Mohana Krishna Indraganti

Mohana Krishna Indraganti is an Indian director known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema. His debut directorial venture "Grahanam" (2005) fetched him eleven awards including the National Film Award for Best First Film of a Director, the Nandi Award for Best First Film of a Director and the Gollapudi Srinivas Award for Best First Film of a Director. The film was also showcased in the Indian panorama section of the 2005 International Film Festival of India. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from York University.
Early life.
Indraganti Mohana Krishna was born into a Telugu speaking family in Tanuku, West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India. As his parents, Indraganti Srikanth and Janaki Bala, and grandparents were writers, he had a fascination towards fiction since his childhood. His grandmother's stories were visually detailed in their narration. In addition to this, he has been an avid reader of literary works and also loved to discuss films with his uncle. In an interview, he said that these were the key reasons that contributed to his interest in filmmaking.
His upbringing was in Vijayawada where he completed his schooling and obtained his Bachelor's degree in Arts from Loyola College. Thereafter, he pursued his interest in Arts by obtaining a master's degree in English language and Philosophy from University of Hyderabad. He applied to enroll in one of the courses at the Pune-based Film and Television Institute of India; however, his application was rejected. In the meanwhile, he was the writer and associate director for "Mahandhra", a socio-cultural, economic and political study of the erstwhile state of Andhra. This study, made in a documentary-drama format for Doordarshan, was performed in commemoration of India's 50th year of independence. He sent creative samples from this study to Toronto-based York University and its prestigious Department of Film in the Faculty of Fine Arts. This helped him join and complete Master of Fine Arts in Film between 1998–2000. Even though he registered to continue for his Doctoral degree in Communication and Culture, he discontinued it after a year and returned to Hyderabad in 2001.
Foray into films.
Though his first feature film "Grahanam" was first drafted in 1997, his amateurish skills in constructing the screenplay didn't help much at that time. This draft was based on "Doshagunam", a short story written by Gudipati Venkatachalam (popularly known as Chalam), a controversial yesteryear Telugu writer and philosopher. Since screenplay writing was his specialisation in his Master of Fine Arts course at York University, he reworked the script by the time he returned to Hyderabad.
To bring this script to cinema, he approached several producers to help him finance it. Even though all of them were fascinated by his story, they were hesitant about its commercial viability. After three years of futile search and despair, Indraganti decided to produce the film with his own money. Chalam's daughter gave him permission to make a film from one of her father's literary works. When veteran Telugu cinema actor Tanikella Bharani was approached with a promising role in the film and a request for enacting without any compensation, he agreed to do so. Out of goodwill, he introduced Indraganti to one of his producer friends who agreed to produce the movie. His debut film fetched him 11 awards with the prominent ones being the National Film Award, Nandi Award bestowed by Government of Andhra Pradesh and Gollapudi Srinivas Memorial Award.
In 2006, his second directorial venture, "Mayabazaar", featured Bhumika Chawla and Raja in the lead roles. His next film, "Ashta Chamma", which featured Colours Swathi, Nani, Srinivas Avasarala and Bhargavi, was released in 2008 and was a huge success at box office. His later films, "Golkonda High School" and "Anthaka Mundhu Aa Tharuvatha", did well at box office.
His movies are mostly liked by the family audience.


Bakula Namdeo Ghotale

Bakula Namdeo Ghotale is a Marathi comedy film directed by Kedar Shinde, and is the debut film of Actress Sonalee Kulkarni. The film stars Bharat Jadhav, Siddharth Jadhav, Sonalee Kulkarni, Vijay Chavan, and Kushal Badrike.
Synopsis.
Bhakaspur is the name of a remote town in Maharashtra. Troubled under obligations from their questionable sarpanch "Ghotale", the villagers have no time for something besides trudging and reimbursing their obligations. The tutoring of their youngsters or the advance of their town is of no worry to them. The whole town is controlled by Ghotale, and every one of the villagers concur and tolerate to each guideline given by him as every one of their properties and homes are pawned to Ghotale. The highlight of Ghotale's character is that as much as his activities appear to be clever, his insidious streak has no limits.
In a similar town, there is a nitwit named "Namdev", who returns to his town in the wake of getting hitched to "Bakula". According to the customs, he goes straight to Ghotale's home with his better half to look for his gifts. Be that as it may, one take a gander at his significant other and Ghotale is left confused. He is completely amazed by Bakula and falls head over heels in affection with her. Without even a second's pause, he chooses in his brain to get hitched to her, by snare or by hooligan. In spite of Namdev being a vital piece of Bakula's life, Ghotale tries to charm her in his own specific manner. Namdev, thus, tries to keep her out of Ghotale's path and in this disarray, all Bakula needs is to lead a glad wedded existence with her better half.
Ghotale's charm, Namdev's straightforwardness and Bakula's one good turn deserves another demeanor with Ghotale provides much comedy.


Ram Prasad (cinematographer)

Ram Prasad is an Indian director of photography who works predominantly in the Telugu film industry. He has done cinematography for more than 50 films. He has worked as cinematographer for movies like "Hanuman Junction", "Athanokkade", "Maryada Ramanna", "Mirapakay", "Yevadu", and "Legend".
Early life.
C. Ram Prasad was born to the couple Sri C. Madhav Rao and Smt. Subbalakshmi in 1965. His father Sri C. Madhav Rao is a makeup man in South India and mother a housewife. He spent his earlier years in Chennai where his father was working as a makeup man. While his father inspired Ram Prasad to make a decision about his career and it was the film industry that supported his decision of joining the industry. After completing his SSLC, he joined the Film Institute in Chennai to pursue a Diploma in Cinematography (D.F.T.-Diploma in Film Technology). His passion for photography was so much that he just dropped out of college to join as the assistant of Late VSR Swamy.
Career.
C. Ram Prasad worked as assistant cameraman in Telugu feature films from 1986 to 1988, as associate cameraman from 1989 to 1993 and finally he got his first break in the film "Pacha Thoranam".


Only the Brave (2006 film)

Only the Brave is a 2006 independent film about the 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated World War II fighting unit primarily made up of "Nisei" Japanese Americans, which for its size and length of service became the most decorated unit in U.S. military history. The film, produced and directed by Lane Nishikawa is a fictionalized account of the rescue of the Lost Battalion.
Plot.
In 1953, Jimmy Takata (Nishikawa) suffers from "battle fatigue" (posttraumatic stress disorder), to the great concern of his wife, Mary (Tomita). Raised in Hawaii, Takata and some of his friends enlisted in the 100th Battalion, serving in the European Theater of Operations. In a series of flashbacks, he remembers the war and events in his life surrounding it. Following a head injury, he begins to have visions, and believes that he is seeing memories of other men, including his friend Freddy Watada (Watanabe) as he courted Mary (who would later be Jimmy's wife) before entering the Army. Freddy receives a "million-dollar wound" (one which is serious enough to require evacuation to the United States, but not permanently disabling), and he shows Takata an engagement ring, purchased before being sent to Europe, which he intends to give Mary upon his return.
Takata's concern about the visions is dismissed as disorientation caused by the head wound by "Doc" Naganuma, the unit medic, a Medical Doctor who had likewise joined to help his friends. Takata also has a vision of his father, a Buddhist priest in Federal custody, and who tells him "You must accept your fate, here"—pointing to his head -- "the rest of you will follow, here," pointing to Takata's heart. Takata later learns that his father has died, 49 days earlier. Buddhists believe that a spirit will enter Heaven or be reborn 49 days after death.
When his unit is ordered to break through German lines and rescue the 141st Infantry Regiment, Takata is ordered by the doctor to stay in the rear area, due to his head wound. However, as the casualties mount, he defies orders and attempts to find a way through to the trapped men. He is joined by several of his men (including Freddy), who are also unwilling to wait in the rear as their friends face the danger. Asked by a newly transferred soldier if he's ever afraid, Takata confides that his fear is of losing more men.
Joining the rest of the Nisei, Takata and his men fight the Germans, as one-by-one Takata watches his men—nearly all of his friends—being killed in battle. Freddy throws his body on a grenade which had been thrown at Takata, and the men look into each other's eyes as it explodes.
The battle won, Takata accepts the thanks of the lieutenant commanding the rescued unit, and notes that 211 of the 275 had been saved, at a cost of over 800 casualties.
His thoughts return to 1953, where Mary's love and tears finally break through, and he is able to shed his own tears. A vision comes of his lost men and father, standing in the field hospital, and his father repeats his earlier encouraging statement.
Now Takata's vision comes of meeting with Mary after the war, and meeting Mary and Freddy's young daughter, Joanie. Joanie touches the scar on his temple, and as she smiles and looks into his eyes, he is reminded of a refugee girl that he had rescued in the battle which had resulted in the head wound. Takata gives Mary the engagement ring, and explains that, since Freddy had given his life to save Takata's, the least he could do is to bring it home for her. He comforts her as she cries.
As that vision fades, we see Jimmy placing the keepsakes from each of his friends in a suitcase and closing it. Mary, sitting behind the wheel of a car, looks up and asks (hoping beyond hope) if he is okay. He looks at her, is able to smile, and says that he is.


