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Topic started by pooja.shankar on Sun Feb 5 5:56:42 2006.

let discuss how people got into the film industry ............
parents influence .......own efforts etc.....

some people like jayam ravi....ravi krishna......have parents ..to let them in ....
people like vadivelu ....have stuggled to get in ...

esp people widout good looks........have a hard time ...making it on their own .....

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From: Shakthiprabha. on Sun Feb 5 6:46:38 2006.

Self made
_________

SHIVAJI was a self made man.
Kamalhassan,
Rajnikant join his crew.

(esp rajni ROSE HIGH TO A SUPER STAR STATUS FROM A VILLAINIC DEBUT )

Can someone tell bout MGR? I am curious to know. I am told he was in drama before.

Kaundamani,
Senthil
Vadivelu

Satyaraj
Vikram (late luck yet he did it )
Ajit
Arjun

Simran
Kushboo

Parental influence
__________________

VJ
PRABHU
Sibiraj
Dhanush
Silambarasan
Prashant
RAvi
Surya

Jyothika
From: villan007 on Sun Feb 5 6:48:15 2006.

Sp akka ,
add Ajith to the self made list
From: Shakthiprabha. on Sun Feb 5 6:59:32 2006.

hmm I thought so.

but was not sure.

I am amending it
From: Shakthiprabha. on Sun Feb 5 7:04:49 2006.

Trisha got in, cause she was crowned MISS CHENNAI

no other effort :yawn:
From: terminator on Sun Feb 5 7:15:30 2006.

Rajini Kamal

Ajit

Vikaram
From: terminator on Sun Feb 5 7:27:59 2006.

Super Star's Entry.

K Balachander, the director who has an uncanny knack of creating stars, first met Rajnikant at the film institute, where he was a student. Balachander glanced at the dark young man and crisply asked him to meet him in his office the next day. When Rajnikant walked into his office gingerly, Balachander informed him he was going to act in his next film. Overwhelmed by the sudden offer from a ‘big’ director, Rajnikant just could not believe his ears. It’s a feeling Rajni still recounts whenever in the mood of reminiscence.
From: Arthas on Sun Feb 5 7:30:23 2006.

Cimin into the industry with the looks of Ajith is no gr88 deal
Comin into the industry with the aids of a C grade director(wchich in itself a huge black-mark )without decent looks(at that time the present vijay is too handsome )and then reaching the pinnacle is really great
Hats off to Vijay
From: Ramakrishna on Sun Feb 5 7:38:29 2006.

Shrikanth, shaam
though they have not made anything big.They are atleast known for some decent performances
From: terminator on Sun Feb 5 7:38:32 2006.

Ultimate Star's Entry
Ajit actually came from far and the fact that he became an actor is totally an accident. In 1986, he just went out of school ( 10th class ) because studies was not his cup of tea. Then he worked 4 year and a half in an export company. After that first step in working life, at the age of 20, he made his own business in textile agency; in his free time his favorite hobbies are motor modeling and racing. When, he got a severe loss in his business, he tied to rebound by doing commercial ads and modeling and he succeed as he got the lead role for a Telugu film in 1992 “Prema Pustakam”, during the gap of the shooting he got also the lead role for his first Tamil film “Amaravathy”. That was by this way that Ajit ji came in cinema !
From: interz on Sun Feb 5 8:27:18 2006.

lot of actors and actresses come to industry after been doing some modelling jobs, eg like sreekanth, mathavan, kousalya, trisha etc.
From: Shakthiprabha. on Sun Feb 5 10:04:06 2006.

hmmmmm
arthas has a point
From: NTR on Sun Feb 5 10:25:23 2006.

Ajith suffered most when he made his entry..
I love Ajith for this
No background or anything..
From: Arthas on Sun Feb 5 10:37:36 2006.

Now his producers suffer the most
I love his producers for this
NO hopes or anything..they love to take risks. ...But all they get in return is a colour thundu to cover their heads and travel to Kasi,Rameswaram

NTR wrote:

Ajith suffered most when he made his entry..
I love Ajith for this
No background or anything..
From: NTR on Sun Feb 5 10:44:49 2006.

Vijay
- Easier path but considering his horrendous looks in the earlier times made him diificult to succed at first, but after poove unakkaga. he never looked back.

Surya
- Easiset route of all, son of big actor, in Manirathnam banner in VAsanth's dierction..
From: Thirumaran on Sun Feb 5 10:52:48 2006.

