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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Abdul Kalam at the 12th Wharton India Economic Forum, 2008
11th President of India
In office
25 July 2002 – 25 July 2007
Prime MinisterAtal Bihari Vajpayee
Manmohan Singh
Vice PresidentBhairon Singh Shekhawat
Preceded byK. R. Narayanan
Succeeded byPratibha Devisingh Patil
Personal details
BornAvul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
15 October 1931 (age 82)
Rameswaram, Madras Presidency, British India
(now in Tamil Nadu, India)
Alma materSt. Joseph's College, Tiruchirapalli
Madras Institute of Technology
ProfessionProfessor, Author, scientist, president
Aerospace engineer
Websiteabdulkalam.com
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (Listeni/ˈæbdʊl kəˈlɑːm/; born 15 October 1931) usually referred to as Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, is an Indian scientist and administrator who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. Kalam was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, studied physics at the St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirappalli, and aerospace engineering at the Madras Institute of Technology (MIT), Chennai.
Before his term as President, he worked as an Aerospace engineer with Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).[1] Kalam is popularly known as the Missile Man of India for his work on the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology.[2] He played a pivotal organizational, technical and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974. Some scientific experts have however called Kalam a man with no authority over nuclear physics but who just carried on the works of Homi J. Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai.[3]
Kalam was elected the President of India in 2002, defeating Lakshmi Sahgal and was supported by both the Indian National Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party, the major political parties of India. He is currently a visiting professor at Indian Institute of Management Shillong, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and Indian Institute of Management Indore, honorary fellow of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,[4] Chancellor of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology Thiruvananthapuram, a professor of Aerospace Engineering at Anna University (Chennai), JSS University (Mysore) and an adjunct/visiting faculty at many other academic and research institutions across India.
Kalam advocated plans to develop India into a developed nation by 2020 in his book India 2020. He has received several prestigious awards, including the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour. Kalam is known for his motivational speeches and interaction with the student community in India.[5] He launched his mission for the youth of the nation in 2011 called the What Can I Give Movement with a central theme to defeat corruption in India.
Contents [hide]
1 Early life and education
2 Career as scientist
3 Presidency
4 Criticisms and controversies
4.1 Personal attacks
5 Future India: 2020
6 Popular culture
7 Awards and honours
8 Books and documentaries
9 See also
10 References
11 External links
Early life and education[edit]
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam was born on 15 October 1931 in a Tamil Muslim family to Jainulabdeen, a boat owner and Ashiamma, a housewife, at Rameswaram, located in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.[6][7][8][9] He came from a poor background and started working at an early age to supplement his family's income.[10] After completing school, Kalam distributed newspapers in order to financially contribute to his father's income.[10][11] In his school years, he had average grades, but was described as a bright and hardworking student who had a strong desire to learn and spend hours on his studies, especially mathematics.[11]
"I inherited honesty and self-discipline from my father; from my mother, I inherited faith in goodness and deep kindness as did my three brothers and sisters."
—A quote from Kalam's autobiography[8]
After completing his school education at the Rameshwaram Elementary School, Kalam went on to attend Saint Joseph's College, Tiruchirappalli, then affiliated with the University of Madras, from where he graduated in physics in 1954.[12] Towards the end of the course, he was not enthusiastic about the subject and would later regret the four years he studied it. He then moved to Madras in 1955 to study aerospace engineering.[9] While Kalam was working on a senior class project, the Dean was dissatisfied with the lack of progress and threatened revoking his scholarship unless the project was finished within the next three days. He worked tirelessly on his project and met the deadline, impressing the Dean who later said, "I [Dean] was putting you [Kalam] under stress and asking you to meet a difficult deadline".[13] For him becoming a fighter pilot was a “dearest dream” but he failed to realize it as he bagged the ninth position when only eight slots were available in the IAF.[14]
Career as scientist[edit]
This was my first stage, in which I learnt leadership from three great teachers—Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, Prof. Satish Dhawan and Dr. Brahm Prakash. This was the time of learning and acquisition of knowledge for me.
“”
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam[15]
After graduating from Madras Institute of Technology (MIT – Chennai) in 1960, Kalam joined Aeronautical Development Establishment of Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) as a scientist. Kalam started his career by designing a small helicopter for the Indian Army, but remained unconvinced with the choice of his job at DRDO.[16] Kalam was also part of the INCOSPAR committee working under Vikram Sarabhai, the renowned space scientist.[9] In 1969, Kalam was transferred to the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) where he was the project director of India's first indigenous Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV-III) which successfully deployed the Rohini satellite in near earth's orbit in July 1980. Joining ISRO was one of Kalam's biggest achievements in life and he is said to have found himself when he started to work on the SLV project. Kalam first started work on an expandable rocket project independently at DRDO in 1965.[1] In 1969, Kalam received the government's approval and expanded the program to include more engineers.[15]
Kalam addresses engineering students at IIT Guwahati
In 1963–64, he visited Nasa's Langley Research Center in Hampton Virginia, Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and Wallops Flight Facility situated at Eastern Shore of Virginia.[7][17] During the period between the 1970s and 1990s, Kalam made an effort to develop the Polar SLV and SLV-III projects, both of which proved to be success.
Kalam was invited by Raja Ramanna to witness the country's first nuclear test Smiling Buddha as the representative of TBRL, even though he had not participated in the development, test site preparation and weapon designing. In the 1970s, a landmark was achieved by ISRO when the locally built Rohini-1 was launched into space, using the SLV rocket.[18] In the 1970s, Kalam also directed two projects, namely, Project Devil and Project Valiant , which sought to develop ballistic missiles from the technology of the successful SLV programme.[18] Despite the disapproval of Union Cabinet, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi allotted secret funds for these aerospace projects through her discretionary powers under Kalam's directorship.[18] Kalam played an integral role convincing the Union Cabinet to conceal the true nature of these classified aerospace projects.[18] His research and educational leadership brought him great laurels and prestige in 1980s, which prompted the government to initiate an advanced missile program under his directorship.[18] Kalam and Dr. V. S. Arunachalam, metallurgist and scientific adviser to the Defense Minister, worked on the suggestion by the then Defense Minister, R. Venkataraman on a proposal for simultaneous development of a quiver of missiles instead of taking planned missiles one by one.[19] R Venkatraman was instrumental in getting the cabinet approval for allocating 388 crore rupees for the mission, named Integrated Guided Missile Development Program (I.G.M.D.P) and appointed Kalam as the Chief Executive.[19] Kalam played a major part in developing many missiles under the mission including Agni, an intermediate range ballistic missile and Prithvi, the tactical surface-to-surface missile, although the projects have been criticised for mismanagement and cost and time overruns.[19][20] He was the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Prime Minister and the Secretary of Defence Research and Development Organisation from July 1992 to December 1999. The Pokhran-II nuclear tests were conducted during this period where he played an intensive political and technological role. Kalam served as the Chief Project Coordinator, along with R. Chidambaram during the testing phase.[7][21] Photos and snapshots of him taken by the media elevated Kalam as the country's top nuclear scientist.[22]
In 1998, along with cardiologist Dr.Soma Raju, Kalam developed a low cost Coronary stent. It was named as "Kalam-Raju Stent" honouring them.[23][24] In 2012, the duo, designed a rugged tablet PC for health care in rural areas, which was named as "Kalam-Raju Tablet".[25]
Presidency[edit]
Kalam served as the 11th President of India, succeeding K. R. Narayanan. He won the 2002 presidential election with an electoral vote of 922,884, surpassing 107,366 votes won by Lakshmi Sahgal. He served from 25 July 2002 to 25 July 2007.
