2402:3A80:1828:7BE4:0:6:F74A:4D01 at 08:24, 6 July 2021

2021-07-06T08:24:30Z

New page

{{Short description|Indian News Magazine}}
{{More citations needed|date=June 2021}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2019}}
{{Infobox magazine
| logo = Ananda-Vikatan.jpg
| logo_size = 220
| editor = B Srinivasan
| frequency = Weekly
| circulation =
| category = General
| company = Vikatan Group Pvt. Ltd.
| founded = {{start date and age|1926}}
| firstdate =
| country = India
| language = [[Tamil Language|Tamil]]
| website = {{URL|http://www.vikatan.com/anandavikatan}}
| issn =
}}
'''''Ananda Vikatan''''' is a [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language weekly magazine published from [[Chennai]], [[India]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Vanitha continues to lead regional language magazines |url=http://www.printweek.in/news/irs-2017-vanitha-continues-lead-regional-language-magazines-27929 |website=www.printweek.in}}</ref>

==History and profile==
''Ananda Vikatan'' was started by Budalur Vaidyanadhaiyar in February 1926 as a monthly publication. The issue for December 1927 was not published due to financial difficulties. In January 1928 [[S. S. Vasan]] bought the rights from Vaidyanadhaiyer and relaunched the publication from February 1928 in a new format<ref>{{cite web|url=http://s-pasupathy.blogspot.in/2015/03/2.html|title=S. S. Vasan|language=ta|author=S. Pasupathy|date=10 March 2003|access-date=14 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314135650/http://s-pasupathy.blogspot.in/2015/03/2.html|archive-date=14 March 2017}}</ref> He paid {{INRConvert|200|year=1928}} at the rate of ₹25 per alphabet in the Tamil language name (ஆனந்த விகடன்) of the publication to buy the rights.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/fr/2003/05/23/stories/2003052301510600.htm |title=With a finger on people's pulse|date=23 May 2003|access-date=13 April 2015 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130901175833/http://hindu.com/thehindu/fr/2003/05/23/stories/2003052301510600.htm |archive-date=1 September 2013|work=[[The Hindu]] |url-status=dead }}</ref> He built it up into a weekly and sales soon rose. Ananda Vikatan is still running successfully after ninety years. Veteran journalist and media personality [[S. Balasubramanian]] served as editor, managing director and publisher of the magazine for nearly 50 years till 2006.<ref>{{cite news|title=Trophy to Remember|url=http://www.hindu.com/2003/11/16/stories/2003111602121000.htm |author=K. Ramachandran |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130811162233/http://www.hindu.com/2003/11/16/stories/2003111602121000.htm |archive-date=11 August 2013|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|url-status=dead}}</ref> Balasubramanian also mentored generations of journalists and writers. He also started the "Manavar Thittam" or student journalism scheme that is active for the last 30 years and counting. He also launched Junior Vikatan, a biweekly Tamil investigative journal in the 1980s in addition to his many accomplishments as Vikatan's publisher. He was the son of S. S. Vasan and continues to be Chairman Emeritus of the group after handing over the reins to his son B. Srinivasan.

==Visual media ==
Vikatan Televistas was launched by Vasan Publications in the late 1990s starting with Mega-serials on [[Sun TV (India)|Sun TV]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.financialexpress.com/opinion/explained-how-vikatan-became-a-contextual-content-company-driven-by-technology/1676645/|title=Explained: How Vikatan became a contextual content company driven by technology|website=Financial Express}}</ref>

===Tamil television===
The company ventured into film production as Vikatan Talkies, and successfully made the comedy ''[[Siva Manasula Sakthi]]'' starring [[Jiiva]] and [[Anuya]] that launched the career of the director Rajesh.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}} They then followed this with the commercially unsuccessful ''[[Vaalmiki (film)|Vaalmiki]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kollywoodtoday.com/previews/preview-vaalmiki/|title=Preview – Vaalmiki|work=Kollywood Today|date=21 May 2009|access-date=24 July 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130127100840/http://www.kollywoodtoday.net/previews/preview-vaalmiki/|archive-date=27 January 2013|url-status=dead }}</ref> The media house still produces a variety of programs for television and has branched out into various streams of media content with an online digital broadcast of snippets of news, views, interviews etc.<ref name=":0"/>

{| class="wikitable"
! collapse |Past Productions
!First aired
!Last aired
!Episode count
!Note
|-
|''Akshaya''
|1998
|1999
|50
|
|-
|''Ananda Bhavan''
|2000
|2001
|60
|
|-
|''Panchavarna Kili''
|1999
|2000
|50
|
|-
|''Perai Sollava''
|
|
|
|
|-
|''Sathya''
|
|
|
|
|-
|''Kai Rasi''
|
|
|
|
|-
|''Pushpanjali''
|
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Alaigal]]''
|29 October 2001
|23 May 2003
|403
|
|-
|''Appa''
|26 May 2003
|21 November 2003
|125
|
|-
|''[[Kolangal (TV series)|Kolangal]]''
|24 November 2003
|4 December 2009
|1533
|
|-
|''Avargal''
|2002
|2007
|
|
|-
|''[[Thirumathi Selvam]]''
|5 November 2007
|22 March 2013
|1,360
|
|-
|''[[Thendral]]''
|7 December 2009
|17 January 2015
|1,340
|
|-
|''[[Azhagi (TV series)|Azhagi]]''
|10 October 2011
|4 March 2016
|1,101
|
|-
|''[[Deivamagal]]''
|25 March 2013
|17 February 2018
|1,466
|
|-
|''[[Priyamanaval]]''
|19 January 2015
|11 May 2019
|1315
|
|-
|''[[Nayagi (TV series)|Nayagi]]''
|19 February 2018
|31 October 2020
|718
|
|-
|''[[Run (Indian TV series)|Run]]''
|5 August 2019
|31 March 2020
|197
|
|-
|Vallamai
Tharayo
|26 October 2020
|12 February 2021
|80
|First serial which released on YouTube channel without an tv telecast
|-
|''[[November Story]]''
|20 May 2021
| -
|7
|Released on [[Hotstar|Disney+ Hotstar]]
|-
|''[[Thamizhum Saraswathiyum]]''
|12 July 2021
| Present
|
| on [[Star Vijay]]
|}

=== Ananda Vikatan Cinema Awards ===
{{main|Ananda Vikatan Cinema Awards}}
The awards ceremony has been held since 2008, with the most recent being in January 2019.<ref>[https://www.vikatan.com/anandavikatan/2019-jan-09/ananda-vikatan-awards/147306-ananda-vikatan-awards-2018.html]</ref>

==Circulation details==
According to the Audit Bureau of Circulation, for the period of July–December 2004, circulation stood at 4,30,534 per week. This represents a 22 per cent growth over the previous half-year period.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.vikatan.com/ Official Website]
*[https://soundcloud.com/user-311470525/j-pod-tamil-magazine-pioneer-b J-POD: B. Srinivasan of ''Ananda Vikatan'', podcast on Krishna Prasad's jpod]

{{Works by Vikatan Televistas}}

[[Category:Companies based in Chennai]]
[[Category:Magazines established in 1926]]
[[Category:Mass media in Chennai]]
[[Category:Tamil-language magazines]]
[[Category:Weekly magazines published in India]]
[[Category:1926 establishments in India]]

Ananda Vikatan - Revision history

2402:3A80:1828:7BE4:0:6:F74A:4D01 at 08:24, 6 July 2021