Kollywood witnessed a bizarre press meet on Thursday when item girl Sona accused S P B Charan, son of veteran playback singer S P Balasubramaniam, of attempting to rape her and treating her derogatorily at the Mankatha success party on Wednesday night. She demanded a public apology from him within 10 days, failing which she would commit suicide and hold him responsible it. Earlier, Sona visited the Pondy Bazaar police station and lodged a formal complaint against Charan for attempted rape.
According to Sona, she attended the Mankatha success party thrown by Vaibhav and team at actor Vaibhav Reddy’s house on Bazullah Road, T Nagar, where Charan grabbed her and attempted to sexually assault her under the influence of alcohol. She also mentioned that Venkat Prabhu tried to pull away an inebriated Charan from assaulting her.
Prakash Raj turns wedding planner to Nayantara-Prabhu Deva
September 2, 2011
The wedding of gorgeous Nayantara and dancing sensation Prabhu Deva has become most awaited event not only in regional film industries but also in Bollywood. Every now and then, we are hearing one or the other speculations related to their wedding. Indeed, recently gossip mongers went on to claim that the couple has secretly married. Soon, the choreographer-turned-director rubbished the rumours. However, a latest news has emerged from the rumour mills that Prakash Raj has lent his helping hand for their wedding.
Prakash Raj is playing the role of a wedding planner to his close friend Prabhu Deva. He has reportedly taken the responsibility of Prabhu and Nayan's marriage and gearing up to organise it in Mumbai. The couple will enter wedlock in October and the Akashamantha star will soon make some time in his busy schedule to make arrangements for their wedding and reception in Mumbai. It is said that Prakash has always been supportive to their relationship and helped them whenever they need arose to the love birds.
It may be recalled that Prabhu Deva and Nayantara spent a couple of weeks together at Prakash Raj's house during their initial days of love. However, they confirmed date of their marriage has not been revealed yet. (OI)
Simbu praises Ajith's performance in Mangaatha to heavens
September 2, 2011
Being an ardent fan of Ajith Kumar, Silamabarasan is bowled over by the performance of Ajith Kumar in his silver jubilee film, Mangaatha. The actor, who saw the movie at Sathyam Cinemas in Chennai, has praised the actor to heavens.
The Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa star saw the movie on the release day. If reports are to be believed, Silambarasan watched Mangaatha two times on the same day. It is said that like every crazy Thala fan, he was dancing and blowing the whistle, when ever a punch dialogue, song or an action scene appears on-screen.
“Thala not only stole the money, he stole the whole show!!! Ajith is rocking in the film ... Great work by the whole team !!! Congrats to each and every one who is a part of the film !!! Thala da Mangaatha da !!!” Silamabarsan posted on a social networking site.
Meanwhile, Venkat Prabhu directorial Mangaatha, which stars Ajith Kumar, Trisha Krishnan and Arjun Sarja, is doing good business at the Box Office. The occupancy on its first day stayed around 90 to 95 percent.
Simbu, who was busy filming Osthi in Mysore, cancelled the shoots of his upcoming Tamil film to watch Mangaatha on its opening day. (OI)
Reports say that upcoming starlet and actor Kamal Haasan’s daughter Shruti Haasan is turning out to be quite expensive for her producers. The talented Shruti had already debuted as actress in Bollywood and Tollywood with not much success and is now trying out her luck in Tamil by debuting as Suriya’s heroine in director A.R. Murugadoss’ upcoming film ‘7aam Arivu’.
It is said that the producer is made to cough up Rs.60,000 for a day’s expenses for Shruti Haasan as she comes along with her entourage. Her costumer, touch-up artiste, make-up women and car driver are all to be paid off hefty sums by the producers for each day till the schedule is completed.
Most of the leading actresses get their fee including the allowances to be paid to their personal attendants like make-up artistes. Shruti, however, dares to be different and makes the director bear the burden of taking care of her assistants. A rough estimate puts these expenses alone at Rs.60 lakhs! (KT)
Versatile actor Prakash Raj has been thrown out of Surya's upcoming film Maatraan. The differences with director KV Anand has made the filmmaker to drop him from the cast.
