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Buddhivanta
''Buddhivantha'' ( ''Genius'') is a 2008 Indian Kannada-language film directed by Ramnath Rigvedhi. starring Upendra in the lead role, while Pooja Gandhi, Brinda Parekh, Saloni Aswani, Natanya Singh, and Suman Ranganathan play the female leads. The film is a remake of the 2007 Tamil film '' Naan Avanillai'', which was itself was a remake of 1974 Tamil movie '' Naan Avanillai'' which in turn was based on the 1962 Marathi play '' To Mee Navhech'' ( I Am Not He) written by Pralhad K. Atre. The music was composed by Vijay Antony. The film was released on 26 September 2008. It was supposed to be released on Upendra's birthday, 18 September 2008, but because of the delay in censor certification, the date was postponed to 26 September 2008. It became the highest grossing Kannada film of 2008 and turned out to be a much bigger hit than the original ''Naan Avanillai''. It went on to complete over a 100-day theatrical run in the main centers of Karnataka. Plot The story begins with Panc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saloni Aswani
Saloni Aswani is an Indian actress and model who appears in Telugu and Kannada films. After finishing her education, Saloni ventured into modelling, appearing in various television advertisements. She went on to pursue a career in acting, debuting in the Hindi film ''Dil Pardesi Ho Gayaa'' (2003), following which she starred in several Telugu films, failing to achieve notable commercial success. She gained notice through her performances in Buddhivantha and S. S. Rajamouli's ''Maryada Ramanna'' (2010), leading to roles in further major Telugu productions. Early life Aswani was born in Ulhasnagar, Maharashtra into a Sindhi-speaking family as Vandana (3rd December). Her father was an assistant commissioner of narcotics. The family moved to CGS quarters at Wadala, Mumbai, when she was around five years old. After completing school, she enrolled at the Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University (SNDT) near New Marine Lines/Churchgate, Mumbai, and graduated in Psycholo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brinda Parekh
Brinda Parekh is an Indian actress and model. She has acted in South Indian films and has also done item numbers in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi films. She has acted in 4 movies in Tamil, several other movies in Telugu and Kannada and 3 Hindi movies. Career Being born and brought up in Mumbai, she started her career from modeling in television commercials like Vimal Suitings, Microsoft Windows XP, Anchor Switches, VIP Frenchie, Kit Kat, Thumbs Up, Polo Mint, Royal Challenge Beer, Amul Macho Vests, etc., and hundreds of other brands in print media as well. Before entering films she appeared in music videos. Retrieved 3 October 2013. Filmography ; Music videos *''Gandasiyaan'' - Sarbjit Cheema *''Vaada Tera Vaada'' - Nitin Bali *''Tera Hasna Kamaal'' - Shael Oswal *''Jogiya'' - Romey Gill *''Yeh Mera Dil Pyar Ka Deewana'' *''Kar Le Kar Le Koi Dhamaal'' ( Kaun Banega Crorepati Theme Song) ; Television *''Tumhari Disha'' *''Kaisa Ye Pyar Hai ''Kaisa Ye Pyar Hai'' (''H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naan Avanillai (2007 Film)
''Naan Avanillai'' ( ''I'm Not Him'') is a 2007 Indian Tamil-language romantic thriller film directed by Selva. It is a remake of K. Balachander's classic movie with the same title, starring Gemini Ganesan, which was an adaptation of 1962 Marathi language play ''To Mee Navhech'', written by Pralhad K. Atre and acted by Prabhakar Panshikar. The film has Jeevan in the lead role and Sneha, Namitha, Malavika, Jyorthirmayi and Keerti Chawla as his five heroines. This movie created great expectations in the industry, because it was a hit when it was originally made in 1974. Shooting began in December 2006 and it was released in April 2007. A sequel titled ''Naan Avanillai 2'' was released on 27 November 2009. It was remade in Kannada in 2008 as ''Budhivanta'' with a change in the climax. Plot A wedding advertisement of leading businesswoman Monika with a gentleman brings up a flurry of girls to the police, each one of them claiming the young groom in the picture to be thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bank Janardhan
Janardhan, known by his stage name Bank Janardhan is an Indian actor in the Kannada film industry. He is well-known for his comedy and drama roles in various Kannada films and television series. Some of the notable films of Janardhan as an actor include ''News'' (2005), '' Shhh!'' (1993) and ''Tharle Nan Maga'' (1992). He acted in kannada television serials such as '' Paapa Pandu''. Career Janardhan has acted in about 860 movies. Before his film career, he worked in Vijaya Bank in Holalkere. Janardhan is usually a comedy actor playing supporting roles. He is known for playing a stingy father in ''Tharle Nan Maga''. His performances with actors like Jaggesh, Doddanna and Tennis Krishna were well liked. Filmography Television * Papa pandu - ETV Kannada * Mangalya - Udaya TV * Jokali - Udaya TV * Robo family - ETV Kannada See also *List of people from Karnataka *Cinema of Karnataka * List of Indian film actors *Cinema of India The Cinema of India consists of motion pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Films
The year 2008 involved many major film events. '' The Dark Knight'' was the year's highest-grossing film, while '' Slumdog Millionaire'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture (out of eight Academy Awards). Evaluation of the year 2008 has been widely considered to be a very significant year for cinema. The entertainment agency website IGN described 2008 as "one of the biggest years ever for movies." It stated, "2008 was the year when the comic book movie genre not only hits its zenith, but also gained critical respectability thanks to '' The Dark Knight''. Animated films also proved a huge draw for filmgoers, with Pixar's '' WALL-E'' becoming not only the highest grossing toon but also the most lauded. Things got off on the right foot with the monster movie madness of '' Cloverfield''. Marvel got down to business laying the groundwork for their superhero team-up ''The Avengers'' with the blockbuster hit ''Iron Man'' and their respectable attempt at rebooting '' The Incredible H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Kannada-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 complic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megha (singer)
