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Santhanam est un Acteur, Ecrivain, Producteur et Playback Singer Indien né le 21 janvier 1980
N. Santhanam (born 21 January 1980) is an Indian film actor who has predominantly appeared in Tamil films as a comedian. Beginning his career as a comedian on television shows, he rose to fame through his performances in Vijay TV's Lollu Sabha enacting the lead role in spoofs of Tamil films. He was subsequently given a chance by actor Silambarasan to feature in a supporting role in Manmadhan (2004) and then was signed on to appear in a host of films, notably winning good reviews for his work in Sachien (2005) and Polladhavan (2007). He appeared in a one-off leading role in Shankar's production Arai En 305-il Kadavul (2008) and subsequently became a staple feature as a comedian in successful Tamil films during the period, with his market popularity helping stuck films find distributors. Santhanam has also had embarked on collaborations with directors including gaining positive reviews for his work in M. Rajesh's comic trilogy of Siva Manasula Sakthi (2009), Boss Engira Bhaskaran (2010) and Oru Kal Oru Kannadi (2012), winning the Vijay Award for Best Comedian for each one. He has also repeatedly collaborated in the films of A. L. Vijay, Siva and Sundar C as well as in films featuring Silambarasan, Arya and Udhayanidhi Stalin.
His consistently well-received performances and box office appeal in the early 2010s prompted the film industry to dub him as the "Comedy Superstar". In 2012, he began a film production company named Handmade Films and produced his first film, Kanna Laddu Thinna Aasaiya (2013), which went on to become a commercially successful venture. Meanwhile, in 2014, he starred in the leading role again in the action comedy Vallavanukku Pullum Aayudham (2014), winning critical and commercial acclaim.
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His consistently well-received performances and box office appeal in the early 2010s prompted the film industry to dub him as the "Comedy Superstar". In 2012, he began a film production company named Handmade Films and produced his first film, Kanna Laddu Thinna Aasaiya (2013), which went on to become a commercially successful venture. Meanwhile, in 2014, he starred in the leading role again in the action comedy Vallavanukku Pullum Aayudham (2014), winning critical and commercial acclaim.
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Makkhi (2012)
, 2h25Réalisé par S. S. Rajamouli
Origine Inde
Genres Drame, Science-fiction, Comédie, Fantasy, Action, Romance
Thèmes Mise en scène d'un animal, Magie, Religion, Mise en scène d'un insecte
Acteurs Sudeep, Nani, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Hamsa Nandini, Devadarshini
Rôle Thief (Tamil version)
Note76%
La réincarnation d'un jeune homme injustement assassiné... en mouche !
Kalakalappu (2012)
Réalisé par Sundar C.
Genres Comédie
Acteurs Vimal, Shiva, Anjali, Oviya, John Vijay, Santhanam
Rôle Vettupuli
Note68%
The setting is Kumbakonam, where Seenu (Vimal), tries to keep the fire burning in the kitchen of his famous ancestral restaurant Masala Café. It is tough job for Seenu to keep the place running, but with the help of the old chef and granddaughter, Maya (Oviya), he somehow manages it.
Mirattal (2012)
Réalisé par R. Madhesh
Genres Comédie, Action, Romance
Acteurs Vinay Rai, Sharmiela Mandre, Prabhu, Rishi aka Rishi Raj, Pradeep Rawat, Pandiarajan
Rôle Chari
Note55%
Podaa Podi (2012)
, 2h5Genres Comédie, Comédie romantique, Romance
Acteurs Silambarasan, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, Shobana, VTV Ganesh, Santhanam, Premgi Amaren
Rôle Special Appearance
Note55%
Arjun (Silambarasan), an animation artist living in London with his uncle (Ganesh), meets Nisha (Varalaxmi Sarathkumar) in a London pub. She is an aspiring dancer who is living with her aunt (Shobana). After going around together for a day, Nisha proposes a relationship and Arjun agrees. Arjun hates Nisha attending salsa classes with her friend Mojo as her partner. However, he agrees to marry her.
