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Gana Bala is a Actor Indian born on 1970
Bala Murugan, better known by his stage name Gana Bala is a playback singer in the Tamil film industry - Kollywood. He is best known for his songs 'Aadi Pona Aavani' and 'Nadukadalula Kappala' from the soundtrack of Attakathi. He has predominantly sang songs belonging to the gaana genre of Tamil Nadu. He has been credited for reviving the gaana genre in Tamil Cinema after 'Thenisai Thendral' Deva. He has also penned lyrics for some of his songs.
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Ivanuku Thannila Gandam (2015)
Actors Deepak Dinkar, Rajendran, Neha Ratnakaran, Pandiarajan, Elango Kumaravel, Subbu Panchu
Rating55%
Saravanan (Deepak Dinkar) is a television anchor who is experiencing hard times in both his professional and personal life. He is being bested at his workplace by a colleague, harassed by a loan shark, and fears his girlfriend Deepika (Neha Ratnakaran) is having an affair. Saravanan chooses to escape his troubles by going to a party with his friends where he becomes intoxicated. While drunk he unknowingly tells Mark (Rajendran), who is a hitman, to kill his competitor at work, his loan shark, and Deepika. When he wakes the following morning, he finds that his colleague and his loan shark are dead, and a call from Mark telling Saravanan that he has done what he has asked. Saravanan tries to prevent Mark from killing Deepika. Toward the end, it is revealed that Mark's targets all died by accident before Mark could kill them. While attempting to kill Deepika, Mark falls from a ledge and dies, without Saravanan knowing his true identity as he was drunk when he met Mark. The end shows Saravanan being paranoid that every man who meets Deepika, now his wife, is secretly Mark and trying to kill her without ever knowing that the real Mark is dead.
Jai Hind 2 (2014)
Directed by Arjun Sarja
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Arjun Sarja, Surveen Chawla, Asin Thottumkal, Rahul Dev, Brahmanandam, Baby Yuvina Parthavi
Rating50%
Jaihind is the journey of five people, linked by one man, who fights for children's right to education. Little Parvathi from a very poor family background gets an admission into one of the most affluent schools in the city. But unable to pay the exorbitant fees, the man of the house sells one of his kidneys. They still fall short of a big chunk of money and the finally gives up and commits suicide. This disturbs Abhimanyu (Arjun Sarja) deeply, and the computer service engineer becomes a hero over night, by propagandizing a solution for education costing so much. Abhimanyu suggests that all private schools be nationalised, which will compel them to offer services at very little fees compared to that being collected now, while still ensuring that the quality of education is not compromised. This is bad news for the private school owners, who make a business out of educating children. And hence Abhimanyu is targeted and pushed to extremes.He is put behind bars and is conspired to be murdered. How he succeeds in his mission,despite all this, forms the crux of the movie.
Vaaraayo Vennilaave (2014)
Actors Dinesh, Hariprriya, Thambi Ramaiah, Sanyathara, Santhana Bharathi, Gana Bala
Dinesh is an affluent youth who travels from Chennai to Kerala on a job. He meets a beautiful woman there and gets entangled in romance. The movie shows the repercussions of love.
Poriyaalan (2014)
Genres Thriller, Romance
Actors Harish Kalyan, Anandhi, Mohan Raman, Aadukalam Naren, Achyuth Kumar, Delhi Ganesh
Rating60%
Rombha Nallavan Da Nee (2014)
Actors Senthil Kumar G, Rekha, Robo Shankar, Imman Annachi., Venniradai Moorthy, Sabha Swaminathan
Madras (2014)
, 2h38Genres Drama, Action
Actors Karthi, Catherine Tresa, Kajal Agarwal, V. I. S. Jayapalan, Kalaiyarasan, Imman Annachi.
