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Reliable sources from the Kollywood say that the pooja of the film Bheema will be on April 14th. The Bheema unit has planned to shoot the major scenes at Sri Lanka. Even though Thrisha has agreed to act opposite Vikram in the film, she is not sure whether her call sheet will permit the same as she has many Telugu films on the same date! Well! Let's see if Saamy Maami makes it once again with Chiyaan!
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Pravin Kanth's Thullal was hoping to see the light of day and here comes the light in the form of Simbhu. When Simbhu sang a peppy song about jewels, this attracted the attention of the prominent producer to come forward to utilize this song for their production and help in releasing this movie! News from reliable sources says that a Chennai based jewellery house is distributing this movie throughout Tamilnadu.
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We all know A.R. Rahman only for his music. Now prepare to accept him also as a Publicity Model. He has recently signed a contract for becoming a Publicity Model for World Space Satellite Radio. In connection with this, Shishir Lal of World Space Satellite Radio says, "Rahman's music will help us reach music lovers across the globe."
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Richa Pallod, the beautiful and bubbly actress, is not receiving offers from the south film industry. She is not disappointed by this situation but she is practicing Bharatanatyam and she is all set for her Arengetram at Chennai. She is also acting in the film Something Something Unakkum Enakkum which is sure to bring her back to the top position once again!
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It was well known that Shreya was to pair with Dhanush in the film Thiruvilayadal. But Shreya is very busy in the shooting of Shivaji opposite Rajini. Since she was not interested to give her call sheet to the producers of Thiruvilayadal till now, they are thinking of removing Shreya from the cast and are searching for another heroine for their Thiruvilayadal.
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Tabu flew into Chennai on Friday for the photo-shoot of her Gautham Menon film Vilai Uyirendraalum with Sarath Kumar and Jyothika. Remember that she had replaced Shobana who still refuses to divulge why she walked out of the film!
The photo-shoot was to take place last month, but unfortunately Tabu had to rush to US to be by the side of her ailing mother. Now she has come back as the shooting for the film has started. Gautham is shooting confrontation scenes between Tabu and Jyothika initially, as Sarath is out of the country.
Sarath will be joining the unit on Monday and will continue to shoot till the end of April when hew will break off for election campaigning. Meanwhile, Sarathkumar fans are meeting today and tomorrow in Chennai to discuss further strategies as there are rumours that the star is planning to start his own political outfit.
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Has the election fever in Tamilnadu, effected the box-office and the fan mania and buzz around new releases? It looks like there will be only two new releases for April 14th, the traditional Tamil New Year Day when normally half-a-dozen films are released.
Tirupati and Thiruttu Payile, as of now are the only films which have booked the theatres, the other two possible releases Azagai Irukirai Bayamai Irukiradhuand Pachakuthirai are still to find buyers in many areas. Added to that the trade themselves are saying not to release new films, as they find that audiences are more interested in election campaign than films.
All fans of leading stars are involved in campaigning for their favourite political party in their areas and have no time for films. It is also far more lucrative to do election work, than put up star hoardings!
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Sooner or later, someone was bound to take note of all the glamour that Meghna Naidu was lavishly displaying in Bollywood and Tollywood. For a long time it looked as if nobody bothered to take her seriously in Telugu. But, people in Kollywood have noticed her!!!
A long time ago, veteran film director T Rajendran ahd signed her up as one of the heroines of his new film 'Veerasamy'. Nobody knew what happened to it. And it looks highly unlikely that the film will ever make its way to the theatres now. Now, Meghna Naidu had been picked up by none other than Sharat Kumar as the heroine of his new film.
Why does everybody think that Sharat Kumar is a lucky hero to act with? Well, he was the hero of the film in which Nayantara made her Tamil debut. Look where she is now! A little bit of that luck might rub off on Meghna Naidu too!
'Vaitheeshwaran' is the name of the film.
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Suriya the fastest rising Tamil superstar has been snapped up by ITC to do the Sunfeast biscuit endorsement in south. Suriya is a hot star in Tamilnadu, Andhra, Kerala and Karnataka.
