Kavithlaya's production with Kamal Haasan

Kavithalaya, the production house run by Kamal’s mentor K Balachandar has expressed its desire to produce a movie casting Kamal Haasan. According to Balachandar’s son-in-law Kandasamy, ’it’s our longtime desire to produce a magnum opus with Kamal. We are searching for an apt script. The film would set a new trend in the Indian film industry.’He added: ’We want to escalate Kamal to global audiences like our ’Muthu’ did for Rajini. We hope that our forthcoming venture would fulfill it.’ Technorati Tags: K. Balachandar, Kamal Haasan, Hot, Pictures, Actor, Kollywood, Goss...

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Rajinikanth shoots in Prashanth's place

The shooting for the Rajinikanth starrer ’Endhiran’ which is directed by Shankar is progressing in and around Chennai.In spite of heavy rains, director Shankar has opted to go ahead with the shooting on Wednesday. Amidst tight security, the crew is reportedly shooting at a jewelery house owned by actor Prashanth which is located in T. Nagar, Chennai. Since Aishwarya Rai is busy shooting for the Mani Ratnam movie, scenes involving Rajinikanth are being shot.Shooting for the movie is on at a rapid pace. The movie stars Aishwarya Rai opposite Rajinikanth and is produced by Ayngaran International. The film has musical score by A R Rahman.Interestingly,...

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Shriya Saran as Akshay Kumar’s heroine

Shriya Saran never ceases to surprise you at regular intervals. What if her film with Kollywood stars like Ajit and Dhanush did not happen? Well she has signed up to play Bollywood Box-Office baron Akshay Kumar’s heroine in Deepa Mehta directed Komagata MaruSpeaking from Malaysia, where she is shooting for Sarathkumar’s K.S Ravikumar directed Jaggubhai, an excited Shriya said: “I’m on top of the world, as I ’m doing Deepa Mehta’s epic Komagata Maru. Deepaji is my favourite director and it is a great honour to do a film with her." Remember Shriya had done Deepa Mehta’s last film What’s Cooking. Komagata Maru is an epic film based on a true story...

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Nakul and Sunaina together again

AGS Entertainment, which has rendered blockbusters including ’Thiruttu Payalae’ and the ’Jayam’ Ravi starrer ’Santhosh Subramaniyam’, will be commencing their next film titled ’Masilamani’ soon.The movie brings together the success couple Nakul and Sunaina together again. The two had teamed up to render a hit in ’Kadhalil Vizhunthein’. R N R Manohar has penned the story, screenplay, dialogues and will be directing ’Masilamani’.Santhanam, Srinath, Delhi Ganesh and Meera Krishnan are also in the cast. D Imman scores the music, while cinematography is by Vettri.Says Manohar, ’ it is about a poor young boy falling in love with a rich girl. She learns...

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I am happy with what I do - Trisha

It sure is a rarity for actresses to be content with what they have. Every single artiste aspires to be part successful projects continuously. Trisha seems to be difference from the rest here.She says with conviction, ’I am satisfied with what I am doing currently in Tamil and Telugu’’It is true that I listened to many Hindi scripts. But none of them impressed me. I am not ready to act in a Hindi movie just to prove my presence in Bollywood. At the same time, my hands are full here and I am happy,’ says Trisha.Confirming that she is going to act with Vishal, Trisha says, ’after ’Adavari Mataluku Ardhale Verulae’, I will be part of a film that...

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Surya's Vaaranam Aayiram movie review

Movie: Vaaranam Aayiram Director: Gautham Vasudev Menon Music: Harris Jayaraj Cast: Surya, Sameera, Divya, SimranGautham Vasudev Menon is back with a film straight from the heart. The director, who believes in meaningful cinema, is trying to push the cinematic envelope with Vaaranam Aayiram. The film is clearly meant for niche audiences, and not for mass viewing. It is a tribute to the director’s dad, who passed away last year. The treatment and narration are purely autobiographical with most of it taken from real life incidents laced with cinematic liberties. In a nutshell, the film is personal and deals with the deep bonding...

