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H. Vinoth
H. Vinoth is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in Tamil cinema. He made his directorial debut with ''Sathuranga Vettai'' (2014). He went on to direct the critically-acclaimed ''Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru'' (2017) along with ''Nerkonda Paarvai'' (2019), ''Valimai'' (2022), and '' Thunivu'' (2023), his trio of films starring Ajith Kumar. He is currently working on ''Jana Nayagan'' starring Vijay in his final credited role before entering full-time politics. Film career Vinoth worked as an assistant director to R. Parthiepan and Vijay Milton, in '' Pachchak Kuthira'' and ''Goli Soda'', respectively. In 2014, Vinoth made his directorial debut with ''Sathuranga Vettai'', produced by Manobala. The film was very well-received by both the critics and audience alike. It was said to be a "con film". He stated, "My film is about the pace at which we all want to make money in our lives. It is about the anger of the common man, who thinks money is the solution to all h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru
''Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru'' () or simply ''Theeran'' is a 2017 Indian Tamil language, Tamil-language action thriller film written and directed by H. Vinoth and produced by S. R. Prakashbabu and S. R. Prabhu under the banner Dream Warrior Pictures. Based on the Bawaria robberies, it depicts the nefarious activity of organised dacoity committed in Tamil Nadu during the late 1990s and early 2000s and the subsequent investigation and arrest of robbers by a special investigation team of the Tamil Nadu Police led by Director general of police S. R. Jangid. The film stars Karthi as the titular character Theeran, modelled on Jangid, alongside Rakul Preet Singh and Abhimanyu Singh. Vinoth had planned for the script based on the incident even before his debut film ''Sathuranga Vettai'' (2014), but he later worked on the project in late 2014. To research further, he had met many police officers who handled similar cases. Following an official announcement in December 2016, principal photo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manobala
Balachandar (8 December 1953 – 3 May 2023), known by his stage name Manobala (), was an Indian actor, film producer, director, comedian, and YouTuber who predominantly played supporting roles in Tamil-language films. He worked predominantly in the film industry for nearly forty years and was notable for his unique body language and dialogue delivery and was also well known for his intonation. Early life Manobala was born as Balachandar in a Marungoor village near Thirumarugal , Nagapattinam District, but did most of his primary education in Bangalore and Thirukattupalli for grades 10 and 11. He later studied at the Government College of Fine Arts, when he started writing articles under the pen name Manobala, and also learnt Bharatanatyam and the Veena. Career Manobala started his career in Tamil cinema in the early 1970s and with a reference from Kamal Haasan became an assistant director for Bharathiraja's 1979 film ''Puthiya Vaarpugal''. He continued to work as his ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boney Kapoor
Achal Surinder "Boney" Kapoor (born 11 November 1955) is an Indian film producer primarily associated with Hindi cinema, in addition to Tamil and Telugu cinema. Early life Kapoor was born as Achal Surinder Kapoor in 1955, the son of Surinder Kapoor who was a Bollywood film producer, and Nirmal Kapoor. Born into a Punjabi Hindu family, he had an Arya Samaji upbringing. His younger brothers Anil and Sanjay are both actors and producers. Career Kapoor started his career working under legends like Shakti Samanta. The most famous film produced by him remains the Shekhar Kapur directed sci-fi film '' Mr India'' starring his brother Anil Kapoor and his future wife Sridevi. It was the second biggest hit of 1987 and remains a cult classic in India. The film was known for several of its lines and songs, including Sridevi's "Miss Hawa Hawaii" performance and Amrish Puri's quote "Mogambo khush hua" ('Mogambo is pleased', although the literal translation is 'Mogambo became happy', i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pink (2016 Film)
''Pink'' is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language legal thriller film directed by Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury and written by Shoojit Sircar, Ritesh Shah and Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, The film is produced by Rising Sun Films on a total budget of , with screenplay by Shah and music composition by Shantanu Moitra and Anupam Roy. ''Pink'' features an ensemble cast, which includes Amitabh Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari, Andrea Tariang, Angad Bedi, Tushar Pandey, Piyush Mishra, and Dhritiman Chatterjee. ''Pink'' was released in worldwide cinemas on 16 September 2016. The film received widespread critical acclaim for the cast performances, execution, story, screenplay and direction. ''Pink'' emerged as a surprising commercial success earning over globally. The film completed a 50-day run theatrically. At the 64th National Film Awards, ''Pink'' won the category of Best Film on Other Social Issues. ''Pink'' received 5 nominations at the 62nd Filmfare Awards, including Best Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filmfare Award For Best Actor – Tamil
The Filmfare Best Actor Award is given by the ''Filmfare'' as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South for Tamil film lead actors. The Filmfare Awards South Awards were extended to "Best Actor" in 1972. The year indicates the year of release of the film. Superlatives * Kamal Hassan with eleventh wins, has most number of awards than any other actor. Vikram has five wins, followed by Karthik and Dhanush with four wins. Four actors have won the award thrice in chronological order. They are Sivaji Ganesan, Sarath Kumar, Ajith Kumar and Suriya. Actors Sivakumar and Vijay Sethupathi has two wins each. * Vikram, Dhanush, Karthi, Suriya and R. Madhavan are the five actors to win both Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil and Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor and Vikram is the first actor to win this honour. * Sathyaraj, Suriya and R. Madhavan have won both Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil and Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Tamil. * Kamal Hassan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filmfare Critics Award For Best Actor – South
