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. In 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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Some new results on charged compact boson stars by Sanjeev Kumar, Usha Kulshreshtha, Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha, Sarah Kahlen, Jutta Kunz
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Functional Roles of FGF Signaling in Early Development of Vertebrate Embryos by Vijay Kumar, Ravi Shankar Goutam, Soochul Park, Unjoo Lee, Jaebong Kim
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Social innovation that connects people to coasts in the Anthropocene by Louis Celliers, María Mañez Costa, Lena Rölfer, Shankar Aswani, Sebastian Ferse
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Median arcuate ligament syndrome by Prudhvi Raj Karumuri, Vikram Gandi, Ravi Shankar Kunjarapu, L R S. Girinadh
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Retraction Note: Antidiabetic, antioxidant, antihyperlipidemic effect of extract of Euryale ferox salisb. With enhanced histopathology of pancreas, liver and kidney in streptozotoc... by Danish Ahmed, Vikas Kumar, Amita Verma, Girija Shankar Shukla, Manju Sharma
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Control of a community outbreak of hepatitis A in an area of low endemicity, Wales, 2016 by J. Vaz, C. Floyd, B. Mason, A. G. Shankar, H. Lewis
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Numerical modelling of post-failure behaviors of coal specimens by Ajeet Yadav, Bhaskara Behera, Gauri Shankar Prasad Singh, Sanjay Kumar Sharma
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