Source say that Prakash Raj's starry air is the cause behind his sacking. The actor, who participated in the shoots last Saturday, delayed the shoots claiming that he was not happy with the make-up, which is being provided for his character in Maatraan. He also raised issue to don a wig, a source adds.
KV Anand tried to convince him and told him that it was necessary for him to sport the wig, as the his role demands it in Maatraan. However, the actor was not ready to admit it. Hence, the director and the actor failed to find a workable solution and took different ways.
Meanwhile, KV Anand, who never compromises on his stand, immediately roped in Bollywood actor Sachin Khedekar, who was recently seen in Deiva Thirumagal. It may be recalled that the director had similar kind of differences with Silambarasan just before the launch of recently released film Ko resulted in at the replacement of Simbu to Jeeva. (OI)
Excitement and Expectations are the two Es, which are associated with Ajith Kumar's 50th movie Mangaatha (Mankatha) release. As expected, Thala rocks the show with his styles, actions and performance. However, the overdose of stunts and useless characters in the film are irritating at parts. Read on for Mangaatha review.
Story: Sanjana (Trisha)'s father Arumuga Chettiyar (Jaya Prakash) devises a plan to steal 500 crores, the money, which was used for gambling during Indian Premier League. His gang includes Sumanth (Vaibhav), Prem (Premji), an IIT graduate, Mahat (Mahat Raghavendra), Ganesh (Ashwin Kakumanu), a sub-inspector at Dharavi in Mumbai. After their plan to rob comes to know, suspended cop Vinayak Mahadeva (Ajith Kumar) joins the team of thieves. On the other end, super cop Prithvi (Arjun Sarja) takes oath to uproot the betting business.
How they execute their plot? Will they succeed in their mission? What measures Prithivi take to bring the betting business to halt? Answers for all these questions should be seen on-screen, as the excitement of watching the movie will be lost if one reads here the entire story.
Performance: Ajith Kumar's fans could not have expected for more from their star, as the actor has given his best performance till date. His acting, salt and pepper look with the negative shade in his character are treat to watch. Especially, he impresses the audience during action sequences. Arjun Sarja has proved, why people call him as 'Action King'. He has perfectly fitted the bill. Trisha has not got much to do in the movie. But she excels in her limited role. Vaibhav is good. However, Premiji is not a right choice for the character, as his antics fail to evoke any response from the viewers. Even newcomer Mahat also disappoints you. Jaya Prakash is at his usual best. Rest other character like Anjali and Andrea Jeremiah, who will be seen as Vaibhav and Arjun's wives, are okay.
Technical: The action scenes are the plus and minus points of the film. Even thought, it has been wonderfully shot, overdose of those scenes in the second half play spoilsport. Nonetheless, watching Ajith Kumar's saying 'I am a mad man' and 'money money money' during stunts are good to watch. Shakti Saravanan's photography is excellent, choreography is simple but energetic. Editor Praveen KL could have been bold in his work, as some scenes are dragging at parts. Music and Songs picturisation are apt. Finally, Venkat Prabhu's direction and screenplay.
Well, the director has almost succeeded in his first ever film with a big star. The filmmaker has fabricated the story keeping all the successful elements at one hand and the tastes of Ajith Kumar's fans at other. Had he not lost the grip on the script, the movie would have undoubtedly become one of the biggest hits of Thala. The screenplay is dragging and gives you a boring experience. Adding to that, too much of characters does not help the proceedings and it is only in the last 30 minutes before the interval, the story becomes interesting. The second half thrills you with twists but irritates with too much of action sequences. However, Arjun and Ajith's climax scene is wonderful shot.
Verdict: Mangaatha has all the entertaining elements. It is especially for Ajith Kumar's fans and the people, who love action-oriented movies. Family audience may not like the subject. One should watch for the actor's performance and Venkat Prabhu's attempt to make the movie in Hollywood style with local budget!