MGR : Made an entrance into cine industry on his own. Done a lot a small roles before getting a break through. He made entry into cine industry at 1935 through Sathi Leelavathi. Got a breakthrough as Hero in 1946 or 1947(not sure) through Mandiri Kumari. This too is not a big role actually. Acted in several dramas also. As a whole i think he did around 135 films. Among that around 30 movies in small characters.

Shivaji: Before coming into cine industry he acted in several dramas. Got the name "Shivaji" after acting in a drama "Chatrapathy Shivaji". He was recommended by somebody for the movie Parasakthi(MK or Annadurai). The rest is history. Acted in around 300 movies.

Kamal : Even his child appearance came easily, he did had a lot of suffer after the age of 15. Did lots of small roles, worked as Asst Dance master in some MGR film and Sivakumar film. Got a break through Balachandar in the movie 'Sollathaan Ninaikiraen' in a negative role. After that he is continuing making history. Around 200 films so far across 6 languages.

Rajini : Everyone knows what he was before coming to Tamizh Naadu. A very popular Bus conductor. Then did some courses in film institute and introduced by Balachandar in Abborva Raagangal.. Acted in around 150 films across 6 languages.

I have mentioned here the names of 4 heroes who had a bigger impact with the People of Tamizh Naadu.

If there are any wrong information in the above please correct me.

From: Arthas on Sun Feb 5 11:52:50 2006.

Thank you ,Thank you Not Worthy

The Hub wrote:

The entire hub body agrees to this statement Thumbs Up!

Arthas wrote:

Now his producers suffer the most ROTFL

I love his producers for this
NO hopes or anything..they love to take risks. ROTFL

...But all they get in return is a colour thundu to cover their heads and travel to Kasi,Rameswaram Sad

NTR wrote:

Ajith suffered most when he made his entry..
I love Ajith for this
No background or anything..

From: joe on Sun Feb 5 12:20:21 2006.

Thirumaran wrote:

MGR : Made an entrance into cine industry on his own. Done a lot a small roles before getting a break through. He made entry into cine industry at 1935 through Sathi Leelavathi. Got a breakthrough as Hero in 1946 or 1947(not sure) through Mandiri Kumari. This too is not a big role actually. Acted in several dramas also. As a whole i think he did around 135 films. Among that around 30 movies in small characters.

Shivaji: Before coming into cine industry he acted in several dramas. Got the name "Shivaji" after acting in a drama "Chatrapathy Shivaji". He was recommended by somebody for the movie Parasakthi(MK or Annadurai). Acted around 300 movies.

Kamal : Even his child appearance came easily, he did had a lot of suffer after the age of 15. Did lots of small roles, worked as Asst Dance master in some MGR film and Sivakumar film. Got a break through Balachandar in the movie 'Sollathaan Ninaikiraen' in a negative role. After that he is continuing making history. Around 200 films so far across 6 languages.

Rajini : Everyone knows what he was before coming to Tamizh Naadu. A very popular Bus conductor. Then did some courses in film institute and introduced by Balachandar in .... Acted in around 150 films across 6 languages.

I have mentioned here the names of 4 heroes who had a bigger impact with the People of Tamizh Naadu.

If there are any wrong information in the above please correct me.

Smile

Thirumaran,
added with your details..

Makkal Thilagam MGR too was a drama artist together with his brother M.G Chakarapani..He was in kalaivanar N.S.Krishnan drama troop.'Mandiri Kumari' was pened by Kalaingar Karunanithi .From then kalainjar and MGr became close friends ..So kalainjar also helped MGR a lot to became a hero .MGR's first movie as hero 'Rajakumari' was also pened by kalainjar.

Nadigar thilagam joined drama troop in his age of 14.He was in M.R.radha troop .Also acted in small roles in Perainjar Anna dramas .Accidently he was given the role of 'Sivaji' in the 'Sivaji kanda Hindu Rajiyam' pened by Anna (Orginally it was planned with MGR for the role sivaji)..Then Anna recomented Ganesan in 'Parasakthi'.,which is also pened by Kalainjar..AV Meyyappa chettiyar was not happy with the selection since sivaji looks very slim and his dialogue delivery is unusual at that time ..But Anna was very strong in supporting ganesan ..Parasakthi released and ran for 1 year and Nadigar thilagam became super star of tamil industry..Rest is history.

From: Thirumaran on Sun Feb 5 12:33:29 2006.

joe wrote:

Thanks Joe for the info.

