There
was a rumour that Sakshi used her look alike sister to act for her whenever
she had given call sheets for more than two films on the same day.Trends
The year had a few hits and a lot of misses. Contrary to last year, the movies with the big heros were hits. This excludes Kamal's ALAVANDHAN (Please note that Prashanth is not considered amongst the big ones). Vijayakanth, Vijay and Ajeeth gave 3 hits each. However in 2000, they gave one flop each (SIMMASANAM, KANNUKKUL NILAVU and UNNAI KODU ENNAI THARUVEN). In 2000, it appeared that the star craze was fading away but 2001 proves it wrong.
The no of tamil movies which was decreasing in the last few years, has increased in 2001 !!
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Year
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Direct Tamil Films
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Films Dubbed to Tamil
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Total (Direct + Dubbing)
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1999
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85
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64
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149
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2000
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68
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72
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140
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2001
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75
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80
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155
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Trends since last 5 years showed that the number of movies dubbed to Tamil has been increasing.
Hits of 2001
Out of 75 direct Tamil films released in 2001, there was only one Silver Jubilee Film (175 Days). Two films touched 125 days and Ten movies reached the 100 Day mark.
| FRIENDS |
175 Days
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| DHEENA and VAANJINATHAN |
150 Days
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| MINNALEY, ULLAM KOLLAI POGUTHEY, BADRI, DUM DUM DUM, CITIZEN, SONNALTHAN KADHALA, ANANDHAM, DHIL, NARASIMHA and POOVELLAM UN VAASAM |
100 Days
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| Apart from the above mentioned movies,VAANAVIL, SNEGITHIYEY and PIRIYAMANAVALEY released during the end of 2000 completed their 100 day run in 2001. TENALI, which was also released in 2000 completed 175 days | |
Most no. of Movies
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Category
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"And The Winner is..."
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Films
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Actor
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Murali (6 Films) |
KANNUKKU KANNAGA, ANANDHAM, SONNALTHAN KADHALA, SAMUTHIRAM, ALLITHANTHA VANAM and KADAL POOKAL |
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Actress
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Roja (9 Films) |
MITTA MIRASU, SONNALTHAN KADHALA, LHOOTIE, VISWANATHAN RAMAMOORTHY, VEETODA MAPILLAI, SUPER KUDUMBAM, NILAKAALAM, KOTTAI MARIYAMMAN and MAYAN |
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Music Director
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Deva (20 Films) |
Not worth mentioning - but this is the 6th year in a row that he figures in this list |
Vivek has performed comedy roles in 21 Films and Vadivelu in 19 films. Goundamani and Senthil have acted in 4 films each. This would clearly show the increasing demand and changing trend.
Year 2001 was also another Graphic Godesses Year, where Ramanarayanan again directed the most number of films (3). Director, Sunder C also directed 3 films.
Sex Bomb(?!), Mumtaj continued her dancing dominance with 6 films. Producers have decided not to release any film without Mumtaj's dance. However, towards the end of 2001, Mumtaj has decided to accept films only if she has a few scenes to exhibit her acing talents (he heee).
New Faces
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Actor (5)
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Actress (16)
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| Eashwar (Love Channel), Shyam (12B), Krishna (Piriyatha Varam Vendum), Bentley (Little John) and Balaji (Kadhalukku Kannikkai) |
Reema Sen (Minnaley), Neha (Alli Thantha Vaanam), Jeya Rey (Chocholate), Boby (Sonnalthan Kadhala), Vijayalakshmi (Friends), Bhoomika (Badri), Monal (Parvai Ondery Pothumey), Shameetha (Pandavar Bhoomi), Divyashree (Pengal), Gayathri Jeyaram (Manathai Thirudi Vittai), Monisha (Love Channel), Rinki Khanna (Majnu), Richa (Shahjahan), Kavya Madhavan (Kasi), Ranjana (Love Marriage), Cindu (Samuthiram) |
Tit Bits
There
was a rumour that Sakshi used her look alike sister to act for her whenever
she had given call sheets for more than two films on the same day.
Mansoor
Ali Khan acted as villain outside the silver screen. He was charged with rape
and was sentenced for 7 years.
Kamal's
wife, Sarika fell from her terrace and was badly hurt. Fortunately she recovered
soon.
People
stopped going for night shows. Thanx to SUN TV's tele-serial, CHITTI. The serial
had everyone glued to the TV sets between 9:30pm to 10:00pm for almost one whole
year.
Leading
Actress, Devayani eloped and got married to director, Rajakumaran. Other actresses,
like Meera, Alphonsa and Visithra got married in a similar way.
Another
marriage which shocked everyone was the marriage of Sarath Kumar and Radhika.
Director,
Balachander claimed to have directed his 100th film, PARTHALEY PARAVASAM. This
was not true since he had included his television serials as well as movies
like THAMARAI NENJAM for which he had just scripted the dialogues. However,
PARTHALEY PARAVASAM bombed at the box office.
Ramarajan
and his wife Nalini got themselves legally separated.
Sivaji
Ganesan's death shocked millions of tamil across the world.
Jaiganesh
(Actor), K V Mahadevan (Music Director), Thirupathiswamy (Director) and Manivasagam
(Director) are others who would be missed by tamil cinema.
Inorder
to prevent television's dominance, the tamil cinema associations banned interviews
to televisions. Action was taken against those film stars who had acted against
the ban.
©1996-2002 Gokul Santhanam (THE COOLJILAX WORLD).
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