The 2001 Paarthale Paravasam Tamil movie directed by late legendary director K. Balachander and starring Madhavan and Simran, the movie did not do well at the Tamil box office but then again, the soundtrack from A.R. Rahman namely one titled Azhagae Sugama has become one of the must-have songs in the Tamil song playlist. Image source: Amazon.
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A screengrab from the 1971 Tamil movie, Babu starring the late Nadigar Thilagam, Sivaji Ganesan and a very young Sri Devi. It was pointed out that the first of October was Sivaji Ganesan’s birthday and had he lived, he would have been 94 years old this year.
Sivaji Ganesan passed away on 21st July 2001 at an age of 72 and by then had acted in some 288 movies; a majority of it has been in Tamil movies.