On 10 June 2002, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) which was in power at the time, expressed to the leader of opposition, Indian National Congress president Sonia Gandhi that they would propose Kalam for the post of President.[26] The Samajwadi Party and the Nationalist Congress Party backed his candidacy.[27][28] After the Samajwadi Party announced its support for him, Narayanan chose not to seek a second term in office, leaving the field clear for Kalam.[29]
I am really overwhelmed. Everywhere both in Internet and in other media, I have been asked for a message. I was thinking what message I can give to the people of the country at this juncture.
—Kalam responding to the announcement of his candidature by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee[30]
On 18 June, Kalam filed his nomination papers in the Parliament of India, accompanied by Vajpayee and his senior Cabinet colleagues.[31]
Kalam along with Vladimir Putin and Manmohan Singh during his presidency
The polling for the presidential election began on 15 July 2002 in the Parliament and the state assemblies with media claiming that the election was a one-sided affair and Kalam's victory was a foregone conclusion. The counting was held on 18 July.[32] Kalam won the presidential election in a highly one-sided contest. He became the 11th president of the Republic of India.[33] He moved into the Rashtrapati Bhavan after he was sworn in on 25 July.[34] Kalam was the third President of India to have been honoured with a Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, before becoming the President. Dr. Sarvapali Radhakrishnan (1954) and Dr. Zakir Hussain (1963) were the earlier recipients of Bharat Ratna who later became the President of India.[35] He was also the first scientist and the first bachelor to occupy Rashtrapati Bhawan.[36]
During his term as President, he was affectionately known as the People's President.[37][38][39] In his words, signing the Office of Profit Bill was the toughest decision he had taken during his tenure.[40]
Kalam is criticized for inaction as a President in deciding the fate of 20 out of the 21 mercy petitions.[41] Article 72 of the Constitution of India empowers the President of India to grant pardon, suspend and remit death sentences and commute the death sentence of convicts on death row.[41][42] Kalam acted on only one mercy plea in his 5 year tenure as a President, rejecting the plea of rapist Dhananjoy Chatterjee, who was hanged thereafter.[41] The most important of the 20 pleas is thought to be that of Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri terrorist who was convicted of conspiracy in the December 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament and was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of India in 2004.[42] While the sentence was scheduled to be carried out on 20 October 2006, the pending action on the mercy plea resulted in him continuing in the death row.[42]
At the end of his term, on 20 June 2007, Kalam expressed his willingness to consider a second term in office provided there was certainty about his victory in the 2007 presidential election.[43] However, two days later, he decided not to contest the Presidential election again stating that he wanted to avoid involving Rashtrapati Bhavan from any political processes.[44] He did not have the support of the Left parties, Shiv Sena and UPA constituents to receive a renewed mandate.[45][46]
Nearing the term expiry of the 12th President Pratibha Patil, whose tenure ended on 24 July 2012, media reports in April claimed that Kalam was likely to be nominated for his second term.[47][48][49] After the reports, social networking sites were abuzz with activities extending their support for his candidature.[50][51] BJP potentially backed his nomination, saying that the party will lend their support if Trinamool Congress, Samajwadi Party and Indian National Congress proposes his name for the 2012 presidential election.[52][53] Just a month ahead of the election, Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mamata Banerjee also expressed their support to Kalam and revealed that they both would suggest his name.[54] Days after expressing support, Mulayam Singh Yadav backed out, leaving Mamata Banerjee as a solitary supporter.[55] On 18 June 2012, Kalam refused to contest 2012 presidential poll after much speculations.[56]
Many, many citizens have also expressed the same wish. It only reflects their love and affection for me and the aspiration of the people. I am really overwhelmed by this support. This being their wish, I respect it. I want to thank them for the trust they have in me."
—Kalam's message to public upon denying to contest Presidential poll 2012.[56]
Future India: 2020[edit]
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam delivering a speech
In his book India 2020, Kalam strongly advocates an action plan to develop India into a knowledge superpower and a developed nation by the year 2020. He regards his work on India's nuclear weapons program as a way to assert India's place as a future superpower.
It was reported that, there was a considerable demand in South Korea for translated versions of books authored by him.[73]
Kalam continues to take an active interest in other developments in the field of science and technology. He has proposed a research program for developing bio-implants. He is a supporter of Open Source over proprietary solutions and believes that the use of free software on a large scale will bring the benefits of information technology to more people.[74]
Kalam set a target of interacting with 100,000 students during the two years after his resignation from the post of scientific adviser in 1999.[11] In his own words, "I feel comfortable in the company of young people, particularly high school students. Henceforth, I intend to share with them experiences, helping them to ignite their imagination and preparing them to work for a developed India for which the road map is already available."[11] He continued to interact with students during his term as a President and also during his post-presidency period as a visiting professor at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad[75] and Indian Institute of Management Indore,[76] Chancellor of Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology Thiruvananthapuram,[77] a professor of Aerospace Engineering at Anna University (Chennai),[78] JSS University (Mysore),[79] and an adjunct/visiting faculty at many other academic and research institutions across India. Kalam is strong supporter of Space based solar power.[80] In 2012 China proposed joint development between India and China towards developing a solar power satellite, during a visit by Kalam.[81]
Popular culture[edit]
In May 2011, Kalam launched his mission for the youth of the nation called the What Can I Give Movement with a central theme to defeat corruption.[82][83] He also has interests in writing Tamil poetry and in playing veenai, a South Indian string instrument.[84]
He was nominated for the MTV Youth Icon of the Year award in 2003[85][86] and in 2006.[87] In the 2011 Hindi film I Am Kalam, Kalam is portrayed as an extremely positive influence to a poor but bright Rajasthani boy named Chhotu, who renames himself Kalam in honour of his idol.[88]
Awards and honours[edit]
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam's 79th birthday was recognised as World Student's Day by United Nations.[89] He has also received honorary doctorates from 40 universities.[90][91] The Government of India has honoured him with the Padma Bhushan in 1981 and the Padma Vibhushan in 1990 for his work with ISRO and DRDO and his role as a scientific advisor to the Government.[92] In 1997, Kalam received India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, for his immense and valuable contribution to the scientific research and modernisation of defence technology in India.[93]
Year of award or honourName of award or honourAwarding organisation
2012Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa)Simon Fraser University[94]
2011IEEE Honorary MembershipIEEE[95]
2010Doctor of EngineeringUniversity of Waterloo[96]
2009Honorary DoctorateOakland University [97]
2009Hoover MedalASME Foundation, USA [98]
2009International von Kármán Wings AwardCalifornia Institute of Technology, U.S.A[99]
2008Doctor of Engineering (Honoris Causa)Nanyang Technological University, Singapore[100]
2007King Charles II MedalRoyal Society, U.K[101][102][103]
2007Honorary Doctorate of ScienceUniversity of Wolverhampton, U.K[104]
2000Ramanujan AwardAlwars Research Centre, Chennai[105]
1998Veer Savarkar AwardGovernment of India[9]
1997Indira Gandhi Award for National IntegrationIndian National Congress[9][105]
1997Bharat RatnaGovernment of India[105][106]
1990Padma VibhushanGovernment of India[105][107]
1981Padma BhushanGovernment of India[105][107]
Books and documentaries[edit]
Kalam's writings
Developments in Fluid Mechanics and Space Technology by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam and Roddam Narasimha; Indian Academy of Sciences, 1988[108]
India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium by A. P. J Abdul Kalam, Y. S. Rajan; New York, 1998.[109]
Wings of Fire: An Autobiography by A. P. J Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari; Universities Press, 1999.[7]
Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam; Viking, 2002.[110]
The Luminous Sparks by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam; Punya Publishing Pvt Ltd, 2004.[111]
Mission India by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Paintings by Manav Gupta; Penguin Books, 2005[112]
Inspiring Thoughts by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam; Rajpal & Sons, 2007[113]
Indomitable Spirit by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam; Rajpal and Sons Publishing[114]
Envisioning an Empowered Nation by APJ Abdul Kalam with A. Sivathanu Pillai; Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi
You Are Born To Blossom: Take My Journey Beyond by A. P. J Abdul Kalam and Arun Tiwari; Ocean Books, 2011.[115]
Turning Points: A journey through challenges by A. P. J Abdul Kalam; Harper Collins India, 2012.[116]
Target 3 Billion" by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Srijan Pal Singh; December, 2011 | Publisher Penguin Books.
