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Vasudevan Paravattom
Vasudevan is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name are: Given name: *Vasudevan Baskaran, former field hockey player from India *Gobichettypalayam Vasudevan Loganathan (1954–2007), Indian-born American professor at Virginia Tech, United States *M. T. Vasudevan Nair (born 1933), known as MT, Indian author, screenplay writer and film director *Madavoor Vasudevan Nair, veteran Kathakali artiste, recipient of the Padma Bhushan award from the government of India *P. K. Vasudevan Nair (1926–2005), known as PKV, the 9th Chief Minister of Kerala and a senior leader of the Communist Party of India (CPI) *Nelliyode Vasudevan Namboodiri, Kathakali artiste noted for chuvanna thaadi (red beard) roles in classical Kerala dance-drama *Kadammanitta Vasudevan Pillai, Padayani exponent from Kerala, India *Vayala Vasudevan Pillai (1945–2011), Malayalam-language playwright from Kerala * AV Vasudevan Potti (born 1951), lyricist in both the Malayalam film industry and Hindu devotiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasudevan Baskaran
Vasudevan Baskaran (born 17 August 1950) is a former field hockey player and coach from Tamil Nadu, India. He captained the India, which won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, then part of the Soviet Union. Thereafter he coached and mentored several players for the Indian team. He was the head coach of the India hockey team at the 1998 and 2006 Hockey World Cup. Now he lives with his family in Besant Nagar in Chennai, India. Career After the Olympic gold victory, Baskaran had coached India several times, the last time at the 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup in Mönchengladbach. Currently he is the Chief Coach of Bhopal Badshahs in World Series Hockey league. Awards He was awarded the Arjuna Award in (1979–1980) for his performance as a player in Olympic Games. See also * List of Indian hockey captains in Olympics * Field hockey in India Field hockey in India refers to two teams, the India men's national field hockey team and the India women's na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malaysia Vasudevan
Vasudevan (15 June 1944 – 20 February 2011), known as Malaysia Vasudevan, was a Malaysian-Indian playback singer and actor in Tamil cinema. Early life Malaysia Vasudevan's parents were from Palakkad. Chattu Nair of Ottappalam and Ammalu of Polpulli, along with their families migrated to British Malaya in search of a livelihood. After a few years, Chattu Nair married Ammalu in an arranged marriage. Vasudevan was born on 15 June 1944 as their eighth and youngest child. Even though he was a Malayali, as was the case with the majority of contemporary South Indian migrants to Malaya then, his surroundings in Malaysia was dominated by the Tamil language and culture. As such, Tamil became his language of choice, at school and at home. Chattu Nair was musically inclined and all his children grew up with a natural ability to sing and appreciate music. Malaysia Vasudevan had once said that all his family members, except his mother Ammalu, were singers. Chattu Nair used to entert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharreth
Sujith Vasudevan I (born 3 October 1969), professionally credited as Sharreth, is an Indian music director and singer. He predominantly composes film scores and songs for Malayalam films, but has gone on to compose for Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films too. He won the Filmfare Award for the best music director in 2008. He won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Music Director in 2011 for the film ''Ivan Megharoopan''. He was also the first recipient of the Kerala State Film Award for Best Classical Music Singer for his song ''Bhavayami'' in the film ''Meghatheertham''. He is the son in law of famous music director Kannur Rajan . Early life Born to Vasudevan Achari and Indiradevi in Kollam, Kerala, India, Sharreth is a protégé of carnatic music virtuoso M. Balamuralikrishna. He made his debut as a film composer in 1990 through the Malayalam language film ''Kshanakkathu''. Prior to debuting as a composer, Sharreth had a sporadic presence as a playback singer for films. His first so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sujith Vasudevan
