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Pandhayam (2008 Film)
''Pandhayam'' () is a 2008 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by S. A. Chandrasekhar, starring Nithin Sathya and Sindhu Tolani while Prakash Raj and Radhika play supporting roles. Vijay did a guest role as himself. The music was composed by Vijay Antony with cinematography by Srinivas Devamsam and editing by J. N. Harsha. The film was released on 19 September 2008. Plot Masanam, a local thug and criminal who kills people, slowly rises up the ranks to be a minister. Shakthivel is a die-hard fan of actor Vijay and studies in college. He falls in love with Masanam's sister Thulasi and challenges him (he has a reason for that), and a cat-and-mouse game ensues. What follows is a series of incidents between the two that leads to a melodramatic climax. Cast Special appearances : Production The film was originally planned with Raghava Lawrence and Mallika Kapoor who were later replaced by Nithin Sathya and Sindhu Tolani. Soundtrack The soundtrack was composed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoba Chandrasekhar
Shoba Chandrasekhar is an Indian playback singer, screenwriter, film producer and film director. She is the mother of actor Vijay (actor), Vijay. Others In 2011, she was appointed as the Artistic Heritage Consultant by the order of the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. Film career She was a singer in light music troupes. She later graduated to singing in films. Her first film song was "Maharaja Oru Maharani..." from the film ''Iru Malargal''. She has written several stories that have been made into movies by moviemaker husband S. A. Chandrasekhar. Her first light classical music programme was telecast on STAR Vijay, Vijay TV in April 2003. The title of the programme was "Samarpanam". She has produced 10 films and written stories for more than 50. She also directed two films, ''Nanbargal'' and ''Innisai Mazhai''. In fact, S. A. Chandrasekhar, Chandrasekhar worked as her associate director in these films. He was assisted by S. Shankar, Shankar, now a famous director. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meghna Naidu
Meghna Naidu (born 19 September 1980) is an Indian actress who has starred primarily in Hindi films. She has also appeared in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi and Bengali films. Biography Naidu's first major appearance was in the music video for UMI10's "Kaliyon Ka Chaman" (2002), an official remix of Lata Mangeshkar's 1981 song " Thoda Resham Lagta Hai" (in turn, the 2002 song " Addictive" by Truth Hurts was inspired by the remix). She was also featured in Saru Maini's video "Dil De Diya Tha (Sutta Mix)" before starting to work in Indian films. Early life Naidu was born on 19 September 1980 in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India. Her father Ethiraj works for Air India and was a tennis coach and her mother Purnima, was a school teacher. She has one younger sister, Sona. She told that she requested her mother to quit her job and accompany her to shooting locations, after her sister who used to travel with her got a job abroad. She grew up in Mumbai, Maharashtra, and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Indian Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter '' Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indo-Asian News Service
Indo-Asian News Service or IANS is a private Indian news agency. It was founded in 1986 by Indian American publisher Gopal Raju as the "India Abroad News Service" and later renamed. In December 2023, Adani group, known for its close ties with the ruling BJP, and congress acquired majority stake in the agency making it a subsidiary to Adani's AMG Media Networks. The IANS main offices are located in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The service reports news, views and analysis from the subcontinent about the country, across a wide range of subjects, to subscribers via the Internet. While IANS is primarily known as a wire service in English and Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ..., it also has a publishing division that currently produces newspapers and periodicals for ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rediff
Rediff.com, stylized as rediff.com, is an Indian news, information, entertainment, and shopping website. Founded by Ajit Balakrishnan in 1996, it was the first Indian website to become a mainstream news media organization. It is headquartered in Mumbai with offices in Bangalore, New Delhi, and New York City. , it had more than 300 employees. At the time of its founding, internet access had only been available in India for five months with a mere 18,000 users, leaving Rediff.com as one of the earliest Indian web portals and email providers. History The Rediff.com domain was registered in India in 1996. Early products included the email service Rediffmail and Rediff Shopping, an online marketplace selling electronics and peripherals. In 2001, Rediff.com was alleged to be in violation of the Securities Act of 1933 The Securities Act of 1933, also known as the 1933 Act, the Securities Act, the Truth in Securities Act, the Federal Securities Act, and the '33 Act, was enacte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramya NSK
Ramya NSK is an Indian playback singer, who has predominantly sung for Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films. Apart from her work as a singer, she participated as a contestant in '' Bigg Boss 2''. She is the granddaughter of comedian N. S. Krishnan and actress T. A. Mathuram. Career Ramya graduated in Visual Communication from Women's Christian College and later joined the radio station, Radio City. She was posted in Chennai where she worked for the firm as a music manager for five years. Along with Carnatic music, she trained in contemporary style music with the Emmanuel Methodist Church choir for a period of eight years. She also acted in the movie Tharai Thappattai. Having sung over 400 songs for Indian films, Ramya is best known for the song "Satru Munbu" from Gautham Vasudev Menon's '' Neethaane En Ponvasantham'', which had music composed by Ilaiyaraaja. For the song, she received the Best Female Playback Singer award for Tamil cinema during the Filmfare Awards ceremony in 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ceylon Manohar
