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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] |
Thrissur
Thrissur (, ), Renaming of cities in India, formerly Trichur, also known by its historical name Thrissivaperur, is a city and the headquarters of the Thrissur district in Kerala, India. It is the List of most populous urban agglomerations in Kerala, third largest urban agglomeration in Kerala after Kochi and Kozhikode, and the List of million-plus urban agglomerations in India, 21st largest in India. Thrissur is classified as a Classification_of_Indian_cities, Tier-2 city by the Government of India. The city is built around a hillock called Thekkinkadu Maidan, Thekkinkadu Maidanam (തേക്കിൻകാട് മൈതാനം) which seats the Vadakkunnathan Temple, Vadakkumnathan (വടക്കുംനാഥൻ) temple. It is located north-west of the state's capital city, Thiruvananthapuram, Thiruvananthapuram(തിരുവനന്തപുരം). Thrissur was once the capital of the Kingdom of Cochin, Kingdom of Cochin (കൊച്ചി രാജ്യം - k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vadivelu
Kumaravadivel Natarajan (born 12 September 1960) known professionally as Vadivelu, is an Indian actor, comedian and occasional playback singer, having acted mainly in Tamil cinema. He has at least 290 credits to his name. He was a recipient of several awards including two Filmfare Award South and six Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. He was launched in 1988, in T. Rajendar's ''En Thangai Kalyani'' at the career peak of the Goundamani-Senthil duo. His popularity led to his media-coined nickname, Vaigai Puyal, referring to the river that flows through his hometown Madurai. Vadivelu has received awards in the ''Best Comedian'' category for his performances in '' Kaalam Maari Pochu'' (1996), '' Vetri Kodi Kattu'' (2000), '' Thavasi'' (2001), ''Chandramukhi'' (2005), ''Imsai Arasan 23rd Pulikecei'' (2006), ''Pokkiri'' (2007), '' Marudhamalai'' (2007) and '' Kathavarayan'' (2008). His first as a lead actor, '' Imsai Arasan 23rd Pulikesi'' (2006), also achieved commercial and critical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viswanathan Ramamoorthy (film)
''Viswanathan Ramamoorthy'' is a 2001 Indian Tamil language comedy film written and directed by Rama Narayanan. The film stars Ramki, Vivek, Roja, Vindhya, and Kovai Sarala. It was released on 10 August 2001. The film is inspired by the 1970 Tamil film '' Veettuku Veedu'' which was based on Chithralaya Gopu's play ''Thikku Theriyatha Veettil'' which in turn was an adaptation of the English comedy play ''Right Bed Wrong Husband''. The film's title pays homage to the composer duo Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy. Plot Viswanathan is the timid husband of Meena, a small-time artist. Viswanathan’s friend Ramamoorthy, along with his wife Shenbagam, go from their village to Chennai with the hopes of becoming a movie director. Ramamoorthy and Shenbagam stay in Viswanathan’s home. While Meena is away for a few days for shooting, Viswanathan discovers that his uncle has died with a will of Rs. 30 lakhs written in favour of Viswanathan. However, there is a check in the will that the money ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karakattakkaran
''Karakattakkaran'' () is a 1989 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy dance film written and directed by Gangai Amaran. The film stars Ramarajan and debutant Kanaka, while Santhana Bharathi, Chandrasekhar, Goundamani, Senthil, Shanmugasundaram, Raja Bahadur, Gandhimathi and Kovai Sarala play supporting roles. It revolves around two karakattam dancers who fall in love with each other, but circumstances prevent them from confessing their love for one another. How they overcome these forms the rest of the story. The soundtrack was composed by Ilaiyaraaja and all the songs were well-received, in particular, "Maanguyilae Poonguyile". The film was released on 16 June 1989 and was a major commercial success, running for over a year in theatres, and won two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. It was also Goundamani and Senthil's 100th film as a combo. Goundamani and Senthil's banana comedy sequence from this film remains one of their most popular acts. Plot Muthaiya is the lead performe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varavu Ettana Selavu Pathana
''Varavu Ettana Selavu Pathana'' () is a 1994 Indian Tamil-language comedy drama film directed by V. Sekhar. The film stars Nassar and Radhika, while Jaishankar, Goundamani, Senthil, Vadivelu, Kovai Sarala, and Vinu Chakravarthy play supporting roles. It was released on 14 April 1994. The film was later remade in Telugu as ''Aasthi Mooredu Aasha Baaredu'' (1995) and in Kannada by same director as '' Hendtheer Darbar'' (2010). Plot Sivaraman, an honest government clerk, and his wife Lakshmi belong to a middle-class family and they have two children. "Anjaadha Singam" Marudhapaandi, a corrupt politician, moves into a new house near Sivaraman's house. Marudhapaandi's lifestyle influences Lakshmi, and she tries to ape him by buying luxurious items on installments. This puts pressure on Sivaraman, and he takes a loan from his office peon, but the police arrests him for corruption. He later finds a job in a brandy company with Marudhapaandi's recommendation. Cast Soundtrack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viralukketha Veekkam
''Viralukketha Veekkam'' () is a 1999 Indian Tamil-language comedy drama film directed by V. Sekhar. The film stars Livingston, Vadivelu, Vivek, Khushbu, Kovai Sarala and Kanaka. It was released on 16 July 1999 and became successful at the box-office. The film was remade into Telugu as '' Kshemamga Velli Labhamga Randi'' (2000), into Kannada as '' Yaarige Saluthe Sambala'' (2000) and into Hindi as '' Aamdani Atthanni Kharcha Rupaiya'' (2001). Plot Ravishankar, Kabali and Ramanathan are a trio of friends who happen to live in a small colony with their wives Suguna, Ranjitham and Malu. The men work in the same factory and their wives happen to share a good rapport among themselves. The men are quite irresponsible and carefree by nature and spend heftily on alcohol and other less important means of entertainment and owing to this, their wives have an uphill task at their hands every month to make ends meet. When the men lose their jobs owing to a tiff with their boss and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mundhanai Mudichu