I knew MK was the dialogue writer of Rajakumari and Mandiri Kumari. I had a confusion in which movie MGR was started acting as hero.

But one info in your article i think is wrong though...

It was not MK who recommended MGR to become the Hero. I think it is the other way around. That is, MGR recommended MK as the Dialogue writer for Rajakumari or Mandiri Kumari.
I read quite a long time ago some article sin Dinamalar and Tughlaq on this. Could not recollect whose article is that..

There was one old movie which MK was introduced the dialogue writer. Due to certain issues with the producer, his name did not came in thecredits of that movie. Dont remember which movie it was.

From: joe on Sun Feb 5 12:52:17 2006.

Thirumaran wrote:

joe wrote:

Thirumaran,
Just now I checked MGR's filmography .Raajakumari released in 1947 and Manthiri Kumari in 1950.

You may be correct..But what I read is both MGR and Kalainjar recommented each other until kalainjar pened Parasakthi.

Anyway ,Taking Iruvar as a proof..he he.For me ,it is a crap movie ,which is 'Rendum kettan'.

From: Thirumaran on Sun Feb 5 12:55:35 2006.

joe wrote:

Thanks once again.
I should not have taken Iruvar as a proof, as you mentioned. I realised that and i edited that before your post.

From: joe on Sun Feb 5 13:01:19 2006.

Thirumaran,
do you know Marutha Nattu Ilavarasi (1950) ,in which Janaki was heroin,was also pened by Kalainjar .MGR and janaki fall in love and married after this movie.
From: Thirumaran on Sun Feb 5 13:05:11 2006.

Yeah..
Right. Even Kaanchi Thalaivan was pened by MK i think.
I think the movie Engal Thangam was pened by Murasoli Maran.
Is that right?
From: joe on Sun Feb 5 13:09:50 2006.

Thirumaran wrote:

Yeah..
Right. Even Kaanchi Thalaivan was pened by MK i think.
I think the movie Engal Thangam was pened by Murasoli Maran.
Is that right?

Right .MGR had a spl affection with Murasoli Maran .Infact ,It was MGR who helped Maran for his studies .Once Maran's finacial sitaution was not good .So MGR did 'Engal Thangam' produced by 'Megala pictures' (kalainjar family) ,Maran was dialogue writer ,Jayalaitha was heroin.

When MGR was expelled from DMK ,Maran openly oppoose it to Kalainjar since Maran always had softcorner for MGR.

From: Thirumaran on Sun Feb 5 13:13:06 2006.

joe wrote:

Thirumaran wrote:

Yeah..
Right. Even Kaanchi Thalaivan was pened by MK i think.
I think the movie Engal Thangam was pened by Murasoli Maran.
Is that right?

Right .MGR had a spl affection with Murasoli Maran .Infact ,It was MGR who helped Maran for his studies .Once Maran's finacial sitaution was not good .So MGR did 'Engal Thangam' produced by 'Megala pictures' (kalainjar family) ,Maran was dialogue writer ,Jayalaitha was heroin.

When MGR was expelled from DMK ,Maran openly oppoose it to Kalainjar since Maran always had softcorner for MGR.

Great Joe. I too had read these info quite sometime before.
Thanks for recollecting them..

From: joe on Sun Feb 5 13:17:02 2006.

Thirumaran,
Nice discussion with you.
You are a MGR fan and I am a sivaji fan ..But finally both are kamal fans..great!
From: Thirumaran on Sun Feb 5 13:18:48 2006.

joe wrote:

Thirumaran,
Nice discussion with you.
You are a MGR fan and I am a sivaji fan ..But finally both are kamal fans..great!
From: ajithfederer on Sun Feb 5 14:33:26 2006.

I think avenger is the only guy who will make fun of ajiths entry into cinema.......everyone knows hoe hard was it for him when he first entered into cinema unlike vijay who killed everyone with his first few movies piggy backing on his father,.........(Learn History and come here and blabber)

Nw Distributors are suffering heavily for taking bedhi
Ajith is unique and great

From: Arthas on Sun Feb 5 14:47:19 2006.

Naan eppo pa comment adichhen Huh?!

but I was only sayin that Vjs reach to top is gr88er as he dint have looks as good as Ajith Smile

ajithfederer wrote:

I think avenger is the only guy who will make fun of ajiths entry into cinema.......everyone knows hoe hard was it for him when he first entered into cinema unlike vijay who killed everyone with his first few movies piggy backing on his father,.........(Learn History and come here and blabber)

Nw Distributors are suffering heavily for taking bedhi Wink

Ajith is unique and great

From: Enigma on Sun Feb 5 15:24:48 2006.

