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Singer Usha
Usha (born 29 May 1980) is an Indian singer who works predominantly in Telugu cinema, Telugu. She has sung in Kannada language, Kannada and Tamil language, Tamil also. In a career spanning about 10 years, she has established herself as one of the leading playback singers in the Telugu film industry and has worked with many major music directors. Career Music competitions Usha began her singing career with "Paadutha Teeyaga", a music based program on ETV Telugu, Eenadu Television hosted by singer S. P. Balasubrahmanyam. She stood first in the competition and later followed up by winning another music contest titled "Navaragam" on Gemini TV. Usha participated in various music-related shows on TV between 1996 and 2000. Her performance in "Endaro Mahanubhavlu" on Gemini TV won her appreciation and applause from the audience. She later participated in "Meri Awaz Suno" on STAR TV (Asia), Star TV and was one of the finalists in the All-India finals. She also participated in various Hin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nagarjuna Sagar
Nagarjuna Sagar Dam is a masonry dam across the Krishna River at Nagarjuna Sagar which straddles the border between Nalgonda district in Telangana and Palnadu district in Andhra Pradesh. The dam provides irrigation water to the districts of Krishna district, Krishna, Guntur district, Guntur, Palnadu district, PalnaduPrakasam district, , Prakasam and parts of West Godavari district, West Godavari districts of Andhra Pradesh and also Nalgonda district, Nalgonda, Suryapet district, Suryapet, Khammam district, Khammam, Bhadradri Kothagudem district, Bhadradri Kothagudem districts of Telangana. It is also a source of electricity generation for the National Grid (India), national grid. Constructed between 1955 and 1967, the dam created a Reservoir, water reservoir with gross storage capacity of , its effective capacity is 6.92 cubic km or 244.41 Tmcft. The dam is tall from its deepest foundation and long with 26 flood gates which are wide and tall. It is jointly operated by Andhra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Varsham (2004 Film)
''Varsham'' () is a 2004 Indian Telugu-language romantic action film directed by Sobhan and produced by M.S. Raju under Sumanth Art Productions banner. The film stars Prabhas, Trisha, and Gopichand in the lead roles, while Prakash Raj, Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao, and Chandra Mohan appear in supporting roles. The music was composed by Devi Sri Prasad, while the cinematography was handled by S. Gopal Reddy. Varsham emerged as a box office blockbuster, marking a breakthrough role for Prabhas and establishing Trisha in Telugu cinema. The film's success led to remakes in Tamil as '' Mazhai'' (2005) and in Hindi as ''Baaghi'' (2016). Plot Venkat, an unemployed youngster, meets Sailaja, a middle-class girl, during a train journey in Warangal. They are immediately attracted to each other after dancing in a rain shower. At the same time, Sailaja catches the eye of Bhadranna, a dangerous and ruthless politician who also falls in love with her. Venkat and Sailaja keep encountering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nandi Award For Best Female Playback Singer
The Nandi Award for Best Female Playback Singer was awarded from 1977 to 2016 by the Government of Andhra Pradesh. Winners Nandi TV Awards The Nandi TV Award for Best Female Playback Singer in a Telugu television serial was also awarded every year until 2016. See also * List of music awards honoring women This list of media awards honoring women is an index to articles about notable awards honoring women. The list includes general, literary and music awards for women. It excludes awards for actresses, including film awards for lead actress ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Nandi Award For Best Female Playback Singer Female Playback Singer Music awards honoring women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much of Hyderabad is situated on hilly terrain around Lakes in Hyderabad, artificial lakes, including the Hussain Sagar lake, predating the city's founding, in the north of the city centre. According to the 2011 census of India, Hyderabad is the List of cities in India by population, fourth-most populous city in India with a population of residents within the city limits, and has a population of residents in the Hyderabad Metropolitan Region, metropolitan region, making it the List of metropolitan areas in India, sixth-most populous metropolitan area in India. With an output of 95 billion, Hyderabad has the sixth-largest urban economy in India. The Qutb Shahi dynasty's Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah established Hyderabad in 1591 to extend the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Afro-Asian Games
The Afro-Asian Games were the series of inter-continental multi-sport competitions, held between athletes from Asia and Africa. The event was held only once, in 2003. These Games were unique, since excluding the Olympic Games no other multi-sport competition brought athletes from these two continents together for one event. These Games were supposed to be held once every four years. They were jointly supervised by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), and the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA). The first and so far only Afro-Asian Games witness the participation of Asian and African National Olympic Committees (NOCs), along with a few Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) nations. The inaugural Afro-Asian Games were held in 2003 in Hyderabad, India. Cancellation Algiers, Algeria was "ready" to host the second Afro-Asian Games, scheduled to be held from July to August 2007. However, the Games were indefinitely postponed. The President of the Association of Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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] [Amazon] |
