Sivakarthikeyan – Namma Veetu Pillai
The rise to fame of Sivakarthikeyan is an inspirational one. Like Rajinikanth, Sivakarthikeyan had many challenges in his career and has slowly worked himself up to his current position as one of the leading actors in his tier. Sivakarthikeyan was born on 17 February 1985 in the Sivagangai district to G Doss, a jail superintendent […]
What happened to Tamil religious movies?
Disclaimers In Tamil Nadu – a state where Hindus form 78.9% of the total population, it is surprising to note that Hindu religious films are now virtually non-existent. From the early days of silent cinema and the early talkies, religion, history and myth were the basis of almost all movies. The boom in religious films […]
Sigaram Top 15 Tamil films of 2024
Compiled and ranked by Devan Nair and Dhaarani Nair Introduction Sigaram is 90 days old today and it is time to look back at the best films of 2024. Last year, we featured a Top 10 list as at 01 November 2024, but there were some films that released after that date and more films […]
Veteran actress Pushpalatha passes away
Tamil cinema mourns the loss of verstaile actress, Pushpalatha who passed way earlier today at the age of 87. Pushpalatha has acted in more than 100 films in Tamil, Telugu , Kannada and Malayalam.She made her debut to the Tamil screen through the 1958 film, Sengottai Singam produced by Devar Films. She met AVM Rajan […]
Silambarasan (Simbhu) turns 42 today
Silambarasan TR – or Simbhu – is the son of actor-writer-director-music composer T Rajender. He made his debut as a child star, appearing in his first film – Uravai Kaatha Kili – when he was only 1 year old. He went on as a child star under his father’s direction in eleven other films before […]
History of Tamil Cinema – Part 7
In this episode The colourful history of one of Tamil cinema’s most well-known studios CV Raman (not to be confused with the Nobel Prize winner of the same name) is best known for founding a studio in Chennai on the banks of the Adayar River. It was initially called Lalitha Cinetone and changed hands many […]
Amy Jackson: The British beauty who won Tamil hearts.
Amy Louise Jackson was born in the Isle of Man on 31 January 1992. She began at modelling at the age of 14 and later won Miss Teen Liverpool and Miss Teen Great Britain titles before going on to win Miss Teen World in 2009. She was also the runner-up to the Miss England title […]
Nirosha – Beyond her father’s shadow
Nirosha is the youngest daughter of the legendary actor MR Radha and sister of Radhika and Radharavi. Born on 30 January 1971 in Kandy, she developed an early affinity to films and was cast by Maniratnam in the 1988 film Agni Natchthiram, followed soon after Kamalhaasan’s Soora Samhaaram. She enjoyed a very prolific period in […]
Shruti Haasan – carving her own path to success
Shruti Haasan, the elder daughter of actor Kamalhaasan and actress Sarika, made her acting debut as a child artist in the landmark film Hey Ram (2000) and marked her adult debut in Tamil opposite Suriya in AR Murugadoss’s Yezhaam Arivu. Her other film credits include 3 opposite Dhanush, Puli opposite Vijay and Vedalam opposite Ajithkumar. […]
Urvasi – A multi-talented actress
Kavitha Manoranjini Nair was given the screen name, Urvasi by K. Bhagyaraj when he introduced her as a lead actress in his 1983 hit film, Mundhanai Mudichu. By that time, Urvasi had acted in numerous Malayalam films as a child actress, having made her acting debut at the age of 10 in a Malayalam film. […]