My Journey: Transforming Dreams into Actions by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam;August 2013 by the Rupa Publication.
Biographies
Eternal Quest: Life and Times of Dr. Kalam by S. Chandra; Pentagon Publishers, 2002.[117]
President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam by R. K. Pruthi; Anmol Publications, 2002.[118]
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam: The Visionary of India by K. Bhushan, G. Katyal; A.P.H. Pub. Corp, 2002.[119]
A Little Dream (documentary film) by P. Dhanapal; Minveli Media Works Private Limited, 2008.[120]
The Kalam Effect: My Years with the President by P.M. Nair; Harper Collins, 2008.[121]
My Days With Mahatma Abdul Kalam by Fr.A.K. George; Novel Corporation, 2009.[122]
ILAIYARAJA the MAESTRO Original - by Artist Anikartick,Chennai,India
Ilaiyaraaja (born Gnanadesikan) is an Indian film composer who works in the Indian film Industry. His body of work has spanned across Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Hindi and English language films. Regarded as one of the finest music composers in India,[1] Ilaiyaraaja is also an instrumentalist, conductor, singer, and a songwriter. To date, he has composed over 4500 songs and provided film scores for 1000 Indian films in various languages,[2][3] particularly being acclaimed for his background scoring.[4] His songs and background score played a very crucial role in the success of many films.[5][6]
Ilaiyaraaja has been a prominent composer of film music in the South Indian cinema since the late 1970s.[7] His works are mainly in Tamil, but has also scored music for numerous films in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, and Hindi. Of late, he also composed for two Marathi films.[8] He integrated folk—in Tamil—and introduced western musical sensibilities into the South Indian musical mainstream.
A gold medalist in classical guitar from Trinity College of Music, London, in 1993, he organised a full symphony and thus became the first Asian to compose a full symphony performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London's Walthamstow Town Hall, which is yet to be released. In 2003, according to an international poll conducted by BBC, people from 155 countries voted his composition Rakkamma Kaiya Thattu from the 1991 film Thalapathi as fourth in the world's top 10 most popular songs of all time.[9] He was also nominated in the Best Indian album Music Awards category[10] at US based Just Plain Folks Music Organization, which is the largest grassroots music organization in the world, and stood third for his "Music Journey: Live in Italy".[10]
In the 2000s, he composed a variety of non-film music, including religious and devotional songs, an oratorio, and world music, while shifting his focus to Malayalam and Kannada films. He is usually referred to by the title Isaignani (English: Musical Genius), or as The Maestro.[11] As of 2013, he has won four Indian National Film Awards; three for Best Music Direction and one for Best Background Score[12] and is a recipient of Padma Bhushan, awarded by the Government of India. Ilaiyaraaja also received the NTR National Award in 2004.[13] In 2012 he received the Sangeet Natak Academi Award for his creative and experimental works in music field.[14]Popular world cinema portal Taste of Cinema placed Ilaiyaraja at the 9th position in its list of 25 greatest film composers in the cinema history.[15] In a poll conducted by CNN-IBN celebrating 100 years of Indian cinema in 2013, Ilaiyaraaja was voted the greatest music composer of India with a maximum of 49%.[16]
Contents
1 Early life and family
2 Early exposure to music
3 Session musician and film orchestrator
4 Film composer
4.1 Impact and musical style
5 Musical characteristics
6 Non-cinematic output
7 Notable works
8 Live performances
9 Discography
10 Awards
11 References
12 Further reading
13 External links
Early life and family
Ilaiyaraaja was born as Gnanadesikan on 3 June 1943 in a Tamil family in Pannaipuram, Theni district, Tamil Nadu, India. When he joined the school his father changed his name as "Rajaiya" but his village people used to call him as "Raasayya".[17] Ilaiyaraaja joined Dhanraj Master as a student to learn musical instruments and the master renamed and called him as just "Raaja".[18] In his first movie Annakili, Tamil film producer Panchu Arunachalam added "Ilaiya" (Ilaiya means younger in Tamil language) as prefix in his name Raaja and he named as "Ilaiyaraaja" because in 1970's there was one more music director A. M. Rajah who was a popular one.
Ilaiyaraaja was married to Jeeva and the couple have three children—Karthik Raja, Yuvan Shankar Raja and Bhavatharini—all film composers and singers.[19][20] His wife Jeeva died on 31 October 2011.[21] Ilaiyaraaja has a brother Gangai Amaran, who is also a music director and lyricist in Tamil film industry.[22]
Early exposure to music
Ilaiyaraaja grew up in a rural area, exposed to a range of Tamil folk music.[23] At the age of 14, he joined a travelling musical troupe headed by his elder brother, Pavalar Varadarajan, and spent the next decade performing throughout South India. While working with the troupe, he penned his first composition, a musical adaptation of an elegy written by the Tamil poet laureate Kannadasan for Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister.[24] In 1968, Ilaiyaraaja began a music course with Professor Dhanraj in Madras (now Chennai),[18] which included an overview of Western classical music, compositional training in techniques such as counterpoint, and study in instrumental performance. Ilaiyaraaja specialized in classical guitar and had taken a course in it at the Trinity College of Music, London.[25]
Session musician and film orchestrator
In the 1970s in Chennai, Ilaiyaraaja played guitar in a band-for-hire, and worked as a session guitarist, keyboardist, and organist for film music composers and directors such as Salil Chowdhury from West Bengal.[26][27][28] After being hired as the musical assistant to Kannada film composer G. K. Venkatesh, he worked on 200 film projects, mostly in the Kannada language.[29] As G. K. Venkatesh's assistant, Ilaiyaraaja would orchestrate the melodic outlines developed by Venkatesh. During this period, Ilaiyaraaja also began writing his own scores. To hear his compositions, he would persuade Venkatesh's session musicians to play excerpts from his scores during their break times. Ilaiyaraaja would hire instruments from composer R. K. Shekhar, father of composer A. R. Rahman
Film composer
In 1975, film producer Panchu Arunachalam commissioned him to compose the songs and film score for a Tamil-language film called Annakkili ('The Parrot').[30] For the soundtrack, Ilaiyaraaja applied the techniques of modern popular film music orchestration to Tamil folk poetry and folk song melodies, which created a fusion of Western and Tamil idioms.[31][32] Ilaiyaraaja's use of Tamil music in his film scores injected new influence into the Indian film score milieu.[33] By the mid-1980s Ilaiyaraaja was gaining increasing stature as a film composer and music director in the South Indian film industry.[7] He has worked with Indian poets and lyricists such as Kannadasan, Vaali, Vairamuthu, O. N. V. Kurup, Sreekumaran Thampi, Veturi Sundararama Murthy, Aacharya Aatreya, Sirivennela Sitaramasastri, Chi. Udaya Shankar and Gulzar and is well known for his association with film makers such as Bharathiraja, K. Balachander, Mani Ratnam, Sathyan Anthikkad, Priyadarshan, Fazil, Balu Mahendra, Vamsy, K. Vishwanath, Singeetham Srinivasa Rao and R. Balki.
