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Running time 142 minutes Country India Language Kannada Benkiyalli Aralida Hoovu is a 1983 Indian film starring in the lead role of the protagonist. She received a award for her performance. Balachander directed and Chandulal Jain produced the film. It is a story of a woman who wonders when she will have time to live her own life, as she is too busy taking care of her mother, siblings, and her alcoholic brother's family. The film was directed by and is a remake of his film (1974), which also had playing a different role. Haasan would appear in several more remakes of this film: the film (1976) with; and the film (1977) with. The only remake that Haasan didn't appear in was the film (1982) starring.
Released 1984 Length 23: 29 composed the music for the soundtracks and lyrics written. The album consists of five soundtracks. Track list No.
Title Lyrics Singer(s) Length 1. 'Thalli Kattuva Shubhavele' 6:26 2. 'Munde Banni' Chi. Udaya Shankar S. Balasubrahmanyam 4:50 3. 'Benkiyalli Aralida Hoovu' Chi. Udaya Shankar 3:42 4.
Nithya Ram is a Indian actress who worked in Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Malayalam serials. She is well known for her work in various drama serials such as Benkiyalli Aralida Hoovu, Aval, Rajkumar, Amma Naa Kodala, Girija Kalyana and Nandini.
'Hogu Ennalu' Chi. Udaya Shankar S. Balasubrahmanyam 3:58 5. 'Premada Geetheye' Chi. Udaya Shankar Vani Jairam 4:43 Total length: 23:29 Awards. References. – Kailasam Balachander was an Indian director, producer, writer, actor, playwright, stage conductor, and comedian who worked mainly in the Tamil film industry.
He was well known for his distinct film-making style, and the Indian film industry knew him as a master of unconventional themes, Balachanders films are well known for their portrayal of women as bold personalities and central characters. Popularly referred to as Iyakkunar Sigaram, his films are centred on unusual or complicated interpersonal relationships. Starting his cinematic career as a screenwriter, Balachander soon graduated as a director with Neerkumizhi in 1965 and he was given a break into Tamil films by M. In a career that spread over 50 years, he had contributed to nearly 100 feature films either as a screenwriter or director, as of 2013, Balachander had won nine National Film Awards and 13 Filmfare Awards. He was honored with the Padma Shri, Indias fourth highest civilian award, in 1987, K.
Balachander is revered as one of the best directors India has ever produced. A production house named Kavithalaya Productions which has been producing films since 1981 is Balachanders very own production house, apart from Tamil, he had made films in other languages such as Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. He had also made a few appearances and has directed a few TV serials as well. Minbimbangal was considered by many as a pioneer in daily serials in Television media, K. Balachander was born in 1930 into a Tamil household, at Nannilam in the then Tanjore district, India. At the age of twelve he was drawn to theatre and drama and his obsession towards theatre continued even while doing his graduation at the Annamalai University, as he regularly took part in stage plays.
After completing his graduation in 1949, he started his career as a teacher in Muthupet. In 1950, he moved to Madras and joined the Accountant Generals office as a clerk, and during this time he joined United Amateur Artistes. Soon he formed his own troupe and it was during this time he came to prominence as a playwright with Major Chandrakanth. As the scope of English was highly limited in Madras, he re-wrote the play in Tamil, Balachanders acting troupe consisted of people from the Tamil film industry such as Major Sundarrajan, Nagesh, Sreekanth and Sowcar Janaki. Sunderrajan appeared in over 900 films, Nagesh in over 1,000, Sreekanth in more than 200 films, other plays written by Balachander include Server Sundaram, Neerkumizhi, Mezhuguvarthi, Naanal and Navagraham. All these produced and directed by him, were received well by the critics, Balachander while working in the Accountant Generals office, was offered to write the dialogues for the film Dheiva Thaai by its lead actor M. Balachander was initially reluctant, as he was more theatre-oriented, by this time he was promoted as a superintendent in his office.
Avichi Meiyappa Chettiar acquired the rights of his play Server Sundaram, the film dealt with the story of a waiting staff at a restaurant had Nagesh playing the lead 2. – Aval Oru Thodharkadai is a 1974 Tamil film directed by K.
