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Vivegam
''Vivegam'' () is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film written and directed by Siva. The movie features Ajith Kumar as primary lead, with Vivek Oberoi (in his Tamil debut), Kajal Aggarwal, and Akshara Haasan playing the supporting roles. The film's background score and soundtrack were composed by Anirudh Ravichander, whose soundtrack album released on 7 August 2017. Cinematography was performed by Vetri and editing by Anthony L. Ruben. Principal photography of the film commenced at Slovenia in August 2016, and the movie released worldwide on 24 August 2017 along with its Telugu dubbed version titled ''Vivekam''. The film incurred a financial loss of 50 crore to the production house. Plot An arms exchange deal happens between the General Secretary of Europol police and the head of the Russian mafia gang in a dense Serbian forest, secured with multiple layers of military personnel, where Ajay Kumar "AK", a former counter-terrorist officer, successfully int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivek Oberoi
Vivek Anand Oberoi (born 3 September 1976) is an Indian actor who mainly works in Hindi cinema, in addition to working in few Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Tamil films. Early life Vivek Oberoi was born in Hyderabad, Telangana, to a Punjabi father, Suresh Oberoi, an actor. In 1974, Suresh married Yashodhara, a Tamil, in Chennai. Because of his mother’s family being assimilated in the region, Vivek is himself fluent in Tamil. Oberoi went on to study at Mayo College, Ajmer and Mithibai College, Mumbai. At an actors' workshop in London, he was spotted by the director of New York University who took Vivek to New York, where he completed his master's degree in film acting. Career 2002–2009 Oberoi made his debut with Ram Gopal Varma's film ''Company''. It received commercial and critical success. Jyoti Shukla of Rediff.com called it a "fast-paced movie" that is "anchored by brilliant performances". She praised the performances of Mohanlal, Devgan and Oberoi, and said t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anirudh Ravichander
Anirudh Ravichander (born 16 October 1990), also known Mononymous person, mononymously as Anirudh, is an Indian film scorer music composer music producer singer and instrumentalist who primarily works in Tamil films. He is the son of actor Ravi Raghavendra. He has won two Filmfare Awards South, Filmfare Awards, nine South Indian International Movie Awards, SIIMA Awards, six Edison Awards (India), Edison Awards and five Vijay Awards. His debut song "Why This Kolaveri Di", composed for the 2012 film ''3 (2012 Indian film), 3'', went Viral video, viral across the globe and has achieved over 300 million views on YouTube. In 2017, he was described by ''Times of India'' as the Most Desirable Man in Chennai. In 2018, he again bagged the title, becoming the first musician to achieve this title two times in a row. A.R. Murugadoss signed him to compose music for ''Kaththi'' (2014) starring Vijay (actor), Vijay, which included the viral hit "Selfie Pulla". The soundtrack for the film bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajith Kumar
Ajith Kumar (born 1 May 1971) is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Tamil films. To date, he has starred in over 60 films. His awards include four Vijay Awards, three Cinema Express Awards, three Filmfare Awards South and three Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. In addition to his acting, Ajith is also a sports car racer and participated in the MRF Racing series (2010). He began his career with a small role in the 1990 Tamil film '' En Veedu En Kanavar''. He established himself as a romantic hero with ''Kadhal Kottai'' (1996), ''Aval Varuvala'' (1998) and ''Kaadhal Mannan'' (1998), and established himself as an action hero starting with the film ''Amarkalam'' (1999). Ajith's dual portrayal of twin brothers—where one is deaf-mute—in S. J. Suryah's '' Vaali'' (1999) won him his first Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Actor. He earned critical acclaim for his dual role performance in the vigilante film '' Citizen'' (2001). In 2006, he starred in ''Varalaru'', in which he play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siva (director)