Harini Ramachandran, professionally known as Megha (born 18 March 1987) is a Tamil playback singer, singing predominantly in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. She is also a co-founder of School of Excellence, that offers NLP programs and models. Early life Megha is a great grand daughter of Papanasam Sivan, a Carnatic composer. Born in Chennai, she relocated to Bangalore where she did most of her schooling. She did her bachelor's degree in Commerce in Chennai and pursued her master's degree in Human Resources whilst making a foray into the field of playback singing in 2007. She has completed grade 8 from Trinity College London in Western classical music under the guidance of renowned musician Augustine Paul from Chennai. Career Megha is a playback singer in the South Indian film industry. She was introduced into the film industry by music director Vijay Antony in the film '' Naan Avanillai'' (2007), and has worked with music directors including Ilaiyaraaja, A. R. Rahm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hariharan (singer)
Hariharan (born 3 April 1955) is an Indian playback, bhajan and ghazal singer who predominantly sings in Tamil, Hindi and Telugu languages. He has also sung over 15,000 notable songs in 10 regional languages including Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Sinhala and Bhojpuri. He is an established ghazal singer and one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music. In 2004, he was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India and is a two-time National Award winner. Hariharan, associating with Lesle Lewis, formed Colonial Cousins, a two-member band. They have cut many private music albums and also scored music for few feature films in Tamil and Hindi. On 9 October 2021 at 13:47, Hariharan and late Gulshan Kumar's Hanuman Chalisa recorded under the label of T-Series crossed the 2-billion views mark on YouTube, making it the first devotional song in the world to do so. Personal life and education Hariharan was born to classical musicians H A S Mani and Alamelu Mani. HAS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sangeetha Rajeshwaran
Sangeetha Rajeshwaran is a playback singer in the Tamil film industry. She lives in Chennai with her husband and two sons. Seetal Iyer, former World Space RJ, is her cousin sister. She recently participated in the '' Zee Tamil Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2009 Challenge'' singing competition, where she and her partner Raghu reached the semi-finals. Her most popular songs in Tamil have been composed by music director Vijay Antony. Songs produced under their combination include "Yen Enakku Mayakkam" ('' Naan Avanillai''), "Dailamo" (''Dishyum''), "Karikalan" ('' Vettaikaaran''), "Mayam Seidhayo" (''Velayudham'') and "Ichu Ichu" (''Vedi''). Sangeetha has also sung the title song "Ennai Thedi Kadhal" of the serial ''Kadhalikka Neramillai'' which aired in Vijay TV Star Vijay is an Indian Tamil language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Disney Star (formerly Star India), a subsidiary of Asianet Star Communications. The channel's headquarters is in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charulatha Mani
Charulatha Mani (born 21 January 1981) is an Indian-born Australian Carnatic and playback singer. She has been performing Carnatic concerts since 1999. She has also sung for movies. Charulatha has appeared in numerous TV shows and radio programmes, in India, and overseas. She has recorded many, CD and DVD albums. Her ''Isai Payanam'' TV show, aired on Jaya TV, deals with Ragas in Carnatic and film music and has completed more than 80 episodes. She recently received her PhD from the prestigious Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, on Hybridising carnatic Music and Early Opera. Charu's music is known for its impeccable adherence to the Karnatik principles. It is also known for being courageous and out there. It is this ongoing interplay, of newness and the vintage, that has become the hallmark of her unique performance philosophy and signature style. This interesting interweave derives from her strong belief that Karnatik music must embrace innovatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kadhalil Vizhunthen
''Kadhalil Vizhunthen'' () is a 2008 Indian Tamil-language romantic psychological thriller film written and directed by P. V. Prasath starring Nakul and Sunaina. The film has music by Vijay Antony, cinematography by S.D. Vijay Milton and editing by V. T. Vijayan. The shooting for the film started in August 2007, and the film was released in September 2008. The song "Nakka Mukka", a kuthu (folk) song and "Thozhiya", a melodious romantic song, were very successful hits composed were one of the main reasons for the film's success. All songs in this movie was composed by Vijay Antony except "Unakena Naan". It was composed by this movie Director PV Prasath itself. "Nakka Mukka" was played in the opening ceremony of the Cricket World Cup 2011 held at Mirpur, Bangladesh. It also featured among a medley of Tamil songs performed by Shah Rukh Khan and Shriya Saran in the inaugural of the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League 2011 held in Chennai, India. Plot The story focuses on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pandhayam (2008 Film)
''Pandhayam'' () is a 2008 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by S. A. Chandrasekhar, starring Nithin Sathya and Sindhu Tolani while Prakash Raj and Raadhika play supporting roles. Vijay did a guest role as himself. The music was composed by Vijay Antony with cinematography by Srinivas Devamsam and editing by J. N. Harsha. The film released on 19 September 2008. Plot Masanam ( Prakash Raj), a local thug and criminal who kills people, slowly rises up the ranks to be a minister. Shakthivel (Nithin Sathya) is a die-hard fan of an actor Vijay and studies in college. He falls in love with Masanam's sister Thulasi (Sindhu Tolani) and challenges him (he has a reason for that), and a cat-and-mouse game ensues. What follows is a series of incidents between the two that leads to a melodramatic climax. Cast Special appearances : Soundtrack The soundtrack consists of five songs composed by Vijay Antony. It features remixes of the songs "Surangani "Surangani" was o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