The story revolves around a middle class woman, who sacrifices her life. The lead role was played by Sujatha in her first Tamil film, Kamal Haasan, Vijayakumar, Jaiganesh, M. Soman and Sripriya played key roles.
The film was shot in black-and white, the film is considered to be one of Balachanders as well as Sujathas best films. Several directors like Mani Ratnam, K. Bhagyaraj and K. Ravikumar named Aval Oru Thodar Kathai as one of their favorite films and it ran for 25 weeks and was remade or dubbed in five other Indian languages.
Kavitha is a woman in a middle-class family. She works hard to support her sister, unmarried sister, her blind younger brother, her mother, her drunkard brother Murthy.
Her father abandons the family and becomes a saint and her brother not only does not take responsibilities, but also creates additional problems for her. She has a boyfriend of five years, Tilak who wants to marry her. His eyes now wander to Kavithas widowed younger sister Bharathi who reciprocates his feelings, Kavitha, after reading her boyfriends love letter to her sister, arranges for them to get married, thus giving up her chance of having a life with him. Meanwhile, Prasad loves Bharathi, Kavithas sister, but when he comes to know that she loves Tilak, he sacrifices his love for her and marries Kavithas distressed friend, Chandra. Kavitha eventually accepts a proposal of her boss, when she realizes that her brother has become responsible enough to take care of her family. She decides to resign from the work, but could not as the result of a turning point in a typical Balachandar-style climax.
Kavitha swaps her unmarried sister as the bride in her stead, in the end she resumes her job and continues to support the family. When auditioning her, Balachander felt that her Malayalam accented Tamil may not be convincing for the role of Kavitha and sent her advising to learn, a month later, Balachander called Sujatha and gave the role, that marked her Tamil cinema debut. Balachander introduced Fatafat Jayalaxmi in Aval Oru Thodar Kathai and the sobriquet Fatafat she got after she used the word in this film, actors Jaiganesh, Sripriya and Thideer Kanniah also made their debuts with this film.
Kamal Haasan learnt mimicry for his role, rajesh said that he was approached to act in the film but he couldnt take up the film. The song Kadavul Amaitha Medhai was shot at a community situated at Nandanam 3. – Suhasini Maniratnam is an actress known for her works in South Indian cinema. She made her debut in 1980 with the Tamil film Nenjathai Killathe for which she won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actress. Suhasini won the National Film Award for Best Actress for Sindhu Bhairavi in 1986, Suhasini was born to actor Charuhasan, in Chennai, into the prominent Haasan family. She married film director Mani Ratnam in 1988 and the couple has a son Nandan born in 1992.
In an interview with Radhika Rajamani of rediff. Com she said I dont believe in God, in prayer, in going to temples begging God to give me and my family happiness. A student of cinematography from the Madras Film Institute, Suhasini started her career as an assistant to Ashok Kumar.
Suhasini has acted in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films and she started her career as a make-up artist for several leading actors. She is extremely popular in Kannada movies and her films Bandhana directed by Rajendra Singh Babu and Suprabhatha directed by Dinesh Baboo were blockbusters, and thus she became one of the most bankable stars of Kannada cinema of her time. Her other films Muttina Haara with Vishnuvardhan directed by Rajendra Singh Babu and her collaboration with Vishnuvardhan is considered as one of the best and rarest in South Indian cinema. The duo has acted together in many films that include Bandhana, Suprabhatha, Muthina Haara, Hendthig Helthini, Himapatha, Mathad Mathad Mallige. She was introduced to Malayalam cinema through Padmarajans Koodevide, which also featured Mammootty and her role in the AFI Fest-nominated feature Vanaprastham, which starred Mohanlal, was particularly well received. She won the National Film Award for Best Actress in 1986 for her role in the 1985 Tamil film Sindhu Bhairavi, in 1996, Suhasini stepped into direction with Indira.
