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Padmarajan was in Thiruvananthapuram to file his nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha seat that has fallen vacant from Kerala.
Padmarajan was however satisfied that he could at least register his presence in the election arena.
Padmarajan says he could not pursue the medical profession or journalism for "want of time", but when it comes to elections, he seems to have plenty of it.
www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2004031605121200.htm&date=2004/03/16/&prd=th&   (491 words)

  
 Chronicles: Padmarajan: A Loss in January
However the movie was a riot in a deeper sense when Padmarajan ever so subtly slipped in the psychoanalytical threads to metatag the life of Raman in lieu of his insecurities as a teenager, his perceptions of sexuality and growth in a seemingly hostile world.
Padmarajan is known for his native and localized plots and characters.
Faulkner's southerner retard Benjy imparted a shock to the readers and similarly viewers were shaken by Padmarajan's blend of anarchist and sexually challenged protagonists.
rajamohan.blogspot.com /2005/09/padmarajan-loss-in-january.html   (1473 words)

  
 Padmarajan
Padmarajan worked as an announcer at AIR and had already authored 15 novels before he entered cinema by writing script for Bharathan's "Pranamam".
Padmarajan's first film as a director, Peruvazhiyambalam was a milestone in Malayalam cinema history.
Padmarajan's last film is a fantasy featuring the college-going Bhama and her passion for a celestial lover, who keeps appearing from a wooden statue that she found on a beach but is invisible to others.
www.cinemaofmalayalam.net /padmarajan.html   (860 words)

  
 GN Online: A master of ropes
Among them is magician Padmarajan, more commonly known as Professor Padmarajan in magic circles, who is in Dubai for a visit.
All that Padmarajan needs for the trick is a cane basket, a piece of rope and a flute-like instrument generally used by snake charmers.
Padmarajan was born to a middle-class family with no background in magic.
www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=84025   (534 words)

  
 News Full Details www.fatafat.com
Addressing the valedictory function, State Planning Board Vice-Chairman C.V. Padmarajan called for a reorientation of the decentralisation process to ensure more autonomy for local bodies.
He stressed the need to equip local self-government institutions with more freedom in formulating Plan projects and to simplify the process of planning, budgeting and fund release.
Padmarajan advocated an advisory role for task forces and technical committees.
www.fatafat.com /News/fulldetails.aspx?id=9481   (430 words)

  
 Pravda.RU:The most unlucky politician to be put on vote again   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
An Indian candidate is preparing for a new campaign after losing all 44 of his previous attempts to be elected to office.
K Padmarajan, from Mettur, has filed his nomination papers for the Tamil Nadu state assembly elections and for a local council by-election.
Padmarajan has filed his 45th and 46th election nomination papers as an independent candidate.
newsfromrussia.com /main/2001/04/19/3772_.html   (148 words)

  
 BizHat.com - Film Actor Biju Menon
He contacted Padmarajan over phone and was asked to come over to Thiruvananthapuram.
Padmarajan did try Biju, but found that his sound was not at all suitable for the character that he had created in his film.
Padmarajan encouraged him and consoled him saying that he had a bright future in store and so he need not be disheartened.
movies.bizhat.com /actors/biju_menon.php   (416 words)

  
 Padmarajan - TheBestLinks.com - Anarchism, Film director, January 24, Kerala, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Padmarajan, Anarchism, Film director, January 24, Kerala, May 23, Malayalam...
His sudden and untimely death, which occurred while he was visiting a film theatre in Calicut screening his last film Njaan gandharvan, was widely mourned, and the feeling of loss among the people of Kerala is truly soul-felt, lingering to this day.
Radhalakshmi Padmarajan, who was his colleague at AIR before their marriage (1970), has written her reminiscences about him in her book Padmarajan entaey gandharvan [Padmarajan, my celestial lover].
www.thebestlinks.com /Padmarajan.html   (1002 words)

  
 Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> Cong MLA Shobana thrown out of party in Kerala
The decision was taken by the disciplinary action committee (DAC) of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee which found that Sobhana had committed "severe breach of party discipline" by lashing out at Chief Minister A K Antony before the media in September.
The DAC, headed by former KPCC president C V Padmarajan, however, refrained from going into the charges against Sobhana on her alleged role in the conspiracy behind forgery of a fake police intelligence document which sought to link state Tourism Minister K V Thomas with a hawala racket, since the matter was sub judice.
Briefing reporters on the DAC decision, Padmarajan said forfeiture of primary membership meant that she would cease to be a member of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP).
news.indiainfo.com /2002/12/03/03shobana.html   (271 words)

  
 thiruvallaonline
Amongst all the usual crap that erupts out of contemporary mediocrity there is always the rare one that takes on a note of adamantine quality.
In the Malayalam film industry, much hyped about for the recent onslaught of losses, rare ones were there once: Padmarajan, John Abraham, to name a few.
For him Padmarajan is the greatest storyteller ever, the god.
www.thiruvallaonline.com /text/today/morenews.php?id=47   (448 words)

