Hi friends let us discuss about Tamil films which are good.This is the first part of this Article Series and each part I will discuss 2 films and if you find any Tami movie that you feel worth watching, you can comment in this article

#)Anbe sivam:

Yet to watch?:For those who are going to watch this film for the first time, it is a humorous film and most importantly it gives a universal message "LOVE PEACE..Love others".We can watch this movie n number of times and most of my friends including me knew whats going to be the next dialogue.Its really an International Standard Movie.

Theme: "Love Peace"- The man who has the heart for forgiving others are considered as God.

Actors: Kamalhassan, Madhavan,Kiran.... etc.

Behind the screen: Sundar.c(Director), Vidyasagar(Music)

Year of release: 2003

About the movie:

This is a very pleasant movie and moreover the important aspect of the movie is timing comedy.The director has used humor has a precious tool to say the moral of the story.The film begins in Bhubaneshwar and the climate is worse, as cyclone  was approaching the city.Both Madhavan and Kamal were to board the Chennai flight.

Due to heavy rain all flights were cancelled and with the help of Kamal, Madhavan gets a 3 star hotel for accommodation.But Madhavan hates and never respects Kamal as he was a disabled man.Apart from this Madhavan was from a wealthy family, and he never finds the 3 star hotel comfortable. 

Then the next day they tried for the train, but unfortunately the same case happened here, as all the trains were cancelled.So with the help of madhavan's friends they decides to travel at the bus roof, which Madhavan has to accept as he lost all the money and has only credit cards.

The reason why Kamal came to Bhuvaneshwar was that, to get the compensation money of about 32 lakhs.Then the bus stops at a place and from that they have to catch a train to reach Chennai.But the station master said the train will stop only for 4 minutes.The way in which the station master says was very humorous and brilliant.

When asked by Madhavan he replied "2 to 2 to 2:2".... I guess you can understand when we write but in that movie it was confusing and later Kamal clariies it.The station master said the train will stop from 1:58 to 2:02( 2 minutes to 2:00 clock to 2:02).Kamal also reveals he was getting married in 2 days time.

Mean while Kamal says his flashback, where he was in love with a Bussiness Magnet's daughter,Kiran and finally when they decide to get married without Nassar's(Kiran's Father) permission, Kamal met with an and that has made him disabled.After recovery when he goes to see her,Nassar says that she was already married and settled abroad.So Kamal was dejected and he leaves that place.

Then the film comes to the present where Kamal and Madhavan starts a quarrel when they were speaking about Communism.As a result of this, Kamal was left behind in the railway station and Madhavan travels alone without Kamal.Meanwhile on the way the train stops and Madhavan also lost his luggage to a co passenger(Yugi), whom he felt was a very good man.

The reason why the train was stopped is that there was an accident on the track the previous day when a train on that track derailed and many people were dead and many more were injured due to this accident.Madhavan was suprised to meet Kamal there and Kamal said he has lot of friends and he came to that place by an ambulance.

A small boy who was injured in that train accident was in need of AB -ve blood and Kamal knew that Madhavan also has the same blood group and he informs the doctor.At first Madhavan hesitates as he was afraid, but later when he sees the boy he gives blood and saves the boy's life temporarily, and the doctor felt that he needs to be taken to Chennai for higher treatment.

So Madhavan and Kamal also travel in that Ambulance and later on their way to Chennai, the small boy dies and this really hurts Madhavan.It was at this time Kamal tries to explain what is life and how the life should be...He also says the power of forgiving others will not result in revenge and naturally a war free world can be expected.

Then they reach Chennai and Kamal was shocked to see that Madhavan was going to marry his ex-lover, Kiran.He also understood that Nasser lied to Kiran that Kamal was dead and so she accpeted to marry Madhavan.Nasser who has noticed the presence of Kamal asks him to leave that place.But Kamal wants to use this chance and he also made arrangement, that the workers in Nasser's company will get increment in salary.

Later Nasser sends Santhana Bharathi to kill Kamal, but when the former hesitates to kill him,and so Kamal praised him that he was also a God as he has forgiven him.Then the story ends when Kamal and his pet dog (Sangu) walks in the flooded street of Chennai.

#)Kannathil Muthamittal:

Yet to watch?: Friends please don't miss this movie, as this is a very touching movie and moreover this is a story of a young SriLankan child who was adopted by a family in India and later when she finds that her mother was in Sri Lanka, she along with her present family decides to go to Sri Lanka in search of the girl's mother.