Fernando Grostein Andrade

Fernando Grostein Andrade (born January 30, 1981 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian filmmaker, director, producer, screenwriter, director of photography, and media entrepreneur. He is a columnist for "VEJA" magazine and the newspaper "Folha de S. Paulo". His best-known work is the documentary "Quebrando o Tabu", which discusses alternative policies to the War on Drugs and features former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso as well as former US presidents Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, infectologist Drauzio Varella and writer Paulo Coelho. In 2012, in partnership with Sun Dog Pictures, owned by British entrepreneur Richard Branson, the documentary was adapted into an international version which was narrated by actor Morgan Freeman. The project has spun off into the largest online platform in defense for human rights, with over 15 million followers between Facebook and Instagram.
"Abe", his most recent movie, was selected to the Sundance Film Festival in 2019, and stars Noah Schnapp and Seu Jorge.
Fernando was also selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2019. He is a founder of Spray Media, which produces content for cinema as well as YouTube and branded content.
Other works include the documentary "Wandering Heart", with Caetano Veloso, and a number of publicity campaign for big brands such as Nestlé, Coca-Cola, and Volkswagen.
Career.
Fernando graduated in Business Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas in 2003. Later, he completed directing and screenwriting courses at CINUSP, University of Southern California (USC) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He started his career in communication working at the agency DM9DDB and at broadcast station Rádio Jovem Pan 2, at 15 years old. When he was 16, he would write articles and chronicles for "Playboy" and "Trip" magazines.
Quebrando o Tabu.
In 2011, he released his documentary "Quebrando o Tabu", which discusses alternative policies to the War on Drugs and features former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso as the host. Shot in 18 cities around the world with locations that range from poppy plantations owned by the FARCs to the coffeeshops in Amsterdam, the feature still has testimonials from prominent personalities such as former US presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, former Colombian president César Gaviria, former Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs Jorge Castañeda, infectologist Dráuzio Varella, writer Paulo Coelho as well as police officers, inmates and drug addicts in rehab. The documentary was later adapted for European and American audiences by producer Richard Branson, with the title "Breaking the Taboo." That version is narrated by Morgan Freeman and features Gael García Bernal. The movie was awarded the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro.
The movie had big repercussions in Brazil, catalyzing debates in the media, in schools and even in Brazilian Congress, with a speech by Senator Eduardo Suplicy. Veja magazine published a 9-page article which characterized the film as a “meticulous report done in 2 years with 168 interviews with notable personalities”. Rede Globo’s prime-time variety show "Fantástico" exhibited an 8-minute segment about the film and made a poll with the viewers. 57% of them favored legalization of drugs. The documentary was also subject of a cover story of Trip magazine. It received very positive reviews from national and international publications, such as "Folha de S. Paulo" and "The Guardian". Later, it became influent brand of Brazilian independent media. Created by Fernando, it is today the largest online platform in defense of human rights, with the highest Facebook involvement rate in Brazilian media and 15 million followers between Facebook and Instagram.
In 2018, the Quebrando o Tabu project unfolded yet again into a documentary TV series, in which Fernando works as a show runner. The show "Quebrando o Tabu" received the Mipcom Award in 2019 in Cannes and the Gold World Medal in the Social Issues category at the New York TV and Film Festival 2019. In the same year, it was broadcast by Brazilian network GNT. Each episode deals with a controversial theme, such as abortion, prostitution, privacy, privatizations, democracy and racism, and features specialists who help to expose a constructive discussion around each topic. Currently, the show is in its second season. Fernando is also the creator of the series, and has directed 8 episodes.
Film and Television.
In 2001, Fernando directed his first short film, named De Morango. It introduced actor Guilherme Berenguer, who co-starred with Fernanda Rodrigues and Daniel Dantas. The short film also opened the Brasília International Film Festival, the São Paulo International Film Festival and the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films.
In 2003, Fernando embarked on a tour with musician Caetano Veloso through São Paulo, New York and Japan. The project was called Wandering Heart. For 42 days, he documented the artist's discomfort with the success of his first English-language album released internationally, revealing another side of the composer. Featuring filmmakers Michelangelo Antonioni and Pedro Almodóvar and songwriter David Byrne, the documentary was released by Paramount in Brazil. Written, produced and edited by Fernando, it was screened at the It's All True Festival and in the Rome Film Festival in 2008. According to Eric J. Lyman, from "The Hollywood Reporter", it was one of the “"weekend highlights"”. "Wandering Heart" was one of the last filmed records of Michelangelo Antonioni, who passed away in 2007. The film critic and founder of It's All True Festival, Amir Labaki, considered the documentary “"the most revealing portrait of Caetano"”. Marcelo Janot, critic for "O Globo" newspaper, described it as “"the best film in the recent trend of documentaries on Brazilian musicians"”.
In 2010, Fernando directed a short-length documentary called Jornal do Futuro, which registered the changes in the newspaper "Folha de S. Paulo" during the launching of their own online platform, "Folha.com".
In 2012, Fernando participated in the initiative "Colors for Love," a project led by Italian magazine "Colors". He directed the short film Cine Rincão, which portrays the story of Paulo Eduardo, a young man from the outskirts of São Paulo, who survived after being shot in the chest and went on to study film at the Instituto Criar, an NGO that teaches filming techniques to low-income teenagers. In the end of the movie, Paulo Eduardo constructs Cine Rincão, a theater with free movie screenings for children and youngsters of the community. With soundtrack by Caetano Veloso and Lucas Lima, the short was selected for the competition Your Film Festival at the Venice Film Festival in 2012. The initiative was a partnership between the festival and Scott Free, Ridley Scott’s production company.
In 2014, Fernando participated in a project created to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the NGO Instituto Criar, directing the feature Na Quebrada, partnering up with Globo Filmes. It was produced by Cadu Ciampolini, Paulo Ciampolini and Luciano Huck. Based on real events, the movie follows a group of low-income youngsters such as Júnior, who has a talent to fix broken TVs, Zeca, who witnessed a slaughter, Joana, a girl who dreams about her unknown mother, and Gerson, whose father has been in jail since he was born. Amid stories of loss and violence, they discover a new way to express their ideas and emotions: cinema.
Fernando directed 5 episodes of the TV series Jailers, which he also produced. The show won the Mipcom Drama Award in 2017. Two years later, in 2019, it was adapted into the movie "Carcereiros: O Filme," produced by Fernando.
In 2019, he completed the documentary Encarcerados, which follows the daily life of penitentiary agents in São Paulo. The movie was in the official selections of the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival and the São Paulo International Film Festival, both in 2019.
In 2020, Fernando released his first English-language fiction feature film. Abe tells the story of a 12-year-old boy from Brooklyn (played by Noah Schnapp) who tries to unite the Muslim and Jewish sides of his family through cooking, with the help of a chef called Chico Catuaba (played by Seu Jorge). The movie was selected to the Sundance Film Festival in 2019. It was well received: "The Hollywood Reporter" published in a review that the film is “"an appetizing fusion of diverse influences"”, and "IndieWire" called it "“Sundance’s most charming film”" "Variety" complimented the directing, made with "“energy and enthusiasm”", further stating that the strength of the movie is that it “never talks down to its child characters or the audience”. It was accepted in 26 festivals worldwide.
Alternative Media.
Besides his work on film and television, Fernando has directed over 100 ads through his production company, Spray Filmes. He was responsible for the Brazilian Coca-Cola Christmas Campaign in 2015. The 4-minute short was aired on Globo’s prime time. Fernando also produced the campaign “Kombi Last Wishes” for Volkswagen, which was awarded 2 Golden Lions and 5 Bronze Lions at the Cannes Lions Festival in 2014.
Other iconic campaigns directed by Fernando include the Billboard Radio Pride Campaign, the Open the Cage Campaign for Volkswagen, which mixed 3D animation techniques with scenes shot from a helicopter, the campaign celebrating Nestlé’s 90th anniversary, “Novos Amigos”, for Mitsubishi, “Grafiteiros” for Sprite, and “Love and Color”, for Arezzo, in which Fernando partnered up with art director Giovani Bianco.
He also directed music clips, such as “Estranho Jeito de Amar” for Brazilian duo Sandy & Junior, in 2006, and “Eu, você, o mar e ela”, by Luan Santana, in 2016.
Other works.
Fernando is also dedicated to social work. He helped to reactivate the theater group "Do Lado de Cá", formed by inmates inside a maximum-security prison. The actors later starred in his feature Na Quebrada, with a number of scenes taking place within that same prison. The movie was made to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the NGO Instituto Criar. The members of the theater group later participated in a number of professional productions, among which are "Jailers" and "Sintonia", a Netflix original series.
Fernando was chosen in 2019 a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, placing him in a group that includes French president Emmanuel Macron, New Zealand Prime-Minister Jacinda Arden, the former US presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, among others.
He is also a co-founder of the educational initiative "Mapa Educação," together with current representatives in the Brazilian Congress Tabata Amaral and Renan Ferreirinha. The program was created in 2014 with the goal of prioritizing education as a topic in that year's presidential elections. Since then, the movement has organized a number of conferences and debates with experts. An example is a debate on education organized in conjunction with Quebrando o Tabu in which participated former Minister of Education and then-mayor of São Paulo Fernando Haddad. The movement has actively demanded politicians to comply with their views and promises to better education in Brazil, and has mobilized people from all regions of the country. Currently, the movement is conducting a national study to better understand what the students themselves want for their own education.
Fernando is the founder of Spray Media, a production company behind a variety of feature and short-length films, publicity campaigns and content in a range of diverse formats. It was the incubator of the company NWB, which manages big internet channels, including the largest soccer YouTube channel in Latin America, "Desimpedidos", which has over 8 million subscribers.
He has also organized a campaign called “"Parada Gay na Radio"”, in which many radio stations only played songs by homosexual artists, to fight homophobia in Brazil.
Because of his work with documentaries, Fernando gives lectures in Brazil and around the world. In 2014, for example, he was invited to speak at Harvard University at the Igniting Innovation Summit on Social Entrepreneurship, where he presented a short film about his work that has over 700,000 views.
He is also a columnist for "VEJA" magazine and the newspaper "Folha de S. Paulo", the magazine and newspaper of highest circulation in Brazil.
His YouTube channel, "@grosteinandrade", has 72 thousand followers. His coming out video, “"Cê já se sentiu um ET?"”, was the subject of a column by journalist Mônica Bergamo, occupying a full page on "Folha de S. Paulo" in 2017. Fernando was later interviewed at Rede Globo's "Conversa com Bial" and on two of GNT's variety shows: "Saia Justa" and "Papo de Segunda".
In 2011, he was listed among "GQ Magazine"’s Men of the Year.
Awards.
He has won 2 Golden Cannes Lions and 5 Bronze Cannes Lions for his campaign "Kombi Last Wishes", Gold in the FIAP and WAVE Awards for the campaign "EOS Conversível" and was one of the 10 finalists of the 2012 Your Film Festival.
In 2017, the series "Jailers", based on a homonymous book by Drauzio Varella, won the MIPDrama Screenings in Cannes. The show is a co-production between Globo, Spray Filmes and Gullane. Fernando directed some of the episodes.
Besides the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Cinema Brazil Grand Prix in 2012, given to the feature documentary, the Mipcom Award in 2019 in Cannes and the Gold Medal Award in the Social Issues category at the New York TV and Film Festival in 2019, given to the TV show, the project "Quebrando o Tabu" has also received the Noble Partnership Medal from the Canadian General Consulate in Brazil, as well as the Prêmio Cidadão SP, given by Brazilian media outlet "Catraca Livre".
In 2019, his movie Abe won the Jury Prize at the Kinder Film Festival in Vienna and the Audience Award for Best Narrative at the Washington Jewish Film Festival.
Personal life.
Fernando is the son of PhD urbanist Marta Dora Grostein and journalist Mario Escobar de Andrade, director of "Playboy" magazine in Brazil, who died in 1991. He is brother, on his mother's side, of the TV host Luciano Huck. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his husband, actor Fernando Siqueira.


