Actress Sneha is not the mother of actress Ananya

Actress Sneha is not the mother of actress Ananya

June 9, 2010

Actress Sneha has cleared the air that she is not playing a mom’s role for a teenage daughter in the Malayalam movie “Shikhar”. The actress was miffed with the reports in the media, that she was playing a mom character for a teenage daughter in order to survive in the highly competitive film world.

Actress Sneha said that she will be sharing screen space with actor Mohanlal in the film. Actress Ananya will be playing the role of daughter to Mohanlal’s elder brother in the film. Since, she looses her parents in her teenage, Mohanlal and Sneha tae care of the teenaged girl and become parents to her.

It is gossiped that Sneha was terribly hurt, with the rumors that she is considering mother character roles in the films, to make her living in the south cinema industry.

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Kavya to pair with Mammootty in Pramani

Kavya to pair with Mammootty in Pramani

November 23, 2009

The beautiful-eyed Kavya is yet to do another film after Christian Brothers. She is to pair Mammootty in the movie Pramani, directed by B Unnikrishnan. Mammootty plays the role of a corrupt panchayat leader whose few good qualities are admired and understood only by the female lead.

In Christian Brothers, she play opposite to Mohanlal. It seems that Kavya is making a great come back to the industry. Anyways hope that all goes well for her in the industry.

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Kavya Madhavan in Christian Brothers

Kavya Madhavan in Christian Brothers

November 4, 2009

Kavya Madhavan who is now officially separated from her husband Nischal Chandra is all set to rejuvenate her acting career again. She is now a part of the upcoming movie “Christian brothers” and is being paired opposite to Mohanlal. The movie also features Suresh Gopi, Dileep and Tamil hero Arjun in the lead.

Padmapriya is all set to play the role of one of the heroine and model turned actress Parvathy Melton will also do a cameo in this film. Padmapriya will play the role of Mohanlal’s sister and Kavya will play the role of his wife on screen. Suresh Gopi and Dileep will play the role of Mohanlal’s younger brothers and Arjun will play a character with negative shade.

The movie is being produced by Anoop and Subair and the movie will be on floors on November 7th. ‘Christian brothers’ is expected to hit the silver screen by March 2010 and so the movie is expected to be filmed in a single schedule.

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“Rajini will remain my best friend forever”: Kamal

“Rajini will remain my best friend forever”: Kamal

October 2, 2009

Rajinikanth and Kamal Hassan, the true icons of South Indian cinema, once again proved their bosom friendship on stage. It is none other than Vijay TV's well arranged Kamal 50, a show organized to honour legendary Kamal Hassan on the eve of the completion of his 50th year in the industry.

In fact, the kind of bond and friendship between Kamal and superstar Rajinikanth, is a lesson for today's young actors, who are unnecessarily engaging in verbal fight in empty air.


At Vijay TV’s Kamal 50 event, they showed the world that they are not only best of friends but also sincere to each other whenever and wherever it is... Usually Rajinikanth likes to skip film functions and is very choosy even if he attends. He came to Kamal 50 event on time and spent throughout i.e more than 5 hours on the stage with his friend Kamal Hassan.

In his inspirational and sensational speech, Rajini referred to Kamal as 'The Lovely son of Kalaithai (the mother of arts)'. He said that he has enough material to speak on Kamal’s achievements for two days, and in 1975 when he joined movies, Kamal was already a very big star and could have easily overshadowed him in the 10 odd films they did together.

"He never interfered with my character or tried to cut me down in any of the films we did together. Please note as a star he was much bigger than me and any director would have gladly chopped my role or refused to cast me, if Kamal had asked them. But after Ninaithale Inikkum, he called me and told me that it is better for my growth as a hero if we do not work together, and I gained by it," was Rajinikanth’s open statement on Kamal.

He remembered the time when KB chided him for going out to have a smoke, at a time when Kamal was doing an important solo scene. KB in fact told him that by just observing Kamal, he could learn what acting is all about. Rajinikanth also said that the path they took in cinema was two different routes, so they never clashed.

Said Rajinikanth: "I will not go his route, as I know that I’m incapable of doing what he does. In fact as everybody knows Shankar had written the original script of Robot for Kamal. Years later when the role was offered to me, I told him that it has to be re-written to suit my capabilities. Shankar replied, do you think that I’m a fool to make you do a role that was meant for Kamal?"

