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Poo (film)
''Poo'' () is a 2008 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film directed by Sasi, based on the short story, ''Veyilodu Poi'' written by Thamizh Selvan. The film, produced by Moser Baer and Nesagee Cinemas, stars Srikanth and Parvathy. It was released on 28 November 2008. Plot The film is set in a village named Kongankulam, located between Rajapalayam and Sivakasi in southern Tamil Nadu. It entails two different dreams of two different people for one person. The main aspects of this film are of the selfless, deep love and admiration that Maari develops for her cousin Thangarasu and the love and expectations of a poor, hardworking father to his son Thangarasu. The film begins showing Maari happily married to her husband Karuppasamy, a small shop owner. She leads an uncomplaining life with a smile on her face at all shades of events, which fascinates even Karuppasamy. One day, she leaves alone to her village festival with the permission of Karuppasamy, who promises that he will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sasi (director)
Sasidharan known as Sasi is an Indian Film Director, Screenwriter, working primarily in Tamil Cinema based in Chennai. He made his directorial debut with ''Sollamale'' in 1998, followed by a series of successful romantic films like ''Roja Kootam'' (2002), ''Dishyum'' (2006), '' Poo'' (2008). His first action film was '' Ainthu Ainthu Ainthu'' (2013), followed by ''Pichaikkaran'' (2016), ''Sivappu Manjal Pachai'' (2019) Career He made his directorial debut with ''Sollamale'' in 1998 and the Telugu movie '' Seenu'' (1999). It was followed with a series of successful romance films ''Roja Kootam'' (2002) and ''Dishyum'' (2006). In January 2007, he decided to make '' Poo'' (2008), after being inspired by the romantic short story of Veyilodu Poi written by Thamizh Selvan, noting that the effect that the story had on him was "Mind-blowing" and decided that he had "to take the story to everyone". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Indian Film Festival
The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) is an annual film festival held in Los Angeles, California. Established by Christina Marouda in 2003, as a nonprofit organization devoted to paving the way for a greater appreciation of Indian cinemaGreek-born Christina Marouda has dedicated herself to the cause of promoting Indian cinema overseas '''', 17 December 2005. and diverse by providing the public with a selection of fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vijay Award For Best Editor
The Vijay for Best Editor is given by STAR Vijay as part of its annual Vijay Awards ceremony for Tamil (Kollywood) films. The list Here is a list of the award winners and the films for which they won. Nominations *2007 A. Sreekar Prasad - ''Katrathu Tamil'' **Anthony - ''Sivaji'' **Kasi Viswanathan - '' Mozhi'' **Praveen K. L. & N. B. Srikanth - ''Chennai 600028'' ** Raja Mohammad - ''Paruthiveeran'' *2008 Raja Mohammad - '' Subramaniapuram'' **Anthony - ''Vaaranam Aayiram'' ** Madhan Gunadev - '' Poo'' ** Sadagopan Ramesh - ''Anjathey'' *2009 A. Sreekar Prasad - ''Yavarum Nalam'' **Anthony - ''Renigunta'' ** Arun Kumar - ''Kanchivaram'' ** Kishore Te. - ''Eeram'' ** A. L. Ramesh - ''Naadodigal'' *2010 Kasi Viswanathan - '' Naan Mahaan Alla'' **Anthony - ''Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa'' ** LVK Dass - ''Mynaa'' ** A. Sreekar Prasad - ''Angadi Theru'' ** V. T. Vijayan - '' Singam'' * 2011 Kishore Te. - Engeyum Eppodhum ** Anthony - '' Ko'' ** Praveen K. L. & N. B. Srikanth - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vijay Award For Best Director