Impact and musical style
Ilaiyaraaja was one of the earliest Indian film composers to use Western classical music harmonies and string arrangements in Indian film music.[34] This allowed him to craft a rich tapestry of sounds for films, and his themes and background score gained notice and appreciation among Indian film audiences.[35] The range of expressive possibilities in Indian film music was broadened by Ilaiyaraaja's methodical approach to arranging, recording technique, and his drawing of ideas from a diversity of musical styles.[34]
According to musicologist P. Greene, Ilaiyaraaja's "deep understanding of so many different styles of music allowed him to create syncretic pieces of music combining very different musical idioms in unified, coherent musical statements".[7] Ilaiyaraaja has composed Indian film songs that amalgamated elements of genres such as Afro-tribal, bossa nova, dance music (e.g., disco), doo-wop, flamenco, acoustic guitar-propelled Western folk, funk, Indian classical, Indian folk/traditional, jazz, march, pathos, pop, psychedelia and rock and roll.
By virtue of this variety and his interfusion of Western, Indian folk and Carnatic elements, Ilaiyaraaja's compositions appeal to the Indian rural dweller for its rhythmic folk qualities, the Indian classical music enthusiast for the employment of Carnatic Ragas, and the urbanite for its modern, Western-music sound.[36] Ilaiyaraaja's sense of visualization for composing music is always to match up with the storyline of the running movie and possibly by doing so, he creates the best experience for the audience to feel the emotions flavored through his musical score. He mastered this art of blending music to the narration, which very few others managed to adapt themselves over a longer time.[6]
Although Ilaiyaraaja uses a range of complex compositional techniques, he often sketches out the basic melodic ideas for films in a very spontaneous fashion.[7][23] The Indian filmmaker Mani Ratnam illustrates:
Ilayaraja would look at the scene once, and immediately start giving notes to his assistants, as a bunch of musicians, hovering around him, would collect the notes for their instrument and go to their places. When the orchestra played out the notes, they would be perfect, not just in harmony but also in timing — the background score would commence exactly where it should and end at the exact place required. Ilayaraja is a genius, who could compose music with just one look at the scene.
Musical characteristics
Ilaiyaraaja's music is characterised by the use of an orchestration technique that is a synthesis of Western and Indian instruments and musical modes. He uses electronic music technology that integrates synthesizers, electric guitars and keyboards, drum machines, rhythm boxes and MIDI with large orchestras that feature traditional instruments such as the veena, venu, nadaswaram, dholak, mridangam and tabla as well as Western lead instruments such as saxophones and flutes.[7]
He uses catchy melodies fleshed out with a variety of chord progressions, beats and timbres. Ilaiyaraaja's songs typically have a musical form where vocal stanzas and choruses are interspersed with orchestral preludes and interludes. They often contain polyphonic melodies, where the lead vocals are interwoven with supporting melody lines sung by another voice or played by instruments./
The basslines in his songs tend to be melodically dynamic, rising and falling in a dramatic fashion. Polyrhythms are also apparent, particularly in songs with Indian folk or Carnatic influences. The melodic structure of his songs demand considerable vocal virtuosity, and have found expressive platform amongst some of India's respected vocalists and playback singers, such as S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. J. Yesudas, S. Janaki, Jayachandran, K. S. Chithra, Minmini, Jency, Swarnalatha, S. P. Sailaja, T. M. Soundararajan, P. Susheela, Sujatha, Malaysia Vasudevan, Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar, Hariharan, Udit Narayan, Sadhana Sargam and Shreya Ghoshal. Ilaiyaraaja has sung over 400 of his own compositions for films, and is recognisable by his stark, deep voice. He has penned the lyrics for some of his songs in Tamil and other languages.[37][38] Ilaiyaraaja's film scores are known both for the dramatic and evocative melodies, and for the more subtle background music that he uses to provide texture or mood for scenes in films such as Johnny (1980), Mouna Ragam (1986), Nayakan (1987), Geethanjali (1989), Guna (1991) Marupadiyum (1993).Notable works
Ilaiyaraaja's composition "Rakkama Kaiya Thattu", sung by SPB, Swarnalatha, Minmini in the movie Thalapathi (1991), was among the songs listed in a BBC World Top Ten music poll.[44] The soundtrack of My Dear Kuttichathan, the first stereoscopic 3D film made in India is composed by him. He composed the music for Nayagan (1987), an Indian film ranked by TIME Magazine as one of the all-time 100 best movies,[45] a number of India's official entries to the Oscars, such as Swathi Muthyam(1986),Nayagan(1987),Thevar Magan(1992), Anjali(1991), and Hey Ram (2000),[46] and for Indian art films such as Adoor Gopalakrishnan's FIPRESCI Prize-winning Nizhalkuthu ('The Shadow Kill') (2002).[47] Ilaiyaraaja has composed music for events such as the 1996 Miss World beauty pageant that was held in Bangalore, India, and for a documentary called India 24 Hours (1996).[48]
The Black Eyed Peas sampled the Ilaiyaraaja composition "Unakkum Ennakum" from Sri Raghavendra (1985), for the song "The Elephunk Theme" on Elephunk (2003).[49] The alternative artist M.I.A. sampled "Kaatukuyilu" from the film Thalapathi (1991) for her song "Bamboo Banga" on the album Kala (2007). As well, Gonjasufi sampled "Yeh Hawa Yeh Fiza" from the movie Sadma. His music compositions for the Hindi movie "Cheeni Kum" and Paa (3 December 2009) has won critical acclaim in several media reviews.
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Kochadaiiyaan (English: The king with a long, curly mane[5]) is an upcoming 2014 Indian Tamil motion capture 3D computer-animated period film directed by Soundarya R. Ashwin and written by K. S. Ravikumar. The film will feature Rajinikanth enacting and voicing three lead roles, whilst R. Sarathkumar, Aadhi, Deepika Padukone, Shobana, Rukmini Vijayakumar, Jackie Shroff, and Nassar enact and voice supporting characters. The film has cinematography handled by Rajiv Menon whilst background score and soundtrack is composed by A. R. Rahman.
