83-405: Jay Jay is a 2003 Indian Tamil -language romantic comedy film written and directed by Saran . The film stars R. Madhavan , Amogha and Pooja , while Kalabhavan Mani , Charle , Dhamu and Malavika Avinash also play key supporting roles. Produced by V. Ravichandran of Oscar Films , the film had music scored by Bharadwaj and is based on Hollywood film Serendipity. Jagan ( R. Madhavan )
166-468: A lexical root to which one or more affixes are attached. Most Tamil affixes are suffixes . Tamil suffixes can be derivational suffixes, which either change the part of speech of the word or its meaning, or inflectional suffixes, which mark categories such as person , number , mood , tense , etc. There is no absolute limit on the length and extent of agglutination , which can lead to long words with many suffixes, which would require several words or
249-480: A , as with other Indic scripts . This inherent vowel is removed by adding a tittle called a puḷḷi , to the consonantal sign. For example, ன is ṉa (with the inherent a ) and ன் is ṉ (without a vowel). Many Indic scripts have a similar sign, generically called virama , but the Tamil script is somewhat different in that it nearly always uses a visible puḷḷi to indicate a 'dead consonant' (a consonant without
332-740: A 2001 survey, there were 1,863 newspapers published in Tamil, of which 353 were dailies. Tamil is the primary language of the majority of the people residing in Tamil Nadu , Puducherry , (in India) and in the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka . The language is spoken among small minority groups in other states of India which include Karnataka , Telangana , Andhra Pradesh , Kerala , Maharashtra , Gujarat , Delhi , Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India and in certain regions of Sri Lanka such as Colombo and
415-407: A cup of coffee and Jagan shares his interest in marrying her. Jamuna, who deeply believes in destiny, writes her name and address in a 100rs bill and tells Jagan that if either of them get hold of the bill by 1 year, she would marry him. She than pays the waiter. When Jagan goes to the waiter to take back the bill, it is given away. Jamuna goes back to Kolkata and Jagan is lost. Jagan starts looking for
498-511: A family of around 26 languages native to the Indian subcontinent . It is also classified as being part of a Tamil language family that, alongside Tamil proper, includes the languages of about 35 ethno-linguistic groups such as the Irula and Yerukula languages (see SIL Ethnologue ). The closest major relative of Tamil is Malayalam ; the two began diverging around the 9th century CE. Although many of
581-412: A film titled J!J! with Vijay in dual lead roles as the characters Jaishankar and Jesudas. The team were also ready to approach Aishwarya Rai to play the lead role, before the venture was shelved and the producer and director moved on to make a different film with the same title. R. Madhavan was signed on and the film was later titled Jay Jay , after the two lead characters Jagan and Jamuna. The film
664-412: A judge. Simran returned to the big screen with a series of unsuccessful films such as Aaha Kalyanam (the Tamil remake of Band Baaja Baaraat ) in 2014, Trisha Illana Nayanthara (2015) and Koditta Idangalai Nirappuga (2017). She was widely believed to have made her comeback with 2018's Seemaraja . She followed it up with Petta , which received critical and commercial acclaim, becoming
747-459: A major commercial success. Following a career hiatus, Simran returned to screens in 2014. She has since received praises for her role in Petta (2019), Rocketry: The Nambi Effect (2022), Gulmohar (2023) and Tiger 3 (2023), which is her highest grossing release. Simran is a celebrity endorser for several brands and is married to producer Deepak Bagga, with whom she has two children. Simran
830-591: A number of apparent Tamil loanwords in Biblical Hebrew dating to before 500 BCE, the oldest attestation of the language. Old Tamil is the period of the Tamil language spanning the 3rd century BCE to the 8th century CE. The earliest records in Old Tamil are short inscriptions from 300 BCE to 700 CE. These inscriptions are written in a variant of the Brahmi script called Tamil-Brahmi . The earliest long text in Old Tamil
913-650: A number of skeletons were found buried in earthenware urns dating from at least 696 BCE in Adichanallur . Some of these urns contained writing in Tamil Brahmi script, and some contained skeletons of Tamil origin. Between 2017 and 2018, 5,820 artifacts have been found in Keezhadi . These were sent to Beta Analytic in Miami , Florida , for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) dating. One sample containing Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions
