Vijay Sethupathi Birthday Special
Vijay Sethupathi’s rise in the film industry is an inspirational one. He first screen appearances were uncredited roles as a background actor, beginning with the Prabhu Deva-Nagma starrer Love Birds and including films like Karthik’s Gokulathil Seedhai, Ravi Mohan’s M Kumaran, Son of Mahalakshmi, Dhanush’s Pudhupettai and Karthi’s Naan Mahaan Alla. It was his ninth […]
Aishwarya Rajesh turns 35 today
Aishwarya Rajesh comes from a family of actors and actresses in the Telugu world. She was born in Chennai on 10 January 1990 and grew up there. She made her acting debut as a child artist in the 1995 Telugu film, Rambantu. She became a TV presenter on the show Asathu Povathu Yaaru and got […]
Playback singer P Jayachandran passes away
P Jayachandran, the talented and popular singer of more than 16 000 songs, passed away on the evening of 09 January at the age of 80. Apart from many other awards, he won the national award for Best Singer in 1986. He has sung songs in Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada and Telugu. He showed an interest in […]
KJ Yesudas turns 85 today
Playback singer and musician KJ Yesudas, who turns 85 today, has sung more than 50 000 songs in 13 languages across 6 decades. Apart from his many devotional albums, he has recorded more than 700 songs in Tamil. He is one of the most awarded singers in India. He has won the National Award a record […]
YG Mahendran turns 75 today
YG Mahendran is an accomplished stage and screen actor. He is the son of YG Parthasarathy, a notable pioneer in modern Tamil stage dramas. He is the brother-in-law of Superstar Rajinikanth and the nephew of actor and producer K Balaji. He is also the cousin of yesteryear actress Vyjayanthimala. Mahendran showed an early affinity to […]
Harris Jayaraj Birthday Special
Harris Jayaraj made his debut as a music composer in Gautham Vasduevan’s debut film, Minnale although his first signed project was Prashanth’s Majunu. Before his debut, he had worked as a musician or programmer for AR Rahman, Karthik Raja, Yuvanshankar Raja and Vidyasagar. His songs in Minnale enjoyed tremendous popularity and won for him the […]
K Bhagyaraj Birthday Special
K Bhagyaraj began his film career as a director’s assistant to G. Ramakrishnan and Bharathiraja. He made his first screen appearance in a small role as a doctor in Bharathiraja’s debut film, 16 Vayanthiniley. When he scripted the Kamalhaasan-Sri Devi starrer, Sigappu Rojakkal, he was given a bigger role. This led to his first lead […]
B Saroja Devi Birthday Special
B. Saroja Devi is an actress with more than 200 films to her credit. She became the first female superstar of Kannada cinema, having made her acting debut at the age of 17 in national award winning Kannada film, Mahakavi Kalidasa. She made her Tamil debut in B.R. Panthulu’s 1957 film, Thangamalai Ragasiyam. Her career was […]
SP Charan Birthday Special
Charan is the son of the legendary SP Balasubramanyam. At the age of 10, he made his singing debut to films when he, together with his elder sister Pallavi, sang the introduction and chorus for the hit song Oh Nenje from Darling Darling. Charan had earlier recorded a song, Unakkoruthi, for the film Puniyavathi but […]
History of Tamil Cinema – Part 6
MK Radha MK Radha gains a fanatical following MK Radha had made a memorable acting debut in Sathi Leelvathi directed by American director Ellis R Dungan – a film which also saw the introduction of MG Ramachandran, NS Krishnan and TS Balaiah to the screen. MK Radha had moderate success with his second film, but […]