Sujith Vasudevan I (born 3 October 1969), professionally credited as Sharreth, is an Indian music director and singer. He predominantly composes film scores and songs for Malayalam films, but has gone on to compose for Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films too. He won the Filmfare Award for the best music director in 2008. He won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Music Director in 2011 for the film '' Ivan Megharoopan''. He was also the first recipient of the Kerala State Film Award for Best Classical Music Singer for his song ''Bhavayami'' in the film ''Meghatheertham''. He is the son in law of famous music director Kannur Rajan . Early life Born to Vasudevan Achari and Indiradevi in Kollam, Kerala, India, Sharreth is a protégé of carnatic music virtuoso M. Balamuralikrishna. He made his debut as a film composer in 1990 through the Malayalam language film ''Kshanakkathu''. Prior to debuting as a composer, Sharreth had a sporadic presence as a playback singer for films. His firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Srinivasan Vasudevan
Srinivasan Vasudevan (born 4 January 1962) is a retired Indian professional tennis player. He was born in Madras and was active between 1980 and 1994. Vasudevan was a member of the Indian Davis Cup team captained by Vijay Amritraj which reached the 1987 Davis Cup The 1987 Davis Cup (also known as the 1987 Davis Cup by NEC for sponsorship purposes) was the 76th edition of the Davis Cup, the most important tournament between national teams in men's tennis. 72 teams would enter the competition, 16 in the Wo ... final against Sweden. Vasudevan represented India at the Davis Cup competitions between 1983 and 1991. He was part of Asian Games Silver Medalist in the Team Tennis Event in 1982. He was also the member of 1990 Asian Games Tennis Team and was part of Bronze Medalist in the Team event References 1962 births Racket sportspeople from Chennai Indian male tennis players Living people Asian Games medalists in tennis Tennis players at the 1982 Asian Games Tennis play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shakthi Vasudevan
Shakthi Vasudevan (born as Prashanth Vasudevan) is an Indian actor who has predominantly worked on Tamil-language films. The son of director P. Vasu, Shakthi began his career as a child artist in his father's films before making his comeback in the lead role in '' Thottal Poo Malarum'' (2007). He has since enjoyed limited success as an actor, notably appearing in '' Ninaithale Inikkum'' (2009) and his father's Kannada film, ''Shivalinga'' (2016). Career Shakthi first featured as a child artist in his father P. Vasu's films, portraying small roles in films including ''Nadigan'' (1990), ''Chinna Thambi'' (1991) and '' Senthamizh Paattu'' (1992). In 2007, he returned in the lead role in his father's '' Thottal Poo Malarum'' (2007); however, the film fared averagely at the box-office. In regard to his performance, Sify.com stated "the only silver lining is Sakthi who makes a decent debut" and that "he is good looking and does his role with a certain amount of confidence". His fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamil Nadu Cricket Team
The Tamil Nadu cricket team is a domestic cricket team run by Tamil Nadu Cricket Association representing the state of Tamil Nadu, India.It has been one of the most dominating teams in white ball cricket in domestic circuit The team plays in Ranji Trophy, the top tier of the domestic first-class cricket tournament in India and in List A tournaments Vijay Hazare Trophy and Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. They have won the Ranji Trophy twice and have finished runners-up nine times. They are the team that has won the Vijay Hazare Trophy and Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy most often. They were the first team to win the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. The team was known as Madras until the 1970–71 season before renaming of Madras state to Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu is the only team to win the five different Indian domestic trophies (Ranji Trophy, Irani Trophy, Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, Vijay Hazare Trophy and Deodhar Trophy) in India. Home ground The team is based at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, named aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neyyattinkara Vasudevan
Neyyattinkara Vasudevan (1940–13 May 2008) was a Carnatic music vocalist from Kerala in south India. The Padmasree-winning Carnatic vocalist and disciple of Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer and Ramnad Krishnan, he combined tradition and innovation in his widely acclaimed career. Vasudevan is famous as being one of the first from the Dalit community to excel in the field which was previously the preserve of the upper castes. Biography Vasudevan born to a Dalit family, in a village near Neyyattinkara in southern Travancore. He did his formal music studies from the Swati Tirunal Music College, Thiruvananthapuram, chiefly under Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer. He also did advanced studies under Ramnad Krishnan. He passed Ganabhushanam in 1960 and Sangeetha Vidwan in 1962. He worked as assistant professor at the RLV College of Music, Thrippunithura, for nearly a decade before joining All India Radio as an A-grade staff vocalist in 1974. He retired in 2000 and was later ranked 'A Top', the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meera Vasudevan
