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”.

Kollywood actresses upcoming films

Trisha :

Kuruvi : With Vijay in lead, produced by Udhayanidhi and directed by Dharani - Tamil new year 2008 release.

Velli Thirai : Making a guest appearance in the film, Prakash raj, Prithviraj and Gopika in lead.

Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikalam : Directed by Gautham Menon with Daniel balaji and others.

Abhiyum Naanum : Prakashraj and Trisha in lead, a story about the relationship between a father and daughter.

Nayanthara :

Yaaradi Nee Mohini : With Dhanush, the shooting is going on at Pondy beaches.

Sathyam : Vishal is the hero and a bi lingual movie

Raja Vesham : Vikram is the hero and direction by Bhoopathy Pandian ( announced, shooting not yet started )

A new film with Vijay and direction by Prabhu Deva, the title of the film is not yet announced.

A film with Rajnikanth direction by P.Vasu, but not yet confirmed.

Asin :

Dasavatharam : With Kamal hassan, a long awaiting movie which would release by Feb.Ghajini : in Hindi with Aamir Khan.

Prakash raj as Ravanan

The great Villian of Tamil movies getting ready to be the Villain of Ram. Yes, Prakash raj has been selected for the role of Ravanan in the new Ramayan film going to be directed by Rajkumar Santhosi. In an interview the director said, "Prakashraj will play the Ravanan character and some other south indian peoples will play the Ravanan's clan characters". We feel that Prakash is the right selection by the director for the role of "Ravanan".

Vijay & AVM first time

Vijay has signed with AVM for his new film, AVM productions celebrating its founder AV Meyyappa Chettiar's Centenary year and 60th year of AVM company. M Balasubramanian and B. Gurunath Meiyappan will produce the film, the cast and crew is not yet decided. Vijay is currently working on Kuruvi film. After Kuruvi, Vijay committed for Prabhu Deva's untitled film, so Vijay would start this project with AVM in the year End and would release it for Tamil new year 2009.

Namitha Sang Glamour

Namitha, known for her skimpy outfits not only in films, but also in public functions, was seen with fully covered dress in a function recently. It was the launch of a new brand of hail oil held at Hotel Benz Park, Chennai on February 3.
Does she want to avoid controversies (or cases) over sexy appearances in public functions?
Nope. She seems to be unfazed by the controversies and continues to appear in glamourous outfits in the functions even after the controversy on Shriya’s dress in ‘Sivaji’ silver jubilee function. She attended the inaugural function of Mega Mart in Valasarawakkam last week in a sexy outfit which revealed her long legs.
So what made her come to the ‘Ammu Hair Tonic’ launch fully clad? It is learnt that organizers had requested her to come in a deglamorized dress. Namitha accepted and came fully clad. Even the body hugging T-shirt created discomfort for some of the organizers but Namitha avoided posing for the photographers with her trade mark sex appeal.

