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Black Sheep (2016)
''Black Sheep'' is an Indian web series created by Stray Factory. The first season consists of eight episodes and premiered online on Rascalas. Plot summary This coming of age show, chronicles the life of Shyam Rajendran a student at an engineering college who has trouble completing his degree. He decides to drop out and decides to become a Stand up Comic, much to the disapproval of his father, a Colonel in the army. Cast * Shyam Renganathan as Shyam (8 episodes) * Sindhuri Nandhakumar as Pratyusha (8 episodes) * Vaishwath Shankar as Nikhil (8 episodes) * Janaki Sabesh as Mom (5 episodes) * Jeeva Ravi as Dad (5 episodes) References External links * Indian television series Comedy-drama web series {{India-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy
Comedy is a genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. Origins Comedy originated in ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in Ancient Greek theatre, theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance pitting two groups, ages, genders, or societies against each other in an amusing ''agon'' or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions posing obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth then becomes constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to resort to ruses which e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama
Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on Radio drama, radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the Epic poetry, epic and the Lyric poetry, lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's ''Poetics (Aristotle), Poetics'' ()—the earliest work of dramatic theory. The term "drama" comes from a Ancient Greek, Greek word meaning "deed" or "Action (philosophy), act" (Classical Greek: , ''drâma''), which is derived from "I do" (Classical Greek: , ''dráō''). The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional Genre, generic division between Comedy (drama), comedy and tragedy. In English (as was the analogous case in many other European languages), the word ''Play (theatre), play'' or ''game'' (translating the Old English, Anglo-Saxon ''pleġan'' or Latin ''ludus'') wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathivanan Rajendran
Mathivanan Rajendran (born 12 January) is an Indian media entrepreneur, film producer and actor. Career Rajendran’s work spans film, theater, and digital media.His 2020 Tamil-language production, ''Nasir'', premiered at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, where it was nominated for the Tiger Award and won the NETPAC Award for Best Asian Film. The film also received the FIPRESCI Best Indian Film and was featured at the New Directors/New Films Festival at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Additionally, ''Nasir'' was included in the ''*British Film Institute’s list of 10 Great Modern Indian Independent Films underscoring its global recognition. Rajendran’s portfolio includes '' Humans in the Loop'' and ''Taak'', two short films exploring themes of artificial intelligence and surveillance, respectively. Developed under the Museum of Imagined Futures (MOIF), an initiative connecting speculative storytelling with social relevance, these films were s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shyam Renganathan
Shyam is a name of Krishna and an Indian masculine given name and surname. Notable people with this name include: ;Shyam * Shyam (actor) (1920–1951), Indian Hindi film actor *Shyam (composer) (born 1937), an Indian music composer from Kerala *Shyam Benegal Shyam Benegal (14 December 1934 – 23 December 2024) was an Indian film director, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker. Often regarded as the pioneer of parallel cinema, he is widely considered as one of the greatest filmmakers post 1970s. H ... (1934–2024), Indian film director * Shyam Satardekar (born 1966), Indian politician * Karam Shyam (born 1962), Indian politician ;Syam * Syam Pushkaran (born 1984), Indian scriptwriter * Syam Sudhakar (born 1983), Malayalam-language poet See also * Shyam (film), 2016 Indian Malayalam-language film * Sam (given name) * {{given name, type=both Indian given names Surnames of Indian origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sindhuri Nandakumar
Sindhuri, is an Indian actress who has worked in the Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam film industries. After making her debut in the Tamil film '' Boys'' (2003), she has been in films including '' Super Da'' (2004) and '' Gundamma Gaari Manavadu'' (2007). Career Sindhuri began her acting career by portraying a supporting role in Shankar's '' Boys'' (2003), where she appeared as one of the four friends of Genelia D'Souza who get courted by the film's titular characters. Portraying the role of a North Indian hipster girl opposite Bharath, the success of the film saw her gain offers to play leading roles in Mumtaj's production ''Thathi Thavadhu Manasu'' (2003) and '' Ennavo Pudichirukku'' (2004). The two films had low key releases, and despite playing diverse roles of a village girl and a college student, Sindhuri was unable to get a break to work on bigger films. Her following films also failed to establish her as an actress with '' Super Da'' (2004) and ''Niram'', having a limited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janaki Sabesh
