Thalapathy Vijay is one of the most wanted Tamil movie actors. Here are the best Vijay movies and his biography.
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Top 10+ Best Thalapathy Vijay Movies 2023
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Top 5 Promising Tamil Actress 2020
We have plenty of skilled and beautiful actress in the Tamil film industry. Here is the new list of talented and promising yet beautiful Tamil actress of 2020 who gives their best efforts to make the movie best.
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Top 10 Best Surya Movies of all time
Surya is one of the best and most versatile actors in Tamil Movies. Here you can find the best Surya movies of all time.
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Success of Shankar movies
Endhiran
This film is one of the science fiction movie by Shankar. Rajinikanth is the hero, the scientist who created the humanoid robot named as chitti by his mom. Ever beauty Aishwarya Rai is committed with the scientist Rajinikanth both loving each other. The humanoid robot which do all the works like human is inspired by Rai and asks Rajini for that robot to keep with her one day. Then offered by the chitti to his master to create the feelings into it. That makes a huge problem that robot too start loving Rai and makes the tragedy and destroys the lives too. Finally, lots of trouble so the robot dismantled by the scientist.
Gentleman
Portrays the political crime in studies. Arjun the hero of the movie perfects well to this story.Goundamani and senthil chemistry works out too good as their comedy scenes simply rocks. Songs were chartbusters by arrahman.It is an out and out commercial entertainer with robbery, politics, and police crimes.Madhubala as heroine scores well.
Indian
Legendary Kamal Hassan as Indian freedom fighter who fights against corruption here .Shankar screenplay joined with sujatha script were simply outstanding. This movie showcased the major places of where does the corruption occurs and how it can be controlled. Casts too were perfectly suited to this movie. As usual Goundamani and senthil chemistry works out.Arrahman bgm was too good.
Jeans
Shankar first script based on love and family commercial entertainment. Miss World aishwarya rai has been debutant in her first Tamil movie through this. Core of the movie is about joys and sorrows of twin’s life and their love. Feelings has been portrayed very well. This movie has been done by prashanth who has did double roles has really worked hard for this movie. Aishwarya looks glamorous and pretty and performed well in her role. Other casts like Nasser, senthil, Rajasundaram, lakshmi done justice to their role. This movie has been well received by audience both critically and by general audience too.
Mudhalvan
Mudhalvan one of the famous politics movie by director Shankar in 1999.Arjun acted as a hero in the film, this film about the Tamil Nadu politics. Arjun is a TV reporter interviews the chief minster one day and asking some questions which cannot answered by CM. CM to Arjun, Asking this much questions do you know how tough it is. You try for a day! Arjun becomes one day CM and he makes everything proper dismiss the ministers and at end arrest the original CM too for the mistakes. After that Arjun forced into politics and loses a lot.
I
A recent movie by Shankar which is the super hit movie. A bodybuilder vikram was inject with a virus injection by his enemy who cannot accept his success in short period on the acting field so he plans to take revenge after his various enemies inject him with a substance that deforms his body that’s the story. This film was did by director Shankar, the one who always thinks high in their story creation and budget.
Nanban
Nanban is the movie of actor Vijay. The story about the three friends fully described their college lives and the entertainments. Also the engineering subjects way of teaching. Vijay, srikanth and actor jeeva are the three friends. Ileana is the heroine of this film who was also the lover of Vijay in the movie. The full movie shots are good and presented with energetic thoughts. The songs comes out very well.
Anniyan
Anniyan movie is fully different movie by Shankar about the public life and social crimes peoples doing nowadays. Vikram is the hero of the film who is affected with multi personality disorder. Their comes and goes 3 different kind of personalities namely ambi, anniyan and remo. Actress sadha is the pair for the hero. The movie, Vikram belongs to Brahmin family knows all rigs and Vedic norms and also lawyer knows all the laws. Ambi who tries to correct the society from illegal crimes but he can’t not do so the other personality anniyan will give the punishments followed by the “karudapuranam” book at the times the crime happens.
