Makkal Thilagam MGR Part-3

[tfmlover]

அன்பர்கள் அனைவருக்கும்
இனிய 2013 புதுவருட நல்வாழ்த்துக்கள்
உரித்தாகுக !




Regards

[tfmlover]

வினோத் சார்,
அரசிளங்குமரி திரைப்படம் பற்றிய தங்களது பதிவுக்கு நன்றி. மக்கள் திலகத்தின் இரட்டை வேடப் படம். (ஒரே காட்சியில் மட்டும் தோன்றும் தந்தை எம்.ஜி.ஆர் பலருக்கும் தெரியாது). முத்துராமனின் முதல் படம் இதுதான். பாடல்களில் சின்னப்பயலே சின்னப்பயலே, ஏற்றமுன்னா ஏற்றம், நந்தவனத்தில் ஓர் ஆண்டி, ஊர்வலமாக மாப்பிள்ளை பொண்ணு, தாரா அவர் வருவாரா, வனிதா மணியே மையலாகினேன் போன்றவை மீண்டும் மீண்டும் கேட்கத் தூண்டும். மற்ற பாடல்கள் மிகவும் சுமார் ரகம் தான். மக்கள் திலகம் இடம் பெறாத காட்சிகள் அதிகம் அமைந்துள்ளது தான் படத்தின் விறுவிறுப்பு குறைவுக்குக் காரணம்.நான் ஏற்கனவே குறிப்பிட்டுள்ளது போல வனிதா மணியே பாடல் காட்சி எந்தஒரு டிவிடியிலும் இடம் பெறவில்லை. மக்கள் திலகத்தின் நடிப்பு அந்தப் பாடல் காட்சியில் மிகவும் அருமையாக இருக்கும். கே டிவியில் மட்டும் அந்தப் பாடல் காட்சியைப் பார்க்க முடிகிறது.

you can watch it here too


vanithaa maniyE maiyalaaginEn from 1. 28 forth




Regards

[Richardsof]

M.G. Ramachandran's statue unveiled in Parliament complex



The nine-foot high bronze statue was donated by AIADMK



HISTORIC OCCASION: Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekawat, AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, MDMK chief Vaiko, Leader of the Opposition L.K. Advani and other lead ers at the unveiling of M.G. Ramachandran's statue in the Parliament complex on Thursday.
New Delhi: A statue of former Chief Minister M.G. Ramachandran was unveiled in the Parliament complex on Thursday by Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee in the presence of Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary Jayalalithaa and others.

The nine-foot high bronze statue, sculpted by Mani Nagappa, was donated by the AIADMK. Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani, MDMK leader Vaiko, Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha Rehman Khan, Union Ministers Pranab Mukherjee, P. Chidambaram, Priyaranjan Dasmunsi and Jairam Ramesh, AIADMK Members of Parliament and senior leaders of the party were present.

Man of masses


A booklet released on the occasion described Bharata Ratna MGR as a man of the masses who strived for their welfare. He was a remarkable politician, nationalist to the core and visionary Chief Minister. He strived ceaselessly for the betterment and welfare of the people, particularly the poor. A renowned actor, MGR propagated, through his films, high ideals, which he hoped would take root among the people. His Chief Ministership was recognised for its contribution to the growth of higher education, systematic rural development, the mid-day meal scheme and reservation for weaker sections.

Ms. Jayalalithaa later told reporters that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh could not attend the function due to pressing engagements, but had extended his best wishes. Asked why Congress president Sonia Gandhi did not turn up though she was invited, Ms. Jayalalithaa said, "You should ask her this question."

"On a historic occasion like this, which transcends all political considerations, everyone from Tamil Nadu should have participated," she said. MGR was an illustrious son of India. He did not belong just to the AIADMK or Tamil Nadu but the entire country. Hence the Government of India honoured him with the Bharat Ratna.

M

[Richardsof]

Welcome tfmlover sir

after long gap ,your excellent arasilankuari movie- video posting with new year wishes to our thread .

Once again our wishes to you and hope our makkal thilagam pics,news and videos will be posted by you regularly .
With regards
esvee

[Richardsof]

Man with the MGR blazer
MGR|Kollywood|Good times|actor
CHENNAI: He may be 84, but he's spright as an an action movie hero. He hesitates for a moment, then reaches out to a closet and, with a flourish, pulls an old, dark brown blazer with golden frills.