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#1732848339035996-512: A number of sound changes, in particular, a tendency to lower high vowels in initial and medial positions, and the disappearance of vowels between plosives and between a plosive and rhotic. Contact with European languages affected written and spoken Tamil. Changes in written Tamil include the use of European-style punctuation and the use of consonant clusters that were not permitted in Middle Tamil. The syntax of written Tamil has also changed, with
1079-638: A presence in the Telugu film industry. In Nuvvu Vastavani , a Telugu remake of Thulladha Manamum Thullum in which Simran had starred, Simran reprised her role as the female lead. Simran was also seen in Hindi films such as Khauff at this time. In 2001, Narasimha Naidu in particular received a lot of commercial and critical acclaim. The films Yuvaraju and Seema Simham were unsuccessful, however Simran continued to build her reputation. Daddy saw commercial success Throughout this period Simran continued
1162-642: A prolific career in the Tamil film industry. In general, though it was a time of notable success. Her performances in Unnai Kodu Ennai Tharuven and 12B were praised. Paarthale Paravasam was commercially unsuccessful, though Simran's performance was praised. Her most notable film in this period was the Tamil-language Kannathil Muthamittal . The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil and
1245-575: A sentence in English. To give an example, the word pōkamuṭiyātavarkaḷukkāka (போகமுடியாதவர்களுக்காக) means "for the sake of those who cannot go" and consists of the following morphemes : போக pōka go முடி muṭi accomplish Simran (actress) Rishibala Naval (born 4 April 1976), known professionally as Simran , is an Indian actress, producer, choreographer and playback singer who works predominantly in Tamil , Telugu and Hindi films. One of
1328-620: A small number speak the language. In Reunion where the Tamil language was forbidden to be learnt and used in public space by France it is now being relearnt by students and adults. Tamil is also spoken by migrants from Sri Lanka and India in Canada , the United States , the United Arab Emirates , the United Kingdom , South Africa , and Australia . Tamil is the official language of
1411-595: A subject of study in schools in the French overseas department of Réunion . In addition, with the creation in October 2004 of a legal status for classical languages by the Government of India and following a political campaign supported by several Tamil associations, Tamil became the first legally recognised Classical language of India. The recognition was announced by the contemporaneous President of India , Abdul Kalam , who
1494-458: A variety of dialects that are all collectively known as Brahmin Tamil . These dialects tend to have softer consonants (with consonant deletion also common). These dialects also tend to have many Sanskrit loanwords. Tamil in Sri Lanka incorporates loan words from Portuguese , Dutch , and English. In addition to its dialects, Tamil exhibits different forms: a classical literary style modelled on
1577-438: A vowel). In other Indic scripts, it is generally preferred to use a ligature or a half form to write a syllable or a cluster containing a dead consonant, although writing it with a visible virama is also possible. The Tamil script does not differentiate voiced and unvoiced plosives . Instead, plosives are articulated with voice depending on their position in a word, in accordance with the rules of Tamil phonology . In addition to
1660-575: Is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia . It is one of the two longest-surviving classical languages in India , along with Sanskrit , attested since c. 300 BCE. The language belongs to the southern branch of the Dravidian language family and shares close ties with Malayalam and Kannada . Despite external influences, Tamil has retained a sense of linguistic purism, especially in formal and literary contexts. Tamil
1743-409: Is a carefree youth who stays with his friends in a room. He plays violin well and seeks every opportunity to help others, at the same time benefitting himself. His father is an assistant of an unsuccessful politician ( Delhi Ganesh ) who works for two politician brothers. Their sister, Seema ( Pooja ), has a crush on Jagan after he saves her from some goons. On the other hand, is Jamuna ( Amogha ). Jamuna
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#17328483390351826-457: Is a very beautiful young woman who is from Kolkata. Her father is very protective of her. Jagan spots her at a book store and falls for her instantly only to be beaten up by her father shortly afterwards. Jamuna apologises to Jagan. Jagan, unable to forget her, goes to the bookstore again in hopes of seeing her. Jamuna buys a book, kisses it and starts writing her name, only to be interrupted by Jagan. Jagan only knows her name starts with J. They have
