Posts Tagged ‘Nagesh’

  • Contemporary Tamil Comedy- Guilty Pleasures
    I am currently in Chennai. There is now a new TV channel called ‘Adithya’ which screens clips of many comic scenes in contemporary Tamil movies. ‘It’s time pass’, says mum. I think it’s a huge symbolic victory for the current comic track in many Tamil movies. I remember when the trend started with Janakaraj, Senthil and Goundamani with their physical comedy...
    by Anand Bharadwaj at April 5th, 2009 at 02:04 am
  • A unique actor boards the bus – Good bye Nagesh sir
    What would you call an actor who can make you laugh with your gutts in one second and in the next micro second make you reach out for the hand kerchief to wipe your tears? What would you call an actor whose presence simply overshadows even the superstars and super actors like Kamal Hassan and Shivaji Ganesan? What would you call an actor who worked 20 of the 24 hours in...
    by V.P. Jaiganesh at January 31st, 2009 at 12:01 am
  • 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