Indiralogathil Na.Azhagappan Movie Review

Cast : Vadivelu, Suja, Theetha, Rari, Nazar, Shriya

Direction: Thambi Ramiah

Music: Sabesh Murali

Production: Manickam Narayanan

Very much on the same lines of Imsai Arasan, Vadivelu has belted out his second venture in the fantasy-comedy series. If Imsai Arasan worked, it was for its genuine, no-nonsense, spontaneous humor set in a unique milieu. Not to mention, the script was taut and extremely appealing. In the same breadth, Indiralogathil Na. Azhagappan has an engaging script, but what seems to be missing from this fantasy-comedy is the sparkling humor that made the earlier one click. The movie would have worked but for the contrived and stale comic sequences that makes one wonder if, instead of coming up with a cohesive comic script, they just cobbled together an ensemble of comedy tracks.
Vadivelu’s intro, with a song, is definitely on par with the biggies in the film industry, reiterating the golden rule of an opening song for the protagonist. Vadivelu’s fans will be delighted to see him don the lead role on-screen once again. The actor has done a commendable job in all the three roles, as Azhagappan, Indiran and Yamadharman. Of the three, the Indiran role seems to suit him best
The story is plain and simple. The three beauties of Indiralogam – Rambai, Oorvasi and Menaka – come down to earth on a visit. Enchanted by Vadivelu’s drama, Rambai is unable to return to her abode within the stipulated time. As a result, she is cursed and turned into a stone sculpture. Meanwhile, Vadivelu is advised by an astrologer to garland the sculpture. Promptly, he garlands her sculpture and Rambai returns to her original self. She also takes Azhagappan along with her to Indiralogam.
His visit to Indiralogam empowers him to predict the past and future of the earthlings. Because of his newfound powers of prediction, the crime rate in the human world declines and there is little work to do in the Yamalogam. Confused, Yamadharman confers the responsibility of investigating this mysterious turn of events to Lord Naradar (enacted by Nasser), who reveals the true cause. Angered by this, Vadivelu is cursed and turns into a 90-year old man.
Given the fact that Vadivelu’s huge chunk of fan population comprises of kids, the director could have avoided the top angles that conveniently feast on the bevy of beauties that encircle Vadivelu. Though Shriya looks good in her small role, the idea of having her play the necromancer doesn’t quite create the desired impact. Vandanam Vanakkam song by Vadivelu and company is quite natural.
Thotta Tharani has done an admirable job with the sets, especially the Yamalogam.
J. N. Jawahar’s editing is adequate, while Sabesh-Murali’s music with its tinge of 23-aam Pulikesi, is very mediocre. Costumer R. Murugan deserves a special mention, but for Vadivelu’s 90-year old act that deserved a little more attention.
Indiralogathil might appeal to those who swear more by Vadivelu’s slapstick antics than his verbal wisecracks. Because there are hardly any verbal fireworks, and those few that are there, are submerged in the extravagance.

Superstar at Tirupathi for mottai

In film world Rajinikanth is known as someone who is very spiritual and religious. He makes it a point to visit holy places whenever time permits. Recently after the Sivaji function and the announcement of his films Kuselan and Robot, the actor had taken a brief break and was at the Himalayas to perform meditation and to visit the caves of his guru Babaji.Now after his return, he was seen at Tirupathi along with his wife, two daughters, son-in-law Dhanush and his grand son Yathra.
As expected there was some kind of excitement among the devotees which was put to rest soon and Rajini's family had a good darshan of Lord Balaji. It is reported that the Boss's family was at Tirupathi in connection with the tonsuring ceremony of his grandson Yathra. It is a known fact in this part of the country that the child's first hair cut would be at a temple and as it appears Super star's family is also following the same ritual

Silambarasan burns the midnight oil!

Silambarasan is burning the midnight oil but not as you guessed by partying hard into the wee hours of the morning. This one is for his upcoming venture Silambattam. Director Saravanan and the crew are stationed in and around Kumbakonam for the shoot schedules where Silambarasan plays a youngster hailing from an agraharam.Nocturnal shoots in the Thirukadayur agraharam near Kumbakonam have been canned after which the crew has moved on to Thiruvayaaru. A mammoth set replicating a village festival has been erected in which the shoots are being carried out during nights with Silambarasan and other cast.Sanah Khan plays Silambarasan’s lead for Silambattam which is slated for a mid-2008 release.

