Sri MGR Year 95, 30th August, Thursday
Two MGR movies will be re-released tomorrow in Coimbatore one is Thaiku Thalai Magan in Delite and Deiva Thai in Royal theater.
Thaiku Thalai Magan will be re-released tomorrow in Coimbatore Delite as 3 shows. The ad photos are black and white and they have given appropriate colours.
The above image is from Maalai Malar Coimbatore edition. The two MGR movies news was forwarded by MGR Devotee Tirupur Ravichandran.
Sri MGR Year 95, 29th August, Wednesday
Below are some of the images captured by MGR Devotee Sathya for the movie Netru Indru Nalai which was re-released previous week in Mahalakshmi theater. The movie collected around Rs.75,000 with this print.
Duet songs from Netru Indru Nalai.
Below is the video clip of Padum Pothu song uploaded by ponmalarmalar in youtube website.
Sri MGR Year 95, 28th August, Tuesday
MGR dual action movie Netru Indru Nalai was released previous week in Mahalakshmi theater. The same movie was re-released a year back.
The print is worst, and MGR Devotee Sathya had captured images to share in our MGR Blog.
In this movie our beloved Leader Puratchi Thalaivar MGR did a different role. And the songs are the plus points of the movie. The above images are from the song Inoru Vanam.
The above images are from the song Nee yenna sonnallum.
It is easier to capture a video but capturing image is difficult we have to sacrifice watching the movie. We thank Sathya for his work.
Sri MGR Year 95, 24th August, Friday
MGR dual action movie and super hit movie of 1965 Enga Veetu Pillai was re-released two weeks back in Mahalakshmi theater. We have already uploaded some of the images.
MGR Devotee Sathya had captured some images and videos to share in our MGR Blog. Since the print is not good he has captured many images instead of video. The video is very grainy and we have to re work for better viewing.
Below are some of the images from Enga Veetu Pillai movie screened in Mahalakshmi theater, these images were captured on Sunday evening show. The collection of the movie was Rs.84,000.
Below images were captured during the duet song Nan Manthopil. MGR Fans and Devotees were lighting camphor for the philosophical and prophetic song Nan Aanai Ittal.
Click the above images to view.
Sri MGR Year 95, 23rd August, Thursday
Sathyaraja Pictures and our beloved Leader Puratchi Thalaivar MGR movie Arasakattalai is being re-released in Coimbatore Delite Theater this week. And the movie is celebrating combined second week run.
MGR Fans had informed me earlier that the print of the movie and the collection is good.
The above image appeared in Maalai malar digital edition and the news about the ad was forwarded by MGR Devotee Yukesh Babu.
Sri MGR Year 95, 22nd August, Wednesday
Emgeeyar Pictures first production Nadodi Mannan has reached another mile stone. Today is the commencement of 55th year of Nadodi Mannan. A special video has been compiled for the anniversary.
In the below video some of the double actions scenes were included to glorify MGR, his talent in production, direction and camera technique.
The video shows the conversation scene of Wanderer and King in the castle, the dialogues and the visual a treat to watch. King MGR’s shadow on Wanderer MGR, King comes behind Wanderer and finally shaking hands all by one person though appears as two individuals. The magic done in those days. Hats off to their imagination and hard work..
Here are some of the trivia from Nadodi Mannan.
Nadodi Mannan Trivia
The movie had 2 Music Directors. The first Music Director was N.S.Balakrishnan, he tuned for three songs the first song that is the title song of the movie "Senthamizhe vanakkam", MGR & Bhanumathy song "Sammadhama" and third one MGR, Bhanumathy and Chandra combination "Padupatta Thannaley". Due to unavoidable circumstances N.S.Balakrishnan resigned from the project. S.M.Subbiah Naidu took the mantle and composed the remaining songs and back ground music.
Cameraman Ramu was well versed in shooting in Black and White. When MGR planned to take the remaining portion in colour, Ramu requested to use some one as the cameraman. After knowing his hesitation MGR asked to go ahead, but Ramu told that he don't know the technical side, and his best friend who promised to help him did not turn over. Those days the colour films are processed in Bombay (Mumbai) only. MGR asked him to for a test shoot, and further said that he need not have to worry about the budget.if the test shoot turns successful, he asked to go ahead shooting with colour film. And MGR was not worried if the test with colour film fails so they have to start shooting again with black and white. Actress from MGR Nadaga Mandram acted for the test. After processing the film the lab gave that no adjustment is needed it is professional looking. Then Cameraman Ramu went on with outdoor shooting in Munnar . That is what we see now in the movie.
