IHFS Management Council – S A Nathanji
President, Indian Hall of Fame Singapore
President, Indian Movie News Readers Club (1960 – 1970)
Publisher/Managing Editor, Indian Movie News Magazine (1987 – 2014).
President, Singapore Indian Association (1981 – 1983).
Author – My Memoirs: My Unbelievable Journey With Indian Cinema (2014),
Singapore: Nation Building & Indians Legacy (2017).
Vice-President, VAANAM OTT (Malaysia).
Singapore Operations (2021-present).
President, Indian Hall of Fame, Singapore (2019 – present).
S A Nathanji was a reader of a cinema magazine and later formed a readers’ club in reverence of his favourite magazine and finally became the publisher/managing editor of INDIAN MOVIE NEWS, the household magazine of the Indians in the South East Asian region.
Through the Readers’ Club he organised many social, cultural and charity activities to get the Indian youths of the time involved in community work. The club had Vee Meng Shaw as its Patron and was the leading Indian youth organisation of the 60s in Singapore. The club’s activities greatly benefited the Indian community.
He created history when he was commissioned by PRIME12 TV in 1996 to produce the first Tamil TV serial in Singapore by his independent production house, IMN Films Pte Ltd. The story was based on the community’s social evils. Indian film stars such as Sarath Babu, Aishwani starred in the serial together with a sizable number of local artistes and the director of the 5-part serial was the popular Tamil films director G Rengarajan. It was a runaway success with highest TRP ratings of the time.
Nathanji also became an actor of many Tamil movies with the leading heroes of the time Prasanth, Riya Sen, Ramarajan, Gowthami, Senthil, Goundamani and others.
In the 80s and 90s, he slowly but surely established his contact with the leading stars of the Indian cinema when he became the owner of household cinema magazine Indian Movie News in 1987.
His personal friendship with these stars paved the way for once in a lifetime opportunity for the film fans of Singapore to enjoy mega stage shows with the Indian superstars such as the thespian of Tamil cinema the great Sivaji Ganesan, Superstar Rajinikanth, llayaraja, Padmini, Kushboo, Kamalhaasan, Radhika, Revathy, Vikram, Madhavan, Jyothika, GV, Gemini Ganesan, Director Ravikumar, Prabhu Deva, Kanada Superstar Ambreesh, Asokan, Nagesh, Jayalalitha, Jaishanker, Kunjumon Hindi actress Rekha, TMS, P Susheela, Gangai Ameran, SP Balasubhramanyam, S Janaki, P Susheela, S Chitra, Manorama, Prabhu, Satyaraj, Rupini, Goundamani, Senthil, Thengai Seenivaasan, Thangavelu, S Saroja, AVM Rajan, Pushpalatha and many more.