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Pokkiri Raja (2016 Film)
''Pokkiri Raja'' ( ''The Rogue King'') is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language supernatural comedy film written and directed by Ramprakash Rayappa, starring Jiiva, Sibiraj and Hansika Motwani. This is 25th film of Jiiva. It released on 4 March 2016. Plot Sanjeevi (Jiiva) is a person with a yawning problem. He got fired from his old job and got dumped by his old girlfriend Sujitha. He joins a job where he meets Raghav (Manobala). Meanwhile, Sanjeevi meets Sunita (Hansika Motwani) but learns a false case from his friend Mojo (Yogi Babu) that she is a drug addict. Eventually, Sanjeevi learns that she is a clean girl who washes people who urinate near walls, and both start loving. On the other hand, a notorious don named "Cooling Glass" Guna (Sibiraj) was planning to kill someone but gets washed by Sanjeevi and got arrested. When Guna was released, he tried to kill Sanjeevi, but got blind after his sunglass breaks in Sanjeevi's yawn. Sanjeevi went to a doctor and realized that it was the po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramprakash Rayappa
Ramprakash Rayappa is an Indian film director and screenwriter, working primarily in Tamil film industry. He worked as an assistant in Engeyum Eppodhum, and made his directorial debut in ''Tamizhuku En Ondrai Azhuthavum ''Tamizhuku En Ondrai Azhuthavum'' (; also referred to as ''TEOA'') is a 2015 Indian Tamil-language hyperlink thriller film written and directed by Ramprakash Rayappa. Produced by V. Chandran, the film stars Nakul, Attakathi Dinesh, Bindu Mad ...'' (2015) produced by V.Chandran. Filmography References External links * {{IMDb name, id=6725347, name=Ramprakash Rayappa 1979 births Film directors from Tamil Nadu Tamil-language film directors Living people People from Coimbatore district 21st-century Indian people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harris Jayaraj
J. Harris Jayaraj (born 8 January 1975) is an Indian composer from Tamil Nadu. He composes soundtracks predominantly for Tamil cinema, Tamil films, while also having composed for a few films in Cinema of Andhra Pradesh, Telugu and two films in Hindi. He has been honoured with Kalaimamani Award from the Government of Tamil Nadu and the List of lifetime achievement awards, Life Time Achievement Award from Konijeti Rosaiah, the Governor of Tamil Nadu. Since 2001, he has won 6 Filmfare Awards South and has received 20 Filmfare Awards South nominations. He has also won 6 Mirchi Music Awards, 5 Vijay Awards, 4 Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, 3 International Tamil Film Awards and Big FM (Indian radio station), Big FM Awards. In 2019, he was bestowed with the Dr. M.G.R. Educational and Research Institute Doctor of Letters, Honorary Doctorate of Letters for his significant contributions to Music of Tamil Nadu, Tamil cinema music. Early life Harris Jayaraj was born and brought up in Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Films
2016 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of films released, and notable deaths. Evaluation of the year In his article highlighting the best films of 2016, Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' stated, "Hollywood is the world's best money-laundering machine. It takes in huge amounts of money from the sale of mass-market commodities and cleanses some of it with the production of cinematic masterworks. Earning billions of dollars from C.G.I. comedies for children, superhero movies, sci-fi apocalypses, and other popular genres, the big studios channel some of those funds into movies by Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, James Gray, and other worthies. Sometimes there's even an overlap between the two groups of movies, as when Ryan Coogler made ''Creed'', or when Scorsese made the modernist horror instant-classic '' Shutter Island'', or when Clint Eastwood makes just about anything." High ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rediff
