‘Ruthuragalu’ was the first Telugu serial to go on air on Doordarshan. The serial went on air for more than two years without any break. It is said that the Telugu television industry is incomplete without the mention of ‘Ruthuragalu.' Not only the serial created a milestone in the television industry, even the makers of the serial, Naidu Sisters (Manjula Naidu and Bindu Naidu) became a name to get recognized in every home of Andhra. After this serial, both the sisters became the reigning queens of the small screen.
It is a general belief in those days that when the title track ‘Vasantha Sameeranla’ was heard in Doordarshan, every household in the neighborhood and life in the city would stand still. That was the magic of this popular show. Ruthuragalu's title song, ‘Vasantha Sameeranla’ was a unique hit in the television world and remains still fresh in everyone’s mind. Dr. Bunty composed the title song in this serial. It gave a good break to the composer.
The reason why this serial is considered as a mega serial is that of the serial paved way for many budding TV artists who later got name and fame in the film industry. For example, actor Prabhakar Podakandla got great fame only after being cast in this serial. Since the serial is a big hit till date, the maker of the serial takes pride of being associated with the concept that broke all TRPs in the small screen industry.
With every episode, season after season, the serial kept the viewers’ interest alive which led to the increasing count of TRP rates. This eventually paved the way for Naidu sisters to come up with many more innovative serials for the small screen. Telugu, actress Sri Divya, was a person who faced the camera at the age of three with this serial. Director Manjula Naidu spotted Sri Divya at a dance concert of her elder sister’s, and that is how Sri Divya got into acting. Initially, she was signed for a few episodes, later on, due to the public’s interest in her character, her role got extended.
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Born | November 19, 1983 (age 35) San Diego, California, U.S. |
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Alma mater | Juilliard School |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 2009–present |
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Awards | Full list |
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Service/branch | United States Marine Corps |
Years of service | 2002–2005 |
Rank | Lance Corporal |
Adam Douglas Driver (born November 19, 1983) is an American actor.[1][2] He rose to prominence in the supporting role of Adam Sackler in the HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2012–2017), for which he received three consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He made his Broadway debut in Mrs. Warren's Profession in 2010. In 2011, he returned to Broadway in Man and Boy and made his feature film debut in J. Edgar.
Driver has played supporting roles in a wide range of films, including Lincoln (2012), Frances Ha (2012), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), and Silence (2016). He won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his performance in Hungry Hearts (2014); he also received several accolades for his lead performance in Jim Jarmusch's Paterson (2016). In 2018, Driver received Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor nominations for his performance in the film BlacKkKlansman (2018).
Driver gained mainstream recognition and acclaim for playing the main antagonist Kylo Ren in the Star Warssequel trilogy, first in The Force Awakens (2015), followed by The Last Jedi (2017). He is set to reprise the role in The Rise of Skywalker (2019).
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Driver is the co-founder of Arts in the Armed Forces, a non-profit that brings high-quality arts programming to active-duty service members, veterans, military support staff and their families around the world free of charge. He founded the organization with his wife Joanne Tucker in 2006.
- 1Early life
- 2Career
- 2.2Mainstream and critical success (2015–present)
- 4Filmography
Early life[edit]
Driver was born in San Diego, California,[3] the son of Nancy Wright (née Sneedham), a paralegal, and Joe Douglas Driver.[4][5][6] His father's family is from Arkansas and his mother's family is from Indiana. His stepfather, Rodney G. Wright, is a minister at a Baptist church. Driver was raised Baptist.[7][8] He has English, Irish, Scottish, German, and Dutch ancestry.[9] When Driver was seven years old, he moved with his older sister and mother to her hometown of Mishawaka, Indiana, and attended Mishawaka High School, where he graduated in 2001.[10][11] Driver had a religious upbringing and sang in the choir at church.[12]
As a teenager, Driver described himself as a 'misfit,' telling M Magazine that he climbed radio towers, set objects on fire, and co-founded a fight club with his friends after being inspired by the film Fight Club.[13] After high school, and before his military service, Driver worked as a door-to-door salesman selling Kirby vacuum cleaners and as a telemarketer for a basement waterproofing company and Ben Franklin Construction.[14] After high school, Driver applied to the Juilliard School for drama, but was rejected.
