![]() ![]() Notable among Narayanaswami's children with Chandramma were Muthulakshmi and Ramaswamy, father of Gemini Ganesan. Later in life, after losing his first wife, Narayanaswami lived with a Devadasi girl Chandramma who served as musician and dancer in a Temple. Ganesan's grandfather, Narayanaswami, was the principal of the Maharajah's College, Pudukkottai. Gemini Ganesan was born in a Tamil Brahmin family as Ramasamy Ganesan in 1920 to Ramasamy Iyer and Gangammal. He had eight children, including actress Rekha. Despite his celebrated film career, Ganesan's personal life, particularly his marriages to multiple women over the years, including famous Indian actress Savitri, has often been a subject of criticism. His performances on the screen were enhanced by successful playback singers such as A. In his long film career spanning over five decades, Ganesan acted in more than 200 films. However, unlike Sivaji Ganesan or Ramachandran, Gemini Ganesan was not a stage performer and was never involved in politics. After playing the lead role in Manam Pola Mangalyam (1954), he finally acquired star status. Gemini Ganesan made his debut with Miss Malini in 1947 but was noticed only after playing the villain in Thai Ullam in 1953. He was one of the few college graduates to enter the film industry then. A recipient of the Padma Shri in 1971, he had also won several other awards including the Kalaimamani, the MGR Gold Medal, and the Screen Lifetime Achievement Award. Ramachandran was popular as an action hero, Gemini Ganesan was known for his romantic films. While Sivaji Ganesan excelled in dramatic films and M. Ganesan was one of the "three biggest names of Tamil cinema", the other two being M. He was referred to as the Kaadhal Mannan (King of Romance) for his romantic roles in films. Ramasamy Ganesan (17 November 1920 – 22 March 2005), better known by his stage name Gemini Ganesan, was an Indian actor who worked mainly in Tamil cinema. 2 with Pushpavalli, including Rekha (daughter).4 with Alamelu, including Kamala Selvaraj.Gemini Man is out in the UK and Australia on 10 October, and in the US on 11 October. Gemini Man has been born under an unfortunate sign. A wittier, smarter riff on everything could have saved this and Smith can play lighter material. The digital novelty is striking for the first 10 minutes, silly for the next 10 minutes, and by the end of the movie you’re pining for the analogue values of script and direction. And this solemn film never really cottons on to something that could have made it fly: the comic possibilities. ![]() But the rest of the film is a very hard slog, with Smith in permanent danger of being upstaged by a handful of pixels, and Winstead and Wong sporting the slightly bemused-neutral expression of people having to react to a green screen – or perhaps that is the response Smith naturally elicits from his co-stars these days. The juxtaposition of the real and digital faces gives the initial motorbike action scenes an interesting Grand Theft Auto effect. Some of the fight scenes are great, and there’s a rousing confrontation between Smiths young and old, involving some nifty leaping from roof to roof that reminded me of Lee’s cracking early film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. As with his last film, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Ang Lee is shooting in high frame-rate, which creates a new pin-sharp clarity but at the expense of making the film look like video – or like a celluloid movie on a plasma TV when you haven’t de-activated motion smoothing. The technical effect of the film is strange. So we could be in for Will Smith action movies for the next thousand years. The digitally de-wrinkled Smith isn’t great news for the career of Jaden Smith (the real-world son of Will) because this pseudo-young Will Smith is pretty realistic, in fact sort of on a par with the real thing – and the older Smith meets the digital youngster half way by being a bit more wooden than usual. But worrying about the plausibility of that jet is beside the point when you’ve got Young Will Smith™️ running around the place. Joining forces with tough agent Danny (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and plucky pal Baron (Benedict Wong), Brogan hits back against this techno-Freudian nightmare, travelling to Georgia, Colombia and Hungary – because Baron has somehow been able to borrow a Gulfstream jet to fly them everywhere. This cloned version of Brogan was secretly created by his creepy boss Varris (Clive Owen) as part of Varris’s ethically suspect “Gemini project”, a boys-from-Brazil-type plan to create biotech copies of the very best warriors. This eerily recognisable young dude with the jarhead hair and lovable jug ears has been sent to take Brogan out – it’s himself, aged 23, a digitally rejuvenated Will Smith. ![]()
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