  
 With Ram as naam, they thought of win- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
For had it been so, he would have not secured 101 votes and be listed as the candidate with the lowest vote count and lost the elections as well.
So when counting of votes was underway at Lucknow where Atal Bihari Vajpayee was also in fray, Dr Padmarajan appeared jubilant with 326 votes while Atal bagged the last place among top 10 candidates who polled maximum votes.
Though Atal was declared a winner, he lost to Dr Padmarajan, who maintained his record of defeats.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-690852,curpg-2.cms   (258 words)

  
 Kaumudi Online - Offline Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
While Padmarajan is from the Congress, Vijayan is from the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M).
Giving details, he said Brahamapuram deal, involving then electricity minister Padmarajan, was inked in 1993 when a French company was asked to supply equipment for repair and maintenance works of generators worth Rs 750 million.
Padmarajan is currently vice-chairman of the state planning board, while Vijayan is state secretary of the CPI-Marxist.
www.kaumudi.com /news/102505/x_headlines.stm   (12000 words)

  
 Remake season down south!
he late Padmarajan was an author and director of rare sensitivity and accomplishment.
The late Bharathan and he had such an impact on Malayalam movies that their films never needed the prop of a star for marketing.
Innale (Yesterday) was a very beautiful Padmarajan film made in the 1980s, starring Shobhana, Jayaram and Suresh Gopi.
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 All words on Malayalam cinema
It is characterised by detailed screenplays, excellently directed by master-directors and dealing with everyday life with a lucid narration of plot intermingling with humor and melancholy.
This was aided by brilliant cinematography and lighting as in motion pictures like Perumthachan (1990) directed by Ajayan with Santosh Sivan as the cinematographer, and made expressive with warm background music by composers like Johnson as in the motion picture Nammukku paarkkaan munthiri thoppukal (1986) directed by Padmarajan.
The golden age of Malayalam films began in November of 1986 with the release of the motion picture Nammukku paarkkaan munthiri thoppukal (1986) which means (Vineyards for us to dwell); a warm and lyrical motion picture centered around Malayalee Syrian christian-nasrani life.
www.allwords.org /ma/malayalam-cinema.html   (1153 words)

  
 Padmarajan Forum @ Filmbug
Padmarajan is definitely one of the finest film makers in indian cinema
i am great fan of padmarajan, one of the finest flimmaker we have ever had.
Never include your phone number or address in your comment.
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 Kaumudi Online Kerala News Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
In this situation,the KSEB need not have to depend more on costly power this year and as a result, the loadshedding could be averted.
Blessy's Kazcha has won this year's Padmarajan Puraskaram for the best film constituted by the Padmarajan Memorial Trust.
Padmarajan said the first meeting of the reconstituted Board, held with Chief Minister Oommen Chandy in the chair, decided to take proactive steps to improve plan implementation and resource mobilisation.
www.kaumudi.com /news/050605/kerala.stm   (2043 words)

  
 The Peninsula On-line: Qatar's leading English Daily
Thiruvananthapuram: One of India's most unsuccessful candidates is in the city to file papers for the November-18 Parliament Lower House bye-election.
Homeopath K Padmarajan, who contested and lost all 73 elections, had made it to India's Limca Book of Records.
Hailing from Mettur in the neighboring Tamil Nadu, his last abortive bid to gain an entry to legislature was when he failed to get at least 10 legislators to back his nomination to stand against former chief minister A K Antony in the by-election to the Rajya Sabha.
www.thepeninsulaqatar.com /Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=India&month=October2005&file=World_News2005102272448.xml   (474 words)

  
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His first venture as a film director was in 1978 by directing the film Peruvazhiyambalam scripted by Padmarajan himself, which bagged that year's National award for Best Regional Film and State Awards for Second Best Film and best Script writer.
Following this the film Oridathoru Phayavan, written and directed by Padmarajan, which was released in 1980 got selected in the Kulalampur film festival that year and bagged awards for Best Film and Best Script writer.
As he became too busy in the film world, he was not able to go to AIR and so in 1986, he took voluntary retirement from there.
padmarajan.8k.com   (481 words)

