Sivaji Ganesan LIfe History

1) Original Name : V.C.GANESAN (Villupuram C.Ganesan)

2) Popular Name : SIVAJI GANESAN -- the title "Sivaji" was given to Ganesan by the great Rationlist,Thanthai Periyar E.V.R.Ramasamy for his best performance in the role of Sathrapathy Sivaji in the stage play "Sivaji kanda Indu Saamraajyam" in the year 1946.

3) How Became An Actor: When he was 9 years old he ran away from his house. Nobody knew his whereabouts. After many days his mother and elder brother happened to trace him at a place near Trichirapalli where "Kampalaththaan Kooththu" a popular folk drama was taking place. Kattabomman's story was being enacted on stage in that Kooththu. Ganesan was very much interested in that particular drama. Even at that small age he had vowed that one day he would become an actor and do Kattabomman's role on stage. Ganesan's mother brought him back to their house. She arranged through her elder son to get a placement for Ganesan in one of the popular drama troupes. Thus Ganesan first became a stage actor.

4) First film : His first film is "Paraasakthi". It was released in the year 1952.

5) Great Turning Point: "Parasakthi" was a great turning point not only in Sivaji Ganesan's acting Career but also for the entire Tamil Cinema Field. Before that there were mainly either Raja Rani Stories or religious and mythological stories with a number of songs which had great sway among Tamil Cinema audience. But "Paraasakthi" was a social film with revolutionery themes and lesser number of songs. More over the heart - catching, fiery dialogue by Kalaingar Karunanidhi made the film a super revolutionery one in terms of it's trend- setting nature and it's overall reformative impact on society.

6) Milestones : The Greatest Merit of Sivaji Ganesan is that no other actor either in Tamil Cinema or Indian Film Industry or in the whole World has done such a great number of roles and acted in such a great varieties of roles depicting real life- like characters on screen and no other actor's acting carreer is so much saturated with such a great number of milestones in terms of unimaginable achievements as in that of sivaji Ganesan.


7)Meritorious Awards:
1) The Best Actor Award won in Afro- Asian Film Festival held in Gairo, Egypt in 1960.
2) Padmasri Title - 1966.
3) Padmabhushan Title - 1984
4) Chevalier Award of France 1995.
5) Dadha Saahib Paalkhe Award 1997.

8)Meritorious Qualities :
1) Modesty.
2) Punctuality
.3) Make-up Aptness and Physical Fitness that suit with 100% exactness any sort of role from Prince to Beggar and the Rugged Character to the Cultured Elite!
4) Infinite Veriety In Acting And Dialogue -Delivery - An Unreachable Feat by any other World Level Actor.

9)Unique Achievment: The No 1 ranked Actor the World has ever seen.


10) Ambition: Wants to act until the last breath of life and he would be even more happy, he once said, should his physical existence comes to an end while acting.


11) Total Number Of Films: Around 300


12) Mother Tongue: Tamil


13) Native Place: Villupuram, a small town in South Arcot district, in Tamilnadu, India.


14) Academic Education: III std, at the preliminary level of school education.

15) Father's Name: P.Chinniah Mandraayer. Though poor was very rich in his sprit of patriotism! Was imprisoned many number of times for his continued support and participation in the then Indian Freedom Stuggle under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. Jail become his second home.


16) Mother's Name: Rajamani Ammal. While her husband was in prison she had to undergo all sorts of hardships to feed her children and maintain the family.Lack of food made them at times to forgo food.


17) Marriage: Married Kamala, already a relative of him, who was a resident of Nagappattinam near Trichirappalli, Tamilnadu. This couple begot two male children later named Ramkumar and Prabhu, and two female ones Shanthi and Thenmozhi. Today all the four are married. Ramkumar looks after and manages Sivaji Films. Prabhu has become one of the busiest, leading heroes of Tamil Cinema.


18) Political Affiliations: From his first film onwards he was considered to be a staunch D.M.K. party sympathiser. After 1955 some dramatic changes took place. He was a neutralist for some years. But at the end of 1961 he become a strong supporter of Congress Party. In that year he took part and delivered an address in the state Congress party Conference in which the then Prime Minister Pandid Jawaharlal Nehru and Kamarajar were the main participants. In 1982 Mrs.Indira Gandhi made him the Rajya sabha M.P. After 1687 came out of Congress and floated his own Political Party. 2 years latter became President of Tamilnadu faction of Janata Dal. After a few years he quit politics.