Sivakumar Jayakumar (born 12 August 1977), known professionally by his mononym Siva or also as Siruthai Siva, is an Indian film director, screenwriter, lyricist and cinematographer who works primarily in Tamil cinema. Siva started his film career as a cinematographer for several Tamil, Telugu cinema, Telugu and Malayalam cinema, Malayalam films. He then pursued his career as a film director and screenwriter in Telugu cinema with ''Souryam'' (2008) superhit, which was followed by ''Sankham''hit, (2009) and ''Daruvu'' hit,(2012) Siva achieved huge success when he progressed to Tamil cinema, where he entered as a screenwriter and director with ''Siruthai'' (2011), the second Telugu film to enter 100 Crore Club worldwide. He further made the high-prolific Tamil films ''Veeram (2014 film), Veeram'' (2014), ''Vedalam'' (2015), ''Vivegam'' (2017), ''Viswasam'' (2019) and ''Annaatthe'' (2021). Early life and family Siva was born to documentary film director M. Jayakumar in Chennai, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kajal Aggarwal
Kajal Aggarwal (born 19 June 1985) is an Indian actress and model who mainly appears in Telugu and Tamil language films, in addition to a few Hindi films. Aggarwal has worked in more than 50 films and also received two South Indian International Movie Awards. Aggarwal made her acting debut with the 2004 Hindi film '' Kyun! Ho Gaya Na...'' and had her first Telugu film release in 2007, '' Lakshmi Kalyanam''. In the same year, she starred in the box office hit ''Chandamama'', which earned her recognition. The 2009 Telugu fantasy action film ''Magadheera'' marked a turning point in her career, earning her critical acclaim. It ranks among the highest-grossing Telugu films of all time and fetched her Best Actress nominations at several award ceremonies including South Filmfare Awards. She subsequently starred in Telugu films such as '' Darling'' (2010), '' Brindavanam'' (2010), '' Mr. Perfect'' (2011), ''Businessman'' (2012), ''Naayak'' (2013), '' Baadshah'' (2013), ''Govindudu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kabilan Vairamuthu
Kabilan Vairamuthu is a Tamil writer from Tamil Nadu the southern state of India. He is an engineering graduate who went on to pursue communication for social change in the school of Journalism - UQ -Australia. After serving as an executive producer for programming and current affairs in the Tamil television industry for three plus years, Kabilan is now a full-time writer with the Tamil film industry. He is the son of the famous Tamil poet and lyricist Vairamuthu. Kabilan published his first book at 18. He is the author of five poetry collections, a short story collection and three novels. Kabilan Vairamuthu represented Tamil Nadu at the Sahitya Akademi's north eastern and southern poetry forum 2014 held in Kochi. During his college days he founded Makkal Anukka Peravai, a socio-political organization which works to address the self and social issues of the younger generation. The school once formulated will function to re-culture and professionalize the political practices of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akshara Haasan
Akshara Haasan is an Indian actress who has appeared in Tamil and Hindi-language films. The daughter of actors Kamal Haasan and Sarika Thakur, and the younger sister of Shruti Haasan, she made her film debut with the comedy drama ''Shamitabh'' (2015), and later appeared in ''Kadaram Kondan'' (2017). Early life and family Akshara Haasan was born at 1991 in Madras (present-day Chennai), Tamil Nadu to actors Kamal Haasan and Sarika Thakur. Shruti Haasan is her elder sister. Akshara did her schooling from Abacus Montessori School, Montessori; Lady Andal in Chennai; Beacon High in Mumbai and completed her schooling in Indus International School, Bangalore. Personal life Akshara Haasan lives in Mumbai with her mother. She has converted to Buddhism. In one of her interview, Akshara turns out, an atheist by belief, she has now converted to Buddhism because she was drawn to it. Career Haasan has worked as an assistant director to Rahul Dholakia on the 2010 film ''Society'', s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vetri (cinematographer)
