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Vidyasagar (composer)
Vidyasagar (born 2 March 1963) is an Indian composer, musician and singer who works predominantly in the Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu film industries. After working with several composers as assistant and conductor, Vidyasagar made his debut as a film composer in the 1989 Tamil film '' Poo Manam'' and nicknamed as Melody King Working for over 225 feature films, he is the recipient of the National Award and five Filmfare Awards. Life and career Vidyasagar was born to Ramachandra Rao, a musician, and Sooryakantham in Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh. He was named after the 19th century social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. He was brought up in Bobbili. He underwent carnatic vocals training first and then started taking classical guitar classes in Chennai from Master Dhanraj along with A. R. Rahman and then later piano. Vidyasagar became an independent film composer with the song ''En Anbe'' in the 1989 Tamil movie ''Poomanam''. Vidyasagar started his music career with a Tamil f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vizianagaram
Vizianagaram is a city and the headquarters of Vizianagaram district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is central Eastern Ghats, about west of the Bay of Bengal and north-northeast of Visakhapatnam. The city has a population of 228,025 and was established as the capital of Vizianagaram estate by Raja Vijayaram Raj of Pusapati dynasty. The rulers had a notable role in the history of the region in 18th century and were patrons of education and arts. History Vizianagaram was ruled by different Hindu emperors of Kalinga and it was an integral part of Kalinga. The area including Srikakulam in the north was under the domain of Eastern Chalukyas of Vengi during the rule of Kubja Vishnuvardhana (624–641) for short period of time. During this rule the Vengi kingdom had expanded from Srikakulam in the north to Nellore in the south. They patronised Telugu. The area was under the rule of Krishna Deva Raya of Vijayanagara Empire too. After a brief rule from Golconda, the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilaave Vaa
''Nilaave Vaa'' () is a 1998 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film directed by A. Venkatesh and produced by K. T. Kunjumon. The film stars Vijay and Suvalakshmi in the main lead roles, while Sanghavi, Raghuvaran and Manivannan play other supporting roles. The film released on 14 August 1998 and was a decent hit at the box office. "Nee Kaatru Naan Maram" is a popular melody number in the film. Plot Siluvai is the son of Cruz. They are Tamil Christians living in a fishing village. In another town, Perumaal is the father to Sangeetha and Gauri. Sangeetha comes to the small fishing village. Siva is proposed (and later engaged) to marry her. However, Gauri falls in love with Siva's friend, and after hearing that Perumal does not want to accept the Hindu-Christian marriage, she decides to elope with her lover. This leads to the breakup of Sangeetha and Siluvai's love affair. However, Siva, upon hearing Siluvai's story, gives a great speech to the villagers and unites Siluvai an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hulchul (2004 Film)
''Hulchul'' () is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language romantic action comedy drama film directed by Priyadarshan. The film is a remake of the 1991 Malayalam film '' Godfather''. The film stars Akshaye Khanna, Kareena Kapoor, Sunil Shetty, Jackie Shroff, Arshad Warsi, Amrish Puri, Paresh Rawal, Arbaaz Khan, Shakti Kapoor, Farha Naaz, and Laxmi. Plot Angar Chand has a rich lifestyle in a small Indian town with his wife and four sons. The eldest son Balram falls for Dhamini, who reciprocates his feelings. Though her mother Laxmi opposes this, Angar wants their wedding. Dhamini's dad Sanjeev in anger accidentally kills Angar's wife Parvati. Dhamini is forcefully married off to Kashinath Pathak. Enraged, Angar kills Sanjeev and is jailed for 14 years. 14 years later Bailed, Angar returns home to declare women won't be allowed in his property, posting a sign on the front gate and forbidding his sons to ever marry. 9 years later Dhamini's daughter Anjali is in college with Jai, Anga ... [...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] |
