The film was patently remade in Hindi titled ‘No Entry’ and featured Anil Kapoor, Fardeen Khan with Salman Khan playing the role of Livingston. The film was again remade in Tamil as ‘Happy Husbands’ that was a good hit.
Obviously, the remake now goes to Kannada with the same title of ‘Happy Husbands’. The film has Ravichandran in lead role and Monicka stars opposite him in female lead role. The rest of star-casts are yet to be finalized.
Audio have been launched and the music is doneby G.V.Prakash Kumar. Recently it was observed that the post production of the film has come to an end and it is expected to be released for diwali.
Enjoy this diwali with VA quarter cutting.
In order to avoid the consistent pressured being applied on him by the Bank to repay the loan he had taken in making ‘Guru Sishyan’. Making full use of his plight, Sun Pictures has moved in for the kill and is said to be demanding Shakti that he sell off the distribution and release rights of ‘Kaavalan’ to them. Still to forget the ‘bitter’ experience when Sun Pictures released his ‘Vettaikaran’, Vijay is reportedly against selling the rights to Sun Pictures. It is, however, believed that Sun Pictures might have the final laugh in the matter!
But now it seems she has changed her strategies and has signed this deal. The actress was not available for comment but sources close to the textile shop says: “ Nayantara is the biggest brand in all the four major southern states, where we have showrooms. She will be endorsing our Diwali 2010 collections of designer sarees and with the
Venkat Prabhu conforms that Trisha will pair up with Ajith in the flick and Ajith will have a new look for the film and it would reveal on the first day of shooting.
They have planed to shot the film with in India at Bangalore, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai. And the director says in his social network page that the film will surely hit screens on Thala Birthday(May 1st).
Simbu(STR) who had been shooting for Poda Podi in london for more than a month returned to Chennai for his Vaanam shoot last week, but climatic change and time difference forced the actor to catch up with cough and cold along with a jet lag. And STR had to be rushed to the hospital when his body temp rose to 105 Fahrenheit. The star was sick that Simbu had asked his fans to pray for him as he was so unwell that he couldn’t even type on his mobile phone.
Now Simbu has finally gotten rid of his illness and bounced back into action and thanked all his fans for their prayers, love and affection . The young star when enquired about his health said Recovering,will join shoot from tom. Had 105 temp,fever has reduced.Just a bit body pain.And thank u all for ur prayers love n affection
Simbu has now joined the shoot for his forthcoming flick Vaanam, his first day of shoot with Anushka.
Also Simbu(STR) has neatly planned his upcoming releases with Vaanam expected for Nov or Dec first week, Podaa podi for feb 14th , Vettai mannan for summer vacation and Vaaliban for Diwali 2011.
Any guesses what the headline is trying to explain? Well, these are the names of the characters played by Prithiviraj, Genelia and Prabhu Deva in Santosh Sivan’s ‘Urumi’, respectively.
Says Prithviraj, who is also one of the producers of the period film, “Santosh Sivan narrated me the script long back and things are finally in place now. It is an intense story with a universal appeal”.
Besides Prithviraj, Prabhu Deva and Genelia, the film also has top stars like Vikram, Vidya Balan, Tabu, Nithya Menon, Jagathy Sreekumar and Amol Gupte. Also, more than 40 British actors are there in the film.
“We managed to bring many big names together thanks to the script. Everyone will have enough importance be it a full fledged role or a special appearance. Santosh Sivan is ensuring that the film is shaping up well”, Prithviraj adds.
Poornima’s notable films are Ente Mamattikkuttiyammakku, Oomakkuyil, Karyam Nissaram, Marakkillorikkalum, Prasnam Gurutharam, Ithiri Neram Othiri Karyam, Njan Ekananu, Padayottam, Manjil Virinja Pookkal, Thanga
Vijay is busy with his upcoming films. In this way he is undertaking his next film with director Vikram Kumar. He has also got the advance for this film. After the big hit of yaavarum nalam, the director Vikram Kumar is in anxiety to do a different and good film in tamil.
For his thought chiyaan Vikram seem to be apt and they planned to do a film named 24. But unfortunately their plan has been dropped down at the early stage itself.
At this time Vijay has accepted to do a film for A.M.Rathinam. When Vikram Kumar went and told the script to Vijay he rejected it. Later on Vikram Kumar astonished him with a new story, which was accepted with full satisfaction and he has also got the advance for this film. After the release of Vellayudham this is going to be Vijay’s next film. P.C. Sriram wii be doing the the cinematography for this film.
Heroine of the film Sindhu Sama Vali, Anakha is frieghtened after so much issues by the film, and decided to change her name again to Amala Pal. She came into the film industry as Amala Pal, and acted in two film. But unfortunately both the film ended up with a loss and she was not recognized.
Later she got a chance in Sindhu Sama Vali and changed her name to Anakha ,inorder to come up in her career from this film. Now because of the problem the film is facing she is again going to change her name to Amala Pal.