Kaala (soundtrack)

Kaala (transl. Black or Death) is the soundtrack album for the film of the same name, starring Rajinikanth in the title role, produced by Dhanush and directed by Pa. Ranjith. The album composed by Santhosh Narayanan, in his second collaboration with Rajinikanth and Ranjith after "Kabali" (2016), features nine songs written by Kabilan, Umadevi, Arunraja Kamaraj, Arivu, Dopeadelicz, Logan and Roshan Jamrock.
The album was initially slated to release in March 2018, but the launch was postponed due to the standoff between Nadigar Sangam and Digital Service Providers on the increase of Virtual Print Fee charges along with the 2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing issue. The audio launch event, took place on 9 May 2018, at YMCA College of Physical Education, Chennai where Rajinikanth, Dhanush, Santhosh Narayanan, Pa. Ranjith, the film's cast and crew and others attended the event.
The songs were released simultaneously in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. The album received positive critical reception from music listeners, and audiences, praising Santhosh for a different kind of blend of mixtures and genres in the soundtrack album.
Development.
Santhosh Narayanan, signed in to compose the film's soundtrack in 2017, collaborating with Rajinikanth and Pa. Ranjith once again after "Kabali" (2016), and also its second collaboration with the former. Recording of the songs, which commenced in September 2017, was completed within the end of 2018. The soundtrack album, consists of nine songs in the Tamil version, while it consists eight songs in the Telugu and Hindi version. The album consists of one a cappella song, only in the Tamil version of the soundtrack album. The lyrics for the songs were written by Kabilan, Umadevi, Arunraja Kamaraj, Arivu and rap portions were penned by Logan and Roshan Jamrock. Dharavi-based street rapper band, Dopeadelicz also contributed to the album, by writing and also performing three songs, apart from playing an important role in the film. Celebrity singers also sung the songs, which included Shankar Mahadevan, and Vijay Prakash. Ananthu, Pradeep Kumar, Dhee also sung the songs for the film, with three of the songs were sung by the former. Malaysian rapper Yogi B rendered one song, which is reported to be the theme music of the film. His rap portions were used in the teaser of the movie, only in Tamil version.
Marketing.
The audio rights of the film were secured by Wunderbar Studios, a subsidiary of the production house Wunderbar Films, alongside with Divo. The official theme music used in the film's teaser was released on 7 March 2018. Later on April 2018, Dhanush, the producer of the film posted on his official Twitter account, stating that the film's audio will release on 9 May 2018.
On 1 May 2018, the makers released the first single track from the film, titled as "Semma Weightu" in all streaming platforms and on YouTube. The song penned by Arunraja Kamaraj, with Hariharasudhan, Santhosh Narayanan and Arunraja Kamaraj, crooning the vocals, with Dope Daddy, Stony Psyko, MC Mawali, a part of the Dopeadelicz band, rendering the rap versions. The official lyric video of the song crossed 2 million views, within 24 hours of its release.
An album preview was released on 7 May 2018 on YouTube where director Pa. Ranjith, and Santhosh Narayanan, shared their views by expressing their opinion about working for the film's soundtrack. The tracklist was released on 8 May 2018.
Release.
The grand audio launch event of the film took place, on 9 May 2018, at YMCA College of Physical Education, Nandanam, Chennai, where Rajinikanth, director Pa. Ranjith, composer Santhosh Narayanan, Dhanush, Aishwaryaa R. Dhanush and the entire film cast and crew and other celebrities attended the event. The film's album songs were released at 9:00 a.m. in all streaming platforms. Santhosh Narayanan, and his musicians gave a live performance of the songs in the film. The audio launch event was aired on live on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, and was telecasted live on Airtel TV, a live television streaming portal of Airtel, the film's telecommunication partner. However, it was not aired live on television. The audio launch event was telecasted on Star Vijay on 20 May 2018.
Reception.
The soundtrack received positive reviews. Behindwoods rate the album 3 out of 5 stars, stating that "A dynamic album by Santhosh - dominated by tracks with social messages - who weaves his magic with his not-to-miss mass and melody tracks!" Indiaglitz rated it 3 out of 5, and summarised that "Santhosh as a mindful composer understanding the politically charged nature of the tracks, balances composition to match the lyrics and not vice versa. 'Kaala' album has most songs that might fit as easy on a political protest as it does on a dance floor." The Times of India, summarised it as "The album of Kaala, in many ways, sounds like an extension of Kabali – be it in terms of soundscape, instrumentation or the heavily-worded lyrics. Listen to the songs with the story and background in mind, and you'll be able to appreciate its nuances better." Scroll.in reviewed it as "Lots of revolutionary spirit and some good tunes". India Today, summarised the soundtrack as "blend of genres, and political messages". Firstpost rated it as ""Kaala" is not an album for those of you who are looking for the usual commercial tracks that uplift Rajinikanth's image. What Santhosh does here is bring together a pool of local talent and an ensemble artist line-up at to give us a very different jukebox. Infused with "Thalaivar"'s style yet crafted for the people, "Kaala" is slow kill for many. Not your everyday album, that makes you groove or stay hooked, "Kaala" is the one with thoughtful lyrics and for Tamil rap lovers. Except for the few breezy melodies completely contrasting to "Kabali" — Santhosh's last outing with the same team." Hindustan Times, reviewed it as "Santhosh Narayanan's album evokes a sense of revolution in Rajinikanth's film". Indian Express, reviewed the album as "Experimental and definitely not the material of a full-blown mass film, Kaala's music is a mishmash of genres and instruments that is interesting but leaves us with a mild feeling of being lost."
Additionals.
Dialogues.
The soundtrack featuring the film's dialogues was released on 7 June 2018.
Background score.
The original soundtrack of "Kaala" features fifteen tracks by Santhosh Narayanan. The theme music "Rain Fight" was released as single on 13 June 2018, and the "Hari Dada Theme" was released as the second single on 29 June 2018. The full background score was released on 13 July 2018.
Album credits.
Credits adapted from CD liner notes
All songs composed, arranged and programmed by Santhosh Narayanan


O Kadhal Kanmani (soundtrack)