Theme: Well, this has an International feeling,i.e A mission to find one's mother and it indirectlyexplais the effect of the war and its aftermath.

Actors: Madhavan,Simran,Keerthana,Nandita Das.

Behind the screen: Maniratnam(Director), A.R.Rahman(Music Director), A.Sreekar Prassad(Editing)

Year of release: 2002

About the movie:

This movie starts in Sri Lanka where a Sri lankan Tamil couple gets married.But after some years many Tamil people decides to leave for India as a refugee.

After 9 years it was shown that Madhavan and Simran had 3 children, a daughter Amudha and she has two younger brothers.She lives a ver happy life till her 9th birthday, when Madhavan and Simran decides to say the truth that she was adopted from a refugee camp from Rameswaram.

Really this is a very heart touching scene to say a child that she was not their own child.Amudha was shocked to hear this and pleaded them that it must be a lie.She also scolds them for revealing the secret and also says  that it would have been better not revealing the secret to her.

Amudha was dejected and after knowing the truth she tries on her own to go to Rameswaram and find the whereabouts of her real mother.After realising that Amudha was missing, Madhavan understood that she might have gone to Rameswaram and was able to find her.

But Madhavan clearly undersood the feelings of Amudha and he promised her that they will go to Sri Lanka in search of Amudha's mother.So as per his promise Madhavan, Simran and Amudha reaches Sri Lanka and there they were invited by the Sri Lankan Tamil Sangam, because apart from being an Engineer Madhavan is also a writer.

There he also meets Prakash Raj who is a Sinhalese Doctor and also a friend of Madhavan.He is the one who will guide Madhavan's family in Sri lanka.There Prakashraj informs that Amudha's mother was there in a village and also guides them with the bus  route.

But unfortunately before they reach the village the war has started between LTTE and Sri Lankan Army  and all the people of that village have already evacuated.But still they could meet the women but unfortunately she was not Amudha's mother because there were two village in different places under the same name.

The rest of the story revolves around, how Amudha finds her mother.At one instant when Madhavan and Prakash Raj were walking in a forest, they were kidnapped by the LTTE.But they realised that Madhavan was a Tamil writer  and decides to let him free but not Prakash Raj as he was a Sinhalese, but Madhavan tries and informs them that he was the person who helped them.

When Madhavan said about the reason why they came to Sri Lanka and also said Amudha's mother name, the LTTE group leader was surprised to hear that it was none other than her sister.He also asks them to come the next day at a specific location.When Madhavan comes with his daughter and wife, unfortunately fighting starts in that place as the Srlankan Army got the information that LTEE will come to that place.

So Simran get injured in this accident and they left the place.Amudaha realises that Simran was very kind to her after she saw the suffering of Simran when she got injured.So she decides not to hurt anyone hereafter and said that they can leave for India.

The next day when they were going to the airport, Simran asked to stop the car at the same place where fighting took place the previous day.Now she could see Nandita Das and this was a very emotional scene when Amudha met her mother and asks her some questions.Finally Nandita Das felt that her daughter was safe in India than in their place and left that place.This was a very touching moment.Finally Amudha joins with her adopted mother Simran and the film ends.

Credit must go to A.R.Rahman who did a marvelous job in this film.The music he composed in this film are very very cute and also makes us feel the pain.Amazing work and thats why he got a National Award.Don't miss this movie.

Hi friends in this article let us see about a Kurdish film called "TURTLES CAN FLY".In Persian this film is called as "Lakposhtha ham parvaz mikonand".This film mainly concentrates on the children of Iraq.This film is slow, yet we can enjoy the performance of all these child actors.

The film was set on a a Kurdish refugee camp, which is located on the Iraq - Turkish border.Many refugees come to this camp and most of the children who usually come to this camp have lost their parents.These children's in this camp usually spend their day by taking the land mines which was set by the Americans and Iraq soldiers.

Another important aspect in this film is the character called "satellie" and he is the most amazing character in the film.He is like boss to all these children, but he is also very kind to them.He helsp all the children in the surrounding villages near the border and he is also responsible for bringing the dish to the nearby village, so that people could watch news about the war.

Pashaw and Shirkooh were the assistants to Satellite and they are very loyal to them and they do whatever work assigned by Satellite.These two character have added some humor to the film and they look very innocent.Their performance must be appreciated, because in each and every scene they appear they have acted with with full zeal and spirit.