Cast: Ajith Kumar,Trisha,Arjun Sarja, Viabhav and others
Director: Venkat Prabhu
Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
Cinematography: Sakthi Saravanan
Producer: Dhayanidhi Alagiri
Released On: August 31, 2011 (OI)
Akshara Hassan, daughter of Kamal Hassan, seems to be getting a dream debut, as Mani Ratnam is gearing up to launch her in his next movie. The ace filmmaker has chosen her for the female lead role in his next Tamil movie.
Reports say that Mani Ratnam, who has at least three scripts in hand, is planning to start a love story before directing Ajith Kumar's film. The movie will be the launchpad of veteran actor Karthik's son Gautham. So, to pair him up in the film, the filmmaker has decided to cast Akshara Hassan, claim reports.
The filmmaker has reportedly convinced Kamal Hassan and his ex-wife and mother of Akshara Hassan, Sarika. They are happy that their daughter is getting a grand launch, says a report. The shooting of the film will take off in September 2011. It will be shot in Kanyakumari and Kovalam in Kerala.
The story of the film is about the Sri Lankan fishermen issue turmoil. The script is written by Jayamohan of Naan Kadavul and Angadi Theru fame. (OI)
British Madame Amy Jackson has landed the plump offer to showcase her skills in another Kollywood movie. Amy will play the lead in none other than Ulaganayagan Kamal Haasans upcoming project Viswaroopam. Amy made her thumping Tamil debut with director Vijays’ Madrasapattinam. The young lady has made quite a name for her Liverpool temperament as she earlier walked out of Gautham Menon’s Hindi remake of the well acclaimed flick ‘VinnaiThaandi Varuvya’ after which she has grabbed the Kamal movie in her kitty .
Kamal’s Viswaroopam went on floors recently at the Jeppiar College of Engineering and surprisingly Kamal was happy to find namma ‘Suriya’ shooting at the same college for KV Anand’s Matraan. Kamal seems to be more than content getting Amy on board, as he was in search of a foreign face as per the script demanded. His big budget trilingual (Tamil, Telugu and Hindi) will also have Rahul Bose playing the anti-hero with Bollywood trio Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy providing some delightful music.
Hope Kamal won’t have more problems dealing with Amy’s hot tempers. (KT)
From the time there is news that there would be a lip-lock scene between Vijay and Ileana in Nanban there is a puzzling situation among all the whether Shankar would retain the lip-lock scene or not.
But speculations are at a buzz that Shankar has decided not to have a kissing scene between Vijay and Ileana D’Cruz. It is known that Vijay is not going to kiss Ileana but the pair will be having close-up shot, which would look like a lip-to-lip scene. But the director has reportedly decided not shoot a smooching scene as it could pave the way for a hullabaloo and moreover the Tamil audience are not used to such scenes.
The unit is currently stationed in Chennai and is found busy filming a song. The filmmakers are in a decision to complete the film by August as they in plans of releasing the film during Diwali. (TK)
Actor and DMDK founder, Vijayakanth’s younger son, Shanmuga Pandian is gearing up to make his debut as Hero in the film industry following the footsteps of this father.
Vijayakanth has two sons Prabhakaran(named after Vijayakanth’s super-hit film Captain Prabhakaran) and Shanmuga Pandian. The elder son is pursuing his third year B.E Architect at SRM Engineering college, Chennai. The younger one, Shanmuga Pandian has completed the XII standard examinations and will be joining Loyola to do Visual Communications Course this year.
Vijayakanth at present riding the twin horses of cinema and politics is thinking of putting a full stop to cinema and concentrating only on politics. At this instance, Shanmuga Pandian has shown interest to act as hero. Both Vijayakanth and his wife Premalatha too have supported his desire. The parents want their son’s launching pad to be a grand one and they are hearing an apt stories for Shamuga Pandian.
The to-be actor is reportedly hitting the gym everyday to stay fit and trim. He is also taking dance lessons and martial arts classes so that he can specialize in action like father.
