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Prayanam (2009 Film)
''Prayanam'' (English: ''Travel'') is a 2009 Indian Telugu-language film written and directed by Chandra Sekhar Yeleti and starring Manoj Manchu and Payal Ghosh (credited as Harika). It is a romantic drama set in an airport. The movie received positive reviews, but was considered "below average" by Box Office India. Plot The film tells the story of a boy and girl who meet for the first time in an airport and fall in love before they board their flights. Dhruv is the boy and Harika is the girl. They are distinctive individuals. Dhruv is a boy who loves to take chances in life. Harika is one who likes to make right choices in life. She is doing a Masters in Lifestyles Design Academy in Malaysia. Right now she is on her way to India to meet a prospective groom whom her parents have chosen for her. Dhruv falls in love at first sight with Harika when he sees her at the airport. But he has only two hours to make her fall in love with him. The rest of the story is about how he succeeds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chandra Sekhar Yeleti
Chandra Sekhar Yeleti (born 4 March 1973) is an Indian film director known for his works in Telugu cinema. He made his directorial debut with the Neo-noir crime film, ''Aithe'', which received the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu, and the Nandi Award for Best Story Writer, Nandi Award for Best Story for that year. Another neo-noir film ''Anukokunda Oka Roju'' garnered two State Nandi Awards, including Nandi Award for Best Screenplay Writer, Best Screenplay for Yeleti. Early life He was born in Tuni on 4 March 1973. He studied in Ganavaram St.Johns until 10th grade. Career Initial years and critical acclaim He worked as an assistant director under his cousin, Gangaraju Gunnam, for ''Little Soldiers'' (1996). He also directed the first 10 episodes of the cult Telugu TV series, ''Amrutham (TV series), Amrutham''. After working as an assistant director, he made his debut as a director with the small-budgeted film, ''Aithe'' (2003). Made on a budget of about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vennela
''Vennela'' () is a 2005 Telugu cinema, Telugu romantic comedy film written and directed by Deva Katta in his directorial debut. The film stars Raja Abel, Raja and Parvati Melton, while Sharwanand and Ravi Varma (East Godavari actor), Ravi Varma play supporting roles. The music was composed by Mahesh Shankar with cinematography by Raja Rathnam and editing by Kola Bhaskar. The film released on 26 November 2005 and was well-received among the young, urban audiences and south Indian students in USA, mostly from Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana, India. The film grossed 5.3 crore at the box office. The film has a sequel ''Vennela 1½'' (2012) made by Vennela Kishore. Plot Pavani (Parvati Melton) is an independent woman who wants to pursue higher education in USA. She has been in a committed relationship with Ritesh (Sharvanand), the son of a millionaire and her classmate. Ritesh was an intelligent and popular guy in college. He draws hostility, jealousy, and enmity with his college mate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mallemala Entertainments
Mallemala Entertainments is an Indian media and entertainment company which produces films and television programs. Its television productions include reality TV Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring ordinary people rather than professional actors. Reality television emerged as a distinct genre in the early 199 ... shows, comedy shows, game shows, entertainment and factual programming in Telugu. Its notable productions includes TV shows like ''Jabardasth'', '' Extra Jabardasth'', '' Star Mahila'', '' Dhee,'' and '' Manasu Mamata''. It produced films like '' Ammoru'' (1995), ''Anji'' (2004), and ''Arundhati'' (2009). Mallemala Entertainments also owns the entertainment website 123Telugu.com. History Shyam Prasad Reddy made his debut as a producer in Tollywood with the film ''Thalambralu'' in 1987 under the banner M. S. Art Movies. Later in 1992, he founded Mallemala Ent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idlebrain
Idlebrain.com is an Indian entertainment website dedicated to Telugu cinema. Established in 1999 by G. V. Ramana, popularly known as Jeevi, a graduate of BITS Pilani, the site is among the oldest websites on the Internet focused on Telugu films. The site features film reviews, news, box office updates, trailers, interviews, photo galleries, and movie schedules. Jeevi's film reviews, starting with '' Iddaru Mitrulu'' (1999), have made the site particularly popular, with an archive of over 1,000 reviews as of April 2023. It is regarded as a prominent online resource for Telugu cinema. History G. V. Ramana (born ), popularly known by his nom de plume Jeevi, is a graduate of BITS Pilani who had short stints in software and finance firms. While he was working in a private firm in Mumbai, his only connection with Telugu cinema was stray magazines. At that time, for a cinephile like him staying outside Andhra Pradesh, latest information related to Telugu films was scarce and har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mynampati Sreeram Chandra
Sreerama Chandra Mynampati (born 19 January 1991) is an Indian playback singer and actor, recognized for his work in Telugu films and television, as well as for hosting music shows. He began his career in 2008 as a playback singer in Telugu with ETV shows ''Okkare'' and ''Sye Singers Challenge''. In 2010, he gained prominence by winning the fifth season of the music reality show ''Indian Idol''. He made his acting debut in 2013 with the Telugu film '' Jagadguru Adi Shankara''. In 2021, he participated in ''Bigg Boss Telugu 5'', finishing as the second runner-up. Sreerama also hosted the first season of ''Telugu Indian Idol'', which premiered on 25 February 2022. He appeared as Kranthi in the film '' Papam Pasivadu'', which premiered on 29 September 2023, alongside Rashi Singh, Srividya Maharshi, Gayatri Changanti, and Ashok Kumar. He won the Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer – Telugu for the song "O Rendu Prema Meghaalila" from ''Baby'' in 2024. Personal life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shalini Singh
