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Wednesday, June 2, 2021,
Chennai
Kavignar Suradha -- The King of Similes – will people celebrate his Centenary? (Nov 23, 1921-- June 20, 2006). He wrote over 3,000 poems including over 50 songs for Tamil films. His famous songs were Aadi Adangum Vazhkkaiyadaa, Amuthum Thaenum Edharku, Vinnukku Maelaadai, Kannil Vandhu Minnalpol
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Sunday, October 4, 2020,
Chennai
P K Muthusamy died at the age of 100 as a poor man, living all alone at his village near Rasipuram. He wrote about 60 Tamil film songs but also created a sensation by making a plagiarism charge against his former chief minister and film-world colleague M Karunanidhi
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Monday, August 24, 2020,
Chennai
Ku Ma Ba, as he was later known, was actually proficient in writing chaste and classical Tamil and went on write over 600 film songs for leading music directors like G Ramanathan, KV Mahadevan, TG Lingappa, Sudarsanam, Salil Chowdhury and so on, in films starring MGR, Sivaji Ganesan, Gemini Ganesan, SS Rajendran, Vijayakanth among others. Born on May 13, 1920, at Velukkudi village in undivided Thanjavur district, in an agricultural family, his centenary too has been ignored
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Thursday, April 18, 2019,
Chennai
Noted singer K J Yesudas has recorded a song for a Tamil film after a long gap. He has now sung a song for the film Tamilarasan with maestro Ilayaraja scoring the music.
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Sunday, June 10, 2018,
Chennai
The trailers of Kamal Haasan's Viswaroopam 2 will released at an event that will attract national, even global attention, on June 11 at 5 pm. Aamir Khan will release the film’s Hindi trailer while Jr NTR will release the Telugu version.
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Friday, March 10, 2017,
Chennai
The Rajiikanth film 2.0, directed by Shankar, is nearing completion. It is slated for a Deepavali release in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. Director Shankar said only a song remained to be shot.
Director Shankar said only a song remained to be shot, besides a few patchwork stints.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017,
Chennai
Ace Director Mani Ratnam's single track from his forthcoming release, Kaatru Veliyidai, with music composed by A R Rahman, is all set to release on February 2.
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Sunday, March 6, 2016,
Kochi
Noted Malayalam actor Kalabhavan Mani died at a private hospital in Kochi on Sunday evening, leaving the South Indian film industry in a state of shock.
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Tuesday, January 5, 2016,
Chennai
PVP Cinema has released the first look of its upcoming multi-starrer, Bangalore Naatkal. A remake of the super hit Malayalam movie, Bangalore Days, Bangalore Naatkal's first look reflects the vibrancy and colourful nature of the relationships depicted in the movie.
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Friday, November 13, 2015,
Chennai
Thala Ajith underwent a surgery on November 13 after the release of his film 'Vedalam' directed by Siva. The actor had injured his leg on the last day of the shoot for 'Vedalam' and has been on crutches since.
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Friday, November 13, 2015,
Chennai
A producer of Puli has said that the issue of payment pending to Sri Devi had been amicably sorted out.
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Friday, November 13, 2015,
Chennai
Ajith Kumar's latest Tamil movie 'Vedalam', which earned in Rs. 15.3 crore on release day in Tamil Nadu, has turned out to be the biggest box office opener in the language since last year's blockbuster 'Kaththi', according to a trade analyst.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015,
Chennai
The weather cleared in Tamil Nadu just in time for the Deepavali festival and the release of the Deepavali special movies Thoongaavanam and Vedhalam, released on November 10. The Weather God seems to be kind to atheist Kamal Haasan!
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Monday, August 10, 2015,
August 10
Asin has decided to marry Rahul Sharma, founder of India's biggest mobile company, the Micromax brand
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015,
Chennai
Ajith's 'Yennai Arindhaal' directed by Gautham Menon is hitting the silver screen on February 5. With the hype over the Gautham Menon-directed movie peaking, the film is expected to have a good opening.
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Friday, October 24, 2014,
Chennai
Veteran actor S S Rajendran, popularly known as SSR, died here this morning at a private hospital. He was 86 and is survived by two wives including actress Vijayakumari and seven children. SSR, who belonged to the same era as Sivaji Ganesan and M G Ramachandran, was admitted to a city hospital on October 23 and was being treated for a lung infection.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014,
Chennai
The distributors and exhibitors might have reached an agreement on release of the Tamil film Kaththi on October 22 as scheduled but T Velmurugan, leader of Tamizhaga Vaazhvurimai Katchi, has denied that his party had agreed to the release formula, and said the protests against the film would continue.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014,
Chennai
Two theatre complexes in Chennai which had planned to release Vijay-starrer Kaththi on Deepavali day (Oct 22) were attacked with stones and petrol bombs in the early hours of Oct 21 but the film distributors and the Tamil Nadu theatre exhibitors association quickly reached an agreement to release the film as scheduled on Oct 22.
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Monday, October 20, 2014,
Chennai
The producers of Kaththi have announced that the Tamil film is ready for a Deepavali release globally. All issues had been resolved amicably, the production house has informed. Booking will begin for Kaththi on October 21st morning, the producers have announced but doubts persist.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014,
Chennai
Noted actor Kamal Haasan has been admitted to Apollo Hospital on Greams Road in Chennai but is expected to be discharged in a day's time. Doctors suspect it to be a case of food poisoning.
