Moonstruck

Moonstruck is a 1987 American romantic comedy film directed and co-produced by Norman Jewison, written by John Patrick Shanley, and starring Cher, Nicolas Cage, Danny Aiello, Olympia Dukakis, and Vincent Gardenia. The film follows Loretta Castorini, a widowed Italian-American woman who falls in love with her fiancé's estranged, hot-tempered younger brother.
"Moonstruck" was theatrically released on December 16, 1987 in New York City, and then nationally on January 15, 1988 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to critical and commercial success. It received six nominations at the 60th Academy Awards, winning three.
Plot.
Thirty-seven-year-old Loretta Castorini, an Italian-American widow, works as a bookkeeper and lives in Brooklyn Heights with her family: father Cosmo; mother Rose; and paternal grandfather. Her boyfriend, Johnny Cammareri, proposes to her before leaving for Sicily to be with his dying mother; Loretta is insistent that they carefully follow tradition as she believes her first marriage was cursed by her failure to do so, resulting in her husband's death after two years. Johnny asks Loretta to invite his estranged younger brother Ronny to the wedding. Loretta returns home and informs her parents of the engagement. Cosmo dislikes Johnny and is reluctant to pay for the "real" wedding that Loretta insists on, while Rose is pleased that Loretta likes Johnny but does not love him; she believes that one can easily be hurt by a partner whom one loves.
When Loretta goes to see Ronny at his bakery, he reveals that he has a wooden prosthetic hand and blames Johnny for his loss in a moment of inattention, after which his fiancée left him. Loretta insists that they discuss things in his apartment, where she cooks a meal and then tells him that she believes he is a "wolf" who cut off his own hand to escape the trap of a bad relationship. Ronny reacts furiously and passionately, kissing Loretta and then carrying her to his bed, where they make love.
That evening, Rose's brother Raymond and his wife Rita join Rose and Cosmo for dinner and they wonder where Loretta is. Raymond recalls a particularly bright moon like the one shining now that he thought long-ago was brought to the house when Cosmo was courting Rose. The next morning, Loretta tells Ronny they can never see each other again. Ronny promises to never bother Loretta again if she attends an opera at the Met with him. She goes to church to confess her infidelity and afterwards calls at Raymond and Rita's store to close out the cash register. Upon leaving, she impulsively goes to a hair salon and buys a glamorous evening gown and shoes at a boutique next door.
Loretta is deeply moved by her first opera, Puccini's "La bohème". As they leave, she sees her father, Cosmo, together with his girlfriend, Mona, and confronts him. As Loretta is with Ronny, he suggests that they agree that they did not see each other at all. Loretta attempts to return home, but Ronny desperately persuades her into another tryst. That same night, Rose decides to dine alone at a restaurant and sees a college professor, Perry, being dramatically dumped by a female student. Rose invites him to dine with her instead, allowing him to walk her home but refusing to invite him in because she is loyal to her marriage. Later, Johnny unexpectedly returns from Sicily after his mother's "miraculous" recovery and arrives at the Castorini house; as Loretta is not there, Rose asks him instead why men chase after women, and agrees that it is because they fear death.
Returning home next morning, Loretta is distressed to learn from Rose that Johnny will be there soon. Ronny arrives, and Rose invites him for breakfast over Loretta's objections. Cosmo and his father emerge from upstairs; Grandpa insists that Cosmo agree to pay for Loretta's wedding. Rose then confronts Cosmo and demands that he end his affair; he is upset but gives in and, at Rose's insistence, also agrees to go to confession. Both reaffirm their love for each other. Raymond and Rita arrive, concerned that Loretta had not deposited the previous day's takings at the bank, and are relieved to learn that she merely forgot and still has the money. When Johnny finally arrives, he breaks off the engagement, superstitiously believing that their marriage would cause his mother's death. Loretta berates Johnny for breaking his promise and throws the engagement ring at him. Seizing the moment, Ronny borrows the ring and asks Loretta to marry him, to which she agrees. The family toasts the couple with champagne and Johnny joins in at Grandpa's urging, since he will now be part of the family after all.
Reception.
Box office.
On its wide release, the film opened at #3 and spent 20 nonconsecutive weeks in the top 10 and finally grossed $80,640,528 on a budget of $15 million.
Critical response.
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 94% based on reviews from 64 critics, with an average score of 7.9/10. The site's consensus read, "Led by energetic performances from Nicolas Cage and Cher, "Moonstruck" is an exuberantly funny tribute to love and one of the decade's most appealing comedies." On Metacritic the film has a score of 83% based on reviews from 17 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale.
"Time" wrote, "John Patrick Shanley's witty, shapely script puts an octet of New Yorkers under a lunar-tuney spell one romantic night. Cher shines brightest of all." Roger Ebert, who later added the film among his "Great Movies" list, said: "Reviews of the movie tend to make it sound like a madcap ethnic comedy, and that it is. But there is something more here, a certain bittersweet yearning that comes across as ineffably romantic, and a certain magical quality". Film historian Leonard Maltin seemed to agree, giving the picture 4 out of 4 stars.
According to Gene Siskel, writing for the "Chicago Tribune": ""Moonstruck", which is being sold as a romance but actually is one of the funniest pictures to come out in quite some time. [...] You will not easily forget this incredibly robust family, created by writer John Patrick Shanley and directed by Norman Jewison, who makes a comeback with this uproarious film."
It appeared on both critics' Top 10 lists for 1987.
Accolades.
In June 2008, AFI revealed its "Ten top Ten"—the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. "Moonstruck" was acknowledged as the eighth best film in the romantic comedy genre. The film is also number 72 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies," and number 41 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs.
The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
Influential film critic Roger Ebert entered the film to his "Great Movies" collection in June 2003.
Soundtrack.
Soundtrack references:


Fowzia Fathima

Fowzia Fathima (born 24 January 1972) is an Indian film cinematographer and director. Fowzia is known for her cinematography on feature films such as Mitr, My Friend 2012, 2009 and Uyir 2006. She is an intuitive practitioner of Cinematography across media technologies, a hands-on Academic with an eye trained in history of art practices along with a wide range of experience in Film Production and Teaching in contemporary cinema based in India.
Fowzia Fathima, an alumnus of Film and Television Institute of India, has also worked as professor and head of department of cinematography at SRFTI and has directed short film "Infected" that screened at Busan International Film Festival. Fowzia also part of
“ Indian Women Cinematographers Collective" connecting most practicing professionals in the country today, a forum that functions as a peer group to share experiences and lead founded 2017.
Academic.
Film and Television Institute of India Diploma in Cinematography, 1996–1998. First Class, "A "Grade.
Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Master of Arts, in art criticism, 1993–1995, with First Rank.
Stella Maris College, Chennai Bachelor of Arts, in art history, drawing & painting, 1989–1992, with First Class.
Madras Flying Club, Chennai, P.P.L. (Private Pilot License) 1990–1992 (obtained flying license as an NCC cadet).
Career.
As a cinematographer.
Started career as an assistant to P.C. Sreeram, Fowzia made her debut as an independent camera person with the Revathi directed film "Mitr, My Friend", along with an all female technical crew.
Fowzia is also the first ever independent woman cinematographer in Malayalam cinema as well as the force behind Indian Women Cinematographers' collective.