Ceylon Manohar () ( – 22 January 2018), popular name of A. E. Manoharan (Anthony Pillai Emmanuel Manoharan) also known as Surangani Manohar (), was a pop singer and actor. He has played roles in Tamil films and other Sri Lankan Tamil works. Manoharan was 73 when he died in Chennai of age-related ailments. He is majorly known for the song " Surangani", which attained cult status in the 1970s and 1980s in Tamil Nadu. Although he is best remembered as a singer, Manohar had his sights set on acting from a very young age. He began acting in plays when he was a student at St John's College in Jaffna in the 1960s. Like many Sri Lankans of his era, Manohar came to India to pursue his higher studies. While he was a BA student in Trichy, he would go regularly to what was then Madras to try and get a role in a film. At that time all he could manage was a minor role in Maanavan, a 1970 film produced by M M A Chinnappa Thevar. Manohar moved back to Sri Lanka, where he first worked as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MK Balaji
MK Balaji is an Indian singer, songwriter, composer and independent artist from Chennai. As a playback singer he has sung more than 200 songs in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. His first song a lyricist was for the movie Sethupathi. He has hosted popular TV shows in Star Vijay and Zee Tamil. He made a debut as an indie artist with his single Good Naai bad Aadu that takes a fun jab at meat eating animal lovers. Biography MK Balaji is the voice behind many South Indian film songs including "Rettai Kathire" from the Tamil movie '' Maattrraan'' directed by K. V. Anand starring Surya Sivakumar. He has delivered many successful songs in Tamil and Telugu. He has also collaborated with music directors like D Imman, Karthik Raja, Sundar C. Babu, Taj Noor, James Vasanthan, Sirpy, Sabesh–Murali and Srikanth Deva. Early music He started his singing career with reality shows on television. His band V3, of which he was the lead singer, presented a sound track in the ''Oohlal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times Of India
''The Times of India'' (''TOI'') is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by the Times Group. It is the List of newspapers in India by circulation, third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and List of newspapers by circulation, largest selling English-language daily in the world. It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India, and the second-oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation, with its first edition published in 1838. It is nicknamed as "The Old Lady of Bori Bunder", and is a newspaper of record. Near the beginning of the 20th century, Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, called ''TOI'' "the leading paper in Asia". In 1991, the BBC ranked ''TOI'' among the world's six best newspapers. It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (BCCL), which is owned by the Sahu Jain family. In the Brand Trust Report India study 2019, ''TOI'' was rated as the most trusted English newspaper in India. In a 2021 surve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surangani (song)
"Surangani" was originally a Sinhalese Baila song. The Tamil version was written and sung by A E Manoharan. The song has been dubbed in many languages. Manoharan did a bilingual Sinhala /Tamil rendition of the song which became quite popular in Tamil Nadu, mainly due to Radio Ceylon. Ilayaraja then made a Tamil version – which had very little to do with the Sinhala version except for the refrain – for the Tamil film '' Avar Enakke Sontham'', sung by Malaysia Vasudevan and Renuka. This became popular around secondary schools and colleges in Chennai. Tamil students took it to other universities around India. A Goan, Konkani version was also made, and many people in India mistakenly believed this was the original. It has featured in translated versions in several Indian movies, in both Tamil- notably the Sivaji Ganesan movie '' Thanga Padhakkam'' – and Hindi- it was sung by Asha Bhosle in ''Parmatma (परमात्मा) is a 1978 Bollywood adventure film direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaana (music Streaming Service)
Gaana is an Indian subscription-based commercial music streaming service. It was launched in April 2010 and is currently owned by ENIL. It offers both Indian and international music content. Its entire Indian music catalog was available to users worldwide until 2023, when access to the music library was restricted based on geolocation of subscribers. Gaana features music from 21 Indian languages including the major languages such as Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Urdu, Odia, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Maithili, Malayalam and other Indian regional languages. Gaana allows users to make their playlists public so that they can be seen by other users. They can view and favorite playlists. Its mobile app was launched for Android, iOS and Windows. Gaana is priced at per month (within India) and not available outside India. Gaana became a subscription-only service in 2022 after failing to secure fresh funds or find a buyer. In 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mallika Kapoor
Mallika Kapoor is an Indian former actress, working in the South Indian film industries mainly in Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada. She has also appeared in a few Telugu and Hindi films. Career She started her film career through her debut Malayalam film '' Albudhadweep'', alongside actor Prithviraj Sukumaran. Her Tamil debut was the leading role in ''Azhagai Irukkirai Bayamai Irukkirathu'', alongside Bharath, and then subsequently in ''Vathiyar'' with Arjun. Her appearance ''Allare Allari'', opposite Allari Naresh, was her first in Telugu. She has returned to the Malayalam scene in 2008 with ''Madambi''. She has two additional Tamil films to date: '' Arputha Theevu'' (dubbed from Malayalam), which was released in September 2006, and ''Vathiyar'', which was released on Diwali Diwali (), also called Deepavali (IAST: ''Dīpāvalī'') or Deepawali (IAST: ''Dīpāwalī''), is the Hindu festival of lights, with variations celebrated in other Indian religions such as Jainism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
