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‘Thotta’ resumes

The shooting for Jeevan’s long-pending movie ‘Thotta’ commenced recently. Directed by Selvah, the movie stars Jeevan and Priyamani in the lead roles.
Selvah says, We had initially shot 15 days for the movie. After a brief delay, we have resumed the shooting. It is the story of an innocent youth, who ends up as a gangster. Jeevan is a talented actor and Priyamani surprised everyone with a stunning performance in ‘Paruthiveeran’. The two come together for ‘Thotta’.

Selvah adds,The movie would be completed in one go and would be released for Deepavali

Surya packs his bags to the US

With Vel’s shooting wrapped up and being readied for a Diwali release, Surya is ready for his dream role in Vaaranam Aayiram. This Gautham Menon film was stopped midway as Surya needed a complete transformation in the looks department, which he used to his advantage by doing Hari’s Vel meanwhile.
Gautham who had dabbled with Chennayil Oru Mazhaikaalam is now ready to continue VA from where he had left, having done all the groundwork for the remaining part of the shoot.

Surya, Divya, Sameera Reddy and the technical crew along with Gautham are traveling to the US, temporarily putting on hold the shooting of his Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikaalam starring Trisha. The crew would be in the US on a three-week schedule and Gautham intends going ahead with the shooting in full throttle to facilitate its release in February 2008.

Trisha’s wish fulfilled

Some time back, Trisha expressed the wish that she be given an opportunity to act in films that would provide fodder for her acting abilities. Her wishes are to be fulfilled now.

Moser Baer and Prakashraj’s Duet Films are co-producing ‘Abhiyum Naanum’ directed by Radha Mohan. Trisha is Abhi and Naan in Prakashraj. They play daughter and father in the film.

Even though she acted in films with Prakashraj before, Trisha says this film is special for her. Khushboo refused to act as Trisha’s mom so Lakshmi Gopalaswamy will do the role instead. The shooting is happening now in Munnar. Like in ‘Mozhi,’ music is by Vidyasagar and lyrics by Vairamuthu.

For working in this film, Trisha has turned down offers opposite popular heroes. That’s because she considers this her dream film.

‘Abhiyum Naanum is my dream film!’……Trisha is back in Chennai after completing her schedule for a Telugu film with Ravi Teja. The actress had been visiting some of the beautiful locations of Pucket islands, the place known for its picturesque locations and unlimited night entertainments in Thailand and Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur for the past two weeks.

Now she is busy with her Tamil project Abhiyum Naanum produced by Prakash Raj on behalf of his Duet Movies in collaboration with Moser Baer. Trisha plays as the daughter of Prakash Raj in this Radha Mohan directed film. She has left today to Munnar to attend the shooting of Abhiyum Naanum. In Abhiyum Naanum, Lakshmi Gopalaswamy plays as the mother of Trisha. It may be recalled that actress Kushoo had rejected the role few days back for some reasons.

For the first time the actress is playing as the lover of a new boy in Abhiyum Naanum.

According to Trisha, it is not the face value, but the story value of Radha Mohan forced her to accept the film even without any question. “I’m proud to be part in Abhiyum Naanum and the film is a dream project in my career. I hope the film will reach new highs in Tamil Cinema…” Trisha Says.

The film is scheduled to release in February 2008.

Mozart of Asia - A.R.Rahman

‘Mozart of Asia,’ musician Allah Rakha Rahman has done everything from classical to reggae and now with Shekar Kapur’s ‘Elizabeth: the Golden Age’ awaiting release, where he pairs up with Hollywood actor Craig Armstrong, he is very excited. “It has been really a wonderful experience working with Craig. We traveled a lot in places like Glasgow…Remotely working with the guys in London,” says Rahman who was in the capital recently.
The singer-composer has his hands full with a lot of films, the latest being Ashutosh Gowarikers ‘Jodha Akbar’ starring Hrithik Roshan and Ashwariya Rai Bachchan. Jodha Akbar is a romantic story about a king falling in love with a princess and ARR has tried to keep the music contemporary so that it satisfies both critics and the music lovers. The music of the film is very much what is required for the film. It has celebration songs and quawallis.. Rahman, who composed the music of Subhash Ghei’s ‘Kisna’ is once again paring up with the director in his latest flick, ‘Yuvraaj’ which is a very challenging project. Practically A.R.R had a tough time composing the first two songs but now as those have been cracked he will be able to wrap it up quickly.

