Sivaji Ganesan

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Sivaji Ganesan

Sivaji Ganesan ( Tamil : சிவாஜி கணேசன்; * October 1, 1927 in Viluppuram , Tamil Nadu ; † July 21, 2001 in Chennai , Tamil Nadu), actually VC Ganesan ( Viluppuram Chinnaiahpillai Ganesan ), was an Indian film actor. He was the most influential actor in Tamil film alongside MG Ramachandran .

Life

The son of Fr. Chinniah Mandraayer and Rajamani Ammal joined a theater group as a child, where he got to know Bharatnatyam , Kathak , Kathakali and Carnatic music . He became known with CN Annadurai's play Shivaji Kanda Indhu Rajyam , in which he played the Marathi king Shivaji and from which he also derived his stage name.

Sivaji Ganesan made his film debut in 1952 in Parasakthi . He was initially involved in the party propaganda of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and played in several mythological-nationalist films of the 1950s and 1960s in the Tamil film industry . With his best-known film Veerapandiya Kattaboman (1960), Sivaji Ganesan won the award for best actor at the Cairo Film Festival . Despite frequent criticism for his theatrical acting, his most famous films ( Thillana Mohanambal , 1968) reached America. Its commercial success faded in the 1980s and it was less prominent. In 1986 and 1993 he received the Special Jury Prize at the National Film Awards .

Ganesan was awarded the Padma Shri in 1976 , the Padma Bhushan in 1984 and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1997 for his outstanding contribution to Indian film . From 1982 to 1988 he was a member of the Rajya Sabha , the upper house of the Indian parliament. In 1995 he was accepted as a Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor .

His son Prabhu has been a Tamil film actor since the 1980s.

literature

  • TS Narayana Swamy (Ed.): Authobiography of an Actor. Sivaji Ganesan. Sivaji Prabhu Charities Trust, Chennai 2007, OCLC 297212002 .
  • Sundararaj Theodore Baskaran: Sivaji Ganesan. Profile of an Icon. Wisdom Tree, New Delhi 2008, ISBN 978-81-8328-109-6 .
  • Robert L. Hardgrave Jr .: When Stars Displace the Gods: The Folk Culture of Cinema in Tamil Nadu. In: Essays in the Political Sociology of South India. Usha Publications, New Delhi 1979, ISBN 81-7304052-4 , pp. 92-124.

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