Amber Heard

Amber Laura Heard (born April 22, 1986) is an American film and television actress. After a series of small roles in film and television, Heard had her first starring role in the horror film "All the Boys Love Mandy Lane" (2006). She first gained mainstream recognition for supporting roles in the action film "Never Back Down" (2008) and the comedy "Pineapple Express" (2008). In the following years, she appeared in films such as "The Joneses" (2009), "The Ward" (2010), "The Rum Diary" (2011), "Drive Angry" (2011), "Machete Kills" (2013) and "Magic Mike XXL" (2015).
In 2017, Heard joined the DC Extended Universe to play Atlantean queen Mera in superhero films "Justice League" (2017), "Aquaman" (2018), and "Zack Snyder's Justice League" (2021). In addition to acting, Heard has been a global spokesperson for the cosmetics giant L'Oréal Paris since 2018. She also engages in activism.
Heard was married to actor Johnny Depp from 2015 to 2017. Their divorce drew significant media attention as she alleged that he had been abusive through most of their relationship. He then sued her for defamation in 2019 after Heard wrote an op-ed discussing being a public victim of domestic violence. He also sued the publishers of "The Sun" in a related libel suit in England. In 2020, the High Court of Justice of England and Wales ruled that Depp had lost his libel case and that the majority of Heard's allegations had been proven to a civil standard.
Early life.
Heard was born in Austin, Texas, to Patricia Paige ("née" Parsons), an internet researcher (1956–2020), and David Clinton Heard (born 1950), who owned a small construction company. She has a younger sister, Whitney. The family lived outside Austin. Heard's father broke horses in his free time, and she grew up riding horses, hunting, and fishing with him. She also participated in beauty pageants, although as an adult she has said that she can no longer "support the objectification". At the age of 17, Heard no longer felt comfortable in "conservative, God-fearin’ Texas" and dropped out of her Catholic high school to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles. She eventually earned a diploma through a home-study course.
Career.
2003–2007: Early roles.
Heard's earliest acting work included appearances in two music videos, Kenny Chesney's "There Goes My Life" and Eisley's "I Wasn't Prepared", and small supporting roles in the television series "Jack & Bobby" (2004), "The Mountain" (2004), and "The O.C." (2005). She made her film debut in a minor role in the sports drama "Friday Night Lights" (2004), followed by brief supporting roles in films such as "Drop Dead Sexy" (2005), "North Country" (2005), "Side FX" (2005), "Price to Pay" (2006), "Alpha Dog" (2006), and "Spin" (2007), and a guest starring spot in an episode of the police procedural "Criminal Minds". Heard received her first leading role in the unconventional slasher film "All the Boys Love Mandy Lane", which premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, but was not released in Europe until 2008 and in the US until 2013 due to distribution problems.
In 2007, Heard played the love interest of the main character in The CW's teen drama "Hidden Palms", which the network wanted to replace summer reruns of other series aimed for teenage audiences. The series premiered in the US in May 2007 to mixed reviews and poor ratings, leading the CW to air only eight of the planned 12 episodes before canceling it. The same year, Heard also appeared in the short movie "Day 73 with Sarah", in the teen drama "Remember the Daze", and in an episode of the Showtime series "Californication".
2008–2016: Mainstream recognition.
Heard gained moderate mainstream recognition in 2008 with supporting roles in the Judd Apatow-produced stoner comedy "Pineapple Express" and the martial arts drama "Never Back Down", both of which were box office successes. She also appeared as part of an ensemble cast in an adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel "The Informers" (2008), but the film was a critical failure. The following year, Heard starred in "The Joneses" (2009) opposite David Duchovny and Demi Moore; "Variety" wrote that Heard "steals the show" from Moore. Outside a brief appearance in the box office hit "Zombieland" (2009), Heard's other films during this time were either independent films that received only limited theatrical release —"ExTerminators" (2009), "The River Why" (2010), "And Soon the Darkness" (2010)— or critically panned horror films —"The Stepfather" (2009), "The Ward".
Heard's first film release in 2011 was "Drive Angry", a supernatural action thriller in which she was paired with Nicolas Cage. The film received mainly bad reviews and underperformed commercially, but film critic Roger Ebert wrote that she "does everything that can possibly be done" with her character, a waitress who becomes entangled in an undead man's mission to save his daughter from a cult. In early 2011, Heard also appeared on the British television program "Top Gear". Heard next starred in NBC's "The Playboy Club", a crime drama series about the original Playboy Club in 1960s Chicago. After poor reviews and ratings as well as protests from both feminists and conservative groups, the series was canceled after only three episodes had aired. Heard's third role of 2011 was as the love interest of the main character, played by Johnny Depp, in the Hunter S. Thompson adaptation "The Rum Diary" (2011). The film was not a commercial success, and received mixed reviews, with Heard's part considered underdeveloped. In 2011, Heard also appeared in an advertisement campaign for the fashion brand Guess.
Heard next starred in the thriller "Paranoia" (2013), the exploitation film "Machete Kills" (2013) and the satire "Syrup" (2013), none of which were critical or commercial successes. The year also saw the US limited release of "All the Boys Mandy Lane". Although the film's reviews were overall mixed to negative, Heard's performance was called her "most definitive to date" by the "Los Angeles Times" and "psychologically interesting" by "The Washington Post". In 2014, Heard appeared in a supporting role in the commercially successful action-thriller "3 Days to Kill".
In 2015, Heard had a prominent supporting role in the comedy-drama "Magic Mike XXL", playing the love interest of the film's protagonist, Channing Tatum. Like its predecessor, the film was a large box office success. Heard also had a small supporting role in Tom Hooper's period drama "The Danish Girl" (2015), and a starring role opposite James Franco and Ed Harris in the independent crime thriller "The Adderall Diaries" (2015). Although reviews for the latter were generally negative, Indiewire stated that although Heard was "miscast", she "displays much potential and has succeeded in a bid to be taken more seriously." Her fourth role in 2015 was opposite Christopher Walken in the television film "One More Time", which aired on Starz. For her role as a struggling singer-songwriter, she took singing lessons and learned to play piano and guitar. The "Los Angeles Times" called her performance "superb" and "The Film Stage" stated that Heard did an "admirable job".
In addition to her other roles in 2015, Heard played the female lead in "London Fields", an adaptation of Martin Amis' novel about a clairvoyant who knows she will be murdered. After its press premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, Heard's performance received highly negative reviews, and she later stated that "it was one of the most difficult movies to film and it has proven to continue to be difficult...I can't say I did her [the character] justice." Shortly after the initial screening, the film was pulled from release due to disagreements between its director and producers, and due to litigation was not released until 2018. Heard was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for the film.
2017–present: DC Extended Universe and other projects.
 In 2017, Heard appeared as part of an ensemble cast in Lake Bell's indie comedy "I Do... Until I Don't" and joined the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) cast as Mera, Aquaman's Atlantean queen, in the superhero film "Justice League". She reprised the role the following year in "Aquaman" (2018), which co-starred Jason Momoa, Nicole Kidman and Willem Dafoe and marked Heard's first major role in a studio film. She has stated that one of the reasons attracting her to the part was Mera being "a strong, independent, self-possessed superhero in her own right", who rejects being called Aquawoman instead of by her own name. "Aquaman" became the fifth most profitable release of 2018, and the most profitable DCEU installment up to that point. The same year, Heard was appointed global ambassador for cosmetics giant L'Oréal Paris.
In 2019, Heard had supporting roles in the independent dramas "Her Smell", opposite Elisabeth Moss, and "Gully". Her only project released in 2020 was the post-apocalyptic miniseries "The Stand", based on Stephen King's novel of the same name. She starred as Nadine Cross, a school teacher who is among the few survivors of an apocalyptic plague. It co-starred James Marsden, Odessa Young, Alexander Skarsgård and Henry Zaga, and premiered on CBS All Access in December 2020, with the series finale airing in February 2021. In 2021, Heard reprised her role as Mera in the superhero film "Zack Snyder's Justice League", a director's cut of the 2017 film. She will next appear in the sequel to "Aquaman", which is set to begin filming in summer 2021.
Activism.
Heard is an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) ambassador to whom he donated her divorce settlement, and a Human Rights Champion for the Stand Up for Human Rights campaign by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. In May 2019, she gave a speech in support of the SHIELD Act on Capitol Hill, discussing her experience of having had her private nude photos hacked and distributed online without her consent during the 2014 iCloud leaks of celebrity photos.
Heard wrote about her experiences of domestic violence in the December 2016 issue of "Porter" magazine and in an op-ed for "The Washington Post" in December 2018. In November 2019, "The New York Times" published an op-ed written by Heard on the subject of revenge porn. She also made a public service announcement about domestic violence for the #GirlGaze Project. Prior to the 2020 United States presidential election, Heard appeared in an election ad created by artist Marilyn Minter in support of Planned Parenthood.
Personal life.
Heard publicly came out in 2010, but has stated, "I don't label myself one way or another—I have had successful relationships with men and now a woman. I love who I love; it's the person that matters." She was in a relationship with photographer Tasya van Ree from 2008 to 2012. In 2009, Heard was arrested in Washington for misdemeanor domestic violence, after allegedly grabbing van Ree and hitting her arm, but was never charged. In 2016, van Ree stated that Heard had been "wrongfully" accused and that the incident had been "misinterpreted and over-sensationalized".
In 2014, Heard was one of the victims of the iCloud leaks of celebrity photos, in which her private nude photos were hacked and distributed without her consent.
Following her divorce from actor Johnny Depp, Heard dated tech entrepreneur Elon Musk for a year, until early 2018.
Relationship with Johnny Depp.
Heard and Depp began dating in 2012 and were married in a civil ceremony in February 2015. In April 2015, Heard breached Australia's biosecurity laws when she failed to declare her and Depp's two dogs to the customs when they flew into Queensland, where he was working on a film. Heard pleaded guilty to falsifying quarantine documents, stating that she had made a mistake due to sleep deprivation. She was placed on a $1,000 one-month good behavior bond for producing a false document; Heard and Depp also released a video in which they apologized for their behavior and urged people to adhere to the biosecurity laws. "The Guardian" called the case the "highest profile criminal quarantine case" in Australian history.
Heard filed for divorce from Depp in May 2016, and obtained a temporary restraining order against him, alleging in her court declaration that he had been verbally and physically abusive throughout their relationship, usually while under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Depp claimed that she was "attempting to secure a premature financial resolution". A settlement was reached in August 2016, and the divorce was finalized in January 2017. Heard dismissed the restraining order, and they issued a joint statement saying that their "relationship was intensely passionate and at times volatile, but always bound by love. Neither party has made false accusations for financial gain. There was never any intent of physical or emotional harm." Depp paid Heard a settlement of US$7 million, which she pledged to donate to the ACLU and the Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
In June 2018, Depp brought a libel lawsuit in the UK against News Group Newspapers (NGN), the company publishing "The Sun", which had called him a "wife beater" in an April 2018 article. Heard was a key witness for NGN during the highly publicized trial in July 2020.
In November 2020, the High Court of Justice ruled that Depp had lost his claim and that "the great majority of alleged assaults of Ms Heard by Mr Depp [12 out of the 14] have been proved to the civil standard", rejecting any notion of a hoax against him. The verdict also found that Heard's career and activism had been negatively affected by making the abuse public. Depp's appeal to overturn the verdict was rejected in March 2021.
In early 2019, Depp sued Heard for defamation over an op-ed she wrote about her experiences of leaving an abusive relationship, which was published by "The Washington Post" in December 2018. Depp also alleged that Heard had been the abuser, and that her allegations constituted a hoax against him. The case is scheduled to go to trial in Fairfax County, Virginia in April 2022.
Following the verdict in the "Depp v NGN" case, a Change.org petition asking for Heard to be fired from "Aquaman 2" reached over one million supporters. In August 2020, Heard countersued Depp, alleging that he had coordinated "a harassment campaign via Twitter and [by] orchestrating online petitions in an effort to get her fired from "Aquaman" and L'Oreal".


Satish Motling

Satish Motling is an Indian film director born on 29 October 1982 who has directed Marathi films Such as Agadbam, Matter. His recent movie Priyatama is releasing on 14 February 2014 .Next upcoming release is 35% kathawar pass & Mile jab chora chori
Satish is also known for international adfilms


Alexandra Shipp

Alexandra Ruth Shipp (born July 16, 1991) is an American actress and singer who rose to prominence for portraying singer Aaliyah in the Lifetime television film "" (2014) and Kimberly Woodruff in the Oscar-nominated film "Straight Outta Compton" (2015).
Shipp is best known for playing Storm in the "X-Men" franchise, starting with "", and Abby Suso in the 2018 romantic comedy "Love, Simon".
Early life.
Shipp was raised in Phoenix, Arizona. Her mother is a Kundalini yoga teacher, and her father is a musician. Her father is black and her mother is white. She has two brothers, James and Jordan, and a stepsister, Kasia. Shipp was educated at Squaw Peak Elementary School, Arizona School for the Arts, and St. Mary's Catholic High School in Phoenix. She moved to Los Angeles at the age of 17 to pursue an acting career.
Career.
In 2009, Shipp made her acting debut with a minor role in "". She went on to star in the third season of Nickelodeon's mystery teen drama series "House of Anubis", playing the role of KT Rush.
In 2014, Shipp gained attention for her roles as Dani Raymond in the VH1 television film sequel ' and Aaliyah Haughton, the title role, in the Lifetime television film '. For the latter performance, Shipp also sang. She next portrayed Ice Cube's wife, Kimberly Woodruff, in the biographical drama film "Straight Outta Compton", which chronicled the careers of hip hop group N.W.A. In 2016, she co-starred in Bryan Singer's superhero film "" as Ororo Munroe/Storm, a weather-controlling mutant previously portrayed by Halle Berry. In 2018, she starred alongside Nick Robinson and Jorge Lendeborg Jr. in "Love, Simon" and Kathryn Prescott and Lucy Hale in "Dude", both high school comedy films.
She reprised the role of Ororo Munroe/Storm in the 2019 film "Dark Phoenix", and, the same summer, also starred as Sasha Arias in the "Shaft" sequel.