Military service and education[edit]
Shortly after the September 11 attacks, Driver joined the United States Marine Corps[15] and was assigned to Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines as an 81mm mortar man.[16] He served for two years and eight months with no deployments before breaking his sternum while mountain biking.[17] He was medically discharged with the rank of Lance Corporal. After leaving the Marine Corps, Driver attended the University of Indianapolis for a year, then auditioned again and was accepted into Julliard to study drama. Driver said that he was seen as an intimidating and volatile figure by his classmates, and struggled to fit into a lifestyle so different from the Marines.[13] He was a member of the Drama Division's Group 38 (2005–2009), where he met his wife Joanne Tucker. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2009.[18]
Career[edit]
Early career, Girls, and breakthrough (2009–2014)[edit]
After graduating from Juilliard, Driver began his acting career in New York City, appearing in both Broadway and off-Broadway productions. Like many aspiring actors, he occasionally worked as a busboy and waiter.[19] Driver also appeared in several television shows and short films. He made his feature film debut in Clint Eastwood's biographical drama J. Edgar in 2011.
In 2012, Driver was cast in the HBO comedy-drama series Girls, as the emotionally unstable Adam Sackler, the boyfriend of the lead character Hannah Horvath (Lena Dunham). During the show's run he received three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role.[20] The same year, Driver played supporting roles in two critically acclaimed films, as telegraph and cipher officer Samuel Beckwith in Steven Spielberg's historical drama Lincoln, and Lev Shapiro in Noah Baumbach's comedy-drama Frances Ha.[21] He also appeared in the drama Not Waving But Drowning and the romantic-comedy Gayby. Additionally, he garnered major off-Broadway recognition for playing Cliff, a working-class Welsh houseguest in Look Back in Anger, winning the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play.[22]
In 2013, Driver appeared in the drama Bluebird and the romantic-comedy What If. He played Al Cody, a musician, in the Coen Brothers' black comedy tragedy Inside Llewyn Davis, and photographer Rick Smolan in the drama Tracks. In 2014, he played Jude, a despairing father, in the drama Hungry Hearts; Jaime, an aspiring filmmaker, in Noah Baumbach's comedy While We're Young; and Philip, the black sheep of a dysfunctional Jewish family, in the comedy-drama This Is Where I Leave You. For his performance in Hungry Hearts, Driver won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 71st Venice International Film Festival.[23]
Mainstream and critical success (2015–present)[edit]
In February 2014, Variety reported that Driver would play the villain, Kylo Ren, in J. J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015).[24] On April 29, 2014, he was confirmed as a cast member.[25]The Force Awakens was released on December 18, 2015 to commercial and critical success.[26]Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian highlighted Driver's performance in his review of the film calling him 'gorgeously cruel, spiteful and capricious.. very suited to Kylo Ren's fastidious and amused contempt for his enemies' weakness and compassion.'[27]
In 2016, Driver played a supporting role in Jeff Nichols' sci-fi thriller Midnight Special, which was released on March 18, 2016.[28][29] He also co-starred in Martin Scorsese's historical drama Silence (2016) as Father Francisco Garupe, a 17th-century Portuguese Jesuit priest, alongside Andrew Garfield.[30][31] In preparation for the role, Driver lost almost 50 pounds.[32]Jim Jarmusch's drama Paterson was Driver's final film of 2016, in which he played Paterson, a bus driver who writes poetry.[33] The film premiered at Cannes Film Festival and was released on December 28, 2016.[34][35] Driver's performance was acclaimed[36][37] and he received multiple nominations for Best Actor from critics associations, winning several, including the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor.[38]Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote 'Driver's indelibly moving portrayal is so lived-in and lyrical you hardly recognize it as acting.'[39] Paterson was included in many critics' top ten lists of best films of 2016.[40]
In 2017, Driver played a cameo in Noah Baumbach's The Meyerowitz Stories as Randy, marking his third appearance in one of Baumbach's films. The film premiered at Cannes Film Festival and was released on October 13, 2017 on Netflix.[41] He also portrayed Clyde, a one-armed redneck veteran, in Steven Soderbergh's Logan Lucky, which was released on August 18, 2017.[42] He reprised his role as Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which was released on December 15, 2017.[43] His performance was positively received, with his character lauded as the best in the series: David Edelstein of Vulture wrote, 'the core of The Last Jedi — of this whole trilogy, it seems — is Driver's Kylo Ren, who ranks with cinema's most fascinating human monsters.'[44]
In 2018, Driver portrayed a Jewish police detective, Phillip 'Flip' Zimmerman, who helps infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan in Spike Lee's comedy-drama BlacKkKlansman. The film premiered at Cannes Film Festival and was theatrically released on August 10.[45] He received critical acclaim for his performance in the film and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Driver also starred as the lead character Toby Grisoni in Terry Gilliam's adventure-comedy The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which also premiered at Cannes.[46] In 2019, he starred as Daniel Jones in Scott Z. Burns' political drama The Report, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. Driver returned to Broadway[47] to play Pale against Keri Russell in a Michael Mayer-directed production of Lanford Wilson's Burn This.