Tollywood film industry will soon witness two aunties re-entering into the Telugu cinema arena. Sonali bindre, of ‘Murari’ fame was supposed to act with Akkineni Nagarjuna in his up coming “Dhamarukham”. But her fee for the second female lead role was too high and so she was immediately replaced by simran aunty, who gave birth to her second child, in March 2011. Simran has used all kinds of cream to make her stretch marks vanish and the actress is working out rigorously in Talwalkar’s two times a day, in order to obtain a svelte figure, which she had in early 90’s.
If sources are to be believed, Sonali bindre will be doing a film for producer Manjula, which will be a remake of bollywood super flop ‘ we are family’ which had kajol and Kareena Kapoor in lead. If sources are to be believed, producer Manjula has convinced sonali bindre and Ileana for the script. But Akkineni Nagarjuna is not inclined in doing this project, as the storyline is very close to his real life.
The movie script will have certain changes, best suited for the Telugu audiences viewing. Meanwhile, simran has signed the movie ‘Dhamarukham’ and is said to play a spacio role in the movie, besides Anushka Shetty. (HC)
Well, a few days back we have reported you that most happening and gorgeous Kajal Agarwal is pairing opposite Suriya in Maatraan, now it is officially confirmed by Kajal Agarwal.
Kajal says “I am really proud to be a part of this film and I am thrilled about it. It is my longtime desire to work with Suriya and I am eagerly looking forward for the day of shoot. Director K V Anand’s films have a greater importance for heroines as they will not be showcased for the sake of glamour alone. Maatraan too is an example for it.”
Remember Kajal was the heroine of Naan Mahaan Alla, which had Karthi, Suriya’s younger brother, in lead role. She is really lucky to share the screen space with both of them as so far the only actress is Tamanna who acted with Suriya and Karthi.
Kajal Agarwal is currently the top actress in Tollywood and she is all set to conquer the hearts of Tamil audiences very soon with Maatraan.
Meanwhile her film Maaveeran, the Tamil dubbed version of Magadheera will be hitting the screens on coming Friday, May 27th. The actress has played the role of a princess and trusts that the magic will repeat again. [WaY]
Well here is the good news and the most awaiting news for Superstar Rajini fans. According to the close sources to Rajini it is known that he will be addressing his fans through the media as soon as he returns home. Rajini also conveys his thanks to all those who prayed for his speedy recovery.
Rajini’s health is progressing fast and hospital sources state that he might be discharged from hospital very soon. The doctors at the Ram Chandra Hospital confess that Rajini is supportive and hence recovering faster has been possible than they had expected.
Superstar fans, who have been praying for his speedy recovery, are happy over this news. [WaY]
Comedian Vadivelu yesterday tried his best to meet Superstar Rajinikanth at Ram Chandra hospital but finally all his trails were gone into vain as he was not permitted to meet Rajinikanth and also Rajini’s wife Latha too.
According to the sources the comedian was desperate to meet Superstar but it was his bad luck as the access to Rajini was denied. During the recent state assemble elections Vadivelu commented that Raana Vavathu Gaana Vavathu. I am not bothered about it, when he was quizzed on being dropped from the film Rana. By meeting Rajini he wants to apology for the statements made on the film.
Superstar’s wife Latha Rajinikanth is not interested to allow anyone to meet at the hospital and she also appealed for privacy recently through media. Currently Rajini’s family utmost priority is Rajini’s health and his well-being.
It can be mentioned here that Latha Rajinikanth is the only midpoint between people going to meet Superstar. [WaY]
Tamil actress Tamannah Bhatia is making merry in Telugu cinema industry these days. Her Telugu film ‘ 100% love” is a hit and will be soon made into Kollywood and bollywood. Director Linguswamy is said to make the movie in Tamil version and is likely to feature Udayanidhi Stalin in lead.
Now, the news is out that tamannah is being flooded by more Telugu film offers and her skin show and her ‘full cooperation’ in wearing skimpy costumes is mesmerizing the Telugu film makers.
Coming to Kollywood, tamannah is just acting in a Tamil movie ‘Venghai’ opposite to Dhanush these days. She replies that, she is busy with Telugu films and so has no time for Tamil films. But the actress is reported to be severely disappointed with their marriage of Karthi and so is avoiding Chennai in all aspects.
