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Topic started by cinemalover on Tue Mar 24 7:34:12 2009. [Full View]

thinking about the current state of tamil serials being telecast in various channels all day long, one can see a same pattern in all these serials and noone can blame the producers except the audience themselves.

and thinking deeply about tamil serials, i also think how serials begun in tamil and how they went on and the advancements made in the mean time and also the degeneration into the present level.

the year is 1984 and it signifies many things in my nostalgic trip down memory lane.

in 1984 the first tamil Tv in india, chennai tholaikatchi started beaming colour broadcast of tamil programs,
the year 1984 India celebrated silver jubilee of television in india.
and in 1984 first star nite program in tamil was conducted by chennai doordarshan.(a memorable events particpated by all film stars and drama personalities)

and most of all 1984 is the year in which my family actually bought a TV set as our own.

although i have remembed the first movie i saw in Tv is porter ponnusamy- a thengai srinivasan movie(a porter in day and do-gooder by night).
we watched in awe and amusement in whatever was shown in those days , like,
kanmani poonga,
kanbom karpom,
chitrahaar,
chitra mala,
vayalum vaazhvum,
ethiroli,
munnottam,
oliyum oliyum,
tuesday weekly drama,
sunday tamil movie, saturday hindi movie,
regional movies in many days, and so on..

also my brother mastered the art of turning antenna(remember? the three long aluminium sticks in our mottai madi)in specific directions made us watch the ceylon Tv called rupavahini -in which we watched ssome tamil programs.

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From: P_R on Tue Mar 24 9:05:00 2009. [Full View]

Here is Crazy

Madhu is with his girlfriend in a restaurant when his father Ramanujam
spots him

R: டேய் மாது
Madhu: (pretends not to know him and taps the shoulder of the guy sitting behind him) ஹலோ மிஸ்டர் மாது, உங்களை யாரோ தேடி வந்திருக்காங்க
(The guy sitting there is actually Cheenu)
Cheenu: தமிழ் லேது
R: அட சீனு
C: ஏமய்யா மாது சீனு !
அப்பாயி நானு மாது லேது
நானு சீனு காது
நானு வேணு சேது
போது ?
R: என்ன டா நடக்கறது இங்க ? மாது என்னடான்னா ஒரு பொண்ணோட உக்காந்துண்டிருக்கான்...சீனு என்னடான்னா தெலுங்குல பேசறான்
M: சார் சின்ன வயசுல அவர் குழந்தைய திருவிழால தொலச்சுட்டார்னு நினைக்கிறேன்.. சார் ஏன் பேர் சுவாமினாதகுருகுகநாதன் ஃப்ரெண்ட்ஸ் செல்லமா சுருக்கமா நாதகுககுருநாதஸ்வாமின்னு கூப்பிடுவாங்க....உங்க பேரை சொல்ல்வே இல்லையே
R: (in a high temper) I AM RAMANUJAM !!!
M: என்ன ஒரு ஆவேசமான இன்ட்ரொடக்ஷன்! Glad to meet you
From: cinemalover on Tue Mar 24 9:18:30 2009. [Full View]

following sekar,YGM ,mouli another dramtist kaathadi ramamurthy entered serial scene with his own products, his were light hearted and down to earth comedies, and i remember a couple like,
"aiyo amma appappa"-in which he plays a carefree youth with no ambitions who takes whatever comes i his ways.
in one episode he goes for the ' ponnu pakkara ceremony" of his lover, since he is an orphan he arranges for fathers to act as his own, with everyone sending a father to help kaathadi ramu, so at the time of 'ponnu pathing " there is half a dozen appas, with the broker point them to the FIl as'ivargal ellam ramuvin appakkal"-we laughed about it for a long time

the second serial is "dinesh-ganesh" with kaathadi as dinesh and delhi ganesh as ganesh-,
both are friends and neighbors caught in the "traumatic"middle class life.

as a chance to escape the middle class boredom , both families get a chance to spend the summer vacation in a ooty bungalow.

the families make such hype and hoopola on their journey to ooty, not knowing that they are going to spend the summer in a 'haunted house'.
the thrilling(funny , of course)experiences of the families of dinesh and ganesh in the bungalow haunted by the ' white dressed ghost'.
that was a hilarious and entertaining serial.
From: cinemalover on Tue Mar 24 9:27:30 2009. [Full View]

for diwali 1985, the chennai doordarshan produced a drama- a two hour long one- called " en veedu, en kanavan, en kuzhandhai", with aachi manorama donning the lead role, as a middle-aged childless brahmin lady.
her pair is noted dramatist kambar jayaraman.
the drama is the best drama produced by DD ad was telecast millions of time.

manorama, though childless, devotes completly for the service of her husband's brothers and sisters.
and finally gets conceiving, as a gift from god for her selfless nature.

she also went on to act two more serials , like
andhapuram- a histroical drama set in middle age tamil kingdoms caught up in power struggle, with manorama as the queen-mother.

the second one in "kaatu patti chathiram" as a loud mouthed tea shop owner, who solves all problems in the highway transit village of the same name.

but for me , her best role in Tv is 2002- sun TV produced, and suhasini directed "anbulla snehithi"-in which manorama plays a old iyengar lady and a aunt /old memebr of ladies only iyengar family caught between past and present.
that serial also had brilliant performance from , seema, swarnamalya, anu hassan , banuchander, ravi raghavendra, gopi.
the serial was one of the shortest produced by sun TV with story ending in 100-120 episodes.
with final episodes being more gripping.
From: P_R on Tue Mar 24 9:33:14 2009. [Full View]

Wasn't anbulla snehithi directed by Priya V (Kanda Naal mudhal) ?

