South India’s legendary Filmmaker, Producer, Padma Shri P. Bharathirajaa, who

South India’s legendary Filmmaker, Producer, Padma Shri P. Bharathirajaa, who brought in a new wave to South Indian cinema and continuing to make films for over 43 years celebrates his birthday today. On this special day, we wish to list out his achievements first before making our appeal.

Director Bharathirajaa’s legendary contribution to Indian cinema:

• Directed 42 films in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu from 1977 to 2019, a most prolific contribution.

• His films addressed many social issues like unemployment, untouchability, caste war, female infanticide, women empowerment, social values and human relationship and created a cult following among South Indians.

• He directed legendary actors like Sivaji Ganesan, Rajesh Khanna, Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth, Chiranjeevi, Sridevi, Amol Palekar, Nana Patekar, Sunny Deol, Suhasini Maniratnam, Poonam Dhillan, Radhika Sarathkumar, Vijayashanti, Rathi Agnihotri, Revathy, Jayasudha and many others.

• Tamil cinema, which was shot hitherto in sets in Chennai, was taken to villages by him and a new revolution was created by his films by shooting in real locations.

• His entry and the new wave he created brought in large number of new talents to Indian cinema, including filmmakers like K. Bhagyaraj, Manivannan, Manobala and introduced the great lyricist ‘Kaviperarasu’ Vairamuthu and over 50 artistes and technicians in his illustrious career so far.

• He won Six Times National Award for his films from Government of India.

• He served as the Head of the Jury for National Awards for the year 2017.

• He won Six Times Tamil Nadu State Government award for his films.

• He won the prestigious Nandi award from AP State Govt. for his Telugu film.

• He was recognized with the coveted Padma Shri in 2004 from Government of India.

The above listing is just a few of the achievements of this legendary filmmaker, who continues to inspire new generation of filmmakers with his films and active support to the film industry as a whole.

On this special day of Shri Bharathirajaa’s 78th birthday, we from Indian film industry, recognized by Government of India for our works appeal to you to consider him for this year’s coveted Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in cinema, which will be a fitting tribute to this living legend and a right recognition at the right time for his huge contribution to Indian Cinema with multiple achievements for over 43 years.

We look forward to your personal attention to this important appeal from all of us.

Thanking you in anticipation.

c.c.: Shri Amit Khare, IAS, Information & Broadcasting Secretary

PS: A signed appeal from the following national award winning talents shall reach you soon.

National Award Winning Directors, Actors, Editors and Lyricist:

Shri Kamal Haasan, Padma Bhushan, 4 Times National Award winning Actor, Producer and Director

Shri Vairamuthu, Padma Bhushan, 7 Times National Award winning Lyricist

Shri Dhanush, 3 Times National Award winning Actor, Producer and Director

Shri Sreekar Prasad, 8 times National Award winning Editor

Shri B. Lenin, 5 times National Award winning Director and Editor

Shri K.S. Sethumadhavan, 10 Times National award winning Director

Shri S. Priyadarshan, Padma Shri and National Award winning Director

Shri Santhanabharathi, National award winning Director

Shri Ahathian, National award winning Director

Shri Gnana Rajasekaran, 3 Times National award winning Director

Shri K. Hariharan, National award winning Director

Shri R. Parthiban, 2 Times National award winning Director

Shri Cheran, 4 Times National award winning Director

Shri Bala, 2 Times National award winning Director

Shri SP. Jhananathan, National award winning Director

Shri Vasanthabalan, National award winning Director

Shri Pandiraj, National award winning Director

Shri Vetrimaaran, 3 Times National award winning Director and Producer

Shri Seenu Ramasamy, National award winning Director

Shri Suseenthiran, National award winning Director

Shri A. Sarkunam, National award winning Director

Shri Balaji Sakthivel, National award winning Director

Shri Ram, National award winning Director

Shri P. Samuthirakani, National award winning Actor and Director

Shri G. Brahma, National award winning Director

Shri Chezhiyan, National award winning Director and Cinematographer

National Award winning Producers

Shri Kalaipuli S. Thanu, National Award winning Producer

Shri Sivasakthi Pandian, National Award winning Producer

Shri L. Suresh, National Award winning Producer

Shri M. Sasikumar, National Award winning Producer

Shri Subash Chandra Bose, National Award winning Producer

Shri S. Muruganandam, National Award winning Producer

Shri J. Satishkumar, Two times National Award winning Producer

Shri S.R. Prabhu, National Award winning Producer.

National Award winning Writer/Critic

Shri G. Dhananjayan, Two times National Award winner for Best Writing on Cinema and Film Critic.

