Chief Minister M Karunanidhi will be conferred with ‘Umara Pulavar Award’ during the three-day international Islamic Tamil Literary convention which begins in Chennai from 25 May. Speaking to reporters here yesterday, Idhayathullah, general secretary, Islamic Ilakiya Kazhagam said the award is given to the Chief Minister for his contribution to Tamil literature. The award to [...]

After ‘Rendu,’ Reema Sen seems to have disappeared from Tamil cinema. She says Tamil cinema has not shunned her, but she has turned down offers since the story and character were nothing to rave about. Reema Sen may not have Tamil film on hand, but she is acting in a Telugu and a Hindi film. [...]

Fifty third national film awards were to be announced on the 12th of May which has been stayed by the Delhi High court. This comes in wake of a petition filed by a jury member Shyamali Bannerjee in the award panel who claimed favoritism in the selection of films. Tamil film Anniyan and Hindi film [...]

The state government has announced Kalaimamani awards Thursday. Popular film personalities including Silambarasan, Vishal, Jayam Ravi, Jeeva, Vineeth, Venu Aravindh, Kanja Karupu, Trisha, Navya Nair, Deepa Venkat, Aarthy and CID Sakunthala have been selected to receive the awards. Also lyricists Pa Vijay, Kabilan, Na Muthukumar and music composer Vidyasagar have been chosen for the honor. [...]

Mohanlal is undoubtedly one of the most talented actors in Indian cinema. He has several hit films under his belt and had won National Awards for best actor twice for his performance in Bharatham and Vaanaprastham. He had also been conferred India’s highest civilian honour Padma Shri Award for his contribution to Indian cinema. His [...]

Though the film Paruthi Veeran has become a big engrosser at the box office, the director of the film Ameer is still waiting for the reimbursement of his own money spent on the film after the producer dropped the project half-way. When Ameer launched the project with Actor Sivakumar’s son Karthi, K.E.Gnanavel Raaja came forward [...]

 Veyyil has been selected as the ‘Best other language film’ at the Amritha Awards in Kerala. Interestingly the movie has been selected to represent Indian cinema at the Cannes Film Festival this year. The third film from director Shankar’s production house, the movie won critical and popular acclaim for its realistic narration of the [...]

The Flowserve long-term support of indo-US business relations has been honoured with an inaugural award from the Indo-American Chamber at a ceremony in Chennai, India Flowserve has been honoured as the recipient of the Indo-American Chamber-Sanmar Indo-US Business Cooperation Award. Lewis Kling, President and CEO of Flowserve accepted the award in Chennai, India on behalf [...]

After an initial gaffe by the world chess body FIDE, India’s Viswanathan Anand was formally crowned as the world No.1 last week after he won the Morelia-Linares Chess Tournament last month. He also received the ‘Jameo de Oro’, one of Spain’s highest civilian award given to a foreigner. Anand spoke to Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) candidly [...]

Television artist Santhoshi being crowned ‘Miss Chinnathirai-2007′ by actor Bharath in Chennai. Television artist Santhoshi was crowned ‘Miss Chinnathirai — 2007′ at a glittering function on Sunday. Iswarya won the second place while Kajol came third. Actor Bharath honoured the winners. Earlier, the contest featured a beauty pageant by small screen women actors at the [...]

Malayalam kutty Gopika was recently awarded with the Padmini Ramachandran award for the Best Women Film Personality, by the US Malayalee Association. These annual awards are given in the honor of the late Padmini Ramachandran, a long time member of the Associate.

Chennai born Sukanya Krishnan, who has won several awards for her television news coverage for mainstream media, added another feather to her cap by winning the New York Emmy Award in the on-camera: programme host/moderator category for the current year. Sukanya , 32, has worked for several television channels and among the major stories covered [...]