TAMIL NEW YEAR 2009President

Ruban NavaruparajahChairperson

Anupriya RamrajVice-Chairperson

Saravana VijayanCommittee & Volunteers:

Decoration: Indhubala Srinivasan, Anupriya, Selvi Janarthanan, Maheswari, Sudheer Padinchara, Bala Ganesan

Front Desk: Bagawathy Rajagopal, Vani Seshachalam, and Geeta SridharTicket Collecting: Anu Venkataraman, Josephine PaulrajProjector: Ramraj Thanapandian, Raja, Sridhar SrinivasanStage: Ruban Navaruparajah, Anupriya Ramaraj, Moorthy Venkatraman,

Gunasekaran Ekambaram, Pradeepan Thamodharampillai, Guna Duraisingam, Victor Paulraj

BackStage: Subothini Balasingam, Denix AnbiahFood: Sundararajan Pasupathy, Visvanathan, Ravindaran Ramaraj,

Srinivasan Pakshirajan, Balakrishnan Radhakrishnan, Senthil Chidambaram, Sala Chidambaram, Arun Subbiah, ShanmugaSundaram Maduraiveeran, Karthikeyan Ghandhi

Acoustics: SaravanaVijayan Velu, Sathya Sivakumaran, Vijay Krishnakumar, Sam Bernet

Photo: Anand Tiwari, Mahesh, Suresh VenukandhanVideo: Sankar Ramaseshan, Krishnan Saikrishnan, Thiagarajan

RamachandranBrochures Murugesu VinayagamoorthyFlyers Indhubala SirinivasanUsherers Jawahar Velayutham, Swaminathan MahalingamWrap Up Venkatesh Vasudevan, Raju Natarajan, Maragathavel Velusamy,

Krish Balaji, Santhana Krishnan, Ashok SrinivasanSponsor Collection:

Sudararajan Pasupathy, Anupriya Thanapandian, Saravana Vijayan, Denix Anbiah, Visvanathan Palanisamy

Please Visit us Atwww.sactamil.org

Sacramento Tamil Mandrum (STM) warmly welcomes you this evening to celebrate Tamil New Year 2009 – an evening to remember. The theme for this evening is “Sabash Sariyaana Potti” - an opportunity for the Tamil community to display their competitivehidden talents. We thank the event coordinators and participants who went through the rigorous practice that culminated in this evening’s program.

STM is a non-profit, non-political organization established to further Tamil culture in and around Greater Sacramento Area. We are proud to say that our Mandrum functions without any membership fee. The funds collected by means of entrance fees and sponsorship are the only financial resources to conduct this grand event, the summer picnic and the fall program.

As STM is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, we are contemplating to expand the Mandrum’s activities. We are planning on starting a Tamil book club to strengthen the Tamil culture among us. We are also planning on a Volunteer Day – to contribute back to the community we are living in. The Mandrum is very active and vibrant mainly because of the support from Tamil patrons like you. Please let us know how you feel about these new activities and how you might be able to contribute. Send your comments and valuablesuggestions to feedback@sactamil.org

We wish you a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Now sit back, relax and enjoy the show.

Word from the Board...

TRUSTEE BOARDArjun Josieph TrusteeBagavathy Rajagopal TrusteeGanapathy Murugesh TrusteeSubothini Balasingam Trustee

BOARD MEMBERSRuban Navaruparajah PresidentAnupriya Ramraj SecretarySaranava Vijayan TreasurerDenix Anbiah MemberVisvanathan Palanisamy MemberIndhubala Srinivasan MemberSundararajan Pasupathy Member

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Thamil Thai Vaazththu

Board Introduction

President speech

Jathiswaram ‐ Bharatanatyam 

By Kalanjaji Dance StudentsCoordinators:  Kalai Pillay

Shivani Pillay, Richa Rajan, Raji Venkat, Sonali Gupta, Kieran Long‐Iyer, Uma Desai

Thillana ‐ Bharatanatyam 

By Nritta Dance SchoolChoreographer: Anushya  Rajendra

Vyshika Rajendra, Angani Vigneswaran, Shivani Parikh, Anjali Patel, Radika Patel, Prashanthi Reddy, Kalsha Reddy,  Maria John

Bharathavilas Song

By CTA StudentsCoordinators: PapaRajam, Anitha Karthik, Gayathiri Mahesh,  Usha Jawahar and 

Radha Rajagopal

Prinitha Senthil, Shaakhini Satchi, Anishka Venkatesh, Easha Narayanan, Tarun Venkat, Hana Sarosh, Sripradha Srinivasan, Niraj Nadarasa,

