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Sullan
''Sullan'' (spelt ''Sulaan'' onscreen) is a 2004 Indian Tamil language, Tamil-language action film written and directed by Ramana (director), Ramana. The film stars Dhanush in the main lead role along with Sindhu Tolani, Manivannan, Pasupathy and Easwari Rao among others. It was released on 23 July 2004. Plot Subramani, known as Sullan among his friends, is the son of Mani, a corporation garbage lorry driver. A first-year college student, his only objective in life is to have fun with his friends. He falls in love with Kavya. Soori is a moneylender who charges atrocious rates and then goes after those who fail to pay him back. When Soori's actions start to affect Sullan's family and friends, he strikes back. Cast Production This was the first film produced by Salem A. Chandrasekhar who previously worked as distributor. The song "Yaaro Nee" was shot at Christ Church Gardens at Australia while the song "Kavithai Iravu" was shot at Auckland. A fight scene featuring Dhanush and Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramana (director)
Ramana is an Indian film director who has directed 3 Tamil cinema, Tamil films. After making his debut in 2003 with the successful ''Thirumalai'', he has gone on to make other ventures, ''Sullan'' (2004) and ''Aathi'' (2006). Career Ramana penned a series of film scripts featuring serious off-beat stories and approached producers with little luck, hoping to land an offer. He spent several years narrating the script of a proposed film titled ''Karkaalam'' to actors and then finally agreed terms with Prakash Raj to play the lead role during 1996, but no financiers eventually backed the project. After failing to establish himself as a director who could be funded to make films with serious themes, he felt that he should make a series of commercially viable films in the Masala film, masala genre before diversifying into serious subjects. Ramana's first release was ''Thirumalai'' (2003), an action-masala venture featuring Vijay (actor), Vijay, which took a large opening at the box o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salem Chandrasekharan
Salem Chandrasekharan (died 10 May 2021) was an Indian film producer and distributor. He produced high-budget Tamil films like '' Ghajini'' and '' Sabari'' under Sree Saravana Creations. Business Before venturing into film production, Chandrasekharan was a distributor and owner of a three-screen theatre in Salem named ARK Complex. His first production was ''Sullan'' (2004) and later was supposed to produce Vetrimaaran's debut film ''Desiya Nedunchaalai'' with Dhanush, which was later shelved. Despite the success of '' Ghajini'' (2005), his following ventures did not perform well. Owing to financial issues, he also had to pause work on the production of Karu Pazhaniappan's ''Asokamithran'', also starring Dhanush. His final project, ''Killadi'' (2015), released almost a decade after the film was shot, owing to financial problems. He later sold his theatres to Aascar Ravichandran. Death Chandrasekharan died on 10 May 2021 due to COVID-19. Filmography *''Sullan'' (2004) *''F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sindhu Tolani
Sindhu Tolani is an Indian actress working in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Hindi language films. Early life Tolani was born in Mumbai, India. She has been a '' Fair & Lovely'' cream model in North. Film career Sindhu Tolani made her acting debut in the Telugu film '' Aithe'' in 2003. Her Tamil debut was ''Sullan'' (2004) opposite Dhanush. She acted in the romantic thriller with Silambarasan in '' Manmadhan'' (2004) became a blockbuster hit at the box office. She acted an item number with Vikram in ''Majaa'' (2005), has been struggling to find some work in Kollywood. She was also a part of Mani Ratnam's stage show, '' Netru, Indru, Naalai''. She gained recognition for her role in the Telegu film '' Athanokkade'' (2005). In Kannada, she’s done films like ''Rishi'' (2005) and '' Snehana Preethina'' (2007). In 2008, her performances in ''Bathukamma'', ''Victory'' and '' Hare Ram'' were praised although the films were only average scorers. She is paired opposite Rajeev Kanaka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasupathy
