Greatest Actor Ever! - The Starting Point

This is a song from the movie Paraasakthi, the debut movie of Sivaji Ganesan the greatest actor the world has ever seen or will ever see! Parasakthi is a 1952 Tamil film starring Sivaji Ganesan, Pandari Bai, S. S. Rajendran, S. V. Sahasranamam, Sriranjani and others. It was directed by R. Krishnan and S. Panju (Krishnan - Panju) and produced by AVM. The film Parasakthi was released on Deepavali Day in the year 1952, after months of shooting and preparations.The story and dialogues written by M Karunanidhi is based on the tale of three brothers, Chandrasekaran (Sahasranamam), Gnanasekaran (S. S. Rajendran) and Gunasekaran (Sivaji Ganesan) who settle down in Burma during the Second World War. The youngest Gunasekaran gets the opportunity to visit India for the marriage of their younger sister Kalyani (Sriranjani) but as fate would have it, he gets stranded at sea due to intense Japanese bombardment of Burmese ports. The story evolves around  This particular song has been sung by C S Jayaraman, Lyrics by Udumalai Narayana Kavi and Music by R Sudarsanam. You can see the spark in Sivaji and his dominating screen presence even though this is his debut movie. Songs written by legendary lyricists such as Ku Ma Balasubramaniam, Papanasam Sivan, Udumalai Narayana Kavi and Pattukottai Kalyanasundaram of the era prior to Kannadasan are truly timeless classics.

The First Dance Super Star of Tamil Cinema - Kumari Kamala

Kumari Kamala entered the Tamil Movie Industry in the year 1938 at the age of four as a child artist and dancer in the movie Vaalibar Sangam. Her dancing skills and talent got noticed from the outset and she started doing more films including a few Hindi films. Her first major hit was Jagathalaprathapan which was released in 1944, a movie that featured her famous snake dance performance. She played a double role in the movie Sri Valli in 1945. She learnt Bharatha Naatiyam under the tutelage of Vzhuvoor B Ramaiah Pillai and took that particular form of dancing to great heights even after leaving the movie industry by establishing a famous dance school in Long Island in the US. Legend has it that her dance movements were so swift and flowing, the motion picture cameras of the 1930s and 1940s were unable to capture her movements perfectly! She has starred in more than 100 movies and Tamil and other South Indian Languages. Enjoy her performance in this song from Sivaji's Debut movie Parasakthi. Music by R Sudarsanam and Lyrics by the former CM of Tamil Nadu M Karunanidhi.