1909-457: Is based on the dialect of Jaffna . After Tamil Brahmi fell out of use, Tamil was written using a script called vaṭṭeḻuttu amongst others such as Grantha and Pallava . The current Tamil script consists of 12 vowels , 18 consonants and one special character, the āytam . The vowels and consonants combine to form 216 compound characters, giving a total of 247 characters (12 + 18 + 1 + (12 × 18)). All consonants have an inherent vowel
1992-401: Is deemed unlikely by Southworth due to the contemporary use of the compound 'centamiḻ', which means refined speech in the earliest literature. The Tamil Lexicon of University of Madras defines the word "Tamil" as "sweetness". S. V. Subramanian suggests the meaning "sweet sound", from tam – "sweet" and il – "sound". Tamil belongs to the southern branch of the Dravidian languages ,
2075-563: Is extensively described in the oldest known grammar book for Tamil, the Tolkāppiyam . Modern Tamil writing is largely based on the 13th-century grammar Naṉṉūl which restated and clarified the rules of the Tolkāppiyam , with some modifications. Traditional Tamil grammar consists of five parts, namely eḻuttu , col , poruḷ , yāppu , aṇi . Of these, the last two are mostly applied in poetry. Tamil words consist of
2158-501: Is found in Tholkappiyam , which is dated as early as late 2nd century BCE. The Hathigumpha inscription , inscribed around a similar time period (150 BCE), by Kharavela , the Jain king of Kalinga , also refers to a Tamira Samghatta ( Tamil confederacy ) The Samavayanga Sutra dated to the 3rd century BCE contains a reference to a Tamil script named 'Damili'. Southworth suggests that
2241-405: Is generally taken to have been completed by the 8th century, was characterised by a number of phonological and grammatical changes. In phonological terms, the most important shifts were the virtual disappearance of the aytam (ஃ), an old phoneme, the coalescence of the alveolar and dental nasals, and the transformation of the alveolar plosive into a rhotic . In grammar, the most important change
2324-409: Is generally used in formal writing and speech. For instance, it is the language of textbooks, of much of Tamil literature and of public speaking and debate. In recent times, however, koṭuntamiḻ has been making inroads into areas that have traditionally been considered the province of centamiḻ . Most contemporary cinema, theatre and popular entertainment on television and radio, for example,
2407-410: Is in koṭuntamiḻ , and many politicians use it to bring themselves closer to their audience. The increasing use of koṭuntamiḻ in modern times has led to the emergence of unofficial 'standard' spoken dialects. In India, the 'standard' koṭuntamiḻ , rather than on any one dialect, but has been significantly influenced by the dialects of Thanjavur and Madurai . In Sri Lanka, the standard
2490-771: Is not always consistently applied. ISO 15919 is an international standard for the transliteration of Tamil and other Indic scripts into Latin characters. It uses diacritics to map the much larger set of Brahmic consonants and vowels to Latin script , and thus the alphabets of various languages, including English. Apart from the usual numerals, Tamil has numerals for 10, 100 and 1000. Symbols for day, month, year, debit, credit, as above, rupee, and numeral are present as well. Tamil also uses several historical fractional signs. /f/ , /z/ , /ʂ/ and /ɕ/ are only found in loanwords and may be considered marginal phonemes, though they are traditionally not seen as fully phonemic. Tamil has two diphthongs : /aɪ̯/ ஐ and /aʊ̯/ ஔ ,
2573-577: Is predominantly spoken in Tamil Nadu , India, and the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka . It has significant speaking populations in Malaysia , Singapore , and among diaspora communities . Tamil has been recognized as a classical language by the Indian government and holds official status in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Singapore. The earliest extant Tamil literary works and their commentaries celebrate
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2656-453: Is revealed that Meera is Jagan's friend as Jagan's sister and Meera share the same hostel. When Jamuna is left alone in Jagan's home, his father introduces another boy as Jagan. Jamuna leaves for Kolkata disappointed. After she leaves, the boy tells Meera the truth. She quickly informs Jamuna. But when she meets Jagan's father, his father tells her that he lied, fearing Jagan's life under the hands of
