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Manasthan
''Maanasthan'' is a 2004 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film directed by K. Bharathi. The film stars Sarathkumar and Sakshi Shivanand. Abbas, Vijayakumar and Sujatha play supporting roles. It was released on 11 June 2004. Plot A rich landlord Ramasamy and his wife Lakshmi have two sons Deivarasu and Selvarasu. Deiva is an illiterate village bumpkin who is naive and is devoted to his family, gives a job to Pachakili who makes fun. Selva is a college student. Raasathi is Deiva's cousin and love interest and was betrothed to marry him since childhood. Deiva's family has a rivalry with Ramasamy's younger brother's family. All is well until Deiva's maternal grandmother becomes severely ill. She meets with Ramasamy on her deathbed and reveals a secret: Deiva is not their child. During her delivery, Lakshmi's son was stillborn. As a result, Lakshmi's mother switched the stillborn baby with an infant Deiva, whom she found abandoned in a train latrine. This causes Ramasamy to k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marumalarchi Bharathi
'K. Bharathi' also known as 'Marumalarchi K. Bharathi' is an Indian film director and actor who has directed village based stories. Career Bharathi made his directorial debut with ''Chinna Pulla'' (1994) under the pseudonym Baskaran. He later directed ''Maru Malarchi'' starring Mammootty in the lead. The film received critical acclaim, won Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Film and also earned Bharathi an award of Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Dialogue Writer, Best dialogue writer. Bharathi's next directorial ''Kallazhagar'' starring Vijayakanth was also a success movie. An elephant called Appu was brought in from Thrissur in Kerala for the film, where the elephant formed one of a stable maintained by the famed Paaramekaavu temple, which forms the venue of the yearly Thrissur Pooram festival. The film was rejected by Indian censors, because of its potential to spark religious conflicts - with particularly a scene in which some Muslim extremists masquerade themselves as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbas (actor)
Mirza Abbas Ali (born 21 May 1975) is an Indian actor known for his works predominantly in Tamil cinema, Tamil and Telugu cinema, and few Malayalam and Hindi films. Following a career as a fashion model, he made his film debut with Kathir's ''Kadhal Desam'' (1996), which became a great success and gave him instant recognition. Abbas went on to work in successful movies such as ''V.I.P (1997 film), VIP'' (1997), ''Pooveli'' (1998), ''Padayappa'' (1999), ''Suyamvaram'' (1999), ''Malabar Police'' (1999), ''Kandukondain Kandukondain'' (2000), ''Minnale'' (2001), ''Aanandham'' (2001), ''Pammal K. Sambandam'' (2002), ''Adi Thadi'' (2004), ''Guru En Aalu'' (2009), and Ramanujan (film), ''Ramanujan'' (2014). He also appeared in notable Telugu films including ''Priya O Priya'' (1997), ''Rajahamsa'' (1998), ''Raja (1999 film), Raja'' (1999), and Anasuya (film), ''Anasuya'' (2007). Abbas gained recognition in Malayalam films as well, notably in ''Kannezhuthi Pottum Thottu'' (1999). In 2023 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scissor Manohar
Scissor Manohar is an Indian comedian and actor. Career Manohar began to work as a production assistant working on films such as ''Puthiya Vaarpugal'' (1979). Manohar earned the name Scissor for his character in '' Gokulathil Seethai'' (1996). In the film, he introduces himself as 'Scissor Manohar' when Suvalakshmi and Karan are talking. He has since became a comedian and has acted in over 240 Tamil language Tamil (, , , also written as ''Tamizhil'' according to linguistic pronunciation) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia. It is one of the longest-surviving classical languages in the world,. "Tamil is one of ... films. He played notable roles in the films '' Vindhai'' (2015) and '' Kadikara Manithargal'' (2018). Partial filmography *''All films are in Tamil, unless otherwise noted.'' References External links * Scissor Manoharon Moviebuff {{DEFAULTSORT:Manohar, Scissor Living people Tamil comedians Indian male film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American 501(c)(3) organization, non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org. It provides free access to collections of digitized media including websites, Application software, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials. The Archive also advocates a Information wants to be free, free and open Internet. Its mission is committing to provide "universal access to all knowledge". The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archiving, web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hundreds of billions of web captures. The Archive also oversees numerous Internet Archive#Book collections, book digitization projects, collectively one of the world's largest book digitization efforts. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalki (magazine)
''Kalki'' is a Tamil-language weekly magazine published from Chennai, India. The magazine was established by Kalki Krishnamurthy, a popular Tamil novelist and Indian freedom fighter, in 1941. T Sadasivam was the magazine's co-founder. The magazine is known for its publication of historic novels such as '' Ponniyin Selvan'' and '' Sivagamiyin Sabadham''. Singer Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, guru of M S Subbulakshmi, and music critic S V Seshadri were also involved with the magazine in its coverage of music. Kalki Krishnamurthy also edited the magazine, which is published on a weekly basis. During his term the magazine was much more respected due to its quality. The magazine ceased publication in 1977, but resumed in June 1978. ''Mullum Malarum'' (authored by Umachandran), which won this magazine's first prize in the silver jubilee novel competition was first published in this magazine as a serial, and later made into a hit Tamil film of the same name. Website ''Kalki Onli ... [...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] |
Devan Ekambaram
