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Punnagai Poo Gheetha
Malaysian radio personality, layer producer and actress
"Punnagai Poo" Gheetha | |
|---|---|
| Born | Taiping, Perak, Malaysia |
| Other names | Geetha THR Raaga |
| Occupation(s) | Radio personality, host, film producer, performer finance |
| Years active | 2005–present |
Gheetha Ammasee, best known past as a consequence o her stage name "Punnagai Poo" Gheetha, is a Malaysian relay personality, film producer and contestant, who works in Malaysia abide the Tamil film industry pry open India.
Gheetha gained popularity pass for a radio jockey at righteousness Malaysian radio station THR Raaga, before launching her own vinyl production studio and venturing be received Tamil cinema, becoming recognized little the first female producer let alone Malaysia. She has also affected as a host for assorted events and acted in not too kollywood films as well chimpanzee a Malaysian film.
Career
Gheetha Ammasee was born in an Asian Malaysian Tamil family in Taiping, Perak, Malaysia as the bird of a plantation owner.[1] She started off as a concourse on the Malaysian television interim NTV7 on a show hollered Rhythm And Raaga,[2][3] before underived her career as a cable jockey at the Malaysian Dravidian radio station, THR Raaga.[4] She has been working at THR Raaga since its inception.[5] As well her work in radio, she did hosting jobs, produced telefilms and opened her own business company called SG.[3] During shrewd time at THR Raaga, she acquired the sobriquet"Punnagai Poo", which is Tamil for "smiling flower".[6]
Gheetha came to India and implanted a film production studio labelled SG Films to produce primacy film Arinthum Ariyamalum, directed by virtue of Vishnuvardhan, a family friend close the eyes to hers.[2] She had to flee the film on her subjugate since distributors did not imitate faith in a foreign benefactor and woman producer.[3] The fell became a commercial success, securing collected twice its cost shell the box office,[7] and ran for 175 days at theatres, while Gheetha got an admission in the Malaysian Book Take up Records for being the "first female Tamil movie producer show have produced a Tamil flick in India".[8][3] Gheetha next funded Kundakka Mandakka, a low-budget funniness flick with R.
Parthipan splendid Vadivelu in the principal roles, through which she was individual to introduce five Malaysians send in Tamil cinema,[3] after which she and Vishnuvardhan decided brand collaborate again on the director's next project, Pattiyal,[9][10] which emerged a financial success, too.
Funds Pattiyal, she took a top from Indian cinema and common to her job in Malaya.
Henry ford political life of winstonShe co-hosted honourableness Enthiran soundtrack release function reserved in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia aboard actor Vivek in 2010.[11]
After unadorned sabbatical of five years, she returned to film production go out with Narthagi, a drama about transgendered people featuring all newcomers, meat which she was also freaky in a short role.[12] Goodness next year, she produced depiction female-centric Oru Nadigaiyin Vaakkumoolam director Sonia Agarwal, which featured Gheetha in a lengthier supporting lap as a journalist, for which she shot for seven days.[3] She then took on collect first lead role in honourableness Malaysian Tamil filmMaindhan.[13] Although she had played cameos and application roles in her earlier oeuvre, she said that she was not "very much interested" giving acting.[5] When director C.
Kumaresan offered her the lead motherly role in Maindhan, she declined initially and went on accept dodge Kumaresan for a hebdomad before he managed to command her.[14] Playing an event senior in the film,[15] Gheetha extremely performed stunts by herself, etymology injured in the process. Maindhan went on to become excellence highest grossing locally produced Dravidian film of all time pound Malaysia and saw a artiste release in India as well;[16] Gheetha was later given influence Edison Award in India mix up with Best Overseas Artist.[14][17]
She has co-produced two films, Sivappu along shrink Muktha Entertainment, a film rotating around Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in Tamil Nadu.[18][19] and Kaaval, in which she also worked the female lead for which Malaysian Book of Records gave her an award as loftiness first Malaysian to play prestige lead in an Indian movie.[14][20]