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Kharesma Ravichandran
Kharesma Ravichandran (born 8 May 2000) is a British playback singer for Tamil cinema films. Her first public performance came at the age of four for the British Heart Foundation. A professionally trained western vocalist, Ravichandran began her playback singing career in 2014, with her debut coming in the Tamil film ''Yennai Arindhaal'' (2015). She is currently signed as an independent artist under Hiphop Tamizha’s label “Underground”. Early life Born in the United Kingdom, Kharesma started her musical journey through Trinity College London where she completed her Grade 8 in vocals and Grade 5 in Piano, both with Distinctions. In 2011 she moved to India for schooling and due to her parents' work and from 2014 she started singing for the South Indian Movie Industry. She lived in Sri Lanka, studying at The Elizabeth Moir School to complete her A-Levels. She moved back to the UK for University in 2018 to study Music at Royal Holloway, University of London where she attained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playback Singing
A playback singer, as they are usually known in South Asian cinema, or ghost singer in Western cinema, is a singer whose performance is pre-recorded for use in films. Playback singers record songs for soundtracks, and the performers lip-sync the songs for cameras; the actual singer does not appear on the screen. Generally, to synchronize with the emotional situation of the song or complete movie, the playback singer is given the idea of all those so that the singer can interpret by taking the right moves in their vocals. South Asia South Asian films produced in the Indian subcontinent frequently use this technique. A majority of Indian films as well as Pakistani films typically include six or seven songs. After '' Alam Ara'' (1931), the first Indian talkie film, for many years singers made dual recordings for a film, one during the shoot, and later in the recording studio, until 1952 or 1953. Popular playback singers in India enjoy the same status as popular actors and musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunitha Sarathy
Sunitha Sarathy is an Indian vocalist and performer in both Indian contemporary and Western classical music genres. She is also a gospel singer who performs in various church choirs. After having won the "Virgin Voice Choice" contest – a joint initiative of Channel V and Virgin Records in the year 2000, Sarathy debuted into film playback in the year 2002. She debuted as a playback singer with the Tamil film '' Yei! Nee Romba Azhagey Irruke'' guest-singing the prelude and interlude portions of the song "Ini Naanum Naanillai" with Srinivas and Sujatha Mohan as the lead singers. Sarathy has around 200 film songs in various languages, performances as singer-keyboardist-percussionist across a wide spectrum of Western music genres including classical, jazz, soul and R&B, neo-soul and quiet storm, and a prolific output of gospel songs to her credit. Early life Coming from a family well-versed in Western music (classical jazz), Sarathy started singing in choirs from a young age of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zombie (2019 Film)
''Zombie'' is a 2019 Indian Tamil-language zombie comedy film produced by Vasanth Mahalingam and V. Muthukumar under their production banner S3 Pictures. The film is written and directed by Bhuvan Nullan. Yogi Babu and Yashika Aannand have featured in the lead roles, while Manobala, Gopi, Sudhakar and Anbu Thasan have played pivotal roles. Premgi Amaren has composed the music for the film. This film received highly negative reviews from audiences and critics. Plot This story revolves around friends who plan to go on vacation after getting tired of their day-to-day lives. Meanwhile, when they try to escape from that boring hectic life they get attacked by zombies on their vacation and struggle a lot to save their lives and in this hush they meet Aishwarya (Yashika Aannand). Cast * Yogi Babu as Gangster Pistol Raj * Yashika Aannand as Aishwarya * Anbu Thasan as Gautham * Parithabangal Gopi as Singh (Singaravelan) * Parithabangal Sudhakar as Chinna Thambi * Bijili Ramesh as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venkat Prabhu