The role of Princess Rathna was acted earlier by one artist, which MGR not satisfied with her performance. And also Saroja Devi was casted in the role of Queens Maid , who spies as per MGR's wish. Further more Saroja Devi acted in the song "Padupatta Thannaley". After casting her in the role of Rathna, actress Chandra was included in the cast and she was given the role of Saroja Devi that is the maid and they re-shot the song. MGR had spent more on re shooting due to technical reasons.
Earlier we have uploaded the 50th year i.e. Golden Jubilee of Nadodi Mannan way back in 21st August 2008 with many videos and songs. To read more about that post click the link below.
Sri MGR Year 95, 20th August, Monday
MGR Devotee Yukesh Babu had informed me that Sathayaraja Pictures Arasakattalai was re-released in Coimbatore Royal from August 17th as 4 shows.
Click the above ad image, the image is from Malai Malar digital edition.
Amalraj Pictures Netru Indru Nalai has been re-released in Mahalakshmi theater. This same movie was re-released a year back. The above poster was captured in Purasawalkam.
The movie ad was given in Daily Thanthi. The above ad appeared in Sunday Edition.
Sri MGR Year 95, 18th August, Saturday
MGR dual action movie Enga Veetu Pillai was re-released previous week in Mahalakshmi theater.
The print was not good. Below are some of the images captured by MGR Devotee Sathya in Mahalakshmi theater.
Song Kumari Penning Ullathiley.
The above images are from the song Naan Aanai Ittal the prophetic song of MGR. Which he fulfilled in his life.
Other images and videos will be posted soon.
Sri MGR Year 95, 18th August, Saturday
Ananda Vikatan has published an interview given by MGR’s Grandson MGCB Pradeep. The interview page is given below. Scanned and sent by Tirpur Ravichandran.
Please click the above image to read.
Sri MGR Year 95, 16th August, Thursday
MGR Devotee Tirupur Ravichandran forwarded three images of KBS theater which he took two years back.
This image was captured when K.B.Sundarammal (the first person to receive One Lakh for her role in a Tamil Movie) constructed a theater and named it as KBS in Kodumudi. The theater was inaugrated by our beloved Leader Puratchi Thalaivar MGR, to the right of the image is KBS. The function was presided by MGR, Jayalalitha and Karunanidhi. A rare image!
The theater KBS.
The above image is from the theater office the image is self explanatory. A rare image of MGR with ash in his forehead. Below is that rare image.
Sri MGR Year 95, 15th August, Wednesday
Today is our Country’s Independence Day and we srimgr.com teams wishes all MGR Fans, Devotees and blog readers A Happy Independence Day.
In MGR movies, number of songs are related to Independence and freedom the most appropriate situational song is from Ayirathil Oruvan. Below is the video from the movie Ayirathil Oruvan and the song Atho Antha Paravai, uploaded by Vethusan27 in youtube site.
Sri MGR Year 95, 13th August, Monday
Cinema Express magazine had published a review of MGR movie Malai Kallan. The review is one page and it contains the story and important aspects of the movie.
The movie is based on the novel titled Malai Kallan written by Namakal Ramalingam. The movie was produced in six languages, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada and Singala (Sinhala). The review praises the acting talent of our beloved Leader Puratchi Thalaivar MGR, the disguises he used in the movie and also the stunts. The review also mentions the acting prowess of MGR’s brother M.G.Chakrapani, in the movie he lived as the Inspector. The movie Malai Kallan is the first Tamil film to receive the National award.
There is an error that Andaman Kaithi title was wrongly mentioned as Andaman Kaathali. The scanned image was sent by MGR Devotee Tirupur Ravichandran to share in our MGR Blog.
To read more click the above image.
Sri MGR Year 95, 12th August, Sunday
MGR’s Grandson MGCB Pradeep created a 40 minute video clip which was showed in the function and that video clip was the highlight. He had edited video clips from several MGR movies and kept in mind about the festive season and added Aadi Special and Ramzan special videos.
Below is the video clip from Madurai Veeran colour corrected by MGCB Pradeep. This is the first time in the world a MGR starrer black and white movie being coloured and made public. Let us extend our thanks to MGCB Pradeep for his commendable work.
Colour corrected by M.G.Chakrapani and MGR’s Grandson MGCB Pradeep.
Other videos will be posted soon.
Sri MGR Year 95, 11th August, Saturday
MGR Fest 95 was celebrated in Raja Annamalai Mandram on 5.8.2012 in Chennai. The function was presided by Actress Kanchana, she had acted with our beloved Leader Puratchi Thalaivar MGR in Parakum Pavai and Nan Yen Piranthen.
Actress Rajashri, CID Sakunthala, S.N.Parvathi, Lakshmi (Thirudathae movie child artist) and Dance Master Tara attended the function. The credit goes to ALS Productions Jayanthi Kannappan and Major Dasan.