Rediff.com, stylized as rediff.com, is an Indian news, information, entertainment, and shopping website. Founded by Ajit Balakrishnan in 1996, it was the first Indian website to become a mainstream news media organization. It is headquartered in Mumbai with offices in Bangalore, New Delhi, and New York City. , it had more than 300 employees. At the time of its founding, internet access had only been available in India for five months with a mere 18,000 users, leaving Rediff.com as one of the earliest Indian web portals and email providers. History The Rediff.com domain was registered in India in 1996. Early products included the email service Rediffmail and Rediff Shopping, an online marketplace selling electronics and peripherals. In 2001, Rediff.com was alleged to be in violation of the Securities Act of 1933 The Securities Act of 1933, also known as the 1933 Act, the Securities Act, the Truth in Securities Act, the Federal Securities Act, and the '33 Act, was enacte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times Of India
''The Times of India'' (''TOI'') is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by the Times Group. It is the List of newspapers in India by circulation, third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and List of newspapers by circulation, 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 a 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. (BCCL), 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. In a 2021 surve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sify
Sify Technologies Limited (formerly Satyam Infoway) is an Indian information and communications technology (ICT) company providing telecom services, data center services, cloud & managed services, transformation integration services, and application integration services. Sify Technologies Limited played a role during the early spread of Internet and e-commerce in India. It has been listed on NASDAQ as SIFY since October 1999. Merrill Lynch was the underwriter for Sify's IPO on the NASDAQ. Sify was founded and led to IPO by R. Ramaraj. History In November 1999, Sify paid crore for a 24.5% stake in IndiaWorld Communications. It acquired the remaining shares for crore on 30 June 2000. In 2000, Sify sponsored the India Olympics team. In January 2002, Sify announced prizes for most emails sent under a 6-week contest called "Sify Greenmail," promoting emails as an eco-friendly way of communication. In March 2002, Sify made an agreement with Makemytrip to run Sify's tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vishal Dadlani
Vishal Dadlani (born 28 June 1973) is an Indian singer, songwriter, music composer and occasional actor. He is one half of the duo Vishal–Shekhar, and frontman and vocalist of one of India's leading rock bands Pentagram. As a great singer, he has sung various hit songs for various genres notably ''Dhoom Again'', ''Kurban Hua'', ''Jee le Zara'', ''Marjaiyann'', ''I feel Good'', ''Jab Mila Tu'', ''Tu Meri'', ''Swag Se Swagat'', ''Bala'', ''Har funn Maula'', and ''Khuda Hafiz''. As a vocalist of band Pentagram, notable works are ''Voice'', ''Tomorrow's Decided'', ''Must I'', ''Love Drug Climbdown'' and more to go. As a music director, he has composed songs for films such as ''Om Shanti Om'', '' Anjaana Anjaani'', '' Dostana'', '' I Hate Luv Storys'', ''Bang Bang!'', ''Sultan'', '' Student of the Year'', '' Befikre'' and ''War''. Dadlani has been in collaboration with many international artists like Imogen Heap, Diplo, The Vamps and Akon. Early life Dadlani was born and raise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Divya Kumar (singer)
Divya Kumar is an Indian playback singer who has lent his voice in a number of Hindi, Gujarati, Telugu and other language films. Early life Divya Kumar comes from a musical family. His grandfather, Pandit Shivram, was a composer for many regional films in India, and for V. Shantaram's films. His father, Bhagwan Shivram, is a musician and has recorded with RD Burman, Jatin–Lalit and Himesh Reshamiya.His Bollywood break was with Gujraj Singh on the film ''Tutiya Dil''. Since then, he has gone on to sing some popular songs like "Shubhaarambh" for the film ''Kai Po Che'', "Chanchal Man Ati Random" for the film Shuddh Desi Romance, and was featured on "Daingad Daingad" from the film ''Humpty Sharma ki Dulhania''. He also sang in the Farhan Akhtar starrer movie Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, singing "Maston Ka Jhund" (music by Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy). In 2013, he sang in Finding Fanny and Ghanchakkar, and was a part of MTV India's prestigious 'MTV Unplugged' , which dedicated an e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arunraja Kamaraj