The Vijay for Best Director is given by STAR Vijay as part of its annual Vijay Awards ceremony for Tamil (Kollywood) films. The list Here is a list of the award winners and the films for which they won. Nominations *2007 Vetrimaaran - '' Polladhavan'' ** Ameer - ''Paruthiveeran'' **Radha Mohan - '' Mozhi'' **Ram - ''Katrathu Tamil'' **Venkat Prabhu - ''Chennai 600028'' *2008 M. Sasikumar - ''Subramaniyapuram'' **Gautham Vasudev Menon - ''Vaaranam Aayiram'' ** Myshkin - ''Anjathey'' **Radha Mohan - ''Abhiyum Naanum'' ** Sasi - '' Poo'' *2009 Bala - ''Naan Kadavul'' ** Cheran - ''Pokkisham'' **Pandiraj - ''Pasanga'' **Priyadarshan - ''Kanchivaram'' ** Samudrakani - ''Naadodigal'' *2010 Vasanthabalan - ''Angadi Theru'' **A. L. Vijay - ''Madrasapattinam'' **Gautham Vasudev Menon - ''Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa'' **Prabu Solomon - ''Mynaa'' **Seenu Ramasamy - ''Thenmerku Paruvakaatru'' *2011 Vetrimaaran - ''Aadukalam'' **A. Sarkunam - ''Vaagai Sooda Vaa'' ** M. Saravanan - ''Engae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vijay Award For Best Debut Actress
The Vijay for Best Debut Actress is given by STAR Vijay as part of its annual Vijay Awards ceremony for Tamil ( Kollywood) films. The list Here is a list of the award winners and the films for which they won. Nominations *2007 Anjali – '' Kattradhu Thamizh'' **Andrea – ''Pachaikili Muthucharam'' **Bhanu – '' Thamirabharani'' ** Tanisha – ''Unnale Unnale'' **Vijayalakshmi – '' Chennai 600028'' *2008 Parvathy – '' Poo'' ** Kangana Ranaut – ''Dhaam Dhoom'' ** Sameera Reddy – ''Vaaranam Aayiram'' ** Swathi – ''Subramaniapuram'' *2009 Ananya – '' Naadodigal'' ** Abhinaya – '' Naadodigal'' **Anuya Bhagvath – ''Siva Manasula Sakthi'' **Rupa Manjari – ''Thiru Thiru Thuru Thuru'' ** Shammu – '' Kanchivaram'' *2010 Amala Paul – '' Mynaa'' ** Amy Jackson – '' Madrasapattinam'' **Samantha – '' Baana Kaathadi'' **Nandhagi – '' Aval Peyar Thamizharasi'' ** Oviya – '' Kalavani'' *2011 Richa Gangopadhyay – ''Mayakkam Enna'' ** Hansika Motwani – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamil Nadu State Film Award For Best Storywriter ...
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] |
Shankar Mahadevan
Shankar Mahadevan (born 3 March 1967) is an Indian singer and composer who is part of the Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy trio that writes music for Indian films. Personal life and early career Shankar Mahadevan was born in Chembur, Mumbai into a Tamil speaking family from Palakkad, Kerala. He learned Hindustani classical and Carnatic music as a child, and began playing the veena at the age of five under Shri Lalitha Venkataraman. Mahadevan studied music under Pandit Shrinivas Khale and T.R. Balamani. He is an alumnus of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour High School, Chembur and graduated in 1988 with a degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology in Navi Mumbai, affiliated to Mumbai University, and was a software engineer for the company, Leading Edge.After working for Leading Edge Systems (now Trigyn Technologies Limited), Mahadevan ventured into music. Musical career Mahadevan got early fame as a indipop star with his fusion of Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinmayee
Chinmayi Sripaada is an Indian playback singer, working mainly for the South Indian film industry. She is also a voice actor, television presenter, radio jockey, and an entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of a translation services company ''Blue Elephant'', a Skincare company importing K-beauty to India - ''Isle Of Skin'', and a medi-spa ''Deep Skin Dialogues'' in Chennai and Hyderabad. She is often credited as Chinmayee and Indai Haza. She rose to fame for her critically acclaimed song "''Oru Deivam Thantha Poovae''" from the National Award winning movie '' Kannathil Muthamittal''. Early life and background Chinmayi received the CCRT Scholarship for Young Talent for Carnatic Music from the Government of India at the age of 10. She won the gold medal from All India Radio for Ghazals in 2000 and the Silver for Hindustani Classical Music in 2002. She learned German as a language in the Max Mueller Bhavan in Chennai and completed certification courses from NIIT and SSI in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karthik (singer)
