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Unarchigal (2005 Film)
''Unarchigal'' () is a 2005 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by K. Rajan. The film stars Sriman, Abitha and Abhinayashree, while K. Rajan, Kunal and Radha Ravi also appear in supporting roles. The film was released to a mixed response in December 2005. Cast *Sriman as Ramesh *Abitha as Amrutha *Abhinayashree as Kavitha * K. Rajan as Ramesh and Kavitha's father *Kunal as Lakshmi's husband *Radha Ravi as Seshadri * Manorama * Lakshmi as Herself *Manobala as Manager *Mayilsamy as Kalyanaraman * Balaji as Himself *Singamuthu as Broker * Abbas as Balaji (Guest appearance) *Chitra Lakshmanan as Balaji's father (Guest appearance) Production In June 2005, director K. Rajan chose to shelve his biopic of Sivakasi Jayalakshmi titled ''Niram Maraiya Rojakal'' starring Vindhya after another film, ''Alaiyadikkuthu'' (2005) starring Sindhu Tolani, had already covered the issue. Rajan then began working on a project titled ''Unarchigal'' which would explore the life of adolescent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sriman (actor)
Kumaravatha Srinivasa Reddy (born 14 February 1972), better known professionally as Seeman, is an Indian actor who appears primarily in Tamil films, and also some Telugu films. He is primarily known for his prominent character roles in '' Sethu'' (1999), '' Friends'' (2001) '' Panchathanthiram'' (2002), '' Aayutha Ezhuthu'' (2004), ''Pokkiri'' (2007), ''Aegan'' (2008), '' Muni 2: Kanchana'' (2011) and '' Kanchana 2'' (2015). He is the son of noted producer Prakash Reddy. Early life Sriman was born as Kumaravatha Srinivasa Reddy on 14 February 1972. His father Karri Prakash reddy is a popular dancer. He also was an assistant dance director, production Executive in his Brothers company. Later he started his production company, in which he produced 24 Telugu and Kannada films. His mother Jaya Lakshmi is a house wife. He has two siblings, a brother Prabhakaran and a sister Surekha. His uncle K. S. Reddy was the first popular solo Dancer in film industry, popular dance director, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vindhya (actress)
Vindhya is an Indian politician and actress who appeared in Tamil language films. She currently serves as deputy propaganda secretary in All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. She appeared in notable productions including ''Sangamam'' (1999), alongside Rahman. Early life and career Vindhya was born on 12 August 1980. She made her debut in ''Sangamam'' alongside Rahman, though the film won positive reviews, it performed below average at the box office. Towards the latter end of her career, she appeared in low-budget films. ''Vayasu Pasanga'' is one of her box office hits. Vindhya married Gopalakrishnan, actress Bhanupriya's brother, in an arranged marriage on 16 February 2008 at the Guruvayur Temple. She filed for a divorce in 2012. Political career In April 2006, Vindhya joined the AIADMK in the presence of Then Party General Secretary Jayalalithaa and campaigned for 2006 Tamil Nadu assembly election. Vindhya campaigned against the DMK party during the 2011, 2016 state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Tamil-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Films
2005 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. Evaluation of the year Renowned American film critic and professor Emanuel Levy stated on his website, "Despite films like “Crash,” which deals with racism in contemporary America, and geopolitical exposes like ''Syriana'' and ''Munich'', the 2005 movie year may go down in film history as the year of sexual diversity." He went on to emphasize, "It's hard to recall a year in which sex, sexuality, and gender have featured so prominently in American films, both mainstream Hollywood and independent cinema. I am deliberately using the concepts of sexual diversity and sexual orientation, rather than gay-themed movies, because the rather new phenomenon goes beyond homosexuality or lesbianism. For decades, American culture has been both puritanical and hypocritical as far as sexual matters are con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malathy Lakshman
Malathy (or Malathi) Lakshman (born 27 August 1973) is a female Indian Telugu/Tamil language playback singer. She is known for singing the song "Aa Ante Amalapuram" from ''Arya Aryan or Arya (, Indo-Iranian *''arya'') is a term originally used as an ethnocultural self-designation by Indo-Iranians in ancient times, in contrast to the nearby outsiders known as 'non-Aryan' (*''an-arya''). In Ancient India, the term ' ...''. Notable filmography References 1973 births Living people Women musicians from Tamil Nadu Indian women playback singers 21st-century Indian singers Singers from Tamil Nadu 21st-century Indian women singers {{India-singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saindhavi
Saindhavi is a Carnatic music vocalist and an Indian film playback singer. She has been performing from the age of 12. Personal life Saindhavi married her schoolmate, composer G. V. Prakash Kumar, on 27 June 2013 in Chennai, India. They were in relationship for 12 years before their wedding. The couple have a daughter. Discography Some of Saindhavi's Tamil film songs are listed here. In Telugu, she sang "Maamidi komma ki" in Sekhar Kammula's film ''Avakai Biryani'', "Yedho" in ''Sasirekha Parinayam'', "Premadesam Yuvarani" in Shakti (along with Hemachandra), Sutiga Choodaku in ''Ishq'', a Telugu movie. In Kannada, she sang "Mussanje rangalli" and "Beladingalante minu minuguta" in the movie ''Psycho'', which became a super-hit. She has sung title songs for the TV series ''Idhu oru kaadhal kadhai'', ''Edhir neechal'', ''Chellamay Chellam'' and ''Magalir Mattum''. She is also one of the lead vocalists in the popular series of albums ''Sacred Chants'' by Kosmic Music. H ... [...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] |