Touched by Rajinikanth’s sensational and open minded speech, Kamal Hassan replied emotionally: "Which actor in the world will be so honest and straight forward in his talk like my true friend Superstar Rajinikanth? There were stars before us but they were never as friendly as we are, I'm telling this as a challenge, and we have proved that two top actors can be healthy rivals. Rajinikanth will always remain my best friend forever and he is the one and only superstar in the industry!”

The crowd gave a thunderous applaud after the speech and Kamal bowed his head for their love and affection. Malayalam stars Mammootty, Mohanlal, Telugu actors Chiranjeevi, Venkatesh and leading personalities of Tamil film industry graced the occasion.

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I want to work with Kamal Hassan again – Says Mohanlal

I want to work with Kamal Hassan again – Says Mohanlal

October 2, 2009

After winning a standing ovation from audiences for his performance as the super cool cop Raghava Maraar opposite Kamal Haasan for the first time in their recent blockbuster Unnaipol Oruvan, Malayalam super star Mohanlal cannot control his joy at having acted with versatile Kamal Haasan.

During a recent interview, Mohanlal said he wants to work with Kamal again. “I am really interested in working with Kamal in more projects,” said Mohanlal who enacted the role of Anupam Kher in Unnaipol Oruvan, a remake of the Bollywood hit A Wednesday.

Film critics and trade analysts have already agreed that Unnaipol Oruvan has overshadowed A Wednesday. Accordingly, much elated with the film’s success, both Kamal Haasan and Mohanlal cannot stop singing praises of each other’s performance.

Notably, Mohanlal recently attended a grand function organized by Vijay TV in Chennai to celebrate Kamal Haasan’s five decades in films and praising his esteemed colleague Kamal Haasan during the occasion, he said that “The industry is proud to have an actor who could be looked upon as a fitting role model for upcoming heroes.”

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Lakshmi Rai again in malluwood

Lakshmi Rai again in malluwood

September 30, 2009

Lakshmi Rai who stole the show with her sizzling looks in Muthirai,is a busy babe these days. The actress is currently doing Irumbu Kottai Murattu Singam directed by Simbudevan and Naan Avan Illai -2. The movie has choreographer turned-actor Lawrence Raghavendra, Sandhya, Lakshmi Rai and Padmapriya in lead roles.

The actress is also doing a mallu film 'chattambi Naadu' with Mammoty directed shafi.In this movie first time she will doing the role of a village girl, and she is also to be seen in another Malayalam movie with Mohanlal.

Guess the sun is shining bright for her in Malayalam industry!!

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Asin brand ambassador for Kerala IPL team

Asin brand ambassador for Kerala IPL team

July 1, 2009

The film world and IPL have literally become two faces of the same coin! After Shahrukh Khan, Preity Zinta and Shilpa Shetty, now Malayalam superstar mohanlal and filmmaker priyadarshan are getting ready to float a brand-new Kerala IPL team with the BCCI planning to include more teams into the tournament. Though the dotted line is far from being signed, it is heard that actress Asin (who hails from Kerala) would be the brand ambassador of the team.

Sources say Mohanlal will soon approach the Kerala Cricket Association to know about the formalities. Shashi Tharoor, Union Minister of State for External Affairs, has been already roped in as chairman of their team and once get the approval, the Kerala IPL team will debut in the next IPL in 2010.

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Aarya - King of South Indian Cinema

Aarya - King of South Indian Cinema

June 16, 2009

Actor Aarya has got a specialty in town now. Know what? He happens to be the only actor who has got whole lot of offers from various regional film industries at the moment. Earlier, it was just actresses who used to hop-skip from one end to the other, but things are turning towards actors now. Aarya is busy now shooting for ‘Madrasapattinam’ and ‘Chikku Bukku’, he has signed deal for a big budget Malayalam film ‘Casanova’ starring alongside Malayalam Superstar Mohan Lal.

As well he does the negative role in Allu Arjun’s next Telugu film. Meanwhile Vikram and Surya are already on the roll in Bollywood and Trisha has followed Asin in Bollywood with Priyadarshan’s film.

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Shakeela weeps on recollecting her past

Shakeela weeps on recollecting her past

June 1, 2009

Malayalam film industry b-grade actress Shakeela was recently interviewed by a private channel. The interview will be soon aired on a popular television channel and some of the bits of the interview are here.