Arunraja Kamaraj is an Indian singer, lyricist, actor and director in Tamil-language films. He is known for his works as lyricist in films such as '' Jigarthanda'', '' Theri'', ''Pencil'' and '' Kabali''. He also debuted as an actor in '' Raja Rani'' and appeared as Neruppu Kumar in the film '' Maan Karate''. He has written and sung the songs "Ding Dong" for the movie '' Jigarthanda'' and written " Kaavaalaa" for the movie '' Jailer'' which were critically acclaimed. He has also written and sung the song "Neruppu Da" in Rajinikanth's film '' Kabali''. His other notable works includes movies such as '' Demonte Colony'' and '' Trisha Illana Nayanthara''. Life and career Arunraja Kamaraj was born in Parali near Kulithalai town in Tamil Nadu. Studied schoolings at Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Kulithalai and higher secondary schoolings at Bishop Heber Higher Secondary School, Trichy. He graduated from J. J. College of Engineering and Technology, Tiruchirappalli. One of hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Roe Vincent
Roe Vincent is a singer, composer and vocal arranger. She has worked with the Indian music industry's best music directors such as A. R. Rahman, Harris Jayaraj, D. Imman, Vijay Antony, Srinivas, Anirudh Ravichander, S. J. Surya and Joshua Sridhar. Her hit songs include "Adiye" from the movie Kadal and "Hey" from the movie Vanakkam Chennai. Her vocal arrangements have been featured in block buster movies such as Kadal, Mariyan, Highway, Million Dollar Arm, Yaamirukka Bayamey and many more. Her work has called her to arrange and produce for various TV shows such as Vijay TV's Airtel Super Singer in Chennai and Mazhavil Manorama's Josco Indian Voice in Kerala and Superstar in Astro TV, Malaysia. She conducts a choral vocal group named El Fé, is the lead singer of her band Overtone and performs in various shows and concerts with them. Early life and family background Maria Roshni Vincent was born in Chennai. Her father is Mr. Leo Vincent, an Engineer and her mother is Mrs. Anita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angaraag Mahanta
Angaraag Mahanta (born 24 November 1975), known by his stagename Papon, is an Indian playback singer and composer from Assam. Papon has also sung in many languages apart from Assamese like Hindi, Bengali, Tamil and Marathi. He is the lead vocalist and founder of the folk-fusion band ''Papon and The East India Company''. He is the son of the noted Assamese singer Khagen Mahanta and Archana Mahanta. Career Papon started his musical journey in the year 1998 with the Assamese song "Nasaba Sokule" from the album ''Snigdha Junak''. In 2004 he released his first album, ''Junaki Raati''. Papon made his debut in Bollywood with the song "Om mantra" from the film ''Strings - bound by faith'' in 2006. In 2011, his song was "Jiyein Kyun" from the movie '' Dum Maro Dum'' which was his first big hit''.'' In 2014, he sang "Lakeerein", which is a poem by Gulzar, for the film '' Kya Dilli Kya Lahore'' and "Sun RI Bavli" for Nagesh Kukunoor's film '' Lakshmi''. In 2015, he sang "Moh moh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varun Parandhaman
Varun Parandhaman is an Indian musician and songwriter based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He is an independent artist/freelance singer and a music producer. Early life Born and brought up in Chennai, Varun Parandhaman finished his schooling at KPCVSS and studied to be a Software Engineer. He took to singing and song writing in middle school but never had any formal learning in any form of music. While pursuing a professional engineering degree, he won numerous solo singing events in the inter-college level. Music career While in college, he taught himself how to use popular digital audio workstations (DAWs) today such as Cubase, Nuendo, Ableton Live and more. He then became the music producer for various artists based in Chennai, and also collaborated with them. In 2009, Varun sang the hook for the remix version of the song ''Kadavule Kadavule'' composed by music director D. Imman in the actor Jiiva starrer '' Kacheri Arambam''. Since then, he has been freelancing as a backup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
