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BY N.THYAGARAJAN Many recognised her that she would prosper if she begins to act in films. Then Shanthi was studying in SIET College. She mistook her friends' advice whenever they asked her to act in films. Then Shanthi was doing her Bharatha Natyam classes under the tutelage of Kalaimamani K.J.Sarasa. She has the photo-genic face to bring all nine moods of human beings on her face. On the day of her first dance performance 1984, actress Padmini and politician H.V.Hande, who presided over the function praised her saying that the girl did her dance well and if she was prepared to act in films, she had the bright future. Then Shanthi felt that her college friends were truly advising her to become an actor. Time was when actor, director and producer Parthiban was looking for an young girl for his film Sugamana Sumaigal. Shanthi and her father rushed the gates of the actor. There was a big queue with different faces. When her turn came, Parthiban asked her to repeat a dialogue of hi

( by N.Thyagarajan ) One should learn the discipline always from this actress Asin who hails from Kerala, is the daughter of commodore. She stays in Chennai whenever she has to come here for acting for films. Many in film industry who have moved with her and her father used to say about her punctuality and submissiveness. Recently, she was in Chennai at her palatial flat in Chetpet. In her interview, she answers to all her questions and nothing prevents her while answering to questions. Truth is the essence of anyone, will make answer spontaneously. Here are some of the questions and answers to this blog. Question: You can't be seen quite a long time in Chennai ! Have you settled down in Mumbai? Answer: I am frequenting Mumbai because I act in the Hindi remake of Kajini film. It doesn't mean that I have settled down totally in Mumbai. Wherever I go for acting, my heart revolves around to act in Tamil films. I love to act in Tamil films really. I have plans to do at least two

( N.THYAGARAJAN) Suriya Vamsam is the latest mega-serial of the Radaan TV Networks and Productions Limited for the Sun TV Channel being telecast on Monday to Friday between 12.00 noon and 12.30 PM. The story of the Suriya Vamsam is being written by Sri Priya , revolves around an innocent girl Raji who comes to Pollachi in search of her lover Dinakar who jilted her sometime ago. She meets various characters during her searches. The innocent girl tries to prove the general public that she was deceived by him. Is she able to find her lover and marries her, is the crux of the story.The mega serial which started on the last Monday is directed by A.P.Rajendran whose marriage took on Friday. Meera Vasudevan, Geetha Lakshmi, Shanthi Anand, Mumtaz Khader, Kannan, Bhanu Prakash, Vincent Roy, Srinivas, Nanda Kumar (Saathappan) and many other leading artistes are acting in the serial.

( BY N.THYAGARAJAN ) AVM's mega serial Vaira Nenjam for the Kalaignar TV is a family subject especially for women who undertake the responsibilities of their families when no one comes to the rescue. As per the story line, Meena Kumari as Sakthi undertakes the whole responsibilities of her retired father, two younger sisters and one younger brother. She is working in a company and with that income she supports all in her family. Her uncle son ( Bharath Kalyan) who wants to marry her is totally vexed by seeing her deeply concentrating only on her house welfare. She does not mind that her uncle's son is in love with her. Her younger sister Nandini ( Preeti Srinivas) who stays in the house to look after the house duties becomes pregnant due to her relationship with an outsider. The family comes to know about her family way and Sakthi tries to solve the problem. Sakthi has been goaded to marry a mentally retarded person who is the brother of the outsider who spoiled Nandini's

( BY N.THYAGARAJAN) Want to become an anchor for the Jaya TV Channel ? or you want to go away with gold rings as prizes.It is all for those for women who participate in the competitons, namely Magalir Mattum, who are chosen as the winners in the competitions like drawing of ranglolis, painting pictures, and dancing or singing. Tamil film actress Suganya who is anchoring Magalir Mattum for the Jaya TV Channel's weekly programme to be telecast on Sundays 5.30 PM stared from September 30th. Besides, the channel has arranged an additional competition titled "Mrs Fair & Lovely" for married women. Among various shows that are telecast in the Jaya TV Channel Magalir Mattum is entering its fourth year with a large number of women's participation.

( N.THYAGARAJAN) Ace comedians of the Tamil film industry Y.G.Mahendran, R.Manorama, Crazy Kumar, Kovai Anuradha, Typist Gopu, Venniraadai Murthy, Kathady Ramamurthy, Sachu, M.S.Bhaskar and C.I.D.Sakunthala all joining together in a weekly comedy serial Sakala Kala Bhavan for the Kalaignar TV to be launched on September. The comedy is to be aired on all Thursdays starting from September 20th. Sakala Kala Bhavan is a boarding and lodging hotel managed by Meenakshi. Her husband Sankaran creates flutter followed by his brother-in-law Armstrong who is a software engineer. Shailu, the daughter of the Bhavan's couple chases the software engineer to love him. Besides, the characters Palaghat Chellappa who is a cook of the Bhavan and Naidupettai Narasamma also join in the bandwagon of the comedians.The people who come and stay in this Bhavan mess are put into various troubles to extend the mega comedy serial to come out with bellyfull laughter. Screenplay and direction of the serial ar