Vetri Palanisamy is an Indian cinematographer who primarily works in Tamil and Telugu film industries. He is an alumnus of Film and Television Institute of Tamil Nadu, Chennai. He is known for his work in films such as ''Souryam'', '' Muni 2: Kanchana'', '' Veeram,'' ''Vedalam, Viswasam and Annaatthe.'' Early life and career After completing the Diploma in film Technology in Cinematography Vetri started assisting with Cinematographer S. Saravanan in the films like '' Aahaa..!'', Auto Driver, Sangamam, Oruvan, Vallarasu, Maayi. Vetri made his debut as a cinematographer in the film Agaram and then he got a break with the action drama film ''Thenavattu'' (2008), before working on the comedy ''Maasilamani'' (2009) and the successful horror film, '' Muni 2: Kanchana'' (2011) with Raghava Lawrence. Vetri has often collaborated with director Siva and has been a part of his Telugu films, souryam(2008) ''Sankham'' (2009) and ''Daruvu'' (2012), as well as his Tamil films with Ajith Ku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruben (film Editor)
Livingston Antony Ruben is an Indian film editor, who works in Tamil and Telugu films. Career After graduating with a degree in Visual Communication from Loyola College Chennai. Ruben approached director Gautham Vasudev Menon to become an assistant, who redirected him towards noted film editor, Anthony, to join as assistant editor. Ruben subsequently worked on the production of films including ''Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu'' (2006) and ''Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa'' (2010) under the guidance of Anthony. Ruben was then given the opportunity to work as an editor when preparing trailers for films and managed to work on projects including ''Thoranai'' (2009), ''Avan Ivan'' (2011) and ''Vedi'' (2011). He made his full debut as an editor with ''Kandaen'' (2011), before going on to win acclaim for his work in Elred Kumar's ''Muppozhudhum Un Karpanaigal'' (2012), particularly for his work in the "Oru Murai" song. Ruben made a career breakthrough with his work in '' Raja Rani'' (2013), which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sathya Jyothi Films
Sathya Jyothi Films is an Indian film production and distribution company in Tamil Nadu. It was established in 1977 by T. G. Thyagarajan. History Sathya Jyothi Films was founded by T. G. Thyagarajan in the 1970s. Thyagarajan, an MBA graduate from the United States, is the son of film producer, late Venus T. Govindarajan, who had made films from the 1960s to the 1980s under Venus Pictures. Thyagarajan initially ventured into film productions under the studio Sathya Movies, production company of his father-in-law R. M. Veerappan before founding Sathya Jyothi Films to make "slightly offbeat films". The first film distributed by the company was the Tamil-dubbed version of ''Yashoda Krishna''. The company's first film as producers was ''Moondram Pirai'' (1982). Productions Films * ''All films are in Tamil, unless otherwise noted.'' Television *''Jeipathu Nijam '' (1999) *''Gopuram'' (2002) *''Varam'' (2003) *''Anandham'' (2003–2009) *'' Kalyanam'' (2009) *'' Idhayam'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Criminal Police Organization
The International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO; french: link=no, Organisation internationale de police criminelle), commonly known as Interpol ( , ), is an international organization that facilitates worldwide police cooperation and crime control. Headquartered in Lyon, France, it is the world's largest international police organization, with seven regional bureaus worldwide and a National Central Bureau in all 195 member states. Interpol was conceived during the first International Criminal Police Congress in 1914, which brought officials from 24 countries to discuss cooperation in law enforcement. It was founded on September 7, 1923 at the close of the five-day 1923 Congress session in Vienna as the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC); it adopted many of its current duties throughout the 1930s. After coming under Nazi control in 1938, the agency had its headquarters in the same building as the Gestapo. It was effectively moribund until the end of World War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. Bulgaria covers a territory of , and is the sixteenth-largest country in Europe. Sofia is the nation's capital and largest city; other major cities are Plovdiv, Varna and Burgas. One of the earliest societies in the lands of modern-day Bulgaria was the Neolithic Karanovo culture, which dates back to 6,500 BC. In the 6th to 3rd century BC the region was a battleground for ancient Thracians, Persians, Celts and Macedonians; stability came when the Roman Empire conquered the region in AD 45. After the Roman state splintered, tribal invasions in the region resumed. Around the 6th century, these territories were settled by the early Slavs. The Bulgars, led by Asp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