The project was produced by G. Films, Suhasini and her husband Mani Ratnam are involved in the running of their production company Madras Talkies, with G. Tendulkar Alla In order of languages in which she acted the most to least number of films, uthiripookkal Jhonny Suhasini at the Internet Movie Database Suhasini Maniratnam on Twitter 4.
– Pavithra is a Tamil film written, produced and directed by K. Subash under his home banner, Dhanooja Films.
The film features Raadhika in the role with Nassar and Ajith Kumar in supporting roles. The films music was by A. Rahman and lyrics by Vairamuthu, the film opened on November 2,1994 as one among the Deepavali releases and received critical acclaim.
The film is about a relationship between Radhika and Ajith. Ajith is a patient suffering from Cancer and Radhika is a nurse in the hospital where Ajith is being treated, confusion ensues and Radhika misunderstands Ajith and the climax is how all confusions are laid to rest, along with the hero. However, in the end, Ajith dies and Radhika adopts a baby as her own child, Raadhika as Pavithra Nassar as Raghu Ajith Kumar as Ashok Keerthana as Chitra S. Chandran Vadivelu Kovai Sarala Disco Shanti Kitty Kaka Radhakrishnan The title denotes Sanskrit for purity.
Ajith Kumar revealed in an interview that his role in the film changed his outlook on cinema. Ajith Kumars character was dubbed for by Shekhar, in his second venture, upon the release, the film won positive reviews for its different attempt. The film went on to win two National Film Awards, the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer for Unnikrishnan, furthermore, the film won third prize in the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Film winners list. All music composed by A. – Manayangath Subramanian Viswanathan, also known as M. Was an Indian music director and composer.
He was popularly known as Mellisai Mannar and he composed songs in 1200 films across languages - Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi. He worked primarily in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films and he also acted and sung in a few Tamil films. The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu J Jayalalithaa conferred the Thirai Isai Chakravarthy title on him in August 2012 and presented him with 60 gold coins, M S Viswanathan was born on 24 June 1928 to Manayangath Subramanian and Narayanikutty in Elappully village in Palakkad, Kerala, India. His father died when Viswanathan was four years old, and his mother decided to kill him, his sister and herself as an escape from abject poverty and he was saved at the last minute by his grandfather. His grandfather Krishnan was a warden at the jail of Kannur. After death of his father, his family moved from Palakkad to Kannur to stay with his jailor uncle, as a child, he sold refreshments in a movie theatre without any pay, so he could listen to the music in the films. He had a part in the film Kannagi produced by Jupiter Pictures and his primary education was at Pallikunnu, Kannur.
He would often play truant from school and stand outside the house of Neelakanta Bhagavathar, a music teacher. He learnt to play the harmonium, and Neelakanta Bhagavathar, who heard him play and he later gave his first stage performance in Trivandrum at the age of 13. He worked as a boy for Jupiter Pictures in the 1940s. Viswanathan was married to Janaki and they have four sons and three daughters and his wife, Janaki, died on 14 May 2012. She was 77 when she died, Chandrababu stayed the last few years of his life in the house of M.
Viswanathan, and as per the request of Chandrababu, MSV arranged his rites when he died in March 1974. On 27 June 2015, Viswanathan was admitted to Fortis Malar hospital in Chennai with breathing difficulties and he had been undergoing a treatment at the hospital for some time. He died at 4.15 a. On 14 July 2015 due to age-related ailments and he had turned 87 only three weeks earlier, three days before his hospitalization. He was cremated with state honours at Besant Nagar Electric Crematorium. People from various fields of life paid homage to him and he is survived by his seven children - four sons and three daughters - none of them who followed their fathers path. Viswanathan had always wanted to be an actor and singer, but was not successful and he had a few small roles in stage dramas in the 1940s 6.
– The language has roughly 40 million native speakers who are called Kannadigas, and a total of 50.8 million speakers according to a 2001 census. It is one of the languages of India and the official. The Kannada language is written using the Kannada script, which evolved from the 5th-century Kadamba script, Kannada is attested epigraphically for about one and a half millennia, and literary Old Kannada flourished in the 6th-century Ganga dynasty and during the 9th-century Rashtrakuta Dynasty. Kannada has a literary history of over a thousand years.