The way in which Satellite helps and control all the refugee children was excellent and more than that the essence of humor was also added to this.Even though he dominates others, he does all these things only for the benefit of the children located there as they had no other hope for getting food.

Another important characters in the film is the young girl Agrin and her brother, Hengov along with a small kid.At first everybody thought the kid was the younger brother to them.But later in the film we can find the truth why Agrin heates that kid and why she want to kill that kid.

These refugee children's will collect the mines and they will sell them to get money.It is with the help of this money they run their life.The most important aspect of the film is the cinematography.Really it was very pleasant to watch all the locations.They have shown how beautiful Iraq will be and more than that they have also show that the fall of Sadaam Hussain in a positive sense, as people suffered under his role.

Eventhough the pace of the movie is slow to an extent, still we can enjoy the theme of the movie.Most of the locations in the movie are mountains and valleys and they are extremely pleasant to watch.This is Kurdish movie and hence you should need subtitles,unless you know the language.

The director has made this movie in a fantastic way and also maintained an International standard.This film is very complex to understand as it directly shows the effects of war.These war made the people to migrated form one place to another and they do only for their protection.It also explains the effect of war, i.e whenever a war takes place between two Nations, only the innocent people suffer a lot.

When it comes to the tile of the movie, really I was not in a position to understand it.Then, when I browsed and search to get its meaning Ive founds this is a metaphor and it reflects to the Kurdish people and their suffereings sue to the war.But the director Bahman Ghobadi has explained the meaning for the title, as follows

"In their long life, they(turtles) live partly on water and partly on land. This is symbolic for me of the joy and anguish and migration of the Kurds. The slow-moving turtle is like the Kurds: With all of our problems, we have managed to move forward, and we always end up upright"

It was also mentioned that the director has related turtle to the character of Hengov(who was armless) and the director also stated that while he was shooting the film near a pond he found a turtle and he related it to the character of Hengov and then of the Kurds.

Today Tamil cinema after completing 77 years of history has grown to such an extent, that it is released all over the world even in countries like Japan.

 

In olden days of tamil cinema ( may be upto late 60's ) if somebody wants to act in films, they should know alteast any one art ( Singing / Dancing ), should speak tamil fluently

( as there was no dubbing in that period ),should know acting and should have a good look. So the actors and actresses in that period were very talented and also competition was

less at that time.Films in this period had more songs ( some films even had ten songs ) ,lengthy dialogues, sentiment, comedy, fight etc.

 

Now-adays i don't think people need to have all those mentioned above to act in a tamil film. If somebody has got a good producer that's enough,he/she can act in a film. They don't

even need to know tamil language ( As dubbing is available ).Almost all actresses in tamil cinema these days are from north india or southern part of india.But sustaining in tamil

cinema these days is very difficult because so much competition is there not only in acting but also in music direction, cinematography ,direction etc. Also it is difficult to predict

which film will be a hit as sometimes a new comer's film runs for 50 days and a super actor's film becomes an utter flop.Because of the advent in technology, a good DVD of a

new film reaches the market with in a month though pirated DVDs comes within a week.So lot of luck is needed nowadays for a film to be a superhit.

 

Ok. Let's see the journey of tamil cinema from where it has started.

1920's :

In this period only silent movies were produced.Films were produced in Chennai and sent to northern part of India for technical processing.The first silent tamil fim was

'Keechaka Vadham' produced and directed by R.Nataraja mudaliar.

1930's:

During this period the first talking film 'Kalidas' was produced.Kalidas was directed by H.M.Reddy.The heroine of this film was T.P.Rajalakshmi. This period marked the debut

for M.K.Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, the great singer with 'Pavalakodi', P.U.Chinnappa with 'Chandrakantha'. Bhagavathar also gave some more hit films which include 'Chintamani',

'Ambikapthy','Thiruneelakantar'. Ambikapthy and chintamani ran for more than a year.Ambikapathy was directed by the American film director Ellis.R.Dungan.

 

N.S.Krishnan (NSK ) famously known as "Kalaivanar" made his debut with the film 'Ambikapathy'. One cannot forget the combination of NSK and T.A.Madhuram in many movies.

The greatest chief minister of tamilnadu Mr.M.G.Ramachandran popularly known as MGR also made debut in this film but not as a hero.Raja Sandow was the famous producer

and director during this period.

