Amaidhi Padai

Amaidhi Padai

Amaidhi Padai (1994) is a Tamil film directed by Manivannan. Satyaraj did a leading role in this movie. The story revolves around how the poor man built his political career through short routes. Satyaraj did a dual role as father and son. This film is touted as one of Satyaraj's best performance till date.

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Cast

• Satyaraj
• Manivannan
• Ranjitha
• Sujatha
• Kasturi
• R. Sundarrajan
• S. S. Chandran
• Gandhimathi
• Thiyagu
• vinoth kumar

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Plot

Amavasai (Sathyaraj), a nomad and locally known fool gets connected to a politician Mani (Manivanan). Amavasai helps Mani with some petty tasks during election campaign and meetings. Amavasai grows into a well acclaimed helper for Mani. Meanwhile Amavasai falls in love with Kasthuri. Mani instructs Amavasai to stand for MLA election on his party ticket. Amavasai wins and becomes the MLA. He forgets his relationship with Kasthuri and rejects her pregnancy and child. Also he rejects Mani's help and offers him a role under him. He changes his name to Nagaraja Cholan for gaining status. He offers to marry the daughter of local landlord (Sujatha) and even cheats him of his Palace. Over years Amavasai grows into a matured politician, criminal and corrupt. He builds a strong political empire through shortcuts. His ego and pride to remain in power made him kill many. Amavasai's son (Thangavel, again Sathyaraj) through Kasthuri comes out as a police constable who is deputed in Amavasai's constituency. Thangavel comes to know of his real father and about his betrayal of his Mother and also his corrupt practices. Thangavel seeks revenge. Meanwhile Amavasai as an MLA is accused of many illegal practices. The story further revolves around how Amavasai and Thangavel proceed in their battle and finally who wins the battle.

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Reception

Amaidhi Padai was the most successful among the Pongal releases of 1994. The critics praised the film and declared it as "Asathal Padai".

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Remakes

Year	Film	Language	Cast	Director	Box Office
1994	M Dharmaraju M.A.	Telugu	Mohan Babu, Sujatha, Surabhi	Raviraja Pinisetty	Hit
1995	Jallaad	Hindi	Mithun Chakraborty, Moushmi Chatterjee, Rambha, Madhoo	T L V Prasad	Hit

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Mummy 4 Tamil Dubbed

Mummy 4 Tamil Dubbed

The Mummy is any one of four series of adventure films about an ancient Egyptian priest accidentally resurrected, who brings with him a powerful curse, and the efforts of heroic archeologists to stop him.

Contents   [hide]  1 Universal Horror Films 2 Hammer Horror Films 3 New Mummy Series (1999-2008) 3.1 Cancelled fourth film 3.2 Reboot 3.3 Cast and characters 3.4 Other media 4 References

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Universal Horror Films

The original series of six installments, starring iconic horror actors Boris Karloff (in the original only) and Lon Chaney Jr., were produced for Universal Studios from 1932 to 1955.

• The Mummy, 1932. The movie features the story of an ancient Egyptian priest mummy called Imhotep (Karloff), who is resurrected in the present day.
• The Mummy's Hand, 1940. Not a direct sequel to the 1932 film, only the resurrected mummy theme is the same. This film featuresKharis (played by Tom Tyler), another Egyptian priest turned living dead mummy. Some flashbacks, using scenes from the original film, feature Karloff.
• The Mummy's Tomb, 1942. Direct sequel to the 1940 film. Tom Tyler is replaced by Lon Chaney, Jr. in this and the next two films. Tyler, however, still plays Kharis in flashbacks to Ancient Egypt.
• The Mummy's Ghost, 1944. Direct sequel to the 1942 film
• The Mummy's Curse, 1944. Direct sequel to the first 1944 film

• Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, 1955. Indirect sequel/spoof of the first five films. According to the Universal Horror tie-in novel Return of the Wolf Man, Klaris, the mummy in this film, was a cousin of Kharis, the mummy from the previous four films.

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Hammer Horror Films

In 1959 the British Hammer Film Productions began its own Mummy series.

• The Mummy, 1959. Set in 1895, the film stars Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee as Kharis. The plot is based on Universal's The Mummy's Hand and The Mummy's Tomb.
• The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, 1964. Features Dickie Owen as the Mummy Ra-Antef.
• The Mummy's Shroud, 1966. Features Eddie Powell as the Mummy Prem.
• Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, 1971. Based on Bram Stoker's 1903 novel The Jewel of Seven Stars. Features Valerie Leon as the Mummy Queen Tera and her reincarnation Margaret Fuchs.

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New Mummy Series (1999-2008)

Originally a proposed remake of The Mummy would have been directed by horror filmmaker/writer Clive Barker. Barker’s vision for the film was violent, with the story revolving around the head of a contemporary art museum who turns out to be a cultist trying to reanimate mummies.^[1][2] Barker's take was "dark, sexual and filled with mysticism",^[3] and that, "it would have been a great low-budget movie".^[1] Two of the movies had mixed reviews, while the third received negative ones.

