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Isabel II kale hartutako argazkia, atzean gaur egungo Madril hiribidea / Foto tomada la calle Isabel II, detrás la avenida de Madrid.
Colección AMARAUNA Bilduma
1984
Er. 858
Iturria / Fuente: Ana Irañeta
Informazio gehiago / Más información: Amarako Ernest Lluch Kultur Etxeko Liburutegia / Biblioteca del Centro Cultural Ernest Lluch de Amara (Donostia-San Sebastián).
B&W images lack color, causing viewers to focus on shapes and tones. As a result, B&W is an excellent choice for structures like the Interpretive Center and Walter Reed's Birthplace. Lens: 50.0 mm f/1.4. Camera: NIKON F5, Film: Kodak Professional Tri-X 400, Format: 35mm, Lab: Phototech Labs
Each time I use the Graflex Speed Graphic with the Kodak Aero Ektar lens, I am always so amazed on what I get. After a professional photo sitting Sunday afternoon, I threw in a pack of Fuji FP3000b and took some portraits. Here are results of that session.
Full Blog: lotophotos.com/aepolaroids/
Dice la tradición que las mujeres de la zona que no conseguían quedarse embarazadas, acudían hasta este morabito, situado en la Península de Guelaya, muy cerca de la aldea de Hidum y a pocos kilometros de Melilla, para pedir al Santo aquí enterrado, Sidi Amarán, que quedarse en cinta. Como ofrenda ataban trapos a las ramas de los árboles que circundan en morabo.
Hoy en día esta tradición se ha perdido.
"запрещена фотографировать"
"Disallowed Photography inside"
"tidak dibenarkan ambil gambar."
.amaran keras
Aku and Layla dgn senyap ambil semua gambar...
this is one of the best circus yg aku pernah pergi
Hidup Russian Circus
Best gila
10.5.2009
Atzean Zorroaga detrás.
Colección AMARAUNA Bilduma
197?
Er. 762
Iturria / Fuente: Asociación de Vecinos Amara Osinaga.
Informazio gehiago / Más información: Amarako Ernest Lluch Kultur Etxeko Liburutegia / Biblioteca del Centro Cultural Ernest Lluch de Amara (Donostia-San Sebastián).
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.
A very common orchid with delightful colours. Lighting done with an Aputure Amaran Halo Ring LED light for Nikon DSLR Camera. It`s Chinese, cheap and it does the job.
Colección AMARAUNA Bilduma
197?
Er. 63
Iturria / Fuente: Marisa Vázquez
Informazio gehiago / Más información: Amarako Ernest Lluch Kultur Etxeko Liburutegia / Biblioteca del Centro Cultural Ernest Lluch de Amara (Donostia-San Sebastián).
Shot with:
Canon P Rangefinder
Canon 50mm F1.4 LTM
Canon Auto-up 450
Shot at F4
Rollei Superpan 200 at ISO 250
Rollei Supergrain at 1:12 for 8 minutes at 68F
30 seconds initial agitation & 1 inversion every 30 seconds
TF-4 Fixer for 5 minutes
Scanned with:
Olympus EM5II in AP Mode
Minolta MC Macro Rokkor-QF 50mm f3.5 at f8
Minolta Slide Copier
Aputure Amaran Fi Led Light 8" from Copier
Colección AMARAUNA Bilduma
2000
Er. 48
Iturria / Fuente: Marisa Vázquez
Informazio gehiago / Más información: Amarako Ernest Lluch Kultur Etxeko Liburutegia / Biblioteca del Centro Cultural Ernest Lluch de Amara (Donostia-San Sebastián).
Amaran 2 Tamil Movie first look posters. Actor Karthik playing the lead role in this Amaran 2 movie.
Busy schedules and friends with plants in bloom. This orchid is already dying. Lighting done with an Aputure Amaran Halo Ring LED light for Nikon DSLR Camera. It`s Chinese, cheap and it does the job.
Had a ball today photographing the AMGEN Tour of California Prologue.