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Kung fu in Chinese Movies
Chinese Kung Fu movies, are the Chinese action hit movies, which introduced in movies to present traditional Chinese martial arts. Fights between two peoples are usually of great entertainment value and interesting for watchers. The kung Fu scenes tells us the barriers and conflicts because of injustice and evil and the remedy to escape from that is always fighting. In ancient times the scenarios are the settings. They frequently offer surroundings such as rings for martial arts contests, Kung Fu training centres and others where fights may happen. Bare-hand fights together with chases, stunt works and gunfights are included in the films.
Chinese cinema with kung Fu are the good medium to show Chinese martial arts to the world. In 1920’s time the period of silent films “The Burning of Red Lotus Temple” was shot. During the 1950s, the director Hu Peng in Hong Kong, achieved the success by the movie “Once Upon A Time in China”. From there, Kung Fu movies started to have its varieties in the field of film. A little later, “The One-Armed Swordsman” directed by Cheh Chang and “Come Drink with Me” by King Hu caused great sensations in this kung Fu field.
In the 1970s, Bruce Lee, a great star in Kung Fu gave still more sense to the marital arts in high level, the one who a world famous Kungfu master and Kung Fu star, massively introduced Chinese martial arts to the world with “Fists of Fury”, “The Way of the Dragon” and other movies. Nowadays, “Hero”, “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” are highly spoken and reached throughout the world.
At present the Kung Fu movies, fights for fairness and justice are still at the balance. Generally, Wing Chun, Hung Kuen, Shaolin Martial Arts and other skills are well performed to the audience through movies. Jet Lee, Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen and some other actors played many great masters’ characters with their real extraordinary skills.
‘Inkaar’ in 1977 – ‘High and Low’ in 1963
Place: japan
Story: A police detective helps a wealthy shoe company owner search for the young son of the owner’s chauffeur who’s been kidnapped by an ex-employee and his gang for a large ransom.
About: Inkaar is a terrific thriller, one of the best Bollywood has ever churned out but it Kurosawa’s Japanese original has not just the thriller elements but a strong socio-political commentary which gives it the obvious edge.
‘Aatish’ in 1994 – ‘A Better Tomorrow’ in 1986
Place: Hong Kong
Story: A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.
About: Serial remake hack, Sanjay Gupta, started off by adapting John Woo’s ultra-stylish Hong Kong action flick. The plot minus the romantic tangent is pretty much the same while many of the other scenes are picked up shot for shot. To add to the mix, Gupta also adds scenes from Scarface, Lethal Weapon 3 and much of the background score from The Terminator 2.
‘Aamir’ in 2008 – ‘Cavite’ in 2005
Place: Philippines
Story: A person arriving from abroad is handed a cell phone as soon he steps out of the airport. He’s informed that unless he participates in an act of terrorism, his entire family will be killed
About: I thought both movies were pretty evenly matched, featured great turns by the main protagonists, maintained a high level of tension throughout and were tightly paced. Though Aamir does at times pander to many clichés associated with Muslims in India.
‘Ugly aur Pagli’ in 2008 – ‘My Sassy Girl’ in 2001
Place: South Korea
Story: Desperate loner starts dating a hot girl, who is way too crazy for him to handle, turning his life upside down.
About: Never much understood the love for the South Korean original and absolutely despised the Indian remake. Other than adding the usual Indian kitsch of songs and melodrama, the movie’s plot remains quite faithful to the original.
‘Zinda’ in 2006 – ‘Oldboy’ in 2003
Place: South Korea
Story: A man is locked up in a hotel room for many years, without ever being told why or by whom and then one day suddenly released. Now in less than a week he has to find out the why and whom to reclaim his former life.