''Mundhanai Mudichu'' () is a 1983 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film directed and written by K. Bhagyaraj, who also stars alongside Urvashi. The film focuses on Parimala, a mischievous village girl, who falls in love with a widower who works as a teacher in the village. She marries him by falsely accusing him of having sex with her, but she has to take drastic steps to win his love. Bhagyaraj based the story of ''Mundhanai Mudichu'' on his friend who lost his wife, and a woman who fell in love with him even as others started gossiping about them. Another inspiration was a poster of '' Ramu'' (1966) which depicted its protagonist as a single father, and Bhagyaraj imagining himself in that position. The film was produced by AVM Productions, photographed by Ashok Kumar and edited by A. Selvanathan. It was the first Tamil film for Urvashi. ''Mundhanai Mudichu'' was released on 22 July 1983 and became a major box office success, netting 40 million against a budge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thaliritta Kinakkal
''Thaliritta Kinakkal'' is a 1980 Indian Malayalam film, directed by P. Gopikumar. The film stars Prathap Pothen, Sukumaran, Kuthiravattam Pappu and Madhumalini in the lead roles. The film has musical score by Jithin Shyam. The film is famous for being the only Malayalam film to have featured the legendary Mohammed Rafi in its soundtrack. Being huge fans of his, the makers were keen on getting Indian cinema's favourite voice to record for them. However, Rafi commented that he needed a few weeks to learn the pronunciation of the language and without understanding the language he would not be able to impart the right emotions. Hence, a Hindi song was decided to be included in the film, to which he agreed, and thus "Shabab Leke" came about. Cast *Prathap Pothen *Sukumaran *Kuthiravattam Pappu *Madhu Malini *Tanuja Tanuja Mukherjee (née Samarth), known mononymously as Tanuja, (born 23 September 1943) is an Indian actress who predominantly works in the Hindi film industry. Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madras State
Madras State was a state in the Indian Republic, which was in existence during the mid-20th century as a successor to the Madras Presidency of British India. The state came into existence on 26 January 1950 when the Constitution of India was adopted and included the present-day Tamil Nadu, Kerala and parts of neighbouring states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Andhra State, Andhra state was separated in 1953 and the state was further re-organized when states were redrawn linguistically in States Reorganisation Act, 1956, 1956. On 14 January 1969, the state was renamed as Tamil Nadu. Pre-history Archaeological evidence points to the region being inhabited by hominids more than 400 millennia ago. Ancient Tamilakam, a region roughly on par with the Madras state, was ruled by a Three Crowned Kings, triumvirate of monarchical states, Chera dynasty, Cheras, Chola dynasty, Cholas and Pandya dynasty, Pandyas. The kingdoms had significant diplomatic and trade contacts with other ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is the southernmost States and union territories of India, state of India. The List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India by population, sixth largest by population, Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, who speak the Tamil language—the state's official language and one of the longest surviving Classical languages of India, classical languages of the world. The capital and largest city is Chennai. Located on the south-eastern coast of the Indian peninsula, Tamil Nadu is straddled by the Western Ghats and Deccan Plateau in the west, the Eastern Ghats in the north, the Eastern Coastal Plains lining the Bay of Bengal in the east, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait to the south-east, the Laccadive Sea at the southern Cape (geography), cape of the peninsula, with the river Kaveri bisecting the state. Politically, Tamil Nadu is bound by the Indian sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coimbatore
Coimbatore (Tamil: kōyamputtūr, ), also known as Kovai (), is one of the major Metropolitan cities of India, metropolitan cities in the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located on the banks of the Noyyal River and surrounded by the Western Ghats. Coimbatore is the second largest city in Tamil Nadu after Chennai in terms of population and the 16th largest List of million-plus urban agglomerations in India, urban agglomeration in India as per the 2011 Census of India, census 2011. It is the administrative capital of Coimbatore District and is administered by the Coimbatore Municipal Corporation which was established in 1981. The region around Coimbatore was ruled by the Chera dynasty, Cheras during the Sangam period between the 1st and the 4th centuries CE and it served as the eastern entrance to the Palakkad Gap, the principal trade route between the west coast and Tamil Nadu. Coimbatore was located along the ancient trade route Rajakesa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivek (actor)
Vivekanandan (19 November 1961 – 17 April 2021), known professionally as Vivek,Vivek, Tamil film actor dies in Chennai hospital , Times of India, 17 April 2021. was an Indian actor, comedian, television personality, playback singer and social activist who worked in the Tamil cinema, Tamil film industry. He was introduced in films by director K. Balachander in ''Manathil Urudhi Vendum'' (1987) He has won three Filmfare Award for Best Comedian – Tamil for ''Run (2002 film), Run'' (2002), ''Saamy'' (2003), ''Perazhagan'' (2004) and five Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Comedian for the films, ''Unnaruge Naan Irundhal'' (1999), ''Run'' (2002), ''Parthiban Kanavu (2003 film), Parthiban Kanavu'' (2003), ''Anniyan'' (2005) an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