Venkat Kumar Gangai Amaren (born 7 November 1975), better known by his stage name Venkat Prabhu, is an Indian film director, actor and playback singer in Tamil cinema. In addition, he also worked in Telugu cinema, Telugu Cinema. After completing his education, he began pursuing an acting career, with his first three ventures featuring him in a starring role, failing to release, following which he began appearing in character roles. He entered the spotlight for the first time when he turned director with the summer hit ''Chennai 600028'' (2007).Malini MannatI was mixing money with friendship: Venkat Prabhu interview chennaionline.com. 6 June 2007 He achieved further commercial successes with his subsequent directorials ''Saroja (2008 film), Saroja'' (2008), ''Goa (2010 film), Goa'' (2010), ''Mankatha'' (2011), ''Biriyani (film), Biriyani'' (2013), ''Masss'' (2015), and ''Maanaadu'' (2021). His father Gangai Amaren is a film director and music director. Early life and career 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karthi
Karthik Sivakumar (born 25 May 1977), credited as Karthi, is an Indian actor who works in Tamil Cinema. He is son of veteran actor Sivakumar who began his career as an assistant director in his elder brother Suriya's film '' Aayutha Ezhuthu'' (2004). Latter debuted with '' Paruthiveeran'' (2007) and recorded a golden debut in Tamil Cinema with six consecutive success. Karthi is an recipient of three Filmfare Awards South and a Tamil Nadu State Film Award. After a three-year hiatus from acting, he then return to star in films such as '' Aayirathil Orvuan'', '' Paiyaa'' and '' Naan Mahaan Alla'', all three of which were released in 2010. He then continued to star in films such as '' Siruthai'' (2011), '' Saguni'' (2012), '' Alex Pandian'' (2013), '' All In All Azhagu Raja'' (2013) and ''Biriyani'' (2013). Karthi has starred in several well-known Indian films, portraying an impulsive and short-tempered working-class man in ''Madras'' (2014), a paroled convict-turned-caretaker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suriya
Saravanan Sivakumar (born 23 July 1975), known professionally as Suriya, is an Indian actor and film producer who primarily works in Tamil films. One of the highest-paid Tamil actors, Suriya is considered as one of the finest actors of Indian cinema. Suriya has received numerous accolades including two National Film Awards, six Filmfare Awards South and five Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. He has featured six times in ''Forbes India'' Celebrity 100 list. After making his debut in '' Nerukku Ner'' (1997) at the age of 22, Suriya landed his breakthrough role in '' Nandhaa'' (2001) and then had his first major commercial success with the thriller '' Kaakha Kaakha'' (2003). Following award-winning performances of a conman in '' Pithamagan'' (2003) and a hunchback in '' Perazhagan'' (2004), he played a man suffering from anterograde amnesia in the 2005 blockbuster '' Ghajini''. He rose to stardom with dual roles of a father and son in Gautham Vasudev Menon's semi-autobiographical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Premgi Amaren
Prem Kumar Gangai Amaren (born 26 February 1979), better known as Premgi or Premji () is an Indian singer, composer, songwriter, actor and comedian. The son of composer and director Gangai Amaran, he often composes rap songs in Tamil cinema and is known for his comical performances in his elder brother Venkat Prabhu's films. He is also best known for his catchphrases "Enna koduma sir idhu?" () and "Evvalavo pannitom, itha panna mattoma?" (), the former being a modified version of a famous dialogue used by Prabhu in ''Chandramukhi'' (2005). Career In 1997, Premgi planned to enter the film industry as a director with a project titled ''Wanted'' starring his elder brother and S. P. B. Charan. The film, which had his younger cousin brother as music composer and his father and S. P. Balasubrahmanyam as comedians, did not complete shoot. In 2005, he became an independent music director with ''Gnabagam Varuthe'', starring his brother. Primarily interested in composing music, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party (2019 Film)
''Party'' is an unreleased Indian Tamil language, Tamil-language comedy film written and directed by Venkat Prabhu and produced by T. Siva. The film stars Jai (actor), Jai, Shiva (actor), Shiva, Sathyaraj, Jayaram, Shaam (actor), Shaam, Ramya Krishnan, and Regina Cassandra, with Sanchita Shetty, Nivetha Pethuraj, Nandha Durairaj, Nassar (actor), Nassar and Chandran appearing in supporting roles. Despite having completed filming, the film remains unreleased due to economic issues. Cast Production ''Party'' is entirely filmed in the Fiji Islands. The project was publicly announced in a promotional event for the film ''Gemini Ganeshanum Suruli Raajanum''. For this film, director Venkat Prabhu decided to pick Premgi Amaren to compose the film's soundtrack and the background score entirely, replacing his usual choice, Yuvan Shankar Raja who composed for all the director's ventures. It was noted that Premgi earlier composed one song in ''Chennai 600028'' film and also doing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meesaya Murukku