Pasupathy (born 18 May 1969) is an Indian actor. He appeared in critically acclaimed roles in many noted films in Tamil cinema, playing supporting, antagonistic, comedic as well as protagonistic roles. He has won a Tamil Nadu State Film Award and Two Filmfare Awards South. His performance in '' E'' (2006) earned him a Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Villain. He also won an ITFA Best Supporting Actor Award for his role in '' Kuselan'' (2008). He has also appeared in Malayalam, Telugu, and Kannada films. Early life Pasupathy Masilamani was born on 18 May 1969 at Vannandurai, a northern neighbourhood Chennai, India in a Kallar family. In 1984, he joined the Chennai-based theatre group " Koothu-P-Pattarai" where he was there till 1997. He studied and grew up there till he started to act in films. He became friends with actor Nassar who was in the film institute and later joined the Koothu-P-Pattarai. Thirumangalakottai in Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harini (singer)
Harini (born 30 April 1979) is an Indian film playback and classical singer born and raised in Chennai. She sings predominantly in Tamil films, besides other language films such as Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi films. She was first noticed by music director A. R. Rahman at a school competition where she was one among the winners. Eventually, she was signed in to record the song "Nila Kaigiradhu" for the film '' Indira'' (1995) when she was 15. The song went on to become one of the popular songs of the year and Harini began to get singing offers from other leading film composers. Harini has won Best Female Playback Singer award twice at the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards for the songs "Manam Virumbuthey" ('' Nerukku Ner'', 1997) and "Aalanguyil Koovum Rayil" (''Parthiban Kanavu'', 2003). The latter song won her ITFA Best Female Playback Award for the year 2004. Early life Born on 30 April 1979 to a Tamil family, Harini learnt Carnatic music from Gowri and Radha Viswa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easwari Rao
Easwari Rao is a South Indian actress who works in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada cinema. She played lead roles from 1990 to 1999. She started to play supporting and character roles from 2000 onwards. Personal life Eswari Rao is married to director, actor L. Raja. The couple have two children. Career Eswari Rao's debut movie was ''Intinta Deepavali'' (1990) in Telugu. She debuted in Tamil in ''Kavithai Paadum Alaigal'' credited as Janani. Though the songs were popular, the movie was a failure at box office. She was first noticed in a character role in Thalapathy Vijay's debut film '' Naalaiya Theerpu'' in 1992. She appeared in the 1995 film ''Rambantu'', which was directed by Bapu. She got her first major break in '' Raman Abdullah'' (1997), directed by Balu Mahendra, where she was credited as Easwari Rao. She notably opted out of a project titled ''Koottaali'' as she felt the role was too glamorous. She went on to appear in Manoj Kumar's film '' Guru Paarvai'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanghavi
Sanghavi (born Kavya Ramesh) is an Indian actress and a model known for her work predominantly in Tamil and Telugu films. She was one of the leading actresses in South Indian cinema from 1993 to 2004. In a career spanning 15 years, she has starred in over eighty feature films—38 in Telugu, 35 films in Tamil, eight in Kannada, two in Malayalam and one film in Hindi. Early life Sanghavi was born in Mysore, Karnataka. Her father Dr. D. A. Ramesh was an ENT Professor at Mysore Medical College and her mother Ranjana is Kannada film actress Aarathi's elder sister's daughter. Sanghavi studied at Marimallappa High School. In 1993, she made her debut with the Tamil film '' Amaravathi'' opposite Ajith Kumar Ajith Kumar Subramaniam (born 1 May 1971) is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Tamil cinema. To date, he has starred in over 63 films, and won four Vijay Awards, three Cinema Express Awards, three Filmfare Awards South and three Ta .... Personal life Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhanush
Venkatesh Prabhu Kasthuri Raja (born 28 July 1983), known professionally as Dhanush, is an Indian actor, filmmaker, lyricist and playback singer who primarily works in Tamil cinema. Having starred in Dhanush filmography, 50 films over his career, his accolades include four National Film Awards (two as actor and two as producer), fourteen SIIMA Awards, eight Filmfare Awards South and a Filmfare Awards, Filmfare Award. One of the highest paid actors in Indian cinema, he has been included in the ''Forbes India'' Celebrity 100 list six times. Dhanush's first film was ''Thulluvadho Ilamai'', a 2002 Coming-of-age story, coming-of-age film directed by his father, Kasthuri Raja. He achieved further success in ''Polladhavan (2007 film), Polladhavan'' (2007) and ''Yaaradi Nee Mohini'' (2008), both of which were critically acclaimed and commercially successful. His role as a Cockfight, rooster fight jockey in ''Aadukalam'' (2010) won him the National Film Award for Best Actor and the Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adnan Sami
