Aswamedham 2014 Season By GS Pradeep on Kairali TV to begin on 6 October 2014

Aswamedham, the reverse quiz show on Kairali will be launched on October 6, 2014. The new season is produced by Santhosh Pali. Grand Master G.S. Pradeep is presenting this show. Kairali started the game show Ashwamedham in 2002, it completed 500 episodes in the 1st season and entered Limca Book of Records.

Aswamedham Show on Kairali TV 

The  auditions of Ashwamedham 2014  was held at various centers in Kerala.

The new season of the  show will have three stages - Yaagam, Yajnam and Rajasooyam.

Unlike earlier seasons the contestants can pick places, personalities, or events for the competition. The number of questions asked by the grand master will also be fewer than earlier seasons. In the earlier seasons nearly 20 questions were asked to find the answer.

Aswamedham Show 2014 was inaugurated by Singer M.G.Sreekumar

Ente Manasaputhri - Malayalam TV Serial on Asianet

Ente Manasaputhri is a Malayalam television Serial aired on Asianet during July 2007 to May 2010. The climax episode of the serial was telecasted on  21 May 2010.

Theme of the serial
Ente Manasaputhri is the television adaptation of the story 'Punarjanmam' by K.K. Sudhakaran published in manorama weekly. The story revolves round the two orphans -Sofia and Gloria-with very difference nature and temperaments. Sofia (played by Sreekala) is very calm and simple whereas Gloria (played by Archana)is ambitious and extrovert. The serial was very popular among audience that time . The story -mainly on the life and rivalry of Sofia and Gloria - also was on human relationships, of heartaches and misunderstandings, love and jealousy, greed and sacrifice .

Ente Manasaputhri on Asianet

Cast and Crew of the serial Ente Manasaputhri

Production: Sandra Communications
Producer , Project director, Editing, audio design : Biaju Devaraj
Story and conception  : K.K. Sudhakaran
Camera Man : Anpu Mani
Sceen play / Dialogue : Dinesh Pallathu
Director : S. Sudheesh Sankar

Actors and Actresses :

Sreekala, Archana Susheelan, Souparnika, Rajeev, Premkumar, Sreenath, Namitha Pramod, Beena Antony, Sona Nair, Jayan, Suma Jayaram, Fazal Rezi


Awards:
Kalakeralam Television Awards 2007

• Best actress - Archana (Ente Manasaputhri) 

Fraternity for Arts and Media Entertainment (FRAME) media awards 2008.

• Best Serial -‘Ente Manasaputhri’ (Asianet)

• Best female actor -Sreekala Sasidharan (‘Ente Manasaputhri’) 

Prathibha Puraskaram 2009

• Best Serial -‘Ente Manasaputhri’ (Asianet)

•  Best Director Sudheesh Shankar ('Ente Manasaputhri')

Lulu Minnale Television Awards 2010

• Best Co-actors -Fazal Rezi and Souparnika Vijay (Ente Manasaputhri on Asianet) 

Actor Anoop Menon's Marriage plans revealed

Malayalam Actor , script writter  and lyricist Anoop Menon recently revealed in an interview that he will get married to some one who has no connection with film industry. He plans to get married within an year.


The 38 year -old actor entered the tinsel town when he was 26 years old through the movie Kattu chembakam.


He has acted in many malayalam TV serials and in more than 50 films. He has written scripts for many movies including Pakal nakshathrangal, Beautiful etc .

His upcoming movies are She Taxi with Kavya Madhavan, Pavada with Shobhana & Prithviraj and Dolphins starring Suresh Gopi.


Earlier there was gossips on his marriage with actress Bhavana, his co-star in the movie Angry babies. But both of them denied all the rumours and confirmed that they are just friends.

First Images of Mars from Mangalyaan(MOM) and MAVEN Released

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s   Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan) has successfully reached Mars Orbit on September 24, 2014.  The main objective of this project was to reach Mars and then explore Mar's Atmosphere.


Milestones of this mission

•  India is the  first country in the world to reach Mars in its first attempt.
•  India is the fourth country to reach Mars following US, Europe and Russia
•  India becomes the only Asian country to reach Mars
•  MOM cost $74 million , it is one-ninth of the cost of NASA's $671 million Maven mission, which also put its spacecraft into Mars orbit this week (21 September 2014)

Following the success of the mission, MOM captured the images of the Mars taken from MOM . ISRO released  the first images of Mars. They are given below.

 ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission captures its first image of Mars. 
 Taken from a height of 7300 km; with 376 m spatial resolution.

The second image released by ISRO

Martian atmosphere as seen from an altitude of 8449 km. 
Image taken using Mars Color Camera on-board ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission

NASA of USA also released the first obeservations from MAVEN. MAVEN is the first spacecraft dedicated to exploring the tenuous upper atmosphere of Mars.

MAVEN Spacecraft Returns First Mars Observations

 NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has obtained its first observations of the extended upper atmosphere surrounding Mars.

The Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) instrument obtained these false-color images eight hours after the successful completion of Mars orbit insertion by the spacecraft at 10:24 p.m. EDT Sunday, Sept. 21, after a 10-month journey.

Image credit(ISRO and NASA)

Oscars : 'Liar's Dice' by Geethu Mohandas is India's official entry for the best foreign language film

National Award winning Hindi Film ' Lias Dice' will be India's offical entry to the Oscars for the best film in foreign language category at the 87th Academy Awards. Liar's Dice, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Geetanjali Thapa, tells the story of a young mother who takes her daughter to Delhi in search of her missing husband.


'Liar's Dice'  has been chosen by a 12-member jury appointed by the Film Federation of India , and out of a record number of 30 shortlisted films. The film is India's Official Entry for the Best Foreign Language Film for the 87th Academy Awards scheduled to take place on February 22, 2015.

This movie directed by Malayalam actress Geethu Mohandas has won two awards at the 61st National Film Awards 2013-Best Actress for Geetanjali Thapa and Best Cinematography for Rajeev Ravi.

Congrats to Geethu Mohandas and Team for this great Achievement.

'Liar's Dice' is Geethu Mohandas's directorial venture. She she had previously made short film Kelkkunndo in 2008, which received wide acclaim and awards including  National Film Award in the  Special Jury Award / Special Mention (Non-Feature Film).

Liars Dice- a Geethu Mohandas Film

'Liar's Dice'  had its world premiere at the 2013 Mumbai Film Festival in October 2013, where it took part in the Indian competition section. Next, it was selected for screening at the Sundance Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam. It won a special jury award at Sofia International Film Festival

The official Teaser of the movie Liar's Dice is given below

Oscar Winners from India 

Legendary director Satyajit Ray received an honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement. 
Four Indians have won individual Oscars -

• Bhanu Athaiya-Best Costume Design for Gandhi
• Resul Pookutty- Best Sound Mixing for Slumdog Millionaire 
• A R Rahman-Best Original Score for Slumdog Milllionaire 
• A R Rahman and Gulzar- Best Original Song for Slumdog Millionaire's Jai Ho.    

Best Film in Foreing Language category
Three Indian submissions have made it to the final five at the Oscars in the past - Mother India (which lost to the winning film Nights in Cabiria by one vote), Salaam Bombay and Lagaan.

Will Liars Dice make to the finals? Let us wait and see.

Mangalyaan-Watch LIVE of Mars Orbit Insertion (MOI) scheduled on September 24, 2014 -Telecast Details

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s  prestigious project Mars Orbiter Mission(MOM) has reached another milestone after the successful test firing of MOM's Main Liquid Engine for four seconds as a trial before the final firing to get into the red planet's orbit early on 24 September 24, 2014. This project is also referred as 'Mangalyaan'. This spacecraft is built to study the atmosphere of Mars and is designed to orbit Mars in an elliptical orbit.

NASA's MAVEN orbiter has successfully arrived at Mars on 22 September 2014.


India hopes to enter Martian Orbit on Wednesday 24 September 2014. Arrangements are made for the LIVE telecast of the Mars Orbit Insertion.

