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The South Indian Film Artistes' Association (SIFAA) is an Indian organization consisting of film actors, actresses, directors and other workers from the Tamil film industry in Tamil Nadu, India. Formed in 1952, the group has organized several events due industry-related issues and, more recently, social issues. The current president of the association is actor R. Sarathkumar.

Events

2001

• Actors' Day
  On October 1, 2001, SIFAA president actor Vijayakanth declared that October 1st, which is actor Sivaji Ganesan's birthday, be observed as Actors' Day in Tamil Nadu.

2008

• Hogenakkal Water Project Hunger Strike
  During May 2008, president R. Sarathkumar organized a one-day hunger strike opposing Karnataka government's plan of the Hogenakkal Water Project and the abuse of Tamils in the state of Karnataka.

• Sri Lankan Tamil Genocide Hunger Strike
  In September 2008, Sarathkumar organized a one-day hunger strike, protesting the deaths of several Tamils in Sri Lanka and the ongoing Sri Lankan Civil War.

2009

• Dinamalar-Bhuvaneshwari Issue
  On October 7, 2009, Sarathkumar immediately launched a rally against the Tamil language newspaper Dina Malar for publishing a news article claiming Indian pornographic actress Bhuvaneshwari had exposed to police several Tamil actresses were involved in illegal sex-work. The actresses listed on the newspaper, with their photos, were Namitha, Seetha, Nalini, Anju, Shakeela, Manjula Vijayakumar and Sripriya. This was later found to be false news and the SIFAA had petitioned to Chennai Police to arrest the newspaper's editor Lenin. Lenin was later arrested in response to the SIFAA's petition and demonstration.^[1]

2010

• Film piracy
  President R. Sarathkumar and his wife Raadhika Sarathkumar, who is also the co-producer of the yet-to-be released film Jaggubhai, held a press conference on January 4, condemning the acts of pirated films being uploaded on the Internet and sales of pirated DVDs. It was discovered that an unedited full-length version of Jaggubhai, starring Sarathkumar and directed by K. S. Ravikumar had been uploaded online.^[2]

Prominent members

• R. Sarathkumar
• Radha Ravi
• Rajinikanth
• Vijayakanth
• Sathyaraj
• Cheran
• Manivannan
• Surya Sivakumar
• Vivek
• Vijayakumar
• Sripriya
• Raadhika Sarathkumar

References