Saguni (2012)
, 2h31Réalisé par Shankar Dayal. N
Genres Drame
Thèmes Politique
Acteurs Karthi, Shriya Saran, Pranitha Subhash, Santhanam, Prakash Raj, Kota Srinivasa Rao
Rôle Appadhurai Rajini
Note49%
The film starts with the demise of CM (Satyamoorthy), a political plot produced by Boopathi(Prakash Raj), thereby starting the film on serious note. Then, we are introduced to Kamala Kannan (Karthi), who tells his story to the auto driver AppaDurai alias Rajini (Santhanam). AppaDurai assumes that Kamala Kannan is rich and drives him around the city to be profited for him.
இஷ்டம் (2012)
Genres Comédie, Romance
Acteurs Vimal, Nisha Aggarwal, Anoop Kumar, Santhanam, Pragathi Mahavadi, Pyramid Natarajan
Rôle Thiyagu
Note32%
Saravanan is modern city guy while Sandhya is village modern girl who came to city to find a job. Sandhya meets Saravanan while going to an interview. At first they had some disagreements and fight. Then, it turn into love and they had some relationship. Later on, they decided to get married but their parents didn't agree. But they still got married and started to live happily at Saravanan's place. They was having a happy life for few months. But later on, they had some fights and disagreements and they decided to file divorce. Both of them went to their parents house to live separately. Their parents decided to get them a new life partner. At first they agreed with their parents decision. But later, they started to feel their love and miss each other. At last they decided to cancel their second marriage and live together happily.
முப்பொழுதும் உன் கற்பனைகள் (2012)
Réalisé par Elred Kumar
Genres Drame, Thriller, Romance
Acteurs Atharvaa, Amala Paul, Roja, Anupama Kumar, V. Jayaprakash, Santhanam
Rôle Chandru
Note49%
The film opens with Ram (Atharvaa) fronting a car driven by two guys apparently drunk and rich and with their girl friend(s). He tries to kill them and eventually they escape in the car opening the title. Then it turns to be that Ram enjoys a successful career in information technology. He is hit by Radhi (Yashika) as office romance. He turns down her interest and reveals he is in love with a girl who resides in Bangalore and he is going to visit her. Ram drives to Bangalore and meets Charu (Amala Paul) in her apartment. While sleeping, Ram wakes up goes to the streets, search and kills a person (one of them in the car in first scene). Eventually it is revealed that Charu is in some danger and Ram is safeguarding her by not letting her out of that apartment until he cleans up the city for her safety.
நீதானே என் பொன்வசந்தம் (2012)
, 2h25Réalisé par Gautham Vasudev Menon
Genres Drame, Romance
Acteurs Jiiva, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Santhanam, Vidyulekha Raman, Ravi Prakash, Anupama Kumar
Rôle Mahesh
Note64%
The film begins with Varun (Jiiva) gaining admission into an engineering college, with his best friend Prakash (Santhanam). He and his friends one day participate in a cultural programme, where Varun finds his childhood sweetheart Nithya (Samantha) participating in a dance show. He begins wooing her by singing on stage and later meets up with her and begins to reminisce their childhood. The film rewinds to their early days when both were aged eight, and shows the pair becoming friends after Varun had helped Nithya retrieve a book which had fallen while she had been playing. However after a minor understanding featuring Nithya's brother, she decides not to meet Varun and makes a vow to never talk with him. However, the pair then meet again in their tenth standard, aged 15. Nithya initially hesitates to talk with Varun, but sheds her inhibitions once Varun breaks the ice between them, and resumes her friendship with him. Nithya is elected as the pupil leader in school and as a pupil leader she is in constant interaction with Deepak, another pupil leader and her classmate, much to the dismay of Varun. As a result, they have another fallout.
