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Madhan, real name Maadapoosi Krishnaswamy Govindan (born 11 July 1947 in
Srirangam Srirangam is a neighbourhood in the city of Tiruchirappalli in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. A river island, Srirangam is bounded by the Kaveri River on one side and its distributary Kollidam on the other side. Considered as the first among ...
), is a
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cartoonist, journalist, writer and film critic. He previously worked for the weekly magazine ''
Ananda Vikatan ''Ananda Vikatan'' is a Tamil-language weekly magazine published from Chennai, India. History ''Ananda Vikatan'' was started by Late Pudhoor Vaidyanadhaiyar in February 1926 as a monthly publication. The issue for December 1927 was not publishe ...
'' and now hosts a film-review show ''Madhan Movie Matinee'' on
Puthuyugam TV Puthuyugam TV is an Indian Tamil-language general entertainment channel based in Chennai, India. It complements its sister channel Puthiya Thalaimurai TV, which was launched on 23 October 2013. It is run by Chennai-based The New Era Media Corpo ...
. He was one of the juries for the television program ''Naalaya Iyakunar'', Season 1. In 2016, he was the presenter of the Tamil supernatural investigation television series '' Manithanum Marmangalum''.


Personal life

Madhan resides in
Chennai Chennai, also known as Madras (List of renamed places in India#Tamil Nadu, its official name until 1996), is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Tamil Nadu by population, largest city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost states and ...
, Tamil Nadu.


Works

The works are not listed in chronological order. * Manithanum Marmangalum * Vanthargal Vendrargal * Manithanukulle Oru Mirugam * KiMu KiPi * Hai Madhan * Kadhal Vazhga


See also

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List of cartoonists This is a list of cartoonists, visual artists who specialize in drawing cartoons. This list includes only notable cartoonists and is not meant to be exhaustive. Note that the word 'cartoon' only took on its modern sense after its use in Punch maga ...
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List of Indian writers This is a list of notable writers who come from India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by ...
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List of people from Chennai The following people were born or based their life in the Indian city of Chennai (formerly known as Madras), Tamil Nadu (formerly known as Madras State). Business *Geeta Aiyer, entrepreneur and business leader; founder and president of Bos ...


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Madan's Thirai Paarvai
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