Real Heros of Tamil Cinema

Kailasam Balachander

He was known as K.Balachandar in tamil cinema industry. He was an Indian filmmaker and playwrigh. He was well known for his distinct film-making style, and the Indian film industry knew him as a master of unconventional themes and hard-hitting contemporary subject matter. Balachander's films are well known for their portrayal of women as bold personalities and central characters. Popularly referred to as Iyakkunar Sigaram ("the director who scaled the peak"), His films are usually centred on unusual or complicated interpersonal relationships and social themes. He started his film career in 1964 as a screenwriter and graduated to a director with Neerkumizhi(1965).

In a career that spanned 50 years, he had contributed to nearly 100 feature films either as a screen writer or director, thus becoming one of the most profilic filmmakers in the country. Known among his colleagues as a tough task master, he was credited with having nurtured numerous actors, notably Nagesh, Sujatha, Kamal Hassan, Rajinikanth, Chiranjeevi, Jayaprada, Jayasuda,  Saritha, Renuka, Nassar, Prakash Raj, Ramesh ARavindh and Vivek.

In his film career, Balachander had won nine National Film Awards and 13 Film Fare Awards. He was honored with the Padmasri (1987), India's fourth highest civilian award, and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in cinema.

He also made films under his production house,  Apart Kavithalaya Productions from Tamil, he made films in other languages such as Telugu, Kannada anf Hindi Towards the tail end of his career, he directed a few TV serials and made a few film appearances as well.

Lets Have a Look About the Film Production Companies.

What is a Production Company?

In Tamil cinema mostly production companies takes a unique position. Production companies will be included with studios and filming instruments. Mostly they will be the wealth support for the filmmakers. And, they also takes the copyright of films and they does the necessary promotions for the films. In Tamil cinema we can find a large number of Production Companies. Among them, we can find some companies which has a unique position industry. Now we'll see some of them...

AVM Productions

AVM is the oldest and largest film production studio in Tamil Cinema Industry. It is currently owned by M. Saravanan and his son, M. S. Guhan. The most recent film they have produced since their opening with Naam Iruvar in 1947, is Vettaikkaaran. The filming studios are located in Vadapalani, Chennai.

In 1940, Meiyappan produced Bhoo Kailas, a mythological which created history. The film was made in Telugu, its lead players were from Telugu cinema and it was directed by Sundar Rao Nadkarni, a Mangalorean who had his training in Bombay. The film turned out to be a big hit and also won critical acclaim! Meiyappan struck gold with comedy next.

To know further about AVM Productions. Visit http://www.thefullwiki.org/AVM_Productions 

Ayngaran International

Ayngaran International is an overseas film distributing and producing company of Tamil language films. The company distributes Tamil films to countries other than India. They also change the Indian regional DVDs into North American and European format. Since the company started, they distributed audio in audio cassettes and CDs, and videos in VHS. In 2001 they began to distribute DVDs and later ceased VHS distribution. They provide subtitles in English and a variety of other languages on each DVD film. In 2006, French and German languages were added to subtitle selections to a few films.

Bharatbala Productions

BharatBala Productions (BBP) is a film productions house with offices in Mumbai and Chennai. The company’s activities span feature films, television commercials, documentaries, and music videos. The company is led by filmmakers Bharatbala and Kanika Myer. BBP is noteworthy for its production caliber and unique treatment of subject matter, which have won it a host of awards, locally and internationally.

After making more than 500 TV commercials for both Indian and International brands in last 15 years, BBP expanded its scope of activities to include feature films and other projects driven by in house developed concepts. These projects generated multiple and longer term streams of revenues. The most well known of these projects are the Vandemataram & Jana Gana Mana films.

Central Studios

Central Studios was a motion picture movie studio in Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India started by B.R.Naidu and other prominent industrialists like Swamikannu Vincent of Coimbatore in 1935 to make Tamil Nadu and other South Indian lauguage movies.The Studio was a major hub of Tamil Movie production with many later day Superstar starting and spending their early days in this Studio.