2739-409: Is the Tolkāppiyam , an early work on Tamil grammar and poetics, whose oldest layers could be as old as the late 2nd century BCE. Many literary works in Old Tamil have also survived. These include a corpus of 2,381 poems collectively known as Sangam literature . These poems are usually dated to between the 1st century BCE and 5th century CE. The evolution of Old Tamil into Middle Tamil , which
2822-772: Is used as one of the languages of education in Malaysia , along with English, Malay and Mandarin. A large community of Pakistani Tamils speakers exists in Karachi , Pakistan , which includes Tamil-speaking Hindus as well as Christians and Muslims – including some Tamil-speaking Muslim refugees from Sri Lanka. There are about 100 Tamil Hindu families in Madrasi Para colony in Karachi. They speak impeccable Tamil along with Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi. Many in Réunion , Guyana , Fiji , Suriname , and Trinidad and Tobago have Tamil origins, but only
2905-631: The Cinema Express Award for Best Film – Tamil . Simran specifically the Cinema Express Award for Best Actress – Tamil, and the ITFA Best Actress Award . Priyamaanavale , Pammal K. Sambandam , Thamizh , Panchatanthiram ; Arasu and New were all notable commercial successes. I Love You Da and Udhaya were also the rare releases that were unsuccessful during this period. After being seen in 74 films in
2988-548: The Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut – South . Her success in those films focused her career on the Tamil film industry. Over the next two years, between 1998 and 1999, Simran was seen in 18 films. In Aval Varuvala she received positive acclaim with one reviewer stating that her performance showed "she can act". She was the female lead in Natpukkaga which would go on to win the Filmfare Award for Best Film – Tamil and
3071-458: The Pandiyan Kings for the organization of long-termed Tamil Sangams , which researched, developed and made amendments in Tamil language. Even though the name of the language which was developed by these Tamil Sangams is mentioned as Tamil, the period when the name "Tamil" came to be applied to the language is unclear, as is the precise etymology of the name. The earliest attested use of the name
3154-602: The Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Film . During this period she was first seen with Prashanth in Kannedhirey Thondrinal . The commercial success of the film and their popularity as an onscreen pair meant that they would be seen together in several future films. Simran's performance in the film Thulladha Manamum Thullum would garner her the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actress , and would lead to reviewers referring to her as being “among
3237-584: The University of Madras , was one of the earliest dictionaries published in Indian languages. A strong strain of linguistic purism emerged in the early 20th century, culminating in the Pure Tamil Movement which called for removal of all Sanskritic elements from Tamil. It received some support from Dravidian parties . This led to the replacement of a significant number of Sanskrit loanwords by Tamil equivalents, though many others remain. According to
3320-633: The Vijay Award for Best Supporting Actress . She continued her career in Telugu with roles in Okka Magaadu and John Appa Rao 40 Plus . She was also seen in the Malayalam release Heart Beats . During this period she pivoted to focus more on television. She acted in the eponymously titled Jaya TV serial Simran Thirai . She starred in the Telugu soap opera Sundarakanda . During this time she also started working on reality TV shows and game shows. She
3403-549: The second highest grossing Tamil film of the year. She continued working as a producer, producing and starring in a Hindi music video. In 2020 she made her streaming debut with Netflix's first Tamil film, Paava Kadhaigal , receiving positive reviews. This was followed up with Mahaan which debuted on Amazon Prime Video after the pandemic meant that a theater release wouldn't be possible. It received positive reviews with M Suganth of The Times of India praising Simran and her co-stars for “memorable performances that elevate
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3486-486: The 11th century, retain many features of the Vaishnava paribasai , a special form of Tamil developed in the 9th and 10th centuries that reflect Vaishnavite religious and spiritual values. Several castes have their own sociolects which most members of that caste traditionally used regardless of where they come from. It is often possible to identify a person's caste by their speech. For example, Tamil Brahmins tend to speak
