{"id":2392,"date":"2016-08-17T05:29:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2016-08-17T07:04:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T07:04:37","slug":"shankar-the-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/shankar-the-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Shankar the great\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shankar is no doubt one of the top directors of the film industry from India. Many heroes are prepared to work for no remuneration with this great director .<\/p>\n<p>Born on August 17, 1963, in the small town of Kumbakonam, Shanmugam Shankar graduated as a Mechanical Engineer. The ace director got his first break as script writer when producer SA Chandrasekhar spotted his talent by watching \u00a0one of his stage plays.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2393\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/3-1-660x365.jpg\" alt=\"3\" width=\"660\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After assisting many filmmakers,\u00a0<a title=\"Aamir Khan is not Rajinikanth\u2019s nemesis in Shankar\u2019s Robot 2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bollywoodlife.com\/news-gossip\/aamir-khan-is-not-rajinikanths-nemesis-in-shankars-robot-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.bollywoodlife.com\/news-gossip\/aamir-khan-is-not-rajinikanths-nemesis-in-shankars-robot-2\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1471495917989000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFhoIORibh9MtSRduPA8KtEo1TioA\">Shankar<\/a>\u00a0got his big opportunity in 1993, when he made his directorial debut with\u00a0<em>Gentleman<\/em>, which became a blockbuster hit. Shanmugam Shankar also won the Filmfare Award for Best Director for\u00a0<em>Gentleman<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2389\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/images-5.jpg\" alt=\"images\" width=\"301\" height=\"167\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since then the filmmaker has never looked back, delivering smashing hits, one after the other like\u00a0<em>Kadhalan<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Indian, Jeans<\/em>\u00a0and so on. On the occasion of the dynamic directors birthday, we bring you five best films of Shankar from his two decade long career.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2588\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2588\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2588\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/director-shankar-unseen-photos_145974429940.jpg\" alt=\"Shankar the great\u00a0\" width=\"450\" height=\"293\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shankar the great<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 2010 Rajinikanth-Aishwarya starrer paved way to various technological advancements in Indian cinema as director Shankar gave Hollywood films a run for their money with blockbuster\u00a0<em>Enthiran<\/em>. The film was not only the biggest money grosser of the year, but was raved by fans and critics alike for the sheer grandness of it. With\u00a0<em>Enthiran 2<\/em>in the pipeline, we believe that Shankar will go all guns blazing to churn out yet another visual spectacle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2396\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/images-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"images (1)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now he is making Enthiran 2 with Rajinikanth. Rajini himself certified that in the first part he did no do anything and it was the effort of director that made the movie a super hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shankar is no doubt one of the top directors of the film industry from India. Many heroes are prepared to work for no remuneration with this great director . Born on August 17, 1963, in the small town of Kumbakonam, Shanmugam Shankar graduated as a Mechanical Engineer. The ace director got his first break as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[44,510,187,1444,1443,1440,372,1442,1439,1438,1441],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-cinema","category-top-stories","tag-aishwarya","tag-india","tag-indian","tag-jeans","tag-kadhalan","tag-kumbakonam","tag-rajinikanth","tag-sa-chandrasekhar","tag-shankar","tag-shankar-the-great","tag-shanmugam-shankar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}