Izidore Musallam

Izidore Musallam is a Palestinian film director, producer and screenwriter who most recently produced the Sci Fi Pictures original film: "Savage Planet". He was born in Haifa and graduated with a BFA in film production from York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada where he now lives and works.
He directed a number of movies including "Foreign Nights" (1989), "Nothing To Lose" (1994), "Heaven Before I Die" (1997), "Adam & Eve" (2002) aka "Forbidden Fruit" and "Hadutha Saghira" (2009).
Most notably he directed in 2006 Keif al-Hal?, the first ever Saudi Arabian feature film produced by Rotana.


Thani Thatuwen Piyabanna

Thani Thatuwen Piyabanna (Flying with one Wing) () is a 2003 Sri Lankan Sinhala drama thriller film directed by Asoka Handagama and maiden cinema production by Upul Shantha Sannasgala. It stars Anoma Janadari and Gayani Gisanthika in lead roles along with Mahendra Perera and W. Jayasiri. Music composed by Rohana Weerasinghe. It is the 1003rd Sri Lankan film in the Sinhala cinema.
The film won many awards at international film festivals, although it was criticized in Sri Lanka due to many scenes of tobacco smoking women. The film was regarded as the most revolutionary South Asian film at the London International Film Festival in 2002. The jury of 20th Torino International Film Festival held in Italy decided to assign a special mention to actress Anoma Janadari for her role in the movie.


6 (film)

6 (also known as "6 Melugu Varthigal" or "6 Candles") is a 2013 Tamil crime thriller film written and directed by V. Z. Durai. It stars Shaam and Poonam Kaur. The lead character sports six looks and goes around six states to solve a mystery. The film was released on 20 September 2013 with positive reviews and become a sleeper hit. The movie is loosely based on the 2007 Korean movie "Voice of a Murderer".
Plot.
Ram is a young software engineer who lives with his wife, Lizzy, and their son, Gautham, in Chennai. They lead a normal life until Gautam's sixth birthday when they lose Gautham at a crowded beach. The police are not very helpful as Gautham is not the child of anyone with influence. However, after much pestering, the local inspector has one of his men take Ram and Lizzy to the slums in north Chennai to meet a petty criminal, Nayanar, who knows about all the crimes done by the dwellers in his area. Initially, he pretends not to know anything. However, after Lizzy begs at his feet, he finally reveals that Gautham might have been taken to Nagari in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh to be sold to a local pimp, Krishna Rao. Ram then leaves for the pimp's brothel with two friends but finds that Rao only deals with grown women and not little children.
Back in Chennai, Ram goes to meet Nayanar again, who accidentally let slip that Gautham might have been taken to another town in Andhra Pradesh although he is unsure of it. Coincidentally, the taxi driver, Rangan, who drove Ram and Lizzy to the slums earlier meets Ram and tells him he has driven a businessman from that town back to his home after meeting Nayanaar a few years ago. The driver reluctantly agrees to take Ram there. Back in Andhra Pradesh, Ram and Rangan meet the businessman, Nallama Reddy who claims to lead an honest living by selling rice. However, Ram realizes Reddy is lying as the temple board states he is a quarry dealer. Ram holds Reddy's grandson at gunpoint and forces Reddy to reveal where Gautham is. Reddy then tells Ram his son might have been taken to a butchery at a nearby town.
At the butchery, the local gangsters already know that Ram is coming for them. Ram is prepared to face their attack. While struggling with the gang, its leader tells Ram that he already killed Gautham and sold the other children he abducted to a child trafficker in Bhopal named Nikhil Motwani after Reddy told them Ram is coming. Once the gangsters are defeated, Ram searches for Gautham's body but instead finds the corpse of another boy. Realizing that the gangsters killed the wrong boy, Ram is confident that Gautham is being taken to Bhopal and leaves immediately.
At Bhopal, Ram and Rangan manage to arrange a meeting with Motwani by posing as businessmen, but the human trafficker recognizes Ram from the news. He tells Ram that Gautham is being held by his henchman, Diwakar, and they can only release the boy if they are paid 1 "crore". With no other choice, Ram calls up Lizzy to prepare the money and is taken to Diwaker's hideout. Unable to control himself after seeing a young school girl almost being raped, Ram saves her by fighting off Diwakar's men and taking her to the Times of India's headquarters. When Ram and Rangan return to the hideout, they find it empty. As they explore the place, they discover that Gautham and many other abducted children have been kept prisoned there all along. Ram becomes hysterical when he finds Gautham's shirt on the floor along with his scribblings on the wall.
Once they are back on the road, Ram phones Diwakar and begs him to return Gautham but is instead taunted at. Meanwhile, Lizzy calls Rangan to tell him that she had borrowed money from friends and has banked it into Diwakar's account. When she finds out it is no longer of any use, she is devastated and faints. As Ram and Rangan prepare to leave, they are shot at by an assassin hired by Motwani. Ram survives but Rangan is fatally shot. Before dying, Rangan reveals to Ram that he was the driver hired to drive Gautham's abductors around Chennai in search of victims. He then pleads to Ram to not give up and continue searching for his son.
Now left alone, Ram remembers his final conversation with Diwakar, who told him Gautham might be sold in Lucknow or Calcutta. He goes to Calcutta first and searches for Gautham at every place where child labourers and minor sex workers are being kept. As he comes to accept the fact that Gautham is not in the city, he phones Lizzy who he has not spoken to in months. She asks him to come home as there is nothing they can do to find their son now. Ram refuses to give up and heads for Lucknow. In Lucknow, Ram is found sleeping at the roadside by a kind person, Bhai, who takes him in and helps him find Gautham. Through one of his contacts, Bhai learns about a local crime boss who houses dozens of child labourers. Once there, the crime boss claims he does not deal in child trafficking and instead asks Ram to look for Diwakar in Bhopal. We are then shown in flashbacks how Ram managed to track down Diwakar, who let slip his new hiding spot during their last conversation, and killed him in a fit of anger before taking back his money. Shocked, the crime boss finally shows Ram his child labourers. Ram is too overwhelmed by the number of abducted children when each of them beg him to take them away from this place.
As Ram and Bhai prepare to leave, Ram notices that he dropped Gautham's shirt and they go back to get it back. Ram then sees one of the boys, who has terrible vision, holding the shirt. As Ram observes the boy's face closely, he realizes it is Gautham, who he did not recognize earlier as his son has changed beyond recognition. The father and son embrace, as Bhai thanks the Lord for his blessing.
Production.
The venture was first reported in September 2011 with Shaam in the lead, when a poster of a candle shaped like the number 6 was unveiled, with the media initially incorrectly reporting the title as "6 Candles". The film was initially planned as bilingual in Tamil and Telugu due to Shaam's newfound popularity after "Kick" (2009). An accompanying press note mentioned that V. Z. Durai had written and directed the film, while Jeyamohan would write the dialogue. R. Madhi, Srikanth Deva and Anthony were signed on as cinematographer, music composer and editor respectively. A special medical team headed by Dr. Selvam and comprising a physiotherapist, dietitian, yoga expert, meditation guide and a physical trainer was also set up to monitor the lead actor Shaam's health during the shoot as the role required him to go through physical changes. Early reports suggested that Priyamani and later reports suggested that would play a role, but she was replaced by Kaur. The Malayalam actor Jagathy Sreekumar and the Telugu actress Archana Shastry were also reported to play supporting roles, but these reports were proven false although the latter did appear in the film's trailer.
To attain a look with big eyebags, Shaam spent more than ten days without sleeping, which resulted in a big swelling below his eyes, so much so that the actor could not even be recognised. Although his effort gained notice, several contemporary actors criticized him for taking such a risk. For another look, Shaam reduced his weight from 89 to 72 kg and grew long hair and a beard.
Soundtrack.
The soundtrack was composed by Srikanth Deva collaborating with V. Z. Durai for a second time, after "Nepali". Durai made his debut as a lyricist and wrote all six songs. The audio was launched on 5 December 2012 at a function attended by Sneha, Ameer, Namitha, Abbas, Bharath, Vimala Raman, Shaam, Poonam Kaur, the Kannada actor Sudeep and many others. "Behindwoods" wrote, "Barring one song, the album has Srikanth Deva stepping out of his comfort zone and showing his capabilities at something different."
Release.
The satellite rights were secured by Zee Thamizh. The film was given a "U" certificate by the Indian Censor Board. After many postponements, the film was released on 20 September 2013.
Critical reception.
The film received positive reviews. "The Times of India" gave 3 stars out of 5 and wrote, "Despite the flaws, the plot keeps tugging along, managing to keep us always involved about the fate of the missing lad." It also wrote, "Shaam's physical transformation for this role is astounding, but his range, when it comes to expressing emotions as a performer seems to be somewhat limited." "Sify" called the film "tedious" and wrote, "The only silver lining is Shaam's performance, as father struggling to come to terms between his love for his son and situations life throws up." Baradwaj Rangan wrote, "It should make for riveting drama, a welcome change from the endless comedies we are subjected to. But a number of factors conspire to derail the narrative, beginning with the cast." "Behindwoods" gave 2.75 stars out of 5 and wrote, "A movie with good research by the director, V.Z.Dhorai and earnest hard work by actor Shaam, which could have been tightened as a better product." Though the film was well appreciated the film had a loss in box office.


Anant Mahadevan

Anant Mahadevan, also credited as Ananth Narayan Mahadevan, is a screenwriter, actor, and director of Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil films and television serials in India. Having been an integral part of the Indian television serials and Hindi movies since the 1980s, he is also involved in the professional English and Hindi theatre.
Career.
Ananth along with Sanjay Pawar received the National Award (2010) for the Best Screenplay and Dialogues for the successful Marathi movie "Mee Sindhutai Sapkal". The film also fetched him the special jury award at the National Film awards 2010.
Mahadevan's film "Gour Hari Dastaan" was part of the Indian Panorama at the International Film Festival of India (2014) Goa, at the International Film Festival of Kerala IFFK (2014), the International Film Festival of Bangalore, and at the International Film Festival of Chennai (2014). His next film "Rough Book" created excitement in the festival circuit and the Film Bazaar held in Goa.
Ananth Narayan Mahadevan plays the role of Damodar in the 2018 Hindi feature film "Evening Shadows", directed by Sridhar Rangayan and produced by Solaris Pictures. He plays the role of a strict patriarch who has his set opinions and wants other members in his family - his wife Vasudha (Mona Ambegaonkar), sister Sarita (Yamini Singh) and son Kartik (Devansh Doshi) - to obey his commands.


