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Mirugam
Mirugam () is a 2007 Indian Tamil-language masala film written and directed by Samy. The film stars debutant Aadhi and Padmapriya. The music was composed by Sabesh–Murali with editing by Suresh Urs and cinematography by Ramnath Shetty. The film released on 14 December 2007. Plot The story is set in a village near Ramnad. Ayyanar is a carefree villager who uses his muscles rather than his brain for any situation and behaves like an animal. He is a terror to the whole village as he is a womaniser, sleeps with sex workers, and rapes housewives. There is no woman in the village that he has not had an encounter with. He beats up anyone, including his mother. He makes a living through his bull, which he hires out for its stud services. During one of Ayyanar's visits to the local brothel, he rapes the queen sex worker Savithri but refuses to pay for her services. He sleeps with her multiple times and uses her in his sexual play. Once, he is seen playing cards on the outskirts of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padmapriya Janakiraman
Padmapriya Janakiraman, (born 1983) better known mononymously as Padmapriya, is an Indian actress and model. She has acted in over 50 feature films and in 7 different languages: Bengali, Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, English, and Telugu. She is also a trained bharatanatyam dancer. Padmapriya made her acting debut in the Telugu film ''Seenu Vasanthi Lakshmi'' in 2003. She has won a National Film Award, two Kerala State Film Awards, two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, Three Filmfare Awards South, as well as numerous other awards. Early life Padmapriya was born in Delhi to Janakiraman, a brigadier in the Indian Army, and Vijaya. She did her schooling at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Trimulgherry, Secunderabad, Telangana and studied at Loyola Academy, Alwal, Secunderabad, from which she graduated with a B.Com degree. Later, she pursued an MBA degree in finance at KIAMS, Harihar. She was then working for GE Capital as a risk consultant in Bangalore and Gurgaon. After GE she was with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samy (director)
Samy is a Tamil film director and a script writer. Several of his films have been criticised for depicting controversial content on screen. Career Samy started his career assisting directors such as Balu Mahendra and S. A. Chandrasekaran, and worked as a dialogue writer for Sarathkumar starrer ''Dosth'' (2001). He made his directorial debut with ''Uyir'' (2006), which revolved around a woman who falls in love with her brother-in-law after the demise of her husband. The film became controversial upon release due to its bold content but did well at box office. His second film ''Mirugam'' (2007) which dealt with a cruel villager who is suffering from HIV was met with a controversy after Samy assaulted the actress Padmapriya by slapping her in front of the crew and the village people. The South Indian Film Industry imposed a one-year ban on him for his behaviour on set, but later the ban was reduced to six months due to constant lobbying by the producers' associations. In 2008, Samy b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aadhi Pinisetty
Aadhi Pinisetty is an Indian actor who appears in Tamil language, Tamil and Telugu language, Telugu films. He is the recipient of a Nandi Awards, Nandi Award and a SIIMA Award, in addition to two nominations for Filmfare Awards South. Born to film director Ravi Raja Pinisetty, he debuted in 2006 with the Telugu film ''Oka V Chitram.'' His first prominent role was in the Tamil film ''Eeram'' (2009), produced by director S. Shankar. Early life Aadhi Pinisetty was born into a Telugu language, Telugu-speaking family. His father, Ravi Raja Pinisetty has directed over 50 films. He grew up in Chennai and was schooled at Don Bosco Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Chennai, Don Bosco. Career Pinisetty made his debut in 2006 with the Teja (director), Teja-directed ''Oka V Chitram''. He later appeared in the Tamil film ''Mirugam'' (2007). In 2009, he starred in the supernatural thriller ''Eeram''. In 2010, he had two releases, ''Ayyanar (film), Ayyanar'' and ''Aadu Puli'', which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahalakshmi Iyer
Mahalakshmi Iyer is an Indian playback singer, best known for her Hindi, Assamese and Tamil songs. She has sung in many other Indian languages as well, including Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati and Kannada. Career Playback singing Mahalakshmi made her playback debut with the film ''Dus'' in 1997'','' but the film never completed and released due to the sudden passing of the film's director. The album however was released in 1999 as a tribute. She sang the track ''Ae Ajnabee'' with Udit Narayan for A. R. Rahman in Mani Ratnam's '' Dil Se..'' which was her first release as a playback singer and considered to be her debut. Mahalakshmi continued singing for Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy and A.R. Rahman in many films which followed. Since then she has also sung many serials, jingles, and original albums. She was part of several successful soundtracks such as '' Mission Kashmir'', '' Yaadein'' and '' Saathiya'' and worked with some of the biggest music composers like A. R. Rahma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ganja Karuppu
