Netru, Indru, Naalai
Netru, Indru, Naalai was a series of musical theatre performances, that were held in Chennai, India by acclaimed Indian film director Mani Ratnam. Choreography for the show was provided by Kala and Brinda. It had an equally large number of spectators with unconfirmed reports of close to 12,000 coming to watch.
Overview
Conceptualized first in 2000, the original show was supposed to be a one off event in order to help The Banyan raise funds for its building corpus fund. The very first had the likes of Revathi Menon and Aamir Khan, then dubbing for Lagaan in Chennai, engaging the audiences to a rivetting show that was held at the Indian Airlines stadium in Chennai.
The next show was held at Indian Institute of Technology Madras in December 2002. It had an approximate audience of about 10,000 spectators. The format was similar to the first show, with songs and dances through the ages. The exclusive television rights were given the STAR Vijay, a subsidiary of Star TV.
In February 2006, the third installment Netru, Indru, Naalai, a Broadway musical style tribute to the Tamil filmdom premiered at the Jeppiar Engineering College, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Directed by Mani Ratnam, the three hour song, dance, and drama extravaganza brings to life definitive celluloid moments from Tamil cinema, across its different eras (Netru (yesterday), Indru (today), and Naalai (tomorrow)), to the stage. The show features 100 dancers, as well as actors and actresses from across the country. Acclaimed film and theatre composer A. R. Rahman has composed a special song for the show, and other notable technicians involved in the production include art director Sabu Cyril, and award winning director/cinematographer Rajiv Menon.
Netru Indru Naalai
Netru Indru Naalai (English: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow) is a Kollywood film, starring Ravi Krishna (of 7G Rainbow Colony fame). It is made on SPR Entertainments India Private Limited Banner. Lakshmi Kanth Chenna is the director and Nukarapu Surya Prakash Rao produces the flick.Satellite rights were sold to Kalaignar TV
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Netru Indru Naalai (1974 film)
NETRU INDRU NAALAI (English: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW) is a 1974 Indian Tamil directed by Pa.Neelakandhan, starring M. G. Ramachandran in the lead role and Manjula, Latha, Rajasree, M. N. Nambiar and among others.
Plot
Two swindlers, Nalasivam (V. K. Ramasamy) and Dayalan (Thengai Srinivasan) kill the wife (Pandari Bai) of the wealthy industrialist Manavalan Thangappapuram (M. G. Chakrapani).
The baby (MGR) who was with the mother, escapes from their claws by the intervention of a farmer (V. Gopalakrishnan), who raises the child as his own child by naming him Manickam.
Meanwhile, both criminals mean seeing Thangappapuram, with in the arms, another baby (M. N. Nambiar) and persuade the widower that they saved him.
Wild with joy by thinking of having found his newborn child, Rathnam, Thangappapuram does not know that a terrible trap has just closed on him.
Indeed, this fake Rathnam allows both men, Nalasivam and Dayalan to steal some money from Manavalan Thangappapuram.
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