1940's:

Whenever we think of this period the first film that comes in to our mind immediately is the film 'Haridas'.M.K.Thyagaraja Bhagavathar popularly known as MKT,was the hero

of this film and T.R.Rajakumari played the female lead role. NSK and T.A.madhuram took care of the comedy. This film run successfully for more than 2 years which was an

achievement in those days.Today we cannot imagine a film which will run successfully even for 100 days.

AVM productions ( more than 60 years old and surviving till today ) was born during this period with its first film 'Naam Iruvar'.Another famous productions 'Gemini Studios'

was also born during this period which produced the most expensive tamil cinema ( Close to 30 lakhs )'Chandralekha'. The flim was released all over India and was a big hit .

One cannot forget the wonderful drum dance in this movie till now.MGR's first movie as hero named 'Rajakumaari' was released during this period.

 

1950's:

This period marked the debut of the greatest ever actor of Tamil as well as Indian cinema 'Chevaliye' Sivaji Ganesan with the film 'Parasakthi'. I don't wish to write

about Sivaji ganesan here because pages are not enough to write about that wonderful actor.The lyrics of this film was written by our honourable chief minister M.K.Karunanidhi.

'Kadhal Mannan'( King of Romance ) Gemini ganesan made his debut in early 50's but he got popularity only in mid 50's.One cannot forgot the song 'Kadhalile Tholviyutral'

from the film 'Kalyana parisu' acted by Gemini ganesan released during the late 50's. First colour film in Tamil 'Alibabavum Narpadhu Thirudargalum' starring MGR was

released during this time.Actresses Savitri made her debut with the film 'Samsaram' and Saroja devi with 'Nadodi Mannan'.

Some of the Popular films during this period :

• Manohara,

• Nadodi Mannan

• Sabash Meena

• Veerapandiya Kattabomman

• Uthamaputhiran

• Malaikallan

• Kulabaghavali

• Madurai Veeran

• Missiamma

• Mayabazaar

1960's :

This period was predominantly dominated by the two super stars of tamil cinema MGR and Sivaji.Both of their 100th films were released during this period.MGR has acted

in around 60 films and sivaji has acted in around 50 films during this period.'Navarathiri' was sivaji's 100th film in which he played 9 different characters. 'Oli vilaku' was

MGR's 100th film.Sivaji acted in many historical and religious films during this period.

 

'Padamashree' Kamalhassan made his debut as child artist in the film 'Kalathur Kannamma'. Kamal has introduced many new technlogies in tamil cinema.He has proved

that a person's look can be changed to anything through make up. Former chief minister Jayalalitha made her debut with the film 'Vennira Aadai'.Veteran film director

Balachander who has directed around 100 films made his debut with the film 'Deivathai' starring MGR and Jayalalitha.Veteran comedian Nagesh got a breakthrough

in his career with the film 'Server Sundaram' even though he made his debut in late 50's.

Some of the Popular films during this period :

• Palum Pazhamum

• Parthal pasi theerum

• Aalayamani

• Periya Idathu Penn

• Padagotti

• Puthiya Paravai

• Enga Vettu Pillai

• Kalangarai Vilakkam

• Anbe Vaa

• Ayirathil Oruvan

• Kudieruntha Kovil Adimai Penn

• Padikkadha Medhai

• Paavamannippu

• Paasamalar

• Kappal Ottiya Thamizhan

• Bale Pandiya Karnan

• Thiruvilaiyadal

• Mahakavi Kalidas

• Thiruvarutchelvar

• Kandhan Karunai

• Uyarndha Manidhan

• Thillana Moganambal

1970's :

During the mid and late 70's kamal hassan was slowly emerging as a hero from supporting actor ( Aboorva Raagangal - Kamal's first movie as hero ) .Super star Rajinikanth

made his debut with the film 'Apoorva Raagangal 'directed by K.Balachander. Before emerging as a superstart rajinikanth initially he was acting in negative and supporting roles.

Rajini and Kamal acted together in many films during this period.

Director Bharathiraja made his debut with the film '16 Vayathinila'.Music genius Illayaraja made his debut with the film 'Annakili'.Actress Radhika made her debut

with the film 'Kizhakke pogum rayil'.Actor Vijaykanth made his debut with the film 'Inikkum Ilamai'.