Lance Armstrong is riding again after retiring for a few years. Quite a feat considering his age, bouts with cancer and the highly competive nature of the sport. Adding a little more drama this year. Check out the crowds reaction to him here. www.flickr.com/photos/casch/3279909149/
DxO One (Super RAW)
f/1.8 @ ISO 1000 @ 1/125th s
Handheld in standalone mode
Amaran Aputure AL-MP LED light
Kenko AC +5 Close up lens
Processed in DxO Optics Pro v11
Dari kiri ke kanan:
1 - Mula memusing mana-mana budak yang berdekatan (dalam kes di atas, anak buah aku);
2 - Putarkan sebanyak 360 darjah. Kejauhan lontaran akan bergantung kepada berapa banyak π yang berjaya dilengkapkan;
3 - Anda akan rasa pening lalat ketika berjalan sesudah itu. Kepeningan turut berkadar langsung dengan bilangan π.
AMARAN: Pastikan daya emparan tidak melebihi 1G kalau tak mahu tangan budak tu tercabut!
Anoeta estadioa eta ingurua elurtuta / El estadio de Anoeta y alrededores nevado
Colección AMARAUNA Bilduma
2009
Er. 57
Iturria / Fuente: Marisa Vázquez
Informazio gehiago / Más información: Amarako Ernest Lluch Kultur Etxeko Liburutegia / Biblioteca del Centro Cultural Ernest Lluch de Amara (Donostia-San Sebastián).
A very common orchid with delightful colours. Lighting done with an Aputure Amaran Halo Ring LED light for Nikon DSLR Camera. It`s Chinese, cheap and it does the job.
Amaran 2 Tamil Movie first look posters. Actor Karthik playing the lead role in this Amaran 2 movie.
Had a ball today photographing the AMGEN Tour of California Prologue.
Lance Armstrong is riding again after retiring for a few years. Quite a feat considering his age, bouts with cancer and the highly competive nature of the sport. Adding a little more drama this year. Check out the crowds reaction to him here. www.flickr.com/photos/casch/3279909149/
Keranamu sahabat,aku berubah....
Jika dulu aku seorang yang lalai dalam mengerjakan suruhan ALLAH, kini tak lagi.
Aku dahulukan suruhan Allah,sedikit demi sedikit aku jauhi kemungkaranNYA.
Ini bukanlah bermakna aku seorang yang suka melanggar perintah ALLAH,cuma aku seorang yang jahil,suka melengah-lengahkan waktu solat.Dalam sehari ,solatku x mencukupi 5 waktu,hanya 1 atau 2 waktu aje. Aku bukanlah seorang yang suka berpeleseran ataupun suka merayau ke sana sini. Kehidupan aku hanyalah di rumah dan di sekolah aje. Pagi berada di sekolah manakala petang berada di rumah. Begitu juga bila musim cuti sekolah menjelang,rumahlah tempatku beristirehat. Pendek kata kebanyakkan masaku dihabiskan di rumah. Rumahku Syurgaku.
Keranamu sahabat,aku berubah.....
Jika dulu aku seorang yang bahagia dengan kehidupan dunia,kini tak lagi.
Sebab ku tahu bahagia di dunia hanya sementara,akhirat jua kekal abadi.Kini kebahagiaan akhirat yang ku kejar,sedikit demi sedikit ku tinggalkan keseronokkan duniawi. Syurga ALLAH menjadi matlamatku kini.Solatku mencukupi 5 waktu sehari semalam dan disamping itu,aku alunkan irama merdu dari AL-QURAN setiap hari. Terasa damainya hati,ketenangan milikku jua. Dulu aku bahagia,kini aku lebih bahagia kerana hatiku telah ke serahkan kepada ALLAH. Cintaku kepadaNYA melebihi cintaku kepada diriku sendiri.Nikmatnya jatuh cinta kepada PENCIPTA,tiada tandingannya.
Keranamu sahabat,aku berubah.....
