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Connecting R. Sarathkumar and Akon
R. Sarathkumar
Indian actor, politician and former journalist
In early 2012, he accepted Soundarya's offer for an important role in the film '' Kochadaiiyaan'', starring Rajinikanth and Deepika Padukone.
He then appeared in "India's first photorealistic performance capture film" '' Kochadaiiyaan'', co-starring Rajinikanth and Deepika Padukone.
Deepika Padukone
Three years later, she performed alongside Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif, and Pitbull for the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League.
Katrina Kaif
She performed with Akon at the closing ceremony of the 2009 Indian Premier League at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg,
R. Sarathkumar
Indian actor, politician and former journalist
The next year, he starred in Gautham Vasudev Menon's ''Pachaikili Muthucharam'', which released to positive reviews, but ended up as an average grosser.
Gautham Vasudev Menon
Following Suriya's withdrawal from ''Dhruva Natchathiram'', Menon moved on to begin a romantic thriller film with Silambarasan and Pallavi Subhash in the lead role from November 2013.
Silambarasan
Indian actor, director, writer, composer, dancer, lyricist and playback singer
After releasing a promotional version of "The Love Anthem" song in 2011, Silambarasan announced that a final version would be released thereafter and announced his desire to bring in international artists Akon and Rihanna for the venture.
Rajendar noted that the sound editor Ramji Soma and a Canadian entrepreneur Talvinder Bathh had charged Rs 12 million ($200,000) from his company and failed to return it despite promises made to sign on Akon, David Guetta and either Rihanna or Nicole Scherzinger for the project.
R. Sarathkumar
Indian actor, politician and former journalist
In 1992, he has acted in 10 films as protagonist and 2 films as antagonist including the Telugu film ''Agreement'', directed by Manivannan and P. C. Sreeram's ''Meera''.
Manivannan
Indian director, actor
Manivannan assisted Bharathiraja in a handful of films like ''Koththa Jeevithaalu'' (Telugu), '' Red Rose'' (Hindi) starring Rajesh Khanna and ''Lovers'' (Hindi).He learned trade hard and fast within two years under Bharatiraja and by 1982 made his directorial début.
Rajesh Khanna
Indian actor
Other celebrities who paid homage to him at his house after his death included Manoj Kumar, Asha Parekh, Ranjeet, Jeetendra, Rakesh Roshan, Yash Chopra, Randhir Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Dharmendra, Vinod Khanna, Asrani, Prem Chopra, Govinda, Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Himesh Reshammiya, Ram Kapoor, Mahesh Thakur, Aadesh Shrivastava and Sajid Khan.
Aadesh Shrivastava
On the international front, Shrivastava has collaborated with artists such as Akon, Julia Fordham and Wyclef Jean.
Together with Akon, he has launched an India-wide talent search on the website hitlab.com which uses music analysis technology to predict the hit potential of new songs.
J. Jayalalithaa
Indian actress, politician and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (1948–2016)
The US and several other countries sent condolences. American Ambassador Richard Verma, French Ambassador Alexandre Ziegler, Canadian High Commissioner to India Nadir Patel, Sri Lankan PresidentMaithripala Sirisena, Sri Lankan Prime MinisterRanil Wickremesinghe, Former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa, Singapore Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan and Malaysian Indian Congress Party Mourned her death. Then Malaysian Prime MinisterNajib Razak also sent his condolences.
Maithripala Sirisena
Sri Lankan politician (born 1951)
In 2015, Maithripala Sirisena criticised and called for the organisers of an Enrique Iglesias concert in Colombo to be whipped, after the behaviour of some female fans.
Enrique Iglesias
The album features collaborations with Akon, Usher, Nicole Scherzinger, Sunidhi Chauhan, Ludacris, DJ Frank E, Pitbull, Juan Luis Guerra, and his third song together with Wisin & Yandel.