About: Sanjay Gupta ran amok yet again with a South East Asian classic, resulting in stylish yet highly watered down remake. In the original, the man is locked up for 15 years and has five days to find his captor upon release, in the Indian remake, he’s locked up for 14 years and has four days to find his captors. These are the minor changes made in the remake which otherwise borrows liberally scenes, shot-to-shot recreations of the original. Of course being India, they had to side-step the incest angle and shoe-horned in a flesh trade element.
‘Citylights’ in 2014 – ‘Metro Manila’ in 2013
Place: Philippines
Story: Seeking a brighter future, a poor villager and his family flee their impoverished life and head to the bustling lights of the metropolis. But the sweltering city’s bustling intensity quickly overwhelms them, and they fall prey to the rampant manipulations of its hardened locals. The villager catches a lucky break when he’s offered steady work for an armoured truck company. Soon, though, the reality of his new life forces him to confront the perils he has put before in his family.
About: Though both movies have almost identical plots and very strong actors in the central roles, Metro Manila is a way grittier and moving experience. City lights at times gets caught up in melodrama overkill and the background score can’t keep things subtle. Even the ending of Metro Manila has a far more poetic quality to it than the emotion heavy sledgehammer style of City lights.
‘Naina’ in 2005 ‘The Eye’ in 2002
Place: Hong Kong
Story: A girl who’s been blind since a young age receives corneal transplants and hopes to lead a normal life. However post the surgery, she starts seeing ghosts and having visions of impending tragedies.
About: The Pang brother’s original was an effective but not great horror movie and though Naina doesn’t quite measure up to the original, it’s still one of the better Indian horror films. Though they had to add a solar eclipse in the plot, didn’t they, thought it would resonate with Indian audiences.
‘Murder 2’ in 2011- ‘The Chaser’ in 2008
Place: South Korea
Story: A former cop now must track down an unnaturally shrewd and calm serial killer who’s been bumping off prostitutes.
About: The Indian remake had a terrific performance from Prashant Narayanan as the serial killer and they even made him a cross dresser which added an unneeded characteristic to the role. Since it was made by the Bhatt’s, the movie was more of an erotic thriller than a straight forward one like the original movie.
‘Koshish’ in 1972 – ‘Happiness of Us Alone’ in 1961
Place: Japan
Story: A romantic drama spanning twenty years chronicling the life of a deaf-mute couple.
About: Gulzar’s heart wrenching movie had its origins in this Japanese movie which he had watched during an international film festival. The major difference in plot being that in the Japanese movie, the female protagonist is widow of war, when the movie starts out. From then on much of the plot is the same, including an evil brother, the death of the first child and the helpful mother. Little can take away from Gulzar’s masterpiece but the Japanese one is just as good equally if not more.
‘Kaante’ in 2002 – ‘City on Fire’ in 1987
Place of Origin: Hong Kong
Story: A bunch of criminals plan to rob a bank, but one of them is an undercover cop.
About: Sanjay Gupta has been pretty candid about being “inspired” from Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Reservoir Dogs’ but he has also often quoted being influenced by the Hong Kong thriller ‘City on Fire’ (which was the source of Tarantino’s movie’s inspiration). And he does indeed pick up more than his share of scene from the Chow Yun Fat classic.
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Most Different Movies of Indian Cinema
Pesum Padam
They took this film with different concept is a story of a young jobless graduate who don’t have money to complete meal in a day. He kidnaps the millionaire and takes his place and living a luxurious life at a star hotel named “Pushpak”. He meets a young girl who staying in his same hotel and both fall in love. On the other hand, a hired killer who wants to kill the millionaire tries to kill Kamal mistaking as the millionaire.
PK
A stranger in the city asks questions but no onecan answer and askd before.He is the childlike curiosity man also falling in love. A mysterious PK is in search of God. A complete stranger PK is weird but curiously loving. PK in his search for God meets Bhairav Singh and Jaggu aka jagat Janani,Bhairav helps him to understand the language, Jaggu helps him to understand love.PK challenges the stereotype belief of faith and while finding his answers finds love and much more.
