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What on earth is happening in Tamilnadu? Even north Indian actresses want to support ADMK! Radharavi, S S Chandran, Gundu Kalyanam, Pandian, C R Saraswati, Senthil, Vijay Kumar, Murali, Manobala, Anandraj, S V Sekhar, Radha, Ambika... half of Kodambakkam will be found in this endless list!
Simran has also joined this long list of star supporters. After she became a mother, Simran seems to have found an affinity towards 'Amma.' She chased to reach Jayalalitha who was campaigning in Vizhupuram and expressed her support for ADMK.
With husband Deepak Bhaga by her side and her child perched on her hips, Simran is into campaigning with her family! She wants to do a campaign tour of Tamilnadu in support of ADMK candidates. Is that possible with such a small child? It's not. So, Sims will give voice for ADMK only in major towns.
Following Simran, action girl Vindhya has also joined ADMK. Vindhya also has an idea of exhibiting her martial art skills on stage as part of her election campaign.
Dance master Raghuram and his wife have also joined ADMK. Looking at the number of stars jostling to join ADMK, a media colleague commented, "Only the deceased Silk is to join!"
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Is Sarathkumar preparing to quit the DMK and launch his own party? His relationship with Karunanidhi turned cold after Dayanidhi Maran was made the Union Minister for communication.
The only thing stopping Sarath so far from not leaving DMK was that his wife Radhika and her Radaan TV is Sun TV?s biggest content provider. In fact Sun TV had always promoted Sarathkumar films and gave them top billing in countdown shows. Added to that, they purchased the satellite rights of all Sarath films at a higher rate than actual market rate.
But in politics, you have to get positions if you have to grow. Sarath realized that he will always have to play second fiddle to the Marans in DMK. Last month when his fans organized a meet in Tuticorin, they urged him to float a political party for the Nadars. Sarath tried to play it down but he was ignored within DMK when it came to selection of candidates in the Nadar majority districts of Tuticorin and Tirunelveli. Some of his fan members who were recommended by Sarath for party tickets were ignored by the party high command.
Now his fans feel that the actor has no future in DMK. They also cited the incident of superstar Vijay being called to New Delhi by Dayanidhi Maran for the release of postal stamp in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as representative of Tamilnadu. Sarath was ignored and not even called for the function! On Sunday Sarathkumar fans association members met in Chennai and took a bold and daring decision not to campaign for DMK led front in the forthcoming assembly elections.
Says A.N.Sundaresan, president of All India Sarathkumar Fans Association and the hatchet man of the actor: ?We have appealed to him not to campaign for DMK and its allies. The party had used the fan body during elections but is not willing to give any position or post to its members?. Meanwhile Sarathkumar who mysteriously disappeared for a week while the fans were peeved with DMK said: ?I will announce my decision in a couple of days keeping in view my political affiliation and feeling of my fans who made me what I am today?.
What is also bugging Sarathkumar is also the growing popularity of Vijaykanth and his brave and daring decision to fight the elections alone. Even if ?Captain? gets one or two seats he will become a hero and probably a new power centre!
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The last song of AVM?s Tirupathi an item number featuring Ajit and Laila singing a dappankoothu song number ?Keerai Vedhaippan?? was picturised at Pollachi. Now the first copy will be ready by April 6 and the film will go for censoring.
Tirupati will have over 200 prints in Tamilnadu alone as it gets ready for release on April 14. As far as Ajit is concerned this AVM film will be his biggest so far. The trade is sure that the film will take a bumper opening as there is no opposition in the same genre.
But what they are worried is that whether the film will sustain after taking an opening like all Ajit films. Added to that, will people come to watch films in the midst of election fever?
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In glamour, Charmi is a one woman army! If you look at the pic next to you, you will know why the neighboring Naidu state is all gaga over her!
Charmi started her glamour career from 'Hanuman.' Her generosity has put even producers in a quandary sometimes.
How?
After 'Hanuman,' there was always a role set aside for Charmi in almost every Telugu film being made, like the friend of the heroine, second heroine, or to do an item number in the second half of the film.
Whatever be the role, the idea behind it is... it has to be sexy! Many films have braved the journey to the shore on Charmi's charms. The latest in the list are some big films like 'Style,' 'Lakshmi' and 'Sukkalo Chandrudu' to name a few. This female tornado is also starring in Prabhudeva's 'Pournami.'
Since there is hardly any challenge any more in Andhra, Charmi's attention has turned to Tamil films. And the lucky Tamil audience will soon get a darshan of her since discussions are already on.
Charmi is still busy creating her glamour waves, but we media men have a bad habit of asking the time worn question... when do you plan to tie the knot?
With a quelling look, we were told sternly, "No marriage in the near future."
Well... this is what we expected anyway!
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Gopika is busy reviving her career in Malayalam but she hasn't exactly lost her desire to be a leading actress in Tamil too.
Unfortunately, there are two things that work against her when it comes to working in Kollywood- her refusal to do glamorous roles and the fact that she prefers to stay in Kerala. Once in a while Gopika makes an exception to the no-glamour rule. But her refusal to stay in Chennai is costing her lot of new film offers.
She used to insist that directors schedule her shootings only when she is in Chennai.
But now she has decided to relax those conditions. She is looking for a house to lease/buy in Chennai so she could concentrate in both Malayalam and Tamil.
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As elections draw near, one can see the various permutations and combinations and shifting of sides among political parties. While Vijaykanth and Karthik, both heading their respective political outifits, have declared their intention to fight the election without aligning with any political party, Rajnikanth this time is a silent spectator. No foot-in-the-mouth talk, no overt support for any party. The superstar has sent a message to his fans that they were free to vote for the party they wanted to. This has not gone down quite well with some of his fans, who want the superstar to take a clear stand on the issue. Office-bearers of some of his fans? associations, have met Chief Minister Jayalalitha and expressed their support for her party. Meanwhile, actor Vijaykumar, who recently joined the AIADMK, at a public meeting expressed his hope that Rajni would soon meet the CM and express his solidarity with her. One has to wait and watch what the superstar does.
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The Srikanth-Meera Jasmine starrer Mercury Pookkal may just be average at the box-office, but it has brought together an estranged couple. The couple had parted ways due to differences about a couple of years back. But after seeing the film where Jasmine and Srikanth, a married couple, get estranged but reconcile their differences and re-unite in the end, this real-life couple too had a change of heart and decided to get back again. The duo was felicitated at a function held in a theater where the film was being screened. Srikanth, who was present on the occasion, expressed his pleasure that cinema does bring in positive changes!
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