3569-829: The 1995 film Sanam Harjai , the first Indian film to be shot in New Zealand. As a presenter on musical show Superhit Muqabla she was noticed by Jaya Bachchan , who cast her in ABCL 's Tere Mere Sapne , in which she received praise for her performance in the song " Aankh Maarey ". She made her debut in Malayalam cinema with 1996's Indraprastham , a movie that was unsuccessful but for which Simran received praise for her performance. In 1997 she made her Kannada and Telugu debuts in Simhada Mari and Abbai Gari Pelli . In 1997 Simran also made her Tamil debut, and rose to stardom with V.I.P. and another release, Nerrukku Ner , she would win
3652-476: The Indian state of Haryana , purportedly as a rebuff to Punjab , though there was no attested Tamil-speaking population in the state, and was later replaced by Punjabi , in 2010. In Malaysia, 543 primary education government schools are available fully in Tamil as the medium of instruction . The establishment of Tamil-medium schools has been in process in Myanmar to provide education completely in Tamil language by
3735-469: The Indian state of Tamil Nadu and one of the 22 languages under schedule 8 of the constitution of India . It is one of the official languages of the union territories of Puducherry and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands . Tamil is also one of the official languages of Singapore . Tamil is one of the official and national languages of Sri Lanka, along with Sinhala . It was once given nominal official status in
3818-535: The Pooja-Madhavan track). And blending these two films of different genres into one film is indeed a tough task! What keeps the film going are Madhavan's lively performance and the numerous twists and turns that prevent the hero and heroine from meeting and uniting". Despite the mixed reviews, the film ran for seventy five days across Chennai. The film was later dubbed and released under the same name in Telugu by producers Seetharam Reddy and Hema Babu. The soundtrack
3901-585: The Tamil language, Kannada still preserves a lot from its roots. As part of the southern family of Indian languages and situated relatively close to the northern parts of India, Kannada also shares some Sanskrit words, similar to Malayalam. Many of the formerly used words in Tamil have been preserved with little change in Kannada. This shows a relative parallel to Tamil, even as Tamil has undergone some changes in modern ways of speaking. According to Hindu legend, Tamil or in personification form Tamil Thāi (Mother Tamil)
3984-673: The Tamils who settled there 200 years ago. Tamil language is available as a course in some local school boards and major universities in Canada and the month of January has been declared "Tamil Heritage Month" by the Parliament of Canada . Tamil enjoys a special status of protection under Article 6(b), Chapter 1 of the Constitution of South Africa and is taught as a subject in schools in KwaZulu-Natal province. Recently, it has been rolled out as
4067-442: The ancient language ( sankattamiḻ ), a modern literary and formal style ( centamiḻ ), and a modern colloquial form ( koṭuntamiḻ ). These styles shade into each other, forming a stylistic continuum. For example, it is possible to write centamiḻ with a vocabulary drawn from caṅkattamiḻ , or to use forms associated with one of the other variants while speaking koṭuntamiḻ . In modern times, centamiḻ
4150-468: The bill and his friends help him. Jamuna, who is in Kolkata get a proposal from her family friend, Guna( Shasikumar ). She remembers Jagan's proposal and realises she has fallen in love with him. She also looks for the bill with the help of her cousin, Meera ( Malavika Avinash ). Under spam circumstances, Jagan gets engaged to Seema who later realises the truth about Jagan look in for Jamuna. Jamuna gets hold of
4233-676: The bill while eating Pani Puri but the money is snatched by a petty thief. She breaks down and upon seeing this, Meera scolds her of abandoning Jagan in Chennai. Seema gets hold of the book bought by Jamuna, who purposely leaves it at the cafe where they both met, in hopes it might reach Jagan. Seema gives it to Jagan who finds that Jamuna is from Bengal after seeing Bengali words in it. Jagan goes to Kolkata and Jamuna goes to Chennai with Meera, to confess to Jagan. Their trains cross each other at Vizag yet, they fail to meet. When in Kolkata, Jagan fails to find Jamuna. In Chennai, Jamuna finds Jagan's house. It
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#17328483390354316-408: The city. The film was originally slated to release on Deepavali but its release was postponed due to the presence of other releases on same day. The film's plans to release on 7 November also failed eventually released on 14 November. The film opened to mixed reviews, with Malathi Rangarajan from The Hindu noting "Saran seems to have been carried away by the protracted route of the 100-rupee note and