Asian Animation Film Festival

The Asian Animation Film Festival (AAFF) is a film festival held in Chicago for one year in 2006.
Founded by the Center for Asian Arts and Media at Columbia College Chicago, AAFF is a unique four-day festival devoted to Pan-Asian artists and animation.
By presenting films that are either related to the topics of Asian culture or involving an artist of Asian descent, AAFF hopes to introduce audiences to a broader range of Asian animation while allowing artists to express the vast and diverse Pan-Asian experience.


Muktha S. Sundar

Muktha S. Sundar is an Indian film director and cinematographer who has worked on Tamil language films. Being the son of film maker Muktha Srinivasan, he made his directorial debut with "Kodai Mazhai" (1986), before making the films, "Chinna Chinna Aasaigal" (1989), "Ethir Kaatru" (1990) and Now "Vedanta desika ha in sanskrit.
Career.
Being the son of film director and producer Muktha Srinivasan, Sundar made his directorial debut under his father's production with "Kodai Mazhai" (1986). Sundar had completed a course in cinematography at the American Film Institute and worked as the cinematographer for films including his father's productions "Katha Nayagan" (1988), "Vaai Kozhuppu" (1989) and "Brahmachari" (1992). He subsequently also directed the films "Chinna Chinna Aasaigal" (1989), "Ethir Kaatru" (1990) and "Kangalin Vaarthaigal" (1998) with Vikram in the lead role.
Sundar made a comeback to the film industry with the comedy thriller, "Pathayeram Kodi" (2013), featuring Dhruv Bhandari and Vivek in leading roles. The film began production in late 2011 and had a low-profile release in January 2013.
Sundar at present completed a movie vedanta desika ha 2018 in sanskrit featuring Dushyanth Sridhar.


Investment (film)

Investment (Marathi) is a 2013 Marathi film written and directed by Ratnakar Matkari and produced by Pratibha Matkari for Mahadwar Productions. The leading roles are played by Tushar Dalvi, Supriya Vinod, Sulbha Deshpande, Sanjay Mone, Sandeep Pathak, Bhagyashri Pane, Praharsh Naik, Soham Kolvankar and Milind Phatak who are prominent actors from the Indian film industry. The director of photography is Amol Gole, the sound design is handled by Shantanu Akerkar and Dinesh Uchil with Madhav Vijay providing the background score.
Synopsis.
"Investment" tells the story of a typical ‘upwardly mobile’ couple: Aashish, an ambitious young man, about to change his job to join an American firm, and his wife Prachi, who is encouraging and eager to move into a higher class of society. (This couple is indicative of the young people in urban areas thriving to achieve more, albeit at cost of social values). The couple has a twelve-year-old son, Sohel, who is being brought up with much care and with a dream of raising a successful Politician of the Future, a field which they believe is promising due to its lucrative opportunities of growth, power and finance.
Sohel is a rather spoilt & self-centered brat who believes and follows his father's motto of ‘always getting what he wants’. He sends a love note to his classmate Deepa Gangan who hails from a totally different social strata and her father informs Ashish and Prachi to keep their son at bay. Deepa is found missing and Sohel claims that he is unaware of her whereabouts. Deepa’s dead body is found by the police the next day. From this point forward in the film the issues of morality of different characters comes to the fore with the resolution of the crime while testing and making a remark on the materialistic point of view with which today's generation is approaching moral
values.
The aftermath represents the slow but sure criminalization accompanied by the total lack of regret of the educated young middle-class, with subsequent disregard for moral values, and thus forms the terribly realistic & therefore shocking climax of the film.
Production.
Development.
The origin of the film came about in the year 2003 when the story was published, as a Novella, in one of the most prestigious & progressive magazines in the State with a large subscriber base. The story, when published received enormous positive response due to the unusually realistic & uncompromising treatment that made the reader identify with it. Many prominent theatre and Film personalities approached the Writer, Ratnakar Matkari, for rights to convert the story into a film, but he refused as he himself wanted to make the film based on the story. The story was adapted for the film by 2006 when the screenplay was ready. While researching the most appropriate way of making this film Ratnakar Matkari and Associate Director Ganesh Matkari met Amol Gole, who is considered as one of the recent prominent discovery in the Digital media and has to his credit critically acclaimed films like Stanley Ka Dabba, Gajar, Ha Bharat Maza. He was excited to work on the film and readily agreed to shoot the film. The technical aspects were all tied up but the finance was yet to be tied. Miraculously around this time the Producers met Mandar Vaidya and Anish Joshi through a mutual acquaintance and they agreed to finance the film as co-producers. The entire film is shot digitally in one schedule and the shooting time for the schedule was 21 days in Mumbai.
Music.
The music is largely in form of a background score and is largely used to enhance the various moods and scenes within the film.
Release.
The film has won the National Award for the Best Marathi Feature Film at The 60th National Film Awards (India). The film has premiered in the Mumbai International Film Festival 2012 organized by MAMI, Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image after which it has been screened in prominent Film Festivals like the Pune International Film Festival 2012,Bangalore International Film Festival (BIFF) 2012, Chennai International Film Festival 2012. The film has also been screened at New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) 2012 with four nominations for Best Film, Ratnakar Matkari for Best Screenplay, Praharsh Naik as Best Child Artist And Supriya Vinod for Best Actress, The film has been honored with the Prahhar Bhushan Award conferred by Prahar. The film was screened recently at the Stuttgart Indian Film Festival 2013 and received wide appreciation and applause.


Women Make Waves

Women Makes Waves is a film festival based in Taiwan since 1993. It is the first and only women's film festival in the country.
It is the largest women's film festival in Asia, and predates the "Taipei Film Festival", which was founded in 1998. Since 2005, there is also an annual "Asian Lesbian Film and Video Festival" in Taipei, and since 2014, the annual "Taiwan International Queer Film Festival (TIQFF)", the only LGBTQ film festival in Taiwan, which has screenings every autumn in Taipei and two other major cities.
In "Chinese Women's Cinema: Transnational Contexts", edited by Lingzhen Wang, it is noted that the initial event at the Huo K'o Gallery in Taipei was called the "Women's Visual Arts Festival". It was founded by the Taiwanese filmmaker Yu-shan Huang, supported by Lee Yuan-chen and other members of the "Women Awakening" magazine.
The film festival is organized by the Taiwan Women's Film Association (TFWA) which was established in 1998 with help from the Taiwan government and civic organisations, and was originally known as the Taipei Women's Film Association.
In 2001, it became the first touring film festival in Taiwan with the aim of reducing the urban-rural divide in access to cinema.
The film festival has screened nearly one thousand international and Taiwanese films, specialising in films of a feminist perspective, moving beyond the mainstream outlook to focus on voices and issues that are often unheard, explored and delighted in. The organization is also involved in distribution of films and books; it works in education and video training. The members of TWFA are mainly filmmakers, artists and academics of film or gender studies. Highlights from the film festival have also gone on an international tour including to New York.


Bjorn Surrao

Bjorn Surrao AKA Beon is a musician and performer in the film industry as well as an independent artist . He has musically collaborated with various artists such as Anirudh Ravichander, Benny Dayal, Shakthishree Gopalan & Suchith Suresan in the recent past . He has debuted in the Tamil film industry with a crowd funded feature film Naalu Peruku Nalladhuna Edhuvum Thappilla. He has performed in filmak unoriginals' cloak room in their pilot episode.
Early life.
Bjorn AKA Beon was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu . His Father is a professor in Literature and his mother a Social work Professional . He did his schooling in A.m.m school and his bachelor's degree in commerce from Loyola College, Chennai. After this he studied Music production in Dubai, on returning to Chennai he completed his Masters in Business Administration while simultaneously pursuing his musical career. Bjorn, a self-taught musician, started playing the piano and guitar at the age of 11, he began writing songs at the age of 15. During his college days he formed two Alternative bands ‘Franks Got The Funk' and ‘Circuit‘ both being well renowned in the college circuit as well as the music industry.


To Love a Maori

To Love a Maori is a 1972 New Zealand film about an interracial romance. It was the seventh and last feature from Rudall Hayward.


Vikram Singh (producer)

Vikram Singh is a film producer who works in Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi-language films.
Career.
Vikram Singh made his film debut as a producer with the 1986 Telugu-language film "Naya Anubhav". He later became associated with producer Boney Kapoor from the making of "Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja" (1993) and worked as an executive producer for several Hindi and Tamil films including "Judaai" (1997) and "The Terrorist" (1997). His final project with Kapoor was when working as an online producer and taking care of the United States shoot for "Pukar" (2000).
Following conversations with an associate, director Priyadarshan, Vikram opted to begin work as a producer in Tamil cinema, and debuted with "12B" (2001). He produced the film under the studio, Film Works. Debutante Shaam was signed for the lead role after meeting with the director, Jeeva and with him. After the release of "12B", Vikram Singh produced the Telugu dubbed version of the film. The promotions of "12B" garnered acclaim with Shaam gaining film offers before the film's release. Despite the pre-release hype of the film, the film failed to be successful at the box office. Despite the failure of his previous venture, Vikram Singh went on to work with Shaam and music director Harris Jayaraj again for Priyadarshan's "Lesa Lesa" (2003). The film was a remake of the successful Malayalam film "Summer in Bethlehem" (1998). In order to concentrate on the venture, Vikram Singh put the film "Acham Thavir" starring Madhavan and Jyothika on hold. In order to avoid piracy, he released the soundtrack of "Lesa Lesa" at a cheap rate.