Upcoming projects[edit]
Driver will co-star with Scarlett Johansson in the upcoming untitled Noah Baumbach project.[48] He's also part of the ensemble cast of the upcoming Jim Jarmusch zombie comedy movie The Dead Don't Die and is set to star in Sylvester Stallone's Tough As They Come[49] and Leos Carax's upcoming music drama Annette.[50] He will reprise his role as Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.[51]
Personal life[edit]
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Driver married Joanne Tucker in June 2013.[52] They live together in Brooklyn Heights with their young son[53] and dog Moose, a Rottweiler-Pitbull mix.[54]
He is the co-founder of Arts in the Armed Forces (AITAF), a non-profit that performs theatre for all branches of the military, both in the United States and abroad.[55]
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Indie-rock band Sipper has a song dedicated to Driver.[56][57]
Filmography[edit]
Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Film[edit]
Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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2011 | J. Edgar | Walter Lyle | Clint Eastwood | |
2012 | Gayby | Neil | Jonathan Lisecki | |
2012 | Not Waving But Drowning | Adam | Devyn Waitt | |
2012 | Frances Ha | Lev Shapiro | Noah Baumbach | |
2012 | Lincoln | Samuel Beckwith | Steven Spielberg | |
2013 | Bluebird | Walter | Lance Edmands | |
2013 | Inside Llewyn Davis | Al Cody | Coen brothers | |
2013 | Tracks | Rick Smolan | John Curran | |
2013 | What If | Allan | Michael Dowse | |
2014 | Hungry Hearts | Jude | Saverio Costanzo | |
2014 | While We're Young | Jamie Massey | Noah Baumbach | |
2014 | This Is Where I Leave You | Phillip Altman | Shawn Levy | |
2015 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Kylo Ren | J. J. Abrams | |
2016 | Midnight Special | Paul Sevier | Jeff Nichols | |
2016 | Paterson | Paterson | Jim Jarmusch | |
2016 | Silence | Father Francisco Garupe | Martin Scorsese | |
2017 | The Meyerowitz Stories | Randy | Noah Baumbach | |
2017 | Logan Lucky | Clyde Logan | Steven Soderbergh | |
2017 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | Kylo Ren / Ben Solo | Rian Johnson | |
2018 | BlacKkKlansman | Detective Philip 'Flip' Zimmerman | Spike Lee | |
2018 | The Man Who Killed Don Quixote | Toby Grisoni | Terry Gilliam | |
2019 | The Report | Daniel Jones | Scott Z. Burns | |
2019 | The Dead Don't Die | Officer Ronald Peterson | Jim Jarmusch | |
2019 | Untitled Noah Baumbach project | Charlie | Noah Baumbach | Post-production |
2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Kylo Ren / Ben Solo | J. J. Abrams | Post-production[58] |
Television[edit]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2009 | The Unusuals | Will Slansky | Episode: 'The E.I.D.' |
2010 | Law & Order | Robby Vickery | Episode: 'Brilliant Disguise' |
2010 | You Don't Know Jack | Glen Stetson | Television film |
2010 | The Wonderful Maladys | Zed | Pilot |
2012 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Jason Roberts | Episode: 'Theatre Tricks' |
2012–2017 | Girls | Adam Sackler | 49 episodes |
2015 | The Simpsons | Adam Sackler (voice) | Episode: 'Every Man's Dream' |
2016, 2018 | Saturday Night Live | Himself (host) | Episodes: 'Adam Driver/Chris Stapleton', 'Adam Driver/Kanye West' |
2017 | Bob's Burgers | Art the Artist (voice) | Episodes: 'The Bleakening: Part 1 & 2' |
Video games[edit]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2015 | Disney Infinity 3.0 | Ben Solo / Kylo Ren | Voice |
2016 | Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Ben Solo / Kylo Ren | Voice |
Stage[edit]
Year | Title | Role | Venue |
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2009 | Slipping | Chris | Rattlestick Playwrights Theater |
2009 | The Retributionists | Dov Kaplinsky | Playwrights Horizons |
2010 | Little Doc | Ric | Rattlestick Playwrights Theater |
2010 | The Forest | Bulanov | East 13th Street Theatre |
2010 | Mrs. Warren's Profession | Frank Gardner | American Airlines Theatre |
2010–2011 | Angels in America | Louis Ironson | Peter Norton Space |
2011 | Man and Boy | Basil Anthony | American Airlines Theatre |
2012 | Look Back in Anger | Cliff Lewis | Laura Pels Theatre |
2019 | Burn This | Pale | Hudson Theatre |
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Awards and nominations[edit]
