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Ready (2008 Film)
''Ready'' is a 2008 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film directed by Srinu Vaitla. Produced by Sravanthi Ravi Kishore under the Sri Sravanthi Movies banner, the film stars Ram Pothineni and Genelia, while Nassar, Brahmanandam, Sunil, Chandra Mohan, Tanikella Bharani, Kota Srinivasa Rao and Jaya Prakash Reddy play other prominent roles. The music of the film is composed by Devi Sri Prasad. ''Ready'' was a commercial blockbuster and emerged as one of the highest-grossing Telugu films of 2008. The film received three Nandi Awards, including the Best Popular Feature Film. It was remade in Kannada as '' Raam'' (2009), Tamil as '' Uthama Puthiran'' (2010), and in Hindi under the same name in 2011. Plot Raghupathi is the eldest of his three brothers — the other two being Raghava and Rajaram. They also have a sister Swarajyam. Chandu is the only son of Raghava. The family owns the shopping mall R. S. Brothers. Chandu plans the elopement of his cousin Swapna with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Srinu Vaitla
Srinu Vaitla (born 24 September 1972) is an Indian film director and screenwriter known for his work in Telugu cinema, particularly in the action comedy genre. He has received several accolades, including five Nandi Awards—three for Nandi Award for Best Screenplay Writer, Best Screenplay Writer—and a Filmfare Awards South, Filmfare Award South for Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu, Best Director – Telugu. Vaitla made his directorial debut with the romantic film ''Nee Kosam'' (1999) and gained recognition with ''Anandam'' (2001), also a romantic drama. He later shifted to comedy and action-comedy films, directing projects such as Sontham (2002 film), ''Sontham'' (2002), ''Venky'' (2004), Dhee (film), ''Dhee'' (2007), ''Dubai Seenu'' (2007), Ready (2008 film), ''Ready'' (2008), King (2008 film), ''King'' (2008), ''Dookudu'' (2011), and Baadshah (2013 film), ''Baadshah'' (2013). His films from ''Sontham'' onward are widely referenced in Telugu popular culture and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kota Srinivasa Rao
Kota Srinivasa Rao (born 10 July 1942) is an Indian character actor known for his work primarily in Telugu cinema and Telugu theatre. He has also starred in a few films in Tamil cinema, Tamil, Hindi cinema, Hindi, Kannada cinema, Kannada and Malayalam Cinema, Malayalam. As a former politician, Rao has served as the Member of the Legislative Assembly (India), MLA from Vijayawada East (Assembly constituency), Vijayawada East in Andhra Pradesh, India from 1999 to 2004. He made his debut with the Telugu film ''Pranam Khareedu'' in 1978. He starred in over 750 feature films. He has received nine state Nandi Awards in various categories of villain, character actor, and supporting actor. In 2012, he has garnered the 2nd South Indian International Movie Awards, SIIMA Award for his work in ''Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum''. In 2015, he received India's fourth highest Indian honours system, civilian honour Padma Shri for his contribution to Indian cinema. He received wide critical acclaim for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of United States cities by population, third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. As the county seat, seat of Cook County, Illinois, Cook County, the List of the most populous counties in the United States, second-most populous county in the U.S., Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area, often colloquially called "Chicagoland" and home to 9.6 million residents. Located on the shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a Chicago Portage, portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, Mississippi River watershed. It grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and Grant (money), grants to the governments of Least developed countries, low- and Developing country, middle-income countries for the purposes of economic development. The World Bank is the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (IDA), two of five international organizations owned by the World Bank Group. It was established along with the International Monetary Fund at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference. After a slow start, its first loan was to France in 1947. In its early years, it primarily focused on rebuilding Europe. Over time, it focused on providing loans to developing world countries. In the 1970s, the World Bank re-conceptualized its mission of facilitating development as being oriented around poverty reduction. For the last 30 years, it has included NGOs and environmental groups in its loan portfolio. Its ... [...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] |
Ready (2011 Film)