Some of the Popular films during this period :

• Mattukara Velan

• Rickshawkaran

• Ulagam Sutrum Valiban

• Urimai Kural

• Vietnam Veedu

• Vasandha Maaligai

• Gauravam

• Rajapart Rangadurai

• Thanga Padhakkam

• Baaradha Vilas

• Andhamaan Kadhali

• Aboorva Raagangal

• Aval Oru Thodarkathai

• Ilamai Oonjaladugiradhu

• Moondru Mudichu

• Ninaithaale Inikkum

• Nizhal Nijamaagiradhu

• Bhuvana Oru Kalvi Kuri

 

1980's:

Rajni emerged as a super hero during this period. This period was dominated by Rajini and kamal.Rajni formed a significant mannerism for him during this period.Karthik

made his debut with the film 'Alaigal Oivathillai' which was a super hit.Actor Prabhu made his debut with the film 'Sangili'.Sathyaraj made his debut with the film

'Kodugal Illaatha Kolangal'.He was initially doing villan roles.He rewrited the looks of a villan in tamil cinema.Later he emerged as a hero.

Some of the Popular films during this period :

• Muthal Mariyathai

• Mr.Bharath

• Kadalora kavithaigal

• Vedam pudidu

• En Bommukutty Ammavukku

• Sattam Oru Iruttarai

• Nooravathu Naal

• Vaidegi Kaathirundhal

• Amman Koyil Kizhakkaley

• Nayagan

• Punnagai mannan

• Sathya

• Unnal Mudiyum Thambi

• Billa

• Jhonny

• Thillu mullu

• Moondru mugam

• Anbulla Rajinikanth

• Nann Adimai Illai

• Velaikaran

• Dharmathin Thalaivan

• Guru Sishyan

• Rajathi Raja

• Raja Chinna Roja

• Agni Natchathiram

 

1990's:

Many top heroes of today made their debut during this period.Actor Vijay called as 'Ilaya Thalapathi' made his debut with the film 'Nalaya theerpu' in early 90's.The breakthough

for him came from the film 'Poove unakkaga'which established him as good hero.Actor Ajith called as 'Ultimate star' made his debut with the film 'Amaravathi'.The first hit film that

he gave is 'Aasai'.'Cheeyan' Vikram made his debut with the film 'En kaadhal kanmani' in early 90's.But this film was not popular and he had to wait till late 90's for the film 'Sethu'

which was a turning point in his film career.Surya made his debut with the film 'Nerukku ner' as one of the heroes along with actor vijay.But the film that proved surya's ability and

gave him a breakthrough was the film 'Nanda' directed by Bala.Music director A.R.Rahman made his debut with 'Roja'.

 

Some of the Popular films during this period :

• Panakkaran

• Dalapathi

• Mannan

• Annamalai

• Yejaman

• Baasha

• Muthu

• Arunachalam

• Padayappa

• Kannupada Poguthaiya

• Sendhoorappandi

• Chinna Gounder

• Captain Prabhakaran

• Pulanvisaranai

• Michael Madhana Kamarajan

• Singaravelan

• Indian

• Avvai Shanmugi

• Walter Vetrivel

• Kadhalukku Mariyadhai

• Thulladha Manamum Thullum

• Poove Unakkaga

• Kathal Kottai

• Vaali

• Amarkalam

• Sethu

• Unnidathil Ennai Koduthen

• Ullathai Allitha

• Ponnumani

• Gopura Vasalile

• Kizhakku Vasal

• Chinna Thambi

From 2000 to till today:

I think many heroes and heroines have come, still coming in this period. So the list is so big to write.

Some of the Popular films during this period :

• Dhill

• Dhool

• Saamy

• Anniyan

• Kanthaswamy

• Kushi

• Ghilli

• Poovellam Un Vasam

• Billa

• Kaakha Kaakha

• Ghajini

• Sillunu Oru Kaadhal

• Vaaranam Aayiram

• Ayan

• Chandramukhi

• Shivaji

• Thenali

• Pammal K Sambandham

• Panchathanthiram

• Anbe Sivam

• Vasool Raja MBBS

• Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu

• Dasavatharam

• Ramana

• Thavasi

• Alaipayuthey

• Vaanathai Pola

• 12B

• Dhum Dhum Dhum

• Boys

• Mozhi

• Abhiyum Nanum

• Chithiram Pesuthadi

• Kadhal konden

• Padikkathavan

• Unnai pol oruvan

Music Directors:

Whenever we think of tamil cinema music, we can remember the three great music directors M.S.Viswanathan, Illayaraja and A.R.Rehman.