Based on the recommendations of the Committee of Linguistic Experts, appointed by the ministry of culture, in July 2011, a centre for the study of classical Kannada was established as part of the Central Institute of Indian Languages at Mysore to facilitate research related to the language. Kannada is a Southern Dravidian language, and according to Dravidian scholar Sanford B, steever, its history can be conventionally divided into three periods, Old Kannada from 450–1200 CE, Middle Kannada from 1200–1700, and Modern Kannada from 1700 to the present. Kannada is influenced to an extent by Sanskrit. Influences of other such as Prakrit and Pali can also be found in the Kannada language.
Literary Prakrit seems to have prevailed in Karnataka since ancient times, the vernacular Prakrit-speaking people may have come into contact with Kannada speakers, thus influencing their language, even before Kannada was used for administrative or liturgical purposes. Kannada phonetics, morphology, vocabulary, grammar and syntax show significant influence from these languages, some examples of naturalised words of Prakrit origin in Kannada are, baṇṇa derived from vaṇṇa, hunnime from puṇṇivā. Examples of naturalized Sanskrit words in Kannada are, varṇa, arasu from rajan, paurṇimā, Kannada has numerous borrowed words such as dina, kopa, surya, mukha, nimiṣa and anna. Pre-old Kannada was the language of Banavasi in the early Common Era, the Ashoka rock edict found at Brahmagiri has been suggested to contain words in identifiable Kannada. According to Jain tradition, Brahmi, the daughter of Rishabhadeva, the first Tirthankara of Jainism, invented 18 alphabets, including Kannada, which points to the antiquity of the language.
Supporting this tradition, an inscription of about the 9th century CE, containing specimens of different alphabets and it has been claimed that the Greek dramatists of the 5th–4th century BCE were familiar with the Kannada country and language. This would show a far more intimate contact of the Greeks with Kannada culture than with Indian culture elsewhere, the palm manuscripts contained texts written not only in Greek, Latin and Hebrew, but also in Sanskrit and Kannada.
In the 150 CE Prakrit book Gaathaa Saptashati, written by Haala Raja, Kannada words like tIr, tuppa, on the Pallava Prakrit inscription of 250 CE of Hire Hadagalis Shivaskandavarman, the Kannada word kOTe transforms into koTTa. In the 350 CE Chandravalli Prakrit inscription, words of Kannada origin like punaaTa, in one more Prakrit inscription of 250 CE found in Malavalli, Kannada towns like vEgooraM, kundamuchchaMDi find a reference.
Pliny the Elder was a naval and army commander in the early Roman Empire and he writes about pirates between Muziris and Nitrias 7. – Filmfare is an English-language, tabloid-sized magazine about Hindi-language cinema, popularly known as Bollywood. Established in 1952, the magazine is published by Worldwide Media, Filmfare is one of the most popular entertainment magazine in India. Since 1954, it gives popular film awards the annual Filmfare Awards, launched in 1952 by The Times Group that published the newspaper The Times of India, Filmfare came only a year after Screen was launched by The Indian Express. Taking off from the image of The Times of India, Filmfare combined serious film journalism with glamour and it featured exposes of exploitation of junior artists, articles various aspects of filmmaking, and notable cinemas of the world, like Italian, Japanese and the German cinema. It also benefitted hugely from the distribution network of the newspaper. In 1953, it further emboldened its place in the Indian film industry, first the Filmfare Awards for movies in Hindi, and the Filmfare Awards South for movies in the Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu languages both started in the same year.
The awards were based on Academy Awards, with a difference that the winners were decided by readers votes, the annual Filmfare Awards ceremony, held in Mumbai, is one of the oldest and most prominent film events in India. Filmfare Awards East for films from West Bengal, Odisha and Assam was started in 2014, in 2005 Filmfare and some other publications, most notably Femina, and Indian editions of Hello, Good Food, Top Gear, and Good Homes were split off into a subsidiary.
