Posts Tagged ‘Ilaiyaraja’

  • People of honour
    கெட்டாலும் மேன்மக்கள் மேன்மக்களே !சங்கு சுட்டாலும் வெண்மை தரும் ! Loosely translated, these words of Thamizh poetess Avvaiyaar (அவ்வையார்) means Even in their fall people of honour remain high A conch even if smelted by fire never darkens! If...
    by V.P. Jaiganesh at June 8th, 2009 at 01:06 pm
  • Namma Ooru transporter
    Memories are a beautiful tool. Sometimes they can be the best form of entertainment when you have no other means to relieve stress. Flipping the pages of an old photo album can rekindle so many memories that can make you forget where you are and what you do. It can free you from the limiting frame of current circumstance. Where imagination is limited, memory alone can...
    by V.P. Jaiganesh at April 7th, 2009 at 04:04 pm
  • A diamond falls from a tree – last tribute to Director Sridhar
    A shocking news to read this morning – Director Shridhar – most successful classy director in thamizh cinema whose movies did well uniformly well in all languages passed away at the age of 80 yesterday. He was the first director to introduce feminism in thamizh cinema. He was the first director to bring modernist visions of movie making as far as thamizh cinema...
    by V.P. Jaiganesh at October 20th, 2008 at 11:10 am
  • Hope Floats!
    K.Balachander did it once! K.Vishwanath did it twice!! And now, after 18 long years, like the exiled Pandavas who won their kingdom back, the Telugu moviedom regained its pride, thanks to this one man who dared to hope… K.Sathyanarayana or Satish Kasetty as he’s better known. Satish’s debut movie Hope has been adjudged the Best Feature Film on Social...
    by wb at September 20th, 2008 at 08:09 am
  • Four years and recounting – Pithamagan
    It was October 2003 when audiences in Thamizhnadu (Tamil Nadu for uninitiated) were swept away by cinematic brilliance of Pithamagan. Personally it was one movie that made me realize that movies need not be all beginnings, middle and endings, not to say that this movie broke any rules of cinematic grammar. There is more to a movie than scripts and lightings. There is more...
    by V.P. Jaiganesh at June 18th, 2008 at 07:06 pm