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Raj TV announces ‘Satyaraj 25’ to commemorate the Tamil superstar
MUMBAI: Raj TV has announced a celebration night to commemorate the 25 years of Tamil actor Satyaraj. The event will be held at Coimbatore on 9 November at 6:30 pm. It will be telecasted on a later date on the channel.
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The Tamil entertainment channel has lined up a star studded performance, with the line up including Sneha, Ramya Krishnan, Ramba, Mantra, Sheriene, Gayatri Raguram, Sibiraj, Riaz Khan, Bala, Ragumannivannan, Ramji and the current heartthrob Trisha (Saami, Alaai). That apart, Vadivelu, Mannivannan, Senthil, and Ramesh Khanna have been called in to provide a comic relief.
Eminent singers like Dr SP Balasubramanian, Anoorada Sriram, Malgudi Shuba, Srinivas and Chitra will also be performing at the event. The evening boasts of attendance of the big wigs of the Southern film industry like Padmashree Kamal Hasan, Vijaykanth, Sarat Kumar, Napoleon, Ajith, Vijay, Soorya, Vikram, Madhavan, KBalachander, Barathiraaja, SP Muthuraman, AVM Saravanan Manorama, Radika, Kushboo, Roja, Deviyani, Banu Priya, Revathi and Rekha.
While the lights and music is being arranged by Sadhaga Parvaigal “Shankar”, choreography is being organised by Cine Fame and Lalitha Mani and Team will provide lighting at the venue. Around 10000 audience are said to attend the event
While Satyaraj started off a career on the silver screen as a character artist in 1974, then quickly made a transition to playing a villain, followed by villian-cum-comedian and later he moved on to play the main negative lead. After a fair share of playing the anti-hero, he branched out to comedy. During his 25 years stint, he had created maximum number of box office hits like Poovizhe Vasalile, Nadigan, Vedham Pudhithu and Amaithipadai. Also called as Puratchi Thamizhan, he has acted in more than 140 films in various languages.
Recipient of the Kalaimamani, award by government of Tamilnadu, Satyaraj has worked with eminent directors like Fasil, Mani Ratnam, Mannivannan, K.Balachander and Bharthiraja and actors like Kamal Hasaan, Rajnikanth, Late Sivaji Ganesan. He has also received Tamil Nadu State Film Awards for Poovizhe Vasalile, and Vedham Pudhidhu.
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Rajesh Sundaram joins NDTV Profit as senior editor, assignment
The 32-year newsroom veteran has launched channels on three continents and covered everything from 9/11 to South African television
MUMBAI: NDTV Profit has bolstered its newsroom with a hire who has done rather more than most. Rajesh Sundaram, a journalist with over three decades of editorial, managerial and consultative experience across India and international markets, joins as senior editor, assignment, tasked with sharpening the network’s newsgathering and real-time response.
Sundaram’s career reads like a tour of Indian media’s most formative moments. He began at Businessworld in 1994, moved to Zee News as bureau chief across Mumbai and Chennai, then joined NDTV in 2002 as part of its political bureau during a particularly febrile period in Indian politics. A stint as India correspondent for Al Jazeera International followed, where he covered key geopolitical developments and got his first serious taste of the global newsroom.
What sets Sundaram apart, however, is his serial channel-launching habit. At NewsX, he helped get the operation off the ground. At Headlines Today, part of the India Today Group, he served as editor. At News Nation, he helped launch the Hindi news channel and its digital ecosystem. He then crossed continents to lead the launch of ANN7 in South Africa as editor-in-chief, overseeing both television and digital. Back in India, he launched Tamil news channels News7 Tamil and Cauvery News, and later served as principal consultant for the launch of Marathi channel Lokshahi. Most recently, he helped build and lead the Press Trust of India’s video service and content studio, before stints consulting for Business Today and The Himalayan Times.
Rahul Kanwal, chief executive and editor-in-chief of NDTV, left little doubt about what Sundaram is expected to deliver. “The assignment desk is where a newsroom’s intent becomes action,” he said. “Rajesh brings a rare combination of field experience and leadership in building news operations at scale.”
Sundaram has reported from across India and the world, covering elections, civil conflicts, the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and the 2008 US presidential election.
At NDTV Profit, he will lead the assignment desk, driving editorial coordination and real-time response across markets and breaking developments. For a business news network sharpening its focus on speed and multi-platform delivery, it has hired a man who has built newsrooms from scratch on three continents. The assignment desk is in good hands.
