Gauthami: Overcoming Multiple Obstacles
Gauthami was born in Andhra Pradesh on 02 July 1968. She made her debut to the Tamil screen in the 1988 Rajinikanth-Prabhu starrer, Guru Sishyan. She soon found herself with lots of offers and shared the screen with Kamalhaasan, Rajinikanth, Prabhu, Karthik, Vijayakanth, Murali, Sathyaraj, Rahman and co-starred the most with Ramarajan. She won the […]
Remembering A.M. Rajah on his birth anniversary
Music composer and singer, A.M. Rajah was born in Andhra Pradesh on 1 July 1929. He completed his tertiary education in Chennai and began composing music while still studying at college and collaborated then with the great K.V. Mahadevan. In 1950 he was introduced by S.S. Vasan of Gemini Studios as a playback singer. It […]
Harish Kalyan – Climbing to the Top
Harish Kalyan is the son of film producer and audio label owner, Kalyan. Despite this, Harish’s path to success was a painful one filled with unimaginable obstacles. He made his acting debut at the age of 20 in the controversial film Sindhu Samaveli directed by Samy. The film was met with lots of resistance and […]
Karthik Raja turns 52 today
Karthik Raja, the eldest son of Isai Gnani Illaiyaraja, was born on 29 June 1973. He showed an early interest in and affinity to music. At the age of 13 he played the keyboard for the song Kannukkum from the film Ninaikka Therintha Maname. He also played the keyboard for the soundtrack and background score […]
Remembering the Iconic “Kaviyarasu” Kannadasan on his birth anniversary
Kaviyarasu Kannadasan was born on 24 June 1927 in Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, and has more than 5000 lyrics, 6000 poems and 232 books to his credit. He was the first lyricist to win a national award for Best Lyricist – for the 1969 film Kuzhanthiakaga. Kannadasan once embraced the Dravidian atheistic view but was fascinated […]
The Legendary M.S.Viswanathan who reshaped Tamil Film Music
M.S. Viswanathan, the composer of music for more than 800 films and dozens of independent albums was a musical genius who changed the course of Tamil film music. He did not know how to read or write music, but composed some of Tamil cinema’s best loved songs, embracing western influences without losing sight of a […]
Kavin – Finding Fame After Many Challenges
Kavin shot to fame when he played the lead role in the sleeper hit Dada, but he had been making his mark in increasingly visible ways for almost a decade. After making his acting debut in the TV series Kanaa Kaanum Kaalangal, he went on to play supporting roles in the TV shows Thaayumanavan and […]
Devayani – Still making her mark in Tamil Cinema
Devayani (real name Sushma Jayadev) was born in Mumbai on 22 June 1974. After a brief foray into Hindi, Bengali and Malayalam films, she made her Tamil debut in a significant role in K.S. Adhiyamaan’s Thottaa CHinnungi before striking fold with her first demale lead opposite Ajithkumar in Agathiyan’s national award-winning film, Kaadhal Kottai. The […]
Vijay turns 51 today
Joseph Vijay was born on 22 June 1974 to star couple – Director SA Chandhrasekar and singer Shoba. Shoba began her singing career with the famous song Maharaja oru Maharani from the Sivaji Ganesan starre, Iru Malargal. Vijay was a talkative, naughty and energetic child but that changed drastically after the death of his younger […]
Nelson Dilipkumar turns 41 today
Nelson Dilipkumar was born on 21 June 1984. He was to have made his directorial debut in 2010 with the film Vettai Mannan with T.R. Silambarasan, Jai, Deeksha Seth and Hansika Motwani in the cast, and Yuvanshankar Raja scoring the music. The film was halted after more than half was canned. There was an unsuccessful […]