Rating78%
Kaleeswaran (Karthi) is an impulsive and short tempered working class man who works in a company and enjoys playing football during his free time. His best friend is Anbu (Kalaiyarasan), who is a young political aspirant. They along with their gang live in the dilapidated flats of the housing board in Vyasarpadi, North Chennai. In a long standing bloody feud, two factions of a political party have been laying claim to a wall on which they can paint the portraits of their respective political leaders. Anbu, under the local leader of one of the opposing parties, Maari (Vinod), is determined to claim that wall for their own party. The Other party chief is Kannan and Perumal who are hell bent in making sure that their opponents efforts go in vain. The two parties and their supporters get into frequent clashes and scrapes. In the meantime, Kaali falls in love with Kalaiarasi (Catherine Tresa) and she too reciprocates his feelings.
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Bharath, Nandita Swetha, Karunakaran, Manobala, Thambi Ramaiah, Kajal Agarwal
Rating46%
The movie starts of with Sigamani(Bharath) as a young student refusing to go to school. His father, after having heated arguments with the school teacher, says that his son doesn't have to go to school anymore. Thus, Bharath grows up as an illiterate and uneducated. After 25 years, Sigamani has grown up to be a sidha vaidhiyar, following his family's roots. There is also a marriage broker in this story,Vijay Sethupathy(Singam Puli),who tries very hard to find an educated girl for Sigamani. But he is unable to. Due to the fact that Sigamani is uneducated, he is easily cheated by his friends(Badava Gopi,etc...). His only trustable friend is PaalPandi(Karunakaran), who follows his wherever he goes. In desperation to get married to an educated girl, Sigamani plans to wait outside a college to find a girl to love. He then sees Nandini(Nanditha) and decides to go after her. One day, both Sigamani and PaalPandi follow Nandini and finally end up in her house. After listening to an unknown phonecall, Nandini's father(Silambu Chinnadurai) mistake Sigamani to be a doctor who has studied MBBS. This is when all the confusion starts. Thinking that Sigamani is a doctor, Chinnadurai arranges for the marriage. The marriage also takes place successfully and Sigamani is happy as his dream of marrying an educated girl has come true. Before the interval, the director then places another major twist in the story, to keep the audience in the edge of their seats.To be continued.
Aaaah (2014)
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Bobby Simha, Bala Saravanan, M. S. Bhaskar, Bosskey, Gana Bala
Rating50%
Three friends (Gokul, Meghna and Bala) meeting at their reunion are being drawn into a bet to prove the presence of ghosts by a rich schoolmate, Prosper (Bobby Simha) This leads them to a journey to five different places around the world suspected to be haunted. Namely, events which had unfolded in Japan, Dubai, the mid-sea of the Bay of Bengal, a highway in Andhra Pradesh and a remote ATM booth in Tamil Nadu. They fail to capture ghosts in camera in all the cases. Now they were worried that they would lose 60 crore prize amount and Prosper would win. Meanwhile, they learn about a video footage in which a ghost is sighted killing the ATM watchmen. The video footage is in a pen drive owned by the owner of the security company (Bosskey) in which the ATM security guard was employed. When he comes to know the huge reward money for a video footage proving existence of ghosts he demands Rs 50 lakhs for the pen drive. Meghna approaches Prosper to get Rs 50 lakhs. Instead Prosper tries to take advantage of the situation and behaves indecently with her. Meghna gets annoyed and returns home and narrates the incident to Gokul and Bala. That night Meghna gets a call from her lover (Ajay) and with shock and fear she utters one word..... accident!!!!. Three of them visit the place and find Ajay dying. Before dying he narrates the incident and records in his camera. Ajay and his friends while traveling in a car watch a movie from a CD which they had picked up from a vendor who states that it is an unreleased movie. As they watch the movie the same incidents starts happening to them as shown in the movie. Soon after all of them are killed and Ajay was able to burry the CD. The CD was found but before they could get hold of it all three of them are killed by the ghost. Prosper after winning the bet reclaims and rejoices his prize, a Yamaha RX100. After hearing the door bell ring Prosper opens the door to be killed by a ghost.