4399-670: The culture associated with the Neolithic complexes of South India, but it has also been related to the Harappan civilization . Scholars categorise the attested history of the language into three periods: Old Tamil (300 BCE–700 CE), Middle Tamil (700–1600) and Modern Tamil (1600–present). About of the approximately 100,000 inscriptions found by the Archaeological Survey of India in India are in Tamil Nadu. Of them, most are in Tamil, with only about 5 percent in other languages. In 2004,
4482-886: The devotional song Aranmanai 4 (2024). After sharing the screen with Prashanth as the female lead, Simran has once again embraced the grey shades with her character in the Andhadhun remake, Andhagan (2024). She says, calling her role in the film “one of my career’s best”. From 1998 to 2004, Simran became "one of Tamil cinema's top female draws", with several successful films. Throughout her career, Simran has endorsed several brands and products such as Fanta , Jeeva soap, Kurkure , Sugar Free Gold by Cadila Healthcare , General Mills ' Pillsbury Atta, Dabur , Enfagrow A+, Pothys ’ silk sarees, Arun Ice Cream, Nac Jewelers, CavinKare's Chinni Masala, Lion Dates, Manna Go Grains, Sunfeast Supermilk, and Swiggy's Instamart. Simran has received three Filmfare Awards South , out of
4565-936: The dialect of Madurai , and iṅkaṭe in some northern dialects. Even now, in the Coimbatore area, it is common to hear " akkaṭṭa " meaning "that place". Although Tamil dialects do not differ significantly in their vocabulary, there are a few exceptions. The dialects spoken in Sri Lanka retain many words and grammatical forms that are not in everyday use in India, and use many other words slightly differently. Tamil dialects include Central Tamil dialect , Kongu Tamil , Madras Bashai , Madurai Tamil , Nellai Tamil , Kumari Tamil in India ; Batticaloa Tamil dialect , Jaffna Tamil dialect , Negombo Tamil dialect in Sri Lanka; and Malaysian Tamil in Malaysia. Sankethi dialect in Karnataka has been heavily influenced by Kannada . The dialect of
4648-399: The differences between Tamil and Malayalam demonstrate a pre-historic divergence of the western dialect, the process of separation into a distinct language, Malayalam, was not completed until sometime in the 13th or 14th century. Additionally Kannada is also relatively close to the Tamil language and shares the format of the formal ancient Tamil language. While there are some variations from
4731-634: The district of Palakkad in Kerala has many Malayalam loanwords, has been influenced by Malayalam's syntax, and has a distinctive Malayalam accent. Similarly, Tamil spoken in Kanyakumari District has more unique words and phonetic style than Tamil spoken at other parts of Tamil Nadu. The words and phonetics are so different that a person from Kanyakumari district is easily identifiable by their spoken Tamil. Hebbar and Mandyam dialects, spoken by groups of Tamil Vaishnavites who migrated to Karnataka in
4814-449: The hide and seek game between the lovers that he lets his screenplay go haywire". Karthiga Rukmanykanthan of Daily News noted, "The movie also reminds of Kadhal Kottai at many instances but Jay Jay has not made itself as poignant as this movie. The costumes and the music are the only consolation for the producer of this boring and fruitless movie". A critic from Deccan Herald wrote that "Music, songs and Madhavan’s performance are
4897-420: The highlights of the movie". Visual Dasan of Kalki wrote hats off to director for creating fantasy characters, but with real emotions that stick to the mind without any pretense. Chennai Online wrote "Charan has done a fairly good job on re-working 'My Best Friend's Wedding', turning it into a fairly enjoyable 'Parthen Rasithen'. This time the director has had to work on 'Serendipity' and 'Training Day' too (for
4980-699: The hill country . Tamil or dialects of it were used widely in the state of Kerala as the major language of administration, literature and common usage until the 12th century CE. Tamil was also used widely in inscriptions found in southern Andhra Pradesh districts of Chittoor and Nellore until the 12th century CE. Tamil was used for inscriptions from the 10th through 14th centuries in southern Karnataka districts such as Kolar , Mysore , Mandya and Bengaluru . There are currently sizeable Tamil-speaking populations descended from colonial-era migrants in Malaysia , Singapore , Philippines , Mauritius , South Africa , Indonesia, Thailand, Burma , and Vietnam . Tamil
5063-432: The introduction of new aspectual auxiliaries and more complex sentence structures, and with the emergence of a more rigid word order that resembles the syntactic argument structure of English. In 1578, Portuguese Christian missionaries published a Tamil prayer book in old Tamil script named Thambiran Vanakkam , thus making Tamil the first Indian language to be printed and published. The Tamil Lexicon , published by