Tamannah was interested in Karthi and the same was also expected from the star hero as well. But his father played spoilsport in their love bond hurriedly went for a marriage alliance, from a remote place in Tamilnadu.
Vettai which brought Madhavan and Arya on board has completed the second schedule shoot recently in Pondicherry. Arya who is working with Madhavan has showered praises on him for his outstanding co-operation all through the shoot.
Arya says “Madhavan is a wonderful, simple and great actor to work with. He is very understanding and kind all the shoot. This is for the first time I am sharing the screen space with him and also working under the direction of Lingusamy. We just finished shooting in Pondicherry”.
Meanwhile, Arya is looking forward for the release of director Bala’s Avan Ivan.
On Avan Ivan Arya says “Avan Ivan is a movie to reckon with in my career. Director Bala pulled out the best from me and Vishal. It was a great pleasure being part of this prestigious film”. [WaY]
After Superstar falling ill, the very first news which topped the headlines is that Rana has been dropped. Soundarya Rajinikanth who came to know about this has fired at a leading daily which published this article.
Soundarya has immediately called the concerned daily newspaper and burst of anger. Not leaving them with a warning, Soundarya is ready to file a case against the newspaper. Rana is Rajini’s brainchild and at any cost the filmmakers are in a decision to release the film in 2012.
Recently the director of the film confirmed that the film is going to start its shoot in the month of July as Deepika Padukone’s dates are also not available until July and in the meantime Rajini also recovers fully.
Eros International, India's largest integrated film studio and Ocher Picture Productions of Soundarya Rajinikanth are jointly producing the film. [WaY]
Prakash Raj wife Pony verma not happy with husband
May 24, 2011
Actor Prakash Raj, who is assumed as a womanizer in the south film industry is sending in wrong signals to his second wife Pony verma. If reports are to be believed, prakash Raj, who divorced his first wife Lalitha Kumari, is again getting near to her.
The actor has a court settlement that, he can have his two children Pooja and Meghana at his home and on the weekends. Despite the split prakash Raj will be allowed to look after his children’s growth prospects.
But this aspect has turned negative for prakash’s second wife pony verma. According to reliable sources, Prakash Raj is again getting close to his first wife. Moreover, last month, he spent most of his nights with his children at the home of Lalitha Kumari.
It can be conferred that, Lalitha Kumari helped Prakash Raj, when one of his films, was waiting for release due to some financial troubles. From that day, prakash Raj is said to be much impressed by his first wife Lalitha Kumari. In the name of exams, his children called him to their house for some dad’s love.
From the past two weeks, prakash Raj is sleeping in the house of Lalitha kumari and is also attending his shootings from her house, which means that he is ignoring pony verma.
However, Pony verma has denied this report as baseless. She hinted that, she is well aware that prakash Raj is busy with his children, from the past two months and she has no problem, if he stays in their house. But pony verma was surprised, about a rumor that’s being circulated in the Tamil media.
If reports are to be believed, from a news source T magazine, prakash Raj along with lalitha kumari and his children, visited Hyderabad, in order to meet his co-brother Srihari and family. Prakash was said to be getting close to his first wife and his actions, words and expressions meant that he was again in love with his first wife.
Pony verma’s face went blank, when she heard this rumor and she commented “No comments”. (HC)
Vimala Raman, Tarun’s ‘Chukkalanti Ammayi Chakkanaina Abbayi’ audio on Feb 24th
February 23, 2011
Tarun and Vimala Raman starrer new film ’Chukkalanti Ammayi Chakkanaina Abbayi’ has been completed its shooting part, currently the movie post production works are going on. Now the latest news is that the audio of this film will be released into markets on February 24th through Aditya Music.
It is being directed by Kanmani and is being jointly produced by Raju Hirwani and Gogineni Srinivas under Supreme Movies and Pranav Studios banners. Music has scored by Anoop Rubens. The movie is expected to release in March.(CHIT).
