tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173467682011-04-21T13:49:10.955-04:00All About The World of Films, by D.B.S.JeyarajFilmalayanoreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17346768.post-1140661762014001512006-02-23T20:28:00.000-05:002006-03-12T19:52:35.126-05:00

Among those receiving the Tamil Nadu state governments “Kalaimaamani” award this year will be the singer TK Kalaa of “Thayit Sirandha Kovilum Illai” fame.Kalaa who displayed great promise when she burst on the Tamil film scene in the early seventies faded away gradually. It is to the credit of Chief minister Jayalalitha Jayaram’s administration that it has thought it fit to give due recognition

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Porayathu Leela known to millions of rasikas as P. Leela passed away around midnight on Sunday October 30th in Chennai. The 71 year old South Indian songbird was lying in a hospital bed of Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre for nearly a month . She had fallen in the bathroom at her house in Nandambakkam Defence colony , shared for decades , with her sister and family. Diagnosis after admission

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March 21st was an auspicious day for marriages. In Sri Lanka the media hype was about Cricketing spin wizard Muthia Muralitharans marriage to Madhimalar Ramamurthy of Adayar in Chennai. Even as the Murali - Madhi wedding was on at the Rajeswary Meiyammai Wedding hall another VIP wedding was taking place at the Mayor Ramanathan Chettiar wedding hall. If one “Kalyanam” was of interest to cricket

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Gemini Ganesan - Romance King of Tamil Films By D.B.S. Jeyaraj Gemini Ganesan one time heart throb of Tamil cinema passed away peacefully in his sleep at 1.30 am on March 22nd at his residence in Nungambakkam, Chennai. In a career spanning five decades the octogenarian made his mark in Tamil films as the romantic hero par excellence and was known as "kaadhal Mannan" (King of Romance). His on

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Toronto Festival: Films "Of By And For" The People by D.B.S.JEYARAJ Film festivals are fast becoming annual events in many, many cities now. The reviewer V.Radhika writing in the "Hindu" summed it up aptly "In a box-office-propelled movie world, film festivals are oases of hope. They offer a kaleidoscope of world visions that are not packaged in a fast-food format: to be devoured and forgotten

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Sinhala film's line of destiny By D. B. S. Jeyaraj Consensus is perhaps an elusively unattainable word in the Sri Lankan political lexicon. Mercifully, there are however several things about which there is a national consensus cutting across race, religion, caste and creed. One such phenomenon would be in appreciating the creative genius of Sri Lanka's foremost film director Lester James Peries

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SIVAJI GANESAN, 72, one of the brightest stars on the Tamil film firmament for nearly five decades, passed away at a Chennai hospital on July 21. With more than 300 film roles to his credit, he inspired a whole generation of artists, virtually creating a new school of acting. His acting career, which began at the age of eight, could be divided into three phases - 1936 to 1952, when he acted only

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The headline flashed on the computer screen was devastating. “Gamini Fonseka Sinhala Screen Legend passes away” it said. An uncontrollable feeling of sadness overwhelmed me. Gamini was no more. It was as if a part of ones life had ended. Nostalgic journeys down memory lanes of the past becomes inevitable.I was born in 1954 the year that Gamini entered the field of cinema. It was only in March

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Symposium: Sri Lanka's cultural experienceFor a distinct identitySri Lankan Tamil films have made little progress in quantitative or qualitative terms, but they constitute a key index of the cultural development of Tamils in the island in the post-Independence period. D.B.S.Jeyaraj TAMIL cinema in Sri Lanka, it may be argued, is yet to grow beyond its nascent stage. While thousands of Tamil

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