Dear friend, Many of you seem to have enjoyed the speeches by kamal and nadigar thilakam Sivaji. Some have asked me as to what the…
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Dear friend, Many of you seem to have enjoyed the speeches by kamal and nadigar thilakam Sivaji. Some have asked me as to what the…
On the 10th of July 2000 , I had the honour of organising a function to Release a Special PostalCover and cancellation for a number of people who were all the early Pioneers of Tamil, nay, Indian Cinema. They were Mr.Natraja Mudaliar, the man who made the first Feature Film in Tamil Nadu or should I say South India, just a few years after Phalke released his.The film being a silent film cannot be called a “Tamil” film can it? Then Mr. Raja Sandow one of our early Pioneer Directors, Mr.Raghupathy Prakash another one of the early greats and Mr.Narayanan , who set up the first “Sound” studio in Chennai thus ensuring that Tamil Films were made here and not in Mumbai or Kolkatta as was the practice. Continue reading Film Pioneers of the South – History
One of the questions often asked to me is why dont you act in films instead of DRAMAS…..I hate that description……ask any Stage person and he will cringe at the fact his efforts are likened to a TV serial.What takes place on Stage is a Stage Play and is called Drama by us in the South.
I have done close to a hundred films and people think I am ONLY in TV …..that apart the ultimate place to be is in Celluloid…that is where all actors want to go as it is a way to become immortal, as Kannadasan sang ….Naan nirandharam aanavan mudivum illai……A serial is popular momentarily , we are all recognised only so long as the serial is on Air…..who talks of Chiththi now ?…..so it is like a newspaper valid and useful for that day ONLY. Continue reading TV / Cinema/ Drama
Thursday, March 02, 2006 Stars and Politics Obviously Reagan as the past Prez got his Stamp.Arnold Schwarzenegger… The Guv’nor got his country of birth Austria…
Hello to all in this BLOGOSPHERE. Thanks to my friend Sunderrajan who helped in goading and creating this page I was able to transfer a few of my earlier scattered posts on Cinema Stamps to this page. Continue reading Your Salary Please.????
I have been remiss in blogging and a big sorry to those who have been kind enough to see my blog and comment.I promise that there will be a weekly edition on this topic STAMPS ON CINEMA.Just a few days ago a stamp for the famous actor Gemini Ganesh was released but let me talk of those that came a bit earlier.
Many may not know that the famous Magasaysay award winning singer M.S. acted in movies in the 1930s and her all India fame came because of her role as the singing saint ‘Meera’. Continue reading Indian Stamps on Cinema
Here are some of the great Indian Cinema Directors.Phalke was the father of Indian cinema, he made the first full length feature film called “Raja Harischandra” in 1915.The greatest film award,for lifetime achievement in Cinema given by the Government of India is called the Phalke award. Phalke , it seems was offered some seed capital by Bal Gangadhar thilak to establish the “Indian ” Film Industry, he refused the offer but went on to establish the Hindustan Film company.It was his desire to make the mythological stories of India in films.He was inspired by a film made on the life of Christ. Continue reading more of the same
Like most youngsters I too started a stamp collection and like most gave it up. Many years passed and I had entered the world of Television and Cinema as an actor and one day I came across an article in a magazine, it was either Time or Newsweek , on a stamp released by the U.S Postal Services to honour Marilynn Monroe.That caught my fancy….I started to check out on such issues honouring Film personalities and to my surprise found a large number of stamps. Continue reading Postage stamps on Cinema