Bramman is a 2014 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film directed by Socrates,[1] starring Sasikumar, Lavanya Tripathi, and Naveen Chandra,[2] while Santhanam, Soori, and Jayaprakash play supporting roles. The film has music composed by Devi Sri Prasad and cinematography by Jomon T. John. The film released on 21 February 2014.
Siva is a movie lover in Coimbatore who leases a single screen theater out of passion. However, the theater is loss making and he is in financial trouble. Siva falls in love with Gayathri, but her parents want Siva to give up his passion towards theater business as it makes no money, for which Siva refuses and gives up his love. Siva gets a notice from the commercial tax department to pay his due of Rs. 5 lakhs or else the theater would be sealed. Siva decides to get help from his childhood friend Madhan Kumar, who is a leading film director in the Telugu film industry. 15 years ago, Madhan and Siva were school classmates and area friends, who were also big cinema freaks. Madhan's dad, a Union Government of India employee forbids Madhan to go to movies, as his grades dropped. Madhan, a sharp boy, barters with his dad that he will be allowed to pursue his dream of cinema direction if he achieves the marks prescribed by his dad till end of his studies. Madhan's dad agrees, and his family moves away from Coimbatore using a transfer. Madhan kept his end of the deal, and went to Film institute after college.
Siva reaches Chennai with the hope of meeting Madhan, but all his efforts go in vain. He stays with cinema assistant directors and repeatedly tries to meet Madhan. One day, Siva accidentally meets a producer named JP, to whom he introduces himself as an associate of Madhan and narrates a story which impresses JP. Siva is offered a chance to direct a movie, and JP hands over Rs. 5 lakhs as advance. However, Siva is scared as he has no clue about direction. Upon learning this, Madhan is furious and meets Siva but cannot identify him. Siva informs him that he is a big fan of Madhan.
JP finds out that Siva is not an associate of Madhan and is doubtful of him directing a movie. JP requests Siva to hand over the story rights to him so that he can make the movie with another director, to which Siva refuses. Siva learns that JP has actually planned to make the movie with Madhan, who is now debuting in the Tamil film industry. Siva feels happy and gives the story rights for free, to JP. Also, Madhan meets Gayathri through matchmakers and falls in love with her. He proposes a wedding arrangement, to which Gayathri's parents agree. Although Gayathri is not interested, she agrees to the wedding as Siva does not reciprocate her love. Madhan reaches Coimbatore for the wedding and suddenly remembers about his childhood friend Siva. He goes to Siva's house to invite him and is shocked upon seeing the photograph of Siva. He then understands the truth. Siva's friend Nandhu informs the sacrifices made by Siva for the success of Madhan, including his love towards Gayathri.
Lavanya Tripathi played the female lead.[3] She said "Santhanam is also part of the cast; so it won't be a serious film like the previous Sasikumar starrers".[4] Soori was also part of the cast, who was earlier wrongly reported to have replaced Santhanam in the film.[5] It was reported that Yuvan Shankar Raja would compose the music,[1][6][7] but Devi Sri Prasad was signed as the music director. Naveen Chandra stated that he played the second lead as the friend of Sasikumar in the film.[8]
The shooting happened mostly in Coimbatore.[2][5] It also took place at Bharathiar University in April 2013.[1] In October, the team consisting of director Socrates, Sasikumar, Lavanya, choreographer Raju Sundaram along with a 40-member crew flew to Venice and other parts of Italy and Switzerland to shoot a couple of songs, which is a first time for a Sasikumar film to be shot outside India.[9] Padmapriya danced for a hot item song in the film.[10]
Baradwaj Rangan wrote, "With someone else at its centre, we might have said that Bramman is just about watchable, but with Sasikumar, we begin to wonder if Subramaniyapuram was a one-off".[12] Behindwoods gave the film 2 stars out of 5 and wrote: "Bramman turns out to be a good tale by Socrates, that might have lacked a little vigour in the screenplay".[13] Sify called Bramman a "passable commercial entertainer with all essential ingredients that will keep the pot boiling".[14]
SINCE the early 1900's most of the new songs of Dartmouth had been of the "athletic" type. This was disturbing to some of the older alumni. Harry Wellman made this assertion in the November 1912 issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE: "Dartmouth songs of late have been pretty feeble productions, football yawps for the most part, with 'green' and 'team' forced into unwilling matrimony of rhyme, obliged eternally to consort with 'might,' 'fight,' 'cheer,' and 'dear' - bumpily bounding to the clash of cymbals and the booming of an ardent drum. One might think that Dartmouth life consisted of a perennial football contest; for our youngsters have struck no other note. What is needed is a good campus song or a fireside song, something that will express the finer sentiment of the undergraduate toward the old College, and will serve to touch the alumnus with the recollection of his own far, fair days among the hills. Hovey didn't exhaust the subject by any means; some of the deeper experiences of college life he never reached for in his poetry."