It is said that Shakeela, the queen of Malayalam cinema has fans all around the world. Every south Indian settled abroad knows Shakeela and admires her beauty in the mallu films. Some sources report that the lady wept while narrating her past, while entering the films. She regrets on recollecting her painful past, but feels good that she rules the malluwood for almost 20 years in a row. Almost 10 years back, films of Mammootty, Suresh Gopi, and Mohan lal used to get postponed when a Shakeela movie was on the prowl to hit the screen. Some sources reveal that she was termed as a collection queen at the box office as all her masala scenes were a feast to every male.

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The Multiple-Starrer Trend Begin Again In Tamil Movies

The Multiple-Starr er Trend Begin Again In Tamil Movies

May 13, 2009

When two established stars with distinct styles and niche audiences come together for a movie, it is indeed a treat for movie-lovers. But making a film with these two top stars is not an easy task for the film’s makers. However, if we look back, the two-star trend is not new to Tamil cinema; the fact is we haven’t seen many two-hero projects in the recent past. Only a few multi-hero films like Chandramukhi, Pammal.K. Sambandam, Pithamagan have been made.

In earlier times, making films with two big stars was a frequent exercise; most movies that had more than one hero or heroine also had a strong story line. Thus stars worked together for the cause of the strong story and good characterizations. That also effaced any sort of image clash between the lead actors. But as time went by, the scenario changed. The increase in fan clubs is one prime reason for the change. Fans’ expectations began to influence changes in story lines. So it became difficult for film makers to make multi-starrers with top stars. Except in Mani Ratnam’shigh-budget multilingual productions, seeing two established stars in one movie became a rarity.

But now, a significant change is being observed. Unnai Pol Oruvan brings Kamal Haasan and Mohanlal on the same screen. The movie also boasts of Oscar-winner Resul Pookutty as part of its crew. Kamal’s daughter, upcoming singer and actress Shruthi Haasan, is making her debut as music composer through the movie. A remake of the Hindi blockbuster A Wednesday, Unnai Pol Oruvan is also being remade in Telugu with Kamal Haasan and Venkatesh in lead roles. Another double-hero film is Pazhassi Raja to be released in Tamil and Malayalam, starring Mammootty and Sarathkumar in lead roles. The film marks the Malayalam debut of Sarath. It also stars Suman, well known actor in the Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam film industries.

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Ashwathy Ashok to set her foot in Tamil

Ashwathy Ashok to set her foot in Tamil

May 11, 2009

By: Arya Aiyappan

Ashwathy Ashok who made her debut in the Malayalm movie Moss n Cat by director Fazil is being cast opposite 'Action King' Arjun in Major Ravi's upcoming action oriented adventurous Tamil movie Mei Kavu.

Major Ravi has made some wonderful films in Malayalam based on the army life and the Kargil war like Kurukshetra , Keerthichakra and so forth. His Tamil movie Aran did fairly well at the box office.

The tagline of the movie Mei Kavu goes thus, "One vision One mission". The movie is to start shooting from May 6. Ashwathy has also been cast opposite Mohanlal in the movie Alexander the Great by murali Nagavalli.

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Meera vasudevan is back in malluwood after divorce

Meera Vasudevan is back in Malluwood after divorce

May 7, 2009

Meera vasudevan who rocked the Tamil and Malayalam industries simultaneously is well known for her performance in Malayalam movie Thanmatra which was directed by Blessy. She was seen opposite to Mohanlal and later on stepped into Tamil small screen.

She was recognized as a good actor in Tamil small screen, but could not continue he acting as she was messed up in her marriage life. With misunderstandings and suspection as standards, her husband Vishal gave divorce to Meera.

Now the pretty actress who still maintains a refreshing figure is back in Malluwood with a movie titled as “Decent Party”. Actor Jagadeesh is going to play the male lead in this film. Meera Nandhan has a dream to direct a movie as she wants to succeed in the film world as an impeccable celebrity.

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Actor-producer K. Balaji passed away

Actor-producer K. Balaji passed away

May 4, 2009

By: Settu Shankar

Veteran Tamil actor and producer K. Balaji died on saturday. He was in his 70s and was not keeping in Good health for the last few days.

Balaji was a versatile actor and has essayed roles of hero as well as villain. He has acted in hit films like Padithale Mattum Podhuma and Bale Pandya.