It is India's first interplanetary mission and, if successful, ISRO would become the fourth space agency to reach Mars, after the Soviet space program, NASA, and the European Space Agency

 

Details of Mars Orbit Insertion LIVE 

Telecast/Webcast  Time and Channel, Date and Time

Watch live on Doordarshan at 6.45 IST (am) on 24 September 2014, Wednesday.
Another way to watch the LIVE is though the webcast on ISRO website -http://isro.org/
The live is also available from Victor educational channel from 6.45 IST to 8.45 PM
WATCH LIVE

Now the MOM satellite is under the influence of the Sun's gravity after it had left the sphere of influence of the Earth's gravity at a distance of 9 lakh 27000 km from the Earth on December 4 last year.  Mars gravity is one third of the Earth's gravity. By 22 September 2014 the satellite will start losing the pull by the Sun's gravity as Mar's gravity will start pulling it. Through retrograde firing of the thrusters for four minutes, MOM satellite will be re-oriented by reducing the velocity of the satellite so that it is pulled by the Mars gravity. "If gravity of Mars pulls in the satellite to its orbit, the mission will be a success", say the scientists who are presently at ISRO headquarters in Bangalore.

Details of Mars Orbit Insertion (MOI) presented by ISRO

India's Mars Orbiter Spacecraft was launched on November 5, 2013 using PSLV. The successfully test firing had a duration of 3.968 seconds at 1430 hrs IST (September 22, 2014).

ISRO facebook sharing the successful test firing of main engine

Malavika Anilkumar is the Winner of Sunfeast Delishus Star Singer Season 7 On Asianet TV

The Grand Finale of Star Singer Season 7 - the  Malayalam Music  Reality Show on Asianet  ion Sunday, September 21 2014 at 6 PM.Who will be the winner Of Season 7 of  Star Singer - To know this wait and watch grand finale.


The winners of Star singer  (Idea Star Singer) Show so far are Arun Raj (Season 1-2006), Najim Arshad (2007), Vivekanandan & Sonia(2008), Joby John(2009), Kalpana Raghavendra(2010), Merin Gregory(2011-2012-Season 6).  The above shows were named as Idea Star Singer after the sponsors name. But this time it is Sunfeast Delishus Star Singer Season 7 powered by CERA.

Unlike the earlier shows, this season didn't gain much popularity and Asianet is trying to conclude the show by conducting the finale with seven contestants. The Season 7 of Sunfeast Delishus Star Singer completed 85 Episodes so far. The new show Music India will take the slot of Star Singer Season 7.


Details of Grand Finale of Sunfeast Delishus Star Singer Season 7

Malavika Anilkumar is the winner of Season 7 of Star Singer. She has a unique credit of winning all the music reality shows she participated. Malavika is the winner of Gandharva Sangeetham Junior, Gandharva Sangeetham Teens and Gandharva Sangeeetham Senior Titles.


In the grand finale of SS7,  five contestants were selected for the final rounds after the first round of competition.  Contestants  Janaki and  Manusankar  were eliminated after the first round.

Singer Shankar Mahadevan was one of the the judges of the show. Actor Jayaram was the Cheif Guest of the Grand Finale and handed over Trophy for the winner. Actor Tiny Tom was also present. Asianet  MD Madhavan Kutty distributed Certificates.

Judges of Sunfeast Delishus Star Singer Season7

M.G. Sreekumar, Anuradha Sreeram and Rimi Tomy. Celebrities from the music and Movie industry also graced the chair of celebrity judge. Music Director and Singer Shanker Mahadevan was the chief judge of the show in the grand finale.

Anchor of Sunfeast Delishus Star Singer Season7 

No Anchor. The judges Rimi Tomy and MG Sreeekumar took up the role of anchor for this show. In the grand finale, Rimy Tomy and Acor Tiny Tom were the anchors.

Finalist of Sunfeast Delishus Star Singer Season7

Aslam, Janaki, Malavika, Manisankar, Reshama, Varsha, Vysakhi


Read more : Contestants of Star singer Season 7
The elimination results and marks of Star singer Season 7  

Winners  of  Sunfeast Delishus Star Singer Season7 

Winner -First Prize-Malavika Anil Kumar -Won flat (in Cochin ) worth 50 Lakh Indian Rupees from Confident Group
First Runner up- Second Prize -Reshma Raghavendra - Won prize worth 10 Lakh Rupees from Swayamvara silks
Second Runner Up-Third Prize -Aslam - Won 5 Lakh Rupees from Devi Pharma
Third Runner Up- Prize -Varsha Krishan
Fourth Runner Up-Vaisakhi

Malavika Receiving the trophy from Actor Jayaram 

Finalist of  Star Singer Season 7

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