Jika dulu aku seorang yang gembira dengan apa yang aku miliki,kini tak lagi.
Sebab ku tahu gembira di dunia takakan membawaku kemana-mana,aku mahu gembiraku membawa diriku hingga ke syurga ALLAH. Aku sebagai insan biasa, serba kekurangan,ku sedar semua itu. Aku terlalu hina di sisiNYA. Seringkali ku alpa dengan nikmat dunia, aku tak mampu jadi yang terbaik..Aku menangisi hidupku yang sia-sia selama ini.Aku terlalu leka dengan nikmat dunia,sehingga ku terlupa pada kekasihku yang satu.Tapi DIA tak pernah buangkan aku jauh dari sisiNYA. DIA tetap sayangkan aku sebagai hambaNYA.
Keranamu sahabat,aku berubah....
Terima kasih sahabat, keranamu aku berubah. Sahabat yang sentiasa memberi peringatan padaku tentang solat. Solat yang wajib di tunaikan dengan segera.Sahabat yang se ntiasa mengingatkan aku dengan amaran-amaran ALLAH.Sahabat yang sentiasa memberi nasihat untukku tanpa jemu-jemu. Sahabat yang sabar melayani kerenahku.Moga ikatan ukhwah antara kita berkekalan sepanjang hayat
UNTUKMU SAHABAT..
Ya Allah,
Kau berkatilah ukhwahfillah kami....
Kami hanya insan-insan kerdil yang menumpang buat sementara di atas muka bumi ini..
DariMu kami datang dan dariMu jualah kami kembali...
Ya Allah,
Ukhwahfillah yang kami bina ini...
Adalah dengan izinMu...
Andai ada di antara kami yang terpesong....
Maka kembalikanlah kami ke jalan kebenaran...
Dan jalan yang Engkau redhai.....
Ya Allah,
Engkau titipkanlah dalam hati kami...
Sifat saling hormat-menghormati...
Saling sayang-menyayangi....
Saling kasih-mengasihi....
Agar ikatan ukhwahfillah ini...
Tidak akan terlerai....
Biarkan ianya tersimpul.....
Ya Allah,
Hanya takdirMu yang akan...
Memisahkan ikatan ukhwafillah....
Yang kami bina ini...
Andai itu telah tersurat...
Kami pasrah.....ya Allah
AMIN YA RABBAL 'ALAMIN.
Sahabat....
Seandainya hatimu terluka dan tercalar keranaku.......
Ampun dan maaf ku pohon........
Sahabat......
Terima kasih kuucapkan.....
Kerana memilihku sebagai salah seorang sahabatmu......
Kerana sudi luangkan masamu bersamaku......
Kerana sudi menjadi pendengar setiaku.....
Kerana sudi berkongsi suka dan duka denganku.....
Kerana sudi melayan setiap kerenahku....
Yang entah apa-apa.....
sahabat.....
Ketahuilah olehmu.....
Kau adalah di antara insan.....
Yang paling ku sayangi dan ku rindui.....
Hilangmu tak mungkin ada penggantinya.....
Sahabat.....
Sepimu tanpa sebarang berita.....
Membuatku tertanya-tanya.....
Apakah salahku kepadamu.....
Ku sedar siapa diri ini.....
Insan yang tak punya apa-apa....
Insan yang serba kekurangan.....
Sahabat.....
Seandainya takdir memisahkan kita.....
Ku pasrah segalanya.....
Andai itu telah tersurat.....
Maafkan aku wahai sahabat.....
Sesungguhnya aku amat menyayangi dan merinduimu.....
Kini dan selamanya.....
Sahabat.....
Doa dariku sentiasa mengiringi setiap langkahmu....
Dalam mengharungi liku-liku perjalanan hidup....
Moga kau beroleh kebahagiaan....
www.iluvislam.com/tazkirah/nasihat/2600-terima-kasih-saha...
Each time I use the Graflex Speed Graphic with the Kodak Aero Ektar lens, I am always so amazed on what I get. After a professional photo sitting Sunday afternoon, I threw in a pack of Fuji FP3000b and took some portraits. Here are results of that session.