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Priyamani in bikini as Nayan!

National award winner Priyamani is moving towards commercial films and glamour roles. She is presently busy with the Telugu film Dhrona, starring alongside Nitin. There is a strong buzz in the industry that Priyamani will go bold in this film and don a bikini, considered a taboo in the Tamil industry until Nayanthara featured in it for Billa. Priyamani has another important and prestigious project in her kitty - Ravan. The lady is expected to join the Ravan team in January 2009.Speaking of Ravan, Prithviraj, who plays an important role in the film, is now busy working out for a six-pack abs. Prithvi’s portion will also be shot from January onwards....

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Rajnikanth joining BJP?

According to sources, both of them discussed the latest political situation in the country. Advani was accompanied by his close friend Cho S Ramasamy, the state BJP president L. Ganesan and Former union minister Thirunavukkarasar.The meeting bears immense significance in the present context, where Rajnikanth is under immense pressure to enter politics.Later Advani admitted that they had had a long discussion about the current political affairs and that he had requested Rajini to extend his political support to the BJP in the forthcoming General Elections. But, sources reveal that though Rajini refused to give his support to any particular party...

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Vaaranam Aayiram a fantastic opening

Gautham Vasudev Menon’s Vaaranam Aayiram, has taken a fantastic opening even before release!The film’s advance booking opened on Wednesday (Nov 12) in Chennai’s 10 screens and the response has been awesome.At Sathyam Cinemas, the 936- seater big screen has been sold out for the first five days, in Inox they have given 9 shows during the weekend and it is sold out for the first six days, a new record!Sangam, Abirami, Albert and Shanthi too it has been sold out for the weekend. In Mayajaal, the film will have 36 shows daily and almost 65 percent of the tickets for the weekend have been sold out!Most of the bookings in all theatres are through the...

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Harris Jayaraj split up from the director Gautham

In a shocking development, noted music composer Harris Jayaraj has announced his split with director Gautham Vasudev Menon! Harris, through his PRO Nikhil Murugan has issued a statement saying that he is parting ways with Gautham.Gautham and Harris debuted together in the 2001 romantic musical Minnale, which had outstanding music score. The pair established themselves as one of the most popular director-music director combination with foot tapping music in films like- Khakka Khakka, Vettayadu Vilayadu, Pachaikili Muthucharam and their latest Vaaranam Aayiram.Now, Harris in his statement issued to the press says-" I have a very good respect for...

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Most eagerly awaited Tamil Television Ratings (TRP) are out.

The most eagerly awaited Diwali day (Oct 27) Tamil Television Ratings (TRP) are out.Remember the fireworks when Rajinikanth’s Chandramukhi on Sun TV clashed with Ajith’s Billa telecast by Kalaignar TV in the evening 6 pm prime time Diwali day slot?The winner by a mile is Rajinikanth’s Chandramukhi, which got a whopping TRP of 20.82, while Billa was way behind with 4.28, according to TAM, the authentic Mumbai based television rating agency. The surprise element was that nobody expected Billa to perform so badly when pitched against Chandramukhi.As per the ratings on Diwali day, at number two was Kamal Hassan classic Vettaiyadu Vilayadu a re-telecast on Sun TV in the 11am slot which got a TRP rating of 11.29. Meanwhile at the same time on Kalaignar TV, Arjun’s Marudhamalai got an impressive...

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A new "Lal-Kamal combination"

’Ulaga Nayagan’ Kamal Hassan has always expressed his interest to work with Malayalam superstar Mohanlal. In 2000, he invited Mohanlal to play the role of a psychiatrist in his box-office winner Thenali, but Mohanlal politely declined the offer. Eventually, the role went to Malayalam actor Jayaram.Again in 2006, there were reports that these acting legends might come together with Keertichakra II, a sequel of Keertichakra (2006) directed by Major Ravi. Unfortunately, it never came true! "Good things happen over time, great things happen all at once." Well, the fans will now lucky be enough to witness their much-awaited "Lal-Kamal combination"...

