

While the younger son Prabhu is a noted actor in Tamil cinema, Ramkumar runs the production house Sivaji Productions started by Sivaji. He married Kamala in 1952 and they have four children from their marriage - Prabhu, Ramkumar, Shanthi and Thenmozhi. Sivaji was the second oldest son of his parents. He learnt all his acting as well as the dance forms of Bharatanatyam, Kathak and Manipuri from Chinna Ponnusamy Padayatchi, who was the mentor of that troupe. In 1997, he was honored with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award – the highest award for films in India.īorn on 1st October, 1928, in Sirkali in Tamil Nadu, Sivaji dropped out of school at a young age to join a boy’s acting troupe. In a five decade long career, he acted in hundreds of Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi films.

NIA carried out raids at Dawood Ibrahim's associates in Bandra, Kurla, Mahim, Parel, Goregaon, Borivali, Santacruz, Mumbra, Bhendi Bazar, among other places.Villupuram Chinnaiah Ganesan popularly known as Sivaji Ganesan was one of the legends of Tamil cinema and theatre. NIA raids multiple premises of Dawood Ibrahim's associates in Mumbai, detains one Shiv Sena leaders were targets of D-Company

Odisha: 64 school students residing in 2 hostels in Rayagada district test COVID-19 positiveĪfter 64 students of Odisha’s Rayagada district tested COVID-19 positive, authorities have ordered districts to conduct health screening of all boarders in the state The clip, shared by Panipat Superintendent of Police, Shashank Kumar Sawan on Twitter, shows the leopard using its claws to attack the officers Spine-chilling video of leopard attacking forest officials in Panipat goes viral The active cases comprise 0.05 per cent of the total coronavirus cases in the country There has been a decrease of 232 cases in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. India currently has 20,403 active cases of COVID-19. India logs 3,207 new COVID-19 cases, 29 deaths in last 24 hours positivity rate at 0.95% Cops said investigation is underway and no arrest has been made so far The 32-year-old woman, a UPSC aspirant, in her complaint stated that she met author Nilotpal Mrinal in 2013. He passed away on 21 July, 2001, at the age of 72.Īward winning author Nilotpal Mrinal 'raped' UPSC aspirant for 10 years under pretext of marriage, booked by Delhi Police Along with his other accomplishments, Ganesan was also the first Indian actor to win a Best Actor award at an international film festival in Egypt for his performance in Veerapandiya Kattabomman. He received training in Bharatanatyam, Kathak and several other dance forms. He worked in nearly 288 languages which included Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, and Hindi. Ganesan made his debut in 1952 with Parasakthi and went on to appear in almost 300 films with a career that spanned for about five decades. As per reports, Ganesan got his name 'Sivaji' when he essayed the role of the valiant Indian King Shivaji, in one of his theatre plays. Donning various roles as a theatre artist, he soon began to play lead roles. She also mentioned how she was totally in love with Ganesan's onscreen looks and wanted to represent the vintage Indian film typography in her poster.Ĭhoksi added that she wanted to visualise and celebrate the timelessness of Ganesan's work through her doodle.īorn as Ganesamoorthy on 1 October, 1928, in Villipuram, Tamil Nadu, Ganesan left his home at the age of 7 to join theatre. While talking to Times Now about his inspiration behind illustrating the doodle, Choksi said that she loved watching Ganesan portray a variety of roles on screen and was in love with his versatility. Another proud moment!😍 Love him and miss him more every year!❤️🙏 /A1aczdPEPl Appreciate the people from Google India & their guest artist Noopur Rajesh Choksi for the doodle art. Here is the #Googledoodle honouring the Legend #SivajiGanesan on his 93rd birthday.