Slumdog millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire is the story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show’s questions. Intrigued by Jamal’s story, the jaded Police Inspector begins to wonder what a young man with no apparent desire for riches is really doing on this game show. When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out.
Border
Infact, the story is inspired by the Longewala battle of 1971. In the opening reels, the director tries to introduce the various characters and their family lives. Left to himself, probably Mr Dutta would have focussed entirely on the men in the war trenches but he has to cater to the commercial market. So, the second half gets down gritty to the business of re-enacting the battle between the outnumbered regiment against Pakistan’s sophisticated weaponry and a huge taskforce. The war scenes are effectively pictured that it conveys the almost-suicidal heroism of our sentinels.
One of the songs from this album ‘Sandeshey aate hai’ is very melodious.
Kaaka Muttai
Kaaka Muttai, is a delightful entertainer that won two National Awards. The film revolves around the lives, hopes and dreams of two youngsters named Vignesh and Ramesh living in the slums of Chennai.
A swanky pizza joint opens near their slum. Actor Simbhu is invited for the inauguration, and the children become obsessed with the tempting pizza that is served to him.
At first, they decide to earn the Rs.300 needed for the pizza but it seems like a distant dream. So they resort to stealing and other ingenious tricks like ferrying drunkards from the bar to their homes. Soon they have enough money for the pizza; unfortunately, their clothes are not good enough for the fancy restaurant. Callously driven away by the watchman, the kids are determined to earn some more to buy decent clothes. Sadly, not even branded jeans and T-shirts can hide their wretched background. This time they are physically abused before being thrown out. Deeply humiliated, the children give up on their dreams. The second half veers slightly towards the commercial. He has generously peppered the narrative with fun moments without undermining the underlying concern.
Tare zameen par
Ishaan an eight year old boy is thought to be lazy and a troublemaker, until the new art teacher has the patience and compassion to discover the real problem behind his struggles in school. And Ishaan just cannot seem to get anything right in class. When he gets into far more trouble than his parents can handle, he is packed off to a boarding school to ‘be disciplined’. Things are no different at his new school, and Ishaan has to contend with the added trauma of separation from his family. One day a new art teacher bursts onto the scene, Ram Shankar Nikumbh, who infects the students with joy and optimism. He breaks all the rules of ‘how things are done’ by asking them to think, dream and imagine, and all the children respond with enthusiasm, all except Ishaan. Nikumbh soon realizes that Ishaan is very unhappy, and he sets out to discover why. With time, patience and care, he ultimately helps Ishaan find himself.
Drishyam
Vijay Salgaonkar runs a cable TV network in a remote and hilly village of Goa. He lives a happy life with his wife Nandini and two daughters. A 4th grade dropout & an orphan, Vijay has worked his way towards success with his sheer hard-work & street smartness in order to provide for his family who mean the world to him. A man of few means & needs; Vijay believes life is to be lived simplistically – his wife, while she loves him devoutly, wants Vijay’s thrifty & miserly behavior to end and wants the world for her family. If there’s one thing that Vijay cannot live without, it is his passion for watching films. Such is his ‘filmy’ obsession that he doesn’t mind staying up all night at his office binging on TV movies! In a bizarre turn of events; a teenage boy goes missing; he is the son of a headstrong & no-nonsense cop; IG Meera Deshmukh and the Salgaonkar family is the prime suspect
Philips and the Monkey pen
Ryan Philips is a smart cute school boy who has one biggest problem Maths. As he struggles to escape from doing his maths homework, he resorts to mischievous acts, little realizing the trouble he is making. As we see his relationship with his dad Roy Philip (Jayasurya) and mother Sameera (Remya Nambeeshan) and conflicts of interest we get introduced to Ryan’s grandfather Richard Philip (Joy Mather) who is an antique collector. On visiting his grandfather Ryan gets a magical pen called monkey pen. This monkey pen does his maths homework and soon changes his whole life.
