#shruti subramaniam

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It makes me so happy that Devi finally ended up joining the long list of Tamil heroines who did dance numbers at weddings. I've included a few in this post.

Shaila Banu in Bombay (1995)

Neelambari in Padayappa (1999) [I know she's not the heroine, but how can one not include the iconic Neelambari in this list?]

Shakthi in Alai Payuthey (2000)

Shruti in Ahaa Kalyanam (2014)

Devi (and Kamala) in Never Have I Ever (2023)

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Shruti Haasan and Mithun Chakraborty shine in this unsurprising thriller- Cinema express

Shruti Haasan and Mithun Chakraborty shine in this unsurprising thriller- Cinema express

A twist every minute, a surprise thrown at every turn — that is not what Shruti Haasan’s Bestseller thrives on. Billed as a psychological thriller, this Amazon Prime Video original is based on the book The Bestseller She Wrote authored by Ravi Subramaniam. It begins with a fan’s obsession for her favourite author and delves deeper into a story that offers insight into the psyche of a purely…

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HOLI Celebration - A Closure

Hello Spandhana,

Dear Dear Dear Spandhana 🤗,

Don't have enough words to thank you for your spirit, participation, enthusiasm, encouragement, tolerance(of our shortcomings), and cooperation(specially the residents close to the amphitheater and park, wrt light and sound). 🙏🏻

We thank each one of you for making the 3-day event successful.

Wish to specifically mention a few names here:

1. Our **Core Organizing team** comprising Asma, Alamelu, Minal, Shruti, Mansi, Mira, Paromita. Enjoyed long & heated planning meetings with them. 🤗

2. Our **Extended organizing team** comprising Priyadarshini(proved distance matters not), Neha Aggarwal, Poonam, Arundhuti, Vidya, Geetanjali, Sreemoti, Nitasha. 🤗

3. Our **Elders** for their support and participation. Sukanya Mohan Madam's science quest was a hit. Her and Subramaniam Sir's suggestions for elders games helped a lot. Mathur uncle brought the breeze of Golden Era on stage. 🙏🏻

4. Our menfolk who backed us throughout the time we planned and executed:

(i) **Rahul Shridhar** for his help with Flea market & music arrangements, all-round support, involvement and guidance throughout. He spent long hours discussing with the Flea & music folks with us.

(ii) **Piyush Sharma** for his constant guidance, getting sponsorships, getting the amazing instrumental ensemble on-board, and tireless presence on ground, handling issues, supporting us in every aspect.

(iii) **Pinaki Ghosh** for getting sponsorships, always coming to our rescue even in early & late hours, for guiding us through financials and supporting throughout.

(iv) **Rohit Mahajan** for his help with the tent house, and Arun cook, sports, and constant presence on ground with his ever ready smile, help with backstage and support throughout.

(v) **Nitin Agrawal** for his support & tips, and photography, and ensuring I get my plate of chicken alright 😄.

(vi) **Shailesh, Ashutosh, Madhukar** for their support and help with the logistics.

(vii) **Harish** for his support and help with the Bullock Cart ride.

(viii) **Gagan Aggarwal** for his help and support. He saw to it that the famished organizers get their momos🤩.

5. **Geeta and Lokesh** for the rocking spinning band performance. Lokesh, your singing left us all spellbound. Your band is equally amazing. ��🏼👌🏻

6. Our brilliant **Teens & Children** for their participation, painting deco, and enthusiastic performances in science quest, artwork, on tabla, dance, rap.

7. Vijay and ALL our participating men, women and children.

8. Last but not the least ever, our Support Staff in office, in security and on the ground. We attempted to thank them with a Holi sweet box, they are so so invaluable, cant thank enough.

It was our humble attempt to bring the community together across gender, age groups, faith & language.

We tried to have something for every taste too, from food to stalls to activities to the cultural evening.

We fixed the shortcoming we saw in our last programme on 19th Dec, 2021. Noticed few new ones, will address them too going forward.

We did not arrange for a professional photographer as we have faith in Spandhanites' photography abilities.

So, please send us all the photos and videos you took. You may put them in a google drive or send individually to us via Whatsapp or email to __**spandhanakaleidoscope@gmail.com**__ .

Have a restful Sunday All. Stay happy and safe.

au revoir till our next event. 😊🙏🏻

-Piali

On behalf of Holi Event Organizing team

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Amazon Prime Video today announced a brand new slate of 9 highly-anticipated movies that will premiere directly on the streaming service. The movies will premiere exclusively on Prime Video within 2020 and will be available in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.

Spanning five Indian languages, the diverse line-up features titles such as:

Halal Love Story (Malayalam) on October 15

Halal Love Story is an upcoming Malayalam comedy film directed by Zakariya Mohammed and stars Indrajith Sukumaran, Joju George, Sharaf U Dheen, Grace Antony and Soubin Shahir in lead roles along with Parvathy Thiruvothu.