Ganja Karuppu is an Indian actor who has predominantly appeared in comedy roles in Tamil cinema. After making his debut in Bala's '' Pithamagan'' (2003), Ganja Karuppu experienced success in the late 2000s with his roles in '' Raam'' (2005), ''Sivakasi'' (2005), ''Paruthiveeran'' (2007), ''Subramaniyapuram'' (2008) and ''Naadodigal'' (2009). Career Karuppu was introduced as an actor by director Bala in '' Pithamagan'' (2003) as a person who works in the ganja plantations. As a result of the role, he was thereafter credited in films as Ganja Karuppu. In the 2000s, he subsequently was regularly cast in rural films by directors, working on notable films including Ameer's '' Raam'' (2005) and ''Paruthiveeran'' (2007), Sasikumar's '' Subramaniapuram'' (2008), Samuthirakani's ''Naadodigal'' (2009) and Sargunam's ''Kalavani'' (2010). During the period, he was also cast in the second lead role in Chimbudevan's ''Arai En 305-il Kadavul'' (2008) alongside Santhanam, produced by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sona Heiden
Sona Heiden is an Indian actress, entrepreneur and film producer. She was crowned Miss South India in the year 2002. She is best known for her item songs in Kollywood. Personal life Sona Heiden was born on 1 June 1979 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Her father is an Anglo Indian and her mother is a Tamil. She did her schooling in Chennai at the Lusarus Road convent school. She has completed her graduation in commerce from the Annamalai University. Later, she completed her Fashion & Designing Marketing Advanced Diploma from Madurai Kamaraj University Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU) is a public state university located in Madurai city, in southern Tamil Nadu, India, established in 1966. MKU is one of the 15 universities in India with the University with Potential for Excellence status, wh .... She has two siblings and both are younger to her. She has a production house in Columbia and many fashion stores in the name of UNIQ across the globe. She was awarded "The Best Entre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabesh–Murali
Sabesh–Murali is an Indian music director duo, who have jointly composed for many Tamil films in Chennai, India. Sabesh and Murali are siblings who began their careers working under their brother, the music director Deva, as assistant composers. They composed famous albums such as ''Pokkisham'' and '' Milaga''. The duo are also, rarely, playback singers. They composed for the Tamil movie ''Imsai Arasan 23am Pulikesi''. They scored the movie ''Goripalayam'' and the upcoming movie ''Anthony Yaar''. Personal life Sabesh–Murali are the younger brothers of popular music composer Deva. Sabesh's son Karthik Sabesh is a comedian while Murali's son Bobo Shashi is a composer. Their nephews are actor Jai and composer Srikanth Deva. Discography ;Songs *''Samuthiram'' (2001) *'' Naina'' (2002) *''Aayiram Poi Solli'' (2002) * ''Ball'' (2002) *''Paarai'' (2003) *''Ayodhya'' (2005) *'' Gurudeva'' (2005) *''Adaikalam'' (2005) *''Thavamai Thavamirundhu'' (2005) *'' Suyetchai MLA'' (2006) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhanu Chander
Bhanu Chander (Madduri Venkatasatya Subramanyeswara Bhanuchander Prasad; born 2 July 1952) is an Indian actor, director and producer known for his works predominantly in Telugu and Tamil cinema. He is the son of veteran music composer Master Venu. His paternal family hails from Machilipatnam and maternal family hails from Rajahmundry. He was born near Madras. He is known for his association with directors like K. Viswanath, Balu Mahendra, B. Narsing Rao, and K. Balachander. In 1990, he starred in '' Sutradharulu'', which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu for that year. Filmography Telugu Tamil Teleserials * 1991 '' Penn'' * 1990s ''Kalloori Kalam'' * 1990s ''Sorgam'' * 2000 Micro Thodargal- Mounam Oru Bashai * 2004–2005 ''Engiruntho Vandhaal'' * 2006–2008 ''Kana Kaanum Kaalangal ''Kana Kaanum Kaalangal'' () is a Tamil drama soap opera that aired on weekdays on Star Vijay. It was the first soap in Tamil television that focused on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Tamil-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 complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Masala 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 complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rediff
Rediff.com (stylized as ''rediff.com'') is an Indian news, information, entertainment and shopping web portal. It was founded in 1996. It is headquartered in Mumbai, with offices in Bangalore, New Delhi and New York City. , it had more than 300 employees. It is one of the earliest web portals and email providers in India. When its founder Ajit Balakrishnan launched Rediff on the NeT, the internet was barely five months old in the country, and had a total of about 18,000 users. 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 for filing a materially false prospectus in relation to an IPO of its American depositary shares. The case was resolved by settlement in 2009. In April 2001, Rediff.com acquired the ''India Abroad ''India Abroad'' is a weekly new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sify
Sify Technologies Limited (formerly Satyam Infoway) is an Indian information and communications technology company providing end-to-end ICT solutions including telecom services, data center services, cloud & managed services, transformation integration services and application integration services. Sify Technologies Limited played an important role during the early spread of Internet and e-commerce in India. It has been listed on NASDAQ as SIFY since October, 1999. Merill 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 March 2002, Sify made an agreement with Makemytrip to run Sify's travel portal. In January 2002, Sify announced prizes for most emails sent under a 6-week contest called "Sify Greenmail", promoting emails ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
