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Dharmadhikari
''Mounam Sammadham'' () is a 1990 Indian Tamil-language legal thriller film written by S. N. Swamy, directed by K. Madhu and produced by Kovai Chezhiyan. The film stars Mammootty (in his Tamil film debut) and Amala. It revolves around a lawyer representing a wrongfully convicted man. The film was released on 15 June 1990, and went on to become a commercial and critical success. Plot The plot revolves around the wrongful conviction of Sundaram, a businessman, and the efforts taken by his lawyer Raja to find the truth. Cast Production ''Mounam Sammadham'' was the first Tamil film of Malayalam actor Mammootty. It took inspiration from his own film '' Oru CBI Diary Kurippu''. Soundtrack The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja. The song "Kalyaana Thaen Nilaa" is set in Darbari Kanada raga, while "Chik Chik Chaa" is a synth-pop number. ;Telugu version Lyrics for the dubbed Telugu version ''Lawyer The Great'' were written by Rajasri. Reception N. Krishnaswamy of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kovai Chezhiyan
Kovai Chezhiyan was an Indian senior leader of the Dravidian movement in the Kongu Nadu region and film producer who worked in the 1950s up to late 1990s. He was also the vice-chairman of the Tamil Nadu Planning Commission when M. G. Ramachandran was the Chief Minister. He had produced films with famous stars including Ramachandran, N. T. Rama Rao, Sivaji Ganesan, Gemini Ganesan, Sivakumar, R. Muthuraman, J. Jayalalithaa, Vijayakanth, Rajesh Khanna, Mammotty, etc. Chezhiyan, originally from Tamil Nadu, also produced Telugu and Hindi films also and was the first president of Tamil Film Producers Council. He was earlier the Honorary Secretary of the South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce. He was involved in politics and closely associated with Periyar, Anna, Kalaignar, and Ramachandran. He was later introduced to Tamil films as a producer by his friend Kavignar Kannadasan, who initially produced films with Kannadasan as partner and later individually from the movie ''Sumaitha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sreeja
Sreeja is an Indian actress who was active in Malayalam cinema, Malayalam films from 1989 to 1994. Her lead roles in ''Indrajaalam'' (1990) as Mohanlal's heroine and ''Cheriya Lokavum Valiya Manushyarum'' (1990) are well noted. She had acted only in a few films. Early life and education Sreeja was born to theatre artists Sreedharan and Usha on 18 April 1971 in Thiruvananthapuram district, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. She had her primary education at Karthika Thirunal Government Vocational Higher Secondary School for Girls, Thiruvananthapuram and her bachelors from NSS Arts College for Women, Thiruvananthapuram. She has acted in a few dramas with her parents before entering the film industry. Career Sreeja made her debut as a child artist with the 1982 Malayalam film ''Nidhi''. She continued to act in small roles after that. She acted as a sister to Kamalahasan in ''Chanakyan'' (1989) and Jayaram in Mazhavilkavadi (1989). She made her debut as a heroine with ''Annakutty Kodambak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gangai Amaran
Gangai Amaran (born Amar Singh) is an Indian composer, playback singer, lyricist, actor, film director and a screenwriter in Tamil films. Personal life Gangai Amaran was born in Pannaipuram in Theni district, Tamil Nadu in December 1947, as the youngest son of Ramaswamy and Chinnathayi. He is the younger brother of noted music director Ilaiyaraaja and father of director and actor Venkat Prabhu and actor, composer and singer Premji Amaren. He had two more elder brothers, R. D. Bhaskar and Pavalar Varadharajan, both who died long back. Composers Karthik Raja, Yuvan Shankar Raja, singer Bhavatharini Bhavatharini Raja (23 July 1976 – 25 January 2024) was an Indian playback singer and composer. She was the only daughter of noted composer Ilaiyaraaja and sister of Yuvan Shankar Raja and Karthik Raja. Starting her career in the 1990s, she mo ... and costume designer Vasuki Bhaskar are his relations. His wife Manimegalai (Kala) died on 9 May 2021. Regarding his name, Ganga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malaysia Vasudevan
Vasudevan (15 June 1944 – 20 February 2011), popularly known as Malaysia Vasudevan, was a prolific Tamil playback singer and actor. Born in the town of Kuala Selangor in the Federated Malay States (present day Malaysia), he moved to Chennai, Tamil Nadu to work in the Tamil film industry, where he rose to prominence. His voice was recently revived using AI in the song "Manasilaayo" from the 2024 Tamil film '' Vettaiyan''. Early life Malaysia Vasudevan's parents were from Palakkad. Chattu Nair of Ottappalam and Ammalu of Polpulli, along with their families migrated to British Malaya in search of a livelihood. After a few years, Chattu Nair married Ammalu in an arranged marriage. Vasudevan was born on 15 June 1944 as their eighth and youngest child. Even though he was a Malayali, as was the case with the majority of contemporary South Indian migrants to Malaya then, his surroundings in Malaysia was dominated by the Tamil language and culture. As such, Tamil became his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Companion