Bheema Sena Nalamaharaja (Kannada) on October 29

Bheema is an upcoming Kannada family entertainer directed by Karthik Saragur. The movie stars Aravinnd Iyer, Aarohi Narayan, Priyanka Thimmesh, Achyuth Kumar and Aadya in leading roles.

Soorarai Pottru (Tamil) on October 30

Soorarai Pottru is an upcoming Tamil language Action/Drama film directed by Sudha Kongara, starring Suriya in the lead with Aparna Balamurali, Paresh Rawal and Mohan Babu in pivotal roles. The film is produced by Suriya’s 2D Entertainment and Co-Produced by Guneet Monga’s Sikhya Entertainment. This film is a fictionalised version of the book “Simply Fly” written on the life of Air Deccan founder Capt. G. R. Gopinath.

Chhalaang (Hindi) on November 13

Chhalaang is an inspirational social comedy starring Rajkummar Rao, Nushratt Baruchaa and directed by Hansal Mehta. It is presented by Bhushan Kumar and produced by Ajay Devgn, Luv Ranjan and Ankur Garg.

Manne Number 13 (Kannada) on November 19

Maane Number 13 is an upcoming horror thriller directed by Vivy Kathiresan. Produced by Krishna Chaitanya’s Sri Swarnalatha Productions, the film stars Varsha Bollamma, Aiswarya Gowda, Praveen Prem, Chetan Gandharva, Ramana and Sanjeiv.

Middle Class Melodies (Telugu) on November 20

Starring Anand Deverakonda and Varsha Bollamma, Middle class Melodies is a humour packed whimsical tale depicting the congenial lives of the middle class in a village where a young man dreams of owning a hotel in a town. The film is directed by Vinod Anantoju.

Durgavati (Hindi) on December 11

Directed by Ashok and starring Bhumi Pednekar, Durgavati is a thrilling, scary ride that tells the story of an innocent Government officer who is made the victim of a major conspiracy involving powerful forces. The film is presented by T-Series and Cape of Good Films and is an Abundantia Entertainment production.

Maara (Tamil) on December 17

Maara is an upcoming Tamil language romantic drama film directed by Dhilip Kumar. Produced by Prateek Chakravorty and Shruti Nallappa of Pramod Films. The film stars Madhavan and Shraddha Srinath in lead roles.

Coolie No. 1 (Hindi) December 25

Coolie No. 1 is a family comedy based on the popular franchise from Pooja Entertainment and is directed by the king of comedy David Dhawan. The film stars Varun Dhawan, Sara Ali Khan, Paresh Rawal, Javed Jaffrey, Johnny Lever, Rajpal Yadav amongst others and is produced  by Vashu Bhagnani, Jackky Bhagnani and Deepshikha Deshmukh.

 “Gripping content transcends geographical boundaries. The audience is always on the look-out for great entertainment, and good content will always find an audience. The resounding success of our first wave of direct-to-service movie premieres is a testament to that. This further reinforces our commitment to offering our customers a selection of riveting movies, cinematically produced, across a wide range of genres and languages,” Vijay Subramaniam, Director and Head, Content, Amazon Prime Video, India, said. “Our previous direct-to-service launches were watched in over 180 countries. We are buoyed by the tremendous response we received and are excited to up the ante with another 9 eagerly-awaited direct-to-service premieres, spanning 5 languages, to entertain our customers through this festive season," he added.

“The disruptive, pioneering format of Direct to Digital movie premieres has, in many ways, been a game changer in the way films are watched in India. Amazon Prime Video is playing a key role of not only expanding the reach & viewership of these films across the country, but also providing global customers across 200+ countries and territories access to world-class films originating from India”, said Gaurav Gandhi, Director and Country General Manager, Amazon Prime Video India. “The fact that more than 50 percent of viewership of our Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam Direct to Digital titles came from outside of the respective home states is representative of how digital distribution can expand the audience for great content. We are super excited to present our new slate and are confident that it will delight our customers in India and around the world,” he added.

Also Read: Split Wide Open! Varun Dhawan and David Dhawan differ on release platforms for Coolie No. 1

October 09, 2020 at 10:53AMCoolie No 1, Durgavati, Chhalaang: Amazon Prime Video to globally premiere 9 highly-anticipated movies across 5 Indian languages https://ift.tt/2FeJVVZ

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From Partition to the Present