The most happening hero Karthi is playing a lead role in ‘Siruthai’ a remake of Telugu hit Vikramarkudu. And Karthi would be seen playing a dual role in Siruthai for the first time. The film has Karthi enacting dual roles as a tough IPS officer and other one as a petty thief , the total contrast.
The posters released by the makers recently had a very different looking Karthi, sporting a Cop get-up.
Karthi on confirming this said, “Yes. I play dual role in this film. Both characters are strikingly different from each other and give me ample scope for performance. As an actor, I am really happy to take up the challenge in Siruthai”.
Karthi will be romancing Tamannah in the movie after their successful combination in Paiyaa. Santhanam will be donning the comedy track in Siruthai after his much-appreciated performance in Boss Engira Baskaran.
Cinematographer-turned-director Shiva is directing this film while K E Gnanavel Raja of Studio Green is producing the film.
It’s time to move on for Pandiraj. After two making two films set in rural background and winning a National Award, the director is now getting ready for his next venture, which is a city-based subject.
“Yes, I am entering the city for the first time. Though the film will be in an urban background, there will be no compromise on realism”, says the proud maker of ‘Pasanga’ and ‘Vamsam’.
Throwing more light on his third venture, he says, “The three National Awards won by ‘Pasanga’ has made me more responsible. So I am now working extra time on the script to ensure that there is no lag anywhere”.
Saying a big no to infusing glamour in his film, Pandiraj says, “My films would never have glamour. I don’t think skin show is essential to make a movie click at the box office. Story should be the main attraction”.
Meenakshi is happy for bagging a meaty role in ‘Mandhira Punnahai’, in which she is sharing the screen space with director Karu Pazhaniappan. “It is a beautiful character”, she says.
“I play Nandhini, the woman of today, who believes in equality of genders. She works in an automobile firm and she is responsible and self-dependent. I just loved acting in the film”, she says.
On the storyline of ‘Mandhira Punnahai’, she says, “Though I can’t reveal much about the script, all that I can say is the film mainly revolves around two persons and their emotions”.
Heaping laurels on Karu Pazhaniappan, he says, “As the protagonist and the director, he doubly ensures that everything is well with the film. His narration is so simple yet the characterization is so strong”.
Director A Venkatesh while speaking to the media said that he is getting fed up with commercial formula films. The audio launch function of the film Vallakottai which has Arjun and Hari Priya in the lead role was held recently.
Sarath Kumar in the presence of Ramanarayanan released the audio CD which was received by Parthiban. Director Venkatesh who has directed this film while speaking on this occasion said,” All the films I have directed so far were commercial films.
There use to be hero opening song, punch dialogues, sudden songs and fighting scenes in all these films. Now I am fed up with these masala film formulas.
But in Vallakottai I have tried to make this film without the usual commercial stuff. Though this formula is not there, it will be still entertaining. Dheena has composed melody songs. The famous Telugu cinematographer Anjanayalu is being introduced in Tamil through this film. This high budgeted film is being produced by T T Raja.”
I think the main reasons behind the kollywood’s eye on making heavy budget movies these days are due to the directors are trying the innovative ways to catch the attention of the audiences across the globe and another reason is the producers are not getting compromise on the quality of production values these days. The other could be the makers mainly concentrating in making the film in more than one language by not bothering about the budget and spending lavishly without thinking much about later come box office revenues. On the other hand, the producers are thinking that making the high budget movies with the big star heroes like Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, Ajith, Vikram, Vijay, Surya could only make their film success at the box office with record breaking collections and not looking back to invest on these star heroes films at any cost.
If we have a look on heavy budget films from the past few years, we have seen Vikram and Shriya starrer Susi Ganeshan’s ‘Kanthaswamy’ that has created immense hype was made with a record budget of Rs.30 crores at that time in the Indian Film Industry. But the film was bombarded at the box office making the investors pockets empty
Then it comes to our mind the super star Rajinikanth’s film ‘Shivaji’ which was said to be India’s most expensive film to date reportedly made with a heavy budget of Rs. 65 crores, directed by India’s most luxurious director Shankar. Though the film attracted the audience with its high production values before its release, it was remained as average hit at the box office but luckily to the benefit of the producer, though his much hyped film ‘Baba’ collapsed at the box office, Rajini filled the producers’ pockets by giving back his favoured amount by giving a hope that his films will have minimum guarantee all over the world.
Kamal Haasan’s movies are nothing far behind to Rajini’s films. His Dasavatharam was said to be enormous budget film ever made in the tamil film industry at that time with a massive budget Rs 70 crores! Though it has grossed opening collections at the box office for Kamal’s action in 10 different roles, it was not recorded as block buster as expected before.