Agent Sai Srinivasa Athreya

Agent Sai Srinivasa Athreya is a 2019 Indian Telugu-language comedy-thriller film written and directed by Swaroop RSJ and produced by Rahul Yadav Nakka. The film stars Naveen Polishetty as the titular character along with Shruti Sharma and Suhas. It follows a Nellore-based detective whose life runs into danger when he starts investigating the case of a dead body abandoned near a railway track..
Released theatrically on 21 June 2019, the film received highly positive reviews from the critics, and was successful at the box office. The film won three awards at Zee Cine Awards Telugu.
Plot.
Agent Sai Sreenivas Athreya wakes up in the middle of the night to a personal tragedy, the death of his mother. He goes home to Nellore from his college in Bhopal, only to see his mother has already been cremated by his uncle.
3 years later, he now becomes a detective in Nellore, setting up FBI (Fathima Bureau of Investigation). His assistant Sneha helps him in cases. Athreya is mostly involved in solving petty cases. One day his writer friend Sirish informs him of an unidentified body in Venkatachalam. When he goes there, the police arrest him on suspicion of murder. In jail that night, Athreya meets a man who acknowledges himself as Maruthi Rao and tells him the story of his daughter Divya, who went missing after going to Ongole. He gives him 3 phone numbers of three people who were the last who had contacted Divya before she was supposedly murdered. Ajay, Harsha, and Vasudha. Athreya and Sneha, upon investigation based on the phone numbers, confirm that Ajay and Harsha were in Ongole the day Divya was murdered, while Vasudha cannot be traced. They follow them both all day, who go to a car rental agency, mortuary, and railroad. At the end of the day, Athreya recognizes Divya somewhere along a highway, who doesn't speak Telugu, ignoring him. Upon checking at the police station at Nellore, they find that no Maruti Rao was transferred from the rural station in the last three days. Upon checking at the rural station, they find that the person who had called himself Maruti Rao is actually Gopalam. Further inquiry with the station in Ongole reveals that on the day that Divya was claimed to be dead, the body found was male. Later, at a Dhaba, Athreya discovers Ajay was brutally murdered and he is promptly arrested as the prime suspect.
Athreya gets out on bail due to CCTV Footage evidence that he was in Venkatachalam asking for Maruthi Rao, but he only has five more days to prove his innocence due to the overwhelming evidence against him. While Agent and Sneha investigate for clues at Harsha's house, someone tries to kill Athreya. He explains his theory to the police of the Nellore rural station, and it's discovered that Harsha wanted the details of Athreya after he saw him being arrested in Venkatachalam. Meanwhile, a father registers a complaint about his missing daughter, and the missing daughter is Vasudha who turns out to be dead. Athreya then catches Bobby who has been following Agent around, however, Bobby is a detective like him fed with false information that Athreya is the real murderer. Athreya figures out that there is a huge conspiracy, and sees that various bodies have been dumped next to the railway track between Kakinada and Tada railway stations. He deduces that the bodies are being loaded using a goods train. Using this information, he sees that the bodies are loaded into the goods train at Arambakkam in Tamil Nadu. With the help of a police officer, Bobby, and Sneha, he goes to Arambakkam after faking his death to mislead the people following him. In Arambakkam he catches Gopalam, who reveals the whole plot: someone has been taking dead bodies from Hindu families on the pretext that they are taking the bodies to Kashi, a holy place to cremate the dead, for money, and then dump them next to railroads. He also finds out that his mom's body has been dumped like this too since his uncle sent his mom's body for Kashi. After an emotional breakdown, Athreya finds out that the fingerprints of the dead man in Venkatachalam actually have the same fingerprints of a murderer in Gujarat, and deduces that they are stealing the fingerprints of dead bodies as well to use them in crimes.
Athreya and Bobby find that the people behind this wanted to set them up so that they wouldn't find the Bethaballi Amman's (a religious NGO) talismans on the dead bodies that were supposed to be removed before the bodies are disposed of. Meanwhile, Sneha and the police officer find that Ajay, Harsha, and Vasudha collaborated on a college project about religious crimes in India and collect the material along with their photos. Looking at the photos, Athreya realizes that the dead body of Vasudha had a tattoo from childhood, while Vasudha in a picture does not. It is later revealed that Vasudha and her dad are running the whole operation. Ajay, Harsha, and Athreya came across the body with the talisman and hence Vasudha wanted to kill Ajay and Harsha and set up Agent so that nobody could trace the dead body to her.
After going to Bethabali Amman NGO's office to find it empty, Athreya deduces that Vasudha went to Rajasthan and catches her and her father there and hands them over to the police. Athreya bids his goodbye to Bobby, while he and Sneha still continue to take up small cases.
Production.
The lead actor Naveen Polishetty explained that when he was looking for some good scripts, the director Swaroop contacted him on Facebook and told him the film's title and about the protagonist. When he narrated the whole story, Polishetty agreed to do the film if they got to work together on the final version. Swaroop agreed and they met at Hyderabad, where Polishetty's 4-years of experience as a writer helped him and they together worked on the script for eight months.
The soundtrack was composed by Mark K Robin and the cinematography was handled by Sunny Kurapati. The film was produced by the "Malli Raava" fame Rahul Yadav Nakka.
Soundtrack.
The film's only song is "Sherlock Holmes", composed by Mark K Robin. It has two versions: one sung by Anurag Kulkarni, and another by Harika Narayan.
Release.
The film was released theatrically on 21 June 2019. The film was also dubbed and released in Hindi on YouTube as "Agent Sai" on 23 January 2021 by Goldmines Telefilms.
Critical reception.
"Agent Sai Srinivasa Athreya" received widespread critical acclaim.
"Film Companion" gave it a positive review and called it the best comedy thriller of the decade. "Times of India" gave it 4 stars out of 5, praising Polishetty's performance and the execution. "The Hans India" gave the film 4 stars out of 5, praising the performances, music and screenplay while criticising the slow-paced narration in the first half. "Deccan Chronicle" similarly gave it 4 stars out of 5 and praised the performances, background score and the cinematography. "The News Minute" gave it 4 stars out of 5, and calling it a "textbook crime drama", praised the plot and cinematography but criticised some dubbing mismatches, Sharma's "undermined" character in the second half and editing towards the end.
The film also received appreciation from several Telugu film celebrities like director K. Raghavendra Rao and actors Allu Arjun and Varun Tej.
Box office.
"Agent Sai Srinivasa Athreya" opened alongside several films at the box office, and had highest collections among all other releases on its opening day. Following the positive word of mouth and due to low screening costs, the film became a commercial success in both India and USA.
Home media.
The film was digitally released on the Over-the-top media service Amazon Prime Video. It's Hindi dubbed version's satellite rights were sold to Sony Pictures.
Future.
Following the film's success, the makers announced the film's extension into a franchise. The film is being remade in Malayalam starring Dhyan Sreenivasan.


Sarvam Thaala Mayam (soundtrack)

Sarvam Thaala Mayam is the soundtrack album for the 2019 Tamil film of the same name. The soundtrack consists of six feature songs along with instrumental tracks. The film's director Menon composed a song that Rahman curated.
Development.
Rahman began composing for the film in early 2016 and by May it was revealed that his two songs had been completed. As the film was "music-based", Menon required the songs to be completed before production began and by November 2016, Rahman had finished composing nine songs for that film and composed parts of the background score. The lyrics were written by Madhan Karky, Arunraja Kamaraj and the late Na. Muthukumar, who worked in the film before his death in August 2016.
Track listing.
The official track list of songs was released long before the audio release by A. R. Rahman, in his Twitter page, on 18 November 2018.
Telugu dubbed version.
All tracks were written by lyricist Rakendu Mouli, except "MaakElara Vichaaramu".
Background Score.
A.R. Rahman used many different instruments for this soundtrack. In "A Journey of Peter", Peter employed instruments from North Rajasthan and the Northeast. These musical instruments are part of the background score. Rahman and his ensemble Qutub-E-Kripa adopted Indian Regional music and Carnatic music. Rahman also used a western African musical instrument called Kora. It is a 21 string lute-bridge-harp extensively used in Africa.


Maryan (soundtrack)

Maryan ("The Immortal") is the soundtrack album, composed by A. R. Rahman for the 2013 Tamil film of the same name directed by Bharatbala. The film that is produced under the banner Aascar Films, stars Dhanush and Parvathy in the lead roles. The album was released under the label Sony Music on 17 May 2013. The music received extremely positive critical reception and overwhelming audience response after its release. It also topped the iTunes India charts for the month of May and June 2013. Further, for the remaining months of 2013, it maintained its position in the top 10 music album charts. The soundtrack album was adjudged as "Tamil Album of Year" in iTunes’ Best of 2013. Rahman won the Norway Tamil Film Festival Best Music Director award and the SIIMA Award for Best Music Director in 2014. The soundtrack was nominated at the 2014 Edison Awards and Vijay Awards for both best music direction and best background score. Rahman was also nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Tamil but he won the same award for his compositions to "Kadal".
Development.
By early May 2012, composer A. R. Rahman had finished composing two songs which were filmed in Africa. Poet Kutti Revathi collaborated two and a half years ago with the film director for the song "Nenje Ezhu". She said, "Both of them (Bharat Bala & A. R. Rahman) were very clear that it should be a meaningful song. If the song needed two verses, I wrote eight, and Rahman was able to pick the lines that would work. Neither of them wanted words that we have all already heard." She added that the composer aims positive message to young viewers. The song reflects love, separation, struggle, survival and finally, arising. For both the songs, "Innum Konjam Neram" and "Naetru Aval" the composer and the respective song lyricists maintained simple and flowing poetry. On composing for "Naetru Aval", Rahman stated that he revisited the retro zones to add a ghazal feel to the contemporary music based track. The track "Kadal Raasa Naan" was initially sung by A. R. Rahman but he felt his voice did not suit the track. He insisted on re-recording it with a singer who could impart more emotions with an earthy voice to the song and eventually opted for Yuvan Shankar Raja. Attributed as a rustic yet character-driven number, the final version was recorded in Chennai on 25 April 2013. In July 2013, when singer Velmurugan sang the same track live at an event, the reports of end January 2013 published by "Times of India" counter-confirmed that he was the first choice for "Kadal Raasa Naan". To bring the feel for the song "Enga Pona Raasaa", the film director wanted singer Shakthisree to visualize herself "walking barefoot on the sand" and so the picturisation of filmed character "Panimalar" (played by Parvathi). Rahman patch recorded the song on guitars played by Keba Jeremiah in the range A4 minor. On the first day, the song was recorded in one rhythm. Later, a fundamental part of it was altered. Selectively, portion of words from 'Kaalam enakkul uraiyuthu' until 'Enakenna kedithu' that added continuity to the melancholic track were penned instantaneously after listening to the requisite aalaap sung by Rahman himself. The recorded version though has orchestral violins apart from guitars in its music.
For the background score of the film, vocals of several cast members from Africa were recorded. The opening credits theme song was sung by Bruno Conn in Afrikaans. The song "Sangamam Anbin Sangamam" sung by Chennai based El Fé Choir was headed by Maria Roe Vincent. Actress Parvathy sang an alternate version of the song "Enga Pona Raasaa". All the three tracks were used only in the film score. Her name featured under the singer's list in the opening credits of film.
Reception.
Critical reception.
The soundtrack received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics. The critical review board at Behindwoods gave the album 3.5 out of 5 and stated, "Maryan's music serves to prove that when ARR is given a free hand to do as he pleases, he weaves magic! Three instant hits and two slow poisons." Music Aloud noted, "Definitely not on par with A R Rahman's previous soundtrack that had similar settings, but at least a couple of songs are here to stay." They gave the soundtrack 8 out of 10. Indiaglitz assigned the album 4.2 out of 5 and stated, "Start to finish, the album is purely magical and would make for one of the most cherished repertoires. Coming from none less than the genius, the album sparks further curiosity and interest in the movie. In all, anyone would fall in love with 'Mariyaan'." S. R. Ashok Kumar of "The Hindu" highlighted that "A.R.Rahman once again mesmerises with his compositions." At "The Indian Express", Sankhayan Ghosh & Suanshu Khurana pointed, "Maryan is bit of a mixed bag, with few songs showing signs of new musical signature and some suffering from over familiarity from the composer's previous own songs." They rated the album 3 out of 5. Srikrishna at Musicperk gave 8 out of 10 to the album and his verdict, "While, Kadal had class written all over it, Maryan is much more accessible and eclectic. It also marks Rahman’s return to pure Tamil folk. A memorable album overall." Critic Srinivas Ramanujam of "The Times of India" set a score of 4 out of 5 stating, "Maryan does have a slight "Kadal" hangover, in terms of music, but Rahman hits the right note, literally, throughout the album."
Chart performance.
The soundtrack album made its debut at number one upon release on the iTunes India charts. The day after release, the track "Nenjae Ezhu" topped all the charts with over one crore online listeners. As of 8 June 2013 the song "Kadal Raasa Naan" had topped all the Radio FM charts in southern India. After one month of the release of the soundtrack album, the songs "Nenjae Ezhu" and "Kadal Raasa Naan" attained the peak position on the Radio Mirchi South Top 20 charts, whereas "Sonapareeya" peaked at #3 and "Innum Konjam Neram" at #18.
Marketing.
On 31 March 2013, a 40-second teaser with a musical score of "Sonapareeya" was released which showed Dhanush with a spear in his hand, diving into deep sea in a breath and hunting on the seabed. The teaser of the song "Nenje Ezhu" was released on 26 April 2013. It crossed over three lakh views on YouTube in less than two days. A. R. Rahman extended an invitation through YouTube for the premiere of the song "Nenjae Ezhu" on 3 May 2013. The track was released as a single on 3 May 2013.
Track listing.
The complete track listing was revealed on A.R. Rahman's official website on 4 May 2013. The complete soundtrack album was released at the composer's recording studio in Chennai on 17 May 2013, and was also made available as mastered for iTunes version.
Telugu.
The dubbed Telugu version of the original soundtrack was released digitally on 7 August 2015.
Album credits.
A. R. Reihana, Abhay Jodhpurkar, , Dr. Narayanan, Senthildass, Malavika Sundar, Santhosh Hariharan, Deepak Subramaniam, Nakash Aziz.
Kids chorus as "Madras Youth Choir" — A. R. Ameen, Sai, R. Ameena, K. Haripriya, K. Saivenkat, S. Akilesh, Dhiyaram, Manavaram, Pranav, Deepika