Under his company Sujatha Cine Combines, Balaji has produced blockbusters like Billa, Needhi, Vaazhkai, Savaal, Viduthalai and Sattham. He was also instrumental in giving superstar image to actors like Rajinikanth and Kamal Hassan through his blockbusters.

Malayalam superstar Mohanlal is his son-in-law.

Film and political personalities including Superstar Rajini, AIADMK supremo Jayalalitha and others paid their last respects to K.Balaji.

His body was cremated at Besant Nagar on Sunday evening.

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Kamal meets the press on Unnaipol Oruvan

Kamal meets the press on Unnaipol Oruvan

May 3, 2009

By: Settu Shankar

'Kalaignani' Kamal Hassan met the press yesterday at Green Park to give the first intro of his forthcoming film Unnaipol Oruvan, a remake of bollywood blockbuster 'A Wednesday'. Produced by Kamal Hassan’s Rajkamal Film International, in collaboration with UTV Motion Pictures, the entire team consisting of Kamal Hassan, Mohanlal, director Chakri, Sruthi Hassan and UTV’s Ram Mirchandani were attended the meet.

For the first time, legendary Kamal join hands with another legend of this region Mohan Lal in this film. The film is directed by Chakri Toleti, who is from the Florida Film School in USA and has acted with Kamal in Salangai Oli in a cameo as the boy photographer (who always takes picture out of focus!) and also recently in Dasavatharam as the scientist and Kamal’s friend (The man appears in Courier office scene). Of course, Shruti Hassan is the another debutant is being introduced as the music director.

After the formal intro, Kamal says, "We have already completed all my combination scenes with Mohan Lal, who has now only to dub for the film. I always Wanted to do a film with Mohanlal, it was long overdue and finally I’ am happy it is happening under Raajkamal banner. We will complete the film by May end."

Interestingly, the film's release time is falling on the 50th year of Kamal Hassan's career. He has been started his career at the age of 5 on Aug 12th 1959. Through out the press meet Kamal Hassan was seen in a very relaxed mood and replied humourously for even some irritating questions from the press side.

Answering a question, Kamal says, "Somebody understood wrongly that Tamilan is a qualification to enter or getting numero uno status in the film world. But i never think like that. Tamilan is
an identity... that's all. But it will never helps to any one to get the top position in any field. You must show your talents in a right way..."

After a long time Malayalam superstar Mohan Lal was attended a press meet in Chennai. He said: "I'm one of the great fans of Kamal sir. It’s a great honour for me to be a part of my hero's film. The kind of passion that Kamal sir has for film making is awesome. I really enjoyed working on the film and learned a lot from him..."

The film is being shot with RED cameras in 4K resolutions, and the camera is handled by Manoj Soni from Mumbai. Thotta Tharini the famous art director who debuted with Kamal Hassan’s Raajapaarvai is the art director of the film. From Tamil literature, Ee.Raa. Murugan and Manushyaputhran are being introduced as dialogue writer and lyricist respectively.

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Meera jasmine wants only senior heroes

Meera jasmine wants only senior heroes

April 29, 2009

Meera jasmine who has bloated herself into a plum babes is all set to act with senior heroes in near future. She reveals that she feels more comfortable working with them and says that their experience makes her thrilled. The lady is seen acting with Vijayakanth in Tamil and Mammootty and mohan lal in Malayalam.

She has no regrets of being labeled as girl working with only senior heroes. She speaks out that she worships work and wants the malluwood industry to appreciate her acting skills.

Apart from this she has no regrets of playing the lead role with senior or junior heroes. Speaking about her weight gain, Meera Jasmine agreed that she has put on some weight from the day she visited Australia. She revealed that the weather over there has made her gain oodles of weight and has promised to loose and look slim by December 2009.

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Legends Kamal Hassan and Mohanlal meet

Legends Kamal Hassan and Mohanlal meet

February 28th, 2009

Superstar Kamal Hassan recently met Mohanlal, another superstar, who comes from the Malayalam industry to discuss the final script and shooting schedules of their new film.

Kamal spent the day with Mohanlal at his newly opened hotel Travancore Court in Kochi. Later Mohanlal confirmed that he is doing the film which has been tentatively titled Thalaivan Irukindran, a remake of the Hindi film A Wednesday.

Mohanlal made it clear that Kamal will do the role of the Naseeruddin Shah, while he will do the role done by anupam kher in the original for the Tamil version.