Remember that the Sunfeast brand ambassador for North is Shahrukh Khan. Suriya is reported to have signed the Sunfeast endorsement for a whopping amount and will be the face for the entire range of products like Milky Magic, Marie, Glucose, Golden bake and Snackies.
Says Devarajan Iyer, Sunfeast plant manager: ?Today we have about 17 percent of the Tamilnadu market but by roping in Suriya as brand ambassador, we are sure to penentrate further and reach across to a bigger market. He is hot and extremely popular in south?.
Suriya is slowly emerging as South India?s biggest star brand ambassador with Pepsi, TVS and now Sunfeast in his kitty.
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Suresh gopi's new film Pathka is going to star two heroines- Navya nair, renuka menon. Rumours have started that the two heroines had a fight with each other. It seem the clash had become so big that one of the heroines was even willing to walkout.
But Renuka menon, one of the two heroines involved in the alleged clash, denied all the stories. she says that the rumours are baseless. Renuka also adds that everything is fine on the sets.
"We are good friends," she declears.
Renuka finally haf something to celebrate as far as her career in tamil films is concerned. Her most recent film in Tamil, 'Kalabha kadalan', starring Arya in the lead, is doing spretty well in kollywood. The success hasn't yet recelted in any new offer but Renuka is very hopeful.
This time Suresh Gopi's film has more off-screen action (Real life stunt scene with the heroines).
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Viewers did wonder if like S J Suryah, Sundar C would forget his work as director once he became an actor. Fortunately, he has only 'Thalainagaram' as his acting project.
'Giri' starring Arjun and Rima Sen was Khushboo's own production. The film ran a 100 days for Arjun's action, Vadivelu's comedy and Rima's glamour. Encouraged by this, Khushboo is ready to produce her next film.
Like 'Giri,' Sundar C will direct this film, with Madhavan as hero.
Basking in the victory of 'Thambi' and 'Rang De Basanti,' Madhavan is at present shooting for 'Arya.' Bhavana is the heroine, 'Love Today' Balasekaran is the director and the film is nearing completion. After this, Madhavan is all set to work in Khushboo's production. This would be his second film under Sundar C's direction.
Khushboo is looking out for a suitable heroine for Madhavan. But even without finalizing that, the film title has been given as 'Rendu.'
Could that be significant since this is the second film Khushboo is producing?
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M.Thirumurugan the small screen director who shot to fame after Mettioli the successful soap on Sun TV is making his debut into films. The film titled Emtton Mahan has Nassar, Bharath, Gopika and Saranya in lead roles along with a host of television artists.
Thurumurugan?s team has scriptwriter Bhaskarsakthi, cameraman Sevilo Raja, art director K.Kathir and editor M.Jayakumar helping him. Nassar plays the role of an ?emtton? a typical tough-as-a-nut provision store owner who had come up the hard way in life as even loose change in his cash box is accounted. However he wants his only son played by Bharath to imbibe his qualities!
Bharath plays the central character of Emtton Mahan who is directly in contrast to his father as he is a happy-go-lucky young man who falls in love with his neighbour played by Gopika. When he finds it difficult to live up to his father?s expectations, the twist happens in the story creating a major crisis.
The film has six songs tuned by Vidyasagar and is produced by T.G.Thyagarajan of Satyajyothi films in their Silver Jubilee year. Emtton Mahan promises to be a neat family entertainer with father-son sentiments beautifully woven by the director.
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Sanjay Wadhwa the overseas distributor of Rajnikanth?s Chandramukhi has done the impossible. He has successfully sold to the Cologne based ?Rapid Eye?, the German and Turkish dubbing rights of Chandramukhi which will be screened in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Turkey!
Chandramukhi is the first ever Tamil film to be dubbed into German and Turkish. Earlier Karan Johar?s Kabhi Kushi Kabhi Gham was dubbed into German and Turkish and it was a huge success.
Remember that it will be 100 percent white German audience who do not understand English or Hindi who will be watching and enjoying our superstar Rajnikanth as a psychiatrist!
They are surely going to say- ?Achtung?.? (The war cry of Nazis which means, Look out! Take care!) Rajni is here!