 

 

M.S.Viswanathan :

M.S.Viswanathan has contributed much to the tamil cinema during 60's and 70's.He is fondly called by the people of tamilnadu as 'Mellisai Mannar'.I think he is the

only successful music director who has worked with the superstars of two generations ( Sivaji,MGR) ( Kamal,Rajni ).He is not only a music director but also a very

good singer.One cannot forget the song 'Engeyum Eppodum' in the film Ninathela inikkum in his voice.Some of the mostpopular songs till today are 'Malarndhum

Malaratha'(Paasamalar),'Adaludan Padalai Kettu'(Kudi irundha kovil),'Nenjam Marappathillai'( Nenjam Marappathillai ),'Partha Nyabagam Illayo'(Pudiya Paravai),

'Chippi Irukkuthu' (Varumaiyin Niram Sivappu),'Ninaipathellam'(Nenjil Or Alayam) etc

Illayaraja:

Maestro Illayaraja's melodies are unbeaten till today.He mixed western style of music and folk music in his songs.He dominated the tamil cinema industry from late

70's to 90's.He has worked with almost every actor and every director during that period.He has composed all varieties of songs including carnatic style,folk style,

pop style etc. He has won three national awards for music.Some of ilayaraja's unbeaten melodies ( though the list is endless ) are 'Nilave vaa' ( Mouna Ragam ),

'Poove Sempoove' ( Solla Thudikkuthu manasu ),'Kanne Kalaimane' ( Moonram Pirai ),'Kaathalin Deepam Onru ( Thambikku Entha ooru ) etc

A.R.Rahman:

Rahman has taken the tamil music across tamilnadu,across India and all over the world.He mixed the electronic instruments with traditional musical instruments

and created a new style of music. He introduced many new singers in the industry.He made the 'Vande Mataram' album for 50th anniversary of Indian independence.

He got the prestigeous oscar award for the song 'Jai Ho' ( Slumdog Millionaire ).Nowadays he is working more in Hollywood films than tamil films.Some of his popular

songs are 'Chinna Chinna Asai' ( Roja ),'Kannalane' ( Bombay ), 'Telephone mani pol' ( Indian ),'Mukkala Muqabla' ( Kaadhalan ),'Mitwa' ( Lagaan ) etc.

Comedy:

It is very difficult to make a person laugh continuosly for 5 minutes.That's really a gift.Tamil cinema has seen different varieties of comedy.

Chandrababu:

He was a great comedian ( as well as singer ) during late 40's to 70's.Especially chandrababu has given many philisophical songs with social reforming ideas .His acting

resembled the famous english comedian 'Charlie Chaplin'.His famous songs include 'Puthiyulla Manidharellam' ( Annai ),'Sirippu Varudhu Sirippu Varudhu'

(Andavan Kattalai),'Bambara Kannale' (Manamagan Thevai),'Unakkaga Ellam Unakkaga' (Pudhayal ) etc.

N.S.Krishanan:

NSK's comedy tracks not only made us laugh but also made to think.He used to write the dialogues on his own.His comedy always had a message.He and his wife

T.A.madhuram were a good comedy pair those days.He was a favourite person for the honourable chief minister of Tamilnadu Mr.M.Karunanidhi.He was also a good

singer.Some of his popular films are Panam,Madurai veeran,Manamagal,Yar paiyan etc.

The ultimate song sung by him is 'Sirippu'( Rajarani ) in which he explains the different categories of laughing.

Nagesh:

Nagesh was a great comedian during 60's to 70's.He was a good dancer and also acted in character roles.His body language and timing of the dialogue delivery were

excellent. One cannot forgot his comedy in the films 'Thiruvilayadal' ( A character named Dharumni asking questions to lord shiva),'Kaadhalikka Neramillai'

( A character trying to become a film director),'Ethir Neechal' ( A character named madhu ).

Goundamani & Senthil:

This pair dominated the tamil cinema for more than two decades.Their comedy is purely an entertainer.Mostly goundamani will be scolding and beating senthil

and in every film they introduced new words for scolding.Some comedy tracks of this pair are still best entertainers even today but some are monotonous.All time

best comedy tracks of this pair are from the films Karakattakaran,Chinna Kounder,Jai Hind etc.

Vivek:

He is called 'Chinna Kalaivanar' as he is giving social reformic ideas in his films after N.S.kalaivanar.He used to praise our former president Abdul kalam in

his films.He attacked many superstitious beliefs in his films.He is more popular in urban areas as his comedy mostly surrounds them.His best ones are

Saami,Run,Minnale,Kushi etc.