A movie production company manager who turned to costume design 40 years ago, N Murugan says Tamil cinema great MGR wore the jacket in more than one movie.

He's wary about letting out his secret because he fears that he may lose the MGR relic.

Murugan got the costume when the production unit he was working with closed in the 1970s. A couple of years later, when he opened Cine Dresses, a costume rental unit in Kodambakkam, Chennai, he stashed away the MGR jacket in the shop.

"MGR wore this brown blazer for a couple of Tamil movies," he says. "Golden frills on blazers were popular those days. MGR always liked it."

"I don't tell everyyone about the jacket. If I do, someone is bound to filch it because everyone loves MGR," he says.

Murugan came to Madras from his native town Nagercoil in the 1960s and became a manager with Venus Productions, a film company he worked at for almost 10 years. He moved into the costume business when the company closed in the late 70s.

Murugan has assisted many film stars including veteran Hindi actor Rajesh Khanna in his years as a production manager. Decades have passed but he still remembers the measurements taken for MGR's costumes.

"I got this brown blazer with some other costumes from the Venus Productions when it closed down," says Murugan.

The good times are long gone in Kodambakkam. The locality in Chennai, where the stars of eponymous Kollywood once lived and where the offices of the big production houses were located, is no more the hub of south Indian movies. Murugan gets few customers these days because movie companies have their own units these days and the industry is very well organsied.

"I don't get any customers from the movies these days. I depend on local drama troupes and schools," he says.

Despite the downturn, Murugan has never thought of leaving the profession.

"I don't want to do any other business. I'm happy to live with memories of those good old days," he says.

[idahihal]

tmf lover sir,
Thank you very much for posting Arasilankumari movie in our blog. I have purchased more than 4 DVD's of various companies including modern cinema and found this song missing. Now the same modern cinema released the movie adding this song. Thank you verymuch .

[joe]

மக்கள் திலகம் பற்றிய அருமையான வலைப்பூ மூலம் ஏற்கனவே அறிமுகமான MGR Roop அவர்களை அன்புடன் வரவேற்கிறேன்.

[tfmlover]

Welcome tfmlover sir

after long gap ,your excellent arasilankuari movie- video posting with new year wishes to our thread .

Once again our wishes to you and hope our makkal thilagam pics,news and videos will be posted by you regularly .
With regards
esvee

my pleasure , esvee

Regards

[tfmlover]

THE HINDU -TODAY'S PAPER - METRO PLUS
January 1, 2013

Marina by the moonlight

Aparna Karthikeyan captures the late evening mood at Chennai’s best-known leisure spot

A Margazhi evening; the Marina is deserted. The service lane along the beach hisses and bubbles with raindrops. For ten minutes, it pounds the car’s roof, splashes the windscreen, and sluices off the roofs of optimistic ice cream carts. At 7:30 p.m., it’s over; the sky and sea separate, one ribbed white with waves, and the other smudged with soggy clouds. Manish, Prashant and Sivakumar are taking turns photographing themselves when I reach the big, white arch of the Anna memorial. They’re from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, employed in Chennai, and love the Marina. “But we miss home food — halwa with dry fruits, litti-choka, rosogolla,” they tell me and get nostalgic.

A man in an orange shirt poses next to the golden statue of Anna, under arches curved like tusks. “ Hai, MGR maadhary nikaraaru ,” his family says, peeping into the digital camera’s display. Two small boys, in brown monkey caps, ask, “Is he the one inside the samadhi?” pointing to Ilango Adigal’s statue; their father asks them to hurry up and come. Two older boys, Veera and Kalidas, hurry up instead, carrying folded bedsheets; they’re from Arakonam and came to the city 10 days ago to work. “We’re going to sleep in a room, over there,” Kalidas points vaguely to the right and vanishes between the trees. But he comes running back to ask me my name, occupation and the paper I write for.

A milky, round moon appears as I walk towards the memorial; behind me, the lights of Chepauk turn the sky sooty grey. Beneath a mandapam, three men photograph a large rock; one of them tries to lift it. ‘ Ada, ada, ada ’, his friends laugh when he can’t budge it. Sixty students from a school in Andhra stand around Anna Samadhi. “We’re on an excursion,” their teacher Malliah tells me. “The Marina is very good; we also enjoyed visiting the museum, snake park and Mahabalipuram,” he says, and blows a whistle to assemble everybody for a group picture in front of the tall, black pillar next to the samadhi of Anna, who died on 03-02-1969.

