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T. M. Soundararajan is a Actor and Playback Singer Indian born on 24 march 1922
Thoguluva Meenatchi Iyengar Soundararajan (24 March 1922 – 25 May 2013), popularly known as TMS, was a playback singer in Kollywood for over six decades. He gave his voice to actors and thespians in the South Indian film industry such as M. G. Ramachandran, Sivaji Ganesan, N. T. Rama Rao, Gemini Ganesan, S. S. Rajendran, Jaishankar, Rajkumar and A. Nageswara Rao. He has sung over 20,000 film songs from more than 5,000 films. He has sung over 3,000 devotional, classical songs. He had also given classical concerts since 1945. In a career spanning over 6 decades he has recorded film songs in eleven languages including, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam and other Indian languages. He also composed music for several of the ever green devotional songs that was recorded.He was the music director for the film "Bala Parikshai". His peak period as a male playback singer in the South Indian film industry was from 1955 to 1985. Soundarajan died on 25 May 2013 at his residence in Mandaveli, Chennai due to illness. He was 91 years old at the time of his death.
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Gokulam (1993)
, 2h20Directed by Vikraman
Actors Bhanupriya, Jayaram, Arjun Sarja, Kalyan Kumar, Chinni Jayanth, T. M. Soundararajan
Rating26%
Chellappa (Jayaram), an orphan, runs a photo studio in deficit with his friends (Chinni Jayanth and Vadivelu). Mary (Bhanupriya) comes to his village to learn singing to a guru (Kalyan Kumar) and she helps her guru's family in many ways. Kannan (Arjun Sarja), her guru's son, is supposed to be in the city. Chellappa falls in love with Mary and he proposes to marry her. Mary reveals that she was married and she tells him her past.
Annai Oru Alayam (1979)
Directed by Thiagarajan Sivanandam
Genres Drama
Actors Rajinikanth, Sripriya, Nagesh, Mohan Babu, Suruli Rajan, Anjali Devi
Rating68%
Server Sundaram (1964)
, 2h38Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Nagesh, R. Muthuraman, K. R. Vijaya, Samarla Venkata Ranga Rao, Sennalkudi Narayana Thevar Lakshmi, Sundarrajan
Roles Special Appearance in "Avalukenna" Song
Rating78%
Sundaram (Nagesh), a poor man, comes to Madras with aspirations of becoming a film actor. However, he ends up getting a job in a restaurant called Greenlands Hotel as a waiter. While catering for a group of people who go on an excursion to Mahabalipuram, he meets Radha (K. R. Vijaya), the daughter of his restaurateur, Chakravarthy (Major Sundarrajan). He misinterprets her friendly nature as love and falls in love with her. In the meantime, Sundaram happens to meet his friend Raghavan (R. Muthuraman), an influential businessman, in the restaurant. During their subsequent meetings, Sundaram tells Raghavan about his ambition to become an actor as well as about his love for Radha, without mentioning her name. Raghavan genuinely believes that the girl reciprocates Sundaram's feelings and motivates Sundaram to express his love.
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Amaran (1992)
, 2h30Genres Action, Romance
Actors Karthik, Bhanupriya, Radha Ravi, Janagaraj, Pratap K. Pothen, Shammi Kapoor
Roles Playback Singer
Rating66%
Amaran (Karthik), a orphan child, is brought up by Govindan (Vijayakumar) whom Amaran saved. Thereafter, Govindan died, his wife (Manjula Vijayakumar) brought up him and Amaran grows to become a kind-hearted slum king. Later, he has to face the heartless don Aandava Perumal (Radha Ravi) in Tamil Nadu who has a brutal past. In the meantime, Amaran and Sivagaami (Bhanupriya) fall in love with each other. Amaran comes to know that Aandava Perumal killed his family when he was a child. Before he could take revenge, he was almost beaten to death and he escapes to Goa. He was taken care by the underworld don Menon (Shammi Kapoor) and continues to work for him for a while and gets married to Sivagaami.
Avandhan Manidhan (1975)
Directed by A. C. Tirulokachandar
Genres Drama
Actors Sivaji Ganesan, Sundarrajan, Jayalalithaa, R. Muthuraman, Cho Ramaswamy, Manjula Vijayakumar
Roles Playback Singer
Rating66%
Vasantha Maligai (1972)
, 2h42Directed by K. S. Prakash Rao
Genres Drama
Actors Sivaji Ganesan, Vanisri, K. Balaji, P. Santha Kumari, Nagesh, Pandari Bai
Roles Playback Singer
Rating69%
Anand (Sivaji Ganesan) is a rich playboy and who loves alcohol. He has an older brother, Vijay (K. Balaji). Anand, who has been abroad, boards a plane home, on a shift that air stewardess, Latha (Vanisri), is working. After the plane lands, the scene changes to Latha's home where we meet her father (Major Sundarrajan), mother (Pandari Bai), two brothers, and a sister. Her elder brother resides at home with his wife, but being the eldest, Latha is the highest earning member of the family. A struggle begins when Latha's mother objects to her being an air hostess: She begs her to change profession so that she can be home at more decent hours.
Rickshawkaran (1971)
Genres Drama
Actors M. G. Ramachandran, Manjula Vijayakumar, Padmini Ramachandran, S. A. Ashokan, Ramasamy Subramania Manohar, Sundarrajan
Roles Playback Singer
Rating72%
In the Tamil capital of the 70s... At the end of a competition of rickshaw, the winner Selvam (MGR), an ex-military officer, witnesses a murder, that of another driver of rickshaw named Manickam.
Adi Parasakthi (1971)
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Themes Films about religion
Actors Gemini Ganesan, Jayalalithaa, Padmini Ramachandran, R. Muthuraman, Sridevi, Vanisri
Roles Playback Singer
Rating15%
Vilaiyaattu Pillai (1970)
Genres Drama
Actors Sivaji Ganesan, Padmini Ramachandran, Kanchana, Aachi Manorama, Sennalkudi Narayana Thevar Lakshmi, Roja Ramani
Roles Playback Singer
Shanti Nilayam (1969)
, 2h29Genres Drama, Horror
Actors Gemini Ganesan, Kanchana, Nagesh, K. Balaji, Vijayalalitha, Pandari Bai
Roles Playback Singer
Rating66%
Gemini Ganesan and Kanchana play the lead roles in Shanthi Nilayam. Gemini as the father of many kids and Kanchana as the governess are excellent. The children are played by Ramaprabha, Manjula, and Prabhakar.