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Could refer as "RRR".

http://theenvelope.latimes.com/entertainment/env-et-golden-globes-noms-2008dec11,0,898168.story
SDM is nominated for 4 awards including Best film, best director, and best screenplay.

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For the uninitiated: His repertoire includes Kannathil muthamitaal, Alaipayuthey, Navarasa, Vanaprastham, The terrorist, Ayutha Ezhuthu, Guru et Yuva.

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 Vishwanathan Anand was named NDTV’s Sportsman of the Year.
A R Rehman, who continues to give one musical hit after the other was given NDTV’s Music Award

Sripuram Golden Temple (Vellore). Take a look.
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Must watch/read in my opinion…

AllThingsKamal

On a noble cause
Kamal Haasan on a noble cause
IndiaGlitz [Saturday, December 01, 2007]

(In telugu)
Part 1
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Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

Two important reviewers when it comes to Tamil film music:
Our own Intek and blogger Suresh
[of course, Baradwaj's review is awaited too]
As for my verdict : Vijay’s films often has loud jarring and pretentious music. When you get someone like Rahman in, you get the refined version of the same – Mozart of madras proves his [...]

Dedicated to Shetty and Satyam.
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Click on the ‘exclusive trailer link’ for ATM’s trailer with pics(well it has Shriya if you’re interested) and short mashup of the songs.
Mozart of Madras has rendered the title song with his unique voice.

[This is a comment, which I'm putting up as a post for reference. Hope it's an interesting read for its fans.]
Virumandi has its own sense/purpose of feminism, and specifically nihilism of ‘marriage’. The latter is not noted, the film has every single pair breaking up. And, the relationships gives out the stronger purpose of women. [...]

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I loved it!

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“Literature is one form of creativity and cinema is another. I feel filmmaking is a very powerful creative medium today. As I was basically into serious literature stuff, I started writing short stories and then scripts for films. My foray into films started as a script writer in Hindi.
I have written scripts for Raj Kumar [...]

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[Rohit or Q, Embed the video if possible, Thanks]
Interesting Trailer and pushes me to make some points. The protagonist narrates in Tamil. With a somewhat predictable, “yEn peru Prabhakar, naan ungakitta rendu minusham pesanum, anda remote-a konjam keela vekuringala, please” (I’m Prabhakar, I need to speak for two minutes, could you please drop the remote, [...]

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Behindwoods Review: A Must see.
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Interesting. Jeeva looks to have given his best performance. Although I thought “Raam” was just about “okay”, and it was overhyped by media. Balu Mahendra’s assistant looks to have a similar style, and his dialogues are in the same vein from the look of it. The approach is terse and crisp, [...]

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