Mozhi
This film is full of thoughts about the deaf girl on life. A musician’s love towards a stubborn deaf woman makes her eventually realize that there is more to her life than she previously thought. The jothika acting excellent in this film. This film also received award.
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History of Indian Cinema
India giving one of the flourishing cinema with different varieties. Actually foreigners are the pioneers of Indian cinema. In 1896, the Lumiere brothers explained the art of cinema by taking six short films cinematography in Bombay. The success of these films is done by the screening of films by James B. Stewart and Ted Hughes.Many short films taken at that time but Dada Saheb Phalke in 1913 made the first feature length silent film which hunted the success.
Films were produced in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Bengali. Mythology flourished more in South India where its social conservative morals films were taken. In Bombay the Indian and foreigner’s cinema started their success.
Then the stunts entry to the films which also gets the audience for more involvement to the Movie side. Following on Nadia’s heels in 1940, Florence Esekiel, a teenager from Baghdad, arrived in Bombay and was soon given the screen name of Nadira. She played the love interest in a Dilip Kumar film who at the time was a leading heartthrob. She gradually slipped into mother roles. One of her last appearances was in Ismail Merchant film Cotton Mary.
There were also notable male actors like Bob Christo, an Australian who also made a mark on the screen. He came to India as a villan in movies for a picture with actress Parveen Babi and ended up actually being in a film with her. Another notable actor is Tom Alter who has played the foreigner who does not speak the language, although he is fluent in Hindi and Urdu, even reciting poems in Urdu on the stage. He was raised in Mussourie, India.
A Franco-Burmese who the norms, and started sexuality filled roles. As side the glamour joins to play in the movies. Franz Austen, a German came to Bombay and directed 57 blockbuster films.
In 1947, India got its independence, historical and mythological stories were being replaced by social reformist films focusing on the lives of the lower classes, prostitution and the dowry system. This brought a new way of film-makers to the forefront such as Bimal Roy and Satyajit Ray among others.
India’s new way was founded, offering a greater sense of realism to the public and getting recognition abroad. Then the industry went to bring out ‘masala’ films with a cluster including action, melodrama punctuated, comedy, with songs and dances. There is a growing movement to make Indian cinema more realby comedy,sensational,emotional,sympathetic,social movies in several languages. A group of young filmmakers like Anurag Kashyap, Anand Gandhi, etc.Indian cinema now playing a mass collections with numbers of directors, producers, artists, cinematographer. It improved lot in the picturisation,story level, delivering level and trailer level.Many heros,heroins,comedians and supporting actors.The actors like Amitabhbatchan,mohanlal, mammotty, Rajinikanth, Kamal Hassan, uttam kumar,pawan kalyan etc.
Many talented directors made the Indian cinema to extent. Now no more favourable time for us than Indian cinema than today. With a vast creative community, new technology and investment interest, we are seeing Indian cinema crossed its national borders in India’s movie project as socio-political and economic influence around the world. Indian cinema have many blockbusters and many film placed in box office hits. Totally more than 50 productions houses are in India for the cinema. Many awards are specially allotted in film sides. Indian cinema has become a part and parcel of our daily life whether it is a regional or a Bollywood movie. Entertainment is the keyword for Indian cinema. Indian cinema completed and celebrated its 100 years with large number of mass hits and the realistic stories.
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History of Tamil Cinema
History of Tamil Cinema from 1916 the first silent film in South India was done by Nataraja Rangaswamy Mudaliar made Keechaka Vadham. Lead actors of Keechaka Vadham were Jeevarathnam, R. Nataraja Mudaliar and Raja Mudaliar. Other films by Nataraja Mudaliar are Draupadi Vastrapaharanam in 1917, Mayil Ravana in 1918, Lavakusa in 1919, Kalinga Mardanam in 1920, Rukmini Kalyanam in 1921 and Markandeya in 1923. Other names to be mentioned from the distant past of Tamil cinema are R.Prakash, R.Venkaiah, A.Narayanan and K.Subramanyam.
