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Devasthanam (film)
''Devasthanam'' () is a 2012 Indian Telugu-language musical drama film directed by Janardhana Maharshi. It stars S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Aamani and K. Viswanath. Plot Srimannarayana is a trustee of a local Hindu temple in Chittoor who helps and loves everyone, addressing all as "bangaru" (, used as an affectionate nickname in Telugu culture), and treats the temple as his home. He regularly clarifies the philosophical doubts of a young girl (Niharika) who regularly visits the temple. One day he happens to see an orphan whose dead body is left on the street and is them cremated with garbage in an incinerator. That incident shatters his peace and he starts panicking about how will he be cremated as he is an orphan too. On the other hand, Samba Murthy is a middle aged man who is a cunning salesman in a big saree store. He leads a simple but happy life with his wife Saraswathi. The couple love each other and live happily even though they have no children, with Samba Murthy in part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janardhana Maharshi
Janardhana Maharshi (born 16 May) is an Indian film director, writer, and producer, who works predominantly in Telugu cinema and Kannada cinema. He directed ''Devasthanam'' and '' Viswadarshanam''. Early life Maharshi was born in Kandukuru, Prakasham district and completed his schooling and higher education in Chittoor. He became a script assistant to Tanikella Bharani in 1989. Personal life He married Lakshmi Sunitha in 1995. The couple have two daughters. He resides in Ameerpet, Hyderabad. Filmography Film Literary works Source: Noble poems * Vennamuddalu (2003) Novels Garbha gudiloki(2004, 2021) Poetry Naku Nenu Rasukunna Premalekha(2008) * Kavigaane Kannumoostha (2014) Short stories Panchamrutham(2005) Madhura Sambhashanalu(2017) Stories Chidambara Rahasyam(2019) Smasananiki Vyragyam(2021) See also * List of Indian writers This is a list of notable writers who come from India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aamani
Aamani (born 16 November 1972) is an Indian actress who works primarily in Telugu films in addition to a few Tamil and Kannada films. She made her debut in a lead role in the Telugu film ''Jamba Lakidi Pamba'' (1992), directed by E. V. V. Satyanarayana. The film turned out to be a blockbuster. She has received two state Nandi Awards and one Filmfare Awards South. She starred in the film '' Mister Pellam'' (1993) directed by Bapu, which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu. She won Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu for the film '' Subha Lagnam'' (1994) and Nandi Award for Best Actress for the films ''Subha Sankalpam'' (1995) and '' Mister Pellam'' (1993). Early life Aamani was born in Bangalore. Career Aamani started her career doing small roles in films like ''Aadadhi, Chandamama Kathalu, and others''. Subsequently, she was paired as the lead actress opposite actors like Vishnuvardhan, Nagarjuna, Balakrishna, Krishna, Mammootty, Arv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandhya Raju
Sandhya may refer to: Hinduism * Another name of Saranyu, goddess of clouds List of people with the given name Sandhya * B. Sandhya (born 1963), Inspector General of Kerala Police in India *Sandhya Agarwal (born 1963), former captain of the Indian women's cricket team * Sandhya Dwarkadas, Indian computer scientist * Sandhya Mazumdar, Indian test cricketer * Sandhya Menon, American young adult fiction author *Sandhya Mukhopadhyay (born 1931), Indian singer and musician specializing in Bengali music * Sandhya Sanjana, Indian jazz/funk/rock singer *Sandhya Shantaram, Indian actress of the 1950s, wife of V. Shantaram *Sandhya (actress), (born 1988), Indian actress in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada films, active 2004-present *Sandhya Mridul, (born 1975), Indian actress in Bollywood films, active 1993-present *Sandhya Roy, actress in the Bengali language film industry, active 60s, 70s, and 80s *Sandhya Kumari, Sri Lankan actress, active 1963–1977 Historic * Sandhya, a 13th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swaraveenapani
Swara Veenapani (born Vogeti Naga Venkata Ramana Murthy) is a lyricist and Telugu cinema music director. He holds a Guinness world record for longest church organ marathon. Career Swara Veenapani's first film was "Pattukondi Chooddam" had a box office run of 100 days. Veenapani's latest films are ''Devasthanam'' and '' Mithunam''. Recently he completed his research on 72 Melakartha Ragaas and he brought the entire theme as a song in a span of 6 and 1/2 minute and the other version is of 3 and 1/2 minute. He has been working for the last 16 years on the Swaranidhi project which has been registered as Swaranidhi. He is working vigorously to spread the same to the World which can be most useful to the Music Students, Musicians and Music Lovers to know the capsule format of 72 Mela karta ragas in an easy way. Swaranidhi project got a huge applause from the stalwarts of Indian Music. Filmography * ''Pattukondi Chooddam'' (1997) * ''Devasthanam A Hindu temple, also known a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telugu Language
Telugu (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language native to the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, where it is also the official language. Spoken by about 96 million people (2022), Telugu is the most widely spoken member of the Dravidian language family, and one of the twenty-two Languages with legal status in India, scheduled languages of the Republic of India. It is one of the few languages that has primary official status in more than one States and union territories of India, Indian state, alongside Hindi and Bengali language, Bengali. Telugu is one of the languages designated as a Classical Languages of India, classical language by the Government of India. It is the 14th most spoken native language in the world.Statistics in Modern Standard Telugu is based on the dialect of erstwhile Krishna, Guntur, East Godavari and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musical Film
Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the Character (arts), characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but in some cases, they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate "production numbers". The musical film was a natural development of the musical theater, stage musical after the emergence of sound film technology. Typically, the biggest difference between film and stage musicals is the use of lavish background scenery and locations that would be impractical in a theater. Musical films characteristically contain elements reminiscent of theater; performers often treat their song and dance numbers as if a live audience were watching. In a sense, the viewer becomes the diegesis, diegetic audience, as the performer looks directly into the camera and performs to it. With the Sound film, advent of sound in the late 1920s, musicals gained popularity with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama Film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, teen drama, and comedy drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular setting or subject matter, or they combine a drama's otherwise serious tone with elements that encourage a broader range of moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of cinema or television that involve fictional stories are forms of drama in the broader sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent ( mimesis) characters. In this broader sense, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hindu
''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It was founded as a weekly publication in 1878 by the Triplicane Six, becoming a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The Hindu'' is published from 21 locations across 11 states of India. ''The Hindu'' has been a family-owned newspaper since 1905, when it was purchased by S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar from the original founders. It is now jointly owned by Iyengar's descendants, referred to as the "Kasturi family", who serve as the directors of the holding company. Except for a period of around two years, when Siddharth Varadarajan, S. Varadarajan held the editorship of the newspaper, senior editorial positions of the paper have always been held by members of the original Iyengar family or by those appointed by them under their direction. In June 2023, the former chairperson of the group, Malini Parthasarathy, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 Bombay Bombings
The 1993 Bombay bombings was a series of 12 terrorist bombings that took place primarily in Hindu majority areas in Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, on 12 March 1993. The single-day attacks resulted in 257 fatalities and 1,400 injuries. The attacks were coordinated by Dawood Ibrahim, leader of the Mumbai-based international organised crime syndicate D-Company. For several years, there was confusion about whether there was 12 or 13 blasts. This was because Sharad Pawar, then-chief minister of Maharashtra, stated on television that there had been 13 blasts. He later revealed that he had lied on purpose and that there had been only 12 blasts, none of them in Muslim-dominated areas; he also confessed that he had attempted to mislead the public into believing that the blasts could have been the work of the LTTE, a Sri Lankan militant organization, when in fact intelligence reports had already confirmed Mumbai's underworld ( D-Company) was the perpetrator of the serial blasts. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harikatha
''Harikatha'' (Kannada: ಹರಿಕಥೆ : ''Harikathe''; Telugu: హరికథ : ''Harikatha;'' Marathi: हरीपाठ '': Haripatha'', ), also known as ''Harikatha Kaalakshepam'' in Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam(), is a form of Hindu traditional discourse in which the storyteller explores a traditional theme, usually the life of a saint or a story from an Indian epic. The person telling the story through songs, music and narration is called a ''Haridasa''. Harikatha is a composite art form composed of storytelling, poetry, music, drama, dance, and philosophy most prevalent in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and ancient Tamil Nadu. Any Hindu religious theme may be the subject for the ''Harikatha''. At its peak ''Harikatha'' was a popular medium of entertainment, which helped transmit cultural, educational and religious values to the masses. The main aim of ''Harikatha'' is to imbue truth and righteousness in the minds of people and sow the seed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kovai Sarala
Kovai Sarala is an Indian actress and comedian, who plays supporting roles in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. She has won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Comedian three times, for her performances in '' Sathi Leelavathi'' (1995), '' Poovellam Un Vasam'' (2001) and '' Uliyin Osai'' (2008). She has also won two Nandi Awards for Best Female Comedian and the Vijay Award for Best Comedian for her performance in '' Kanchana'' (2011). She is now part of Kamal Haasan's Makkal Needhi Maiam Party. She has acted with all the top comedians including Vadivelu, Brahmanandam, Goundamani, Senthil and Vivek. Her comedy tracks with Vadivelu and Brahmanandam have been especially popular. Early and present life Kovai Sarala was born in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu (then in Madras State) in a Malayali family. She developed interest in acting after watching MGR's films. She completed her studies and entered the film industry with the support of her sister and father. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Soundtrack
A soundtrack is a recorded audio signal accompanying and synchronised to the images of a book, drama, motion picture, radio program, television program, or video game; colloquially, a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video, or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronised recorded sound. In movie industry terminology usage, a sound track is an audio recording created or used in film production or post-production. Initially, the dialogue, sound effects, and music in a film each has its own separate track, and these are mixed together to make what is called the ''composite track,'' which is heard in the film. A ''dubbing track'' is often later created when films are dubbed into another language. This is also known as an M&E (music and effects) track. M&E tracks contain all sound elements minus dialogue, which is then supplied by the foreign distributor in the native language of its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