Shooting for the film was completed by the end of February 2013 while post-production work took place in the United Kingdom, the United States, Hong Kong, and China.[3][6][7] The film is set to release worldwide on 9 May 2014 simultaneously in other languages, including Hindi, Telugu, Japanese, Bhojpuri, Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi, and English.[2][8]
Contents
1 Cast
2 Production
2.1 Development
2.2 Casting
2.3 Design
2.4 Filming
3 Music
3.1 Original soundtrack
3.2 Sound design
4 Marketing
5 Release
6 Sequel
7 References
8 External links
Cast
Rajinikanth as Kochadaiiyaan, Rana and Sena[9]
R. Sarathkumar as Sengodagan
Deepika Padukone as Princess Vadhana[10]
Shobana as Yaahavi
Aadhi as Veera Mahendra
Jackie Shroff as Raja Mahendra
Nassar as Rishikodagan
Rukmini Vijayakumar as Yamuna
Late actor Nagesh's likeness was also used in the film, by means of a 3D model, created using high-resolution images of him. Actors who sound like him were hired to voice his character while those who had a similar appearance to his, performed the character's performance capture scenes.[3]
Production
Development
"Animation is a word, a process. In India, people think animation is cartoon. Avatar was animation, but is not a cartoon. Tintin is completely cartoonistic. I am creating Rajinikanth, where he has actually performed, it's captured on a camera and then put into a 3D version. Avatar took seven years and so much budget and a James Cameron. There was always the insecurity of the unknown, but we have taken a road never taken in India and broken rules and have completed the film in just a year and a half."
— Soundarya on Kochadaiiyaan, in an interview with The Times of India[11]
After the release of Enthiran (2010), Rajinikanth approached K. S. Ravikumar to help complete an animation feature that Soundarya Rajinikanth had begun in 2007. The project titled Sultan: The Warrior had run into problems with it's production and Rajinikanth hoped that they could salvage the project by adding a historical back plot which would make the film partially animation and partially live action. K. S. Ravikumar then developed a story for fifteen days with his team of assistants and after being impressed by the script, Rajinikanth felt that Ravikumar's story should be a entirely separate film. Thus the team launched a venture titled Rana, to be dually-produced by Soundarya's Ocher Picture Productions and Eros Entertainment.[12] However, Rajinikanth became ill and was treated for dehydration and exhaustion at a hospital, resulting in postponement of Rana's filming.[13] On 23 November 2011, for her maiden directorial project, Soundarya tweeted through her Twitter account, notifying followers to watch out for an official announcement.[14] Following the delay, the team considered making Rana as an animation film but Rajinikanth was insistent that the film would be a live action film and prevented Ravikumar potentially discussing the script with Telugu actor Chiranjeevi. Film producer Murali Manohar then suggested that an animation film could potentially be a sequel to Rana and thus the team began work on Kochadaiiyaan. A tentatively scheduled release period of August 2012 was also announced.[15] The film was finalised to be a co-production of Eros Entertainment and Media One Global.[16] Soundarya further stated that Ravikumar had worked with her father and herself on the script of the film.[17] With regards to the film's title, Ravikumar claimed that it drew reference to an alternate name of Hindu deity Shiva, while also being partly inspired by the name of the Pandya Dynasty king Kochadaiyan Ranadhiran, and that the plot would be a fictional account with small references to Indian history.[18] The director clarified that Kochadaiiyaan was not related to the same-titled history series being published by the Tamil magazine Kumudam.[19] When rumors circulated that the temporarily shelved feature Rana was being remade as Kochadaiiyaan, Ravikumar denied theses rumors saying, "Kochadaiyaan has nothing to do with Ranadheeran or Rana." Latha Rajinikanth also clarified that the film would serve as a prequel to Rana.[20] In October 2013, the name of the film was changed from Kochadaiyaan to Kochadaiiyaan on Rajinikanth's request citing numerological reasons.[21]
Casting
For the female lead role, Anushka Shetty was initially approached,[22] but sources confirmed later that she was not part of the film.[23] It was then rumoured that Asin Thottumkal and Vidya Balan were being considered for the role, since producers preferred a Bollywood actress.[24] Soundarya approached Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif in January 2012,[25] who was not able to clear her schedule for the film and the team reapproached Balan.[26] Despite reports that Kaif was finalised,[27] Deepika Padukone, who was slated to pair with Rajinikanth in Rana, took up the offer in February 2012, marking her debut in Tamil cinema.[28] Padukone was paid a salary of INR3 crore (US$500,000) for shooting only for two days in the film.[29] According to Soundarya, she was "quite relieved to not be wearing make-up for a film for the first time in her career."[30] Although reports of November 2012 suggested that lead actress Deepika Padukone would dub her own voice for the Tamil version,[31] it was later announced that she would dub only for the Hindi version[32] as the dialogues required authentic Tamil pronunciations.[33] Hence, Savitha Reddy dubbed the voice for Padukone in the Tamil version.[34] In January 2014, it was revealed that dubbing artiste Mona Ghosh Shetty had dubbed Padukone's voice for the Hindi version,[35] because the actress was unavailable during the dubbing schedules.[33] Shetty had earlier dubbed for Padukone's debut in Om Shanti Om (2007).[35]
The film began to increase its casting profile after Malayalam actor Prithviraj was rumoured to have been signed to play an important role in the film.[36] The rumour was falsified following the inclusion of Aadhi, who was known for his lead-role performances in Mirugam and Eeram, in the cast; when he confirmed his presence in the project, he remarked that working with Rajinikanth was "a realisation of a dream that he has had since childhood".[37] Sneha was reported to be finalised for a supporting role,[38] with the actress confirming her presence in the film in December 2011.[39] She, however, opted-out a couple of months later citing conflicts in her schedule and Rukmini Vijayakumar was signed in her place.[40] R. Sarathkumar accepted Soundarya's offer for an important role in the film while veteran actor Nassar was recruited in the film as well for a supporting role.[27][41]
Furthermore, Shobana and Lakshmi Manchu were said to be considered for a role in the film.[42] Soundarya confirmed that the former was added to the cast saying that she was the "only choice for the role" as the character was written keeping her in mind.[43][44] Soundarya disclaimed the rumour that Aishwarya Rai was chosen to do a guest appearance in the film.[45] Bollywood actor Jackie Shroff was also approached for an antagonistic role.[46] Shroff immediately gave his consent, when the cast and the technical scope of Kochadaiiyaan were revealed to him.[47] Reports claimed that the film would feature late actors like Nagesh, P. S. Veerappa, M. N. Nambiar, S. A. Ashokan, and R. S. Manohar recreated through sophisticated animation techniques,[48] although it was later revealed that only Nagesh was recreated for the film. According to Soundarya, "The biggest triumph for Kochadaiiyaan was bringing back late comedy actor Nagesh to the screen."[3]
Peter Hein was chosen as the film's action choreographer,[49] while A. R. Rahman agreed to compose the film's background score and soundtrack.[50][51] Rajiv Menon was recruited as the film's cinematographer,[52] while Resul Pookutty was recruited as the sound engineer.[53] Soundarya chose Saroj Khan, Raju Sundaram, Chinni Prakash and his wife, and Shobi to choreograph the songs.[54] Soundarya invited art professionals to send their work as she was forming an art department for Kochadaiiyaan.[55] She chose 42 students from the Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai for the task, besides 50 experienced persons from the Jacob College of Fine Arts. 60 concept artistes were already reportedly working for the film.[56]
Design
National Award winning fashion designer Neeta Lulla worked on the looks of each character, including the lead role portrayed by Rajinikanth. According to Lulla, the project required a lot of research. Around 150 costumes per character were designed on paper and out of those, 25 costumes were selected and detailed. She also created a range of 20 to 30 looks especially for Rajinikanth's suit of armour as well as the supporting cast of Kochadaiiyaan. Lulla, along with the team working on the costumes, created the looks of all characters on sketch. They had worked for about eight months on the various characterisations of Rajinikanth and the supporting cast. According to her, "It was a different kind of design experience altogether"[57]
On Rajinikanth's looks, Soundarya quoted: "First, we scanned his face and made a 3D model to get the exact precision of his features, such as the scar on his nose. And then we corrected the 3D model by tightening his skin to make him look 25 years younger. They used that technology in the film Tron." The youthfulness of the look was compared to the looks that Rajinikanth carried in his film Muthu.[3] Soundarya also claimed that Rajinikanth's hairstyle in the film was inspired by his appearance in his earlier film, Thalapathi.[58]
Filming
Kochadaiiyaan (English: The king with a long, curly mane[5]) is an upcoming 2014 Indian Tamil motion capture 3D computer-animated period film directed by Soundarya R. Ashwin and written by K. S. Ravikumar. The film will feature Rajinikanth enacting and voicing three lead roles, whilst R. Sarathkumar, Aadhi, Deepika Padukone, Shobana, Rukmini Vijayakumar, Jackie Shroff, and Nassar enact and voice supporting characters. The film has cinematography handled by Rajiv Menon whilst background score and soundtrack is composed by A. R. Rahman.