Arthas wrote:

Thank you ,Thank you Not Worthy

The Hub wrote:

The entire hub body agrees to this statement Thumbs Up!

Arthas wrote:

Now his producers suffer the most ROTFL

I love his producers for this
NO hopes or anything..they love to take risks. ROTFL

...But all they get in return is a colour thundu to cover their heads and travel to Kasi,Rameswaram Sad

NTR wrote:

Ajith suffered most when he made his entry..
I love Ajith for this
No background or anything..

Is this the best you can offer? Not good enough but being a Vijay fan and all that....people dont expect much from your kind of species do they

From: svaisn on Sun Feb 5 16:12:29 2006.

Shakthiprabha wrote:

Trisha got in, cause she was crowned MISS CHENNAI

no other effort :yawn:

CMON

They dont give MS chennai to everyone just like that

athu enn ungalukku TRISHAmela KAANDU :roll;

From: Arthas on Sun Feb 5 16:18:41 2006.

Reason is obvious Sad

Sp ka's jealous Poke

appuram karthik anna.daily night thoonga maatinglaa Shocked

night shiftaa Huh?!

svaisn wrote:

Shakthiprabha wrote:

Trisha got in, cause she was crowned MISS CHENNAI Rolling Eyes

no other effort :yawn:

CMON

They dont give MS chennai to everyone just like that

athu enn ungalukku TRISHAmela KAANDU :roll;

From: ajithfederer on Sun Feb 5 16:31:07 2006.

No one is bookin trisha except her friend vijay and after sivakasi he is recommending asin..........
From: svaisn on Sun Feb 5 17:48:12 2006.

TRISHA has enough MOVIES IN TELGU

and she is very costly u see

sir i am in US for an onsite assignment
From: ajithfederer on Sun Feb 5 18:06:04 2006.

Who wants to see her.........i don like Trisha at all...........the way she speaks without facial expressions and the way she dances (remember in enakku 2o unakku 18 in that kama kama song even the side dancers dance better than her

Asin scores a lot more than Trisha.......I don know the reason why Telugu producers pay her a lot might be because of the fact that she exposed in varsham and because of they way she acted closely with mahesh in athadu
From: Kollywoodfan on Sun Feb 5 20:44:59 2006.

No one is booking Trisha? Besides Vijay, Vikram always wants Trisha in every one of his films...she lacks in the dance department, I agree...but she is cute...I don't like her off-screen attitude that much though
From: ajithfederer on Sun Feb 5 21:14:19 2006.

I don think vikram wants her call sheet any more unlike vijay.......

honestly tell me do u feel she is acting?
From: svaisn on Sun Feb 5 21:49:35 2006.

ajithfederer wrote:

I don think vikram wants her call sheet any more unlike vijay.......

honestly tell me do u feel she is acting?

haare yaar..

cmon..... how many times do we have to say this......

TRISHA ----- We dont expect her to act on screens

If we need acting we will watch Meera Jasmine
From: joe on Sun Feb 5 22:15:39 2006.

I don't see any relavance of the discussion going on with the topic of this thread
From: Sinthiya on Mon Feb 6 0:21:53 2006.

svaisn wrote:

haare yaar..

cmon..... how many times do we have to say this......

TRISHA ----- We dont expect her to act on screens

If we need acting we will watch Meera Jasmine
From: ajithfederer on Mon Feb 6 1:11:41 2006.

Yo........

Loosapa nee??

appo nee cera enna thaan ethir paakurey?

Quote:

SVAISN WROTE
TRISHA --- WE DON EXPECT HER TO ACT ON SCREENS
From: selvakumar on Mon Feb 6 1:15:56 2006.

joe wrote:

I don't see any relavance of the discussion going on with the topic of this thread

Me too... the thread has become a place for trisha..

Ajit's Entry into the silver screen
----------------------------------------

People might say that getting entry with good looks is not a great deal.

I want to ask this simple question to them..

They have accepted that getting entry without looks is the toughest job.

I want to remind them. If the same person has done that entry without support then it is really an achievement.

Ask other people who suffered a lot without good looks. (though they had good acting potential).