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Kamal Hassan's Marmayogi shelved!

The latest news doing the rounds in Tamil film industry is that the much talked about big budget venture Marmayogi by Kamal Hassan has been shelved.Pyramid Saimira who were to jointly produce it with Rajkamal International, is reported to have pulled out of the project due to lack of funds. According to an insider, Pyramid’s continuous flop projects has forced the company to shelve the project. Kamal requires huge money, nearly Rs 100 crores and 2 long years to complete the movie. Sources say that, Kamal is going to start a new venture Thalaivan Irukkiraan, for Gemini Films Circuit, which had made Vasool Raja MBBS earlier with Kamal. An official announcement is expected shortly, once the star cast and technicians are finalized. As per the rumours it is going to be an action packed adventurous...

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Tamanna launches eScooters

Known for her roles in movies like Kalloori (Tamil), Kalidasu (Telugu) and Happy Days (Telugu), Tamanna is a rising star in both Tamil and Telugu film industries. Her current films under production include Ananda Thandavam (also referred to as Aananda Thaandavam), Ayan and Padikathavan in Tamil and Konchem Ishtamga Konchem Kashtamga in Telugu. This young promising actor was recently chosen as the brand ambassador for BSA Motors’ electric scooter (the BSA escooter) an environmentally-friendly two-wheeler which runs on rechargeable batteries and is relatively pollution-free. Aimed at teenagers and 20 somethings, the escooter’s brand ambassador...

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Shamili Debutes in the Telegu film Opposite to Siddharth

Now its the time of Shamili, that the child actress turn into the lead or Mature actress after they have grown up. Shamili going to debute as a heroine against Siddharth in a Telegu film. Shamili is the sister of Shalini - Wife of Ajith Kumar and also sister of Richard. This hot girl was approached by many directors. But now only Shamili gave her word. Now Shamili is going to act in the debut director in Telugu Anand Ranga. And Siddharth is the hero in the film. The film will start its shooting on the 1st week of October which will be produce by DVV Dhannya under the banner of Universal Media.Any way the film industry is looking the debute film...

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Shriya's Hollywood dreams go bust

The Other End Of the Line was the film which Shriya was depending a lot, her debut film in Hollywood. The film produced by Ashok Amritraj which released in US last Friday has bombed miserably at the box-office and the reviews too has been scathing. The film made on a shoe-string budget of $ 2.5 million (Rs 12.5 crore), could gross only $ 57, 000 (approximately Rs 28 lakhs) from 91 screens in its opening weekend.A leading US distributor of Tamil films says: "Shriya’s Rajnikanth film Sivaji collected almost four times this amount in its opening weekend from lesser number of screens!" The failure of the film has Shriya now looking more eagerly at...

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A new gossip about Bhavana

Actress Bhavana had been continuously buzzed as she was in love with Actor Nithin. More than their love there was even rumours that they planned to marry at a temple.In recent times for outdoor shootings Bhavana is sleeping with Nithin in one room.Actress Bhavana is altogether telling different answer for sleeping together in a room. According to her that true friends can sleep together, if someone asks idiotic questions about this issue she had been firing them.Hope both of them sleeping???Technorati Tags: Bhavana, Hot, Pictures, Sexy, Actress, Kollywood, Goss...

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Tamanna Revealed Her Love Life In Press Meet

Tamanna, the milky white beauty of south Indian is all set to make it big when her film Ayan will release which has Tamil hearth throb Surya Sivakumar in the lead. All arrangements are being made to release this movie by November last week or December first week.Meanwhile, recently in a brief press meet the gorgeous babe has revealed that she has not time for love in her busy life and is happy that she has not been bitten by the love bug.But revealed her passion to feature with actor Vijay and also hinted that her dream boy will be somewhat like Vijay and Surya mix. Technorati Tags: Tamanna, Hot, Pictures, Sexy, Actress, Kollywood, Goss...

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