In 1999, Stephen Sommers wrote and directed a remake of The Mummy, loosely based on the original film of 1932. This film switches genres from the emphasis on horror to adventure, concentrating more on action sequences and effects, and a higher element of Egyptian lore. The film became a box office success spawning two sequels and an upcoming fourth film, a spin-off series, and an animated television series.

• The Mummy, 1999. It is the year 1923 and Richard “Rick” O'Connell, a British explorer, has discovered Hamunaptra, the city of the dead. Three years later, O'Connell returns to the site with a beautiful librarian, Evelyn 'Evie' Carnahan and her brother, Johnathan. When Evie accidentally revives the mummified corpse of an Egyptian priest, Imhotep, the pair must find a way to kill him before he rises back into power and destroys the world.
• The Mummy Returns, 2001. It is the year 1933 and Rick O'Connell and Evelyn Carnahan are married with an 8 year-old son, Alex. When Alex triggers a curse and Imhotep is resurrected, Rick and Evie must once again try to save the world and defeat the mummy.
• The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 2008. Set in 1946, the movie continues the adventures of Rick O'Connell, his wife Evie, and his son Alex against a different mummy, the Dragon Emperor (Jet Li) of China.

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Cancelled fourth film

After Tomb of the Dragon Emperor was released, actress Maria Bello stated that another Mummy film will "absolutely" be made, and that she had already signed on.^[4] Actor Luke Ford was signed on for three more films as well.^[5] However, Universal Pictures announced that they have cancelled the fourth film and any other future Mummy movies.

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Reboot

On April 4, 2012, Universal announced that they were rebooting the Mummy franchise, with Jon Spaihts to write the film and Sean Daniel returning as producer.^[6] Roberto Orci andAlex Kurtzman, after signing a two-year deal with Universal, will also produce through their K/O Paper Products banner.

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Cast and characters

This section requires expansion with: section. (January 2009)

Main article: List of The Mummy characters

Character	Film
	The Mummy	The Mummy Returns	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Rick O'Connell	Brendan Fraser
Evelyn Carnahan-O'Connell / Princess Nefertiri	Rachel Weisz		Maria Bello
Jonathan Carnahan	John Hannah
Imhotep	Arnold Vosloo
Beni Gabor	Kevin J. O'Connor
Egyptologist	Jonathan Hyde
Ardeth Bay	Oded Fehr
Curator	Erick Avari
Henderson	Stephen Dunham
Daniels	Corey Johnson
Burns	Tuc Watkins
Warden	Omid Djalili
Pharaoh Seti I	Aharon Ipale
Winston Havelock	Bernard Fox
Meela Nais / Anck-su-namun	Patricia Velásquez
Alex O'Connell		Freddie Boath	Luke Ford
Baltus Hafez		Alun Armstrong
The Scorpion King		Dwayne Johnson
Lock-Nah		Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Izzy		Shaun Parkes
Red		Bruce Byron
Jacques		Joe Dixon
Spivey		Tom Fisher
Emperor Han			Jet Li
General Yang			Anthony Wang
Lin			Isabella Leong
Maguire			Liam Cunningham
Roger Wilson			David Calder
Ming Guo			Russell Wong
Zi-Yuan			Michelle Yeoh

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Other media

The entrance to Revenge of the Mummyat Universal Studios Hollywood

Two video game adaptations of The Mummy (1999) were published in 2000: an action-adventure game for the PlayStation and PC,^[7] as well as a Game Boy Color puzzle game.^[8] Mummy Returns and Tomb of the Dragon Emperor were also made into games. In fall 2012, a massive multiplayer online game known as The Mummy Online will be released.

In May 2001, Chaos! Comics released the first of a three issue series inspired by the film, titled 'The Mummy Valley of the Gods'.^[9] The plot was supposed to take place between the first film and "The Mummy Returns". Rick and Evelyn are on their honeymoon in Egypt and end up embarking on yet another adventure where they must unravel the mysteries of the Orb of Destiny and discover the location of the Valley of the Gods hidden beneath the sands. However, the second and third issues were never published.^[10] This was most likely due to Chaos later filing bankruptcy in 2002 and selling the rights to all their titles at that time. Years later in 2008, another Mummy comic series was released by IDW Publishing, spanning four issues. This series was titled 'The Mummy: the Rise and Fall of Xango's Ax'. Unlike the preceding comic series, all of the planned issues were published.^[11]

The film also inspired a roller coaster, Revenge of the Mummy in Universal Studios Theme Parks, Florida.^[12] Another is in Hollywood.^[13]

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Asathal 'Tamil Movie'

Asathal 'Tamil Movie'

Asathal is a South Indian Tamil film released in 2001.