19) Honours Bestowed Upon Sivaji Ganesan: In 1962 Sivaji Ganesan toured America as its Special Guest. There, he was given one of the highest houours of being the Mayor of Niagara City for one day. After Prime Minister Nehru, Sivaji was the only Indian to get this honour. In Hollywood he met world famous actors like Marlon Brando and some leading Cinema technicians. Egyptian President Naasar, Singapore former Prime Minister, Ceylon President Chandrika, Indian former Prime Ministers Nehru, Indra Gandhi, V.P. Singh, former President Dr. Radhakirishnan, former Governer -General Rajaji, former Chief Ministers Kamarajar and Annadurai, Present Chief Minister Kalaignar Karunanidhi, Ex-Chief Ministers M.G.R., RamaRao and Jayalalitha were not only his associates but his very great admirers too!

Will the Rajini trick work for Nakul?

Mullum Malarum is one of the famous hits of the superstar. This is one of the films that played a pivotal role in elevating the star status of Rajinikanth. Apart from the excellent acting of all the stars, a winch also played an integral role in Mullum Malarum. While various types of vehicles
were used in movies, this different concept attracted the attention of the movie buffs. However, we did not get to see a winch in movies later on. Perhaps that could be because it did not fit in as perfectly as it did for Mullum Malarum.
Now, after a gap of two decades, a director has come up with this idea for his movie Kadhalil Vizhundhen. He has decided to use a winch in one of the fight sequences thereby repeating the history. Nakul of Boys fame - Devayani’s sibling - plays the lead in Kadhalil Vizhundhen. It remains to be seen as to how far the winch will help Nakul escalating his career.

Yaaradi Nee Mohini on Feb 14

Dhanush’s next film is Yaaradi Nee Mohini. This film is a remake of Telugu blockbuster Aadavari Matllalukku Ardhame Veru Lu. The Telugu version was directed by Dhanush’s brother Selvaraghavan with Venkatesh and Trisha in the lead. In Tamil the film is directed by Jawahar, who was once the assistant of Selvaraghavan. This film is produced by Dhanush’s father. To say more about the film, it is a love story. The heroine will be the MD of a company where the joins as an employee. The love between the duo is said in a comical way. The film has all the commercial elements including romance, family sentiments, stunts and songs mixed in right proportion. Music is by Yuvan Shankar Raja. There is a lot of expectation among Dhanush’s fans since this film is released after his film Polladhavan, which was a super hit film. Likewise, this is Nayanthara’s next film after Billa. So there is a lot of expectation about this film in the minds of the fans. It is for us to wait and watch whether the Yaaradi Nee Mohini unit has fulfilled all the expectations.

Bollywood in a tizzy

Bollywood seems to be in the grip of problems.
On one hand, Central Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has approached Shahrukh Khan to refrain from smoking in films. Then we have Raj Thakeray’s goondas throwing stones at Amitabh Bachchan’s Mumbai bungalow for buying up property in Uttar Pradesh and not Maharshtra.
Amitabh’s daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai’s latest release 'Jodha Akbar'has come in for threats.

The film is directed by the director of heatres on Feb 15. The film narrates the love story of Mughal King Akbar with the Rajput princess Jodha Bai. But the Rajputs of Rajasthan say there was no such romance and there was not even a Jodha Bai and this film was a slur on their tradition and history. They have been protesting and burning posters

Asin Gets 3 boosters

Even before the release of Hindi 'Ghajini,'Asin is getting offers from Bollywood.
One offer is with Shahid Kapur, Kareena Kapoor’s ex-boyfriend. Another offer came from Honey Irani, to act as Amitabh Bachchan’s daughter.
A third offer was to act as Salman Khan’s jodi. All 3 are good opportunities but Asin has still not accepted any of them.
Salman Khan
After the release of 'Ghajini,'she can become famous overnight like Deepika Padukone and demand crore in fees.

Meena's comeback in Kuselan

The cast of Kuselan, the upcoming Rajinikanth film which is a remake of the Malayalam Katha Paryumbol is getting finalized. The pivotal roles will be done by Rajinikanth and Pasupathy and there have been varied rumors regarding the lady leads in the film. Many leading names were discussed but not confirmed. As regards super star’s heroine, Nayanthara turned lucky for the third consecutive time and bagged the role.

Now for the role of Pasupathy’s wife, Tabu and Simran were considered but they were not able to give their consent due to their prior commitments. In the original version Meena was the wife of Sreenivasan and the mother of three children. When she was approached to do the same role in Tamil, she has also agreed. While talking to the media, director P Vasu said, “As per Kuselan’s script, Meena’s role is that of a young mother whose children are in the school going age group. Her performance was wonderful in Katha Paryumbol and we were very keen that she does the same role in Tamil too. We are also very sure that Meena is the right choice for this role and thankfully she has also agreed to do the film”.