Anita or ANITA may refer to:

• Anita (given name), people with the given name Anita

Biology[link]

• Amblypodia anita, species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in Asia
• ANITA grade, group of plants, consisting of the most basal angiosperm lineages

Geography[link]

• Anita, California, community in Butte County, California
• Anita, Indiana, former town in Hensley Township, Johnson County, Indiana
• Anita, Iowa, city in Cass County, Iowa
• Batey Anita Airport, located in Consuelo, Dominican Republic
• Lake Anita State Park, state park in Cass County, Iowa, USA
• Santa Anita (disambiguation)

Other uses[link]

• Anita (film), a 1967 Indian suspense film
• Antarctic Impulse Transient Antenna (ANITA), experiment for the detection of cosmic neutrinos
• Hurricane Anita, Atlantic hurricane in 1977
• Sumlock ANITA calculator, world's first all-electronic desktop calculators
• Tropical Storm Anita (disambiguation)

See also[link]

• Anitta, son of Pithana, king of Kussara

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K. Balaji (died 2 May 2009) was a South Indian producer and actor whose work included Billa.

Early life[link]

Balaji was born in a prominent Tamil Brahmin (Iyengar) family and was the grandson of a very prominent colonial era advocate T. Rangachari. He wandered into films after developing a taste for acting by performing the odd school play and amateur theatre shows.^[4]

Career[link]

His quest for a space in showbiz led Balaji to the office of S. S. Vasan, then owner of Gemini Studios in 1951. Vasan was not very keen to work with a newcomer but gave him a minor role in Avvaiyar, in which he played Hindu god Muruga.

Slowly he managed to land meatier roles and was featured as a male lead in a few films.

Balaji soon understood he was better off playing a villain or the hero's understudy with a negative angle in films that included Padithaal Mattum Podhumaa, Bale Pandiya and Thillana Mohanambal.

Even as the career was taking shape, he was hired as a manager in Narasu Studios in the southwest suburbs.

In that capacity, he discovered his true calling in the 1960s after coming into contact with top Hindi actors such as Ashok Kumar, Dilip Kumar and Tamil stars Sivaji Ganesan and Gemini Ganesan and actress Savithri, who advised him to remake Hindi hits into Tamil with leading actors.

Since the 1960s, all the top Hindi blockbusters such as Dushman (1971) starring Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan's Deewar (1975) and Namak Haraam (1973) were remade in Tamil by Balaji, who always used top stars as his male leads like late Sivaji Ganeshan and thespians Rajnikanth and Kamal Hasan. He founded Sujatha Cine Arts in 1966. He was also the founder of Sujatha Recording Studio, where sound recordings for most of the big-budget movies of the 1980s and '90s were done.^[5]

Family[link]

He had three children — Suresh Balaje, Sujatha and Suchitra Mohanlal. Malayalam superstar Mohanlal is his son-in-law. His wife Anandavally died in 1995. He was also the grandfather of Pranav Mohanlal and Sooraj Balaji. Famous comedian Y.G Mahendra is his nephew through his sister Mrs. Rajalakshmi Parthasarathy

Death[link]

Balaji died on 2 May 2009 evening due to multiple organ and renal failure. He had been hospitalised for over a month.

Filmography[link]

• As Producer

• As Actor

References[link]

External links[link]

• K.Balaji at the Internet Movie Database

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Priya Himesh (also credited as Priya Hemesh) (Tamil:பிரியா ஹிமேஷ் is an Indian multilingual Playback singer for the feature films. She sings predominantly in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada language movies. She is also the recipient of Filmfare Awards South for her Telugu song Ringa Ringa in the film Aarya 2.^[1] Her association with the music director Devi Sri Prasad in many films have fetched her laurels and she owes her success to him a lot. This was expressed by her while receiving the Filmfare award.

Selected discography[link]

References[link]

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