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#17328483390355146-456: The latter of which is restricted to a few lexical items. Tamil employs agglutinative grammar, where suffixes are used to mark noun class , number , and case , verb tense and other grammatical categories. Tamil's standard metalinguistic terminology and scholarly vocabulary is itself Tamil, as opposed to the Sanskrit that is standard for most Indo-Aryan languages . Much of Tamil grammar
5229-601: The leading actresses in Tamil films”. Her performance in Vaalee won her the Cinema Express Award for Best Actress – Tamil . Simran's performance in Kanave Kalaiyadhe and Jodi were praised. In 2000, Simran starred in the Telugu film Kalisundam Raa . The film would receive the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu and the Nandi Award for Best Feature Film . The acclaim led to her establishing more of
5312-564: The most prolific actresses of Tamil cinema, Simran is the recipient of numerous accolades including three Filmfare Awards South and one Tamil Nadu State Film Award . Simran debuted in Tamil films in 1997, with two successful films Once More and V.I.P. , where earned her Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut – South . She won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil for Kannathil Muthamittal (2002) and Best Supporting Actress – Tamil for Vaaranam Aayiram (2008), both being
5395-423: The name comes from tam-miḻ > tam-iḻ "self-speak", or "our own speech". Kamil Zvelebil suggests an etymology of tam-iḻ , with tam meaning "self" or "one's self", and " -iḻ " having the connotation of "unfolding sound". Alternatively, he suggests a derivation of tamiḻ < tam-iḻ < * tav-iḻ < * tak-iḻ , meaning in origin "the proper process (of speaking)". However, this
5478-531: The old aspect and time markers. The Nannūl remains the standard normative grammar for modern literary Tamil, which therefore continues to be based on Middle Tamil of the 13th century rather than on Modern Tamil. Colloquial spoken Tamil, in contrast, shows a number of changes. The negative conjugation of verbs, for example, has fallen out of use in Modern Tamil – instead, negation is expressed either morphologically or syntactically. Modern spoken Tamil also shows
5561-493: The politician brothers. Meera goes to Kolkata and tells Jamuna, who breaks down. In Chennai, Jagan finds the note. He happily tells Seema and her brothers oppose it. Meera and Jamuna comes to Chennai, and Guna sacrifices his love. Jagan learns that Jamuna is coming to Chennai. Seema's elder brother confronts him but her second elder brother happily wishes Jagan. Jamuna and Jagan meet at the coffee shop again and unite. In late 2000, producer Ravichandran signed on Saran to make
5644-484: The scenes and the film”. Simran reunited with R. Madhavan in Rocketry: The Nambi Effect (2022). It was filmed simultaneously in Tamil, Hindi and English languages. Simran's performance received positive reviews with Avinash Ramachandran of Cinema Express noting that "Madhavan, Simran propel this compelling biopic". The film was screened for civil servants and politicians in the Parliament of India ,
5727-465: The standard characters, six characters taken from the Grantha script , which was used in the Tamil region to write Sanskrit, are sometimes used to represent sounds not native to Tamil, that is, words adopted from Sanskrit, Prakrit , and other languages. The traditional system prescribed by classical grammars for writing loan-words, which involves respelling them in accordance with Tamil phonology, remains, but
5810-424: The ten years since her debut, Simran became more selective in the projects that she pursued Several of Simran's Tamil projects were unsuccessful during this period including Kicha Vayasu 16 (2005), Seval (2008) and Ainthaam Padai (2009). However, Vaaranam Aayiram received widespread critical and commercial acclaim. Simran specifically won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress – Tamil and
5893-456: The time. Thappu Thaalangal Sundar Raj , a popular Kannada actor, returned to the Tamil screen after a gap of 15 years, while Ceylon Manohar also too returned to acting after 23 years and played the main villain. Malavika Avinash of Anni fame and Giri from the Sahana serial also made their entry into the big screen, with Giri playing the role of Madhavan's friend. Bengali actress Sharmila Ghosh
5976-517: The word for "here"— iṅku in Centamil (the classic variety)—has evolved into iṅkū in the Kongu dialect of Coimbatore , inga in the dialects of Thanjavur and Palakkad , and iṅkai in some dialects of Sri Lanka . Old Tamil's iṅkaṇ (where kaṇ means place) is the source of iṅkane in the dialect of Tirunelveli , Old Tamil iṅkiṭṭu is the source of iṅkuṭṭu in