The Studio had almost all modern facilities and technical workshops.The Studio is located in Uppilipalayam,Singanallur ,Trichy Road which is today a part of the city.The Studio management later passed on the Lakshmi Mills family who closed it in 1955 as Chennai emerged as a Movie hub and also to keep movie industry out of Coimbatore,as it was fast emerging as a major Industrial and Educational hub.

Gemini Studios

Gemini Studios  was launched when Thiruthuraipoondi Subramanian Srinivasan (1903-1969) bought a film distribution concern at an auction and renamed it as Gemini Pictures also known as Gemini Studios. Gemini Studios served as a breeding ground for innumerable artists and technicians for the south Indian Film Industry. The Gemini twins became a household symbol and the Gemini flyover was named after the original studio at that junction.

Kavithalaya Productions

Kavithalayaa Productions is a Tamil cinema film production company and film distribution company founded by film director, screenwriter and producer K. Balachander. Located in Kodambakkam, Tamil Nadu, it has released several acclaimed Tamil languagefeatures of the Chennai film Industry, including Sindhu Bhairavi, Mani Ratnam's Roja and K. S. Ravikumar's commercially successful film Muthu. Balachander's children R. Balachander and Pushpa Kadaswamy also produce for the banner.

Leukos Films

Leukos Films is a production company launched in September 2007 by Indian actor, Madhavan. Its first release was Evano Oruvan, which was released commercially in December 2007. Despite having a below average opening the film became an average grosser due to glowing reviews and positive word of mouth. Leukos Films have organised sponsored international premieres for Evano Oruvan across the globe. The lead stars, Madhavan, Sangeetha and Seeman will be present at all venues and will also have a “Meet & Greet” with winners of contests in every city. Top celebrities, press and the elite will be invited for the premieres and they will voice their views on the film. The premieres in Los Angeles, New York and Toronto will be on 26, 27 and 28 October respectively. It will be for the first time that an Indian film will have such big premieres across the globe before its theatrical release. Evano Oruvan, will be also premiered from Nov 6 to 12 in UAE and Nov 22 to 24 in Singapore and Malaysia.

Madras Talkies

Madras Talkies is an established Film and Television Production and Distribution Company in India setup in 1995 with Mani Ratnam and Suhasini Maniratnam as partners. Madras Talkies is actively involved in production of films and television serials, which are distributed all over the world. The company has produced over 9 feature films and 6 television serials till date. Ratnam served as a producer on several films before setting up the banner in 1997. The company is located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Sun Pictures

Sun Pictures is a Tamil film production and distribution company from the Sun TV Network of Chennai. It is owned by Kalanithi Maran, and was set up in 2008.It plans to produce at least 10 feature films each in three languages - Tamil, Telugu and Kannada annually through Sun Pictures. Sun TV Network has signed up with all leading players, including stars, directors and music directors in the Tamil film industry.The move to directly get into film production is a natural extension for Sun, which has acquired almost 80 per cent of all the movies in the southern regional markets for well over a decade.The biggest blockbuster that they have distributed is Ayan. The production company has good marketing techniques and most of the films released so far were hits. 

Why TAMIL CINEMA???

In present mostly the youth has an powerful attraction with Cinema. They try to act, sing, write and even live like stars who are in film industry. Some of them makes their dreams in film industry and achieve their goals by their dedication and hard work. But' there are large number of people who lost their life because of cinema. So, we can say that Cinema is much easy and Difficult as it is. India has made an huge Landmark in world cinema. 
Cinema can be also considered as a powerful media to interact people. 

 Cinema has introduced a large number of most talented people to the world. If we asked, "What is Cinema?" who is in cinema industry will his answer will be, "It is a different world".  

Yes, it is correct. It is an huge family and as well as a world. After watching a film as audience we just comment it and we'll move away. 

Who Am I...

Now the modern world is moving mostly to entertainment. Among the people, Cinema has become an Big Entertainment category. With that, the Tamil Cinema is showing a huge Development. So, we can say that every man has an contact with cinema. I am writing this blog as a Short Film maker and Owner of "TEAM PARWAIGAL".