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Thappu Thanda
''Thappu Thanda'' () is a 2017 Tamil-language comedy thriller film written and directed by debutant Srikantan and produced by SathyaMurthi for Clapboard Production. The film features Sathyamurthi and Shwetha Gai in the lead roles, while Mime Gopi, John Vijay, Aathma Patrick and Ajay Ghosh appear in prominent roles. The story revolves around a politician who transfers a huge amount of money to bribe public for votes and a group of small time robbers who plan to loot that money. The film was released across Tamil Nadu on 8 September 2017. Cast *Sathyamurthi as Vetri *Shweta Gai as Abi *Mime Gopi as Karna * Ajay Ghosh as Miller *John Vijay as Guru *E. Ramdoss as Thiyagu *Aathma Patrick as Kaliya *Krishna Kaanth as Bothx * Sendrayan as thief intern Production The film's director Srikantan was a graduate of Balu Mahendra's film institute "Cinema Pattarai". The film took a year to script and was then shot entirely across Chennai. A further romantic song was shot in the hills of Wagom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mime Gopi
Mime Gopi is an Indian stage and film actor who has appeared in predominantly Tamil films including ''Madras'' (2014), ''Kathakali'' (2016), and ''Kabali'' (2016). Career Mime Gopi already acted in Saravanan Meenatchi season 1 along with Mirchi Saravanan as money launderer. Prior to his entrance into the film industry, Gopi was a renowned mime actor in Chennai and headed G Mime Studio, a studio which exhibited the art form. In his role, he worked closely with children with special needs to help them adapt miming skills. The actor celebrates every birthday and festivals by doing charity work across Tamil Nadu. He also had contributed money to the local festivals of the religious organisations. He is an inspiration to the upcoming theatre actors. He had set up the studio in 1994 and had worked to expand the art across Chennai. Mime Gopi shot to fame with director Pa. Ranjith's ''Madras'' (2014) and he gave notable performances in '' Maari'' (2015), ''Maya'' and ''Kabali'' (2016). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soodhu Kavvum
''Soodhu Kavvum'' () is a 2013 Indian Tamil-language black comedy crime film written and directed by Nalan Kumarasamy. It features Vijay Sethupathi, Bobby Simha, Ashok Selvan, Ramesh Thilak, Karunakaran and Sanchita Shetty in the lead roles. The film was released on 1 May 2013. The main concept is about how silly talk has engulfed people's day-to-day life and modern society. ''Soodhu Kavvum'' received positive reviews from critics and became a big blockbuster. The film was remade in Telugu as ''Gaddam Gang'' and into an Urdu language Pakistani movie titled as ''Chupan Chupai''. Plot Friends Kesavan, Sekar, and Pagalavan meet Das, a middle-age man who does low-profile kidnappings for a living with his imaginary girlfriend Shalu. Since they are broke, the trio decides to become his assistants. Das follows five rules of kidnapping (which he spells and writes as "kednaping"), the first of which is to avoid kidnapping people from political backgrounds. One day, the Das gang kidn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Comedy Thriller Films
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Indian Black Comedy Films
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2017 Films
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The New Indian Express
''The New Indian Express'' is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper published by the Chennai-based Express Publications. It was founded in 1932 as ''The Indian Express'', under the ownership of Chennai-based P. Varadarajulu Naidu. In 1991, following the death of owner Ramnath Goenka, his family split the group into two companies. Initially, the two groups shared the ''Indian Express'' title, as well as editorial and other resources. But on 13 August 1999, the northern editions, headquartered in Mumbai, retained the ''Indian Express'' moniker, while the southern editions became ''The New Indian Express''. Santwana Bhattacharya was appointed Editor-in-Chief on July 1st, 2022, replacing G.S. Vasu. History ''Indian Express'' was first published on September 5, 1932, in Madras (now Chennai) by an Ayurvedic doctor and Indian National Congress member P Varadarajulu Naidu, publishing from the same press where he ran the ''Tamil Nadu'' Tamil weekly. But soon, on accoun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times Of India