Farming (film)

Farming is a 2018 British film written and directed by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, based on his own childhood. The plot is about a child whose Yorubá parents give him to a white working-class family in London in the 1960s, and who grows up to join a white skinhead gang led by a white supremacist.
The film, which stars Damson Idris, Kate Beckinsale, John Dagleish, Jaime Winstone, Genevieve Nnaji, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, wrapped production in 2017. It premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September and won the Michael Powell Award at the 2019 Edinburgh Film Festival. The film was released by Lionsgate on October 11, 2019 in the UK and by eOne on October 25, 2019 in the US.
Release.
"Farming" premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September in the Discovery Section. The film won the Michael Powell Award at the 2019 Edinburgh Film Festival. On 17 September 2018, the film's distribution rights were purchased for several countries and regions: the United Kingdom, France, Benelux, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, South Korea, China, Greece, Portugal, Serbia, Montenegro, Singapore, the Middle East, and Turkey. Lionsgate UK released the film in the United Kingdom on 11 October 2019, followed by a United States release on 25 October.
Production.
Production visited two Kent locations in Farming. At the first, The Historic Dockyard Chatham, various areas such as at The Joiner’s Shop, House Carpenters Shop, and the rear of The Smithery, Ropery and Anchor Wharf were used. Production also visited a jewellery shop in Gillingham for some further scenes.
Reception.
The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 56% approval rating based on 32 reviews, with an average score of 5.80/10. "Screen Daily" wrote of the film, “Actor turned director Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje makes an arresting feature debut with "Farming". Told with raw emotion and lurid violence, it transforms elements of his life story into a disturbing, eye-opening coming of age drama.”


Paiyaa (soundtrack)

Paiyaa is the soundtrack to the 2010 Indian Tamil-language romantic action film of the same name, directed by N. Linguswamy and starring Karthi and Tamannaah. The soundtrack album originally includes five songs composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja and was released on 12 February 2010. The release coincided with a promotional event held at Sathyam Cinemas in Chennai, India.
The soundtrack album was marketed under the Chennai-based Think Music record label, which was founded in 2007, thus becoming their 50th album. During a press conference held by Think Music in mid-March 2010, it was announced that, thanks to the enormous success of the audio, an additional track has been composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja and included in the film at an appropriate place. The new CD including the new track, titled "Yedho Ondru", was released during the release of the film in early April. In 2011, Sony Music got the rights to the soundtrack.
Reception.
The album generally received mixed to positive reviews and responses from critics and audiences alike. The songs got popular among the masses immediately, witnessing grand sales and making it very big in audio markets, due to which even the stocks of audio CDs got over soon. Becoming sensational hits very soon after its release, the songs were topping the Tamil music charts in the following weeks. The album has reportedly become 2010's biggest selling audio and the top selling ringtone as well. Moreover, as per the report of a national broadcasting agency, the song "Thuli Thuli" has become the first Tamil song to be featured in an all India index of the Top 20 songs on radio for the month of April 2010, indicating this song was played on all Indian FM radio stations more often than any other song in the history of Tamil film music ever. Yuvan Shankar Raja's songs as well as his film score were also often cited to be the biggest plus and the backbone of the film besides playing an important role for the film's success.


My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 is a 2016 American romantic comedy film directed by Kirk Jones and written by Nia Vardalos. The film stars Vardalos, John Corbett, Lainie Kazan, Michael Constantine, Andrea Martin, Ian Gomez and Elena Kampouris. It is the sequel to the 2002 film "My Big Fat Greek Wedding". Filming began in late May 2015 in Toronto.
The film was released on March 25, 2016, by Universal Pictures. The film grossed $90.6 million worldwide against a $18 million budget.
Plot.
Toula Portokalos-Miller's (Nia Vardalos) life is in shambles. Her travel agency and the family dry cleaners have closed due to the recession. The only business still open is the family restaurant that her father, Gus (Michael Constantine), still runs. Her husband, Ian (John Corbett), is the principal at their teen-aged daughter Paris' (Elena Kampouris) high school. Paris, who is applying to college, feels smothered by her close-knit clan, who constantly interfere in her life. Desperate for independence and privacy, she applies to schools across the country. Ian and Toula's marriage has become strained due to Toula's obsessive need to be involved in Paris' life and to "fix" whatever goes wrong in her family.
Meanwhile, Gus has convinced himself that he is directly descended from Alexander the Great and wants to write to an online ancestry site for confirmation. While sorting through his records, he discovers that his and Maria's (Lainie Kazan) marriage certificate was never signed by the priest, technically invalidating their union. His current priest isn't allowed to sign it but agrees to perform a new ceremony. Gus insists that he and Maria must marry again after fifty years together, but Maria wants Gus to propose properly. Gus refuses, infuriating Maria, who refuses to go through with the ceremony. Meanwhile, when Toula and Ian are on a date night to rekindle their romance, their family catches them making out in their car outside their house. After Gus lands in the hospital and Maria refuses to go, saying she is not his wife, Gus pleads for her to marry him again. This time she accepts.
Maria wants the wedding she never had and hires a wedding planner who quits after the rowdy family's choices become too outlandish. The whole family, including Ian's parents, Rodney and Harriet (Bruce Gray and Fiona Reid), and Angelo's business partner, Patrick, pitch in to make the wedding happen. Nick urges Angelo to tell his parents, Voula (Andrea Martin) and Taki (Gerry Mendicino), that Patrick is also Angelo's romantic partner. Gus's estranged brother, Panos (Mark Margolis) arrives from Greece as a surprise.
Paris has been accepted to Northwestern University in Chicago and NYU in New York City. She chooses Northwestern to please her mother, but Paris' great-grandmother (Bess Meisler) convinces her she should go to New York. Paris asks Bennett (Alex Wolff), a boy she has a crush on, to the prom. He is also Greek with an equally crazy Greek family. Prom is the same night as the wedding. Toula tells Paris she can go to the prom if she attends the reception later. En route to the church, Gus, Panos, and Taki arrive drunk after many shots of ouzo. Maria storms off to the vestry after seeing Gus acting foolishly, feeling he is not taking the wedding seriously. Panos tells Maria that Gus had confided to him his love for Maria, and the ceremony continues. Watching as Gus and Maria recite their vows, Ian and Toula privately renew theirs. At the prom, Paris and Bennett share their first kiss while slow-dancing.
At the wedding reception, Gus reads a letter from the ancestry site verifying that he is a descendant of Alexander the Great. Ian, however, realizes that Toula forged the letter to make her father happy. The movie ends with the entire family dropping Paris off at her college dorm in New York.
Production.
In a 2009 interview for her film "My Life in Ruins", asked about a possible sequel to the 2002 hit romantic comedy "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", Nia Vardalos stated that she had an idea for a sequel and had started writing it, hinting that, like "Ruins", the film would be set in Greece.
Asked about a sequel again in a November 2012 interview, she stated:
On May 27, 2014, various news and media outlets reported that a sequel was in the works. Vardalos later confirmed this via Twitter, and wrote the script for the film. Universal Pictures acquired the US distribution rights to the film on November 11, 2014, and Kirk Jones was set to direct, based on the script by Vardalos, who also starred.
Filming.
Principal photography began on May 10, 2015 in Toronto, and ended on June 28.
Release.
In May 2015, Universal set the film for a March 25, 2016 release.
Home media.
"My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2" was released on DVD and Blu-ray on June 21, 2016.
Reception.
Box office.
In its opening weekend, the film was projected to gross $15 million from 3,133 theaters. It grossed $7.2 million on its first day and $17.9 million in its opening weekend, finishing third at the box office behind "" ($166 million) and "Zootopia" ($24 million). In its second weekend, the film grossed $11.2 million (a 37.2% drop), again finishing third behind "Batman v Superman" ($51.3 million) and "Zootopia" ($19.3 million).
Critical response.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 28% based on 172 reviews, with an average rating of 4.6/10. The site's critical consensus reads, ""My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2" is as sweet and harmless as the original, but its collection of sitcom gags and stereotypes never coalesces into anything resembling a story with a purpose." Metacritic gave the film a weighted average score of 37 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Polled by CinemaScore, audiences gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale.
Sequel.
In late June 2016, Vardalos hinted at the possibility of a third film, saying that although no writing has been done, she does have an idea.


