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Meena Durairaj, (mononymously known as Meena, born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) is a South Indian film and television actress. Meena debuted as a child artist in Telugu and Tamil films and has later starred in films produced by various regional industries. She is one of the most established actresses in the southern Indian film industry. In addition to acting, Meena is also a top model, singer, dancer, TV host and occasional dubbing artiste. At one time she was considered as the biggest south Indian actress by acting opposite Superstars of south India.
Meena was born in Chennai as the daughter to a Tamil father Durairaj and a Malayali mother Raj Mallika. She was enrolled in Vidyodhya schools in Chennai. Because of her busy acting schedule she had to discontinue schooling in the 8th standard, later taking up private coaching and completing the 10th standard. She went on to get her MA in History from the University of Madras through the open university system in 2006. Meena is a trained Bharathanatyam dancer and speaks six languages: Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada and English.
Actors: Bapi-Tutul (composer), Sharmila Sankar (producer), Sharmila Sankar (writer), Sharmila Sankar (writer), Sharmila Sankar (director), Priya Gamre (actor), Omi Chandiramani (producer), Jackie Hathiramani (producer), Sachin Aute (actor), Vinod Shankar (producer), Kishore Wagh (producer), Brij Mohan Pandey (writer), Shankar Pawar (producer), Sunil Malik (actor), Manjiri Pupala (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Santhanam (actor), Nasser (actor), Prabhu (actor), Santhanam (actor), Santhanam (actor), Srinivasa Rao Kota (actor), Thaman S. (composer), M.S. Bhaskar (actor), Saranya Ponvannan (actress), Santhana Bharathi (actor), Kajal Agarwal (actress), V.S. Raghavan (actor), Radhika Apte (actress), Sriranjani (actress), Vivek Harshan (editor),
Plot: The film is centered around Azhaguraja (Karthi), his friend and adviser Kalyanam(Santhanam) who runs a little known TV channel. He falls head over heels for at first sight with Devi Priya (Kajal Aggarwal) daughter of a rich businessman and the rest of the story is how he wins her in the end.
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Yuvan Shankar Raja (composer), V.T. Vijayan (editor), Nasser (actor), Prabhu (actor), Nizhalgal Ravi (actor), Vijayakumar (actor), Manorama (actress), Rohini (actress), 'Ganja' Karuppu (actor), Sampath Raj (actor), Hari (writer), Hari (director), Nadia Moidu (actress), Chaams (actor), Vishal (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Pakphum Wongjinda (director), Pakphum Wongjinda (writer), Phaophon Thephatdin Na Ayudhya (actor), Nuttapong Tangkasam (actor), Sumonrat Wattanaselarat (actress), Warot Pitakanonda (actor), Ngamsiri Arsira-Lertsiri (actress),
Genres: Drama, Thriller,Actors: Bruce Gray (actor), Veena Sood (actress), Jeff Warren (editor), Philip Akin (actor), Jonathan Goldsmith (composer), Murray Ord (miscellaneous crew), Juliette Lewis (actress), Brian Markinson (actor), Tom Cox (producer), John Morayniss (producer), Jordy Randall (producer), Alison Sealy-Smith (actress), Don McBrearty (director), Michael David Simms (actor), Noreen Halpern (producer),
Plot: Inspired by a true story, a self-centered corporate lawyer is forced to take on a pro-bono case to help a young Afghan woman seek refuge from the tyrannical regime of the Taliban. Together the two women take on a brutal legal system to win asylum.
Keywords: afghanistan, airport, asylum, aunt-niece-relationship, bangladesh, based-on-true-story, beating, blood, boy, brother-sister-relationshipActors: Kira Reed Lorsch (actress), Envy Mi (actress), Jayme Bohn (costume designer), Steve Kramer (actor), Sam Irvin (producer), Chuck Speed (miscellaneous crew), Jerry P. Jacobs (producer), Stephen P. Jarchow (producer), Paul Colichman (producer), Alejandro Patino (actor), Veronica Alicino (actress), James Bradford Sivils (miscellaneous crew), Allison Andrade (miscellaneous crew), Tara Price (miscellaneous crew), Rachel Sterling (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: Vishal Bhardwaj (composer), Govind Namdeo (actor), Milind Gunaji (actor), Rahul Nanda (miscellaneous crew), Himanshu Nanda (miscellaneous crew), Shabana Azmi (actress), Ashok (miscellaneous crew), Raima Sen (actress), Suresh (miscellaneous crew), Raj Yagnik (actor), Vinay Shukla (writer), Vinay Shukla (writer), Vinay Shukla (director), Renu Saluja (editor), Vinay Shukla (writer),
Plot: When an imminent drought threatens to ruin their crop, Rambhi and her husband Veeru move from their village to the city. Through threat, violence and blackmail, Veeru makes a career as a kind of mafia don in the corrupt political system, but it turns out he is no more than a puppet of an influential lawyer who has him killed when Veeru decides not to kill any more. The lawyer thinks he can turn Rambhi into yet another puppet of his plans, but she strikes back, taking revenge for her husband's murder and fighting the corrupt political system until she becomes a veritable mafia Godmother herself.