Mani Sharma
Yanamandra Venkata Subrahmanyam (Telugu: యనమండ్ర వెంకట సుబ్రహ్మణ్యం; born 11 July 1964), professionally known as Mani Sharma, is an Indian composer and music producer known for his work primarily in Telugu cinema, along with contributions to Tamil, Kannada, and Hindi films. Early life Mani Sharma was born as Yanamandra Venkata Subrahmanyam on 11 July 1964 in Madras, where he was also raised. His family has ancestral roots in the West Godavari and Machilipatnam regions. His father was a violinist who played with composer Saluri Rajeswara Rao. Mani Sharma discontinued his studies after the 12th standard. Career Mani Sharma began his career as a programmer under Satyam and Saluri Rajeswara Rao, later working with composers like Ramesh Naidu and M. M. Keeravani. Director Ram Gopal Varma entrusted him with composing the background score for '' Raathri'' and '' Antham'' (both 1992), along with a song for ''Antham''. Sharma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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] [Amazon] |
Shankar Mahadevan
Shankar Mahadevan (born 3 March 1967) is an Indian singer and composer who is part of the Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy trio that writes music for Indian films. In 2023, he was awarded an honorary doctorate (''honoris causa'' degree) by Birmingham City University. Personal life and early career Shankar Mahadevan was born in Chembur, Mumbai into a Tamil family originally from Palakkad, Kerala. He learned Hindustani classical and Carnatic music as a child, and began playing the veena at the age of five under Shri Lalitha Venkataraman. Mahadevan studied music under Pandit Shrinivas Khale and T.R. Balamani. He is an alumnus of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour High School, Chembur and graduated in 1988 with a degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology in Navi Mumbai, affiliated to Mumbai University, and was a software engineer for the company, Leading Edge. After working for Leading Edge Systems (now Trigyn Technologies Limited), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nee Sneham
''Nee Sneham'' () is a 2002 Indian Telugu-language romantic drama film directed by Paruchuri Murali, and written and produced by M. S. Raju on Sumanth Art Productions banner. The film stars Uday Kiran, Aarti Agarwal, and Jatin Grewal. ''Nee Sneham'' released on 1 November 2002. The soundtrack composed by R. P. Patnaik became quite popular. Uday Kiran received his second nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu for the film. Plot The film opens with Madhav (Uday Kiran) and Sreenu ( Jatin Grewal) playing a football cup final in Kolkata. Madhav and Sreenu are best friends, football players, and neighbours. Subsequently, the team wins the cup. A mishap happens when Sreenu tries to save Madhav from an accident. Madhav escapes with minor injuries, but Sreenu loses his leg. This puts an end to his football career. Sreenu, recovering from the incident, convinces Madhav not to tell anyone about the cause of Sreenu's accident. He does this to save the two families fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Santosham (2002 Film)
''Santosham'' ( Happiness) is a 2002 Indian Telugu-language comedy drama film directed by Dasaradh who co-wrote the film with Gopimohan and Trivikram Srinivas. It stars Nagarjuna, Gracy Singh and Shriya Saran in lead roles, with Prabhu Deva and K. Viswanath playing the supporting roles. The music was composed by R. P. Patnaik. The film won two Nandi Awards and two Filmfare Awards South. Released on 9 May 2002, the film was well received by critics and was declared a ''Blockbuster'' at the box office. It became the highest grossing film in Nagarjuna's career and was one of the highest grossing films of the year. It was a welcome break for Nagarjuna from the consecutive flops he suffered since 2000. It was dubbed in Tamil as ''Santhosha Vanille'' and in Hindi as ''Pehli Nazar ka Pehla Pyaar''. The film was remade in Kannada as ''Ugadi'' (2007). Plot Karthik is a rich architect in Ooty. He falls in love with Padmavathi "Padhu". Padhu is hesitant to accept and reciprocate Kar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jayam (2002 Film)
''Jayam'' () is a 2002 Indian Telugu-language romantic action drama film written, produced and directed by Teja under the banner Chitram Movies. The film stars Nithiin, Sadha, and Gopichand in the lead roles, marking the acting debut of Nithiin and Sadha. The music was composed by R. P. Patnaik. The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise for the performances and music, and emerged as a commercial blockbuster. It was later remade in Tamil in 2003 under the same title by Mohan Raja, starring Ravi Mohan in his debut as a lead actor, earning him the moniker "Jayam Ravi," with Sadha and Gopichand reprising their roles. Plot Venkataramana alias "Venky" is from a poor family who meets Sujatha at his college and falls in love with her. After many meetings, Sujatha falls in love with Venky. However, Sujatha's father learns about this from an astrologer where he fixes Sujatha's marriage with her cousin Raghu, a womanizer and rogue. Raghu falls in love with Sujat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