(BY N.THYAGARAJAN) It has become fashion and attraction that many of the Tamil TV channels have started to appoint film artistes as judges in their competition slots. These slots when it was sans these film artistes as judges were not interestingly seen by many viewers. The fate of these small-screen artistes who rehearse days and nights in dance or in mono-acting becoming 'number one winner' is purely based on the judgment skill used by the big screen artistes who act as Judges for these shows. Film comedienne Kovai Sarala and Chinni Jayanth have been appointed for the Kalaignar TV Channel's comedy programme Ellamey Siripputhaan. Participants in the show are from various parts of the Tamil Nadu, especially from Madurai and Coimbatore who excel in their acting by mimicking the voices and actions of the various leading film artistes. The scripts (skid) for the show are prepared by the participants themselves. The fate of winning in the competition is purely based on the judg

BY N.THYAGARAJAN The life history of the Forest Brigand Veerapan, who is known for his adventurous in beheading, killing and kidnapping for various VIPs for ransom in Mudhumalai Forest area of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, is made into 125 episodes will be aired soon through the Makkal TV. The speedy telecast of the serial titled Sandhana Kaadu , means Sandalwood Forest, is practically taking after a court has vacated a stay on it very recently. It was reliably learnt that the forest brigand's wife Muthulakshmi, a widow has personally appealed to the Makkal TV Channel, which is an organ of the PMK Party, to eschew the idea of filming of her husband's life history into tv episodes and telecasting it the same through the channel. She had requested the PMK leader and the Channel's chairman in this connection, it is leant. Makkal Tv channel is very practical in its approach always. Earlier its telecast on the life history of the Auto Shankar became popular and there was a lot of d

( BY N.THYAGARAJAN) A new serial for the young kids who like to learn the happenings in and around the country in the form of stories and nursery rhymes in complete Tamil language, the Makkal TV has produced a programme titled Poonthottam. The programme is aired from Mondays to Thursdays between 6.00 PM to 6.30 PM the episode's anchor Nattu Mama imparts the nursery rhymes into stories. He also teaches the important morals that the children should adhere in their lives by telling a lot of moral stories. Besides, the children are taught different games by another uncle known as Kalai Mama. Sugandhi G.Bharathi tells that the main purpose of the programme is to bring up children with good character and good thinking.

( by N.THYAGARAJAN) The Sun TV channel has started to air Sakthi Kodu, a new weekly on Sundays ( 8.30 AM to 9.30 AM) about Goddesses in various temples of Tamil Nadu. It speaks about the importance of the worship of those deities as mentioned in various epics. For example, if a married couple visit Thirukarukavoor Garba Rakshambigai temple in the Thanjavur District, they will have child in the near future.How this temple came up and who were the persons like Chola kings behind for the construction of this majestic temple are all discussed in the Sakthi Kodu. Produced by Viktan Televistas, the producer has taken a lot of pains in fulfilling history of those temples with relevant anecdotes from various Tamil sangam literatures. Sakthi Kodu which was started two weeks before ( 7.10.2007) aired the details about Skandasramam in Selaiyur Chennai as Navarathri Special. The temple's priest Shanmuga Shivacharia narrated the significance for celebrating Navarathri festival in the temple

(N.Thyagarajan) A weekly talk show on Pechu Pechathan Irukkanum by the Raj TV Channel will throw light on the topics of various problems that are faced by the people in general in India. The one-hour-show is scheduled to telecast on Sunday mornings between 8 AM and 9 AM will have Dindigul Leoni as the Judge who will hear over the arguments of the four of his colleagues from different walks of life. The topics for the discussion will be based on the social and economic problems of the people and finding ways and means to solve them. The first weekly programme is scheduled to start on September 9.

( BY N.THYAGARAJAN ) “MEGALA” a new mega serial of Cine Times’ in Sun TV and “Aarumanamey Aaru” yet another new soap of the Akshra Films’ in Raj TV Channel have one thing in common. The appearance of the famous cine-play-back singer Deepan Chakkaravarthi in meaty roles in both the serials have raised the eye-brows of many tv viewers, for the play-back-singer had lent voice nearly in 600 film songs under the music direction of Ilaiya Raja and also acted in two Tamil films---- Rani Theni and Maarupatta konangal. In an interview, at the shootings of the Megala, the singer who appears as an Industrialist says, “it is time for me to prove my mettle in my acting career and the God has offered me weighty roles in both the serials”. He tells that, that acting in TV serials is in no way inferior. There is a misconception prevailing among some public that a popular film artistes taking up the assignment of tv soaps only for their livelihood. “Really it is not so” adds Deepan, “when I acted in Ra

