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Shenbaga also known as Shenbagam is an Indian actress in Tamil and Malayalam films. She was one of the prominent lead and supporting actress in Tamil and Malayalam films from 1991 to 1996. Filmography
Shenbagamae Shenbagamae (transl. Oh Shenbagam! Oh Shenbagam!) is a 1988 Indian Tamil-language romance film written and directed by Gangai Amaran. The film stars Ramarajan and Rekha, with Silk Smitha, Vagai Chandrasekar, K. Shanmugasundaram, R. P. Vishwam, Senthil, S.S.Chandran and Vennira Aadai Moorthy.
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In Srinagar, a Kashmiri terrorist, Wasim Khan, is captured by a team led by Colonel Rayappa. In the southern state of Tamil Nadu, 18-year old Roja is a simple village girl born and brought up in Sundarapandiapuram in Tenkasi district. Roja fervently wishes that her sister Shenbagam's marriage proposal with Rishikumar, a cryptologist working with th...
Development
On 28 June 1991, K. Doraiswamy, an executive of the Indian Oil Corporation, was kidnapped by Kashmiri militants and put in captivity for two months. This inspired Mani Ratnam to make the film Roja.Doraiswamy's wife was fighting for his release, and according to Ratnam, it was her plight that the film was based on. During the making of Anjali (1990), Ratnam told actor and director Kitty the outline of Roja and offered him to direct the film. Kitty declined, as he wanted to do something of his...
Casting
Arvind Swami was signed on to play the lead role in Roja after Rajiv Menon declined. Aishwarya and Ayesha Jhulka were initial choices for the female lead, but declined due to date issues; the role went to Madhoo, credited as Madhubala. Aishwarya later revealed that she deeply regretted her decision, which was made by her grandmother against her will, for a Telugu film which was later cancelled. Ratnam wanted a North Indian actor to portray Liaqat, a Kashmiri character, and Pankaj Kapur accept...
Filming
Ratnam had planned to shoot Roja in Kashmir, but extreme terrorism there forced him to shoot the film in other hill stations resembling it. Shooting locations included Coonoor, Ooty, and Manali, Himachal Pradesh. The film's cinematographer Santosh Sivan said that a lot of images were written in at the script level; even in the Kashmir sequences, the audience only sees the snow when Roja sees it for the first time. These things were written into the script. The song "Chinna Chinna Aasai" was s...
Writing for the magazine Jump Cut, Kumudan Maderya noted that Roja celebrates "the middle-class yuppie hero’s nationalistic fervor" and positions the "anti-national communalist terrorists in Kashmir" as key threats to India as a whole. Vairamuthu, who was signed as the lyricist, felt the film's "tense and action-packed" content was in sharp contras...
The soundtrack and background score for the film was composed by A. R. Rahman in his debut as a music director. Mani Ratnam, who previously worked with Ilayaraaja in his earlier films, replaced him with Rahman, who worked as a keyboard programmer for Ilayaraaja for his film Moodu Pani (1980), also marking their first collaboration as well. The albu...
Roja was released on 15 August 1992, and distributed by GV Films. In August 2015, it was screened at the 2015 London Indian Film Festival, in the retrospective series Politics as Spectacle: The Films of Mani Ratnam, along with Bombay and Dil Se. Owing to the film’s success, the film was dubbed and released in Hindi, Telugu, Marathi and Malayalamlan...
Critical response
Roja received positive reception for its patriotic themes. On 26 September 1992, K. Vijayan of New Straits Times wrote, "Under Mani Ratnam's direction, [Arvind] and Madhubala gave their best ... The excellent photography by Santhosh Sivan [who was also the cameraman for Thalapathi] makes us appreciate the beauty we take for granted in the villages. The snow-capped mountains and flower-covered valleys of Kashmir are also an eyeful." Writing for The Indian Express, Malini Mannath compared Roja...
Box office
Roja emerged a commercial success in the Tamil market. The Hindidubbed version of the film was also an equal success.
1993 National Film Awards(India) 1. Won – Silver Lotus Award – Best Music Director – A. R. Rahman 2. Won – Silver Lotus Award – Best Lyricist – Vairamuthu 3. Won – Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration Madhoo's performance took her close to winning in the category of Best Actress, but she eventually lost to Dimple Kapadia....
Nagappan, Ramu (2005). "Momentary Pleasures of Reconciliation". Speaking Havoc: Social Suffering & South Asian Narratives. Washington: University of Washington Press. pp. 161–192. ISBN 978-0-295-98...Rangan, Baradwaj (2012). Conversations with Mani Ratnam. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-670-08520-0.Shenbaga also known as Senbakam is an Indian actress in Tamil and Malayalam movies. She was one of the prominent lead and supporting actress in Malayalam and Tamil movies during the 1990s.
Shenbaga is a sizzling young actress in the South Indian Film industry, mainly in Malayalam and Tamil cinemas. Even though she has only acted in a couple of films, the roles she played and the films she did prove to stay in the hearts of every one of her fans. Shenbga also goes by the name of Chembakam.
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Synopsis. In Srinagar, a Kashmiri terrorist, Wasim Khan (Shiva Rindani), is captured by a team led by Colonel Rayappa (Nassar). In Southern India, 18-year old Roja (Madhoo) is a simple village girl born and brought up in Sundarapandiapuram in Tirunelveli district in southern Tamil Nadu.
