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R. Thyagarajan (director)
R. Thyagarajan (died 1 July 2018) was an Indian writer, producer and director who worked in Tamil cinema. Film career Thyagarajan grew up in Pollachi in an extended family of 23 people, and had four sisters and four brothers. After studying in Pollachi, he went on to study chemistry in Peelamedu, with the intention of becoming a chemist. After his marriage in 1966, he began to work on the productions of his father-in-law, Sandow M. M. A. Chinnappa Thevar of Devar Films. He initially worked on the story-discussion panel teams in 1968 and progressed to the editing department. In the late 1960s, he worked as an assistant director and as an associate editor in the films, ''Haathi Mere Saathi (1971 film), Haathi Mere Saathi'' (1971) and ''Nalla Neram'' (1972). His first directorial venture was ''Vellikizhamai Viratham'' (1974), which portrayed the bond between the female protagonist and her deity, the Naga-Devatha. The film starring Sivakumar, performed well at the box office and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pollachi
Pollachi is a town and municipality in Coimbatore district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the administrative headquarters of Pollachi taluk. It is situated near the center of the South Indian Peninsula, surrounded by Western Ghats. Agriculture and textile industries contribute majorly to the economy of the town and the town is a popular marketplace for jaggery, vegetables and cattle. The town is a part of Pollachi constituency that elects its member to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly and the Pollachi constituency that elects its member of parliament. The town is administered by Pollachi Municipality established in 1949 and has a population of 90,180 as per the 2011 census. The town is popular for the film shooting that takes place here and many films in Tamil and other languages have been shot here. Etymology Pollachi is probably derived from ''Pozhil Vaitchi'' which means "gifted with beauty" in Tamil. Edicts indicate that the region was known as Poz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bewafai
''Bewafai'' is a 1985 Hindi film starring Rajesh Khanna and Rajinikanth. The film was directed by R. Thyagarajan. Bewafai grossed Rs 11.95 crore at the box office in 1985. The film was a box office success.https://blogbuster.tatasky.com/look-legendary-actor-rajinikanths-journey-bollywood/ Plot Asha has been in love with Ashok since her childhood. But somehow she was never able to convey her feelings for him throughout her childhood and college days. Now Ashok works as an employee of her father Diwan Sardarilal. She becomes very possessive about him to the point where she cannot stand the thought of another woman then trying to woo him. The possessiveness becomes so strong that Asha beats up a woman Vinny over Ashok. She tries to be aware of Ashok's whereabouts. Renu falls in love with Ashok, breaking Asha heart. She learns that Ashok has long taken care of Renu. Asha decides to meet Renu to teach her a lesson but when she finds that Renu is a mental patient and Ashok has be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thaayillamal Naan Illai
''Thaayillamal Naan Illai'' () is a 1979 Indian Tamil-language film directed by R. Thyagarajan. The film stars Kamal Haasan, Sridevi, Major Sundarrajan and Jai Ganesh, with Rajinikanth and Nagesh in guest roles. It was released on 14 April 1979. Plot Raja, the son of a poor and widowed washerwoman, is well-talented in the arts from his childhood. A man who runs a drama troupe is impressed with Raja's talent and enlists him in this troupe and Raja's mother travels with the troupe as well. While performing in a zameen with the troupe, Raja meets and falls in love with the zamindar's daughter Bhuvana and they engage in a secretive romance assisted by Bhuvana's pet peacock Vadivelan. When the zamindar becomes aware of their relationship, he agrees to get them married only if Raja cuts all ties with his mother, considering her poor status. Raja refuses and unable to convince her adamant father, Bhuvana elopes with Raja and joins the troupe as well. This enrages the zamindar's vill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thai Meethu Sathiyam
''Thai Meethu Sathiyam'' () is a 1978 Indian Tamil-language Curry Western film directed by R. Thyagarajan and produced by Sandow M. M. A. Chinnappa Thevar. The film stars Rajinikanth and Sripriya, with Mohan Babu, Prabhakar, Suruli Rajan, Sundararajan, A. V. M. Rajan, S. A. Ashokan, Nagesh, Ambareesh, Jayamalini and Sukumari in supporting roles. It focuses on a shepherd who vows to avenge his parents by killing the murderers. The film was originally planned by Thevar in the late 1960s under the title ''Marupiravi'' () with M. G. Ramachandran intended to star; however, due to Ramachandran's health and legal issues, the film was shelved. Thevar later revived the project as ''Thai Meethu Sathiyam'', with Rajinikanth cast in the lead role as Ramachandran had retired from acting by then. It was the last film produced by Thevar to be released. ''Thai Meethu Sathiyam'' was released on 30 October 1978, a month after Thevar's death. The film became a commercial success, runnin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 of India, alongside English language, English, and is the ''lingua franca'' of North India. Hindi is considered a Sanskritisation (linguistics), Sanskritised Register (sociolinguistics), register of Hindustani. Hindustani itself developed from Old Hindi and was spoken in Delhi and neighbouring areas. It incorporated a significant number of Persian language, Persian loanwords. Hindi is an Languages with official status in India, official language in twelve states (Bihar, Gujarat , Mizoram , Maharashtra ,Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand), and six Union territory, union territories (Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Delhi, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mera Rakshak