Shooting for the film was completed by the end of February 2013 while post-production work took place in the United Kingdom, the United States, Hong Kong, and China.[3][6][7] The film is set to release worldwide on 9 May 2014 simultaneously in other languages, including Hindi, Telugu, Japanese, Bhojpuri, Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi, and English.[2][8]
Contents
1 Cast
2 Production
2.1 Development
2.2 Casting
2.3 Design
2.4 Filming
3 Music
3.1 Original soundtrack
3.2 Sound design
4 Marketing
5 Release
6 Sequel
7 References
8 External links
Cast
Rajinikanth as Kochadaiiyaan, Rana and Sena[9]
R. Sarathkumar as Sengodagan
Deepika Padukone as Princess Vadhana[10]
Shobana as Yaahavi
Aadhi as Veera Mahendra
Jackie Shroff as Raja Mahendra
Nassar as Rishikodagan
Rukmini Vijayakumar as Yamuna
Late actor Nagesh's likeness was also used in the film, by means of a 3D model, created using high-resolution images of him. Actors who sound like him were hired to voice his character while those who had a similar appearance to his, performed the character's performance capture scenes.[3]
Production
Development
"Animation is a word, a process. In India, people think animation is cartoon. Avatar was animation, but is not a cartoon. Tintin is completely cartoonistic. I am creating Rajinikanth, where he has actually performed, it's captured on a camera and then put into a 3D version. Avatar took seven years and so much budget and a James Cameron. There was always the insecurity of the unknown, but we have taken a road never taken in India and broken rules and have completed the film in just a year and a half."
— Soundarya on Kochadaiiyaan, in an interview with The Times of India[11]
After the release of Enthiran (2010), Rajinikanth approached K. S. Ravikumar to help complete an animation feature that Soundarya Rajinikanth had begun in 2007. The project titled Sultan: The Warrior had run into problems with it's production and Rajinikanth hoped that they could salvage the project by adding a historical back plot which would make the film partially animation and partially live action. K. S. Ravikumar then developed a story for fifteen days with his team of assistants and after being impressed by the script, Rajinikanth felt that Ravikumar's story should be a entirely separate film. Thus the team launched a venture titled Rana, to be dually-produced by Soundarya's Ocher Picture Productions and Eros Entertainment.[12] However, Rajinikanth became ill and was treated for dehydration and exhaustion at a hospital, resulting in postponement of Rana's filming.[13] On 23 November 2011, for her maiden directorial project, Soundarya tweeted through her Twitter account, notifying followers to watch out for an official announcement.[14] Following the delay, the team considered making Rana as an animation film but Rajinikanth was insistent that the film would be a live action film and prevented Ravikumar potentially discussing the script with Telugu actor Chiranjeevi. Film producer Murali Manohar then suggested that an animation film could potentially be a sequel to Rana and thus the team began work on Kochadaiiyaan. A tentatively scheduled release period of August 2012 was also announced.[15] The film was finalised to be a co-production of Eros Entertainment and Media One Global.[16] Soundarya further stated that Ravikumar had worked with her father and herself on the script of the film.[17] With regards to the film's title, Ravikumar claimed that it drew reference to an alternate name of Hindu deity Shiva, while also being partly inspired by the name of the Pandya Dynasty king Kochadaiyan Ranadhiran, and that the plot would be a fictional account with small references to Indian history.[18] The director clarified that Kochadaiiyaan was not related to the same-titled history series being published by the Tamil magazine Kumudam.[19] When rumors circulated that the temporarily shelved feature Rana was being remade as Kochadaiiyaan, Ravikumar denied theses rumors saying, "Kochadaiyaan has nothing to do with Ranadheeran or Rana." Latha Rajinikanth also clarified that the film would serve as a prequel to Rana.[20] In October 2013, the name of the film was changed from Kochadaiyaan to Kochadaiiyaan on Rajinikanth's request citing numerological reasons.[21]
Casting
For the female lead role, Anushka Shetty was initially approached,[22] but sources confirmed later that she was not part of the film.[23] It was then rumoured that Asin Thottumkal and Vidya Balan were being considered for the role, since producers preferred a Bollywood actress.[24] Soundarya approached Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif in January 2012,[25] who was not able to clear her schedule for the film and the team reapproached Balan.[26] Despite reports that Kaif was finalised,[27] Deepika Padukone, who was slated to pair with Rajinikanth in Rana, took up the offer in February 2012, marking her debut in Tamil cinema.[28] Padukone was paid a salary of INR3 crore (US$500,000) for shooting only for two days in the film.[29] According to Soundarya, she was "quite relieved to not be wearing make-up for a film for the first time in her career."[30] Although reports of November 2012 suggested that lead actress Deepika Padukone would dub her own voice for the Tamil version,[31] it was later announced that she would dub only for the Hindi version[32] as the dialogues required authentic Tamil pronunciations.[33] Hence, Savitha Reddy dubbed the voice for Padukone in the Tamil version.[34] In January 2014, it was revealed that dubbing artiste Mona Ghosh Shetty had dubbed Padukone's voice for the Hindi version,[35] because the actress was unavailable during the dubbing schedules.[33] Shetty had earlier dubbed for Padukone's debut in Om Shanti Om (2007).[35]
The film began to increase its casting profile after Malayalam actor Prithviraj was rumoured to have been signed to play an important role in the film.[36] The rumour was falsified following the inclusion of Aadhi, who was known for his lead-role performances in Mirugam and Eeram, in the cast; when he confirmed his presence in the project, he remarked that working with Rajinikanth was "a realisation of a dream that he has had since childhood".[37] Sneha was reported to be finalised for a supporting role,[38] with the actress confirming her presence in the film in December 2011.[39] She, however, opted-out a couple of months later citing conflicts in her schedule and Rukmini Vijayakumar was signed in her place.[40] R. Sarathkumar accepted Soundarya's offer for an important role in the film while veteran actor Nassar was recruited in the film as well for a supporting role.[27][41]