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Aanandham | |
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Directed by | N. Linguswamy |
Produced by | R. B. Choudary |
Written by | Brinda Sarathy(Dialogues) |
Screenplay by | N. Linguswamy |
Story by | N. Linguswamy |
Starring | Mammootty Murali Abbas Devayani Rambha Sneha Shyam Ganesh |
Music by | S. A. Rajkumar |
Cinematography | Arthur A. Wilson |
Edited by | V. Jaishanker |
Distributed by | Super Good Films |
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162 minutes | |
Country | India |
Language | Tamil |
Aanandham (Happiness) is a 2001Tamil languagefamily drama film written and directed by N. Linguswamy and produced by R. B. Choudary. The film features an ensemble cast including Mammootty, Murali, Abbas, Devayani, Rambha, Sneha, Delhi Ganesh and Srividya. Arthur A. Wilson handled cinematography, while S. A. Rajkumar composed the film's score and soundtrack. The film opened in May 2001 to positive reviews, prompting remakes in other Indian regional languages.[1][2]
Plot[edit]
Thirupathisamy (Mammootty) owns a provisional store and is the eldest among four brothers, and all live together in a home along with their parents (Delhi Ganesh and Srividya). Thirupathi is widely respected by everyone in the family and was responsible for bringing back their family to a good state after financial troubles a few years back. He gets married to Bharathi (Devayani), who is a lot more responsible and kind to everyone. Madhavan (Murali) is the second son in the family who assists Thirupathi in managing their provisional store. He is innocent and gets married to his relative Renuka (Rambha), but she is short-tempered and picks up quarrels often. Kannan (Abbas) is the third son in the family, and he goes to college where he falls for his classmate Viji (Sneha). Viji is the only daughter of a rich arrogant man (Vijayakumar). Surya (Shyam Ganesh) is the youngest son and studies in college.
Renuka feels that only Thirupathi is respected by everyone and not Madhavan because Tirupati manages the provisional store while Madhavan just assists him. She keeps insisting Madhavan to start a separate provisional store, which he does not accept as that would separate him from his brothers. Vijayakumar gets to know about Viji's love towards Kannan and warns him to forget her. Kannan gets a job and leaves to Delhi as he does not want to marry Viji against her father's wishes.
One day, Renuka begins a quarrel at home saying that Thirupathi has a separate savings account in the bank and takes money from the account without the knowledge of other family members. Thirupathi feels bad hearing this. Suddenly, Renuka and Madhavan's daughter faints and is rushed to hospital. It is revealed that the child was suffering from a serious disease which only Thirupati knew before, and he was saving money to meet out the medical expenses without informing others, as they will worry if they get to know about the child's disease. Renuka realizes her mistake knowing this and apologizes to Thirupathi for her harsh behavior towards him and Bharathi.
Later, they start a rice mill. Thirupathi gets to know about Kannan's love towards Viji and goes to meet Vijiayakumar with a marriage proposal. Vijayakumar agrees for the wedding, but on a condition that Kannan should stay along with Viji in his home as he does not want to send his daughter to another home after wedding. Thirupathi agrees to the condition but does not inform this to Kannan as he will not agree. On the day of marriage, Kannan gets to know about the condition, cancels the wedding, and comes back to his home to meet his family members. Following him, Viji also comes, asking him to marry her against her father's wishes.
Thirupathi convinces the couple that if they get married without Vijayakumar's permission, then it will be a big blow to Vijayakumar's status in society, and they should not be the reason behind that. He also convinces Viji to leave to her home immediately before anyone could know about this. When they step out of the home, they see Vijayakumar with a group of men to attack Thirupathi's family. But he has overheard Thirupathi's conversation with Viji, realizes his good nature, and agrees for their wedding. Finally, Kannan and Viji get married happily, and Viji lives along with everyone in a joint family in Thirupathi's home.