Raja Rani (2013)
, 2h40Directed by Atlee
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Arya, Nayantara, Sathyaraj, Jai, Nazriya Nazim, Santhanam
Rating75%
John (Arya) and Regina (Nayantara) marry reluctantly at a church. They have agreed to the marriage just to make their parents happy. When they take their wedding vows Regina utters her lover's name, "Surya". Upon hearing this, Regina's father (Sathyaraj) faints in the church. Regina feels sorry for her father and ends up marrying John. They live in an apartment together, and John comes home every night drunk deliberately to disturb Regina. Their neighbors are also annoyed by John's drunken behavior, and chide Regina one morning when this nuisance gets worse. John and Regina try to irritate each other in every possible way. Eventually, Regina applies for a transfer to Australia to stay away from John, and he is not affected by this decision.
Udhayam NH4 (2013)
, 1h53Directed by Manimaran
Genres Thriller, Romance
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Siddharth, Kay Kay Menon, Kishore, Ashrita Shetty, Avinash, Aadukalam Naren
Rating57%
Prabhu Sivaanu (Siddharth) and his friends discuss the route from Bangalore to Chennai and plan to kidnap Rithika (Ashrita Shetty). Meanwhile her dad appoints encounter specialist Manoj Menon (Kay Kay Menon) who questions Rithika's male friend Deepak (Deepak) about Prabhu. The guy claims that Prabhu is a drug addict and was always trying to woo Rithika, who started to avoid him because of Prabhu. After that the plot continues when Manoj tries to track Prabhu and his friends. In the attempt, they track down a message from another friend Umesh asking Prabhu and friends to come to Bangarpet bus stand only to find Manoj and his team arresting the guy for more information. Manoj goes to a railway station where the train in which Prabhu and Rithika are travelling to Chennai. He finds Rithika and forcefully drags her into his jeep. As the flashback winds again (this time by Rithika), she fell for Prabhu after seeing him on many instances showing his presence of mind. As the flashback ends, Manoj finds Prabhu on the highway where he doesn't stop until he runs over pieces of glass put down by Prabhu. They get into a brawl where Prabhu loses and Manoj continues in the highway but has to stop in a railway signal. Prabhu takes his chance and threatens Manoj keeping his throat under a blade and taking Rithika with him. After a cat and mouse chase, Manoj calls Prabhu saying that his friend needs immediate treatment after an accident. He goes in search of Manoj and involves in a fight with him again. Now, after the stroke of midnight Rithika turns 18 giving her the right for choosing her partner. After that Manoj leaves the Highway as he couldn't do anymore according to law.
Nimirndhu Nil (2013)
, 2h24Directed by Samuthirakani
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Films about families
Actors Jayam Ravi, Amala Paul, R. Sarathkumar, Meghana Raj, Soori, Ragini Dwivedi
Rating60%
Aravindan Sivasamy (Jayam Ravi) is a 26-year-old youth who was brought up in an ashram run by a Harichandra (Nassar). The atmosphere that he grew, taught him high moral values, disciplines, dignity, devotion etc. But when he comes out of the place, his belief and learning will be questioned by the cancerous system. It unsettles him and make him fight against the immoral cultures of the society. He decides to taken on corrupt bureaucrats and his friend (Soori), a lawyer (Subbu Panchu) and journalist (C. Gopinath) along with his girlfriend (Amala Paul) join him in his mission to fight against the corruption.
Soodhu Kavvum (2013)
, 2h8Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Vijay Sethupathi, Sanchita Shetty, Radha Ravi, M. S. Bhaskar, Karthik Subbaraj, Ashok Selvan
Rating82%
Friends Kesavan (Ashok Selvan), Sekar (RJ Ramesh Thilak) and Pagalavan (Bobby Simha) meet Das (Vijay Sethupathi), a middle-aged man with an imaginary girlfriend named Shalu (Sanchita Shetty) who does low-profile kidnappings for a living. Broke, the trio decide to become his assistants. Das follows a Five Rules of kidnapping (which Das spells and writes as "kednapping"), which makes kidnapping easier to do. One day, they kidnap a young boy and successfully obtain ransom money from his father Nambikkai Kannan. Nambikkai's contractor brother has been arrested for attempted bribery by State Minister Gnanodayam (M S Bhaskar), a disciplined politician who plays by the book. Impressed with Das' kidnapping skills, Nambikkai asks him to kidnap the minister's son Arumai Pragasam (Karunakaran) as revenge and offers to pay Das up to ₹2 crore (US$300 000).