C. V. Rajendran

Sandalwood always welcomes people who experiment and explore with films. Even though the Kannada film industry started in 1934, not a single movie had been shot abroad until ‘Singaporenalli Raja Kulla’ started being filmed. It was the first film to be shot abroad in 1978.

The 27th all-India mango exhibition was inaugurated by the district administration at Government Boys Higher Secondary School here on Sunday evening.

With a view to improve the efficiency of the system, Kerala State Road Transport Corporation chairman and managing director MG Rajamanickam has given the executive directors of the Corporation an additional charge of the five zones.

The film marked the beginning of a very fruitful and special collaboration between Dr. Rajkumar and Singeetam Srinivas Rao who would then go on to work alongside on six different occasions.

As per industry estimates, gross NPAs (non performing assets) or bad loans of some nationalized banks and smaller private banks are as high as 7% to 8%.

Saturday marked a rare confluence of film stars from across the southern states in the city, but there was no doubt who the heroine was. J Jayalalithaa declared the centenary celebrations of Indian cinema open at the Jawaharlal Nehru indoor stadium.

Brought up by her grandparents in Karnataka for a few years after her father Jayaram’s death, she moved to Chennai with her mother Veda when she was in Class 5. Veda — by then popular in the Tamil film industry by screen name Sandhya — was too busy for the child, according to Jayalalithaa’s serialised memoirs.