Furthermore, Shobana and Lakshmi Manchu were said to be considered for a role in the film.[42] Soundarya confirmed that the former was added to the cast saying that she was the "only choice for the role" as the character was written keeping her in mind.[43][44] Soundarya disclaimed the rumour that Aishwarya Rai was chosen to do a guest appearance in the film.[45] Bollywood actor Jackie Shroff was also approached for an antagonistic role.[46] Shroff immediately gave his consent, when the cast and the technical scope of Kochadaiiyaan were revealed to him.[47] Reports claimed that the film would feature late actors like Nagesh, P. S. Veerappa, M. N. Nambiar, S. A. Ashokan, and R. S. Manohar recreated through sophisticated animation techniques,[48] although it was later revealed that only Nagesh was recreated for the film. According to Soundarya, "The biggest triumph for Kochadaiiyaan was bringing back late comedy actor Nagesh to the screen."[3]
Peter Hein was chosen as the film's action choreographer,[49] while A. R. Rahman agreed to compose the film's background score and soundtrack.[50][51] Rajiv Menon was recruited as the film's cinematographer,[52] while Resul Pookutty was recruited as the sound engineer.[53] Soundarya chose Saroj Khan, Raju Sundaram, Chinni Prakash and his wife, and Shobi to choreograph the songs.[54] Soundarya invited art professionals to send their work as she was forming an art department for Kochadaiiyaan.[55] She chose 42 students from the Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai for the task, besides 50 experienced persons from the Jacob College of Fine Arts. 60 concept artistes were already reportedly working for the film.[56]
Design
National Award winning fashion designer Neeta Lulla worked on the looks of each character, including the lead role portrayed by Rajinikanth. According to Lulla, the project required a lot of research. Around 150 costumes per character were designed on paper and out of those, 25 costumes were selected and detailed. She also created a range of 20 to 30 looks especially for Rajinikanth's suit of armour as well as the supporting cast of Kochadaiiyaan. Lulla, along with the team working on the costumes, created the looks of all characters on sketch. They had worked for about eight months on the various characterisations of Rajinikanth and the supporting cast. According to her, "It was a different kind of design experience altogether"[57]
On Rajinikanth's looks, Soundarya quoted: "First, we scanned his face and made a 3D model to get the exact precision of his features, such as the scar on his nose. And then we corrected the 3D model by tightening his skin to make him look 25 years younger. They used that technology in the film Tron." The youthfulness of the look was compared to the looks that Rajinikanth carried in his film Muthu.[3] Soundarya also claimed that Rajinikanth's hairstyle in the film was inspired by his appearance in his earlier film, Thalapathi.[58]
Filming
A.P.J.ABDULKALAM - HERO of GREEN INDIA - A Golden Chance to meet him in 35th CHENNAI BOOK FAIR - 2012 - Golden moments in my life Journey - Thanks a lot to our honorable Great Scientist and ex-President KALAMJI and Thanks a lot to PAPASI to arrange this great event - Artist Anikartick,Chennai,Tamilnadu,India
Here I want to say something about me and my carreer...,
I studied my school time 7th Std to 10th Std in my Native place govt high school,then I finished my Higher secondary at Aundipatti Govt.Hr.Sec.School and I Finished my school studies I worked in Madurai as a Sign board Artist then I came to Chennai and I joined as a 2d Animation Trainee at Nest Communication,Valluvarkottam through my well wisher Mr.Nangaiappan and Preethi Paul ( Head of Nest Animation Studio ) and I developed my Anatomy Drawing skills through our Animation Head of Nest Animation Studios Mr.Siju Thomas Phoenix and One of my Best Friend MuthuKumarasamy.Later I developed my Animation skill through Millitoon Animations Studio - A Branch of Millimages,France,TIL Animation Studios in Chennai and DataQuest Animation Studio,Gameshastra in Hyderabad,Bluemoon studio,Aura Animation Studio,Shemanoor Animation Studio,I Power Animation Studio,Design works,Minveli Media works and Pyramid Animation Studio in Chennai.
In Animation Field I started my career as a In-between Artist,then Clean-up Artist,Asst.Animator,Animator, Animation Supervisor and Director from step by step.So now I am a Freelancing Animation Artist and Painter,Illustrator,Designer etc,
And Argentina Famous Animation Director and One of the Creator of Nickelodeon Animation Series Director and Supervisor Mr.Jaime Diaz appreciated my art and animation skill and he gave his one greeting card and he wrote on that 'A GREAT TALENT from TIL STUDIOS' and ALL THE BEST to KARTICK to me.And one more memorable is Skaramoose AAnimation Studios Creative People also appreciate my Animation level and Our Millitoon Team and Millimages team got BAFTA AWARDS for TV Serials and also Dataquest Animation Studio in Hyderabad,And our Team got National Award for SFX Visual Effects and Animations for ABHAY (ALAVANDAN Tamil and Hindi Version Movie}
So in my career Many of my friends and my teachers,parents and family members helped and helping till now to achieve my goals...Thanks a lot and I know this is not enough to them.So I dedicate my all works to them and also my Inspiration Artists of Famous Tamil Illustrators and Mr.Maruthi,Mr.Jayaraj,Mr.K.Madhavan,Mr.R.Natarajan,Mr.Gopulu,Mr.Ramu,M r.Maniam and his son Mr.Ma.Se.Mr.Silpi,Mr.Sivakumar (Popular Actor and Artist)Mr.Adhimoolam,Mr.Chandru,Mr.Trotsky Marudu,Mr.Chellam,Mr.Shyam,Mr.Shankar,Mr.Vinu,Mr.Latha,Mr.Umapathy,Mr. Madhan(cartoonist) Mr.Pathy,Mr.Maali,Mr.Karo,Mr.RaviVarma,Mr.Raju,Mr.KondalRaj,Mr.Murugak ani and my School drawing Master P.K.Kamatchi and my Father N.Alagarsamy and my elder Sisters R.Leelavathy,A.Dhanalaxmi,R.Rani,G.Dhavamani and my elder brother A.Jayachandran,A.Soundararajan and my friends Mr.S.Thangavel (T.Subbulapuram),V.Rajasekar and G.Paulpandi (Aundipatti) Mr.N.Tamilselvan,Mr.A.Sachithanandan,Mr.Naveen,Mr.SriKanta,Mr.G.Senthi lkumar,Mr.Suresh,Mr.Jay Kay,Mr.R.Anand,Mr.Saravanan and Mr.Muthu,Mr.Janakiraman,( Villivakkam,Chennai) Mr.Gudu,Mr.Sridhar and Mr.Paramasivam,Mr.Chandru and Mr.Balaji,Mr.Senthil,Mr.Munivel and Mr. Nithyanandan etc....etc and Also Art G of Madurai Mr.Venkatachalam my elder brother and his sons Mr.Ganesh,Mr.Senthil,Mr.Kumar and mr.Mani everyone is there in my way of Art life and I couldn't mention all here at this time and till now I learn a lot from lot of Inspiration Artists and great Artists through internet and books collections of our libraries..,
"Thanks a lot to all....!!!" - Artist Anikartick.BSc.Viscom ( Vasu engira Karthikeyan )
This picture was taken a couple of years ago when the TiE team visited Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
In my opinion, no Indian President accomplished as much during their term in office as President Kalam did. His speech below provides some evidence of that work.