An Interview with Artists Nadhi Thekkek and Rupy Tut

BY

ANANTHA SUDHAKAR

Catch an encore performance of Broken Seeds (Still Grow) at the American Conservatory Theater at the Costume Shop in San Francisco on March 15, 17, and 18. Learn more. This past November, Bay Area artists Rupy Tut and Nadhi Thekkek produced a mixed media bharatanatyam performance entitled Broken Seeds (Still Grow). Presented at The Flight Deck in Oakland, CA, Broken Seeds featured live spoken word and music, along with projections of Tut’s calligraphy and miniature paintings as a backdrop to Thekkek’s choreography. The dynamic performance captured the violent and complex history of Partition—the splitting of India into the independent nations of India and Pakistan at the close of the British Empire—and connected the questions around displacement and discrimination that characterized that event with the South Asian immigrant experience in America. As part of their research for this performance, Tut and Thekkek turned to SAADA’s online repository. In particular, photographs and stories about Bhagat Singh Thind, along with archived news articles about the Bellingham Riots of 1907, served as direct inspiration for sections of the show that addressed the history of anti-South Asian xenophobia in the U.S. Following the Friday, November 17th performance, Tides Co-editor and SAADA Academic Council member, Anantha Sudhakar, moderated an artist panel with Tut, Thekkek and the dancers who participated in the show (Shruti Abhishek, Tanu Sreedharan, Vertika Srivastava, Sri Thina Subramaniam and Lalli Venkat). The transcript below is excerpted from the first half of the panel, which focused on Tut’s and Thekkek’s artistic motivation and messaging. You can also listen to the full panel, which includes an audience Q&A featuring the musicians (G.S. Rajan, Sindhu Natarajan, Preethi Ramaprasad, Santosh Chandru and Chris Evans):

Broken Seeds (Still Grow) Artist Panel Friday, Nov. 17, 2017 AS: First, Nadhi, Rupy, thank you to both of you, the dancers and the musicians for this beautiful performance. One of the most striking things in the performance was the way that it brings together dance, spoken word and visual art, which I know reflects each of your artistic backgrounds. So can you start by telling us how this collaboration came about? RT: Well, Nadhi and I were friends before we were collaborators. Somebody asked me yesterday, “Would you collaborate again on a bharatanatyam piece?” and I said, “I don’t really pick the medium, I pick the person.” Nadhi’s a great collaborator, in general, so that’s the reason we both started working together. I love the fact that she is as invested in her traditional art form as I am in miniature painting. NT: I echo what Rupy said. I had found out about the Partition Archive through a friend, and I went to a “Voices of Partition” event, where witnesses to Partition spoke about their experiences, and that really moved me. I noticed that there were a lot of parallels with what the witnesses were saying during the panel [and] what’s going on in our world now. So that was what struck me about this project, in general: that there was something about the past that I wanted to connect to the present. Since her grandparents were survivors of Partition, Rupy was just one of the first people I talked to about it. And when we realized we were both working on our own artistic reflections of Partition, it kind of became a question of: “Should we be working together?” So that’s kind of how it all came together for me.

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Parmanu- The Story of Pokhran, an ode to India’s unsung heroes who came together despite all odds to make India a Nuclear Super Power, opened on a great note at the box-office as it went on to collect INR 4.82 crore on its first day.

Not only the first day figure is higher than some of the releases. But it is admirable that the movie could attract audiences in such numbers despite yesterday being the Semi Final play off in the Indian Premier League, which is always watched by millions all over the country.

The film, based on a true story that made India Proud- the series of Nuclear Test Explosions in Pokhran 20 years ago (in 1998). The film has received extremely positive reviews from the critics as well as the audience. And we can safely assume that a good word of mouth will help see the numbers go even higher in the future.

John Abraham also expressed how grateful he felt that all the work he put in the film, is finally being appreciated. He said, “Nothing could make me happier today than the validation of our efforts to celebrate our unsung heroes by our audience across India! I have been getting so many calls from our distributors and exhibitors and I’m thankful to each one of them for their unstinted support and for standing by and loving this labour of love. I am humbled and grateful to each one of them.”

Parmanu is a tribute to the efforts of the Indian Army, scientists, bureaucrats, intelligence agencies and others who worked so tirelessly against all odds to ensure that India finds its due place in the World Nuclear Map.

In an interview with a leading daily, John also mentioned that the team made sure the casting was spot on since it added authenticity to the film. He said, “When you see the film, and when you see these people, we have stuck to how the Pokhran scientists looked. I should credit our casting agent Shruti Mahajan for it, she has got characters that look real. For example, the guy who plays Chidambaram’s character, who is Ajay Subramaniam in the film, this is his first film, he suits the character properly, he even has a South Indian accent. And we used his South Indian accent in a way it should be used, we have not tampered the facts. Tiku ji, who has also played Sonam’s (Kapoor) dad in Neerja, is from DRDO, so we have stuck to the way his body language should be. So going back to Diana, her character is an amalgamation of a couple of characters, in this cast, full of male characters, we also needed a female character to add some glamour quotient. She has added a lot of value in this film, as she has de-glamourised herself to a large extent.”

Directed by Abhishek Sharma, Parmanu-The Story of Pokhran stars John Abraham, Diana Penty and Boman Irani and is produced by JA Entertainment, Zee Studios and Kyta Productions. Vashu Bhagnani’s Pooja Entertainment is its All India Distributor.

Parmanu- The Story of Pokhran released Worldwide on 25th May, 2018.

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