Devan Ekambaram (born 25 December 1975) is an Indian American film playback singer, actor and Film composer, composer. He began his career as a playback singer in Tamil language, Tamil films, and later branched out to many other south Indian languages, such as Telugu language, Telugu and Kannada. Ekambaram has sung for over 500 films. Education Devan studied at Freehold Township High School, New Jersey. He enrolled in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he dropped out in his second year. Singing career Devan started his singing career in 1999 when he received an unexpected call from the assistants of composer A. R. Rahman, inviting him for a voice audition. He went on to record his first song, "O Maria," for the film ''Kadhalar Dhinam'', collaborating with Yugendran. The song leads to numerous offers from various Southern music directors. Devan's second hit came in his short rendition of "Ore Nyabagam" from the film ''Minnale'' (200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sujatha Mohan
Sujatha Mohan is a renowned Indian playback singer known for her contributions to a wide range of Indian film industries, particularly in Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu cinema. Over her decades-long career, she has also recorded songs in other languages including Kannada, Badaga, Hindi, and Marathi, among others. , she had sung more than 18,000 songs.Widely celebrated as the Melody Queen of South India, Sujatha is affectionately called Bhava Gayika in Kerala for her emotive singing, and Innisai Kuyil (Nightingale of Music) in Tamil Nadu, reflecting her sweet and expressive vocal style.She has worked with a wide array of prominent music composers such as A. R. Rahman, Ilaiyaraaja, M. M. Keeravani, Koti, Vidyasagar, S. A. Rajkumar, and Mani Sharma, and has frequently performed duets with legendary playback singers including K. J. Yesudas, Hariharan, and S. P. Balasubrahmanyam.Her unique voice often described as husky yet melodious along with her ability to adapt to diver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hariharan (singer)
Hariharan Anantha Subramani (born 3 April 1955) is an Indian people, Indian playback singer, playback, bhajan and ghazal singer who predominantly sings in Tamil language, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada and Telugu language, Telugu languages. He has also sung over 15,000 notable songs in 10+ languages including Marathi language, Marathi, Sinhala language, Sinhala, Maithili language, Maithili, Bhojpuri language, Bhojpuri, Odia language, Odia, Bengali language, Bengali, Sanskrit, Gujarati language, Gujarati and English language, English. He is an established ghazal singer and one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music. Hariharan is widely regarded as one of the greatest playback singers in Indian cinema. In 2004, he was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India and is a two-time National Film Awards, National Award winner. Hariharan, associating with Lesle Lewis (composer), Lesle Lewis, formed the duo Colonial Cousins. They have cut many private music albums and als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mano (singer)
Nagoor Shaheb, known by his stage name Mano, is an Indian playback singer, voice-over artist, actor, and composer. Mano has recorded more than 35,000 songs for film and private various Telugu language, Telugu, Tamil language, Tamil, Bengali language, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, Tulu language, Tulu, Konkani language, Konkani and Assamese language, Assamese films. He has also performed for over 3000 live concerts across the continents. He has recorded many songs for music director Ilaiyaraaja. Mano is also recognized for being as the full-fledged dubbing artist for Rajinikanth in Telugu from Muthu (film), ''Muthu'' (1995) onwards. Career Early days and debut Taking the criticism in his stride, Mano went on recording as many as 500 songs with Ilaiyaraaja and slowly branched out to sing for other Tamil composers as well. Voice-over dubbing The year 1995 also saw another face of Mano as the voice-over dubbing artist in the Tamil film industry. He dubbed his voice for alm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Srinivas (singer)
Srinivasan Doraiswamy, known by his stage name Srinivas or Jeans Srinivas, is an Indian playback singer in the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi music industries. Credited to 3000 songs, he is also a music composer, working on projects including films, jingles, albums, television serials, and devotional albums. He received the Kalaimamani award by the Tamil Nadu state government in 2005 and the Tamil Nadu State Film Award twice for the songs " Minsara Poove" ( Padayappa) in 1999 and "Maargazhiyil" ( Onbadhu Roobai Nottu) in 2008. He has also received the Best Male Singer Kerala State Film Award for the song "Bhasuri" ( Rathri Mazha) in 2007, the Film Critics Award for Best Composer for the movie " Seetha Kalyanam" in 2009, and Best Playback Singer for " Kaisi Hai Yeh Ruth" ( Dil Chahta Hai). Early life Singer Srinivas was born on 7 November in Ambasamudram in Tamil Nadu to Duraiswamy and Lakshmi. Career Srinivas began his musical journey in 1992 after being inspir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swarnalatha
Swarnalatha (29 April 1973 – 12 September 2010) was an Indian playback singer. In a career spanning almost 22 years (from 1987 until her death), she recorded over 10,000 songs in many Indian languages, including Tamil language, Tamil, Telugu language, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali language, Bengali, Oriya language, Oriya, Punjabi language, Punjabi, and Badaga language, Badaga. She won the National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer for her rendition of the song "Porale Ponnuthayi" from the film ''Karuththamma''. The song was composed by A. R. Rahman, under whose musical direction she recorded many memorable songs. She was also the first female playback singer to receive a National Film Awards, National Award in A. R. Rahman Music. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