''Meesaya Murukku'' () is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language coming-of-age musical comedy-drama film written and directed by Hiphop Tamizha in his directorial debut. He stars as the lead along with newcomer Aathmika as the female lead, while Vivek, RJ Vigneshkanth and Vijayalakshmi (Kannada actress), Vijayalakshmi play supporting roles. The film, a partly fictionalised Biographical film, biopic of Adhi's early life, was released on 21 July 2017 to mostly positive reviews and was a box-office hit. It was later remade in Kannada in 2019 as ''Padde Huli.'' Plot Coimbatore-based Adhi and Jeeva have been close friends since childhood. Adhi's father, Professor Ramachandran is very supportive of his interest in music and extra-curriculars. Adhi joins electrical engineering after school and falls in love with his college mate, Nila who was his childhood friend. Nila is from an affluent family, and her parents are against love. Despite Nila's reservations, she too falls in love with Adhi. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koditta Idangalai Nirappuga
''Koditta Idangalai Nirappuga'' () is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language comedy thriller film produced, written and directed by R. Parthiban, which stars himself alongside Shanthanu Bhagyaraj and Parvathy Nair. Featuring music composed by Sathya and cinematography by Arjun Jena, the film was released on 14 January 2017. Cast *Parthiban as Rangarajan *Shanthanu Bhagyaraj as Kevin *Parvathy Nair as Mohini *Thambi Ramaiah *Singampuli *Simran in a guest appearance *Ineya in a cameo appearance Production In May 2013, Parthiban was working on a film script titled ''Wi-Fi Alla Wife'' in Malayalam but the film failed to progress after he could not find an apt actress for the lead role. Parthiepan later launched the film in Tamil titled ''Koditta Idangalai Nirappuga'' in July 2016 and began shooting for the film immediately alongside Thambi Ramaiah. He stated that the film would be produced through crowd funding, while the title was finalised after consulting an auto driver for his advice. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaththi Sandai
''Kaththi Sandai'' () is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language action comedy film written and directed by Suraj. The film is produced by S. Nanthagopal. The film stars Vishal and Tamannaah Bhatia in the lead roles. Jagapathi Babu, Vadivelu, Soori and Tarun Arora play pivotal roles. The project began production in May 2016 and ended that November. The film released on 23 December 2016. Plot A lorry drives down the highway, knocking down a police motorcycle and destroying a police vehicle. A police officer informs the DCP, who successfully stops the truck by pointing a gun at his head. He forces the driver to open the back, which he does. The driver opens the door to reveal 300 crores in the lorry. The driver asks to split the money, to which Tamizhselvan hits him. The next day, Tamizhselvan reports to the media that 50 crores was recovered and handed to the government, and the driver got arrested. Arjun Ramakrishnan comes to Chennai to woo a psychology student named Divya, whom he has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Roldan
Raghavendra Raja Rao, known by his stage name Sean Roldan is an Indian composer, musician, and lyricist who predominantly works in the Tamil film industry. He has worked on Carnatic music, independent music, and film scores for the Tamil film industry. He rose to fame after gaining critical acclaim for his work in Balaji Mohan's Tamil-Malayalam bilingual ''Vaayai Moodi Pesavum'' / '' Samsaaram Aarogyathinu Haanikaram'' (2014). Early life Roldan was born as Raghavendra Raja Rao to the mridangam player Srimushnam V. Raja Rao and Padma, the daughter of novelist Sandilyan. He is married to Lalitha Sudha, a playback singer who works in the Indian film industry, primarily for films composed by him. He was drawn into film music by A.R. Rahman's debut album '' Roja''. Career Film score and soundtracks Rao began a career in music composing and working on Carnatic tracks before venturing into independent Tamil music with his band Sean Roldan & Friends. Roldan was recommended by film p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