Anupama Vinod Chopra () is an Indian author, journalist and film critic who served as the festival director of the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival from 2015 to 2023. She is also the founder and editor of the now-defunct digital platform Film Companion, which offered a curated look at cinema with an emphasis on Indian film. She has written several books on Indian cinema and has been a film critic for NDTV and ''India Today'', as well as the ''Hindustan Times''. She also hosted a weekly film review show, ''The Front Row With Anupama Chopra'', on Star World. She won the 2000 National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema for her first book ''Sholay: The Making of a Classic''. Chopra joined the Indian iteration of the film journalism outlet ''The Hollywood Reporter'' in 2024, launched domestically in the same year by the RP Sanjiv Goenka Group. Early life and background Born as Anupama Chandra in Calcutta, India to Chandra Prasad family, she has also lived in Badayun, a city in Uttar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synth-pop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic music, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the Krautrock of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a distinct genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the New wave music, new wave movement of the late 1970s. Electronic musical synthesizers that could be used practically in a recording studio became available in the mid-1960s, and the mid-1970s saw the rise of electronic art musicians. After the breakthrough of Gary Numan in the UK Singles Chart in 1979, large numbers of artists began to enjoy success with a synthesizer-based sound in the early 1980s. In Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestra introduced the TR-808 rhythm machine to popular music, and the band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darbari Kanada
Darbari Kanada, or simply Raga Darbari (pronounced darbāri kānada), is a raga in Carnatic music. It is a janya ragam (derived scale) of 20th Melakarta raga Natabhairavi. It is believed to be borrowed into Hindustani classical music by Miyan Tansen, the famous 16th-century composer in the Mughal emperor Akbar's court. It belongs to the Kanada family.It is believed that the Mughal emperor Akbar was very fond of this raaga hence often made Miya Tansen or Ramtanu Pandey sing this raaga in his court. This is reflected in the name itself; ''Darbar'' is the Persian derived word in Hindi meaning "court." As the most familiar raga in the Kanada family, it may sometimes also be called Shuddha Kanada or ''pure Kanada''. It belongs to the Asavari thaat. This raag is called raaga Kaanada in Yakshagana Karnataka state dance. It is also sometimes written as Durbari and Durbarikanada.''Raganidhi'' by P. Subba Rao, Pub. 1964, The Music Academy of Madras In Hindustani classical music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firstpost
Firstpost is an Indian news website owned by Network18 Group, which also runs CNN-News18 and CNBC TV18. It has posted misinformation on multiple occasions. The Network 18 group was originally owned by Raghav Bahl. In January 2012, the group received an investment from Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries through a rights issue of up to . History Firstpost began in 2011 as an online news portal of Network18. In May 2013, the news group was merged with the Indian edition of '' Forbes India'' whose four top editorial heads, including editor in chief Indrajit Gupta, were dismissed. The event led to a media furor. Thereafter on 31 May 2013, Firstpost took over a satirical website Fakingnews.com for an undisclosed amount. According to Scroll.in, "Network18, with its online outlet ''FirstPost'', famously lost its primetime anchors in 2014 because of a diktat against criticising Modi." In 2015, '' The Caravan'' reported on censorship in Firstpost over criticism of political ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oru CBI Diary Kurippu
''Oru CBI Diary Kurippu'' () is a 1988 Indian Malayalam-language mystery thriller film directed by K. Madhu, written by S. N. Swamy, and starring Mammootty, Suresh Gopi, Jagathy Sreekumar, Mukesh, and Sukumaran. The lead character, CBI officer Sethurama Iyer is inspired by a police officer named Radha Vinod Raju, Jammu and Kashmir cadre IPS Officer, who in 2009 was appointed as the first chief of India's National Investigation Agency. It was the highest grossing Malayalam film at that time. Considered one of the best crime thrillers in Malayalam, it eventually developed a cult following. This is the first installment in the ''CBI'' film series featuring Mammootty as Sethurama Iyer. It was produced by M. Mani under the banner of Sunitha Productions. Sequels to the film are ''Jagratha'' (1989), ''Sethurama Iyer CBI'' (2004), ''Nerariyan CBI'' (2005), and '' CBI 5: The Brain'' (2022). The film was remade in Telugu as ''Nyayam Kosam'' with Rajasekhar and in Hindi as '' Polic ... [...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] |
Malayalam Cinema
Malayalam cinema, also referred to as Mollywood, is a segment of Cinema of India, Indian cinema dedicated to producing films in the Malayalam, Malayalam language, primarily spoken in Kerala and the Lakshadweep islands. It encompasses both the mainstream film industry and independent Malayalam films. Known for its strong storytelling, powerful performances, and social themes, Malayalam cinema has received critical acclaim and is often regarded as one of India's most notable film industries. The first Malayalam feature film was ''Vigathakumaran,'' a Silent film, silent film directed and produced by J. C. Daniel. Production started in 1928, and it was released at the Capitol Theatre in Thiruvananthapuram on 23 October 1930. The first talkie in Malayalam was ''Balan (film), Balan'' (1938) directed by S. Nottani. During the 1920s, the Malayalam film industry was based in Thiruvananthapuram, although the film industry started to develop and flourish by the late 1940s. Later the i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peeli Sivam
P.L. Sivanappan known by his stage name credited as Peeli Sivam (5 July 1938 – 25 September 2017) was an Indian actor who featured around 400 Tamil-language films and plays from 1958 to 2017. He has featured in several films such as ''Muhammad bin Tughluq'' (1971) ''Malligai Poo'' (1973), '' Doorathu Idi Muzhakkam'' (1980), ''Poi Saatchi'' (1982),'' Mundhanai Mudichu'' (1983), '' Imaigal'' (1983), '' Azhagan'' (1991), '' Ejamaan'' (1993), '' Vetri Vinayagar'' (1996) and many more. He has also acted in television shows. In 1995, he was conferred the Kalaimamani award from the state of Tamil Nadu for his contributions in the field of drama. Early life Born in a small hamlet, Pudupeerkadavu, near Bannari – Erode District, Tamil Nadu, Sivanappan had a passion for acting in his childhood days which later grew to the extent when he was brought to the limelight of stage plays by none other than Puratchi Thalaivar M.G.Ramachandran to pursue his career in stage plays and later on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