Below is the video of Actress Kanchana remembering our beloved Leader. She speaks about the dance, acting and political talent of MGR. At the beginning she showed Two Leaves symbol.
She spoke for 6 minutes and I have given the full video of her speech with animation theme as Live coverage.
The below images of MGR with changes in background were done by Tambaram Murali. These images were part of MGR Photo Exhibition.
MGR’s heroines from left Rajashri, Kanchana and Dance Master Tara.
VIPs sitting in the dais from left Jayanthi Kannappan, S.N.Parvathi, Dance Master Tara, Rajashri, Lakshmi and CID Sakunthala.
The images were forwarded by Tirupur Ravichandran to share in our MGR Blog.
Sri MGR Year 95, 10th August, Friday
MGR Devotee Tirupur Ravichandran has forwarded some of these images to share in our MGR Blog. MGR Fest was a grand success, the theme of the festival was MGR in Cinema for 77 years, Golden Jubilee movies of 1962 and MGR’s 95th birthday. We have already posted the images and video of the function.
A variety of MGR images done by Tambaram Murali which was kept in the MGR function in Raja Annamalai Mandram.
Another creative work of Murali.
Actress Kanchana attended the function and gave fifteen minute speech to MGR Fans in Raja Annamalai Mandram (The video will be posted soon). In the image left to right Madurai Tamilnesan, MGR’s Grandson MGCB Pradeep, Actress Kanchana, Tirupur Ravichandran and Major Dasan.
Section of the crowd in the auditorium. More images and speech videos of celebrities will be updated soon.
Sri MGR Year 95, 8th August, Wednesday
MGR festival was held in Chennai on 5th August 2012 in Raja Annamalai Mandram. Before the festival MGR fans meet was held in Royapettah. Most MGR Fans association attended the meet. We have already posted about the meet.
The Chief Guest who presided for MGR Fans meet was MGR’s bodyguard Ramakrishnan. He gave short speech about our beloved Leader Puratchi Thalaivar MGR. He spoke for 30 minutes, and I have captured only 11 minutes of his oration. Below is the video of Ramakrishnan’s discourse on MGR.
He had given an insight into the making of Thali Baghyam, the climax scene in Ayirathil Oruvan and Ninaithathai Mudipavan. He was the stunt double for MGR and Nambiyar in Ayirathil Oruvan. He mentions that the swash buckling of MGR is unmatched in India and no one had the speed and fine execution. Ramakrishnan talked about the unique humane nature of MGR.
From the video, MGR’s grandson MGCB Pradeep helped Ramakrishnan to hold the mike, you can also see at the end of the video, nervous B.S.Raju gesturing MGCB Pradeep to conclude Ramakrishnan speech as the planned speech is about 10 minutes and the prize has to be distributed to MGR Fans and Devotees, it was 1.45 pm when Ramakrishnan started, he concluded is speech after 2.20 pm. And after his speech the prize distribution continued.
Below are some of the images sent by Tirupur Ravichandran captured in Raja Annamalai Mandram.
The front banner and the auto rickshaw. In the image of auto rickshaw the driver has mentioned his Gods are Father, Mother and MGR.
The people who are working to make a garland for the banner.
The above images are part of MGR Photo Exhibition.
Sri MGR Year 95, 6th August, Monday
The 6th function conducted by Olikirathu Urimaikural was a Stupendous success. MGR Fans Association from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Pondicherry have participated in the function and made it a grand success.
Earlier MGR Fans meet was held in Royapettah from 10 am to 2.30 pm. The meet was presided by MGR’s body guard Ramakrishnan. He gave a heart touching speech about MGR which most of the MGR Fans including me not heard of. Ramakrishnan had spoken for half hour and I took nearly 11 minutes of his speech which will be uploaded soon in our MGR Blog.
In the above image Olikirathu Urimaikural Editor B.S.Raju introducing Mr.John (MGR Fan from Srilanka) who came to attend this function on the request of MGR’s grandson MGCB Pradeep. In his speech John have mentioned that the Eelam Tamil people remembers the deeds MGR have done to them. And also said the Tamil people will not forget MGR and his fans.
Author Mekala Chitravel gave a ten minute speech on Puratchi Thalaivar MGR’s acting talent (the image was already updated in Facebook) here she extends a helping hand to some of MGR Fans.
In the above image is Namakkal MGR who came for MGR fans meet. He told how he maintained his physique to resemble MGR (he looked entirely different without the makeup). He also said that he had done surgery to his face to match MGR face.
MGR’s bodyguard Ramakrishnan talking with MGR Fans during the MGR Fans meet.
Other images from Raja Annamalai Mandram and videos will be posted soon.
