S. Shankar
Shankar Shanmugam (born 17 August 1963), credited as S. Shankar or his mononym Shankar, is an Indian film director, film producer, and screenwriter who works predominantly in Tamil cinema. He is one of the most profilic and highest paid director in India addition, he also worked in Hindi films and Telugu films. His films typically deal with contemporary social issues, vigilante themes, and the usage of state-of-the-art technology and VFX. He has won one National Film Award, four Filmfare Award South, and six Tamil Nadu State Film Awards in his career. Six of his films have won the National Film Award for Best Special Effects.Shankar made his debut as a director in the film ''Gentleman'' (1993), for which he won the Filmfare Best Director Award and the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Director. He usually collaborates with composer A. R. Rahman, both having done over 11 films together. Two of his films, ''Indian'' (1996) and ''Mudhalvan'' (1999), which deal with social and political issues, were commercially very successful and also submitted by India for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but neither earned a nomination. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by M. G. R. University.
Shankar's psychological thriller ''Anniyan'' was released in 2005 with highly critical and commercial success. After Anniyan, Shankar teamed up with Rajinikanth on ''Sivaji'' (2007), the most expensive Indian film at that time. He again collaborated with Rajinikanth for the science fiction film ''Enthiran'' (2010), which again turned out to be highest grossing Tamil film at that time and also its sequel ''2.0'' (2018), is the seventh highest-grossing film in India and the tenth highest-grossing Indian film worldwide. It is also the highest-grossing Indian film of 2018. Provided by Wikipedia
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Adaptation to Climate Change in Panchase Mountain Ecological Regions of Nepal by Shankar Adhikari, Himlal Baral, Craig Nitschke
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Mechanisms of organelle biogenesis govern stochastic fluctuations in organelle abundance by Shankar Mukherji, Erin K O'Shea
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Hardening quantum machine learning against adversaries by Nathan Wiebe, Ram Shankar Siva Kumar
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QUANTITATIVE ETHNOBOTANY OF SOME FICUS L. SPECIES IN KHASI AND JAINTIA HILLS, MEGHALAYA, INDIA by Sreyoshee Sensarma, Chaya Deori, Uma Shankar
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Impact of REM sleep deprivation and sleep recovery on circulatory neuroinflammatory markers by Konakanchi Suresh, Vinutha Shankar, Dayanand CD
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Myoclonus associated with infections: A narrative review by Apara Kothiala, Vijay Shankar, Soaham Desai
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Solidification Simulation of Al-Si Alloys with Dendrite Tip Undercooling by Hongda Wang, Mohamed S. Hamed, Sumanth Shankar
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