( BY N.THYAGARAJAN ) Film comedian and noted Sun TV's Meendum Meendum Sirippu comedy programme's fame Vennira Adai Murthy and his team hereafter will appear in the Kalaignar TV Channel to be launched on September 15. The comedian in this new channel will appear in the comedy programme Kulunga Kulunga Sirippu. It is likely the comedy weekly programme will be aired on Sundays between 9 AM and 9.30 AM. The first comedy programme will be aired on September 16 from the new Channel. The weekly Meendum Meendum Sirippu has crossed more than 500 episodes in seven years in the Sun TV Channel and won several audiences from various quarters of the Tamil speaking people. The timely jokes of the comedian Murthy with other comedians like Suruli Manohar, Shobana, Sangeetha Balan, Seshadri won the hearts of many.Many audiences were disappointed when the Meendum Meendum Sirippu was not telecast for the last two weeks in the Sun TV channel. It is understood the entire comedy programme being shift

( BY N.THYAGARAJAN ) Will Devayani come back to Kolangal to continue her lead role as Abhinaya, is a million dollar question that poses not only to the Vikatan Productions, director Thiruchelvam and many of its viewers. The Sun TV's mega serial's viewers have become bored for not seeing Abhinaya for the last fifteen days. Abhinaya in this serial was shot and reached the stage of coma after having admiited to a hospital. The sudden turn in the serial's story line perplexed many and now Abhinaya has to be operated upon for which the hospital demands Rs.10 lakhs. The Abhi's family members run pillar to post to get that money was shown for the last one week. The viewers are bored after seeing Devayani being shown often as hospitalised with the very same clippings. The cat is out of the bag now. Devayani is now appearing in another serial Manjal Magimai as Soundarya, a dhitto character of Kolangal's Abhinaya. The new serial is produced by the Kalaignar TV Channel. It

BY .... N.THYAGARAJAN Jakaarb Telefilms Productions' Jaiyam a daily soap is on telecast on Mondays to Fridays between 9.00 PM and 9.30 PM. The soap which has become popular by virtue of his storyline and using richly costumes with good actors and actresses like Sudha Chandran, Nalini, Vetri, Sanjay, Major Gautam and many other leading artistes of films.The soap has crossed more than 250 episodes has been considered with high TRP. The shootings of the serial are carried out Chennai's important locales. The story of the Jaiyam as given by the JT Productions. Jaiyam is a story about 4 women and their families who come from different backgrounds of society fighting their everyday lives to live in comfort, peace and happiness. Each individual character expresses the emotions of different women in our everyday life. It is true when big scholars had said that a women's heart is deeper than the ocean with secrets. She not only has secrets but also deeper emotions, thoughts, love

( N.THYAGARAJAN) Many dream of becoming good actress by acting in films. If they fail to achieve in their desired goals, then their immediate attention would be acting for small screens' serials. But this budding artiste, Sri Kala who had been a one-time-child artiste through Kamala Hassan's Devar Magan as Nazar's daughter, as Simran's friend in Thulladha Manamum Thullam and in Thulli Thirindha Kalam as Arun Vijay Kumar's sister had brought some recognition and instilled faith in her that she could do good roles. After that she received a lot of offers to act in films, but those offers did not give her mental satisfaction. In an interview on the Porandha Veeda Pugandha Veeda sets, Sri Kala opens up her silence, perhaps this is the first occasion she speaks about her experiences. "What I had seen in my film acting career so far was a lot of disppointments followed by vexations to act in films. I don't want to mention name of those films, in which I was p

There is only one film Agra which is produced without any publicity to push it in the market for distribution. It is the story of a boy who visits Agra to enjoy the seven-wonder Taj Mahal falls in love with a girl who sells toys on the road side. The problems start in the lives of the boy only after he tells that he is in love with the girl. What an imaginatio our Tamil story writers have! Vikash, Anjali, Emmy Mohan, Gayathri are given important roles in the film likely to be released for the coming Deepavali. There are six more films are to be released for the Deepavali. Azhagiya Tamizh Magan, Vel, Polladhavan, Kannamoochi Enada, Machchakaran, Palaniappa Kaloori and Agra.

( BY N.THYAGARAJAN) The most famous Matrimonial programme of the SUN TV Channel's Kalayana Malai has entered his eighth year of its telecast. Noramlly, the Kalayana Malai, a weekly show on Sundays between 7.15 AM to 8.00 AM will show the boys and girls who are waiting for their marriages. Pyramid Natarajan who has been running a Jathaka Kendralaya through his Kalayana Malai invites all the parents and guardians of the boys and girls to the shooting spots to talk about their would be wives and husbands. So far in all these seven years more than thousands of marriages took place in various parts of the country, claims Mohan. He tells, that the Kalayana Malai programme had helped out many handicapped persons to get married.After the interviews of brides and grooms a debate show will follow in which people from different walks of life would participate and speak about their married lives. On the eve of the Kalayana Malai's eighth year programme celebrated in Coimbatore, Tamil films