In recent times, following the bollywood production cost of Hrithik ‘Kites’, veteran filmmaker Maniratnam made a trilingual film ‘Raavanan’ with a whopping budget Rs. 120 crores and the expectations on the film has touched the sky from the date of its launch and the film is sold at Rs. 350 crores. But after the release, the audiences were deeply disappointed with the making of Maniratnam and the film was badly bombarded at the box office making the producers’ kitty empty.
It is also well known to every one that how Vijay’s much anticipated recent release ‘Sura’ that was made with high budget was washed away worstly at the box office with no signs of screening the film even after first week of its release.
In the same path of Raavanan, this year’s yet to release India’s ever never made heavy budget trilingual film ‘Endhiran’ starring Rajinikanth and bollywood queen Aishwarya Rai in the lead which is being made in Tamil, Hindi and Telugu by ace director Shankar is creating pre release hype among the audiences all over the world. It has been made with a record budget of nearly 190 crores that could not touched by any one in the industry. But the big question in every ones mind is that how come it will gain at the box office?
We can say that kollywood is celebrating the success of small-budget films this year. Though said to be small budgeted not much expected films, they are gaining high at the box office and remaning as hits. They include Siva Manasulla Sakthi, Yaavarum Nalam, Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu, Pasanga, Nadodigal, Angadi Theru etc in recent times.
There are even some other heavy budget films in line for the coming months like Kamal Haasan’s ‘Manmadhan Ambu’ with KS Ravikumar, Surya’s ’7 am Arivu ‘with the Director of Murugadoss, Ajith’s much anticipated ‘Mankatha’ Vijay’s ‘Kaavalan’ etc.
Finally we can say that as the production costs of films are elevating and the theatrical screens lessening to just a few weeks, it is becoming exceedingly difficult for the producers and distributors to make sure that their films have a successful opening in the theatres.
Who ever may be the hero the producers are investing on them and what ever the film they are making with a high or low budget, only the high production values and heavy budgets cannot make the film to sustain in the industry and record as hit. If the makers have right content with a mix of all commercial elements making it in a creative style with an apt hero for that, the audiences are ready to accept the film with warm welcome at any time.
Singeetham Sreenivasa Rao who had directed Kamal Haasan starrers Mumbai Express, Kadhala Kadhala, Michael Madhana Kamarajan and Pesum Padam has also directed other Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi films.
Now he is directing a film about Jesus Christ. This film will be centered on the young life of Jesus Christ.
This film which is to be released at the International level has Pawan Kalyan in the lead role. This film is being produced in English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam languages.
The shooting of the film was launched recently in Jerusalem. Many music composers were considered for composing the music for this film but finally Devisri Prasad was selected.
S P Charan while speaking to the media said,” I also made my debut in the music like my father. Later on I took up to film production and acting. Now I am concentrating in acting.
Initially it started in a jolly full way and then I started acting for friend’s sake. Now I am very much involved in acting. I am getting lots of offers that suit me. I am selecting the good roles and acting in them.
Many are asking me whether I will act as a hero. I am ready if the producer and director would take the risk. In the recent times, the story is only the hero.
So anybody suitable for the roles according to the story can act in it. Though I am concentrating on acting I will also concentrate in the music also. I will not leave music at any point of time. I have not stopped producing the films. I will make the announcement regarding this in due course.”
Mansoor Ali Khan while speaking to the media said,” I have so far acted in 140 films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam languages. Viyaas is directing a film titled Radham in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam.
I am donning the role of a cobbler. I have donned this role for the first time. My get up will be different. I am donning the role of the heroe’s father. Though this role is a cobbler, he is well versed in Shakespeare.
Now I am currently acting in Viruthagiri, Puli Vesham, Anubhavi Raja Anubhavi and Thillu Mullu. I am ready to produce a film again, if I get a story and the director that attract me. I don’t have the intention of directing. I also don’t want to jump into politics.”
When we heard it we didn't know whether to believe it or not. Suddenly a news broke saying 'Kalavani' Oviya has been signed for 'Manmadhan Ambu'. The film already has a big star cast comprising Kamal, Madhavan, Sangeetha and Trisha.
So where does Oviya fit in? The answer will be more surprising. News says Oviya will pair opposite Madhavan. Then what about Trisha? The news further said both Trisha and Sangeetha are pair to Kamal Haasan.
Head spinning? Don’t mind for a while and continue. Suriya is also doing a cameo in ‘Manmadhan Ambu’. Taking a break from ‘7-am Arivu’, Suriya took part in the recent schedule that happened in Kodaikanal.
With so many stars and surprises all through the making we feel ‘Manmathan Ambu’ is straight heading to the target.
Close sources say that director Venkat Prabhu is giving final touches to the story line and it is heard that Ajith gave a warm hug to the director after hearing to the final script made by the the director.
Venkat says “It was really heartwarming. Ajith sir liked the script very much.”
On speaking about the reports that came as Ajith will be seen in a new look in this film, Venkat says, “Yes, Ajith is working on it. And he would reveal it on October 20, the starting day of the shoot.”