O Kadhal Kanmani is the soundtrack album, composed by A. R. Rahman, to the 2015 Indian Tamil film of the same name written and directed by Mani Ratnam. The soundtrack album consists of nine tracks each in original Tamil and Telugu version of the albums with one track "Maula Wa Sallim" being common to both. Majority of the tracks for the original version were penned by Vairamuthu. The lyrics to the Telugu version were written by Sirivennela Sitaramasastri.The lyrics to its Hindi version songs in its Hindi remake OK Jaanu is by Gulzar
The songs are fusion of contemporary music with carnatic music as well as pure classical Indian music based songs in the genres—carnatic and Hindustani. The original score was produced by ensemble Qutb-e-Kripa along with Rahman. The score utilises the songs and re-performed carnatic compositions of musicians Tyagaraja and Annamacharya.
The male version of "Mental Manadhil" was the released as the first single from the soundtrack album. The soundtrack album was released on the midnight of 3 April 2015 by Sony Music India. Upon release, the soundtrack album garnered positive reviews from the music critics who praised the fusion of classical and contemporary genres, sync of songs with film narration and the production quality.
The soundtrack album was awarded as the "Best Tamil Album of the Year" in 2015 by Apple Music.
Development.
In October 2014, it was announced that music director A. R. Rahman and lyricist Vairamuthu will compose the soundtrack in Tamil. Later, Sirivennela Sitaramasastri was opted to write lyrics for the Telugu version. In December 2014, Rahman announced that his son A. R. Ameen will be recording a song for the soundtrack. Mani Ratnam wanted an original soundtrack from Rahman that was contemporary as well as trendy. Rahman took inputs from the story and gave it a musical form. In an interview with "The Hindu", lyricist Vairamuthu revealed few track names and the sounds associated with them. He called the track "Paranthu Sella Vaa" anthemic and the track "Naane Varugiren" as youthful. According to Rahman, the film's subject was "youthful" and he tried to bring that kind of feel in the songs as well. He described the tracks as 'adventurous'. Since Leela Samson plays the role of a retired old Carnatic singer in the film, there is a tinge of Carnatic music in the film. Additional compositions to the film score were done by Qutb-e-Kripa, an ensemble of musicians from A. R. Rahman's own music institute KM Music Conservatory. Rahman along with his singers have sung Carnatic compositions of musicians Tyagaraja and Annamacharya for the film score. In an interview with Deccan Chronicle, Rahman mentioned that his request to Mani Ratnam, a complete song was dropped after filming because of the explicit lyrical content.
Composition.
The first song composed for the film was "Mental Manadhil", which Rahman called a "light-hearted" song. For immediate filming requirements, he had co-written the track with Ratnam during Vairamuthu's absence. Rahman recalled that while writing Mental Manadhil, both he and Ratnam wanted an interesting invention of new words or phrases for the song. During their jamming sessions—Rahman was saying 'Laka Laka' to rhyme with 'Mana Mana... Manadhil...' Ratnam said 'mental' and they decided to coin 'mental' and 'manadhil' together and thus hook words were framed. Later, they interchanged a few Tamil words with their English translations. The song puts forth the desires of a young heart. The song has staccato musical articulation with upbeats. "Malargal Kaettaen" was produced next, for which the lyrics were written first. It is a Carnatic keerthanai which incorporates sounds of Tanpurakanjira and flute. The track is based on raga Bihag. Briefing on the song "Naane Varugiren", Rahman stated, "Sometimes, you have to compromise words for the sound — the sound is very important, it de-clutters from the words. People don’t have as much bandwidth as before; we have to catch their attention immediately." Vairamuthu wrote an antara for the track, which, according to Rahman, had "very complicated words". Instead, Rahman and he came up with repetitive lyrics. The song is based on raag Darbari Kanada. The tune construction of the song with sangathis are complex and forced. The song expresses the glib of surrendering to love.
According to Rahman, the song "Aye Sinamika" took the longest time to get completed. It was a "soft song" that Ratnam wanted to be more energetic, on the lines of "Endrendrum Punnagai" (from "Alaipayuthey)" with more indipop sound to it. Although the lyrics for the song were written by Vairamuthu, Ratnam and Rahman again contributed two self-coined terms to the song: "Sinamika" and "Anadhika". The words in the song were almost incidental — the words are sounds just like the other sounds, from the instruments. In the track, almost an entire minute is filled with variations on just three words- 'Nee' 'Ennai' 'Neengaathe'. The track has more guitar sounds. Regarding "Kaara Attakkaara", which was one of the first songs to be composed, Rahman told that it was planned to be a very unconventional composition. After incorporating various ideas into the song, the original track length was 15 minutes. Later, Rahman cut it down to nearly 6 minutes. Singer Darshana recorded her parts for the song in January 2015. The lines first rehearsed were used in the trailer. She recorded for twenty minutes. Four days later, she was called in the studio to record the same rap that was sung by Aaryan Dinesh Kanagaratnam. "Parandhu Sellu Vaa" was composed using the iPad app "Loopy", which creates loops, since Ratnam wanted it to feature minimal orchestration. It is a slow, sensuous track. When the phrase "Nanaindhu Kollava"" "appears at the middle of the song, the minimal violin based orchestration begins and runs until the end of the track. The song has sixty odd non-repeating words. "Theera Ulaa" was composed after Rahman had seen the entire film. Singer Darshana's lines were in the classical Indian music genre. Rahman wanted her to sing with the feel of 'contentment' as if 'floating in air'. In parts, the track is laid with twangs of classical instruments. The arrangement of the track is fast-paced with all the three singers' voices vocoded. The song starts off with a lot of auto-tune but diminshes when the female vocals begin, blending of classical music.
Critical reception.
Srinivas Ramanujan, who wrote for "The Hindu", called the album "classical yet cool" and went on to add, "This album is ample proof that the Mani Ratnam-A.R.Rahman-Vairamuthu combination is still the best in the business. The musical assortment that is "Oh Kadhal Kanmani" is delicious to the ear!" Nivedita Mishra for "Hindustan Times" showed wonder, "How A.R. Rahman and Mani Ratnam make magical music", whereas while reviewing the music in the film, critic Haricharan Pudipedi stated, "Rahman's music, needless to say, is soul-stirring, if not as standalone soundtrack but it works so well in the movie." "Behindwoods" called the album, "Classy and contemporary all the way", giving the album 3.75 stars out of 5. Writing for "The New Indian Express", Vipin Nair noted, "Mani Ratnam still does manage to turn A R Rahman into his inventive best! The inventiveness here may not go down well in every case, but this will still remain a brilliant soundtrack." He rated the album 9 on a scale of 10. "Indo-Asian News Service" heaped praise on the song "Naane Varugiraen", writing that it was "one such song to which Rahman gives his pure touch with tunes that can only come from his soul" and that Rahman "creates magic" with that song, going on to call it "undoubtedly the best of the lot with "Paranthu Sella Vaa" and "Aye Sinamika" blessed by Karthik's voice following closely". Critics of BollywoodLife called the music by A. R. Rahman a big hit and commendable job done for background score. M. Suganth for "The Times of India" wrote, "A. R. Rahman's hip songs and background score, keeps the scenes throbbing in the film." Critic S. Saraswathi, in her review for "Rediff" noted, "A R Rahman has outdone himself once again. Both the background music and the songs are exhilarating and perfectly in sync with the narrative." Anupama Subramaniam of Deccan Chronicle opined that Ratnam and Rahman had created magical musical. She went on to add, "The songs ARR’s songs which are already chartbusters elevate the entire proceedings." Kavitha Muralidharan for "India Today" summarized, "Needless to speak of the tracks that A R Rahman has come up with for his mentor. From peppy to mellifluous, Rahman has belted out numbers that makes OKK a complete if not perfect romance." Writing for "Gulf News", critic Mythily Ramachandran praised the style of the song "Parandhu Sella Vaa"-its introduction and the way the song is carried on using loopy app. She called Rahman's music magical. R. S. Prakash of Bangalore Mirror wrote, "Rahman's background score is top-notch, especially in the romantic sequences."
Shankar of "Oneindia Tamil" noted that the soundtrack brings a feel of happiness to the heart, rewarding the album with 3.5 stars out of 5. "Sify"'s critic Siddharth wrote, ""OK Kanmani" is an album that has tracks that didn’t amalgamate imaginations. Being a return to roots romance movie for Mani Ratnam, the songs were expected to be simple. But ARR has delivered some of the most complex tracks in recent times and relieves himself out of his recent debacles. It is not Rahman’s best but even a half blazing ARR is miles ahead of the rest." However the critic at "Sify," reviewing music of the film stated, "A R Rahman's alluring music elevates the energy to the different level. Rahman has given his career best work to Ratnam." Anamika Nair based at "DNA India" wrote, "The legendary duo Rahman-Ratnam...come together once again and created this magic number." Baradwaj Rangan opined, "Nice-ish. That’s the word I have right now for "O Kadhal Kanmani". It didn’t make me wince the way the soundtracks for "Lingaa" and "Kochadaiiyaan" did. It didn’t activate every single one of my pleasure centres the way the soundtrack for "I" did. It’s somewhere in the middle." However, he praised the production quality of the soundtrack album.
Album credits.
Credits adapted from A. R. Rahman's official website.
Original soundtrack.
Shashwat, Deepak, Anand, Shenbagaraj, Santosh, Maalavika, Veena, Shashwathi, Sowmya Raoh, Soundarya, Nivas, Sivakumar, Dhana, Raveena Ravi, Srinidhi


Gaon Tasa Changla Pan Veshila Tangla

Gaon Tasa Changla Pan Veshila Tangla was a Marathi film released on 21 October 1985. The movie was produced by Chelaram Bhatia with Lalchand Bhatia and directed by Anat Mane.
Cast.
The cast includes Usha Naik, Ashok Saraf, Nilu Phule & Others.
Soundtrack.
The music has been directed by Ram Kadam.


Eva Grimaldi

Eva Grimaldi (born Milva Perinoni) (born 7 September 1961) is an Italian actress and model.
Born in Nogarole Rocca, Grimaldi debuted as a nude model in "Playmen" and as a soubrette in the Antonio Ricci's TV-show "Drive In". She made her film debut in Federico Fellini's "Intervista", and starred in Giuliano Carnimeo's cult horror film "Ratman" and Marina Ripa Di Meana's "Cattive ragazze". From then, she appeared in numerous films and TV-series, including works by Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, Damiano Damiani, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Marie Poiré and John Irvin. She was also very active on stage, working mainly with Pier Francesco Pingitore.


Senthil Ganesh

Senthil Ganesh is an Indian folk, playback singer and actor. He rose to prominence after winning the 6th edition of the "Airtel Super Singer" in 2018 which was aired in Star Vijay. He made his acting debut with the film "Thirudu Pogatha Manasu" (2014). He married fellow folk singer Rajalakshmi in 2012.
Career.
He pursued his interest in folk music Naattupurapaattu at the age of five and started recording songs at his young age after learning the basics of the music. He learnt music from Chella Thangaiah and recorded his first song "Mannuketha Raagangal" at the age of ten. He completed his primary and secondary education at a school in Alangudi, Pudukkottai and pursued his higher education at a musical college in Trichy. He has also conducted over 100 folk music concerts and has performed in many local cultural religious functions. Senthil also received the Doctor of Letters for Tamil Literature. In 2014, he was roped into play a lead role in the film "Thirudu Pogatha Manasu" by his music guru turned director Chella Thangaiah and the film marked Senthil's acting debut.
He then took part in "Super Singer 6" along with his wife as one of 16 contestants in the season and became popular in the show for singing mostly folk songs. He emerged as the winner of the contest while his wife received a consolation prize. After taking part in the contest, he received film opportunities and collaborated with director Chella Thangaiah for the second time and played the lead role in "Karimugan" (2018). It was initially reported that Senthil Ganesh would make his playback singing debut after being approached by music director D. Imman with the film "Seema Raja" in 2018.
However he along with his wife Rajalakshmi made their playback singing debut together in early 2018 and both rose to prominence after crooning the sleeper hit song "Chinna Machan" for the film "Charlie Chaplin 2". He collaborated with another folk singer Rockstar Ramani Ammal and crooned the song "Sirukki" for the film "Kaappaan" which became popular among the rural people.
He also appeared in the reality television show "Mr and Mrs. Chinnathirai" with his wife in 2019.
Controversy.
He and his wife Rajalakshmi were credited for speaking critically about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the social media.


Vincent Selva

Vincent Selva is a noted film director and screenwriter associated with Tamil film industry. This director is best known for his debut flick, "Priyamudan" starring Vijay, Kausalya. Other directors such as Mysskin and S. P. Jananathan worked under him.
Career.
Vincent Selva got associated with film scene in the 1990s.
He made his film debut as a director through the film "Priyamudan". The romantic film released in 1998 was a major hit at box office and had been remade to Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. This is the first movie where Vijay played an anti-hero role.
In 1999 he released his second film, "Iraniyan", a fictional biography of freedom fighter "Vattakudi Iraniyan". The movie starred Murali and Meena in the lead roles and opened to mixed reviews.
In 2002 he directed "Youth" a film starring Vijay, which was well received by critics and audiences. The movie starred the Fair & Lovely girl, Shaheen Khan in the lead role. In 2002, he was signed on by producer Keyaar to make a film titled "Enna Peyar Veikalaam" featuring Karthik in the lead role. Despite travelling to Pollachi for the shoot, the actor refused to emerge from his hotel room, and following an extended period of confusion, the film was called off.
He worked on "Khakee", a police thriller with Sarathkumar in the lead role during 2006, but the film was shelved. Despite attempts to restart the venture in 2008, the film did not finish production.
In 2005 he remade the Bollywood film, "Gayab" to Tamil titled, "Jithan". The movie met with commercial success. After the film, he directed the same actor Jithan Ramesh in "Madurai Veeran", but it was received negative reviews. "Perumal", "Thulli Vilayadu" and "Inga Enna Solluthu" are other releases.
In 2016, he made a comeback with the sequel of Jithan and the movie titled "Jithan 2" was a major setback. The talented and multiaward winning director Mysskin known for his off beat movies worked as an assistant under him. S. P. Jananathan has also worked under him as an assistant.


