Vodafone Thakadhimi on Asianet | Dance Reality show

Asianet TV's Thakadhimi sponsored by Vodafone was one of the first and popular dance reality show in Malayalam television. The first Season of this dance-based talent hunt and reality show on Asianet was held in 2007-2008 for participants in the age group 15- 30 years.

 Out of 10000 applications received from many Indian cities and foreign countries,only 70 candidates were selected. In the audition round, each participant has been given three performances and they are selected or put on the waiting list, on the spot according to their performance. After the first round of auditions only 36 candidates were selected for the next rounds by the jury comprised of Vineeth (famous actor and dancer), Gopika Varma (dancer and Mohiniyattam expert) and Lakshmi Gopalaswamy (dancer and actress). Playback singer Anoop Shanker and Aishwrya Ajit hosted the show.


 Vodafone Thakadhimi on Asianet was launched on 13 October 2007 at 830 PM. Inauguration of the show was done by the judges. The dance show was aired every Saturdays and Sunday at 830 PM. To test the dancing prowess of the contestants in areas such as choreography, expressions, technical and artistic aspects, various rounds such as classical, semi-classical, cinematic, rap, ‘Dance with a star’ were made.

Grand Finale of  Vodafone Thakadhimi on Asianet

The grand finale of the show was held on 22 June, 2008. Along with the permanent judges, Brinda master was one of the judges in its final.  Famous actress Jayapura was the chief guest of the show. The winners of the show were announced by Jayaprada. Gayathri Govind from Trivandrum won the prestigious Asianet Vodafone Thakadhimi in its Mega final . The dancer won a fabulous prize worth rupees 45 lakhs.  Akhila Sasidharan, Jobin George and Sarath Nair won the second, third and fourth places, respectively. Gaythri faced maximum challenge from Akhila, who was the favourite of many people. The mark difference between them was just one mark. The marks were 59.25/70, 58.25/70, 54/70 and 44.25/70 for Gayathri, Akhila Sasidharan, Jobin George and Sarath Nair, respectively. The details are given below.

Judges of Vodafone Thakadhimi on Asianet

Laksmi Gopalaswamy, Vineeth and Gopika Varma.

Anchors of Vodafone Thakadhimi on Asianet

Aishwarya Ajit and Anoop Shankar

Contestants of Vodafone Thakadhimi on Asianet

Ambili Babu, Akhila, Rajeswari, Dilsha, Varsha, Jinu Joy, Sharath R Nair, Nithin .S, Gireesh T.A., Jobin George, Rima Kallingal, soumay, Vishnu ppriya,aneha Soman, Priya Bhaskar, Xaviour, M.P.,Sreejith, T.A., Abhilash Pillai., Bipin, Sanu, Veena Babu Hima, Praveena Nandu, Shalini, Gayathri Govind, Neethu Manoj, Arun T.G.., Cahnjith., Vishu Raj, Sajin Sait, Ramees Muhammad, Anvar Sadique, Sunil Dev, Remya Ravi, Natasha, Sibin Benjamin

Winners of Vodafone Thakadhimi Grand Finale in 2008 on Asianet

Gayathri Govind-Winner -First Prize -won Cash prize of 45 Lakh (or Limousin car worth 75 Lakhs) 

Akhila Sasidharan- First Runner Up-Second Prize

Jobin George-Second Runner Up-Third Prize
Sharath Nair- Third Runner Up- Fourth Prize

All the winners received memento and certificates

Evide Ellavarkkum Sugham Malayalam Serial on Kairali TV -Cast and Crew

Evide Ellavarkkum Sugham is a new malayalam comedy serial on Kairali TV. The serial will be aired from Moday to Thursday at 7.30 PM.  The first episode was telecasted on 6 October 2014

Ivide Ellavarkkum Sugham Malayalam Serial on Kairali TV 

 Cast and Crew of the serial Ivide Ellavarkkum Sugham

Producer & company : Kalady Jayan of PMI Entertainment (India) Private Limited.
Writter and Director  : Unni Cheriyan

Starring : Anila Sreekumar, Anoop Shivasenan, Parvathy, Sathosh Kurup, Indulekha, Karthika, Googly Pradeep, Unnimaya