Kriti Vasudevan, Sanjana Saikrishnan, Akilan Karthikeyan, Viswesh Vancheeswaran, Shruti Mahesh, Nikitha Sundaram, Abirami Ramakrishnan, Sanjana 

Anand, Mani Narendra Pandian, Avanti Ramraj, Vikram Balaji 

Pallikoodathil Kalaada

By BalVihar Tamil StudentsCoordinators: Vinacs Vinayagamoorthy

Kaarthika Saravanavijayan, Preethi Raju, Samhita Govindan, Pooja Senthil, Supraja Srinivasan, Sumana Shanmugendran, Vikram Balaji, Sahana Santhanakrishnan, Arvinth Sivakumar, Ashwin Thiagarajan, Karthik Raju, Anjanaa Senthil, Varna Vasudevan, Kajan Moorthy, Manu Prakasam, Sandesh Saravanavijayan, Nikhilesh Gautham Kumar, Swarup Ashok, Trisha Maragathavel, Madhumitha Mohanraj, Shivani Pillay, Adithi Benush, Adarsh Sivakumar, Akilan Murugesan, 

Brinthy Moorthy, Shibani Narendra, Nivedhana Ashok, Adith Srivatsa, Aathavan Jeyarajah, Trina Santhanakrishnan, Adharsh Thiagarajan, Anshul Mohan, Harini, Shreya Sirinivasan, Shreya 

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Dance ‐ Boys vs Girls

Coordinators: Malathy KapaliSidhaarth Parsons, Naveen Gunendran, Adith Arun, Shishir Reddy

Risheek Pingili, Muthu Chidambaram, Medha Aiyah, Teevyah Yuva Raju, Megha Dontha, Shreya Balaji, Anusha Subramanian, Akshara Legala

Western Beats vs Nattupura Heats

Coordinators: Aarthi Rajesh & Nithya Vasanth Harish Vasanth, Achyuta Ramesh, Praveen Gunendran, Rohit Srivats, 

Nivetha Nadarasa, Shantoshi Tamilseran, Anishka Mangrulkar, Shriya Nagulapally, Ajith Senthil, Akilan Karthikeyan, Kobish Balakrishnan, Adarsh Dhanapalan, Rhitishah Yuva Raju, Visha Arun, Nikitha Sundaram, 

Shruti Mahesh, Nidhi Dontha

Boys Vs Girls ‐Maaperum Nadana Potti 

Coordinators: Anithakumari Balakrishnan, Jayanthi Santhanakrishnan, Anbuselvi Radjendirane and special thanks to Geetha ThiagarajanOviya Balakrishnan, Kavin Balakrishnan, Trina Santhanakrishnan

Nithila Radjendirane, Bhuvaneshkumar Radjendirane, Nikhilesh Gautham Kumar, Samhita Sandhya Kumar, Sreeker Avadhanam, Praveen Swaminathan, Adith Srivatsa, Neha Seshadri, Nikhil  Gupta, Abhilasha Ramesh, Neel Ramesh, Ashvika Nair, Adharsh  Thiagarajan, Shayana Venukanthan, 

Nayana Venukanthan

Game Show

Coordinator: Meenakshi Ramamoorthi (Meena)

Sanjana, Divya, Adith, Karthikeyan, kumaraguru, Meena.

Nattupura Kalaikal. (Folk Dances of Tamilnadhu)

Coordinator: Papparajam Swaminathan, Jayanthi SivaKaarthika Saravanavijayan, Darshana Prakasam, Preethi Raju, Samhita Govindan , Pooja Senthil, Supraja Srinivasan, Sumana Shanmugendran, Vikram Balaji, Sahana Santhanakrishnan, Arvinth 

Sivakumar, Ashwin Thiagarajan, Manu Prakasam, Karthik Raju, Anjanaa Senthil, Varna Vasudevan,Kajan Moorthy, Sandesh Saravanavijayan, Nitin Nagaraj, Nikhilesh Gautham Kumar, Swarup Ashok, Trisha Maragathavel, Madhumitha Mohanraj, Shivani Pillay, Adithi Benush, Adarsh Sivakumar, Nisha Nagaraj, Akilan Murugesan, Brinthy Moorthy, Shibani Narendra, Nivedhana Ashok, Adith 

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Maduraiya illa Manamaduraiya?

Coordinator: Chitra Srinivasan , Vanitha Saravanavijayan, SriDevi Maragathavel,  and Ramya Balakrishnan.