According to a press release by Rajkamal, the producer, the film will be released directly in Tamil and Telugu. Venkatesh will replace Mohanlal in the Telugu version.

The film will be directed by Chakri, an US based ad filmmaker and a friend of Kamal Hassan. There are no women in the film, other than that of a television anchor who chronicles the event.

For this role 'Mirchi' Suchi and SS Music Veejay Pooja have been approached. Though nothing has been finalized, the Kerala papers are talking about Mallika Sherawat playing the television reporter, fully clad in sari!

The shoot of Thalaivan Irukindran, is likely to start from March 9 in Chennai.

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Kamal Haasan will appear in guest role in Mohan Lal’s film

Kamal Haasan will appear in guest role in Mohan Lal’s film

February 15th, 2009

Kamal Haasan will appear in a guest role in a Malayalam film titled Kandahar which has Mohan Lal in the lead and directed by Major Ravi. Mohan Lal is also sharing the screen with Kamal Haasan in the film Thalaivan Irukiran which is a remake of the Hindi film A Wednesday. Earlier, Major Ravi had plans about making a film based on the hijack incident of Indian IC814.

However, with Kamal Haasan running amidst of busy shooting schedules of various projects, he wasn’t able to do it. Now with ‘Kandahar’ to hit the floors soon, Major Ravi has plans about making a film on Kargil war with a budget of 8Crores….

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Arya - Mohanlal team in Casanova

Arya - Mohanlal team in Casanova

January 29th, 2009

Popular Tamil actor Arya (a Malayalee from Kasargod) is now pinning his hopes on the much-anticipated Tamil magnum opus Naan Kadavul (I am God) by director Bala. He is also to make his first appearance in Malayalam in Casanova, a Rosshan Andrews film with superstar Mohanlal in the lead.

The pooja of Casanova took place on Saturday (January 24) at Confidante Cascade, Bangalore, a resort run by the producer Dr. Roy C.J. It was attended by Jagathy Sreekumar, Lalu Alex, Lakshmi Rai, Priyanka, Priyadarshan, Joshy, Sibi Malayil, producers Suresh Kumar, P.V Gangadharan and Antony Perumbavoor.

Rosshan Andrews, maker of super hits Udayananu Tharam (remade in Tamil as Vellithira) and Notebook, has been working on this script for the last two years along with its writers Sanjay and Bobby. "After reading the script, Arya was very eager to do the film with Mohanlal. This action, romantic thriller revolves around a Casanova (Mohanlal) who believes that love can cure crime," Rosshan Andrews was quoted as saying. Arya has given 40 days call sheet to shoot the film in April and May.

The film has five heroines including Lakshmi Rai. Major portions will be shot in Vienna and other European locations from April 10. R. Divakaran wields the camera while Alex Paul sets music. The action scenes will be choreographed by Hollywood's stunt coordinator Franz Spilhaus of Flight in Phoneix, King Soloman's Mines, Avenger, Singh is Kinng and Drona fame. Produced under the banner of Confident Entertainment (India) Ltd. with a budget of Rs. 10 crore, Casanova will be Mohanlal's big 2009 Onam release on September 2.

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Mohanlal chucks Mammootty out of his way

Mohanlal chucks Mammootty out of his way

January 9th, 2009

A few weeks earlier, it was reported that Mammootty might share screen space with 'Ulaga Nayagan' Kamal Hassan in his upcoming remake of super hit A Wednesday (Hindi) directed by Neeraj Pandey. Now, it is confirmed that it would not be Mammootty, but Mohanlal. If this happens, it could be one of the most interesting partnerships in Indian cinema.

Kamal Hassan will play the lead, the role essayed by Naseeruddin Shah in the original, while Mohanlal will play the role of the police officer played by Anupam Kher. The remaining cast and crew of the film are not yet confirmed. Kamal Hassan is reportedly in talks with UTV Productions for making this film.

Kamal is currently finalizing the director for this remake. Moreover, the versatile actor is expected to start work on this remake even before he starts Thalaivan Irukindran, which was announces as his next project.

The story of A Wednesday revolves around the Mumbai police commissioner who reminisces about the most challenging case in his career and how he tackled it. Produced by Ronnie Screwvala, Shital Bhatia and Anjum Rizvi, the film marks the return of the Anupam Kher-Naseeruddin Shah duo on screen after 12 years. A Wednesday got strong positive reviews and critical acclaims, particularly for its storyline.

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