Oru Kal Oru Kannadi (2012)
, 2h46Réalisé par M. Rajesh
Genres Comédie, Comédie romantique, Romance
Acteurs Hansika Motwani, Udhayanidhi Stalin, Santhanam, Saranya, Madhumitha, Sayaji Shinde
Rôle Parthasarathy
Note62%
One morning in his house, Saravanan (Udhayanidhi Stalin) receives his ex-girlfriend, Meera's (Hansika Motwani) wedding invitation. He phones his friend Parthasarathy aka Partha (Santhanam) to come with his janvasa car. On his way to Pondicherry, Saravanan thinks of his flashback. He was a ruthless youth. One day in traffic, he sees Meera and falls for her on the site. He follows her to a cloth shop and also to her Air Hostess class. He sees her house and he and Partha goes to her house as Meera calls them. There, Meera threatens Saravanan by showing her dad's photo, who is a Deputy Commissioner. But still, Saravanan follows her and asks her to love him. Meera takes her to her dad's office and he asks Saravanan to stop following Meera. Meera tells Saravanan that she has some qualifications required by her lover like shaving regularly, dressing well, breaking his friendship with Partha, coming on time, etc. Saravanan tells this to Partha and Partha asks him if Meera or he is best for him. Saravanan tells Meera is more important to him than Partha and this causes a break between Saravanan's and Partha's friendship. Later, Saravanan joins the broken love of Partha and asks him to rejoin his love. Partha agrees and then they go to Mumbai, following Meera in a flight. There, Meera alas tells that she loves Saravanan. After some months, Meera calls Saravanan once, but he does not pick up the phone and tells Partha that Meera is not real love and it is all a drama. But he really tells this for fun. But Partha had accidentally switched on the phone while Saravanan told all these. Meera, mistaking him for intentionally misusing her, comes there and breaks their love. Now, at Pondicherry, during Meera's marriage, both Saravanan and Partha end up drunk and tell a small story, in a comical way describing the broken love of Saravanan and Meera. Just as the marriage is going to happen, Rajini Murugan (Arya) comes there with a pregnant girl and his wife (Andrea Jeremiah) and tells that Meera's groom has a girlfriend who is pregnant by him and that the girl Rajini Murugan is with, is that girl. The groom agrees his mistake and reunites with his old girlfriend. Saravanan and Partha walk off the Hall, just then Meera comes and hugs Saravanan, hence reuinting with him.
தாண்டவம் (2012)
, 2h36Réalisé par A. L. Vijay
Genres Thriller, Action
Acteurs Vikram, Jagapati Babu, Anushka Shetty, Amy Jackson, Raai Laxmi, Nassar
Rôle Sathyan
Note60%
On 1 January 2010, a sudden bomb blast occurs in London, killing several people. The scene shifts to the same place after exactly a year, where a blind man Kenny Thomas (Vikram) lays flowers on the memorial and mourns someone's death during the bomb blast. He is then given some secret details by a mysterious woman. Kenny then takes a taxi driven by Satyan (Santhanam) who is a comical Tamil guy. He drops Kenny at a place and waits for him to return. But Kenny actually goes inside to kill someone. He kills him and throws him down. Seeing the corpse, Satyan flees. During this entire scene, Kenny is shown to produce a sound from his mouth, to find his way, which is later shown as echolocation. Later Kenny is shown to play piano in a local church, and he is blind he has so many people who care for him. In the meantime, Kenny carries out two more murders, taking the same taxi driven by the innocent Satyan, following instructions from the mysterious woman.