Keywords: assassination, death-of-husband, female-empowerment, gender-equality, murder, political-corruption, politician, politics, surrender, widowActors: Rakesh Roshan (producer), Sudhir Dalvi (actor), Jeetendra (actor), Pinchoo Kapoor (actor), Rishi Kapoor (actor), Rajesh Roshan (composer), Ashok Kumar (actor), Keshto Mukherjee (actor), Pran (actor), Ranjeet (actor), Hrithik Roshan (actor), Rakesh Roshan (actor), Deven Verma (actor), Shoma Anand (actress), Tina Munim (actress),
Plot: Ram and Rahim are childhood, inseparable friends. They complete their schooling, and enroll in an hostel to complete their education. One of their colleagues, Kundan frames them for molesting a girl, and has both rusticated. Without any means to survive, both masquerade as a male and a female, and get employed as tutors to a wealthy young lady, Sameera. Both fall in love with Sameera, and both think that she loves him and him only. Sameera must now decide who to chose.
Genres: Romance,Actors: D.K. Sapru (actor), Master Ravi (actor), Pran (actor), Sajjan (actor), Radheshyam (actor), Randhir Kapoor (actor), Birbal (actor), Anoop Kumar (actor), Ashok Kumar (actor), Chaman Puri (actor), Manmohan (actor), Anwar Hussain (actor), Raj Mehra (actor), Raza Murad (actor), Deven Verma (actor),
Plot: Rajkumari Ophelia wants Devi Maa's statuette, which is located in Pratapgarh, recruits Sher Singh to carry out this task, and will marry him if he brings it to her. He sets out to do so, but before that could happen, Thakur takes it's possession, incurring Devi Maa's wrath, and he ends up losing his son. Fearing that the rest of the family will also perish on the day of the Khumbh Mela, he instructs his brother, Ranjeet, to ensure that the statuette is replaced in the Mandir, but Ranjeet is unable to do so, gets separated from his daughter, Meena, and becomes insane. Ramlal, who has the statuette, disappears; his wife gets separated from their son, Birju, while her brother-in-law, Mangal, is arrested and jailed for killing Rana, and she re-locates to live in Bombay with Mangal's son, Shekhar. Years later, Birju has grown up and makes small statues for a living; Meena uses a cow and dances on the streets; Mangal is a gangster; Sher Singh is still looking for the statuette; and Ranjeet is still insane. Shekhar dramatically finds the statuette, gives a press release, and places it under security - little knowing that the statuette will be stolen again - and this time no one will know its' whereabouts.
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama,Actors: Nasir Hussain (director), Shammi Kapoor (actor), Raj Mehra (actor), Pran (actor), Ram Avtar (actor), B.M. Vyas (actor), Anjali Devi (actress), Nasir Hussain (writer), Nasir Hussain (writer), Nasir Hussain (writer), O.P. Nayyar (composer), M.B. Shetty (actor), Ameeta (actress), Rajendra (actor), Kanu Roy (actor),
Plot: Twenty years ago, after killing his brother, Sardar Rajpal flees from his hometown in Shillong and re-locates in the rural area of Assam along with his adopted daughter, Meena. He asks his wife, Kamla, to send their son, Shankar, so that he can employ him and get him married to Meena. Shankar arrives and he is welcomed by Sardar who employs him and introduces him to Meena. A few days another young man shows up at his door claiming that he is Kamla's son. A baffled Sardar also welcomes him, and puts both the young men under observation in order to find who the real Shankar is. The question remains why would anyone want to impersonate Shankar, and what will happen to Sardar himself after the Police catch up with him for killing his brother 20 years ago.
Genres: Musical, Romance,