TOP 20 Tamil Songs for week ending 28 March 2025
This Week Title Film/Album Singer/s Lyric Music Last Week 1 Yedi Nilavukku Enmel Ennadi Kodam Dhanush & Jonita Gandhi Vivek GV Prakash Kumar 2 2 Kalloorum Veera Dheera Sooran Haricharan & Shweta Mohan Vivek GV Prakash Kumar 3 3 Aiyaiyo Independent Samuel Nicholas Mohan Raj & Samuel Nicholas Samuel Nicholas 4 4 Vaa Kannamma Once […]
“Aghathiyaa” Film Review
Lyricist Pa. Vijay’s third directorial, Aghathiyaa is a curious mixture of historical fiction, horror, family drama and social drama with doses of romance, comedy and action. One can forgive the audience for not being able to slot this film into a genre as the film’s writer and director – Pa. Vijay – clearly could not […]
Versatile actor, Prakash Raj turns 60 today
Prakash Raj, whose real name is Prakash Rai, was introduced to the Tamil screen by K. Balachander in the Prabhu-Ramesh Aravind starrer, Duet. Prakash Raj was so grateful for this breakthrough that when he turned producer, he named his production company Duet Films. Born on 26 March 1965, he made his mark in TV shows […]
Tamil Cinema mourns the loss of 2 actors today
Manoj Bharathiraja, the son of acclaimed director-turned-actor Bharathiraja, passed away early this evening due to cardiac arrest. The 48-year old actor made his acting debut under his father’s direction in the 1999 film Taj Mahal penned by director Maniratnam. He went on to star in films like Samudhiram, Kadal Pookal, Alli Arjuna, Pallavan, Varushamellaam Vassantham, […]
T.M. Soundararajan – Redefining the style of Devotional Songs
In 1953, seven years after TM Soundararajan entered the film recording industry, he recorded his first two devotional songs for the HMV label under the music of KV Mahadevan. His salary for these two songs was Rs 80. Being a devotee of Sai Baba and Lord Murugan, he decided to record his own devotional songs […]
T.M. Soundararajan – The irreplaceable and unequalled Legend
TM Soundararajan was born in Madurai on 24 March 1922. He began his formal training in Carnatic music at the age of 7 and participated in his first concert at the age of 23. A year later, after many rejections, he received his first playback singing assignment under the music of S.M. Subbaiah Naidu for […]
“Baby & Baby” Film Review
Baby & Baby is a comedy of errors set against a backdrop of two conservative families headed by two conservative and dogmatic fathers. Although offering very little in terms of originality of plot or character development, the film provides many laughs, many of them of the laugh-out-loud variety and features a stellar cast. Jai, Sathyaaraj […]
TOP 20 Tamil Songs for week ending 21 March 2025
TOP 20 TAMIL SONGS for week ending 21 March 2025 This Week Title Film/Album Singer/s Lyric Music Last Week 1 Vaa Kannamma Once More Hesham Abdul Wahap & Uthara Uniikrishnan Vignesh Srikanth Hesham Abdul Wahab 3 2 Yedi Nilavukku Enmel Ennadi Kodam Dhanush & Jonita Gandhi Vivek GV Prakash Kumar 4 3 Kalloorum Veera Dheera […]
Vijay Yesudas birthday special
Vijay Yesudas, son of the legendary KJ Yesudas, was born on 23 March 1979. He made his debut in the 2000 Malayalam film, Millenium Stars under the music of Vidhyasagar. He made his debut to Tamil through the 2000 film, Krodham 2 which had music by Deva. He has thus far sang more than 1000 […]
Remembering Gemini Ganesan on his death anniversary
Ramasamy Ganesan – better known by his screen name, Gemini Ganesan – was born on 17 November 1920. He was one of the college graduates to enter the Tamil film industry at the time and was one of the “Big 3” of Tamil cinema – after Sivaji Ganesan and MG Ramachandran. Gemini Ganesan was also […]