Topic started by Want to know (@ ppp-219.65.118.169.chn.vsnl.net.in) on Mon Jun 2 01:30:03 .
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Friends,can you name the tamil films and artists,who has won any grand prizes at international film festivals like Venice,Toronto,Locarno,Berlin.

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• From: neo_morpheus (@ ppp-219.65.98.195.chn.vsnl.net.in) on: Mon Jun 2 02:40:19 EDT 2003
  
  Nadigar Thilagam Sivaji Ganesan got the BEST ACTOR award at tha Afro-Asian(african & asian) film festival
  in 1960, for the movie 'veerapAndia kattabomman', from the then president of Egypt, Nasser.
  
  
• From: neo_morpheus (@ ppp-219.65.97.80.chn.vsnl.net.in) on: Mon Jun 2 02:43:30 EDT 2003
  
  Nadigar Thilagam Sivaji Ganesan got the BEST ACTOR award at tha Afro-Asian(african & asian) film festival
  in 1960, for the movie 'veerapAndia kattabomman', from the then president of Egypt, Nasser.
  
  
• From: Want to know (@ 219.65.118.90) on: Tue Jun 3 01:13:41 EDT 2003
  
  Thank you for your info neo_morpheus,
  can anyone name the films,directors who has received awards and acclaims at international circuits.We all know abt our own state and national awards.I want to know what sort of impact our tinsel town's men &women has created.
  Directors like balachandar,balu mahendra,mahendran ,maniratnam and actors likes sivaji& kamal,as i know has done something in the international arena.Can anybody sum up them.
  
  
• From: Arul Selvan (@ 203.199.205.25) on: Thu Jun 12 06:39:53 EDT 2003
  
  Prabhu's "Ele My Friend" (English) got best childrens movie award in US.
  
  Arul Selvan.
  
  
• From: Harish Kumar (@ 203.195.215.254) on: Thu Jun 12 07:37:57 EDT 2003
  
  Kannada movies have won many awards in the international film circuits like Cannes and others.
  
  But since Kannada came from Tamil its as good as Tamil films winning the awards
  
  The logic of the backwards.
  
  

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