Vijay Chandar

Vijay Chandar is an Indian film director who is known for directing the Tamil-language film "Vaalu" (2015).
Career.
Vijay Chandar made his directorial debut with "Vaalu" (2015). The film began production in 2012 and released in 2015 after much delay. The film marked Silambarasan's return after a three year hiatus and released to positive reviews. A critic stated that "Overall, Vaalu is yet another romantic action entertainer which is watchable just for STR’s energetic screen presence and his comic chemistry with Santhanam". Chandar's next film was "Sketch" (2018) starring Vikram. The film received mixed reviews upon release but the film was a commercial success. The film also marked the return of Vikram after one year. A critic wrote that "A predictable action drama that ends up star-worshipping its protagonist a tad too much". His next film was "Sangathamizhan" (2019) with Vijay Sethupathi, which released to negative reviews. A critic noted that " But the weakly written villain characters, with miscast actors who never make us feel like they could be a threat to the protagonist, and the sameness of the stunt scenes pull the film down, leaving it lacking punch".


D. V. S. Raju

Datla Venkata Suryanarayana Raju, better known as D. V. S. Raju (13 December 1928 – 13 November 2010) was an Indian film producer known for his works in Telugu Cinema and Bollywood. He was instrumental in shifting the Telugu film industry from Chennai to Hyderabad. He was the recipient of the Raghupathi Venkaiah Award, the Bhishma Award and the Padma Shri for his contributions to Indian cinema.
He served as Jury Member at the 15th National Film Awards & Chairperson at 46th National Film Awards. He was the Chairman of National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC) and President of the Film Federation of India (1979–80). As NFDC Chairman, he was instrumental in co-funding the making of Richard Attenborough's Oscar-award winning film Gandhi. He had also served as Chairman of the State Film Development Corporation. He died on 13 November 2010 (Saturday) at the age of 82 years after brief illness. He is survived by his wife, a son and two daughters.
Early life and film craft.
He was born on 13 December 1928 in Allavaram, East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh in a Telugu Raju family. He went to Madras (now Chennai) in 1950 and established D. V. S. Productions banner. Before establishing DVS Productions Banner, He was a Managing Partner in National Art Theatres (NAT) along with Legendary N.T.Rama Rao and N.Trivikrama Rao. Made V.Venkatraman as Production executive in Film productions and made about 25 films including one award winning Hindi film "Mujhe Insaaf Chahiye". He had produced some popular films, starring N. T. Rama Rao like "Pidugu Ramudu", "Chinnanaati Snehithulu" etc. His few noted films are "Jeevitha Nouka", "Jeevana Jyoti", "Chanakya Sapadham", "Picchi Pullaiah". `Jeevana Jyoti' has won the Nandi award.


List of feature films about the Japanese American internment

Feature films about the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans include:


Achari America Yatra

Achari America Yatra () is a 2018 Telugu comedy film produced by Kirthi Chowdary and Kittu and directed by G. Nageswara Reddy. The film stars Vishnu Manchu, Pragya Jaiswal, and Brahmanandam. The movie was remade in Odia in 2019 as "Golmaal Love" starring Babushan.
Plot.
Kedari Krishnamachari (Vishnu Manchu) is a young pundit working under Applacharya (Brahmanandam), along with two other pundits. In the opening scene, they conduct a hawan at a rich household, where due to smoke an elderly man dies, apparently due to asthma attack. The relatives blame the four pundits and go for their lives. They try taking refuge at a mosque and a church. When they find no other choice, Krishna insists on fleeing to America. Acharya reluctantly agrees after he reads Bhavishya vani that Krishna has tampered.
In America, they face the harsh realities, working odd jobs and live in rented apartment. Krishna keeps searching for someone. Acharya manages to find a temple in Vegas where he gets employed as cleaner. There Krishna hears a female voice singing Krishna Bhajan and chases the singer. He sees a girl, Renuka (Pragya Jaiswal) leaving in a car and cheers, indicating this is the girl he has been looking for. In the temple, Acharya meets a woman Surekha Vani who says that her boss needs a pundit for his wedding. Acharya agrees.
They reach the Boss, Vikky's home for conducting engagement. There they see Renuka, and get shocked. Renuka sees Krishna and faints. Flash back starts.
Renuka arrives from America. Dadaji (Kota Shrinivasa Rao), who is wheelchair bound, is very happy. He says that she is the heiress of all his properties. Her uncles are angry because she refused to marry his son Vikky. There is a four day long pooja in house and Acharya is called for that. During that time Krishna accidentally sees Renuka nude and later confesses and apologises. Renuka gets angry. She and her friend (Vidyulekha Raman) plot revenge that always fail. But she is impressed when Krishna blesses a maid's daughter for her birthday. Renuka takes Dadaji for a stroll in the fields, when they are attacked. Krishna saves them. He suspects the uncles are behind the attack. Renuka and Krishna become closer. She says that on the final day of pooja she has some thing to say. Flashback ends.
Krishna tells Acharya and others pundit that Renuka left for America before the last day. And he came to search for her.
Renuka's friend tells them that Renuka had confessed to Dadaji about her feeling for Krishna. Her uncles heard and abused Dadaji and Renuka. Dadaji died of heart attack when he saw her being mistreated by her uncles and not for asthma. After Dadaji died the uncles refused to give the ashes over to Renuka and said she had to marry Vikky to get ashes.
Krishna and pundits make plans to steal ashes from Vikky and flee with Renuka. When they manage after two tries, they are chased by Vikky's henchmen. They are accosted at an abandoned factory. The family lawyer (Posani Krishna Murali) tells Krishna to sign some papers. Everyone gets confused. He reveals Dadaji had made Krishna his heir before he died, and also leaves a video evidence. Krishna refuses and fight ensues, where he manages to subdue all others.
At the ending, Krishna and Renuka visit Kasi to fulfil Dadaji's last wishes.
Reception.
"The Hindu" wrote that "Nageshwar Reddy had the premise with scope to be developed further, but "Achari America Yatra" is a lazy effort at whipping up some laughs". "Times of India" gave the film a 1 out of 5 saying, "This Yatra [pilgrimage] will take the audience on a ride they wouldn't want to remember."


Astu

Astu: So Be It (or simply Astu) is a 2015 Marathi film directed by the duo Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Suktankar and stars Mohan Agashe, Iravati Harshe, Milind Soman and Amruta Subhash in lead roles. The film is about Dr Chakrapani Shastri, a Sanskrit scholar who suffers from Alzheimer's disease and played by Agashe.
Plot.
Dr. Chakrapani Shastri (Mohan Agashe), fondly known as Appa, is a retired Sanskrit professor and a former director of Oriental Research Institute, Pune. Shastri currently lives with Ram (Om Bhutkar), a young student as his caretaker, and has been diagnosed with the advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease. One day, as Ram has to appear for his exams, Shastri's elder daughter Ira (Iravati Harshe) takes Shastri to her house. While driving back home, Ira stops at a shop, requesting Shastri to stay in the car. While sitting in the car, Shastri sees a passing elephant on the road. He gets fascinated and with some help gets himself out of the car and starts following the elephant through the lanes of the city. When Ira comes back and finds her father missing from the car, she and her husband, Madhav (Milind Soman), starts looking for Shastri at various places and also reports him to the police station.
As Shastri keeps following Laxmithe elephant, her mahout Anta (Nachiket Purnapatre) tries to get Shastri back to his house. However, Shastri does not remember anything and reaches mahout's house where he meets mahout's wife Channamma (Amruta Subhash). She takes care of Shastri along with her new-born and offers him a new family. Ira informs Devika (Devika Daftardar) about their missing father but Devika blames Ira for the happening and suggests an old-age home for him. Police traces the elephant's whereabouts and finds Shastri but accuses mahout for kidnapping Shastri and informs Ira. Shastri refuses to go back to Ira and wants to stay with Channamma but she convinces him. Shastri agrees and Ira requests police to drop all the charges.
Production.
Actor Mohan Agashe was approached by a Marathi short filmmaker with the idea of a project that deals with Alzheimer's disease. Though Agashe liked the idea, he wasn't satisfied with the script and suggested the filmmaker to improvise. However, in spite of script developments, Agashe found limitations with it. Later, he suggested the filmmaker to meet Sumitra Bhave who had finished working her earlier film. She worked on the script for a month and modified it to be of a full-fledged feature film. After the shooting was completed, one of the co-producers backed out of post-production. Agashe contributed from his pension and provident fund to complete the remaining work.
Release and reception.
Though the film was completed in 2013, it did not find any distributor and was released through crowdfunding in 2016.
 Though, it was released in Pune in 2014, it was re-released to qualify for the Maharashtra state film subsidy, which requires the film to be released in ten state districts. It was also screened at the New York Film Festival (NYFF) and a special screening was organised at the Harvard University campus for awareness towards problems of the elderly due to lack of human interaction and the care needed followed by a panel discussion with participations from Mohan Agashe, and professors Arthur Kleinman and Diana L. Eck.
The film was appreciated for its depiction of Alzheimer's/Dementia and the performances of its leads. Namrata Joshi of "The Hindu" writes that "though the film is about loss of memory it's structured and built around a series of recollections" and mentions that the film builds awareness about Alzheimer's disease but does not "slip into sermonizing, it remains sensitive not sentimental". Mihir Bhanage of "The Times of India" writes that the "splendid narration and direction coupled with excellent performances are high point of this film".
Awards.
The film won several awards upon release.