''Ready'' is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Anees Bazmee. Produced by T-Series (company), T-Series Films, Rawail Grandsons Entertainment and Software Pvt. Ltd., Sohail Khan, Sohail Khan Productions and Eros International, the film is the official remake of the 2008 Telugu film Ready (2008 film), of the same name directed by Srinu Vaitla. The film stars Salman Khan and Asin in their second film together after ''London Dreams''. ''Ready'' was distributed by Wave Cinemas and One Up Entertainment. Khan also narrated the film, while the story was written by Gopimohan and Kona Venkat. Principal photography commenced in June 2010. The film was shot in Sri Lanka, Bangkok and Mumbai. The first look poster was launched on 5 April 2011. Theatrically released worldwide on 3 June 2011, ''Ready'' broke all the records for a non-holiday film It grossed 120 crore net in India against its 30 crore budget, and the lifetime global collection was 180 crore. The film rec ... [...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] |
Uthamaputhiran (2010 Film)
''Uthamaputhiran'' () is a 2010 Indian Tamil-language romantic action comedy film directed by Mithran R. Jawahar. It is a remake of the 2008 Telugu film ''Ready.'' The film stars Dhanush and Genelia, reprising her role from the original version; the supporting cast includes Vivek, K. Bhagyaraj, Ashish Vidyarthi and Jaya Prakash Reddy (who was also part of the original film) among others with Shriya Saran in a cameo. The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics, ended up as a commercial success among 2010 Deepavali releases along with ''Mynaa''. Plot Siva (Dhanush) is a happy-go-lucky young boy in a large family. The heads of this family are three brothers: Raghupathi ( K. Bhagyaraj), Raghavan ( Vijay Babu), and Rajaram (Vivekvasu Nagalla). One of the brothers is Siva's father. Siva studies from a hostel away from home. He is always helpful and always comes in when others need him. In one of his obliging acts, he helps his cousin Kalpana (Shriya Saran) elope with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamil Language
Tamil (, , , also written as ''Tamizhil'' according to linguistic pronunciation) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia. It is one of the longest-surviving classical languages in the world,. "Tamil is one of the two longest-surviving classical languages in India" (p. 7). attested since 300 BC, 300 BCE.: "...the most acceptable periodisation which has so far been suggested for the development of Tamil writing seems to me to be that of A Chidambaranatha Chettiar (1907–1967): 1. Sangam Literature – 200BC to AD 200; 2. Post Sangam literature – AD 200 – AD 600; 3. Early Medieval literature – AD 600 to AD 1200; 4. Later Medieval literature – AD 1200 to AD 1800; 5. Pre-Modern literature – AD 1800 to 1900" at p. 610 Tamil was the lingua franca for early maritime traders in South India, with Tamil inscriptions found outside of the Indian subcontinent, such as Indonesia, Thailand, and Egypt. The language has a well-documented history wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raam (2009 Film)
''Raam'' is a 2009 Indian Kannada-language romantic comedy movie released in 2009 directed by K. Madesh starring Puneeth Rajkumar and Priyamani, who made her debut in Kannada cinema. Harikrishna is the music director for the movie. The movie is a remake of 2008 Telugu film ''Ready''. Plot Ram, a final-year B.E student studying in Bellary comes to visit his joint family in Mysore during his vacation. His cousin's marriage is fixed but his cousin loves another NRI Boy. Knowing this Raam helps his cousin marry her lover. This angers his uncle, who expels him from the house. He returns to his university. He sees a girl and falls in love with her at first sight. Meanwhile, his friend becomes depressed on losing his lady love as her parents disapproved of their marriage and fixed her marriage with another boy. Ram decides to bring her and have her marry his friend. He goes to R.R. Kalyana Mantapa, kidnaps the bride unconscious and brings her. He later realises that he has kidnapped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kannada
Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a second or third language for 15 million speakers in Karnataka. It is the official and administrative language of Karnataka. It also has scheduled status in India and has been included among the country's designated classical languages.Kuiper (2011), p. 74R Zydenbos in Cushman S, Cavanagh C, Ramazani J, Rouzer P, ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition'', p. 767, Princeton University Press, 2012, Kannada was the court language of a number of dynasties and empires of South India, Central India and the Deccan Plateau, namely the Kadamba dynasty, Western Ganga dynasty, Nolamba dynasty, Chalukya dynasty, Rashtrakutas, Western Chalukya Empire, Seuna dynasty, kingdom of Mysore, Nayakas of Keladi, Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nandi Award For Best Popular Feature Film
The Nandi Award The Nandi Awards are annual awards presented by the Government of Andhra Pradesh to recognise excellence in Telugu cinema, theatre, and television, as well as lifetime achievements in Indian cinema. The awards are named after the monolithic s ... for First Best Popular Feature Film winners was institute since 2005: References {{Nandi Award for Best Popular Feature Film, state=collapsed Popular Feature Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