I walk over to MGR memorial with three women from Salem; they’re barefoot, wearing the red of Melmaruvathur. Drawing their shawls closer, they tell me they were keen to visit the memorials after their pilgrimage. Coconut trees murmur, crickets shriek, and behind the red and yellow waterfalls, I hear the whisper of waves.

The memorial is a pearly flower, glowing even in its upside down reflection on the wet floor. Wind tugs at the eternal flame before the samadhi, making the fingers of orange dip and dance. Two men offer to take instant photographs; I decline, but watch a slim woman, in bridal finery, posing with her husband by the lawn. I ask if they’re newly married; she buries her face in his sleeve and laughs. “Ten years married; two children. Unakku thevai annan,” their relative teases, as they walk away.





*“Even though it rained, I think 10,000 people came today,” Murugan, the security guard tells me. The memorials, open from 6 a.m. to 10. 30 p.m., attract walkers and tourists by the busload everyday, and a bigger crowd on Kaanum Pongal, he says. It is 8:45 p.m. when I walk past the garlanded statue of MGR, unveiled on 24-12-1997.

Headlights stain the puddles of Kamaraj Salai golden; the walkway lights along the beach glow like fireflies. Three children play catch around the Triumph of Labour statue; above them, four men — carved out of black stone by Devi Prasad Roy Choudury — strain every sinew to shift a rock. To the left, a red and white police banner warns tourists that the sea at Marina is very deep, and reinforces the danger with pictures of skulls wearing red coolers. I follow women who’re walking barefoot over sand ground into a paste with rainwater; their silver anklets tinkle, my flip-flops squelch.

Banners advertising ‘Two names write in one rice’, seashells strung into necklaces, and heaps of wrung out sugarcane greet me as I walk into the ‘Anna MGR Sadhuka Manaparappu Sirukadai Vyabarigal Sangam.’ Many dialects of Tamil echo in the narrow space, besides some Telugu and Hindi.

*Drawing huge crowds

Hyder Ali tells me that several lakhs of people will visit on Kaanum Pongal. “Sales bayangarama irrukum,” he smiles. Kuppulakshmi’s bajji stall is still open. ‘We’re here from noon till 10 p.m.; bajji s are very popular’, she says. A small child runs away from its family, and stands near a shop selling plastic cars; his father drags him away, promising a treat later; I hear him crying for a long time. The blue Simpsons clock shows 9:35 when I go home; the beach is busier than it was two hours ago; and under a sky as black as pitch, the optimistic ice cream carts do brisk business.

The memorials, open from 6 a.m. to 10. 30 p.m., attract walkers and tourists by the busload everyday, and a bigger crowd on Kaanum Pongal

Thanks : http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper...cle4263450.ece


Regards

[ujeetotei]

Selvakumar Sir and Joe Sir thanks for your wishes.

mgr_receipt_zps8efe00c8.jpg

I got this receipt from Mr.Nallathambi, son of Kalaivanar N.S.Krishnan, a donation receipt in the name of MGR.

Below is the words from Mr.Nallathambi

"நெஞ்சிருக்கும் வரை நினைவிருக்கும் ".....

இதோ ....45 ஆண்டுகள் உருண்டோடிவிட்டது . கர்நாடகா மாநிலத்திலுள்ள 'மண்டியாவில் ' இன்ஜினியரிங் சேரும்போது மரியாதைக்குரிய "மக்கள் திலகம் " அவர்கள் எனக்கு Capitation FEES ..கட்டி( April /6 /1968) சேர்த்துவிட்டார்கள் .அதை Laminate செய்து பாதுகாத்து வருகிறேன் . கலைவாணர் குடும்பத்தை காப்பாற்றும் பொறுப்பை அன்போடு ஏற்றுக்கொண்டு , எங்களை வாழவைத்த அந்த மாமனிதரை இந்த நன்னாளில் " நன்றியோடு" நினைத்துப் பார்க்கிறேன் .....

Thank you Nallathambi Sir.