Karthika Saravanavijayan, Sumana Shanmugendran, Dhriti Mehta, Sweta ParijaTrisha Maragathavel, Supraja Srinivasan, Sandesh Saravanavijayan, Aathavan Jayaraja , Amirta 

Balakrishnan, Priyanka Senthil, Rahul Boyapati, Sowmya Gudapati

Makkalai Ananthamaga Vaipathu ‐Kaatra, Mazhaya, Veyila ?  ‐

Competition  between wind, sun and rain.Coordinators: Savithri Bala, Srividya Saikrishnan,Vasudha Anand

Savithri Bala, Srividya Saikrishnan, Vasudha Anand, Ramya Raj, Anupriya Ramraj, Rahul Iyer, Shreya Iyer, Vishal Saikrishnan, Sanjana Saikrishnan, Keshav Anand, Sanjana Anand, Avanti Ramraj, 

Ashwin Bondada, Akshay Srinivasan, Amritha Srinivasan

Jallikattu Potti Vizha

Choreography: Jayanthi SridharJaisree Sundaram, Pavan Murugesh, Surya Sundhar, Shashank Sudheer, Abirami Nathan, Guru 

Nathan, Pooja Senthil, Savan Tiwari, Naina Tiwari, Sriya Ravi, Madhumitha Mohanraj, Shakuntala Shankar, Mohanraj, Sudheer, Anand Tiwari, Shanmugha 

Sundaram

Kids Dance

Coordinator: YoGeetha, Jannani, Swapna Kaleeshwaran,Krishni Satchi, Dhivya Valluvan, Ahalya Valluvan, Shayana Venukanthan, Nayana Venukanthan, Anjali Suthahar, Shainika Mohan, Priyanka Mohan, Brinthy Moorthy, Nivetha Nadarasa, Keerthi Chidella, Sherya Nagunuri, Sumedha Suresh, Bhoojaa Jawahar, Kritui Kapoor, Anvitha Chiuthada, 

Rohan Arcot, Sreeja Maradana

Ilam Puyalgal

Coordinator: Thulasi SairamJaiyeshri Gopal, Haripriya Gopal, Vaishnavi Kothi, Avni Nadar, Anu Tresa Antony, Alisha John, Ann 

Mary Abraham, Anjana Senthil, Aethi Bobbala, Shivani Bobbala, Meghna Bhatt, Sonakshi Tyagi, Ishani Tyagi, Yasha Chaubey, Sahana, Santhanakrishnan, Preethi 

Raju

TAMIL NEW YEAR PROGRAM 2009 – EVENT LISTVote of Thanks

By Anupriya Ramraj

Special 10th Anniversary Event

By Trustees, Ex‐Board Members & Current Board Members

Folk Vs Hip‐Hop dance

Choreography ‐ Jayanthi Sridhar and Sravanthi Sridhar.Teenagers: Varna Vasudevan, Tanvi Jayaraman, Abhi, Divya Manohar, Jeta Kumaravel, Vineetha 

Ramesh, Bhargav, Ashwin Sathya, Alagu Senthil, Vignesh Mohan, Sairam, Ashwin Ravi

Ladies:‐ Anitha Sudheer, Sivapriya Segaren, Anuja Sundar, Radhika Murthy, Saumya Kotha, Sudha Maradana, Indu Nambiar, Vani Kumar, Rajini Dasyam

SLIM DOG OLLIYANARS

Choreography: Anithakumari Balakrishnan, Anbuselvi Radjendirane and  Jayanthi Santhanakrishnan

Anithakumari Balakrishnan, Anbuselvi Radjendirane, Jayanthi Santhanakrishnan, Anuradha Raghunathan, Mangai Dhandapani, Indu Kalyanaraman, Merlin Devasagayam, Srividya Srinivasan, 

Rajkumari Preetham, Lakshmi Ravisankar

Nannare‐Thom‐Nannare : Classical‐Vs/n‐Folk

Coordinator & Choreography: Selvi JanarthananSelvi Janarthanan, Indhubala Srinivasan, Pappa Rajam, Jayanthi Sivakumar, 

Divya Gopalakrishnan, Rekha Arvind 

Spielberg in Panagal park 

Coordinator:  Sam Venkat 

Aarthi Rajesh, Sowmiya Ramkarthik, Swamy Vasudevan, Vikram Sivasubramanian, Divya Gopalan, Anuradha Raghuraman, Venkat Jeyaraman, Sam Venkat

Jillalankadi Jilpanza

By Ashok SrinivasanAshok Srinivasan, Vinacs Vinayagamoorthy, Thiagarajan Ramachandran, Krish Balaji, SaravanaVijayan Velu, Santhana Krishnan, Raju Natarajan, 

Govindan K, Maragathavel Velusami