Karthik (born 7 November 1980) is an Indian playback singer and composer. Karthik started his professional singing career as a backing vocalist and has since been working as a playback singer. He has sung more than 8000 songs in 15 Indian languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Odia, Bengali, Marathi and Hindi. Early and personal life Karthikeyan hails from Tiruvarur district. He is a trained Carnatic music vocalist. He was part of a college band and regularly participated in IIT Madras Fest ''Saarang''. An ardent fan of A. R. Rahman, Karthik's dream was to meet Rahman and sing for him. Playback singer Srinivas, who collaborated often with Rahman was Karthik's close friend's cousin. Srinivas encouraged Karthik to look at singing as a career, which prompted Karthik to resume his singing lessons. One year later, Srinivas recommended Karthik's name to Rahman, who needed fresh voices for backing vocalists for a song from '' Pukar''. Karthik eventually got the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tippu (singer)
Ekambaresh Lakshmi Narayanan, better known by his stage name Tippu (born 1 November 1978) is an Indian playback singer who has performed over 4000 songs in Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Telugu languages. Biography Tippu has sung over 4000 songs in various languages such as Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. He has sung many hit songs in his career. He has lent his voice for the films starring South Indian super stars like Dr. Vishnuvardhan and Rajinikanth. He has sung for many stars in South India, but it is his combination with Kannada super star Puneeth Rajkumar that has struck a chord with the audience. This combination has given many hit songs to the industry. The songs 'Shiva antha hoguthidde' from ''Jackie'', 'Yaavanig gothu' from ''Paramaathma'', 'Hey hey Paaru' from ''Raaj'', 'Hejjegondu hejje' from ''Prithvi'', and 'Ley Ley' from ''Raam'' have all been major hits. His combination with the music director V. Harikrishna is very popular. They have delivered hit songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harini (singer)
Harini (born 30 April 1979) is an Indian film playback singer and classical singer who sings in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and Kannada films, working with many leading film composers. She is married to another playback singer, Tippu. Harini learnt Carnatic music from Gowri and Radha Viswanathan from the age of four. In her later years, she learned from Sudha Raghunathan and currently from Suguna Purushotthaman. She used to participate in school competitions and in one such competition which she won, A. R. Rahman who distributed the prizes invited the winners to his studio to record their voices. Subsequently, she was called by Suhasini Maniratnam to sing "Nila Kaigirathu" for her first film '' Indira''. Her first song, "Nila Kaigirathu", was recorded at the age of 15. Since then, she has received offers from various music directors across South India. Within a career spanning a decade, she sang over 3500 film songs and several album songs, most of them in Tamil. Discography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalavani
''Kalavani'' () is a 2010 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film written and directed by newcomer A. Sarkunam. It stars Vimal and debutante Oviya, with Saranya Ponvannan, Ganja Karuppu and Ilavarasu in supporting roles. The film was made on a shoe-string budget, and released on 25 June 2010. and became a sleeper hit of 2010. Later the movie was remade in Kannada as ''Kirataka'' with Oviya reprising her role. Plot Two villages in Thanjavur area are always at loggerheads with each other, and it spills even to T20 cricket match between kids from both villages. Arivazhagan aka Arikki ( Vimal) is a wayward son of Lakshmi (Saranya Ponvannan), who is in awe but at the same time fears him. Her husband Ramasamy (Ilavarasu) is away in Dubai, and a large part of the money he sends home is taken away by Arikki using extortionist methods, such as threatening to break the TV set at home. He is yet to pass his 12th standard. Arikki spends time in bars with friends, teases girls, asks t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