30’S MOVIES
The first talkie in Tamil was H.M.Reddy’s Kalidas in 1931. It had a cast consisting of P.G.Venkatesan, T.P. Rajalakshmi, and M.S.Sabthanalakshmi. Folklores,
Mythologicals, pseudo historicals and photographed stage plays were the themes of Tamil cinema in the thirties films had more songs nearly 30. Musicians like Dandapani Designer, G.N.Balasubramanian, Musiri, M.S.Subhalakshmi and others were cast in the Tamil movie. A.Narayanan’s 1934 film Srinivasa Kalyanam was the first Tamil talkie .In 1935, South India Film Corporation made Kausalya with contemporary theme. The first female director and producer of Tamil cinema was T.P Rajalakshmi .Chinthamani in 1937 was the first Tamil film to run for more than a year in a single cinema house.
Other notable Tamil films of the thirties were Meerabai and Thenali Raman, etc.
Stardom in Tamil films had its birth in the thirties itself. The first female superstar of Tamil cinema was K.B.Sundarambal, that year itself she got 1lakh rupees for her film.
40’S MOVIES
The directors of fourties were S.S.Vasan, L.V.Prasad, A.V.Meiyappan and T.R.Sundaram.S.S.Vasan’s Chandralekha film was produced on a high budget and is among the most expensive tamil films of all time. T.R Rajakumari, Ranjan, M.K.Radha, and N.S.Krishnan were the leading artists of Chandralekha.
A.V.Meiyappan’s 1947 film Nam Iruvar was important movie of the decade. Nam Iruvar was the first production venture of AVM Productions was established in 1945. It is the largest and oldest production studio currently active in Tamil industry.
Popular stars of this time were M.K.Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, M.K.Radha P.U.Chinnappa, Ranjan, K.R.Ramaswamy, T.R.Mahalingam, T.R.Rajakumari and Rukmini. M.K Thyagaraja Bhagavathar(MKT) was the most popular among them and is widely regarded as the first superstar of Tamil cinema.
The late fourties witnessed the excellent exploitation of Tamil cinema for achieving with political aims. C.N.Annadurai, who later went on to become the chief minister of Tamilnadu was the leader of this phenomenon in the history of world cinema. Annadurai wrote the script for Velaikkari(1949), by director A.S.A.Swamy. Velaikkari was a successful movie and it sets a new trend in Tamil cinema.
M.Karunanidhi, Annadurai’s trusted assistants and wrote screen plays for several films. Karunanidhi also rose to the level of Chief Minister of Tamilnadu.
50’s and 60’s
They were M.G.Ramachandran(M.G.R), Sivaji Ganesan and Gemini Ganesan.
M.G.Ramachandran made his debut in Ellis R Dungan’s 1935 film Sati Leelavati. He played the hero in a number of blockbusters M.G.R is considered the numero uno in the history of Tamil cinema and was fondly called Puratchi Thalaivar. He became the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu in 1977.
Sivaji Ganesan was one of the first and finest method. He was fondly called as Nadigar Thilakam. Sivaji Ganesan entered film world through the 1952 film Parasakthi movies like Veerapandiya Kattabomman, Paasamalar, Vasantha Maligai,etc.
Gemini Ganesan, nicknamed Kadhal Mannan. Then he played Lord Krishna in Chakravarthi Master, films like Parthiban Kanavu, Kalathur Kannamma, etc.
Other popular actors are Sivakumar, Muthumaran, Jaishankar, Balaji, Vijayakumar, Nagesh, M.N.Nambiar, P.S.Veerappa, Asokan, R.S.Manohar and Major Sundera Rajan, Anjali Devi, Savithri, P.Bhanumathi, Padmini, Pushpalatha, Sowkar Janaki,etc.
By the late sixties Tamil cinema witnessed the screenwriter, and director K.Balachander. He did the movies with bold themes. His films with unusual and complicated relationships and social themes. His movies like Ethir Neechal, Arangetram, Aval Oru Thodar Kathai, Naan Avan Illai, Apoorva Raagangal, He introduced and gave breaks to many artists including Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, Vivek and Prakash Raj.