Shivaji Lotan Patil

Shivaji Lotan Patil is an Indian film director. He received the 60th National Award for Best Director for his Marathi film Dhag.
His film "31st October" received positive feedback at its screening at the July 2015 London Indian Film Festival. Shivaji Lotan Patil directed Marathi film Halal (film) produced by Amol Kagne.
His next Marathi movies (Loud speaker ) shooting is just started in his hometown as earlier he done three movies in his town place . Dhag, Halal, and one not realise yet and the upcoming fourth is loud speaker.


Zero Chou

Zero Chou (; born 24 July 1969) is a Taiwanese director and screenwriter.
Life and career.
Chou was born in Keelung, Taiwan in 1969. She earned a B.A. in Philosophy from National Chengchi University in 1992. She worked as a journalist before becoming an indie film director.
She entered into film making because of her attraction to the combination of content and form. She has been heralded as the most talented documentary director in the recent years of Taiwan. She has also received various festival awards around the world for films.
Chou and Hoho Liu () are an openly lesbian couple. Chou "is one of the few openly lesbian filmmakers in the world, and the only one in Taiwan," according to AfterEllen. She is currently filming a six-film series called the Six Asian Cities Rainbow Project (亞洲六城彩虹計劃). She is trying to finish as quickly as possible and worries she will go missing while filming, since many of the locations have rules against films presenting LGBT content.
Awards.
Corners
Poles Extremity
Splendid Float
Spider Lilies


U. K. Senthil Kumar

U. K. Senthil Kumar is an Indian cinematographer, who has worked in the Tamil and Malayalam film industries.
Career.
A native of Coimbatore, Senthil Kumar belongs to the 1989-92 batch of the Government Film Institute, Chennai, and has worked in about 50 films. After making his debut in 1993 with Manobala's "Karuppu Vellai" (1993), Senthil Kumar worked exclusively for director Sundar C in the late 1990s and early 2000s, before being displaced in Sundar's teams by Prasad Murella. He continued working in quickly shot, low budget films and established a reputation as a talented cameraman. He also acted in Kusthi film in 2006. He then returned to work with Sundar C in the well received comedy films "Kalakalappu" (2012) and then "Aranmanai" (2014). He has also helped politicians with their promotion campaigns, helping create hologram-like videos for Narendra Modi's 2014 campaign and was established as nations one of the best camera man. He also worked for Telangana chief minister Chandrasekar Rao for his elections. Other than these work he also waved his flag in Tamil serials. Nandini (TV series) is a Supernatural Television show which was also a successful work in his career.


Bigil (soundtrack)

Bigil is the soundtrack album, composed by A. R. Rahman, to the 2019 Indian Tamil-language sports action film of the same name, directed by Atlee Kumar, starring Vijay in dual lead roles, along with Nayanthara, Jackie Shroff, Vivek and Kathir in other prominent roles. The soundtrack album consists of 5 songs, with 2 bonus tracks, all of them were penned by lyricist Vivek. The soundtrack album was released digitally on 27 September 2019, through the Sony Music record label.
Production.
The soundtrack and background score was composed by A. R. Rahman, marking his second collaboration with Atlee after "Mersal", and also his fifth collaboration with Vijay. The album features five songs with lyrics written by Vivek. The music rights of the film were acquired by Sony Music India. Actor Vijay, sung one song titled "Verithanam" which was confirmed by a poster release on 8 July 2019. This is the first time Vijay, has sung for a film composed by Rahman.
A song from the film "Singappenney" was unofficially leaked through the internet on mid-July 2019; and following this, the song was officially released on 23 July 2019, as the film's first single. The music video features Rahman and Shashaa Tirupati, rendering the song while lyricist Vivek and Atlee also made an appearance. Singapenney, considered to be a woman anthem, Vivek, who wrote the lyrics, stated that "This is a woman anthem, dedicated to mother, sister, wife and all women in the world" while also noting that "the song will change the stereotype of a woman, which considers that the stronger themes were denoted for men and the softer themes were denoted for women".
The second single track "Verithanam" was released on 1 September 2019, it is a peppy introduction dance number sung by Vijay. The lyrical video crossed 1 million likes within few days of its release, thus becoming the first South Indian lyric video to achieve this record. The third single "Unakkaga" was released on 18 September 2019, sung by Sreekanth Hariharan and Madhura Dhara Talluri, it is a melodious number. The other songs were "Maathare" sung by Chinmayi, Madhura Dhara Talluri, Sireesha, Akshara and Vithusayni, and "Bigil Bigil Bigiluma" an instrumental track.
Release.
The film's music was released at the audio launch event held on 27 September 2019 at Sai Leo Muthu Indoor Stadium, Sri Sai Ram Engineering College, Chennai, with the presence of the film's cast and crew and all the other celebrities. Nayanthara did not attend the audio launch, the event was hosted by Mirchi Siva and Ramya Subramanian. Rahman and his musical team gave a stage performance at the audio launch. The event was not telecasted live, due to technical difficulties, the audio launch was telecasted through Sun TV on 29 September 2019. The songs were released at all digital platforms, the very same day, of the launch.
A month after the film's release, an album with two additional songs was released. While these two songs are also written by Vivek, the song "Kaalame" was sung by Bamba Bakya, while the song "Idharkuthaan" was sung by Dhee with additional vocals from Sunitha Sarathy and Arjun Chandy.
Reception.
The music received positive reviews from critics, with "Singappenney", "Verithanam" and "Bigil Bigil Bigiluma" being well received by audiences. Behindwoods gave the album a rating of 3.25 out of 5, saying, "A. R. Rahman's perfect mix of class and mass music amplifies Bigil's verithanam [grandeur]!". International Business Times gave the album a rating of 3 out of 5, saying, "A. R. Rahman delivered a hit music album for Vijay in the form of Bigil". Moviecrow rated the album 3 out of 5, stating "A.R.Rahman's third successive collaboration with Vijay and fifth over the years is an amusing mix. Between an elastic spectrum of staying true to the likes of ARR and satisfying the monstrous hungry of the fans of a huge stardom, the album is more of a mixbag balancing both. Sometimes ARR overtakes and sometimes he gets ruthlessly overtaken."
Chart performance.
The song "Singappenney" reached #1 position on Radio Mirchi Top 20, Wynk Music, YouTube, Spotify and JioSaavn music platforms. On year-end chart, the song reached #1 position in Big FM "Best of 2019" chart; and also achieved #10 on The Times of India's "Top 15 Tamil Songs 2019", charts, as "Verithanam", other song from the film, achieved #5 as well. "Singappenney" was also listed in "5 best songs to cheer womenhood on International Women's Day" by News18.
The album was listed in Top 2019 Tamil albums of Sify and The New Indian Express. A review from A Humming Heart, ranked the album in 8th position in their "Top 15 Tamil Albums". On a January–September 2019 survey report from the music platform JioSaavn, stated "Verithanam" and "Rowdy Baby" (a song from Dhanush's "Maari 2"), became the most streamed songs in this intermediate period. In September 2020, the song "Verithanam" crossed 100 million views on YouTube.
Album credits.
Original Soundtrack.
Credits adapted from the official website of Sony Music South.
Producer(s).
A. R. Rahman
Performer(s).
A. R. Rahman, Vijay, Shashaa Tirupati, Sreekanth Hariharan, Madhura Dhara Talluri, Chinmayi, Sireesha, Akshara, Vithusayni, Bamba Bakya, Dhee, Arjun Chandy, Sunitha Sarathy, Sarath Santhosh, L. V. Revanth, Anurag Kulkarni
Additional vocals.
Sangeetha, Poovaiyar, Ka Ka Balachander, KR Arjun, Rakthaksh, Hriday Gattani, Hiral Viradia
Backing Vocals.
Arjun Chandy, Veena Murali, Deepthi Suresh, Rakshita Suresh, Abinaya, Ala B Bala, Sowmya, Soundarya, Nakul Abhyankar, Deepak, Niranjana Ramanan, Swagatha, Aravind Srinivas, Jithin Raj, Shenbagaraj, Santosh Hariharan, Vignesh Narayanan, Lavita Lobo, Madhura Dhara Talluri, Narayanan
Kids Vocals.
Riya K S, Nikhil P S, K R Arjun, Vidhya Rupini, K U Kokilapriya
Vocal Arrangement
Arjun Chandy, Nakul Abhyankar, Kumaran Sivamani
Personnel.
Music Supervisors
T. R. Krishna Chetan
Additional Arrangements and Programming
T. R. Krishna Chetan, Jerry Silvester Vincent, Pawan CH, Santosh Dayanidhi, Kumaran Sivamani, Jim Sathya
Original Score.
Credits adapted from the official website of Sony Music South.
Producer.
A. R. Rahman
Additional vocals.
Arjun Chandy, Veena Murali, Deepthi Suresh, Hiral Viradia, Reema, Uthara Unnikrishnan, Rakshita Suresh, Abinaya, Ala B Bala, Sowmya, Soundarya, Nakul Abhyankar, Deepak, Niranjana Ramanan, Swagatha, Aravind Srinivas, Jithin Raj, Shenbagaraj, Santosh Hariharan, Vignesh Narayanan, Lavita Lobo, Madhura Dhara Talluri, Narayanan, Sana Moussa, Tanvi, Shiv
Personnel.
Music Supervisor
T. R. Krishna Chetan
Additional Programming and Arrangement
Jim Sathya, Nakul Abhyankar, Pawan CH, A. R. Ameen, AH Kaashif, Jerry Vincent, Santhosh Dhayanidhi, Harsha Vardhan Upadrashta, Chitti, Ramesh