Shalini Singh is an Indian journalist. She was principal correspondent for ''The Week'' newsweekly in Delhi. She was part of the Delhi bureau writing on a range of news features and social trends with a focus on gender and women's issues, arts, and culture. On a Centre for Science and Environment fellowship in 2010, Shalini exposed the illegal mining in Goa and the devastation caused from unplanned tourism. Singh is a founding member of the CounterMedia Trust and a regular contributor to the People's Archive of Rural India. She is a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University for 2017-2018. Awards For her work on environmental issues Singh received The Indian Express’ Ramnath Goenka Ramnath Goenka (22 April 1904 – 5 October 1991) was an Indian newspaper publisher. He bought the majority stake of ''The Indian Express'' in 1930s. He created the Indian Express Group with various English and regional language publications.'' ... award in 2013 and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smita
Smita Vallurupalli (born 4 September 1980), known mononymously as Smita, is an Indian singer and actress. She began her career in 2000 with the release of her debut pop album, ''Hai Rabba''. She has since released several albums, including ''Masaka Masaka'', which was commercially successful, and ''Smita'', a multilingual pop album composed by Sajid-Wajid and distributed by Sony BMG. In addition to her work in pop music, Smita has performed over 75 playback songs in Telugu cinema. Notably, her rendition of "Evaraina Chusuntara" from the film ''Anukokunda Oka Roju'' (2005) earned her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Telugu. She is credited with popularizing pop music in Andhra Pradesh through her albums and music videos. Smita has also ventured into acting, appearing in films such as '' Malliswari'' (2004) and '' Aata'' (2007). In 2015, she starred in the short film ''Dying To Be Me''. Beyond her music and acting career, she hosted the SonyLIV talk show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranjith (singer)
Ranjith K. Govind (born 21 February 1977), also known as K.G. Ranjith, is an Indian playback singer, working in the Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada film industries and has sung more than 2500 songs. Early life Ranjith was born in Chennai, India into a Malayali family, hailing from Kalluvazhi, Kerala. He grew up listening to various kinds of music. He used to stay in a locality where there were many Keralites, and had a chance to participate in the local programs there. Later, a family friend suggested that he be trained in classical music. He learned Hindustani music and Carnatic music. He was trained by Vidwan Cuddalore Subramanian, K. S. Kanakasingam, Trichur P. Ramankutty and P. S. Narayana Swamy. He became popular when he won the Sun TV Saptha Swarangal singing contest in 2001. He is married to a trained Bharata Naatiyam dancer, Reshmi Menon. He has a daughter and a son. Career Mani Sharma introduced Ranjith as a playback singer, calling him to sing the song "Adugu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vishal Dadlani
Vishal Dadlani (born 28 June 1973) is an Indian singer, songwriter, music composer and occasional actor. He is one half of the duo Vishal–Shekhar, and frontman and vocalist of one of India's leading rock bands Pentagram. As a great singer, he has sung various hit songs for various genres notably ''Dhoom Again'', ''Kurban Hua'', ''Jee le Zara'', ''Marjaiyann'', ''I feel Good'', ''Jab Mila Tu'', ''Tu Meri'', ''Swag Se Swagat'', ''Bala'', ''Har funn Maula'', and ''Khuda Hafiz''. As a vocalist of band Pentagram, notable works are ''Voice'', ''Tomorrow's Decided'', ''Must I'', ''Love Drug Climbdown'' and more to go. As a music director, he has composed songs for films such as ''Om Shanti Om'', '' Anjaana Anjaani'', '' Dostana'', '' I Hate Luv Storys'', ''Bang Bang!'', ''Sultan'', '' Student of the Year'', '' Befikre'' and ''War''. Dadlani has been in collaboration with many international artists like Imogen Heap, Diplo, The Vamps and Akon. Early life Dadlani was born and raise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ananta Sriram
Chegondi Anantha Sriram is an Indian lyricist, poet and actor who works in Telugu cinema. Sriram has written lyrics for over 1000 Telugu film songs in his career. He won a Nandi Award, two Filmfare Award and two SIIMA Awards for his work as a lyric writer. Early life Anantha Sriram was born on 8 April 1984 in Doddipatla village near Palakollu in West Godavari district. His parents are C. V. V. Satyanarayana and Umarani. Anantha Sriram is a relative of politician Chegondi Harirama Jogaiah. He started writing songs from the age of 12. Career ''Kadante Aunanile'' (2005) was the first film he worked on. He gained prominence after he wrote songs for Chiranjeevi's '' Andarivaadu'' and ''Stalin''. He has worked with top music directors including A. R. Rahman, Keeravani and Illayaraja. Besides a Filmfare award for '' Yeto Vellipoyindhi Manasu'', he has received a host of other honours. He also made a cameo appearance in the film '' Saakshyam'' (2018) as a game designer. Disco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inkosaari
''Inkosaari'' () is a 2010 Indian Telugu film, directed by Suman Pathuri. Produced by Kalyan Palla, it stars Raja, Manjari Phadnis and Richa Pallod. Pathuri won Best First Film of a Director and Vennela Kishore won Nandi Award for Best Male Comedian. The film was a box office failure. Plot It is the story of a group of friends from college, who, 7 years after they all separated, meet up for a few days, away from their families and responsibilities and re-live the college days. They all decide to do one thing they had wanted to do during their college days, but simply could not. Here is their second chance - Inkosaari! Ajay (Raja), Shruti (Manjari), Bala (Kishore), Deepa (Richa), Sudhakar (Ravi Verma) and Vicky (Sandip) are like any other gang in college. When they are at the brink of graduating from college, Vicky proposes an idea, and they all decide to meet at least once every year for the rest of their lives. However, with time all of them get entangled in their own world ... [...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] |