Cast[edit]
- Mammootty as Thirupathisamy, eldest son
- Murali as Madhavan, second son
- Abbas as Kannan, third son
- Devayani as Bharathi
- Rambha as Renuga
- Sneha as Viji
- Shyam Ganesh as Surya, youngest son
- Vijayakumar as Viji's father
- Delhi Ganesh as Thirupathi's father
- Srividya as Thirupathi's mother
- Sashikumar Subramani as Renuka's brother
- Poonam as Susheela
Production[edit]
The director Linguswamy revealed that the film was inspired by moments in his life and through a series of incidents his mother had narrated to him. Thus when director Rajakumaran convinced R. B. Choudary to give Linguswamy an opportunity, he narrated the stories and he found the producer had found them highly appealing.[3] The director had previously assisted Vikraman in Vaanathaippola, another family drama on brothers. Linguswamy originally wanted to title the project, Thirupathi Brothers, which he later went on to name his production house.[4] Another early working title for the film was Thamirabharani.[5]
I vikram tamil mp3 songs free download 320kbps. Ramya Krishnan was initially signed on to play heroine but Mammooty cast his doubts over her involvement after the pair had fallen out on the sets of a previous Malayalam film, and she was subsequently replaced by Soundarya. Devayani was initially supposed to feature as Murali's pair in the film, but after Soundarya opted out, she was given the senior actress role of Mammooty's pair.[6] Shooting was held at locations in Chennai, Ooty and Mettupalayam among other places.[7]
Release[edit]
Aanandham opened to positive reviews in May 2001, with a critic noting that 'it is a promising work from the debutant director'.[8][9] The film went on to win the Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Films in the 2002 ceremony as well as being honoured as the Best Tamil Film at the Cinema Express Awards.[10][11]Aanandham also received two awards from the Tamil Nadu State, winning third best film and Best Actress for Sneha, who was also recognized for this film alongside her work in Virumbugiren and Punnagai Desam.[12] Newspaper, The Hindu also listed the film amongst the best of 2001.[13]
Producer R. B. Choudary launched another film titled Samudhiram on family bonding soon after this film's release, with the new film featuring Sarathkumar, Murali and Manoj as brothers. A Telugu remake was released in 2005 as Sankranthi by Muppalaneni Shiva, starring Venkatesh, Srikanth, Sharwanand, Sneha and Arti Agarwal in lead roles.
Soundtrack[edit]
Aanandham | |
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Soundtrack album by | |
Released | 2001 |
Genre | super film soundtrack |
Label | Star Music |
The soundtrack of the film was composed by S. A. Rajkumar, was well received by the audience.
Track-list | ||||
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No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length |
1. | 'Aasai Aasaiyai' | Kalaikumar | K. J. Yesudas | 5:43 |
2. | 'Adi Koochatha' | Kalaikumar | Sukhwinder Singh, Swarnalatha | 3:54 |
3. | 'Gokulathu Radhai' | P. Vijay | Unni Menon, Sujatha, S. P. B. Charan, Yugendran | 5:15 |
4. | 'Enna Idhuvo' | Viveka | Hariharan | 4:34 |
5. | 'Kalyana Vaanil' | Tholkapiyan | Unni Menon, Sujatha | 4:17 |
6. | 'Pallangkuzhiyin' | Yugabharathi | Unnikrishnan, Harini | 5:04 |
References[edit]
- ^'At the crossroads'. Deccan Herald. cscsarchive.org. 5 May 2002. Archived from the original on 21 March 2011. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
- ^'Filmography of anandham'. Cinesouth.com. 25 May 2001. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^'The Hindu : Tale of a joint family'. Hinduonnet.com. 11 May 2001. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^'Tamil movies : Lingusamy: What's next after Bheema?'. Behindwoods.com. 4 September 2006. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^http://www.sify.com/movies/tamil/interview.php?id=6006587&cid=2408
- ^'Naghma And Ganguly'. Cinematoday2.itgo.com. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^'Anandam'. Cinematoday2.itgo.com. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report-little-time-to-take-up-tamil-projects-says-mammootty-1288708
- ^'Reviews'. Ganeshyamalalove.tripod.com. 21 December 2001. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^TNN (6 April 2002). 'Nuvvu Nenu wins 4 Filmfare awards - Times Of India'. Articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^'rediff.com, Movies: Meena wins award for best actress'. Rediff.com. 15 October 2001. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^'Tamil Nadu announces film awards for three years - Tamil Movie News'. IndiaGlitz. 1 October 2004. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^'Memorable flicks that made it big'. The Hindu. 28 December 2001. Archived from the original on 9 November 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
External links[edit]
Andam Serial Wiki
- Aanandham on IMDb