70’s and 80’s
By the late seventies three more directors were K.Bharathiraja, Balu Mahendra and K.Bhagyaraj.
Bharathiraja’s films like 16 Vayathinile in 1977. Bharathiraja himself wrote the script for 16 Vayathinile which had Kamal Haasan, Rajnikanth and Sridevi in lead roles. He concentrated mainly in village side themes.
Balu Mahendra’s films were remarkable and his was Azhiyadha Kolangal. His other movies include Moodupani, Veedu, Sandhya Raagam, Moondram Pirai, and Sathi Leelavathi.
K.Bhagyaraj’s films were laced with earthy humour and the characters were honest and straight forward. He made his entry into direction with the 1979 movie Suvar Ellatha Chitrangal. His notable movies include Vidiyum Vari Kaathiru, Mouna Geethanagal, etc.
The mid-late seventies and early eighties actors Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth to Tamil cinema.
Kamal Haasan performed as a child. He got his first break in Tamil cinema with K.Balachander’s 1975 movie Apoorva Raagangal, which was also Rajinikanth’s debut movie. He worked with K.Balachander in a number of movies including Moondru Mudichu, Avargal, Manmadha Leelai,etc. Over the years Kamal Haasan has done a variety of roles in films like Raaja Paarvai, Vazhve Mayam, and many films.
More actors entered are Vijayakanth, Sathyaraj, Karthik, Sarat Kumar, Arjun and Murali, Prabhu Ganesan, Mohan. Popular heroines were Khushboo, Radha, Gouthami, Ambika, Saranya and Rupini.
Introduction of directors like Mani Ratnam, S.A.Chandrasekhar, Manivannan, T.Rajender, Vikraman, R.K.Selvamani, Santhana Bharathi, K.S.Ravikumar and S.Shankar. Mani Ratnam and S.Shankar stand out among the others. Mani Ratnam had scripted and directed critically and commercially successful films like Mouna Raagam, Nayagan, Agni Natchathiram, Anjali,etc. S.Shankar is known for his excellent treatment of commercial cinema and has won accolades for his films like Gentleman, Kadhalan, Indian, Jeans, Mudhalvan, Boys, Anniyan and Sivaji:The Boss.
90’S and 2000
In the nineties actors like Aravind Swamy, Vijay, Ajith, Prasanth and Prabhu Deva entered Tamil filmdom. Heroines like Nagma, Rambha, Soundarya, Madhoo, Meena, Devayani, Roja and Simran gained popularity during this period. Directors like Sundar C, Rajeev Menon, S.J.Sooryah, S.Ezhil, Selva and Cheran entered Tamil film industry during the nineties.
Tamil cinema has produced some of the most talented music directors are Ilayaraja and A.R.Rahman, Harris Jayaraj, Deva, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Devi Sri Prasad, Vidyasagar and Srikanth Deva.
Behind them Vijay, Ajith, Vikram, Surya and Madhvan also rake in the moolah. Younger stars like Jayam Ravi, Dhanush, Silambarasan, Vishal, Arya, Jeeva, Bharath, Jai and Karthi Sivakumar have done good business at the box office in the recent past. Comedians Vadivelu and Vivek are other prominent actors. Heroines of kollywood are Asin Thottumkal, Nayantara, Trisha Krishnan, Shriya Saran, Tamanna Bhatia, Sandhya, Reema Sen, Sadha, Sneha, Bhumika Chawla and Namitha. The directors at present are Mani Ratnam, S.Shankar, Gautham Menon, Bala, Linguswamy, Vishnuvardhan, Cheran, Hari, Saran, P.Vasu, K.S.Ravikumar M. Raja, Susi Ganesan, Myshkin, Perarasu, Prabhu Deva, Balaji Sakthivel, A. R. Murugadoss, Selva, Ameer and Boopathy Pandian.