The President's speech at the end of his term in office yesterday:
We can do it, says Kalam in last Prez speech (from rediff.com)
July 24, 2007 19:26 IST
After five eventful years in Rashtrapati Bhavan [Images], outgoing President A P J Abdul Kalam favours building of India as a developed nation where governance is responsive, transparent and corruption free.
In his farewell address to the nation, he said his mission in life would be to bring connectivity between billion hearts and minds of people in the multicultural society and to embed the self confidence that 'we can do it.'
"I will be always with you, dear citizens, in the great mission of making India a developed nation before 2020," 75-year old Kalam said.
Describing his tenure in Rashtrapati Bhavan as 'five beautiful and eventful years,' he said, "Today, it is indeed a thanks giving occasion."
The missile-scientist said that he 'enjoyed every minute' of his tenure with his "wonderful association" with people from different walks of life including politicians as also those associated with business, judiciary, academics, youth and special children.
While outlining a 10-point vision for turning India as a developed nation, the President said a developed India should have a divide between urban and rural population reduced to a think line and there should be equitable distribution and adequate access to energy and quality water.
"A nation where the governance is responsive, transparent and corruption free; a nation that is one of the best places to live in and is proud of its leadership," were among the 10 points listed by Kalam.
Kalam cautioned that in the pursuit of economic growth, care needs to do be taken for preserving the rich and diverse treasure of the culture and civilisation of the country.
"It is our duty for our future generations. This has to be done on a much larger scale through countrywide participation of multiple institutions," he said.
In his earlier speeches, he has contended that economic growth rate should be measured against poor becoming prosperous. He has come out with a National Prosperity Index whose three components were -- annual growth rate of GDP, improvement in quality of life of the people, particularly those living below the poverty line plus, and the adoption of a value system derived from the civilisational heritage in every walk of life that is unique to India.
Kalam, in his last speech as President, brought out various experiences and asked people to take resolve to work for realising the missions of developed India 2020.
The missile-man, whose popularity earned him a reputation of being a people's President, highlighted that eradication of poverty should be addressed to and envisaged a society free of illiteracy, crimes against women and children and no one felt alienated as important elements in taking India in the category of developed nations.
Stressing on a sustainable growth path for a prosperous, healthy, secure, peaceful and happy country, he said developed nation should be a best destination for the most talented scholars, scientists and investors.
The developed nation, according to Kalam, should also include ensuring health care to all, education with value system to the meritorious candidates irrespective of societal or economic stature and where agriculture, industry and service sector work together in symphony.
Sharing his experiences during his travel within the country and abroad, Kalam said empowering of over six lakh villages for development in the country and establishing nearly 7000 Providing Urban amenities in Rural Area centres across the country will help in bridging the rural and urban divide.
Kalam, as the Supreme Commander of Armed Forces of the country, did not forget to mention about the forces in his farewell address.
"Our defence forces are in a beautiful mission. When the nation sleeps during night, members of our defence teams are awake to guard us and remain vigilant to counter any threats."
Being the first Head of the State to undertake arduous defence adventures, Kalam recalled his visits to 'Kumar Point' at Siachen Glacier, underwater journey in Sindhurakshak submarine and taking a flight in Sukhoi-30 fighter jet.
"In these three experiences, I personally felt proud of our ever vigilant soldiers, sailors and air warriors performing their task beyond the call of their duty even in the most adverse circumstances -- natural or man made."
Kalam did not forget to mention the 100-million dollar pan-African E-Network Project, designed to help bridge the digital divide in Africa, a project considered as his brain child that was cleared by the Union Cabinet earlier this month as a parting gift.
As part of the project 12 universities -- seven from India and five from Africa, 17 super-specialty hospitals -- 12 from India, five from Africa, 53 tele-medicine centres and 53 tele-education centres in Africa will be connected. The project will use Indian expertise in IT, education and healthcare to deliver affordable distance education and tele-medical services in 53 countries across the continent via a network of satellite, fibre optics and wireless.
The President expressed happiness that Indian experience was beginning benefits of technology to the people in Africa to bring about societal transformation in the entire African continent.
While concluding his speech, Kalam said, "I was touched by the variety of Indian panorama, emotional content to the tune, cultural diversity and unity of minds in the vast land of ours."
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CARICATURES - Celebrities and Famous Personalities Caricatures - Pen drawings - Pencil drawings - Artist Anikartick,Chennai,TamilNadu,India
CARICATURES - Celebrities and Famous Personalities Caricatures - Pen drawings - Pencil drawings - Artist Anikartick,Chennai,TamilNadu,India
Kalam Memorial has been opened by Delhi Government on the rear side of Delhi Haat. The cherished belongings of 'People's President' APJ Abdul Kalam such as a rudra veena, spectacles, books, some clothes and research papers will be on display at the Kalam memorial
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PORTRAITS - Celebrities and famous Personalities Portraits - Pen drawings - Pencil drawings - Artist Anikartick,Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
CARICATURES - Celebrities and Famous Personalities Caricatures - Pen drawings - Pencil drawings - Artist Anikartick,Chennai,TamilNadu,India
CARICATURES - Celebrities and Famous Personalities Caricatures - Pen drawings - Pencil drawings - Artist Anikartick,Chennai,TamilNadu,India
CARICATURES - Celebrities and Famous Personalities Caricatures - Pen drawings - Pencil drawings - Artist Anikartick,Chennai,TamilNadu,India
CARICATURES - Celebrities and Famous Personalities Caricatures - Pen drawings - Pencil drawings - Artist Anikartick,Chennai,TamilNadu,India
CARICATURES - Celebrities and Famous Personalities Caricatures - Pen drawings - Pencil drawings - Artist Anikartick,Chennai,TamilNadu,India
PORTRAITS - Celebrities and famous Personalities Portraits - Pen drawings - Pencil drawings - Artist Anikartick,Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
CARICATURES - Celebrities and Famous Personalities Caricatures - Pen drawings - Pencil drawings - Artist Anikartick,Chennai,TamilNadu,India
PORTRAITS - Celebrities and famous Personalities Portraits - Pen drawings - Pencil drawings - Artist Anikartick,Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
PORTRAITS - Celebrities and famous Personalities Portraits - Pen drawings - Pencil drawings - Artist Anikartick,Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India