''Mera Rakshak'' () is a 1978 Indian Hindi-language film directed by R. Thyagarajan. Mithun Chakraborty, Rameshwari, Rakesh Pandey and Gayatri play key roles in this film along with a goat who acts as the "Rakshak" (bodyguard) in the film. It was made by C. Dandhayutpani, who firstly gave '' Haathi Mere Saathi'' to Rajesh Khanna and Tanuja, followed by '' Jaanwar Aur Insaan'' to Shashi Kapoor and Rakhee Gulzar, '' Do Aur Do Paanch'' to Shashi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini and Parveen Babi and ''Shubh Din'' to a newcomer, Rajesh Lahar. The film was a remake of the Tamil movie '' Aattukara Alamelu''. The film was a first major commercial box office success for the then struggling actor Mithun Chakraborty who would go on to become a legendary superstar in the Hindi Film Industry for the next 2 decades (Especially in 1980s and 1990s). Cast *Mithun Chakraborty as Vijay Rai * Rameshwari as Bijli *Abhi Bhattacharya as Bansi Kaka *Shreeram Lagoo as Avinash Rai *Gayatri (actres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telugu Language
Telugu (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language native to the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, where it is also the official language. Spoken by about 96 million people (2022), Telugu is the most widely spoken member of the Dravidian language family, and one of the twenty-two Languages with legal status in India, scheduled languages of the Republic of India. It is one of the few languages that has primary official status in more than one States and union territories of India, Indian state, alongside Hindi and Bengali language, Bengali. Telugu is one of the languages designated as a Classical Languages of India, classical language by the Government of India. It is the 14th most spoken native language in the world.Statistics in Modern Standard Telugu is based on the dialect of erstwhile Krishna, Guntur, East Godavari and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sorgam Naragam
''Sorgam'' () is a 1970 Indian Tamil-language film directed by T. R. Ramanna, starring Sivaji Ganesan, K. R. Vijaya, Rajasree, R. Muthuraman and K. Balaji. The film was released on 29 October 1970 and became a major success, running for over 100 days at the box office. Plot Three graduates, Kannan, Sampath and Shankar have different values and experience completely different things in life. Shankar wants to get rich with that being his only motivation while Kannan stays honest. Sampath however is a crook and has no qualms about ruining anyone to get what he wants. Shankar still has goodness in him which attracts Vimala as they get married. However, once Shankar starts to work and grow rich, she sees the goodness in him slowly erode. The other two also work with him but situations put them at loggerheads. In the end, Shankar relents to see that he has lost himself in his quest to become rich, changes his mind and helps the cops catch the culprits with help from Kannan and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aattukara Alamelu
''Aattukara Alamelu'' () is a 1977 Indian Tamil-language film directed by R. Thyagarajan and produced by Sandow M. M. A. Chinnappa Thevar. The film stars Sivakumar and Sripriya. It was released on 10 November 1977 and became a silver jubilee hit. The film was remade in Telugu as ''Pottelu Punnamma'' and in Hindi as ''Mera Rakshak''. Plot Goatherd Alamelu leads a happy life with her pet goat in a village. Her life changes for the worse when a landlord talks ill of her character and claims to have had an affair with her. Cast Production Sivakumar said it took him "15 years to do the role in 'Aattukara Alamelu''. The name of the title character, Alamelu, is a reference to Sripriya's birth name. Chinnappa Thevar wanted Nagesh to direct the film; he refused as he felt he was not the right person to do so. Soundtrack The music for this film was composed by Shankar–Ganesh, and the lyrics were written by Ma. Ra. Release and reception ''Aattukara Alamelu'' was rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murugan Adimai
''Murugan Adimai'' () is a 1977 Indian Tamil-language devotional film starring R. Muthuraman, A. V. M. Rajan, K. R. Vijaya in lead roles with Nagesh, Major Sundarrajan and Thengai Srinivasan in supporting roles. The film was directed by R. Thyagarajan and released on 25 March 1977. Plot Valliyammal is the daughter of a rich man, and an ardent devotee and slave to Murugan. She encounters a thief who, like her, is Murugan's slave and steals to help the poor devotees of Murugan. She understands that Murugan has sent him to marry her to fulfill her wish of marrying a Murugan slave. Her father disapproves but she goes ahead anyway. They lead an impoverished life after he reforms and looks for work. He is entrusted by his boss to deliver cash. Instead, he gives the cash to the Murugan temple which needs renovation and to save the life of the person in-charge who has tried to kill himself having failed in his attempt to restore the temple. The boss accuses him of thievery and send ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thayilla Kuzhandhai
''Thayilla Kuzhandhai'' () is a 1976 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by R. Thyagarajan and produced by Sandow M. M. A. Chinnappa Thevar. The film stars Vijayakumar and Jayachitra. It was released on 22 October 1976. Plot Cast ;Male cast * Vijayakumar * A. V. M. Rajan *Jai Ganesh *Thengai Srinivasan * S. A. Ashokan *Nagesh * Sundarrajan * Sandow M. M. A. Chinnappa Thevar ;Female cast *Jayachitra *Sukumari * A. Sakunthala *Jayapriya *Baby Bhabita Production ''Thayilla Kuzhandhai'' was shot mostly in Pollachi. A jallikattu scene pictured on Vijayakumar was shot with more than 20,000 people as extras watching. Due to his experience in the sport, Vijayakumar was able to perform his own stunts. The film also featured a rekla race scene. Soundtrack The music was composed by Shankar–Ganesh, with lyrics by Kannadasan. Release and reception ''Thayilla Kuzhandhai'' was released on 22 October 1976, during Diwali. Kanthan of ''Kalki Kalki (), also calle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