Yandamuri Veerendranath

Yandamuri Veerendranath is an Indian novelist and screenwriter known for his works in the Telugu language. He influences younger generations with his socially relevant writings and youtube videos. In his writings he addresses many of social problems in India like poverty, prejudices, and superstitions, and encourages people to be socially responsible. He successfully bridges the idealistic and the popular styles of literature. He is also a Chartered Accountant by qualification.
Personal life.
Yandamuri Veerendranath is from East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. He is a practicing chartered accountant. He worked for 15 years in various financial institutions as a senior executive.
He is an acclaimed novelist, playwright, and State Sahitya Academy award winner. His works have been translated into Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, English, and Hindi. He is a motivational speaker and has delivered speeches at Australia, Tanzania, Indonesia, Singapore, US and, the UK. He is a movie director. He directed films with artists like Chiranjeevi, Ramya Krishna etc.
He is associated with more than 30 films that include 'Abhilasha' (అభిలాష), 'Challenge' (ఛాలెంజ్) and ‘Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari’ (జగదేక వీరుడు అతిలోక సుందరి). His TV Serials won Golden Nandi awards for best direction and production. His film, 'oka Voori Katha (ఒక ఊరి కథ)’ won best regional film award from President of India. His film Vennelloa Aadapilla (వెన్నెల్లో ఆడపిల్ల) won Film fare award.
In an opinion poll in 1982 conducted by Andhrajyoti, he was one among "4 most popular persons" of the state, others being N.T. Ramarao etc. His book 'Success in Five Steps' holds an all-time record in Telugu literature, surpassing sales of more than two crore rupees.
He built an ashram at Kakinada, a one-crore project to teach the importance of education to tribal students free of cost.
Popular culture.
Many of his novels have been made into motion pictures in Telugu. He also directed two movies in Telugu, the first being Agnipravesam, starring Yamuna, and the second movie with Chiranjeevi by name, Stuvartpuram Police Station. Both the stories were based on his own novels but not received well by the audience. Hence, Veerendranath reverted to writing. His TV serials won Nandi awards, and film fare award. His film Beladingala Baale (ಬೆಳದಿಂಗಳ ಬಾಲೆ) won Karnataka state best film award:
Awards.
In addition to financial success, he has won many awards for his work. His first film as a dialogue writer won a best regional award from the President of India.
Bibliography.
He is passionate about motivating students and gave around 1000 motivational speeches all over India and abroad. Latest he was involved in motivating around 40000 Sc/St financially poor students all over Andhra Pradesh at 13 District headquarters.
Career.
Veerendranath did Chartered Accountancy and started his career at Andhra Pradesh State Finance Corporation. He worked there for 5 years. Later he moved to Andhra Bank and worked as the head of Small Scale Industries Division. Some of his works are available as e-books


Vijay Award for Best Female Playback Singer

The Vijay for Best Female Playback Singer is given by STAR Vijay as part of its annual Vijay Awards ceremony for Tamil (Kollywood) films. The award was first given in 2007.
The list.
Here is a list of the award winners and the films for which they won.
Superlatives.
Most nominations
Most Wins


Padmesh

Padmesh is a Tamil film cinematographer. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry as well as a DFTech in cinematography. His first film is Murugaa, then Perarasu film Thiruvanamalai (film) starring action king Arjun Sarja. Then he worked for movie Kathirvel. Then he worked in Muran starring Cheran and Prasanna. He handled Cinematography(Previz Camera Supervisor) for the movie Kochadaiyaan. He is currently working in Tamil movie ULA.


Simon K. King

Simon K. King is an Indian film composer who predominantly composes music for Indian films. He made his debut with Sasi's "Ainthu Ainthu Ainthu" (2013) and is well known for his chartbuster song "Yavvana" from the movie Sathya, and for his background score for "Kolaigaran"
Career.
Simon K.King started his music career as a keyboard programmer while he was pursuing his graduation in electrical engineering. He then continued to work on developing his interests in composing and arranging music. From there he started composing jingles where he has notably worked on more than 300 jingles for various brands. Simultaneously he worked as a freelance music producer for many music directors in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam film industries.


P. Neelakantan

Palaniyaandi Neelakantan (2 October 1916 Villupuram – 3 September 1992 Chennai) was a Tamil film director, who was active for nearly four decades. He was born at Villupuram, Tamil Nadu. He graduated to movies from stage play. His play "Naam Iruvar" was brought by movie mogul Avichi Meiyappa Chettiar and made into a film in 1947. Then he wrote the dialogues for films like "Vedala Ulagam" in 1948. His directorial debut was with "Oru Iravu" in (1951), the dialogue for which was written by C. N. Annadurai. Two films that made him well-known are ALS productions "Ambikapadi" (1957) and "Thirudadhe" (1961). He also has directed movies in Kannada and Sinhalese "Suneetha" and "Sujage Rahase". Neelakantan was mainly associated with creating M. G. Ramachandran's (MGR) movie persona. Between "Chakravarthi Thirumagal" in 1957 and "Needhikku Thalaivanangu" in 1976, Neelakantan directed altogether 17 of MGR's movies.


Singoalla (film)

Singoalla is a 1949 Swedish-French film directed by Christian-Jaque, starring Viveca Lindfors and Alf Kjellin. It is based on the romantic novel "The Wind Is My Lover" by Viktor Rydberg, which in turn is based on a medieval legend of the love between a gypsy and a nobleman. It was produced in three language versions: Swedish, French, and English. The Swedish and French versions were entitled Singoalla. The English version had three titles: Gypsy Fury (USA), The Wind is My Lover (UK), and The Mask and the Sword (UK). The Swedish and English versions starred Alf Kjellin as the nobleman, but the French version starred Michel Auclair. All three versions were edited separately – even scoring is slightly different. The Swedish and French run over 100 minutes, the English only 63 minutes.


Chandan Shetty

Chandan Shetty (born 17 September 1989) is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer, lyricist, and pop singer who composes music in the Kannada and Telugu languages.
Shetty gained fame as a solo artist with Kannada language singles such as "Halagode", "3 Peg", "Chocolate Girl", "Tequila" "Fire" and "Party Freak. He debuted into Tollywood with the film "Pogaru" (2021).
Career.
Shetty entered the music industry in 2012 as lyricist and assistant music director for the movie Alemaari, under the music director, Arjun Janya. Then he worked for several other movies such as "Varadanayaka", "Power", "Chakravyuha", and "Bhajarangi". He was engaged to his co-contestant of "Bigg Boss Kannada Season 5", Niveditha Gowda on 21 October. He won in the reality show Bigg Boss Kannada Season 5. He married her on 25 February 2020.
Controversies.
August 2020.
Chandan Shetty stoked a controversy by presenting his version of the folk song 'Kolumande Jangamadeva'. A section from the Old Mysuru region has objected to this song claiming that Shetty distorted the very history of Malemadeshwara Swamy, to whom the song is dedicated, thus hurting their religious sentiments. Several people have also objected to the way the song has been depicted. They said that Sharane Sankamma has been insulted in this song and, thus, the entire Sharana tradition has also been insulted by the rap singer. Following the outrage, Anand Audio Company had deleted the song from YouTube.
October 2019.
During Dasara celebrations of 2019, he proposed to reality TV star Niveditha Gowda on the Yuva Dasara stage, which is meant for cultural events. Chandan was performing at the government-sponsored Dasara programme at the Maharaja’s College grounds. District in-charge minister V Somanna said, "I have told the police to issue a show-cause notice. We will consider action as per the law. It is wrong to misuse the platform."


T. R. Mahalingam (actor)

Thenkarai Ramakrishna Mahalingam (16 June 1924 - 21 April 1978) born in Sholavandan Thenkarai was an Indian film actor, singer and music composer of the 1940s and 1950s. He was known for his melodious songs mostly based on romantic or devotional themes.
Early days.
Mahalingam's career as an actor and singer began since his childhood. He regularly appeared in stage plays popularly called special dramas. Mahalingam trained as a singer during the time when microphones and amplifiers were rarely present in performance halls. His music training, like those of singers S. G. Kittappa, Krishnan, M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar and to a large extent TMS, stressed voice projection and singing loud so as to be audible in large auditoriums. So it was that in 1933, when the prominent singer Kittappa died at the early age of 28, Mahalingam got his first break in films..
Acting.
In 1937, at the age of 14, Mahalingam got the chance to appear in the film Nandakumar, the third film produced by AVM. The film was based on the story of Lord Krishna wherein Mahalingam was chosen to play the lead role. The film failed at the box office in all the three languages (Tamil, Hindi and Marathi) in which it was made. Nevertheless, it received great accolades for its songs.
Mahalingam got his big break in the film Sri Valli made at the height of the Second World War, in which he played the part of Lord Murugan. The film did well at the box-office and established Mahalingam's reputation as both an actor and a singer.
Music composers he sang for.
Many music directors gave him memorable songs, including S. V. Venkatraman, K. V. Mahadevan, Viswanathan-Ramamoorthy, G. Ramanathan, Sharma Brothers, T. A. Kalyanam, C. N. Pandurangan, Lalitha Venkatraman, T. Rajagopala Sarma, C. R. Subburaman, T. G. Lingappa, S. Rajeswara Rao, R. Sudharsanam, and Kunnakkudi Vaidyanathan.
Playback singers he sang with.
While Mahalingam had many solo hit songs, he also sang with other singers.
He sang the most number of duets with S. Varalakshmi.
He also sang duets with other female singers: P. A. Periyanayaki, T. R. Rajakumari, P. Bhanumathi, T. V. Rathinam, A. P. Komala, Soolamangalam Jayalakshmi, Soolamangalam Rajalakshmi, T. S. Bagavathi, S. Janaki, P. Leela and P. Suseela.
He was also paired to sing with male singers such as Seerkazhi Govindarajan and S. C. Krishnan.