Sindhuri
Sindhuri, is an Indian actress who has worked in the Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam film industries. After making her debut in the Tamil film ''Boys'' (2003), she has been in films including ''Super Da'' (2004) and ''Gundamma Gaari Manavadu'' (2007). Career Sindhuri began her acting career by portraying a supporting role in Shankar's ''Boys'' (2003), where she appeared as one of the four friends of Genelia D'Souza who get courted by the film's titular characters. Portraying the role of a North Indian hipster girl opposite Bharath, the success of the film saw her gain offers to play leading roles in Mumtaj's production ''Thathi Thavadhu Manasu'' (2003) and '' Ennavo Pudichirukku'' (2004). The two films had low key releases, and despite playing diverse roles of a village girl and a college student, Sindhuri was unable to get a break to work on bigger films. Her following films also failed to establish her as an actress with ''Super Da'' (2004) and ''Niram'', having a limited releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devayani (actress)
Devayani (born 22 June 1974) is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu-language films. She started her career with Malayalam and Bengali films She received the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actress for her performances in the films '' Surya Vamsam'' (1997) and '' Bharathi'' (2000) and a Special Award for ''Kadhal Kottai'' (1996). She was a part of several successful films, including ''Ninaithen Vandhai'' (1998), ''Nee Varuvai Ena'' (1999), ''Thenali'' (2000), ''Friends'' (2001), ''Aanandham'' (2001) and '' Azhagi'' (2002) as well as in the Sun TV's huge successful serial '' Kolangal''. Personal life Devayani was born on 22 June 1974 in Mumbai, Maharashtra to a Konkani father from Mangalore,Karnataka and a Malayali mother from Kerala. She has two younger brothers Nakkhul and Mayur. The former is working as an actor and singer in the Tamil film industry, while the latter would also make his acting debut in an upcoming film. She dat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sindhu Tolani
Sindhu Tolani is an Indian actress working in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Hindi language films. Tolani was born in Mumbai, India on 19 July 1983. She has been a '' Fair & Lovely'' cream model in North India. Film career Sindhu Tolani started her career with the Telugu movie ''Aithe'' directed by the famous Chandra Sekhar Yeleti. Her first popular film in Telugu was ''Athanokkade with Kalyan Ram.'' She has also appeared in '' Manmadhan'' with Silambarasan in addition to many Telugu and Kannada films. She also acted in the Television series ''Kutumb'', which aired on Sony TV. She was also a part of Mani Ratnam's stage show, ''Netru, Indru, Naalai''. Filmography See also * List of Indian film actresses This is an alphabetical list of notable Indian film actresses. A * Aaditi Pohankar * Aahana Kumra * Aakanksha Singh * Aamna Sharif * Aanchal Munjal * Aarathi * Aarti Agarwal * Aarti Chhabria * Aashka Goradia * Abhirami * Adah Shar ... External links * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alaiyadikkuthu
''Alaiyadikkuthu'' () is a 2005 Indian Tamil-language thriller film written and directed by Kalimuthu and starring Sindhu Tolani, Naveen Dhanush and Akhil Kumar. It was released on 10 August 2005. Cast *Sindhu Tolani as Brindha *Naveen Dhanush *Akhil Kumar *Yugendran * Anand *Kazan Khan *Venniradai Moorthy *Ghilli Sekhar *Minnal Lakshmanan *Neha Tolani *Prabha Reddy *Vijayan * Rami Reddy *Kovai Senthil Production Sindhu Tolani turned down offers to star in Telugu films to work on ''Alaiyadikkuthu'' after being impressed by the story. Sindhu's sister, Neha Tolani, was also cast in a role, as was debutant Prabha Reddy. Naveen Dhanush and Aari Arujunan made their acting debuts in the film, with the latter appearing under the name of Akhil Kumar. Prior to release, it was reported that the film was partially based on the Kanchi Shankaracharyas controversy. In June 2005, director K. Rajan chose to shelve his biopic of Sivakasi Jayalakshmi titled ''Niram Maraiya Rojakal'' starring Vin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chitra Lakshmanan
Lakshmanan Ramasamy (born 23 January 1948), known professionally as Chitra Lakshmanan, is an Indian journalist, filmmaker and actor. He produced and directed several Tamil language films starring some of Tamil cinema's major stars during the 1980s and 1990s, while appearing in numerous films and television series in supporting roles. He currently operates a YouTube channel called ''Touring Talkies'', which features interviews and talk shows about Tamil cinema. Career Lakshmanan began working in a hardware shop in Arani. He later joined the magazine ''Vidhi Velli'' as a sub-editor until its closure. He later joined ''Thayin Manikodi'' run by Jayakanthan. He later joined a Singaporean Tamil magazine. After it's failure, he decided to start his own magazine ''Thirai Kathir'' which became successful. His career in entertainment journalism helped him to also become a public relations officer. He became acquainted with director Bharathiraja to enter the film industry, and subsequen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
