Tamil Cinema wins 5 awards at the 71st National Film Awards
Ramkumar Balakrishnan’s 2023 debut directorial Parking has won three national awards – Best Tamil Film, Best Screenplay for Ramkumar Balakrishnan and Best Actor in a supporting role for M.S. Bhaskar. The Harish Kalyan-Indhuja Ravichandran starrer tells the relatable story of how the relationship between neighbours Eshwar (Harish Kalyan) and Illamparuthi (M.S. Bhaskar) change when one […]
Remembering Actor-Writer-Director Manivannan on his 72nd Birth Anniversary
Manivannan was born on 31 July 1963 in Coimbatore district. He was involved in more than 400 films – first as writer, then as director and then as an actor. Altough he is best known to audiences as an actor, he directed exactly 50 films in a career that spanned 33 years, with three posthumous […]
Radha Ravi, son of M.R. Radha, turned 72 today
Radha Ravi is the son of legendary actor M.R. Radha. His elder brother, M.R. R, Vasu was a prolific actor in the 1970s. His half-sister is M.R. Radhika – now Radhika Sarathkumar and his other half-sister is Nirosha. He made his debut to the screen in a Kannada film produced by actor Bharath’s father. It […]
Dulquer Salmaan turns 42
Dulquer Salmaan is the son of the legendary actor, Mammooty. He made his debut to the Tamil screen in the bilingual film Vaayai Moodi pesuvum, made simultaneously in Tamil and Malayalam. He then played the lead role in Mani Ratnam’s Oh Kaadhal Kanmani opposite Nithya Menen. In 2017 he starred in the dual language film […]
Remembering the founder of AVM Productions and AVM Studios, A.V. Meiyappan, on his 118th birth anniversary
A.V. Meiyappan Chettiyar is the founder of AVM Studios and AVM Productions, the longest surviving film production company in Kodambakkam. Meiyappan was born in Karaikudi on 28 July 1907. His father owned a department store that also sold gramophone records. At an early age, Meiyappan realised that there would be more profit in manufacturing gramophone […]
Dhanush turns 42
Venkatesh Prabhu is the real name of Dhanush who was born on 28 July 1983. He is the winner of four national awards, 14 SIIMA Awards and 9 Filmfare Awards Dhanush made his debut to films in the 2002 film Thulluvadho Illamai which credited his father – Kasthurieraja – as director, but was actually unofficially […]
“Thalaivan Thalaivi” Film Review
Pandiraj’s latest directorial – Thalaivan Thalaivi brings together Vijay Sethupathi and Nithya Menen in the lead roles, supported by Kaali Venkat, Yogi Babu, Roshini Haripriyan, Deepa Shankar, Myna Nanthini, Chemban Jose Vinod, Saravanan, R.K. Suresh Aruldoss, Vinod Sagar, Sendrayan and Chithra Lakshmanan. Thalaivan Thalaivi is a family story infused with lots of comedy and a […]
Chithra – More than 25 000 songs in 26 languages
Chithra, born on 27 July 1963, has recorded more than 25 000 songs in 26 languages in a career spanning 46 years. She is the first Indian woman by the British Parliament at the House of Commons in 2003. She is also the first Indian woman to be honoured by the Government of China in 2009. […]
A.V.M. Rajan turned 90 today.
Shanmugasundaram is better known by his screen name, A.V.M. Rajan. He was born in Pudhukottai on 26 July 1935. Nursing an old injury, he struggled to make a break into films. Eventually, he was given a small role in Shankar’s S.S. Rajendran starrer, Sivagangai Seemai. However, his scenes were deleted from the final cut. He […]
TOP 20 TAMIL Songs for week ending 25 July 2025
This Week Title Film/Album Singer/s Lyric Music Last Week 1 Anju Vanna Poove Thug Life Charulatha Karthik Netha A.R. Rahman 3 2 Vinveli Nayaga Thug Life Shruthi Haasan, A.R. Ameen & Prashanth Venkat Karthik Netha A.R. Rahman 1 3 Kallaliye Kallaliye Maaman Hesham Abdul Wahab & Sharanya Srinivas Vivek-Eknath Hesham Abdul Wahab 2 4 En […]