Director Mysskin a filmaker's journey is a weird as their..

Director Mysskin 

A filmmaker’s journey is as weird as their success rate is truly based on how well proficient alchemist or drivers they are. Naturally, these are the most adorable roles admired, where one converts a simple idea into a valuable asset and another one commutes the crowd into his universe. Director Mysskin has substantially proved of such paradigms, where he created a fan base for himself through his maverick filmmaking style. Furthermore, he has become the pioneer of the decade to prove that there’s nothing such dualities called ‘Offbeat’ and ‘Commercial’ cinemas. End of the day, it’s about bringing good stories with valuable content that encapsulates emotional quotients together. Accordingly, Mysskin has now proved to be a ‘Jack of all Genres’ by completing his hat-trick through Pisasu (Horror), Thupparivalan (Detective-Thriller) and recent sensational hit Psycho (Psychological-Thriller).


“More than claiming this as a success, I want to label it as ‘Unconditional Love’ that I have gained from the crowds. I always believe that whatever genre or backdrop a film might belong to, the audiences will appreciate it if they are emotionally connected. I made these films with ‘blind hopes’ and eventually landed up in their good books.” smilingly says Mysskin, who feels that ‘Blind Hopes’ and ‘Soulful Search’ are the inherent elements in our lives. He adds, “In fact, my protagonists Siddarth (Pisasu), Kaniyan Pongundran (Thupparivalan) and Gautham (Psycho), embraced these mantras, which I humbly consider as a takeaway for audiences. I thank the entire cast and crew of these films, producers, technicians, well wishers, critics and audiences for filling my marks sheet with ‘Distinction’. Filled with more positivity and the same hopes, I want to continue my journey entertaining the film buffs to the best of my abilities. I will be soon making official announcements on my new projects.”

Mr. Ajith Kumar proceeding at the brisk pace with entire team

AK 59 

Mr. Ajith Kumar starrer AK 59 is proceeding at the brisk pace with entire team pushing its bars of excellence in nurturing it efficiently. With the official announcement involving the film’s worldwide 2019 Summer release being affirmed on the commencement of shooting, Producer Mr. Boney Kapoor  who kick-starts his production venture in South through his home banner Bayview Projects LLP. feels so much delighted on getting the right team of star-cast and technicians. 

“As I have said earlier, my journey with Ajith Kumar had started from the time he worked with my wife the late Sri Devi in English Vinglish. It all started as a wish from her end, where she felt it would be nice to have Ajith doing a Tamil film produced by our production house. What started as an informal wish eventually got its shape as we mutually  came forward choosing a content that appropriately deals with something to do with the current situation.Sridevi herself was immensely happy with the core content we chose to work with. I am happy now to see that the entire project is getting materialized and is proceeding at its brisk pace. Moreover, I feel happy as my travel with Ajith Kumar isn’t going to be limited merely with a film, but we will immediately start working on a new film from July 2019 that will have a huge release in April 2020.” says Boney Kapoor. 

As he furnishes the complete details about cast and crew of AK 59, Boney Kapoor adds, “Personally, I have always been a film buff, who curiously looks at the posters of any movies to see who’s who in the star-cast and technical crew.  Films with good contents need perfect team to execute and deliver it. I am literally happy to have found such a team for my debut production through Bayview Projects LLP. 

Filmmaker Vinoth has proved himself to be a master of versatile craftsmanship in his erstwhile movies.  His discipline and distinct commitment in translating the words into pictures absolutely as promised is brilliant. I always believe for any movies irrespective of genres of themes, ‘Music’ is the ultimate asset in elevating its substantiality.  In this aspect, Yuvan Shankar Raja’s music has intensified the soul of movies, especially in the emotional context.  This film has found more of such talents and powerhouses, who I believe will definitely escalate it.” 

Getting on to speak about others in the star-cast, Boney Kapoor says, “It’s nice to introduce Vidya  Balan to the Tamil audience.She is paired with AjithKumar and  her role is a very special . Shrada Srinath has been displaying plenty of promise and we are  casting her in the pivotal role.  Rangaraj Pandey plays a very important character too. Adhik Ravichandran, Arjun Chidambaram , Abhirami Venkatachalam, Andrea Tariang, Aswin Rao, Sujith Shankar and others will add up the realistic chroma of this film.” 

The film’s technical crew comprises of Nirav Shah (Cinematography), K. Kathir (Art Director), Dhilip Subbarayan (Stunt Master), Poornima Ramasamy (Costume designer) Gokul Chandran (Editor),  P. Jayaraj  (Executive Producer).