The film is a comedy caper making the audience explode in laughs. It is a remake of the Hollywood Blockbuster "Three men and a baby."

The film well success at the box office.

Asathal
Directed by	P.Vasu
Starring	Sathyaraj Ramya Krishnan Vadivelu Manivannan Ramesh Khanna Swathi
Music by	Bharadwaj
Release date(s)	2001
Running time	140mins
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Idhuthanda Sattam

Idhuthanda Sattam

Uthama Puthiran (2010) En Sub.avi

Uthama Puthiran (2010) En Sub

Uthama Puthiran (English: Ideal Son) is a 2010 Indian Tamil-language action-comedy film directed by Mithran Jawahar. A remake of the 2008 Telugu film Ready, it stars Dhanush and Genelia D'Souza, reprising her role from the original version, in the lead roles;^[1] the supporting cast includes K. Bhagyaraj, Vivek, Ashish Vidyarthi and Jayaprakash Reddy among others.

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Siva (Dhanush) is a happy-go-lucky young boy in a large family. The head of this family are 3 older brothers. One of the brothers, is the father of Siva. Siva studies from a hostel away from home. He is always helpful and always comes in when others need him. In one of his obliging acts he helps his cousin Kalpana (shriya) to elope with her lover against the family's choice. This aggravates the family and they are asked to forget all about him.

On another occasion, he is asked to help a friend in a love marriage. Siva kidnaps Pooja (Genelia D'Souza) on a mistaken identity from the marriage hall. When Pooja is kidnapped, her uncles (both are from the Gounder community) and their henchmen follow them. Pooja while on the run tells Siva that she wasn’t interested in the wedding and her uncles are forcing her marriage with one of their sons only to seize her properties. When Siva went to kidnap her, she was thinking of how to run away from this marriage. While escaping from Pooja's uncles, Siva brings Pooja to his house under a false identity. Soon, Siva falls in love with Pooja and determines to marry her only with the consent of all the members of both families. When Siva's family along with Pooja visit a temple, her uncle kidnaps her and locks her away in his house. To save Pooja, Siva joins Emotional Ekambaram (Vivek) — the auditor of Pooja's uncles — as an assistant. He makes Ekambaram believe that he is capable of creating new worlds with characters of their own. Ekambaram then "creates" two American billionaires and with the help of Siva, convinces the two uncles to marry their sons to the daughters of these billionaires. To prove that they are real and not merely the figment of Ekambaram's imagination, Siva asks his parents and his uncles and aunts to play the role. They manage to win the Gounders' hearts and bring about a change in their behaviour.

Then, with the consent of all the family members Siva marries Pooja.

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• Dhanush as Shiva
• Genelia D'Souza as Pooja
• Vivek as 'Emotional' Ekambaram
• K. Bhagyaraj as Raghupathi
• Ashish Vidyarthi as Periyamuthu Gounder
• Jaya Prakash Reddy as Chinnamuthu Gounder
• R. Sundarrajan as Sundaram
• Karunas as Janaki
• Vijay Babu as Raghavan
• Charuhasan as Swamiji
• Mayilsamy as Santhosh Kaan
• Srinath as David
• Rajendran as Velu
• Ambika as Sivakaami
• Rekha as Meenakshi
• Rajalakshmi as Lakshmi Raghupathi
• Nithya as Bharatham Sundaram
• Uma Padmanabhan as Sundari Raghavan
• Surekha Vani
• Aarthi as Raji
• Shriya Saran as Kalpana (Guest appearance)

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Uthamaputhiran
Soundtrack album by Vijay Antony
Released	5 October 2010
Producer	Vijay Antony
Vijay Antony chronology
Aval Peyar Thamizharasi (2010) Uthamaputhiran (2010) Velayudham (2011)

The soundtrack, composed by Vijay Antony, was released on 5 October 2010 in Chennai. The album consists of 6 tracks overall.

Tracklist
No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Ussumu Laresay"	Vijay Antony, Emcee Jazz, Janani	4:46
2.	"Kan Irrandil"	Naresh Iyer	4:29
3.	"Idicha Pacharisi"	Ranjith, Vinaya, Sangeetha	4:43
4.	"En Nenju"	Vijay Prakash, Saindhavi	4:47
5.	"Thooral Thedum"	Ajeesh, Janani	4:19
6.	"Ulagam Unnaku"	Vijay Prakash	3:36
Total length:			35:02

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• Telugu (original): Ready - Director: Srinu Vytla
• Kannada: Raam - Director: Madesha
• Hindi: Ready - Director: Anees Bazmee

Ready (Telugu) (2008)	Raam (Kannada) (2009)	Uthamaputhiran (Tamil) (2010)	Ready (Hindi) (2011)
Ram Pothineni	Puneet Rajkumar	Dhanush	Salman Khan
Genelia D'Souza	Priyamani	Genelia D'Souza	Asin Thottumkal

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