Actors , Actresses and the Characters in Ivide Ellavarkkum Sugham Serial

Anila Sreekumar as Kattuparambil Kochu Thresya
Parvathy as -Philomina
Anoop Shivasenan as -Monichan
Baby Unnimay as -Sony
Santhosh  Kurup as -Father Gabriel Vattapara
Pradeep Prabhakar as- K.K. Pathros
Karthika Kannan as Alice

Videos of Evide Ellavarkkum Sugham Serial Online

The official high definition videos of the serial is available from  Kairali TV official Youtube Channel 

Oru Chempaneer Poovu Pole to felicitate Unni Menon's 33 Musical Years: Telecast on Asianet

“Oru Chempaneer Poovu Pole”, is a function organised by Swaralaya to honour and celebrate the 33 years of singer Unni Menon’s career, at Indira Gandhi Municipal Stadium in Palakkadu, Kerala, on September 27 and 28, 2014. Two day cultural event was attended by many celebrities from the music and movie industry. During the function an audio CD comprising songs from Aval Vannathinusesham , the latest film for which Unni Menon sang, was also released

Malayalam Channel Asianet is going to telecast this event soon on Asianet and Asianet Middle East. We will soon update the date and time of the telecast.


The term 'Oru Chempaneer Poovu Pole' came from the lyrics of the song  'Oru chempaneer pooviruthu ' from the malayalam movie  Sthithi ( 2003 ), composed by Unni Menon. He also acted in that movie.

Singer Unni Menon has sung 3,000 songs in all south Indian languages (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada) in three decades. He owes his success and accomplishments in film music to the Tamil tinsel world. He won two state awards for best playback singer(2002 and 1996) in the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards.

He got a break in in his musical career when he sang the song "Pudhu Vellai Mazhai" from Mani Ratnam's a Tamil film Roja (1992), composed by famous music director A. R. Rahman

Congratulation on his success and best wishes from Vinodadarshan

Bigg Boss Kannada Season 2 | Reality Show on Asianet Suvarna TV

Bigg Boss Kannada 2 (BBK2) is the second season of the Kannada reality television series Bigg Boss Kannada.  This show in Kannada Language was launched on 29 June 2014. There were 16 contestants, out of which only four remained in the finals. The contestants lived in the Bigg Boss house for 99 days completely isolated from the rest of the world.

The first season of the Kannada language version was aired in Indian Television channel ETV Kannada.  Asianet Suvarna channel acquired the broadcast rights for the second season of Bigg Boss Kannada.

Contestants/Housemated of Bigg Boss Kannada Season 2

Aadhi Lokesh, Akul Balaji, Anita Bhat, Anupama Bhat, Harshika Poonacha, Laya Kokila, Mayur Patel, Neethu Shetty, Rohith Patel, Santhosh,Shakeela, Srujan Lokesh, Swetha Changappa, Guruprasad (wild card entry), Bullet Prakash (guest)

Anchor/host Bigg Boss Kannada Season 2

Kichcha Sudeep

Finalists of Bigg Boss Kannada Season 2

Srujan, Shweta, Akul and Depika

Finalist of Bigg Boss Kannada Season 2-Srujan, Akul, Swetha and Deepika

Winner of  Bigg Boss Kannada Season 2 Grand Finale and Prizes

Winner of Bigg Boss Season 2 Kannada-Akul Balaji

Winner of Bigg Boss Kannada Season 2  - Akul Balaji -Won Prize of Rs 5,000,000
Runner Up of Bigg Boss Kannda Season 2- Srujan Lokesh

Cancer Wardile Chiri -Memoirs by Actor Innocent on his recovery from Cancer

Cancer Wardile Chiri is a book written by Film Star and MP Innocent.The book was released by Mathrubhumi Books in December 2013. Now its fifth edition is avaialble.

The introduction of the book was written by Dr. V P Gangadharan. Innocent in his book narrates his experiences during the time of cancer and how he faced it.