Adnan Sami Khan (born 15 August 1969) is an Indian singer, musician, composer, actor and pianist. He performs Indian and Western music in many languages, such as Hindi, Urdu, English, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam. He has been awarded with Padma Shri (India's fourth highest civilian award) for his remarkable contribution to music. His most notable instrument is the piano. He has been credited as "the first musician to have played the santoor and Indian classical music on the piano". A review in the US-based '' Keyboard'' magazine described him as the fastest keyboard player in the world and called him the keyboard discovery of the nineties. He was raised and educated in the United Kingdom. He was previously a Canadian citizen, but became a naturalised Indian citizen in 2016. He was born to Arshad Sami Khan, a Pakistani Air Force veteran and diplomat of Pashtun origin, and Naureen, who was originally from the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. ''The Times o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pushpavanam Kuppusamy
Pushpavanam Kuppusamy is a Tamil folk singer, playback singer, lyricist, writer and music composer. He has been credited for reviving the Naatupura Paatu, a type of Tamil folk art. Together with his wife Anitha Kuppusamy, he has conducted several concerts of Tamil folk songs, and the couple have together brought out several albums of authentic Tamil folk music. He has also written books on Tamil Folk songs. He appears on Television Channels like Sun TV, Vijay TV, and Makkal TV performing musical shows. He is a recipient of the Kalaimamani award from the Government of Tamil Nadu. Biography Kuppusamy studied at Madras University and gained M.A., M.Phil., and a Ph.D. in music. He received his Ph.D. from Queen Mary's College, Chennai. Sathyabhama University gave an Honorary Doctorate to Kuppusamy for his contribution to music. Along with his wife, he has performed around 3000 shows in India and abroad. He is known for his incorporation of social messages through his music. Kup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kabilan (lyricist)
Kabilan (born 27 December) is an Indian lyricist, poet and actor who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. Born in the Indian coastal city of Pondicherry, he started writing lyrics for films and television in the early 2000s and gradually moved to acting as well. He won the Vijay Award for Best Lyricist for the song "Aaathangara Orathil" from '' Yaan'' (2014). He had mostly collaborated with Composer Vidyasagar followed by Srikanth Deva. He had penned super hit songs for Ilayaraaja and A.R.Rahman. Kabilan is known for his mass introduction songs, among which maximum hits are for Vijay. Filmography As a Lyricist As an actor *'' Dasavathaaram'' (2008) – Assistant to Vincent Poovaragavan. Television * 2003 ''Sorgam'' * 2004 ''Kanavarukkaga'' * 2005 ''Nimmathi'' * 2006 ''Kasthuri'' * 2007 ''Akka Thangai'' * 2007 ''Manjal Magimai'' * 2009 ''Mahalakshmi'' Awards * Kalaimamani award by the state of Tamilnadu in 2007. * Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Lyricist (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yugabharathi
Yugabharathi is a Tamil poet and lyricist. He started his career as editor in Kanaiyazhi and turned into a lyricist in Tamil film industry. Debuting in the film ''Aanandham'' with lyrics for the song "Pallankuzhiyin vattam parthaen", he has become a successful lyricist penning more than 1000 songs. Education His birth name is Prem kumar. During the early 1990s when he began writing poems for magazines he started using the pen name "Yugabharathi" in honour of the great Tamil poet Subramanya Bharathi, commonly known as Mahakavi Bharathiyar. Yugabharathi studied in Maxwell Matriculation Higher Secondary School (Thanjavur) and received his diploma in mechanical engineering at Government Polytechnic College ( Aranthangi). Notable works Some of the more notable songs which Yugabharathi has written lyrics for are "Kadhal pisase" from '' Run'', "Manmada Rasa" from '' Thiruda Thirudi'', "sambo siva sambo" from '' Naadodigal'', "Kannamma" from '' Rekka'', and "Konja neram" from Chandra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