Meera Vasudevan (born 29 January 1982) is an Indian actress, who has mainly appeared in films and TV soap's in Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi and Telugu language. She received the Tamil Nadu State Film Award Special Prize in 2005 and the Kerala State Television Award for Best Actress in 2007. Currently she is playing a main lead role in the popular Malayalam soap opera ''Kudumbavilakku'' telecasting on Asianet . Early life Meera was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra in a Tamil family as the eldest daughter to Vasudevan and Hemalatha. She has one younger sister Ashwini, who shot to fame as a child artist for ''Jaanam Samjha Karo'' a Salman Khan starrer. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in arts, Psychology and English literature, she became a successful model, appearing in many ad films, shooting into fame. The ICC setmax campaign was her call to success and marked her entry into acting. Career Her entry into the film industry happened through the 2003 Hindi satirical fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damodaran M
Damodaran is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Aswath Damodaran, Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University *Damodaran M. Vasudevan, Dean of the College of Medicine at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham * K. Damodaran (1912–1976), Marxist and founder leader of the Communist Party in Kerala, India *Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri, lyricist, music director, actor, singer, screenwriter, performer of Carnatic music * M. Damodaran, thought leader, business executive and former government official *N. K. Damodaran (1909–1996), writer and translator of Kerala, India * Nettur P. Damodaran (1913–1978), member of the 1st Lok Sabha (1952) from the constituency of Tellicherry * S. Damodaran, Indian politician, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu * T. Damodaran (born 1935), screenwriter of Malayalam cinema See also * Damodar *Damodara Vatasseri Damodara Nambudiri was an astronomer-mathematician of the Kerala school of astronomy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gobichettypalayam Vasudevan Loganathan
Gobichettipalayam Vasudevan "G. V." Loganathan (April 8, 1954 – April 16, 2007) was an Indian-born American professor, who, at the time of his death, was a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental engineering, part of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, United States. Life and career Loganathan was from Karatadipalayam, Gobichettipalayam in Erode district in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. He completed his Bachelor of Engineering at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore affiliated to the University of Madras in 1976. He later did his M. Tech. at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and received a doctorate from Purdue University, United States studying under Dr. Jack Delleur. His dissertation was titled ''Multiple objective planning of land/water interface in medium-size cities''. G. V. Loganathan joined Virginia Tech on December 16, 1981 for his first job teaching civil and environmental engineering courses, and continued to teach at Virg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ash Vasudevan
''Million Dollar Arm'' is a 2014 American biographical sports drama film directed by Craig Gillespie and produced by Walt Disney Pictures from a screenplay written by Tom McCarthy. The film is based on the true story of baseball pitchers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel who were discovered by sports agent J. B. Bernstein after winning a reality show competition. The film stars Jon Hamm as J. B. Bernstein, Bill Paxton as pitching coach Tom House, Suraj Sharma as Singh, Madhur Mittal as Patel, and Alan Arkin. The film's music is composed by A. R. Rahman. Produced by Joe Roth, Mark Ciardi, and Gordon Gray, the film was released theatrically on May 16, 2014. ''Million Dollar Arm'' grossed $39.2 million. Plot J. B. Bernstein is a big-time sports agent who, along with his partner Ash Vasudevan, recently formed their own company. Unfortunately, all of J. B.'s clients have retired, and he is unable to reel in star football player Popo Vanuatu. Desperate to find new clients, J. B. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