Shreya gets 50 lakhs for a weeks shoot

While Shivaji - The Boss was surely a windfall that did a lot for actress Shreya Saran’s career. It gave her low profile career a high profile boost. After Shivaji was an astounding success, she almost lost out to Kamal Hassan’s Dasavatharam when she asked for 70 lakhs, which was her new price after Shivaji’s success. She even went to extent of saying that she will wear a swimsuit if required but only if the role demands it.

Well while may say that she is pushing her luck, she has succeeded with one filmmaker. In Indiralogathil Na. Azhagappan, she is acting with Vadivelu. News about the two shooting for a dance in the movie was all over the media recently. Shreya apparently was paid 50 lakhs for her role in the film the shooting of which required only a week’s call sheet from her side.

Lets how long more she will last with such as high price.

State Government Tamil film awards presented

The who is who of Tamil cinema were on Tuesday presented with the State Government awards, for the years 2005 and 2006, with almost all the big names including `superstar’ Rajnikant and Kamalhassan receiving Best Actor awards for respective years.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi gave away the awards this evening. Rajnikant was selected Best Actor for 2005 for his portrayal as a psychiatrist dealing with the leading lady suffering from split personality.

Actor Kamalhassan bagged the award for 2006, for his movie “Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu,” where he tracks down two psycho serial killers.

The actors were presented with gold medallions and certificates.

Similarly, actors Surya and Vijay were also honoured with awards for their performance in “Gajini”, and “Thiruppachi”, respectively.

Jothika, for her scintillating performance as a person suffering from split personality, in ‘Chandramukhi’ bagged the Best Actress award for 2005 while Priya Mani, for her rustic portrayal of a village girl in the smash hit ‘Paruthiveeran’ bagged the award for 2006.

Jothika’s husband Surya received the award on her behalf.

Other awardees include Vivek and Vadivelu (Best Comedian 2005 and 2006 respectively), Prakashraj (Best Villain 2005) Shankar (Best Director 2005, for Anniyan) actor Ajith Kumar (MGR Award) and Vikram (Nadikar Thilagam Sivaji Award).

Chief Guest of the evening, Governor Surjit Singh Barnala rued the piracy in cinema field when he said that it caused huge losses to producers. Source: Hindu

Shankar ready for the next!

After a blockbuster hit in 'Sivaji', director Shankar is now gearing up for his next venture 'Robot'. Since the director is wielding megaphone for Sharukh Khan for the first time, he is taking extra care in each every aspect of the film.

Sources say that Shankar and his team are currently holding discussions in a farm house near Mahabalipuram to give final touches to the script.

Plans are on to commence the movie this Dusshera. Robot will be produced by Red Chilies Entertainment, a production house of the King Khan himself. The movie with all its techno jazz will be released in Tamil, Telugu and other languages besides Hindi.

Remake mania takes over kollywood!!

A brisk trend is catching up in Kollywood to remake many old blockbusters.After the great sucess of the remakes of yesteryear Tamil cinema like Naan Avanillai and Billa, here comes another movie to join the list and that’s Sreedhar’s directorial Kaadhalikka Neramillai.

This movie was a great hit as it was a great family entertainer. The movie had big stars like Ravichandran, Muthuraman, Kanchana, Rajashree, Nagesh, Ballaiah and others.

Now the gossip mill is agog with the news that Vinay has been offered to play the role of Ravichandran, Prithviraj on the role of Muthuraman, Asin in Kanchana’s role and Sandhya in Rajshri’s role. Plans are also on to cast Prakash Raj and Vadivelu in the movie. Yuvan Shankar Raja is expected to score music for the movie.

It is not yet decided whether Manobala or some other director would direct the film!. The starcast is not comfirmed yet. Keep reading this section for more updates.

Jeeva’s Katradhu Tamil on 5th October

Jeeva ’s Katradhu Tamil is releasing on 5th October. Kattradhu Tamil is a forthcoming Kollywood film directed by Ram and produced by hit producer A. M. Rathnam. It stars Jeeva and newcomer Anjali. Jeeva plays 4 roles.

We know already that this movie previously titled Tamil M.A. has been renamed to Katradhu Tamil. The film’s releasing date also has been rescheduled from Sep 28 to October 5.

Katradhu Tamil is a real story of a Tamil post- graduate who goes from pillar to post looking for a job. Jeeva had reduced weight for the film in which he appears in three different get-up. This movie’s entire distribution rights have been acquired by Karunas, the comedy actor. While talking about the movie Karunas says: “The film is marvelous, and will be a trendsetter. We are releasing it all over the state including Chennai City. In Chennai alone 7 screens will show the movie.” The audio of the movie released last month was a big hit.