  
 Naachgaana.com » Interesting read on the director of "Kaazcha"
As much as he would have liked to make a serious film, one that reflected his Film Society hang-ups, he was sure to be sidelined, out of work, with the baggage of an "intellectual" identity.
Now, with Kaazhcha, Blessy is regarded as carrying the flag of the Padmarajan-brand of cinema, which, better explained, is mainstream cinema that tries not to tease the sensibilities of the audience.
Blessy disagrees that directors like Padmarajan and Bharathan would have been out of their depth in today's filmmaking scenario.
www.naachgaana.com /index.php?itemid=651   (1305 words)

  
 Cinematographer Ravi Chandran On DCH Etc
He is the youngest brother of award-winning cinematographer Ramachandra Babu who shot memorable Malayalam films for Bharatan, Padmarajan and K G George.
What has happened to directors like Bharatan, K G George, Padmarajan, etc? Even Sibi Malayail who used to make very good films has stopped.
It is a rarity to find directors like Bharatan or Padmarajan now.
www.rediff.com /movies/2003/jan/21ravi.htm   (1372 words)

  
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On 24th March 1970, married Padmarajan, who was working as Programme Announcer in Trichur AIR.
After Padmarajan’s death she wrote a book about him named Padmarajan ente Gandharvan, which was published by Imprint books, Kollam.
Sreekumaran Thampy, renowned Lyricist, on Padmarajan’s birth day, on the 23rd of May 1993 at the Tagore Theatre Trivandrum.
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 Malayalam Middle-Stream Cinema
K G George, with his first film Swapnadanam (1975) later moved to the middle-stream and produced some of the best works of Malayalam cinema.
Bharathan with Prayanam (1977) strengthened this stream and also paved the way for one of the most influential directors of the middle path cinema, Padmarajan.
Padmarajan with his first film Peruvazhiyambalam (1979) and latter Oridathoru phayalvan (1981) consistently made quality films and stood as a consolation factor even when Malayalam cinema returned back to mindless commercials.
www.cinemaofmalayalam.net /middlecinema.html   (370 words)

  
 Thilakkam
Jayaraj, who is appreciated by many as the director who balances perfectly between art and commercial films, fails miserably to live up to the expectations in Thilakkam.
Thilakkam is all about Padmarajan Master (Nedumudi Venu) and his wife (KPAC Lalitha) who are in search of their son, who had been missing since the age of 8.
When he arrives at Mundoor, the place where Padmarajan master lives, all the people there are forced to wear pants because of his dothi stealing habit (though why Nedumudi Venu’s character never wear pants in the movie and why Unni exempts him from dothi stealing is a question only Jayaraj or Rafi-Mercartin can answer).
www.tvmlive.com /entr/review/thilakkam   (632 words)

  
 Snehatheeram-Where the heart is... : Cinema   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Mammooty's National award winning performance as Chanthu along with the great support of Captain Raju, Sureshgopi and Madhavi made this movie a real classic.
Padmarajan always had a liking to explore the untold and unexplained areas of human mind.
And the results were the great scripts and movies, we got.
www.snehatheeram.com /jsp/cinemaReview1.jsp   (1562 words)

  
 padmarajan,bharathan films   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
I don't know about Padmarajan, but hasn't Bharathan died about seven or so years ago??
From: abbydoss1969 on Sat Feb 19 10:18:40 2005.
Both Padmarajan and Bharathan were legendary for Malayalam Cinema.They led Malayalam film field to great heights,while their resources were very much limited compared to the other languages' film industries.
forumhub.mayyam.com /hub/viewlite.php?t=1553   (375 words)

  
 Asian directors reinventing cinema: Field - The Economic Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Rada Sedic, programmer of international festivals, said Indian films were not getting enough space in events held here.
The homage section at the IFFK, comprising films of eminent Malayalam film-maker Padmarajan, was inaugurated by the late director's wife Radhalakshmi.
Five of Padmarajan's films would be screened in the package.
economictimes.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-957484,prtpage-1.cms   (213 words)

  
 Brahmapuram deal -- Panel indicts ex-minister, top bureaucrats
The Commission found that the minister flouted the business rules to ensure that the contract for the purchase of five diesel generators be given to SEMT Pieltick, a French private company, at an exorbitant rate and that too without going for global tenders.
The main charge against the then power minister C V Padmarajan in this regard was that he issued a letter, approving the contract with the French company, without going into the crucial details of the contract.
The Commission found that power minister C V Padmarajan approved the MoU with the French company without getting the details of the conditions.
www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990413/ige13004.html   (555 words)

  
 Tsunami News for Kochi, India
He was thinking of making a Tamil-adaptation, starring Vikram, using a similar story revolving around the tsunami.
However, this was pre-tsunami and it is estimated that the havoc caused by the...
Kochi, March 18 (IANS) Malayalam director Blessy is currently scripting a film...
danger.mongabay.com /earthquake/2005/Kochi.html   (704 words)

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