Aarvam

Aarvam (English: "Interest") is a 2010 Indian Tamil action film directed by Aadithyan. The film features Satya, R. Sanjay and Meenu Karthika in lead roles, with Ganja Karuppu, Ponnambalam, Karate Raja, Scissor Manohar, Bonda Mani and Vadivukkarasi playing supporting roles. The film, produced by D. Anil, had a musical score by Ronnie Raphael and was released on 22 October 2010.
Plot.
Anjali (Meenu Karthika), the sister of the dreaded gangster Aadhi (Karate Raja), leaves the city and returns to her hometown after finishing her studies. The young man Mahesh (R. Sanjay), the son of a revenue inspector, falls at first sight with Anjali during the village's festival. Mahesh then proposes his love to her but she refuses to love a person that she doesn't know yet. Mahesh then starts to hang out with Anjali and she eventually falls in love with him. The villagers including Mahesh are feared of Aadhi, so Mahesh prepared a master plan: he lies to the innocent Sathya (Satya) that Anjali is in love with him. The village milkman Sathya who is from a poor background lives with widowed mother (Vadivukkarasi), little sister and uncle (Scissor Manohar). Thereafter, Sathya falls in love with Anjali and changes his look to please Anjali.
When Aadhi comes to know about his sister's love affair, he sends his henchmen to beat up Sathya but Sathya surprisingly overcomes them. Later, Aadhi kills the brother of his archenemy Pandi (Ponnambalam) and convinces him that the killer was no other than the innocent Sathya. A vengeful Pandi and his henchmen come to Sathya's house and beat up his family, Sathya defeats them. Aadhi then makes everything to portray Sathya as rowdy so his sister will avoid him. Afterwards, Anjali tells Sathya that she doesn't love him but she is in love with Mahesh. The heartbroken Sathya genuinely accepts his fate and he is disgusted by Mahesh's cheap mindset.
In reality, Mahesh wants to marry Anjali to get rich. Aadhi finally accepts for the marriage between Mahesh and his sister. However, Anjali finds out that Mahesh is a bad person thus the wedding is cancelled. In the meantime, Pandi and his henchmen beat the harmless Sathya to death. The film ends with Anjali mourning the death of Sathya.
Production.
After the poor performance of "Paadagasalai" (2010) in the box-office, the film producer Anil returned with "Aarvam" under the banner of Movie Dreams. Satya and R. Sanjay, who played the lead roles in "Paadagasalai", will be once again joining hands with the producer while Kerala-based Meenu Karthika was selected to be the heroine. Apart from the film director Adithyan, the hero Satya, the film's producer Anil, music director Ronnie Raphael, art director Anil Sreeragam and make-up man Binoy are the other Malayalis behind "Aarvam". The film was based on a real incident that took place in Madurai some years ago and it was shot in Tenkasi, Courtallam and Madurai.
Soundtrack.
The film score and the soundtrack were composed by film composer Ronnie Raphael. The soundtrack features 6 tracks.
Release.
The film was released on 22 October 2010 alongside four other films.


Jandhyala

Jandhyala Veera Venkata Durga Siva Subrahmanya Sastry (14 January 1951 – 19 June 2001) was an Indian screenwriter, director and actor known for his works in Telugu cinema. In a film career spanning twenty four years, he has garnered four state Nandi Awards and the Filmfare Award. Fondly called "Haasya Brahma", Jandhyala has also written dialogue for National Award winning works such as "Sankarabharanam" (1980), "Saptapadi" (1981), "Seethakoka Chiluka" (1981), "Sagara Sangamam" (1983), and "Swathi Kiranam" (1992). He received the Nandi Award for Best Dialogue Writer for "Aapadbandhavudu" (1992).
Jandhyala is known for his directorial works such as "Nalugu Stambhalata" (1982), the bilingual dance film, "Ananda Bhairavi" (1983), screened at the International Film Festival of India, and has garnered the state Nandi Awards for Best Feature Film, Best Direction, and Best Story. He then directed the dramedy works such as "Srivariki Premalekha", (1984), "Rendu Rellu Aaru" (1986), "Seeta Rama Kalyanam" (1986), "Chantabbai" (1986), "Padamati Sandhya Ragam" (1987), which received the Filmfare Award for Best Film – Telugu, and Nandi Award for Best Story. with screenings at "International Film Festival of India", and "Louisville's International Film Festival".
Early life.
Jandhyala was born on 14 January 1951 at Narsapuram. He is the son of Jandhyala Narayana Murthy. He graduated with a bachelors in commerce from SRR and CVR College in Vijayawada. Since his childhood, he was interested in stage plays particularly with mythological characters with elaborate costumes. He even won prizes for his performances while in school.
Career.
Jandhayala was a noted playwright during his college days. His first play being "Atmahuthi" (English "Self-immolation"); however, his next play "Ek Din Ka Sultan" was very popular and has been enacted over 10,000 times and script has been reprinted 15 times. His last play was "Gundelu Marchabadunu".
Jandhyala happened to meet Gummadi Venkateswara Rao (a popular character artist) who advised him to become a story writer. Soon he got support from Kaashinathuni Vishwanath, director of several meaningful Telugu films. Soon, he started writing for several films that saw success at box office.
He entered the films as a lyricist through the film "Punya Bhoomi Kallu Teru" and as dialogue writer it was "Devudu Chesina Bommalu". However, his film as a dialogue writer was K. Vishwanath's "Siri Siri Muvva" in the year 1977, was a blockbuster hit with which he got firm footing in Telugu cinema industry and since then never looked back. He would go on to write for around 200 films between 1977 and 1986, some of them becoming hugely successful at Box office and some even winning awards.
He also anchored few episodes called Andandho Bhamha, telecasted on Sundays in Doordarshan channel between 1993–1995 years.
Directorial style and success.
Jandhyala turned into a director with the film "Mudda Mandaram" in the year 1981. Jandhyala abhorred 'bawdy comedy' popular till then and believed that the dialogue should be crisp, simple and natural like real-life conversations, which the audience could easily identify themselves with, and enjoy. He had followed this rule in all the movies for which he had written and directed.
He is a trendsetter of Comedy genre and has written and directed several hits like "Nalugu Sthambalata", "Rendu Rella Aaru", "Aha Naa Pellanta", "Vivaha Bhojanambu", "Choopulu Kalasina Subhavela", "Chantabbai", "Amara Jeevi", "Seeta Rama Kalyanam" and "Padamati Sandhya Ragam", "Rendu Jalla Seetha".
He has introduced many comedy actors like Bramhanandam, Suthi Velu and Suthi Veerabhadra Rao. His film with Ushakiran Movies "Srivariki Premalekha" became an all-time-hit comedy film. His other film "Ananda Bhairavi" was a milestone in his career and won many awards.
Death.
He died on 19 June 2001, due to a massive heart attack, at 50, and after completing his silver jubilee year in films.
Jandhyala is survived by his wife Annapurna and two daughters, Sahiti and Sampada.


T. Siva

T. Siva is an Indian film producer and distributor in Chennai, India. He has produced 23 films including "Saroja" and "Kanimozhi". He owns the production company, Amma Creations. He is best known for "Aravindhan" (in which he introduced Yuvan Shankar Raja), "Saroja" and "Aravaan".
Career.
In the late 1990s, Siva faced economic problems following the release of "Aravindhan" (1997). In early 1999, he attempted to make a comeback though a film titled "Conductor Mappillai" starring Murali and Swathi but the film was shelved.


A Girl Named Mahmoud

A Girl Named Mahmoud (; Bint Ismaha Maĥmood) is a 1975 Egyptian comedy film directed by Niasi Mustafa.
Samar Habib, author of "Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations", wrote that the film "exploits the genre of transvestism as comedy" and that "several homoerotic images can be presented safely and innocently to mainstream audiences" through a female character pretending to be a male. She explained that because no characters consciously desire those of the same sex and because Ĥamida is still a woman, the film puts the audience "at ease". Habib added that "the question of [whether homoeroticism is forbidden in religion] does not surface so much as the issues of cultural belief, perhaps because the two can sometimes be interchangeable."
Habib concluded that the film does not successfully thoroughly examine homoerotic desire and that the film "attempts to rationalize homosexuality as a form of transgenderism (women who desire other women must be essentially men)".
Plot.
Ĥamida (Suhair Ramzi) is the daughter of an illiterate widower, al-Ĥag Firghalee. Firghalee attempts to prevent his daughter from studying at a university, so the medical student Ĥassan helps her. After Firghalee reveals he will marry Ĥamida to a boy she dislikes, Ĥassan has her disguise herself as a man, Mahmoud. Ĥassan and his friends lie to Firghalee, telling him they performed transsexual surgery to change Ĥamida into a man. Ĥamida's disguise has an effeminate appearance, and both male and female employees at Firghalee's furniture shop are attracted to "Mahmoud" and many conclude "he" is a homosexual.
Firghalee's father mistakenly believes that "Mahmoud" is a homosexual when he sees "him" kiss Hassan. He arranges to have Lawaĥith, a cabaret entertainer, meet "Mahmood" to set "his" sexuality straight, but "Mahmoud" is not attracted to women and is unwilling to sleep with Lawaĥith. One woman says that she has the child of "Mahmoud" and two women claim to be engaged to "Mahmoud". After a doctor mistakenly states "Mahmoud" is pregnant, Ĥamida reveals her true identity. She and Ĥassan marry.


The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (film)

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is a 1982 American film produced by John Kurkjian, written by Alex Hakobian, and directed by Sarky Mouradian. It is an adaptation of the novel "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh", about the resistance to the Armenian Genocide at Musa Dagh, at the time in Aleppo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire and now in Hatay Province, Turkey.
Edward Minasian wrote in "The Forty Years of Musa Dagh" that the movie is "a modest memorial to the heroes of Musa Dagh and to the innocent victims of man’s inhumanity to man."
Development and production.
There were attempts beginning in the 1930s to produce a film adaptation of the novel but the Turkish government used diplomatic and financial pressure to convince MGM to not make the film. Turkish Ambassador to the U.S. Münir Ertegün was afraid that the production of the film would seriously damage Turkey-United States relations.
MGM sold the rights to the film to Kurkjian. Kukjian, a real estate developer, did not have a lot of experience with filming when he received the rights. Kurkjian initially hoped a studio would make an offer for the filming rights, but chose to begin production himself in 1982 because his rights would contractually expire six weeks later. Kurkjian asked Hakobian to incorporate the best elements of various "Musa Dagh" scripts into this production. Reidel wrote that the resulting script "bore only a thin resemblance to the novel."
Minasian wrote that the film produced by Kurkjian differed from the envisioned large budget film that MGM had originally planned to make; the actors were "unknown". The budget of the film was $1 million even though the producers hoped for $8-10 million; therefore they removed multiple scenes, and Minasian stated that the final product was "greatly reduced in scope". In addition labor costs used up much of the budget; Reidel described the costs as "union-scale".
Filming locations included Malibu, California, and hill areas around Los Angeles.
Release, reception and legacy.
The bulk of screenings were for ethnic Armenian audiences, and commercial theaters did not air it.
David Welky, author of "Global Hollywood Versus National Pride: The Battle to Film "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh"," wrote that not very many film critics watched the film, and the few that did "savaged" it. Welky stated that "Forty Days of Musa Dagh" was "a slapped-together farce that lacked cohesiveness" and that it "never had a chance of meeting the grand expectations MGM once had for [the concept]." According to a review by "Variety", "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" was "a dreary little film that does no justice to its weighty subject." Reidel wrote that "the end result was not a real film, not even a B-picture."
George S. Harris, author of "Cementing Turkish-American Relations: The Ambassadorship of (Mehmet) Münir Ertegün (1934-1944)", stated that the lack of exposure of the film meant that Turkey-United States relations would remain unharmed.