Full Blog: lotophotos.com/aepolaroids/
I just need to solder ~80 of those LEDs together, and connect that to the control unit of my Aputure Amaran Halo ahl-hc100 LED ring flash.
Madrid hiribidea elurtuta / La avenida de Madrid nevado
Colección AMARAUNA Bilduma
2009
Er. 68
Iturria / Fuente: Marisa Vázquez
Informazio gehiago / Más información: Amarako Ernest Lluch Kultur Etxeko Liburutegia / Biblioteca del Centro Cultural Ernest Lluch de Amara (Donostia-San Sebastián).
Colección AMARAuna Bilduma
2006
Er. 487
Iturria / Fuente: ARCCO Merkataritza Zentroa / ARCCO Centro Comercial
Informazio gehiago / Más información: Amarako Ernest Lluch Kultur Etxeko Liburutegia / Biblioteca del Centro Cultural Ernest Lluch de Amara (Donostia-San Sebastián).
Dynamic range is the ability of film to record detail in the brightest highlights and the darkest shadows. Black & White film offers a higher dynamic range than digital. This image is a good example. Not only was I able to capture detail in the distant highlights, but I also captured detail in the shadows under the tree. Since the dynamic range is higher, film also has a greater exposure latitude. Film is more forgiving when under or over-exposed. Lens: 50.0 mm f/1.4. Camera: NIKON F5, Film: Kodak Professional Tri-X 400, Format: 35mm, Lab:Phototech Labs
Watch Enga Ooru Pattukaran (1987) Tamil Full Length Movie Online | Ramarajan, Rekha, Shantipriya | Ilaiyaraaja Enga Ooru Pattukaran tamil full movie starring Ramarajan, Rekha, Shantipriya, Senthamarai, Vinu Chakravarthy, M. N. Nambiar, Senthil, Kovai Sarala, S. S. Chandran, Venniradai Moorthy and others. Directed by Gangai Amaran. Produced by Kalyani Murugan. Music composed by Ilaiyaraaja. Hi Thaliva TV Viewers, a entertainment channel you can watch latest Tamil Movies, latest Tamil songs, latest Official trailers, and all genre like funny & comedy scenes, romantic scenes, love scenes, action scenes And More. For more Updates Subscribe to us: goo.gl/JXT9cg
Had a ball today photographing the AMGEN Tour of California Prologue.
Lance Armstrong is riding again after retiring for a few years. Quite a feat considering his age, bouts with cancer and the highly competive nature of the sport. Adding a little more drama this year. Check out the crowds reaction to him here. www.flickr.com/photos/casch/3279909149/
KARTHIK Actor Portrait by Artist Anikartick,Chennai,India
Murali Karthikeyan Muthuraman (born 13 September 1960), better known by his screen name Karthik, is a Indian film actor, playback singer and politician. He is the son of veteran actor R. Muthuraman. He was first introduced by Bharathiraja in the film Alaigal Oivathillai. He has primarily appeared in lead roles in Tamil films.
Karthik won four Filmfare Award for Best Actor - Tamil and one Filmfare Award for Best Actor - Telugu. He is also the recipient of Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and a Nandi Award. Former Chief Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Leader "Kalaignar Karunanidhi" on an occasion of 100th day film celebration of "Unnidathil Ennai Koduthen" praised the actor's talents and commented that the actor has enormous skills, however the film fraternity should have used the actor in better ways to extract much of his talent. The actor's career has many super hits and long-lasting movies. The actor has great numbers of fan following around South India. T.S.B.K Moulee, an Indian stage and film actor once said in an Interview Actor Karthik has a unique style of acting and a very humble, down to earth simple personality.