''Filmfare'' is an Indian English-language fortnightly magazine published by Worldwide Media. Acknowledged as one of India's most popular entertainment magazines, it publishes pieces involving news, interviews, photos, videos, reviews, events, and style. The magazine also annually gives the Filmfare Awards, the Filmfare Awards South, the Filmfare Awards East, the Filmfare Marathi Awards, the Filmfare Awards Punjabi, the Filmfare Awards Bangla, the Filmfare OTT Awards, the Filmfare Short Film Awards and the Filmfare Style & Glamour Awards. After the businessman Ramkrishna Dalmia (1893–1978) of Dalmia Group purchased Bennett, Coleman and Company Limited (BCCL) in 1946, J. C. Jain from Bharat Insurance Company was employed to help him in running the company in 1950. In this period, Jain conceived the idea of ''Filmfare'' at the actress Kamini Kaushal's house. The magazine was launched by the industrialist Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain alongside his wife Rama in Bombay on 7 March 1952. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abhimanyu Singh
Abhimanyu Singh is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil films. He is notably known for his roles in the political films '' Gulaal'' (2009) and '' Rakta Charita'' (2010). Career Abhimanyu Singh made his debut with the film '' Aks'', directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. His first major role was in the 2009 film ''Gulaal'', directed by Anurag Kashyap. His performance in the film won him the 2010 Stardust Award for best breakthrough performance. His performance in the 2010 gangster film '' Rakta Charitra'', directed by Ram Gopal Varma, earned him critical acclaim. He also received praise for his performance as a corrupt police officer in director Onir's critically acclaimed anthology film ''I Am''. In 2017, he starred alongside Sridevi in the film ''Mom''. Singh worked with director Anil Sharma for the film ''Genius'' (2018) where he portrayed a CBI officer. Filmography Film Television References External links Abhimanyu Sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rakul Preet Singh
Rakul Preet Singh (born 10 October 1990) is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Telugu, Hindi and Tamil films. Singh is a recipient of several accolades including a SIIMA Award, in addition to four nominations at the Filmfare Awards South. Singh started her career as a model and made her acting debut with the Kannada film '' Gilli'' (2009). Singh received Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu nominations for her performance in '' Venkatadri Express'' (2013), '' Loukyam'' (2014), '' Nannaku Prematho'' (2016) and '' Rarandoi Veduka Chudham'' (2017). She then appeared in commercial successes: '' Pandaga Chesko'' (2015), '' Sarrainodu'' (2016), ''Dhruva'' (2016), '' Spyder'' (2017), ''Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru'' (2017) and '' Ayalaan'' (2024). Singh expanded to Hindi films with '' Yaariyan'' (2014). She has since appeared in '' De De Pyaar De'' (2019), '' Runway 34'' (2022) and '' Doctor G'' (2022). Alongside her acting career, Singh is a celebrity endorser for s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Bawaria
Bawaria robberies were a series of robbery, murder, and assault that were perpetrated in residential areas along various national highways in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu between 1995 and 2005. These cases of organised dacoity were carried out by a group of truck drivers from the Bawaria community. The group looted about across 24 robberies while killing 13 people, and injuring 63 others during the incidents. The Tamil Nadu Police formed a special investigation team under the aegis of S. R. Jangid to capture the robbers who were wanted in multiple cases across India. The subsequent police operation resulted in the deaths of two, and arrest of eight others including the leader Oma Bawaria. The perpetrators were sentenced to various prison terms by various courts of India. Incidents On 7 June 1995, a gang attacked a house at Walajapet in Vellore district, and looted more than while killing one and injuring three others. A similar robbery event occurred in the same town n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dream Warrior Pictures
Dream Warrior Pictures is an Indian film production company A production company, production house or production studio is a studio that creates works in the fields of performing arts, new media art, film, television show, television, radio, comics, interactive arts, video games, websites, music, and video ... based in Chennai. It was founded in 2010 by brothers S R Prakashbabu and S. R. Prabhu, S R Prabhu, who were partners in Studio Green during 2010–2013. They are also relatives of the veteran actor Sivakumar and cousins for actors Suriya and Karthi. They are prominent producers and distributors in India. History Dream Warrior Pictures first produced the film ''Kaashmora (2016)'', which is the highest budget film in Karthi's career. Karthi, Nayanthara, Sri Divya, Vivek (actor), Vivek are the protagonists in ''Kaashmora''. This film turned was a historic-horror-comedy flick (multi genre), directed by Gokul (director), Gokul, whose previous film at that point was ''Idhark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaatru Veliyidai
''Kaatru Veliyidai'' () is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language romantic war film, produced, written and directed by Mani Ratnam. Made under the Madras Talkies banner, it features music composed by A. R. Rahman, cinematography by Ravi Varman and editing by A. Sreekar Prasad. The film stars Karthi and Aditi Rao Hydari, with Lalitha, Rukmini Vijayakumar, Delhi Ganesh and RJ Balaji and Shraddha Srinath playing other pivotal roles. Set against the backdrop of the Kargil War of 1999, the film narrates the story of an Indian Air Force pilot who recalls his romance with a doctor in the lead up to the war, while being kept as a prisoner of war at a jail in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. It marked Aditi's comeback and Shraddha's debut in Tamil cinema. Principal photography of the film commenced in July 2016, with the shoot taking place in Ooty, Hyderabad, Ladakh, Chennai and Belgrade, before being completed in January 2017. The film was released worldwide on 7 April 2017 along with a Telugu dubbed v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