Yaaradi Nee Mohini

Cast : Actors in YNM Movie Dhanush, Nayantara,

Raghuvaran, Viswanath, Manobala, Saranya,

Sugumari, Karthik Kumar, Karunas and others

Director : Mithran R Jawahar

Story / Screenplay : Selvaraaghavan

Dialogue : Selvaraghavan

Producers : RK Productions

Music Composer : Yuvan Shankar Raja

Cinematographer : Siddharth

Choreography: Dinesh, Kalyan

Lyrics / Songs : Naa. Muthu Kumar

Art Director : Santhanam

Action : Selvam

Editor : Kola Baskar

Yaradi Nee Mohini Review

Yaradi nee mohini is the next new film of Dhanush after the super hit "Polladavan" and it's an important film for Nayantara as well, her performance and glamour role in Billa is the talk of the town. Yaaradi Nee mogini is a remake of Telugu film Aadavari Matalaku Ardhale Verule directed by Selvaraghavan. Venkatesh and Trisha played the lead roles in Telugu. In Tamil Dhanush and nayanthara playing the lead roles. It's a family subject with love, sentiments and action. The film releasing on Feb. Selvarghavan's associate director Mitran R Jawahar making his debut as director through this film. Story / Screenplay and Dialogues by Selva. Dhanush home production house RK productions producing the film. Raghuvaran, Saranya, Sugumari and Manobala are in the star cast. Music is by yuvan shankar raja.The simple story line of the film is : Dhanush a middle class boy trying to get into a job but nothing turns positive to him, his father, a school teacher blaming dhanush as useless and irresponsible boy. Karthik kumar and Karunaas are the close friends to Dhanush. At this juncture, Dhanush fell in love with Nayanthara at first sight, Nayan working in a software company, luckily Dhanush secures a job in the same company. For an assignment Dhanus, nayanthara, manobala and another colleague going to Australia, there our hero express his love for nayan, but she rejects his wish. Raghuvaran ( Dhanush Father ) after seeing his son in a depressed mood, meets Nayan and recommend for his son's love towards her. But nayan refuses his request and by accidentally slap him. On the same night Raghuvaran dies in heart attack. Karthik Kumar's sister in law is Nayanthara and their marriage was already a fixed one. In a period of time, nayan realize that she loves Dhanush and how the love birds unites is the story.

Sathyaraj’s go ahead to Prakash raj!

As much as an accomplished actor he is, seems like Prakash raj is aggressive to establish himself as a producer as well. Of all his production ventures, Mozhi has been hugely successful and he is busy these days in the shoots of his upcoming Vellithirai, which is expected to release in February. Vellithirai’s audio that hit the stands recently is received with good response. Following this, Duet movies has decided to produce two more movies namely Inidu Inidu and Sathyaraj. You heard it right, Prakash raj will produce a movie titled Sathyaraj and will star in the lead role. To avoid apprehensions in the subject matter, he recently called on Sathyaraj and sought his consent for the title.
Last heard, Sathyaraj has acquiesced to the title after which Prakash raj is proceeding with the ground work of the movie. However, there is no official confirmation yet on the movie’s relevance with Sathyaraj’s life or career.

Dhanush on smooch scenes with Nayan

Dhanush’s current project, Yaaradi Nee Mohini is produced by N.V. Prasad and directed by A. Jawahar who had his training under Selvaraghavan. It is a remake of the Telugu film, Aadavari Matalaku Ardhale Verule.
In a recent interview to a weekly, Dhanush was hurled a volley of questions about the on-screen chemistry with Nayanthara in this project. He was particularly grilled to get first-hand information on whether there are any kissing scenes in the film as reported. Denying any such scenes, Dhanush said that Yaaradi Nee Mohini, though a romantic movie, is a thorough family entertainer with all the comedy elements.

Vijay doppelganger in a period film

Jai who starred in Chennai – 28 and had an unmistakable resemblance to Vijay is up with his next venture Subramaniyapuram. According to director Sashikumar, erstwhile Assistant Director to Bala and Ameer, Subramanyapuram is a period film – if you call can a movie set in the backdrop of 1980s, that is. The story is set in Madurai and we have managed our best to get the feel of the Eighties”, says Sashi. He also states that people who watched the previews were impressed at the details that went into the making of movie – especially the intricacies of each frame.
Subramaniyapuram spins around friendship and love, but then “no cinema is stranger than life in itself” declares Sashi as a matter of fact. Jai’s lead lady is Swathi, who played Trisha’s sister in the Telugu hit Adavaari Maatalagu. “Although she hails from Andhra Pradesh, her features are very much Tamil”, vouches Sashi.

No 1 Sexiest Asian Women 2007-Bipasha

Bipasha Basu - seen here at a stage performance IIFA awards - has been named the sexiest Asian woman in the world 2007 by a leading London-based Asian newspaper Eastern Eye.

Sexiest Asian Women Priyanka Chopra Gets 3rd Place

Last year's winner Priyanka Chopra was the third on the list. The 25-year-old is seen in this file picture at a promotional event of her Hindi movie Waqt, the race against time.

Aish gets 4th In Sexiest Women

India's most famous glamour export Aishwarya Rai comes at No. 4 on the list. She is seen in this picture with husband and actor Abhishek Bachchan at a Children's Day function in Mumbai.