Contents
1 Early life and background
2 Film career
3 Political career
3.1 2011 Assembly elections
4 Awards
5 Personal life
6 Filmography
6.1 As actor
6.2 As singer
7 References
8 External links
Early life and background
Karthik was born in Chennai to R. Muthuraman, a popular Tamil actor. He is the fourth child to "Navarasa Thilagam" R.Muthuraman. He studied in St. Bede's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Chennai and at New College, Chennai and received a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Film career
Karthik was first introduced by Bharathiraja in the film Alaigal Oivathillai. He received the Best New Face Award from the Tamil Nadu Government in 1980. His film "Vanna Kanavugal" was a super hit at the box office and K.Balachander praised his performance in the film.He collaborated with leading film directors like Maniratnam, Balachandar, Bharathiraja, Visu, R.Sundarrajan, Ameerjan, R.V.Udayakumar, Priyadarshan, Fazil, Vikraman, Agathiyan, Sundar.C, KS.Ravikumar P.Vasu and k.v.anand.
He is a celebrated actor of Tamil Nadu and was awarded the title "Navarasa Nayagan" (multi-talented). He is popular with the audience for sense of humor and was involved with several small comedy scenes in most of his movies. His cameo in Mouna Ragam was very well received by the audience. During his later years, he formed a partnership with Goundamani in many comedy movies. His pairing with Rambha was a hit with audience as the pair provided good hits in the nineties.
Noteworthy performances include Alaigal Oivathillai, Vanna Kanavugal, DharmaPathini, Naallavanukku Nallavan, Mouna Raagam, Oomai Vizhigal, En Jeevan Paduthu, Agni Natchathiram, Varsham 16, Kizhakku Vaasal, Ponnumani, Nadodi Thendral, Ullathai Allitha, Mettukudi, Gokulathil Seethai, Unnidathil Ennai Koduthen, Pooveli, Ananda Poongatre.
In 2009, Karthik signed on to play a supporting role in Mani Ratnam's Raavanan, thus making a comeback in Tamil cinema. His first release of the innings was however in Maanja Velu, in which he played a police officer alongside Arun Vijay, though the film became a financial failure. He received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Gnanapragasam in Raavanan featuring Vikram, Aishwarya Rai and Prithviraj. He also went on to feature in a supporting role in Puli Vesham directed by P. Vasu, although the film went largely unnoticed.
Political career
Karthik entered politics ahead of the 2006 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election. He joined the All India Forward Bloc, and was appointed as the Secretary of the Tamil Nadu state unit of the party. He led the party during its electoral campaign on 24 September 2006. He later started his own party Ahila India Naadalum Makkal Katchi in 2009 before the Lok Sabha Elections. He contested from Virudhunagar constituency. Allegedly he never campaigned and was routed in the election.
2011 Assembly elections