From: thriinone on Tue Mar 24 9:53:42 2009.

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Prabhu Ram wrote:

R: டேய் மாது
Madhu: (pretends not to know him and taps the shoulder of the guy sitting behind him) ஹலோ மிஸ்டர் மாது, உங்களை யாரோ தேடி வந்திருக்காங்க
(The guy sitting there is actually Cheenu)
Cheenu: தமிழ் லேது
R: அட சீனு
C: ஏமய்யா மாது சீனு !
அப்பாயி நானு மாது லேது
நானு சீனு காது
நானு வேணு சேது
போது ?
R: என்ன டா நடக்கறது இங்க ? மாது என்னடான்னா ஒரு பொண்ணோட உக்காந்துண்டிருக்கான்...சீனு என்னடான்னா தெலுங்குல பேசறான்
M: சார் சின்ன வயசுல அவர் குழந்தைய திருவிழால தொலச்சுட்டார்னு நினைக்கிறேன்.. சார் ஏன் பேர் சுவாமினாதகுருகுகநாதன் ஃப்ரெண்ட்ஸ் செல்லமா சுருக்கமா நாதகுககுருநாதஸ்வாமின்னு கூப்பிடுவாங்க....உங்க பேரை சொல்ல்வே இல்லையே
R: (in a high temper) I AM RAMANUJAM !!!
M: என்ன ஒரு ஆவேசமான இன்ட்ரொடக்ஷன்! Glad to meet you

ROTFL

excellent memory! I should give it to you!

ethni perkku "amlu" serial ninaivu irukku? shalini pappava nalla nadichudhu.

From: cinemalover on Tue Mar 24 11:52:25 2009. [Full View]

[quote="Prabhu Ram"]Wasn't anbulla snehithi directed by Priya V (Kanda Naal mudhal) ?[/quote]

not sure whether it was directed by priya or suhasini, but the serial was produced by madras talkies.
From: cinemalover on Tue Mar 24 12:22:57 2009. [Full View]

with the famous drama troupes occupying a major spot on tamil TV serial scenario, and with the film fraternity , still waiting to test the new opputunity, a new kind of entrants came and occupied the tamil tv serial production from 1986 to today.

since tv serials needed sponsors( rare to find in chennai with its fledgling media companies) some AD filmamkers like krishnaswami associates and 7th channel(producer of vettaiyadu vilayadu and indrologathil naa.....)came and dominated tamil tv serilas followed by many.

one of the first and finest serial produced by either one of this Ad companies is "nalladhor veenai"-which marked the first turning point in tamil serial as a popular tamil heroine debuted in TV , a trend that continues till today.
but lakshmi was at her peak, if you look into the fact that this serial was aired at the same time samasaram adhu minsaram was making waves at Box office.

the main point about the serial is the advanced storyline, which may be modern even for the current lifestyle of present generation.

nalladhor..... is a story about the family happenings of a religious, orthodox carnatic musician poornam viswanathan.....

but the main protoganist in the story is , his son sarangan, played brilliantly by nizhalgal ravi,he returns home nearly after a deecade after living in western cosmopolitan set up in paris , france.
he left india much against the wishes of his puritanical father.
he even marries a french woman and divorces her.

the family firend of poornam is business man ARS, who is traditionala nd modern, and his beautiful wife lakshmi, they are childless but fond of each other, and very friendly, with the husban gives the wife all freedoms(financial and intellectual).

the twists starts with ravi and lakshmi meet and they find in each other the missing point of their psyche.
their relation starts as friendship but reaches to a unconventional arena,

and i dont know what happened then , as
the probem with DD isthat , they had only one channel and will drop serials if they have some other important program to show like the Asiad 86 or cricket tours in england which take valuable time in evenings.
From: aanaa on Wed Mar 25 17:00:01 2009. [Full View]

nalladhor veenai"

http://www.rajshri.com/Tamil/tvShows/nallathorveenai/index.asp
From: P_R on Thu Apr 2 7:57:41 2009. [Full View]

Crazy: ஸ்டாடிஸ்டிக்ஸ்னா புள்ளியியல்
சீனு: கரும்புள்ளியா செம்புள்ளீயா
க்ரேசி: புள்ளியியல் கத்துக்கறது.....கரும்புள்ளி செம்புள்ளி குத்திக்கறது.... அதுவும் உன் மொட்டை மண்டைக்கு நன்னா வாட்டமா இருக்கும்

சீனு: பொண்ணு பார்க்க போறச்ச ஜாதகம் பார்ப்பாங்கன்னு கேள்விப்பட்டிருக்கேன்..... உங்கப்பா கைரேகையெல்லாமா பார்ப்பர் ?
மாது: நீ வேற....அது சரியா இருந்தா அப்புறம் பூமத்திய ரேகை, கடக ரேகை எல்லாம் பார்ப்பார்

Here is Crazy

I'd pay good money to buy that DVD when they release

The only Crazy TV show not mauled by SB Kanthan's laughter tracks and kOmaaLithanam and Ramesh Vinayagam's intrusive BGM of their later serials.
From: great on Sun Oct 25 10:10:27 2009. [Full View]

P_R wrote:

Wasn't anbulla snehithi directed by Priya V (Kanda Naal mudhal) ?

Yeah, it was by Priya.

Zee is planning to retelecast Malgudi Days

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