With this same thought in mind, Weld A. Rollins '97 had offered a $100 prize in 1910 for the best Dartmouth song written by an undergraduate. During the first year after this offer there were two claimants, but in the opinion of the judging committee neither was worthy of the prize. The next year no songs at all were offered.
The competition was then modified so that only the music need be original, with the suggestion that Hovey words might be used. It was specified that entries should be in the hands of H.R. Wellman on or before November 30, 1912. Associated with him on the judging committee were E.K. Woodworth '97 and Homer E. Keyes '00. Still nothing happened.
In the spring of 1913 the competition was reopened, and the committee changed to include Nelson P. Brown '99 and to omit Harry Wellman. Weld Rollins wrote the ALUMNI MAGAZINE at that time: "For the past three years I have offered a prize for an undergraduate song which might have its premiere at annual dinners of various alumni associations. Last year five more hopefuls registered their creations with the committee. Still none came in with sufficient merit. So, I will change the conditions again. The competition is extended to include not only undergrads but also graduates, non-graduates or any members of the families of the above who have a sufficient connection with the College." Another closing date was set, December 1, 1913.
While all this struggle for new material was in progress the third edition of the Song Book appeared in 1914. There were' three new numbers, and two had been removed. Otherwise the edition was practically a reprint, to keep up with the everrecurring campus demand which arose each fall with the matriculation of freshmen. The Song Book was a "must" for the neophyte, along with a Dartmouth banner, a Dining Association meal ticket, a John Spaghett statuette, a framed picture of September Morn, a "Mem" book, and a pressing ticket. If you went all out, you also subscribed to The Dartmouth, the Bema, the Green Book - and joined the Outing Club. And if you were really gullible, you bought a seat in Chapel from the big guy in the green sweater with a big block D on it.
It is unfortunate that this pair of classmates left so little for Dartmouth posterity, because they both had talents which, properly encouraged and fostered, could have produced songs of outstanding value.
Wilkinson was already widely known as a composer, and his operettas, comic operas, and librettos had won him several undergraduate prizes. In 1911 he won a $200 prize for the best original operetta offered in competition that year, and two years later he received another award for a two-act comic opera. The Prom-Commencement show of 1912 ("The Green Parasol") contained lyrics written by Wilkinson and a classmate, James Marriner.
Rufus Sisson, born under the Clarkson influence in Potsdam, N.Y., was likewise a most versatile man. He played freshman tennis and freshman and varsity basketball. On the non-athletic side he was an assiduous member of both the College Choir and the Glee Club, and was likewise active in various prom shows.
NINE years went by. World War I had come and gone, but it had thrown the normal processes of the College into turmoil. The undergraduate body had been almost threatened with extinction in 1917-18, saved only by the November armistice. Later, the returning veterans, advanced in age and maturity, found little in common with the adolescents arriving from the secondary schools. It was several years before campus life resumed its natural pattern. It was time for another review of the Song Book situation.
The 1923 edition of the Song Book came about after a long exchange of correspondence between Harry Wellman and Edwin Grover. Wellman had returned to Hanover in 1919 to join the Tuck School faculty, with the same verve and ebullience he had displayed on campus as an undergraduate a decade and a half before.
Grover thought the new issue should contain more Hovey lyrics, to which he had rather complete access. Wellman pointed out that this would increase the size and cost of the book but would not increase the size of the market. He felt that only one new song had been written since 1914 that was worthy of inclusion, and that it would not be business-like to pay out additional sums to have more Hovey poems set to music. "The only way to sell a new song is to have it sung, and even if the Hovey lyrics were set to singable tuaes there would still be the question of their favorable introduction to the student body."
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