His party tried alliance with AIADMK for the 2011 Assembly elections[1] but AIADMK supremo denied tickets for his party. Karthik announced his party will contest alone in 25 to 40 seats after it was not alloted any seat in the AIADMK coalition.[2][3] Karthik sat on a fast in Madurai demanding Madurai Airport be renamed as Pasumpon Thevar Airport.[4][5] His party with sizeable Thevar votes in southern Tamil Nadu is believed to eat into the AIADMK votebank. In 2006, former AIADMK minister Nainar Nagendran lost by 2,000 votes in Tirunelveli, where Karthik's party polled more than the margin. Two weeks later he split from ADMK and announced his party will contest independently in 19 constituencies and support DMK in 213 constituencies.[6]
Awards
Filmfare Awards South
1988 – Filmfare Award for Best Actor - Telugu for Abhinandana
1989 – Filmfare Award for Best Actor - Tamil for Agni Natchathiram
1990 – Filmfare Award for Best Actor - Tamil for Varusham Padhinaaru
1991 – Filmfare Award for Best Actor - Tamil for Kizhakku Vasal
1994 – Filmfare Award for Best Actor - Tamil for Ponnumani
Tamil Nadu State Film Awards
1981 – Best Male Debut Award for Alaigal Oivathillai
1988 – Special Prize for Best Actor for Agni Natchathiram
1990 – Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actor for Kizhakku Vasal
1998 – Special Prize for Best Actor for Pooveli and Unnidathil Ennai Koduthen
Kalaimamani
Cinema Express Awards
1998 – Cinema Express Award for Best Actor – Tamil for Unnidathil Ennai Koduthen
Nandi Awards
1988 – Nandi Special Jury Award for Abhinandana
Personal life
Karthik is a bigamist, married to sisters Ragini and Rathi. Ragini was his co-star in the film Solai Kuyil. He has three sons Gautham & Ghayn (through his marriage with Ragini) and Thiran (through his second marriage with Rathi).[7][8] His eldest son Gautham has entered the Tamil film industry by starring in the movie Kadal directed by Mani Ratnam.[9][10][11]
Filmography
As actor
Year Film Role Language Notess
1981 Alaigal Oivathillai Vichu Tamil Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Male Debut
Seethakoka Chiluka Raghu Telugu Remake of Alaigal Oivathillai
1982 Ninaivellam Nithya Tamil
Valibamey Vaa Vaa Tamil
Ilanjodigal Tamil
Kanney Raadha Tamil
Kelviyum Naane Pathilum Naane Nirmal, Babu Tamil
Neram Vandhachu Tamil
Pakathu Veettu Roja Tamil
Thai Moogambigai Tamil
Agaya Gangai Tamil
Adhisaya Piravigal Tamil
1983 Ayiram Nilave Vaa Tamil
Bhagavathipuram Railway Gate Tamil
Dhooram Adhigamillai Tamil
Marupatta Konangal Tamil
Oru Kai Pappom Tamil
Aboorva Sagodarigal Tamil
1984 Nallavanuku Nallavan Vinod Tamil
Veera Bhadrudu Telugu Remake of Kozhi Koovudhu
Nandri Tamil
Raja Thanthiram Tamil
Ninaivugal Tamil
Puyal Kadantha Bhoomi Tamil
1985 Anveshana Amar Telugu Dubbed in Tamil as Paadum Paravaigal
Puthiya Sagaptham Deepak Tamil Guest appearance
Aval Sumangalithan Bhaskaran Tamil
Nalla Thambi Raju Tamil
Viswanathan Velaivendum Tamil
Mookanankayiru Tamil
Arthamulla Aasaigal Tamil
Kettimelam Tamil
1986 Punyastri Telugu
Natpu Tamil
Mouna Raagam Manohar Tamil
Oomai Vizhigal Ramesh Tamil Guest appearance
Dharma Pathini Tamil
Thodarum Uravu Tamil
1987 Vanna Kanavugal Kannapan Tamil
Enga Veettu Ramayanan Tamil
Nalla Pambu Tamil
Ore Ratham Tamil
Thaye Neeye Thunai Tamil
Thoorathu Patchai Tamil
Velicham Tamil
Paadu Nilave Tamil
Kavalan Avan Kovalan Tamil
Parisam Pottachu Tamil
Raja Mariyathai Tamil
1988 Agni Natchathiram Ashok Tamil Filmfare Award for Best Actor - Tamil
Tamil Nadu State Film Award Special Prize for Best Actor
Abhinandana Raja Telugu Nandi Special Jury Award
Filmfare Award for Best Actor - Telugu
