A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
C. H. Balu
C.H. Balu
Still Photographer:
2015 O Kadhal Kanmani
2016 Irudhi Suttru
2017 Guru
2017 Kaatru Veliyidai
2018 Chekka Chivantha Vaanam
2018 Tamizh Padam 2
2019 Petta
2019 Super Deluxe
2020 Soorarai Pottru
2022 Kombu Vatcha Singamda
2022 Nenjuku Needhi
2022 Ponniyin Selvan: Part I
2023 Ponniyin Selvan: Part II
2024 Kanguva
2026 Parasakthi
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.