Vadivelu:

He is fondly called 'Black nagesh'.His facial expressions and dialogue delivery made him very popular in rural as well as urban areas.His best comedy

tracks are 'Vetri kodi kattu' ( Along with Parthiban ),'Chandramukhi' ( With Rajini), 'Winner' ( With Prashanth ) etc

Female comedians:

Not very female comedians are there in tamil cinema. But the noted ones are Manorama, Sachu, Kovai sarala etc. Manorama fondly called as 'Achi' who acted

in more than 1000 films initially acted in comic roles in the early part of the career.Later she went for character roles.

Sachu paired with nagesh,Cho etc but not acted in many films.Kovai sarala along with goundamani and senthil acted only in comedy roles.

 

Heroines:

Today we are seeing a new heroines in almost every film but the popular ones are very.Also heroines have only little scope for acting nowadays and

they are mainly used for glamour with a few exceptions.

Good old heroines ( 50's to 70's ) are Savithri, Saroja devi,Padmini ,Bhanumathi etc. Savithri was called 'Nadigaiyar Thilagam'. Saroja devi attracted with

her sweet childish talk and Padmini by her excellent dance and acting.

Later heroines ( 80's to 2000 ) are Radhika,Radha,Ambika,Revathi,Khushboo,Nadhiya,Amala,Meena,Roja,Madhavi,Bhanupriya etc.

Khushboo is the most popular among all of these. Her fans built a temple for her.

Radhika is an ever green actress. Nadhiya is famous for her smile and hair-dos during that period.Radha and Ambika acted in many films

as pair for Rajini and Kamal.

Most popular modern day heroines are Simran, Jyothika, Laila etc.

Directors:

Good directors of old cinema are Sridhar,S.P.Muthuraman,A.Bhimsingh,K.Shankar,Neelakandan etc.

Ever green 'B' directors of tamil cinema are Bharathiraja ,Balumahendra and Balachander.

Maniratnam is a distinguished director . He has given new dimension to tamil cinema and  helped it to grow across tamilnadu.

Shankar's films are released all over the world though he has directed only few films. Also he is  giving good films as a producer.

Many new directors are coming nowadays but the popular directors of tamil cinema are Shankar,K.S.Ravikumar,Bala,Cheran,Selvaraghavan,Gowtham menon,

Dharani, Sundar C etc

Villans:

Tamil cinema has seen many villans but the greatest are only few. Nowadays you can see new villan in every film, and there is no great significance in their acting.

They just do fighting and say some punch dialogues.

Some of the villans who had a different style in their acting are Nambiyar, R.S.Manohar , Raghuvaran, Radharavi, Prakashraj,Sathyaraj etc.

Singers:

We can see new voices in every film now and it is very difficult to recognise the voices. The tamil songs now use lot of english words, stylish pronounciations etc .

So it is difficult to understand the lyrics.

'Old is gold' singers are T.M.Soundararajan, P.Susila, B.B.Srinivas, A.M.Raja, Jikki etc

Ever green singers are S.P.Balasubramanian, S.Janaki and Chitra.

Good singers in today's tamil cinema are Unnikrishnan, Hariharan, Tippu, Harini, Karthik, Madhu Balakrishnan, Nityashree etc

 

Hi friends in this article lte us see about the tamil movie Kireedam, a remake of Malayalam film Kreedam released in the 80s.The tamil version of kireedam was directed by debutant A. L. Vijay, who worked in a good number of commercial adds. The moive stars Ajith in the lead role and with Trisha Krishnan in the female lead. Other prominent stars include Raj Kiran, Vivek, Saranya, Santhanam, Cochin Haneefa, M. S. Baskar, Ajay Kumar and Ravi Kale.The movie mainly deals with the relationship between father and son. The music was scored by G. V. Prakash Kumar.The movie was produced by Suresh Balaje(a actor cum director in 80s). The movie is certainly a family treat to the audience.

Technical Crew:

* The movie was produced by Suresh Balaje.
* Distribution was by Adlabs Limited.
* The movie was directed by AL.Vijay.
* Sound tracks by GV. Prakash Kumar.
* Lyrics by Na. Muthukumar.
* Dialogues was shared between AL.Vijay and Na. Muthukumar.
* Cinematography by Tirru.
* Editing by Anthony.
* Art Direction by V.Selvakumar.
* Stunts by Super subburayan.
* Choreography by Kalyan and Dinesh.