Janaki Sabesh is an Indian media professional, actor, model, storyteller, author of children's book, theatre and voiceover artist. Throughout her film career, she has played the "screen mother" to several leading actors, appearing predominantly Tamil and Telugu films. Early life Janaki was born in Bangalore. She did her initial schooling in Carmel School, Kolkata and then from DTEA Senior Secondary School, New Delhi. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi and a master's degree in mass communication from Jamia Millia, Delhi. and Bombay Jayashri is her sister in law Career In 1991, Janaki Sabesh assisted Simi Garewal with her documentary on Rajiv Gandhi called ''India's Rajiv''. She made her professional acting debut in the movie '' Minsara Kanavu'' starring Kajol and Arvind Swamy, in which she played a nun. She later went on to act in Shankar's magnum opus ''Jeans'', where she played Aishwarya Rai's mother. Since th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeeva Ravi
Jeeva Ravi is an Indian actor and casting director who has worked in Tamil-language films and television. He made a breakthrough as an actor with his performances in '' 3'' (2012) and '' Jeeva'' (2014), with the latter film being a prefix for his stage name. Career Ravi is the grandson of film producer G. N. Velumani, who made films in the 1950s and 1960s. Ravi began his career as a casting director, before acting in serials in STAR Vijay and Sun TV. He gradually moved on to feature in films and got his first major breakthrough by portraying Shruti Haasan's father in Aishwarya Dhanush's drama film, '' 3'' (2012). He subsequently appeared in more prominent roles in his following ventures, before gaining critical acclaim for his portrayal of a cricket coach in Suseenthiran's '' Jeeva'' (2014). The success of the film meant that he adapted 'Jeeva' as a prefix to his name and continued to play pivotal roles as a collector in AR Murugadoss's ''Kaththi'' (2014) and a commissioner in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since 2023; and, since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is near Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations averag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stray Factory
Stray Factory is an Indian Independent entertainment company founded on July 17, 2010 by Mathivanan Rajendran as a performing arts company before diversifying into online media in 2014 and independent film in 2017. Upcoming films include '' Nirvana Inn'' (2019) & '' Nasir'' (2020). Overview 2010–2014: Theatre and early years After a few scripted plays, the company made a departure from traditional scripted work to devised theatre. The first of which was seen in their 2011 production of ''Great Indian Blogologues'' which took blogs from the public and adapted them to stage. Stray Factory's biggest achievements have been in the short format, particularly at International Short and Sweet festivals, notable plays include ''My Name is Cine-Ma''''Carpouram'', ''Typist with Destiny,'' ''Lost Audition'', ''Chairpersons'' & '' Maya from Madurai''. The group has performed at ''Short and Sweet'' Festivals in Sydney, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur and Los Angeles and at other International festi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Web Series
A web series (also known as webseries, short-form series, and web show) is a series of short scripted or non-scripted online videos, generally in episodic form, released on the Internet (i.e. World Wide Web), which first emerged in the late 1990s and became more prominent in the early 2000s. A single instance of a web series program can be called an episode or a webisode. The scale of a web series is small and a typical episode can be anywhere from three to fifteen minutes in length. Web series are distributed online on video sharing websites and apps, such as YouTube, Vimeo and TikTok, and can be watched on devices such as smartphones, tablets, desktops, laptops, and Smart TVs (or television sets connected to the Internet with a media streaming device). They can also be released on social media platforms. Because of the nature of the Internet, a web series may be interactive and immersive. Web series are classified as new media. Web series are different from streaming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
