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Raghavan (Malayalam: രാഘവന്; Tamil: ராகவன்) is a South Indian name. It derives from the Sanskrit raghava, meaning "derived from Raghu" or "descendant of Raghu" (an epithet of the Hindu god Rama, an incarnation of Vishnu), plus the Tamil-Malayalam third-person masculine singular suffix -n. Although it is used as a given name in India it has also come to be used as a family name in the United States.
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Gautham Vasudev Menon (born 25 February 1973) is an Indian film director and producer, who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. He has also directed a few films in Hindi and Telugu languages which are remakes of his own Tamil films. Many of his films have been critically acclaimed, most notably his semi-autobiographical Vaaranam Aayiram (2008), romantic classic Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa (2010), his action-thrillers Kaakha Kaakha (2003) and Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu (2006). Vaaranam Aayiram won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil.
Gautham was born to a Malayali father and Tamil mother on 25 February 1973 in Ottapalam, a town in Palakkad district of Kerala. Although, born in Kerala he grew up in Trichy. He did his schooling in Vailankanni Raj Mat. Hr., Sec School at K.K Nagar, Trichy and did his Mechanical Engineering in Mookambigai College of Engineering, Trichy, Tamil Nadu.
Gautham Menon was a student of mechanical engineering at Mookambigai College of Engineering in the batch of 1993, and his time there inspired him to make his lead characters of Minnale, Vaaranam Aayiram and Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa, students of the same course. He claims to have been inspired by films such as Dead Poet's Society and Nayagan and expressed his desire to his parents to change career path and become a filmmaker and consequently wrote his first film at his college hostel. His mother insisted he became an ad film maker by shooting various commercials and took an apprenticeship under filmmaker Rajiv Menon. He went on to work as an assistant director for Minsaara Kanavu in 1997, in which he also appeared in a cameo role.
Actors: Gulshan Grover (actor), Lalit Pandit (composer), Anant Mahadevan (director), Makrand Deshpande (actor), Anant Mahadevan (writer), Seema Biswas (actress), Anant Mahadevan (writer), Naseeruddin Shah (actor), Murli Sharma (actor), Sunil Shetty (actor), Vinod Khanna (actor), Zakir Hussain (actor), Ashish Vidyarthi (actor), Sameera Reddy (actress), Ehsan Khan (actor),
Plot: While delivering food in a forest area in Andhra Pradesh, impoverished Narasimha is held against his will by a band of Naxalites led by Velu, and forced to join them. He is anxious to collect his dues and return home to his wife, Uma; daughter, Chinna; and son, Mohan, but Velu keeps on putting it off. Narasimha gets to know and sympathize with members of this band, and befriends Lakshmi, who was gang-raped by several policemen. He is then asked to prove his loyalty by killing an informant/plainclothes police inspector - which he does - and even accompanies the band on an assault on a school, resulting in the death of some children. Traumatized after this incident, he decides to flee - and it is this decision that will not only estrange him from his family but also force him to be on the run from the band as well as the police.
Keywords: color-in-title, gun, identity-card, insurgency, insurgent, jungle, machine-gun, naxalite, rape, rape-victimActors: Brinda (miscellaneous crew), Anthony (editor), Prakash Raj (actor), Aahuthi Prasad (actor), Kamal Hassan (actor), Gautham Menon (writer), Gautham Menon (director), Harris Jayaraj (composer), Jyothika (actress), Tirlok Malik (producer), Tirlok Malik (actor), Lev Gorn (actor), Kamalinee Mukherjee (actress), Ganesh (actor), Ganesh (producer),
Plot: Raghavan (Kamal Hassan), a top cop from the Tamil Nadu Police Department is faced with a series of rapes and brutal murders including those of his boss's family. The culprits are found soon enough but prove extremely evasive while they continue their murderous legacy undeterred.
Keywords: detective, investigation, murder, serial-killerActors: Ranjan Abraham (editor), Jagadish (actor), Mohanlal (actor), Meena (actress), Bindu Panikkar (actress), Kaviyoor Ponnamma (actress), K.R. Vijaya (actress), Mohan Sitara (composer), Devan (actor), Narayanan Nair (actor), Jose Prakash (actor), Premkumar (actor), Jagathi Sreekumar (actor), Jagannatha Varma (actor), Nedumudi Venu (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Nedumudi Venu (actor), Mammootty (actor), Johny (actor), Ganesh Kumar (actor), Madhupal (actor), Augustine (actor), Rajan P. Dev (actor), Kalabhavan Mani (actor), Murali (actor), Babu Nampoothiri (actor), Sadiq (actor), Saikumar (actor), Mammootty (actor), Cochin Hanifa (actor), Sangeetha (actress),
Genres: Action, Drama,Actors: Santhakumari (actress), Jagadish (actor), Salim Kumar (actor), Biju Menon (actor), Narayanan Nair (actor), Cochin Hanifa (actor), Rajamani (composer), Jagathi Sreekumar (actor), Sreenivasan (actor), Tony (actor), Kalabhavan Rahman (actor), Kasthoori (actress), Vinod Roshan (writer), Balabhaskar (composer), Vinod Roshan (director),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Cochin Hanifa (director), Cochin Hanifa (actor), Innocent (actor), Janardanan (actor), Manoj K. Jayan (actor), Mammukoya (actor), Narendra Prasad (actor), Sainuddin (actor), Siddique (actor), Rekha Mallick (actress), Kaviyoor Ponnamma (actress), Cochin Hanifa (writer), S.P. Venkatesh (composer), Jose Prakash (actor), Kanakalatha (actress),
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller,Actors: Asokan (actor), Mammootty (actor), Murali (actor), Balan K. Nair (actor), Pappu (actor), Sainuddin (actor), Ambazhathil Karunakaran Lohithadas (writer), Raveendran (composer), Bharathan (director), K.P.A.C. Lalitha (actress), Mathu (actress), Chitra (actress), Babu Thiruvalla (producer),
Genres: Drama, Romance,Actors: Mala Aravindan (actor), Mukesh (actor), Jagannatha Varma (actor), Nedumudi Venu (actor), Jayabharati (actress), Valsala Menon (actress), Rohini (actress), Johnson (composer), K. Rajagopal (editor), Thilakan (actor), Sathaar (actor), P.N. Menon (miscellaneous crew), Jerry Amaldev (composer), Sabitha Anand (actress), A. Chandrasekaran (director),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Asokan (actor), Azeez (actor), Gopi (actor), Innocent (actor), Venu Nagavalli (actor), Sukumaran (actor), Thilakan (actor), Nedumudi Venu (actor), Srividya (actress), Sukumaran (producer), Shammi Thilakan (actor), K.G. George (writer), K.G. George (director), Mohan Jose (actor), M.B. Srinivasan (composer),
Genres: ,Actors: Jagadish (writer), Innocent (actor), Jagadish (actor), Bobby Kottarakkara (actor), Mukesh (actor), C.I. Paul (actor), Manian Pillai Raju (actor), Pujappura Ravi (actor), Sreenivasan (actor), Nedumudi Venu (actor), Rajamani (composer), Mala Aravindan (actor), Sukumari (actress), Sreenivasan (writer), Menaka (actress),
Plot: Manian Pillai Raju is in love with a girl. But his uncle will only allow a person from foreign to marry her. So Manian pretends to leave town and go to Dubai and become rich, while really staying at a lodge in a nearby town to trick his uncle.
Genres: Comedy,