Pattalam (2003 Film)
''Pattalam'' () is a 2003 Malayalam-language film by Lal Jose and starring Mammootty and Biju Menon along with Tessa, Jyothirmai, Jagathy Sreekumar, Oduvil Unnikrishnan and Innocent in supporting roles. The film revolves around incidents in a small village after the army sets up a temporary camp. Synopsis An Army unit comes to a local village in Kerala because of a terror threat. The unit is led by Major Pattabhiraman (Mammootty) and commander Benny (Biju Menon). The Major sees a widow named Vimala (Tessa) singing. Vimala is living in her husband's home after his death. A village girl Satyabhama (Jyothirmayi), and Benny fall in love and elope. Pattabhiraman discovers that a terrorist has planned to pour cyanide into a water tank. He finds the terrorist and destroys the water tank by blasting a bomb terrorist had with him. Benny reveals to Vimala that Pattabhiraman killed her husband Nandu ( Indrajith) in the war. The Major admits the fact, but claims he did it as a mercy killing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilichundan Mampazham
''Kilichundan Mampazham'' (Malayalam: ''Bird-beaked Mango'') is a 2003 Indian Malayalam-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Priyadarshan from a story by Sreenivasan. It was produced by Antony Perumbavoor under the company Aashirvad Cinemas. The film stars Mohanlal, Soundarya (in her second and final Malayalam film to date), Sreenivasan, and Salim Kumar. Vineeth Sreenivasan debuted as a singer in the film. The movie was a huge hit . Synopsis Moidukutty Haji returns to his village after marrying a third time. His new wife Amina is young and beautiful. His other two wives are really unhappy to see this, but they have no other choice other than to accept it. Amina was in love in with Abdu. Abdu and Usman come to the village and they come to Moidukutty Haji's house to sell bangles. Abdu sees Amina and tries various tricks in order to get into Moidukutty Haji's house, but Moidukutty Haji drives them away. When Abdu was in Gulf, Amina's wicked father secretly stol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meesha Madhavan
''Meesha Madhavan'' () is a 2002 Indian Malayalam-language action comedy film directed by Lal Jose and written by Ranjan Pramod. The film stars Dileep in the title role, while Kavya Madhavan, Indrajith Sukumaran, Jagathy Sreekumar and Cochin Haneefa play supporting roles. It was the highest-grossing Malayalam film of that time and ended up being an industrial hit. Meesha Madhavan raised Dileep's stardom to a whole new level and developed a cult following in Malayalam cinema. It was remade in Telugu as Dongodu (2003) starring Ravi Teja and in Kannada as Hori (2010) starring Vinod Prabhakar and in Tamil as Kollaikaran starring Vidharth. Plot Madhavan is a clever thief who robs for a living and is well known in the village. He is following the principles of his mentor Mullani Pappan who trained him to be a thief when Madhavan was a young boy. Meesa Madhavan got his name by the popular saying that if Madhavan rolls his Moustache (Meesa in Malayalam) looking at someone, he wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer In Bethlehem
''Summer in Bethlehem'' is a 1998 Indian Malayalam-language romantic comedy film directed by Sibi Malayil and written by Ranjith. It was produced by Siyad Koker under the company Kokers Films. The film stars Suresh Gopi, Jayaram, Manju Warrier and Kalabhavan Mani while Mohanlal makes a cameo appearance. The music was composed by Vidyasagar. It tells the story of Ravishankar (Jayaram), the bumbling friend of a successful landowner Dennis ( Suresh Gopi), and the vacation visit by Ravishankar's relatives in Dennis's estate known as Bethlehem Estates in a fictional town of Chandragiri in the Nilgiris. The film was released on 4 September 1998.The film was partially remade in Tamil as ''Lesa Lesa'' (2003), directed by Priyadarshan who opined that the movie was inspired by the two American movies - '' Fiddler on the Roof'' and ''Come September''. A sequel to the film has been announced by Siyad Koker during the audio launch of the Malayalam film '' Meri Awas Suno.'' Plot Ravisha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghilli
