *K. A. Thangavelu (Tamil) *Vasantha as Taara *Anasuya as Bangaram *Master Mohan as Anand Soundtrack ;Telugu Music composed by P. Adinarayana Rao. Lyrics were ...
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Paradesi (1998 Film)
''Paradesi'' () is a 1998 Indian Telugu language comedy film directed by K. Raghavendra Rao. The film starred Viswa, Madhav Dalvi, Tanuja, and Monet Quick. The film was shot mainly in the USA over a 93-day schedule and is notable for its visuals. Plot The movie is about a mischievous, educated, small-town boy. He is sent abroad to marry a girl of Indian origin. He takes his best friend along and they decide to play a prank and change identities. As fate would have it they fall in love with two girls while still in the assumed identities. This leads to complications and comic situations, especially when the fake identities become intertwined. Cast * Viswa (Suresh Nair) as Krishna * Madhav Dalvi as Gopal * Tanuja as Jyothi * Monet Quick as Catherine * Brahmanandam * AVS as Bagara Raju * Tanikella Bharani as Rayudu * Babu Mohan Pally Babu Mohan known as Babu Mohanis an Indian actor and politician from Bharatiya Janata Party. He prominently works in Telugu films as a comedia ...
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Paradesi (2007 Film)
''Paradesi'' () is a 2007 Indian Malayalam-language drama film written and directed by P. T. Kunju Muhammed. It was produced by Antony Perumbavoor under the company Aashirvad Cinemas. Mohanlal plays Valiyakaththu Moosa, in three stages of his life, between the ages of 35 and 80. It also features Swetha Menon, Lakshmi Gopalaswamy, Padmapriya Janakiraman, Jagathy Sreekumar, and Siddique in significant roles. The film portrays the issue of Indian citizens who left the country before the partition of India in search of job, mostly to Arabia, and happened to reach Pakistan, and then when returned to the homeland, happened to be holding a Pakistani passport, and now is forced by the Indian authorities to leave the nation to Pakistan, which even the Pakistani authorities won't allow. Plot Valiyakaththu Moosa is an Indian Muslim who moves from the Malabar region of Kerala, India to Karachi, Pakistan during the British Raj in search of a job. Post-partition, he returns from Pakistan a ...
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Paradesi (2013 Film)
''Paradesi'' () is a 2013 Indian Tamil-language period drama film written and directed by Bala starring Atharvaa, Vedhika and Sai Dhanshika. The film's music was scored by G. V. Prakash Kumar. The film was based on novel ''Eriyum Panikadu'', Tamil translation of the 1969 English novel ''Red Tea'' by Paul Harris Daniel and inspired from real life incidents that took place before independence in the 1930s. It was released on 15 March 2013. The dubbed version of Telugu was released with the same name. The film opened to highly positive reviews with critics mainly praising the performances of the cast and the direction of Bala. The movie was an average grosser at the box office Plot Raasa (Atharvaa) is a carefree young man living in a rural village in the Madras Presidency during the early days of the British Raj. Orphaned at a young age, he is brought up by his grandmother. Angamma (Vedhika), a local girl, falls for him and takes pleasure in bullying him. When she finally confess ...
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Paradesi Jews
Paradesi Jews were Jews, Jewish people who immigrated to the Indian subcontinent during the 15th and 16th centuries following the expulsion of Jews from Spain. ''Paradesi'' refers to the Malayalam word that means ''foreign'' as they were newcomers. These Sephardic (from Spain and Portugal) immigrants fled forced conversion, persecution and antisemitism in the wake of the Alhambra Decree expelling Jews from Spain, and Manuel I of Portugal, King Manuel's 1496 decree expelling Jews from Portugal. They are sometimes referred to as "White Jews", although that usage is generally considered pejorative or discriminatory and refers to relatively recent Jewish immigrants (end of the 15th century onward), predominantly Sephardim. During the 18th and 19th centuries Paradesi Jews were Sephardi Jews, Sephardi immigrants to the Indian subcontinent from Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries who fled forced conversion, persecution and antisemitism. The Paradesi Jews of Cochin traded in ...
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Pardesi (other)
Pardesi, the Hindi word for "foreigner", may refer to: * ''Pardesi'' (1957 film), an Indo-Soviet film directed by Vasili Pronin and Khwaja Ahmad Abbas * ''Pardesi'' (1970 film), an Indian drama film by Kundan Kumar * ''Pardesi'' (1993 film), an Indian action film by Raj N. Sippy * Shaukat Pardesi (1924–1995), Indian poet, journalist and lyricist * Irfan Pardesi, Pakistani entrepreneur, investor and politician. See also * * Paradesi (other) * Pardes (other) * Pardesiya Pardesiya ( he, פַּרְדֵּסִיָּה) is a town in the Central District of Israel. Located on the Sharon plain, between Kfar Yona and the Lev HaSharon Regional Council, it was founded between 1937 and 1939. In it had a population of ; it ...