CAst:

* Ajith Kumar as Shaktivel.
* Rajkiran as Rajarajan.
* Trisha Krishna as Divya.
* Ajay Kumar as Varadarajan.
* Santhanam as Balasubramaniam.
* Saranya as Rajkiran's wife.
* Vivek as Rajkiran's son-in-law.

 

Story line:

The moive set in Trichy, is all about an honest police constable Rajkiran, who dreams of making his son, Ajith a sub-inspector of police. Rajarajan's guiding principle is to be a faithful guardian for the public. He leads a tranquil life with his huge family comprising a caring wife (Saranya), three sons, two daughters and a jobless son-in-law (Vivek). Rajarajan has only one goal in life, to make his eldest son Sakthivel a policeman like him.

Sakthi bumps into Divya (Trisha), a jovial college student and after a few comic encounters they become closer. Eventually they both fall in love. Both the families agree for their marriage. Suddenly the situation changes when Rajarajan slaps the son of the local MLA for humiliating policeman in public.The MLA pressurize Rajarajan to apologize but he remains stubborn and refuses to yield to their threats. As a punishment, Rajarajan is transferred to Kodiyakkarai, which is terrorized by a notorious gangster Varadarajan (Ajay).

Nevertheless, even in his new posting, Rajarajan is sucked deeper into problems, for no fault of his.On the day when Sakthi was to get selected as an Sub Inspector, an incident happens which turns their life topsy-turvy. However, Sakthi is not the one to be cowed down by threats. One thing leads to another and Ajith ends up thrashing the villain and now the wounded villain is keen to take revenge. And the rest of the movie is all about how Ajith faces the problem and whether he becomes the inspector or not.

 

How he fulfils his father's ambition comes in an interesting presentation in the second half of the movie.Kreedom's post interval session seems to delve deep on melodrama which will undoubtedly bring the fairer sex to the theatres. One such scene is where Ajith is sent out by his father due to a tussle which makes him loaf around the town and enter his house late in the night. On his re-entry, Ajith’s Mother, Saranya, beckons him to have food and at that instant, all the members of the household come out with their eating plates, not having eaten a morsel of food without him the entire day.

On hearing the news that Shaktivel is getting into lots of trouble by the gangster group, Divya's family where tensed about their daughter's marriage.In the mean time Sakthi is framed as don by the locals there on beating Varadarajan in the market. Divya's father comes to Kodiyakkarai to get the correct status of Sakthi. While coming in the bus he finds Sakthi chased by a group of gangster on seeing this he returns home without visting Sakthi's.Then a number of incidence occur against Sakthi and his father gets stressed of his son's activities.

Sakthi goes to Trichy to get rid of the problems.In the mean time here in Kodiyakkarai Sakthi's family members are being attacked by Varadarajan's group and they are all hospitalised.On hearing this news Sakthi rushes to the hospital and sees his mother and his brother in serious condition.Sakthi makes up his mind to take revenge on Varadarajan and asks his brother to fulfil his father's dream of becoming a sub-inspector of police.Sakthi then goes to Varadarajan's place and their fight begins and in the middle of the fight Rajarajan and two constable arrive to the scene.
Rajarajan asks his son to leave Varadarajan but Sakthi kills him and starts crying for having done a great mistake.

The locals celebrate the death of Varadarajan.In the police station Sakthi's file asking for his behaviour is send from the police headqouaters, the inspector in charge in that station asks Rajarajan to tell what to do as it his son's life.Rajarajan says that Sakthi is not fit for police job.Sakthi's name is entered in the criminals list.On a scale of 5 the movie will be in the rating of  3.9 / 5.

Songs:

*  The movie totally has 6 sonud tracks. 
*  Vizhil sung by Sonu Nigam, Swetha.
*  Kanavelaam by Jeychandran, Karthik. 
*  Vilayaadu Vilayaadu by Shankar Mahadevan.
*  Akkam Pakkam by Sadhana Sargam.
*  Kanneer Thuliye by Vijay Yesudas.
*  Theme Music.
*  Vilayaadu Vilayaadu song comes as the intro song for AJITH.
*  All the other songs goes with the atory line.
*  Akkam Pakkam song got a big response from the audience.
*  Kanavelaam song tells us the beautiful reation between Ajith and Rajkiran.