Also, without good looks getting entry is impossible in tamil cinema. They will pick u for the role of a comedian/villan if u don't have looks.(This is the general case of tamil film world - I don't want people to counter it with a racist argument). Even vijaykanth accepted this in an interview. VK's case can be considered as an achievement. not in the other person's case.

It was the concerned person who took more films(others never gave a single movie for them). Also, it was he who made his son to appear in a vijaykanth's movie. Such kind of constant backing up can't expected by a new comer who doesnot have a decent background except his good looks.

Thala proved his skills and he has reached this point without background. It is the gift for his constant dedication and hardwork.

Lot of other heroes like Gunal, arvindsamy etc have failed. It is THALA who had made it in a perfect way. Still he proves that "he is the king of opening". He never achieved this one over night.

THALA - A SYMBOL FOR HARDWORK, DEDICATION, NEVER-SAY-DIE ATTITUDE, AND OFCOURSE - RISING FROM THE SETBACKS HIMSELF WITHOUT SUPPORT
From: Scale on Mon Feb 6 1:16:00 2006.

joe wrote:

I don't see any relavance of the discussion going on with the topic of this thread

This thread also signifies how the hubbers made entry to the HUB.

From: Enigma on Mon Feb 6 4:43:18 2006.

Kollywoodfan wrote:

No one is booking Trisha? Besides Vijay, Vikram always wants Trisha in every one of his films...she lacks in the dance department, I agree...but she is cute...I don't like her off-screen attitude that much though

If you say Trisha is cute, I fear to imagine how you perceive an ugly woman to look like

But agree about the off-screen attitude part

From: terminator on Mon Feb 6 5:56:24 2006.

selvakumar wrote:

THALA - A SYMBOL FOR HARDWORK, DEDICATION, NEVER-SAY-DIE ATTITUDE, AND OFCOURSE - RISING FROM THE SETBACKS HIMSELF WITHOUT SUPPORT

Well Said SELVA
From: Aristotle on Wed Feb 8 2:48:07 2006.

Ajitkumar is bad at selecting movies..otherwise how wud one accept to act insuch a HORRIBLE movies like RED,anjaneya, and a lot more
From: selvakumar on Wed Feb 8 2:53:43 2006.

Aristotle wrote:

Ajitkumar is bad at selecting movies..otherwise how wud one accept to act insuch a HORRIBLE movies like RED,anjaneya, and a lot more

It is how the directors handle the scripts. He clearly explained this in his recent interview(to the media). Watch that one in ajithfans.com and u will get a good idea on this!!
From: swathy on Wed Feb 8 4:26:11 2006.

Napolean said I got interest in acting in the moth of April. I said to my uncle Nehru in the month of May. He immediately introduced me to Bharathiraja and the shooting commenced on June .

Lucky Guy
From: pooja.shankar on Thu Feb 9 15:52:59 2006.

ajith is good actor. ..she s just got to do different movies ...same goes for vjay
and vikram ..generally overacts ...but hes establishd himself well wid pithmagan , sethu , anniyan ..etc ...

From: svaisn on Thu Feb 9 15:58:40 2006.

pooja.shankar wrote:

ajith is good actor. ..she s just got to do different movies ...same goes for vjay
and vikram ..generally overacts ...but hes establishd himself well wid pithmagan , sethu , anniyan ..etc ...

pls delete it b4 justice sees it

From: Justice on Thu Feb 9 17:33:59 2006.

svaisn wrote:

pooja.shankar wrote:

ajith is good actor. ..she s just got to do different movies ...same goes for vjay
and vikram ..generally overacts ...but hes establishd himself well wid pithmagan , sethu , anniyan ..etc ...

pls delete it b4 justice sees it Wink

same goes to vikram and vijay

(she said it there, highlighted)

From: Thirumaran on Thu Feb 9 17:35:53 2006.

Justice wrote:

svaisn wrote:

pooja.shankar wrote:

ajith is good actor. ..she s just got to do different movies ...same goes for vjay
and vikram ..generally overacts ...but hes establishd himself well wid pithmagan , sethu , anniyan ..etc ...

pls delete it b4 justice sees it Wink

same goes to vikram and vijay Confused

(she said it there, highlighted)

I was pretty sure that you will give this reply.

Cool.

From: pooja.shankar on Mon Feb 13 6:19:58 2006.

HMM .....

okay people ....big deal ...just a typing error ...
From: Shakthiprabha. on Mon Feb 13 6:33:49 2006.

hmm,

You dont know the fans here. do u?
They can be scary sometimes

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howz studies?

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