6059-526: Was a Tamilian himself, in a joint sitting of both houses of the Indian Parliament on 6 June 2004. The socio-linguistic situation of Tamil is characterised by diglossia : there are two separate registers varying by socioeconomic status , a high register and a low one. Tamil dialects are primarily differentiated from each other by the fact that they have undergone different phonological changes and sound shifts in evolving from Old Tamil. For example,
6142-560: Was a judge on Super Super , and in 2011 took over the anchor role on the long-running Jaya TV show Jackpot . Between 2013 and 2014 she starred in Agni Paravai , a Tamil-language soap opera. Simran also ventured into production. She and her husband produced Dance Tamizha Dance , a Tamil show for Zee Tamizh , in which she was also a judge. They followed it up with a second production, Dance Tamizha Dance Little Masters, focused on under-14 performers from Tamil Nadu, with Simran continuing as
6225-621: Was also in the cast. Reemma Sen , shot at the Visakhapatnam Railway Station with 40 models from Mumbai for a song in the film. Two further songs were picturised in Greece, with the team conducting shoots in the island of Milos and at Santornini. A week's shoot was also held at the Institute for the Dumb and Deaf at Ramavaram, while multiple locations in Kolkata were chosen to depict a sequence in
6308-449: Was born Rishibala Naval on 4 April 1976 to Punjabi parents in Mumbai . Simran has two younger sisters, former film actress Monal and Jyothi Anand, and a younger brother, Sumeet Naval. She was educated at St. Anthony's High School, Versova, Mumbai . Simran married producer Deepak Bagga, her childhood friend, on 2 December 2003. The couple are parents to two sons. Simran made her debut in
6391-586: Was claimed to be dated to around 580 BCE. John Guy states that Tamil was the lingua franca for early maritime traders from India. Tamil language inscriptions written in Brahmi script have been discovered in Sri Lanka and on trade goods in Thailand and Egypt. In November 2007, an excavation at Quseir-al-Qadim revealed Egyptian pottery dating back to first century BCE with ancient Tamil Brahmi inscriptions. There are
6474-494: Was composed by Bharadwaj , with lyrics by Vairamuthu . The audio was launched on 2 October 2003 at Sathyam Cinemas with K. Balachander and Kamal Haasan gracing the event. The songs "Unnai Naan" and "Kadhal Mazhaiye" became popular. The song "May Maasam" was the first venture of Suchitra as a playback singer. Tamil language Sri Lanka Singapore Malaysia Canada and United States Tamil ( தமிழ் , Tamiḻ , pronounced [t̪amiɻ] )
6557-528: Was created by Lord Shiva . Murugan , revered as the Tamil God, along with sage Agastya , brought it to the people. Tamil, like other Dravidian languages, ultimately descends from the Proto-Dravidian language , which was most likely spoken around the third millennium BCE, possibly in the region around the lower Godavari river basin. The material evidence suggests that the speakers of Proto-Dravidian were of
6640-615: Was one of five nominated by India for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film , and won India's National Film Award for Best Feature Film . Simran then appeared in the Tamil science fiction action film Captain . And later starred in the Hindi language Gulmohar (2023). She then appeared as the Prime Minister of Pakistan in Tiger 3 (2023). She makes a special appearance in
6723-518: Was said to feature Mandira Bedi in the lead role, though she was later left out due to unknown reasons. Then Saran wanted to cast Simran for the role as they worked together before. But her unavailability led him to find another actress for the cast. Priyanka Kothari made her debut in the film under the stage name of Amogha, while the film also marked the debut of another heroine, Pooja , who had already signed up to feature in Jeeva 's Ullam Ketkumae at
6806-504: Was the lingua franca for early maritime traders, with inscriptions found in places like Sri Lanka , Thailand , and Egypt . The language has a well-documented history with literary works like Sangam literature , consisting of over 2,000 poems. Tamil script evolved from Tamil Brahmi, and later, the vatteluttu script was used until the current script was standardized. The language has a distinct grammatical structure, with agglutinative morphology that allows for complex word formations. Tamil
6889-451: Was the emergence of the present tense. The present tense evolved out of the verb kil ( கில் ), meaning "to be possible" or "to befall". In Old Tamil, this verb was used as an aspect marker to indicate that an action was micro-durative, non-sustained or non-lasting, usually in combination with a time marker such as ṉ ( ன் ). In Middle Tamil, this usage evolved into a present tense marker – kiṉṟa ( கின்ற ) – which combined
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