''The Times of India'', also known by its abbreviation ''TOI'', is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group. It is the third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest selling English-language daily in the world. It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India, and the second-oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation, with its first edition published in 1838. It is nicknamed as "The Old Lady of Bori Bunder", and is an Indian " newspaper of record". Near the beginning of the 20th century, Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, called ''TOI'' "the leading paper in Asia". In 1991, the BBC ranked ''TOI'' among the world's six best newspapers. It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (B.C.C.L.), which is owned by the Sahu Jain family. In the Brand Trust Report India study 2019, ''TOI'' was rated as the most trusted English newspaper in India. Reuters rated ''TOI'' as India's most trus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alphons Joseph
Alphons Joseph is a music director and playback singer in the Malayalam film industry who got a break as a film music composer after composing for the film '' Vellithira''. Alphons is also noted for singing the famous song " Aaromale" from the film ''Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa'', which was composed by A. R. Rahman. Personal life and early career Alphons was born in Kaachery near Nadathara, Thrissur, Kerala, India to a musically affluent Christian family. His mother was Thankamma and father was Koladi Joseph, a tablist and a singer but by profession, a KSEB sub-engineer. Alphons was the second among their 7 children. His elder brother, Joemon is a pianist and has composed music for two Malayalam films. His younger brother Paulson is a well known exponent of Sitar and has got First Rank in M.A. Hindustani from Dharwad University. He was introduced to Music by his father's younger brother K. K. Paul, who was a well known violinist. Alphons considers Philip, another talented musici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinmayi
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 we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abhay Jodhpurkar
Abhay Jodhpurkar is an Indian singer born in Madhya Pradesh. He debuted as a playback singer with the Kannada film Godfather (2012 film), God Father in 2012. He is best known for his song "Moongil Thottam", a duet with Harini (singer), Harini for the Tamil language, Tamil film ''Kadal (2013 film), Kadal'' and "E Sanje Eke Jaruthide" for the 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 s ... film ''RangiTaranga''. In 2018, he sang "Mere Naam Tu" for ''Zero (2018 film), Zero'', which marks his singing debut in Bollywood, Hindi cinema. Early and Personal life Abhay Jodhpurkar completed his Bachelors in Biotechnology from SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai in 2013. Schooling at Sendhwa Public School, Sendhwa, Madhya Pradesh. Singing career Abhay has learnt Qaw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nalan Kumarasamy
Nalan Kumarasamy is an Indian film director who works in the Tamil film industry. He started his career as a short filmmaker and won the title of the first season of ''Naalaya Iyakunar''. He made his feature film debut with Tamil film, ''Soodhu Kavvum'' (2013). Early life Nalan Kumarasamy did his schooling in Campion High School (Tiruchirappalli), B. E (Mechanical Engineering) in Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering(SVCE), Chennai and M.Tech. in Sastra University, Thanjavur. During his college days he was active in cultural events and participated in IIT Sarang. Career Nalan Kumarasamy was into event management and real estate when he heard about ''Naalaya Iyakunar''. There were just ten days to the deadline. So he turned it meta and made a short called ''Oru Padam Edukkanum'' about a filmmaker with a deadline. He went on to make seven more short films. ''Nenjukku Neethi'', his entry for the final round, made him first prize winner of season 1. In 2013, he made his debut as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Vijay
John Vijay (born 20 November 1976) is an Indian actor who plays supporting roles in Tamil films. He has also worked in a few Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi and Kannada films. Career John Vijay did his M.Sc. in Visual Communication from Loyola College, Chennai. Vijay also works as the head programme director of Radio One FM. John is the chief of 'H2O', an advertising agency with its office at Nungambakkam. Pushkar and Gayatri, who were his juniors in the Visual Communications course in Loyola College, offered him a role in their directorial debut ''Oram Po''. His performance as "Sun of Gun" in the film was described by critics as "scene stealer, his antics bring the house down". He played a friend of Rajinikanth in ''Kabali ''Kabali'' is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language action film written and directed by Pa. Ranjith and produced by Kalaipuli S. Thanu. The film stars Rajinikanth in the titular role, with Radhika Apte, Sai Dhanshika, Winston Chao, Kishore, Dines ...'' (2016). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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