Aa Ammayi Gurinchi Meeku Cheppali

Aa Ammayi Gurinchi Meeku Cheppali is an upcoming Indian Telugu-language film written and directed by Mohana Krishna Indraganti and jointly produced by Mahendra Babu and Kiran Ballapalli under the banner of Benchmark Studios. The film features Sudheer Babu and Krithi Shetty in the lead roles. The principal photography of the film began on 1 March 2021.


Kristian Digby

Scott Kristian Edwin Digby (24 June 1977 – 1 March 2010) was an English television presenter and director best known for presenting "To Buy or Not to Buy" on BBC One. On 1 March 2010 he was found dead in what police said were "unexplained circumstances". On 9 November 2010, a coroner recorded a verdict of death by misadventure.
Early life.
Digby was born in Torquay, Devon to parents who were property developers. He attended Bramdean School in Exeter, where he battled with severe dyslexia and graduated from the University of Westminster with a in film and photography. He later presented a documentary for the BBC entitled "Hiding the Truth: I Can't Read" in which he returned to the school. In 1997, Digby's film "Words of Deception" won him a Junior BAFTA. The following year, his film "Last Train to Demise", which featured actress and model Lucy Perkins, won the Melbourne Film Festival's Best Student Film award.
Television career.
Digby began his television presenting career for ITV presenting "Nightlife". Prior to this he covered for LBC's TV critic Chris Stacey on LBC's evening shows, "Sunday Night" and "One Night Strand". At around the same time, he directed television programmes "Homefront", "Fantasy Rooms", "She's Got Have It" which also featured actress and model Lucy Perkins, "Girls on Top" (Not be confused with the 1980s sitcom) and "The O-Zone". In 2001, Digby presented "That Gay Show" on BBC Choice.
Beginning in 2003, Digby presented various programmes for the BBC, including "To Buy or Not to Buy". In addition, he has presented "Uncharted Territory", "Holiday", "Trading Up", "Living in the Sun "and" Open House". In the September 2006 edition of AXM he appeared nude for charity.
Digby was a presenter of morning TV BBC shows:
Directing.
In 1997 Digby's film "Words of Deception" won a junior Bafta and in 1998 his short film "Last Train to Demise" won Best Student Film at the Melbourne Film Festival.
Charity work.
Digby devoted a large amount of time to charity work. He supported both dyslexia charities, as well as LGBT charities. Two charities he was involved with were The Albert Kennedy Trust, which supports homeless LGBT people and the Terrence Higgins Trust which supports people living with HIV and AIDS. After Digby died, Tim Sigsworth, chief executive of the Albert Kennedy Trust, said: "The young people cared for by the Trust were very close to Kristian's heart. The money donated in honour of his memory will go towards the newly named Kristian Digby Young Person of the Year Award which will be given out at the Albert Awards in London and Manchester. Donations will also directly improve the lives and life chances of young LGBT people who are facing homelessness after rejection by their families".
Personal life.
Digby was openly gay. He claimed to have discovered his sexuality when he was studying for his degree in "Film, video and photographic arts" at the University of Westminster (1995 to 1998).
In 2006, he appeared in Simon Fanshawe's "The Trouble with Gay Men" and bemoaned the lack of gay role models, explaining how he refused to camp it up on TV, although he was known for his pole dancing skills excerpted on "That Gay Show".
Death.
Digby's partner, Jason Englebrecht, returned from Africa on 28 February, and tried to call Digby, but was unsuccessful in making contact or entering his home on Richford Road, Newham, London E15. On the morning of 1 March, Englebrecht called Digby's neighbour and tenant of a room in the main home that Digby owned, who entered the two-bedroom house that Digby had built and lived in. She found Digby dead on his bed at 7:45 am on 1 March 2010. An ambulance was called; paramedics declared him dead at the scene. Digby's body was identified by his mother, Paula Dubois. Digby's post-mortem examination was held on 2 March 2010; the results were inconclusive. The police were satisfied that there was no third-party involvement.
An inquest opened on 4 March 2010 at Walthamstow Coroner's Court; both his parents attended. The inquest was adjourned later the same day. It reopened in November 2010, where the police stated that Digby was found on his bed, wearing only his boxer shorts, as well as a plastic bag bin liner over his head. The body was found next to a canister of ethyl chloride, but no trace of it or other stimulants or alcohol were found in his blood stream. On 9 November 2010, the coroner recorded a verdict of death by misadventure.


My Old Duchess

My Old Duchess is a 1934 British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane and starring George Lacy, Betty Ann Davies and Dennis Hoey. The film was made at Elstree Studios. It was based on an original sketch by Fred Karno. The screenplay concerns a stage manager who disguises himself as a duchess.
The film is also known as Oh, What a Duchess!, the title under which it has been released on DVD.
Plot summary.
In an effort to impress a film producer, a stage manager disguises himself as a duchess.


Ilavarasu

Ilavarasu (born 26 August 1962) is an Indian cinematographer and actor, who works in the Tamil film industry (Kollywood). He started his career as a cinematographer and worked for 13 films, winning a Tamil Nadu State Film Award for one of them. He, however, became better known as an actor, after he debuted and appeared in pivotal roles in Bharathiraja's and Cheran's films. He starred in over 160 Tamil films, mostly in supporting roles.
Career.
According to T. Saravanan of "The Hindu", Ilavarasu's debut film was to have been the unproduced Tamil film "Top Tucker", and instead became "Oru Kaidhiyin Diary" (1984). However, Malathi Rangarajan of the same paper says he first appeared in a minuscule role in Bharathiraja's 1987 film "Vedham Pudhithu".


Doha Tribeca Film Festival

The Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF) was an annual five-day film festival that was organised from 2009 to 2012 to promote Arab and international films, and to develop a sustainable film industry in Qatar. One of Qatar's largest entertainment events, it attracted over 50,000 guests in 2010.
The festivals were organised by the Doha Film Institute (DFI), which was founded by Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani which implements, consolidates and oversees film initiatives in Qatar. The Festival was launched in 2009 through a cultural partnership between DFI and Tribeca Enterprises. The Festival was led by Abdulaziz bin Khalid Al-Khater, Executive Director of DFI.
DTFF 2010.
The second Festival took place October 26–30, 2010 featuring 51 films from 35 countries including four world premieres. Over 50,000 guests attended the Festival screenings and events.
Celebrities who attended the Festival in 2010 include Robert De Niro, Salma Hayek Pinnault, Julian Schnabel, Freida Pinto, Naomie Harris, Justin Chadwick, Sam Feuer, Hiam Abbas, Yousra, Adel Emam, Paula Wagner, David M Thompson, Mira Nair, Randall Wallace, Kevin Spacey, Rachid Bouchareb, Basma Hassan, Yasmine Al Massri, and Stephane Rolland.
The Award for Best Film went to The First Grader, which was also the closing film of the festival.
DTFF 2011.
The 3rd annual DTFF took place from October 25–29, 2011 at Katara Cultural Village, Doha.
Approximately 51 films from 35 countries were screened at the festival, including nine world premieres, four international premieres and 26 MENA premieres within various themed sections, showcasing World and Middle Eastern Cinema. The Festival featured Arab and international film competitions, including Best Arab Film, Best Arab Filmmaker, Audience Awards for Best Narrative, Best Documentary and Arab Short Films.
The award for Best Film went to "Normal!" directed by Merzak Allouache.
DTFF 2012.
The fourth edition of DTFF, held from November 17–24, was expanded to eight days. Indoor and outdoor screenings took place at Katara Cultural Village and Museum of Islamic Arts (MIA). DTFF 2012 showcased over 87 films from across the globe under distinct themed categories including Arab Film Competition, Made in Qatar, Contemporary World Cinema and Special Screenings.


Living on the Edge (film)

Living on the Edge (full title Living on the Edge, the Poetic Works of Gérald Leblanc also known by its French language title L'extrême frontière, l'oeuvre poétique de Gérald Leblanc) is a 2005 documentary film by Canadian director of Acadian origin Rodrigue Jean. In this documentary, Rodrigue Jean pays tribute to his Acadian roots, focussing on the poetry of Gérald Leblanc.
Synopsis.
A child of the Beat Generation, Gérald Leblanc conjoined urban-ness and American-ness, wandering and belonging, far beyond the boundaries of taboo. In so doing, he helped propel Acadia into the modern era.


Ron Ethan Yohann

Ron Ethan Yohann (born Fen Vialle; June 11, 1990) is an Indian film composer from Tamil Nadu. He made his debut in 2012 (credited as Fen Viallee) by composing score and songs for the Tamil film "Sooriya Nagaram" which didn't fare well both critically and commercially. His score for his second movie "Maya" in Tamil, received critical acclaim and subsequently, he was hired to compose score for the Priyadarshan-directed Malayalam film "Oppam" (2016).


Sameer Reddy

Sameer Reddy is an Indian film cinematographer who works with Telugu, Tamil & Hindi films. His next film is "Karuppu Raja Vellai Raja", which is to be directed and produced by Prabhu Deva. He worked for movies such as shatamanam bhavati , Baazi, Krishna , racha , middle class abbayi(mca) , Julie 2 , Vunnadi Okate Zindagi, shamantakamani, hyper , Nenu Sailaja, Govindudu Andarivadele , Mr pellikoduku , Shakti , Don Seenu , Josh , Kantri, Athidi , yogi , Anadala Ramudu , Na Autograph sweet memories , malliswari , Satyam , nijam, manmadudu , "Holi" ,jayam, Quicksand, Anandam , Bond of love and Jaanwar.