''Ghilli'' () is a 2004 Indian Tamil-language romantic action masala film directed by Dharani and produced by A. M. Rathnam. It is a remake of the Telugu-language film ''Okkadu'' (2003). The film stars Vijay, Trisha and Prakash Raj with Ashish Vidyarthi, Dhamu, Mayilsamy and Janaki Sabesh playing supporting roles. The soundtrack album and score were composed by Vidyasagar. Cinematography was handled by Gopinath and editing was done by V. T. Vijayan and B. Lenin. Dialogues for the film were written by Bharathan. The film was released on 17 April 2004 to generally positive reviews and became a commercial success. The film ran for more than 200 days at the box office, breaking the box office records of the 1999 film ''Padayappa'' in the process. It emerged as the highest-grossing Tamil film of 2004 and became the first Tamil film to gross 50 crore. ''Ghilli'' is considered to be one of the best films in Vijay's career. Plot Velu is a state-level Kabaddi player living in Chen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhool
''Dhool'' () is a 2003 Indian Tamil-language masala film written and directed by Dharani. The film stars Vikram, Jyothika and Reema Sen. Vivek, Sayaji Shinde, Telangana Shakuntala, and Pasupathy, among others, play important roles. Produced by A. M. Rathnam at a cost of 7 crore, the film had music composed by Vidyasagar and released on 10 January 2003. It received positive reviews and was a commercial blockbuster at the box office. ''Dhool'' was remade in Telugu as ''Veede'' (2003), with Ravi Teja in the lead role and directed by Ravi Raja Pinnisetty. The Sinhala remake of the film was titled ''Ranja'' (2014) and starred Ranjan Ramanayake. Plot Arumugam lives in a village and is a kindhearted man. There is a chemical factory in the village which releases toxic wastes into the river, and the villagers decide to give a petition to Minister Kaalaipandi requesting him to close the factory. Arumugam and his childhood rival Eswari, along with her grandmother Mundakanni, leave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Run (2002 Film)
''Run'' is a 2002 Indian Tamil-language action film written and directed by N. Linguswamy starring Madhavan and Meera Jasmine (in her Tamil debut). The film also features Vivek, Sunil (in the Telugu version), Atul Kulkarni, Raghuvaran and Anu Hasan in supporting roles, while Vidyasagar composed the film's music. The film released on 5 September 2002 and won positive reviews from critics, prompting the film to be partially reshot in Telugu and remade in Hindi under the same name by the cinematographer, Jeeva. Plot Shiva lives in Srirangam, who comes to Chennai to gain admission in a college. He stays with his sister and her husband. Shiva doesn't like his brother-in-law and never talks to him, despite several attempts made by his sister to convince both. Shiva meets Priya during a bus journey and falls for her. He again meets her on a few more occasions and proposes to her, but she warns him to stop following her despite being in love with him. Shiva learns that Priya's brot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhil
''Dhill'' () is a 2001 Indian Tamil-language action film directed by Dharani. The film stars Vikram and Laila, while Ashish Vidyarthi, Nassar and Vivek play supporting roles. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Vidyasagar, while S. Gopinath handled the camera work. The film was released on 20 July 2001, and achieved critical and commercial success at the box office. The film was remade in Telugu as '' Sreeram'' (2002), Hindi as '' Dum'' (2003), Kannada as '' Sye'' (2005), Bengali Kolkata as ''Shatrur Makabila'' (2001) and in Bengali Bangladesh as ''Arman'' (2002). Dhill was the first film to credit Vikram with the title ''Chiyaan''. Plot Dhill is the story about Kanagavel ( Vikram), whose only dream is to become a police officer. He succeeds in passing the exams and wins a girlfriend named Asha ( Laila). One night after having dinner at a restaurant near the beach, Kanagavel goes to pay the bill, leaving Asha behind. At that moment a corrupt police officer named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