Leelai (2012)
Genres Comédie, Romance
Acteurs Shiv Pandit, Manasi Parekh Gohil, Santhanam, Vibha Natarajan, Lakshmy Ramakrishnan
Rôle Vicky
Note66%
The film begins with a trio of three friends in college (Malar,Mona,Gayathri). Mona falls in love with a guy called Karthik (Shiv Pandit) despite the advice of Malar (Manasi Parekh Gohil) who suspects Karthik to be a complete flirt. One day, while on a date, Mona mentions to Karthik, Malar's views about him and this gets Karthik to start hating Malar for interfering in his love life. When Karthik calls Mona, Malar picks the call up accidentally and they get into an argument with Karthik venting out his anger towards her interfering in his love life. Shortly later, he breaks up with Mona. Gayathri believing Mona was a wrong choice in Karthik's life and begins to date Karthik, while Malar is firmly against it. The relationship ends the same way as his previous relationship with Mona. A year or two later both Karthik and Malar work at the same software company at different floors in the same building. One day, while trying to call his friend on Malar's floor, he accidentally calls Malar and the two realize their identities and presence in the building and the age-old feud resumes. Over lunch, both Malar's friend (Vicky) and his own friend (Suja) advise him to sort it with Malar. Vicky questions why Karthik would fight with such a beautiful woman such as Malar, Karthik not knowing what Malar looks like decides to take a look at her. When he sees Malar he falls in love at first sight, he then tries to reconcile with Malar, but Malar is not willing to forgive a flirt such as Karthik. Karthik becomes desperate and begins to follow Malar and in a chance meeting orchestrated by Karthik he introduces himself as a sweet and kind person by the name of 'Sundar'. Malar who has never met Karthik face to face, believes his false identity and begins to open up to Sundar. They start to get to know each other and meet often, when one day his friend Suja who works with Malar finds out about his game. Suja offers Karthik an ultimatum to reveal his true identity, once Malar declares her love for Sundar. Karthik tries to salvage his relationship with hilarious consequences. But, all said and done, how Karthik reveals to Malar about his true identity and her acceptance or rejection forms the crux of the story. Vicky (Santhanam) Malar's friend provides extra comic relief to the story.
മൈ ഡിയർ കുട്ടിച്ചാത്തൻ (2011)
Genres Comédie, Fantasy, Aventure, Horreur
Acteurs Prakash Raj, Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair, Jagathy Sreekumar, Sonia. V, Santhanam, Dalip Tahil
Rôle Tamil version alternative scenes
Note77%
Badrinath (2011)
, 2h13Réalisé par V. V. Vinayak
Genres Drame, Action, Romance
Thèmes Sport, Le terrorisme, Arts martiaux
Acteurs Allu Arjun, Tamannaah Bhatia, Prakash Raj, Kelly Dorji, Ashwini Kalsekar, Santhanam
Note44%
Bheeshma Narayan (Prakash Raj) is a religious guru who prepares an army for the protection of all the ancient Hindu temples from terrorists. Of all the valiant and talented warriors in this elite army, Badrinath (Allu Arjun) is one who is groomed by Bheeshma Narayan and wishes to make Badri his successor. Once, a group of terrorists attacked Amarnath Temple and killed some devotees, Badri fought and killed those criminals, saving both the temple and the devotees.
தெய்வத்திருமகள் (2011)
, 2h46Réalisé par A. L. Vijay
Genres Drame, Documentaire
Thèmes Le handicap
Acteurs Vikram, Sara Arjun, Anushka Shetty, Amala Paul, Nassar, Santhanam
Rôle Vinod
Note81%
Krishna (Vikram) is intellectually disabled and has the mental ability of a six-year old. He lives a peaceful life in the hill station of Ooty. He is cared for by Victor (Krishna Kumar), the owner of a chocolate factory where Krishna works. One day he excitedly announces to the village that he will become a father. That night, his daughter is born, but his wife Banumathy dies during childbirth. Unable to grasp the concept of death, he simply accepts that his wife has "gone to God" and starts life as a father. He names his daughter Nila, and raises her with love and care. She soon grows into a happy young girl (Sara). With the help of Victor and his other mentally challenged friends, Krishna enrolls Nila in school.
Kandaen (2011)
, 2h12Genres Romance
Acteurs Shanthanu Bhagyaraj, Rashmi Gautam, Santhanam, Vijayakumar, Ashish Vidyarthi, Vijayakumar
Rôle Saami
Note46%
Vasanth (Shanthnoo Bhagyaraj) is an engineer who comes from Chennai to visit his grandfather(Vijayakumar) who claims to be ill. When he arrives at his hometown, he finds that a marriage has been arranged for him and that his grandfather isn't really ill. To escape from the marriage, he lies, saying that he is in love with a girl. The grandfather wants to see the girl as soon as possible, and Vasanth returns to Chennai.