For Angela

For Angela is a 1993 short docudrama co-directed by Daniel Prouty and Nancy Trites Botkin, dramatizing the experiences of two Indigenous women, Rhonda Gordon and her daughter Angela, who were the victims of racist harassment on a Winnipeg city bus.
The two were verbally assaulted by three teenage boys at a bus stop, with the boys then continuing their racist insults aboard the bus. The following day Gordon went to the boys' school, met the principal, and confronted the offenders. The confrontation was meant to educate the boys - to challenge their stereotypes of natives and to sensitize them to the dehumanizing effects of their behavior.
"For Angela" stars Tina Keeper as Rhonda Gordon. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, the film received several awards including the Canada Award at the 1995 Gemini Awards, and the award for Best Live Short Subject at the American Indian Film Festival.


K. N. T. Sastry

K. N. T. Sastry (born Kanaala Nanjunda Tirumala Sastry) (5 September 1945 – 13 September 2018) was an Indian film critic, screenwriter, director, littérateur, and producer, known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema. He has garnered six National Film Awards, and three International honors.
He served as chairman of critics Jury at National Film Awards. Sastry was a Jury Member of Vladivostok International Film Festival 2003; Five time Jury Member for "Indian Panorama"-"International Film Festival of India"; Jury Member the Nandi Awards, Government of Andhra Pradesh, and Fipresci Jury Member at Kinotavr film festival and Busan International Film Festival.
Sastry's Thilaadanam received "New Currents Award" at the 7th Busan International Film Festival. He worked on many research projects with veteran director B. Narsing Rao. Sastry's English Documentary "Harvesting Baby Girls" won the Special Jury Award at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.


Gutha Ramineedu

Gutha Ramineedu (Telugu: గుత్తా రామినీడు) (1 October 1927 – 29 April 2009) was an Indian film director known for his works in Telugu cinema. He is known for works such as "Chivaraku Migiledi" which won the Filmfare Award for Best Film - Telugu, "Maa Inti Mahalakshmi", "Palnati Yuddham", "Bangaru Sankellu" etc.
Early life and career.
He was born at Chataparru village in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. He entered the cinema world in 1954 and made his film debut with "Maa Inti Mahalakshmi" (1959). It was the first picture completely shot in Hyderabad and Haranath debuted as a hero in this film. Famous actor Rao Gopal Rao worked as an assistant director for his film "Bhakta Potana" (1966) and in other films, including "Bangaru Sankellu" and "Mooga Prema". His last film "Yagnam" starring Bhanu Chander won Nandi Award for Best Feature Film in 1991.
Death.
He died in Chennai on 29 April 2009 due to a kidney-related illness. His wife died in 2017. He is survived by three daughters and a son.


Kabir Rafi

Kabir Rafi is an Indian music director, composer, playback singer, independent pop artist, and background score artist. His first multilingual feature film in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada & Malayalam is #PK, Music released in 2020. He made his full-fledged music direction debut in the Telugu film "manasu palike maya prema" in 2014 in the Kannada film "Komali" in 2017 and Sugar Factory in 2021. His 1st Big banner projects are web series "Mana Mugguri Love Story" under Swapna Dutt banner "Mahanati" fame producer and Mrs Subbalaxmi under Manchu Lakshmi banner manchu telefilms & Zee5. He has worked for 150 digital short films and independent films from 2015 to present in English, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Silent films and other languages.
Early life.
Kabir Rafi was born to Shaik Abdul Khader in Vishakapatnam, lived in or travelled to various cities in India including Mumbai, Bengaluru, Assam (Silchar) and Gujarat (Bhuj), then settled in Hyderabad. His family has an army background with his great grand father a freedom fighter. His grandfather and father also served in the Indian army where his father, a retired sub-major, and a huge fan of singer Mohammed Rafi, gave that name to his child. Rafi works professionally in the music field today following the encouragement of his father. He did his bachelor's degree in hotel management from Regency College in 2009 and was an MBA graduate of 2011. He worked with Just Dial Company for 2 years on a contract basis as a video vendor . He started his music career at the age of 12 in 1998 with various music stage shows and learned Hindustani classical music in vocals & Tabla (Pratham swash 1st grade). His mother recognized his talent and encouraged him to learn music and participate in various stage shows, singing competitions,etc. His father was serving in the Indian Army in Mumbai where Rafi started his professional career singing various jingle and dubbing songs & tracks for music directors including who guided him in 2005. As he was getting a lot of opportunities from Tollywood, his home industry, he got shifted to Hyderabad in 2006. He was given a lot of background music work for various top music directors as Asst. Composer, singer and keyboard player. He also sang track songs for them. One of the music directors who encouraged him was late chakri in his early stages. Then he joined Composer Jeevan thomas in 2009 for 4yrs,observed, worked & learnt various professional aspects of Music under his class.
Career.
From 2012 to 2014 he was under observation and worked in the musical team of musician & music director jeevan thomas for the movies Kuberulu, first love 2013 and "Yavvanam Oka Fantasy 2015. He also got opportunity to sing songs in Telugu, Kannada and Hindi as playback singer for a few movies. He gave stage performances as singer for more than 100 events. In 2014 he finished his first movie as full-fledged music direction debut" "manasu palike maya prema". audio got release. Then in 2016 his independent film parinayam audio got release. His second feature film, ""Komali" " audio was released in 2017. He finished with 150 Projects from the year 2015 to date which includes short films, independent films, web series, feature films, adds etc. in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi & English. His most popular projects which went viral and brought fame are MANA MUGGURI LOVE STORY, Mrs Subbalaxmi, Konchan Istam Chaala Kastam, I Hate You, Aa Gang Repu, Maa Naana Kosam, Pilli Kalla Papa, Oye Nandu, Atu itu nuvvey, etc. Critically acclaimed short films include She, Musalman, Papa, Anandmaaye, Chotu, Karmama. His total musical view count on YouTube is nearing to 4 crores views which makes him the highest viewed musician in short film category on YouTube in India. His upcoming feature film projects are under production to be released in 2020 & 2021.


Hridaynath Mangeshkar

Hridaynath Mangeshkar (born 26 October 1937) is an Indian music director. He is the only son of noted musician Deenanath Mangeshkar and younger brother of Indian music legends Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle. He is popularly known as "Balasaheb" in the music and film industry.
Biography.
Hridaynath Mangeshkar is the only son of Deenanath Mangeshkar who belonged to the Gomantak Maratha Samaj. He is a brother to four sisters, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Meena Khadikar and Usha Mangeshkar, and youngest among them. He is married to Bharati Malvankar Mangeshkar, daughter of Marathi comedian Damuanna Malvankar. They have two sons Aadinath and Vaijnath and a daughter Radha. In 2009, Radha launched her debut album "Naav Maaza Shaami". She has been trained by Hridaynath and accompanies him in various stage shows.
Career.
Hridaynath debuted his music career in 1955 with the Marathi film "Akash Ganga". Since then, he has composed for various Marathi films such as "Sansar, Chaani, Ha Khel Savalyancha, Janaki, Jait Re Jait, Umbartha" and "Nivdung" and a few Bollywood films; the most notable among them being "Subah", "Lekin..." and "Maya Memsaab".
He has been very selective with his work. He has composed songs in Marathi and Hindi. His songs often have complex meters and require singers of great range and depth for enjoyable renditions. His composition of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar's poem "Saagara Pran Talamalala" is a case in point. His 1982 album "Dnyaneshwar Mauli", featuring compositions from Jñāneśvar, one of the most famous poets in Marathi literature, set the standard for modern devotional music in Marathi.
He also composed music for Doordarshan musical drama "Phoolwanti".
He has also composed folk songs. Staying true to the spirit, his "Koli Geets" (fishermen songs) reflect the traditional rhythms of the fishermen of Konkan. His music to the critically acclaimed movie "Jait Re Jait" is another example of his prowess in this genre. One of his most popular works is the composition for the Marathi film "Nivdung".
At one point, Hridaynath was a student of Ustad Amir Khan; however, he feels that his guru is not as timeless as his sister Lata.
He has been the recipient of several awards throughout his career, such as the prestigious National Award at the hands of the President of India, the Lata Mangeshkar Award of Maharashtra state, and seven Maharashtra State Awards for Best Vocalist and Music Director/Composer.
He was awarded the title pandit by the people of Maharashtra at the hands of Bhimsen Joshi and Jasraj. The Shankaracharya has conferred upon him the title "Bhaav Gandharva".
He was awarded Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2009.
Some of his most memorable Hindi film scores are "Harishchandra Taramati", "Prarthana", "Chakra", "Lekin...", "Maya Memsaab", "Lal Salaam", Yash Chopra's "Mashaal", "Dhanwan" and "Chaani", to name a few.
He is also the first Indian composer to compose and release two entire albums featuring the poems and songs of the poet-saint Meera, titled "Chala Vahi Des" and "Meera Bhajans". He has recently also composed and released an album titled "Meera Soor Kabeera", featuring the works of Meera, Kabir and Surdas. He produced an album featuring the ghazals of Ghalib, titled "Ghalib" and sung by Lata Mangeshkar. His collaborations with noted Marathi poets such as Shanta Shelke and Suresh Bhat have produced many Marathi classic songs of unmatched popularity.
He joined the political party Shiv Sena in 2009.


G. V. Rama Raju

Gottimukkala Venkata Rama Raju () is an Indian film director and scriptwriter associated with Telugu cinema. He is from the town of Bhimavaram, West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh. Ramaraju has undertaken many professions in his life and finally ended up in film industry. His first movie "Mallela Theeram Lo Sirimalle Puvvu" starring Kranthi, "Sri Divya" receiving critical acclaim from the directors Sekhar Kammula, V. V. Vinayak and Harish Shankar. His second movie Oka Manasu is a romantic drama starring Niharika Konidela and Naga Shourya which released June 2016.
Career.
Ramaraju upon completing his graduation has prepared for civil services exams and has gone to the interview as well. Dr. S Rao advised him to explore other fields as Ramaraju can’t handle bureaucracy. As film director Ram Gopal Varma is a distant relative of him, he joined RGV in direction department and worked for films like Deyyam. Based on RGV's advise, Ramaraju made his focus on creative script writing and took some break from working as an assistant director. Then he worked in Information technology field on Oracle Database for some period until he realized that cinema should be a self-discovery for him. He went back to cinema and joined the team of Eeshwar Nivas for Shool film. While working with Shool team, Ramaraju bonded well with the Anurag Kashyap and worked with him for films like Black Friday and Paanch. With the experience in the Bollywood arena, he landed back in Hyderabad to work on his own ideas. Inspired from Anurag Kashyap's vision, he started his first project in Telugu "Mallela Theeram Lo Sirimalle Puvvu" with an idea that his film should be a contender at film festival.