The new ownership, Worldwide Media, is a 50,50 joint venture between The Times Group and BBC Magazines, the division of BBC Worldwide. Thereafter in October 2011 Worldwide Media became a wholly owned subsidiary of Bennett, the Hindi language edition of Filmfare was launched in 2011. Masala Fix Hindi film industry news, reports about the latest quarrels between actors, celebrity gossip and rumours, preview Previews of upcoming films, and new actors to watch out for. Fashion and Beauty Stars are prominently branded hot or not depending on their fashion quota, the Good Life Lifestyles of the actors, their fitness routines. Exclusives Cover stories, short prose with an array of photos and your Say Readers reviews and mails.
Rapid Fire Shatrughan Sinha answers questions asked by readers, cinema of India Filmfare Awards Filmfare Awards South Official website 8. – Tamil cinema refers to Indian motion pictures produced in the language of Tamil.
Based in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the hub of the Tamil film industry is in the Kodambakkam neighbourhood of Chennai, kollywood is a colloquial term used to describe this industry, the word being a portmanteau of Kodambakkam and Hollywood. Tamil cinema has been described as the industry of South Indian cinema. The first Tamil silent film, Keechaka Vadham, was made by R. Nataraja Mudaliar in 1918, the first talking motion picture, Kalidas, was a multilingual and was released on 31 October 1931, less than seven months after Indias first talking motion picture Alam Ara. By the end of the 1930s, the legislature of the State of Madras passed the Entertainment Tax Act of 1939, the industry also inspired independent filmmaking in Tamil diaspora populations in Malaysia, Singapore, and the Western Hemisphere. Hariharan, cheyyar first screened a selection of silent short films at the Victoria Public Hall in Madras, the films all featured non-fictional subjects, they were mostly photographed records of day-to-day events.
The film scholar Stephen Hughs points out that within a few there were regular ticketed shows in a hall in Pophams Broadway, started by one Mrs. Once it was demonstrated as a proposition, a Western entrepreneur, Warwick Major, built the first cinema theatre, the Electric Theatre.
It was a haunt of the British community in Madras. The theatre was shut down after a few years and this building is now part of a post office complex on Anna Salai. The Lyric Theatre was also built in the Mount Road area and this venue boasted a variety of events, including plays in English, Western classical music concerts, and ballroom dances. Silent films were screened as an additional attraction. Swamikannu Vincent, a draftsman from Tiruchirapalli, became a travelling exhibitor in 1905.
He showed short movies in a tent in Esplanade, near the present Parrys Corner and he bought the film projector and silent films from the Frenchman Du Pont and set up a business as film exhibitor. Soon, he tied up with Path, a well-known pioneering film-producing company and this helped new cinema houses to sprout across the presidency. In later years, he produced talkies and also built a cinema in Coimbatore, to celebrate the event of King George Vs visit in 1909, a grand exhibition was organized in Madras. Its major attraction was the screening of films accompanied by sound. However, there was no synched dialogue, Raghupathy Venkiah Naidu, a successful photographer, took over the equipment after the exhibition and set up a tent cinema near the Madras High Court.
Contents. Early life and career Nithya Ram comes from a family of artists with her father K. Ramu and sister being themselves, and the latter has since appeared in films.
Nithya is a trained classical dancer from Welight Academy as well. She holds a graduate degree in and worked for some time, but her 'dream of becoming a heroine never died.' Nithya started her career as an actress with a Kannada television soap opera Benkiyalli Aralida Hoovu, which aired on, that co-starred her sister as well. She went on to appear in other Kannada soaps such as Karpoorada Gombe, Rajkumari and Eradu Kanasu. Following this, she worked in one soap i. E., Muddhu Bidda.
After that, she had been signed for a film opposite, which however failed to take off. In 2014, she was signed to play a lead role in opposite Aru Gowda. Around the time, she signed to her second soap opera in, Amma Naa Kodala.
Later, She also played the lead role in superhit television serial. Personal Life She was married to Mr.Vinod Gowda in the year 2014 in her hometown Bengaluru.