En Jeevan Paduthu Surendran Tamil
Kalicharan Tamil
Kan Simittum Neram Raja, Kannan Tamil
Urimai Geetham Chandru Tamil
1989 Thiruppu Munai Rajaram, Vanchinathan Tamil
Varusham Padhinaaru Kannan Tamil Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil
Gopalrao Gari Abbayi Telugu Dubbed in Tamil as Kaadhal Oivathillai
Solaikuyil Tamil
Paandi Nattu Thangam Thangapandian Tamil
Sattathin Thirappu Vizha Tamil
Rettai Kuzhal Thuppakki Tamil
1990 Idhaya Thamarai Vijay Tamil
Mr. Karthick Tamil
Unnai Solli Kutramillai Balu Tamil
Kalyana Rasi Tamil
Periya Veetu Pannakkaran Tamil
Kizhakku Vasal Ponnurangam Tamil Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil
Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actor
Engal Swamy Ayyappan Tamil Guest appearance
Ethir Kaatru Ram Narendran Tamil
1991 Gopura Vasalile Manohar Tamil
Vigneshwar Vigneshwar Tamil
Irumbu Pookkal Dharma Tamil
Vanakkam Vathiyare Tamil
1992 Amaran Amaran Tamil
Unna Nenachen Pattu Padichen Muthurasu Tamil
Nadodi Thendral Tangaraasu Tamil
Nadodi Paatukkaaran Tamil
Idhu Namma Bhoomi Gopi Tamil
Suyamariyadhai Vijay Tamil
Deiva Vaakku Thambi Durai Tamil
1993 Chinna Kannamma Aravind Tamil
Ponnumani Ponnumani Tamil Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil
Chinna Jameen Raasaiyya Tamil
Kathirukka Neramillai Raju, Somasekhar Tamil
1994 Ilaignar Ani Tamil
Seeman Tamil
Maga Rayudu Telugu Dubbed in Tamil as Mr. Maharani
1995 Muthu Kaalai Muthu Kaalai Tamil
Lucky Man Gopi Tamil
Nandhavana Theru Seenu Tamil
Marumagan Thangarasu Tamil
Chakravarthy Chakravarthy Tamil
Thotta Chinungi Mano Tamil
1996 Kizhakku Mugam Venu Tamil
Ullathai Allitha Raja Tamil
Katta Panchayathu Tamil
Poovarasan Poovarasan Tamil
Mettukudi Raja Tamil
Gokulathil Seethai Rishi Tamil
1997 Sishya Tamil
Pistha Manikandan Tamil
1998 Udhavikku Varalaamaa Muthurasu Tamil
Sundara Pandian Pandi, Sundar Tamil
Harichandra Harichandra Tamil
Unnidathil Ennai Koduthen Selvam Tamil Cinema Express Award for Best Actor – Tamil
Tamil Nadu State Film Award Special Prize for Best Actor
Pooveli Murali Tamil Tamil Nadu State Film Award Special Prize for Best Actor
1999 Chinna Raja Raja, Dilip Tamil
Nilave Mugam Kaattu Murthy Tamil
Anandha Poongatre Haridas Tamil Guest appearance
Suyamvaram Ram Kumar Tamil
Rojavanam Muthu Tamil
Unakkaga Ellam Unakkaga Sakthivelu Tamil
2000 Thai Poranthachu Aravind Tamil Guest appearance
Sandhitha Velai Aadalarasu, Thirunaavukkarasu Tamil
Kannan Varuvaan Kannan Tamil
Kuberan Tamil
Seenu Seenu Tamil
2001 Ullam Kollai Poguthae Gautham Tamil Guest appearance
Lovely Chandru Tamil
Azhagana Naatkal Chandru Tamil
2002 Devan Chakravarthy Tamil
Game Tamil
2003 Indru Gauthaman Tamil
2006 Kusthi Singam Tamil
2007 Kalakkura Chandru Chandru Tamil
2010 Maanja Velu Subash Chandra Bose Tamil
Raavanan Gyanaprakasam Tamil
2011 Puli Vesham Easwaran Moorthy Tamil
2013 Om 3D Harischandra Prasad Telugu
2014 Anegan Tamil Filming
As singer
Year Film Song Music director Notes
1991 Suya Mariyathai "Vanmedu Megham" Shivajiraaja
1992 Amaran "Vethalai Potta Sokkula"
"Musthafa" Adithyan
1993 Chinna Jameen "Onappu Thattu" Ilayaraja
1997 Sishya "Abpallo Abpallo" Deva
1997 Pistha "Kozhi curry kondu varatta" S. A. Rajkumar
1998 Pooveli "Kathai Sollapporaen" Bharathwaj
1998 Harichandra "Harichandran " Anand, Gopal, Shaleen