Details of the book

Publisher :Mathrubhumi
Language :Malayalam
Edition :5
Price : Rs 100
ISBN : 978-81-8265-872-1

This memoir is about actor Innocent's miraculous recovery from the clutches of the deadly disease with the help of medicine, mind power and laughter. He has written in this book about friends who visited him during the period, his association with Alpha Palliative Care, his interaction with people who approached him with various treatments during that time. He narrates his experience with the disease and how he overcomes the trauma in a humorous manner. Sreekanth Kottakkal helped him to write the book in this format.

His story is inspiring to all those hopeless people who have cancer.

Actress Rekha Ratheesh-Malyalam Serial Actress Parasparam Serial

Rekha Ratheesh (earlier known as Rekha Nirmal) is an Indian actress mostly starred in Malayalam  TV serials. Now she is popular as a Television actress. Rekha Ratheesh won best actress award in the Asianet Television Awards 2014 for her role in Parasparam serial

Career

Rekha Ratheesh  as Malayalam Television Actress

Actress Rekha Ratheesh started her career as a TV artist when she was only 16 year though  the serial Nirakootukal directed by Sreevalsan. Later she acted in the serial Manasu directed by A.M. Naseer as Subhadra.  It was followed by many serials mostly in supporting roles. She took break from the industry for while. She also participated in Kairali TV Nakshathradeepangal. Recently, she got a break through Malayalam Television serial 'Parasparam'. In this Asianet serial she portray the character Padmavathi, mother of Sooraj and Suresh. Her performance in the serial made her very popular among malayali audiences.

Actress Rekha Ratheesh as Padmavathi in Parasparam Serial

Awards:

Best Actress award for Paraspram serial in the Asianet Television Awards 2014

Personal Life

Rekha is the daughter of dubbing artist Ratheesh, originally from Thiruvananthapuram and Artist Radha Devi from Thodupuzha. Both of her parent passed away. In an interview given to a popular malayalam daily she revealed that she married four times. She was married to Yousaf in an young age (18 yrs). Following divorce she married Actor Nirmal Prakash (after this marriage Rekha was known Rekha Nirmal, Nirmal, died in 2010) and later married Kamal Roy. After the break up she married Abhilash. She has a son with Abhilash.   She is now living with her son,named Ayaan in Thiruvananthapuram.

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Resmi Menon is the Winner of Kitchen Magic Season 3 Grand Finale on Kairali TV

The grand Finale of the Malayalam Cookery Reality Show on Kairali TV came to an end with  Grand Finale On  02 October 2014 (02/09/2014) Thursday at 06:00 PM (IST) .  The grand finale was glittering function filled with dance, music and mimicry performances in addition to the cooking performance by the finalists . In the grand finale of the show, Veena was the anchor. Dr . Lekshmi Nair and Actor Krishna announced the names of the winners.

Resmi Menon from Mumbai is the title winner of season 3 of Kitchen Magic on Kairali TV.

Resmi Menon -Title Winner of the Kairali TV Kitchen Magic Season 3 with the trophy

Kitchen magic, the  pioneering malayalam cookery reality show on Kairali TV is  hosted celebrity chef , Lekshmi Nair.  The culinary skills of the contestants was  judged by an expert team including Lekshmi Nair and Actor Krishna

Kitchen Magic Season 3 was launched by Kairali TV in April 2014. So far the show has completed nearly 100 Episiodes.

Finalists of Celebrity Kitchen Magic Season 3 on Kairali TV

Smitha Anna Jebin, Aswathy, Resmi Menon and Nakul Dev K.S

Winners of  Kitchen Magic Season 3 Grand Finale and Prizes

First Prize- Winner-1 Lakh Rupees from Cubix
Second Prize-First Runner Up-Smitha-50000 Rupees from Cubix
Third Prize-Second Runner Up-Nakul Dev-25000 Rupees from Cubix
Fourth Prize- Aswathy


Congratulations to the winners of Kitchen Magic Season 3 on Kairali TV


The Dr Avaneesh was the winner of season 1 of Kitchen Magic  The second season of the kitchen Magic was for artists from television field, and named as celebrity Kitchen Magic and the winners were Actresses Nisha Sarang and Anila Sreekumar.

Sponsors of  Kitchen Magic Season 3 

After the sponsors it is known as  ' Kaula Kitchen Magic Season 3'