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The production house that launched Cheran as an actor with `Solla Marandha Kadhai,' is into its next creation, `Maaya Kannaadi,' with Cheran as hero, writer and director. Panju Arunachalam's son P. Ar. Subramaniam, the producer of `Maaya Kannaadi,' laughs when asked why he chose to produce the film. "Cheran, of course!" he says and adds, "He's a nice human being and an extraordinary filmmaker."
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Lady luck seems to be in favour of Bhavana the bubbly girl from Trichur in Kerala. It is the biggest ever break for an upcoming heroine to be ‘Ultimate star’ Ajit’s heroine in Njan Kadavul. Remember that her Chithirem Pesuthadi is one of the hits of 2006 and she has just completed Veyil with Bharath produced by Shankar.
Bala who was away in a Theni resort writing the script of his ambitious Njan Kadavul was on the look out for a girl who can emote well. Initially he had approached Meera Jasmine but her attitude rubbed Bala the wrong way and later after he saw Chithirem Pesuthadi in Theni, he was impressed by Bhavana’s performance that he decided to cast her.
In all Bala films, the heroine has a well-etched out role and even in Njan Kadavul she is a springboard for the Ajit character’s heroism. Added producer P.L.Thenappan: “It is a performance oriented role and I think Bhavana can do full justice to the character”.
Bhavana has just completed her plus two exams in Trichur and will be starting work on a Malayalam film titled Chess with Dileep.
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At last Nana Patekar has agreed to do a film with a south Indian director but it will be in Hindi! Veteran director Bharathiraaja is now directing Patekar as the hero in a film aptly titled Bharathiraaja’s Cinema.
The Muhurat of Bharathiraaja’s Cinemawas held at the J.W.Marriott hotel in Mumbai in a grand manner with Vikram giving the first clap. Boney Kapoor and his wife Sridevi, Adlabs Manmohan Shetty, David Dhawan and other dignitaries were present at the function last Sunday (Mar 26) in Mumbai. The guest list included Padmini Kolhapure, Poonam Dhillon, Rati Agnihotri and Tamil yesteryear heroine Radha.
Bharathiraaja’s Cinema is produced by Bharathiraaja and two other NRI’s Paul.C.Pandian and Raj Rajendran with P.G. Shreekkanth as the co-producer under the banner of Therkutti Kalai Koodam cinema. The shooting will start in Mumbai Film city with the unit shifting to Goa and London later. It will be ready for release by September.
Top line technicians are part of the team like Art director Sabu Cyril, Cameraman Natraj (‘Parineeta’ fame), Raju Sundaram and Himesh Reshmayya the hot shot music director. Patekar plays a film director and the two heroines are ex-model Serena and Roopali Ganguly. But a murder takes place on the sets of Patekar’s film which leads to a twist in the tale. A CBI officer is asked to investigate which leads to some startling facts.
Says Patekar: “I signed the film as I liked my character and I’m sure that Raja sir will give the film his signature touch”.
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Pattiyal is the first big hit of 2006. Producer ‘Punnagaipoo’ Gheetha(see pic) has all the reasons to smile as ten days after its release, the film has turned profitable for its distributors in Tamilnadu. In its second week the film is still managing to do 85 to 90 percent which is remarkable.
A whisper campaign by vested interests has been unleashed against Pattiyal saying that it is not doing well, after taking an impressive opening. But clarifies Tirupur Subramaniam the distributor of the film in Coimbatore: “Pattiyal is a hit and I have recovered my investment in just 10 days. Since there is no opposition till April 14 and the holiday season around, it will have a super run”.
Arulpati the Chennai distributor of Pattiyal had paid Rs 40 Lakhs for the city rights and according to trade sources he got a share of Rs 22 Lakhs in the first week and is expected to garner another 19 Lakhs in its second week making it a profitable venture. In the next two weeks the trade expects Pattiyal to collect another Rs 25 to 30 Lakhs as there is no new Tamil release till April 14.
According to trade analysts, Pattiyal sold for Rs 4.25 Crores, theatrical rights in Tamilnadu will do business worth Rs 7 to 8 Crores in the long run and if April 14 releases do not live up to expectations then it is 'Advantage Pattiyal', which may then touch the magic figure of Rs 10 Crore!
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