Nataraja Mudaliar went on to make a few more films in his banner “Indian Film Co. His second venture was “Draupadi vastrabharanam” made at a…
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The Time has come for my talks in the Madras Week Celebrations……The Schedule is as follows…. Hotel Park – Thurday 20th August 7 PM –…
Continue reading Old Madras as seen through the Cinema Camera
Ever since my friend Mahesh succumbed to Cancer , I have not had the inclination or should i say courage to watch a movie that has cancer as its central theme…..even Philadelphia kind of got me all soppy – that was not because of Tom hanks or Denzel.
I had the pleasure of speaking to the members of the Madras Gymkhana Club on the life and work of two of Cinema’s most eccentric…
Before I am asked how a film classic like Parasakthi was not honoured, while Veerapandiya Kattabomman was , I thought it wise to post what was done in the year 2002.
To mark the golden jubilee of the release of this cult classic we , again the Soviet Cultural centre and the Sivaji prabhu charities trust came together and brought out this special day cover.
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I had the pleasure of making a multimedia presentation on the genius of nagesh. This was at the Madras gymkhana Club and am happy to…
Here is an article I wrote for a Paper called madras musings on that wonderful person and brilliant actor called “Nagesh”. This was written more…
I have been remiss in not blogging for a while now, lest you think it is because of a tremendous amount of work let me correct you, it was just laziness…..
We had a lovely function to mark the 50th anniversary of the film Veerapandiya Kattabomman. This was jointly organised by the Soviet Cultural Centre and the Sivaji Family. I compered the event in addition to designing and bringing out the special day postal cover. Continue reading Kattabomman
I found an old Photograph – mid -late 1950s of my father , Mr.V.P.Raman , Dr.Kalaignar M.Karunanidhi , CM of TN , Mr.E.V.K.Sampath and Mr.N.V.Natarajan…
This blog is about 15 days of great fun and sight seeing my wife Padma, my daughter Vidyullekha and I had.We were part of a…