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Anushka who has become reknowned actress among Tamils through her film Rendu, is now acting with Vijay in Vettaikaran. After she had completed her Rendu, she began to act in Telugu films and there also she has carved a niche for herself. Recently, the actress was in Chennai and when a group of press people met her she said, that she wanted to concentrate on Tamil films and she could not forget the Tamil audiences. She said the film Arundhathi had brought her fame but she did not want to live the character in other films too. She is acting now with Suriya for Singam directed by Hari. She is going to act in another Tamil film opposite Karthi to be directed by a new entrant.She said that her Telugu version Billa is to be released on April 2. " However I will act as heroine, if the story and her character give me an impression" said the actress.

Actress Tamanna and Suriya in the newly released Tamil film Ayan. ( Courtesy:The Hindu)

Rohan Krishna’s film Pattalam was released today. Teenagers – who were in a deeply engrossment after a series of exams. It is not just youngsters, there were also adults looking forward to have some fun to releax themselves from the mood of examinations and heavy official duties. Pattalam is Ten times the of fun in Vijay TV mega serial Kanaa Kaanum Kalangal, say many.Produced by Thirupathi Brothers (Linguswamy and Subash Chandra Bose), the film is all set to rewrite history in the entertainment arena. So, if you want to have some pure summer fun evn before summer sets in, Pattalam is what you need to watch. Don't miss it!
Pattalam is a harbinger of a new genre in Tamil Cinema – for all age groups.While teenager movies in Hollywood language meana fun all along these days, Kollywood still harps on the age-old hormone havoc theory. But Rohan has changed that all with Pattalam, which stars an enchanting Nathiya as a teacher/psychologist and nine young pranksters in the lead. While showing the fun that kids have at school in the company of a considerate teacher, it makes adults yearn to go back to their school days.

BY N.THYAGARAJAN

Super Star Rajinikanth’s daughter and Dhanush’s wife Aishwarya Dhanush will become a great politician in the near future, predicted Vijay Swamigal or the Kattaiviral samiyar of Erode. The astrologer is popular among politicians and film industry people since, he had so far predicted only correct things, claim many. Similarly, Aishwarya went and consulted the samiyar. The astrologer Vijay who had predicted that Vijaykanth would not shine as a politician, since, his thump finger on the right leg was like that of elephant’s curved shape. So if Vijaykanth should shine in politics he should make a woman as the front-runner of his political activities, so that his party would gain a lot of seats. Following the statements of the astrologer which is becoming true in day today life, Aishwarya Rajinikanth approached him and came to know about her luck in politics. frequent the samiyar would

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Malavika who married the Mumbai Industrialist Sumesh Menon and has become mother of a boy child, is now coming back to films with a main role in the Naan Avanilliai – Part II. Selva who is directing the film said, that in the Part I version she did one of the five heroines. In the second part four more heroines are likely to act in the film including Yuir Sangeetha.

BY N.THYAGARAJAN
In a recently started new film, Thiruna.Thirunavukarasu, the director M.S.Ravi began his shooting with opening up a fans club (Rasikarmandram) for actress Nayantara. As per the story line the hero of the story should open this fans club and Nayanthara should appear when the inaugural ceremony takes place. But the people who came to see the shooting of this scene, were waiting to see the actress. They did not know that it was filmed for the purpose of the Thiruna. When the shooting was wind up, public went and enquired about why Nayanthara did not turn up for the function. Then the director replied that it was merely a shooting based on the story-line of the film. They could not accept the director’s statement and demanded to bring Nayanthara immediately, otherwise they threatened that they would not allow the film people to continue the shooting. But, after hours of argument of the film’s director, the public were pacified.

BY N.THYAGARAJAN

Following the success of Abhiyum Naanum in Tamil, the producers dubbed the film in Telugu version and named the film as Agasa Mandha and released on Telugu New Year’s day. In the Tamil version Prakash Raj, Prithvi Raj and Trisha have done their roles very casually which has become a superhit. Hence, the producers have handled the Telugu version too in a good way with proper dialogues for the lip movements of the actors. It is expected, that this film will also become a super hit in Telugu

By N.Thyagarajan

Now, the people’s trend after seeing the actress Nicole’s latest flick Adada Enna Azhagu, wanted to pinch her cheeks. She appears in this film with sex dresses especially in swimming dress has attracted a lot of film goers to watch the film nth time. The audience could not sit quite on their chairs, whenever Nicole appears in sexy dresses. When a reporter contacted asked her about her willingness to act in swimming address, “I may be willing to act in the scene. But my father does not like me to appear in kissing scenes”.

By N.Thyagarajan

Actress Sneha is doing a role like that of Padayappa Ramya Krishnan’s in the film GOA. The shooting of the film is to be started soon and the hero of the film is Jai. In an interview to a paper, the film's hero has said that Goa would not be a hit film as expected. Following Jai’s comment, the producer Soundariya had filed a complaint with the Film Producers Council. The council had issued orders, that Jai should act in the film only after completing the shootings of his other films.

Actor Kamal Hassan and musician M Balamurali Krishna during the audio release function of "Pasanga" in Chennai on Wednesday. Actor/producer Sasi Kumar is in the picture. ( Courtesy: The Hindu )

Munna is now acting in Kanden Kadhalai and Ellai. Ellai is directed by DON who is one-time assistant of Sundar C. Earlier Munna acted as younger brother of Prabhu in Mani Ratnam's Asokavanam and in Silandhi Priyamani acted as his sister.

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Trisha is now acting with contact lenses for the film Aadu Kalam. She is appearing as an English woman who talks in British's diction the English language. Vetri Maran directs the film. When approached Trisha says, that she has become popular after the release of Abhiyum Naanum. When asked about her acting in other language films, she refuted saying that the Tamil language is her love and she would not act in any other vernaculars, unless the character in those films brings her attraction.

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Actress Nadhiya was maintaining a secret quite a long time. She did not disclose that she is an actor to her children. While she was in abroad, her children did not know that Nadhiya did a lot of films. It is only after her family moved to Mumbai she told them that she was an actor. Initially, the children did not believe her words, but she showed some of her films to them. Even then the children took that it was a lady like their mother. Recently, Nadhiya took them to Chennai to watch the shootings of Pattalam film last schedule. The children enjoyed their mother acting before the camera. Nadhiya, indeed a true friend to her grown up children.

BY N.THYAGARAJAN

Immediately after the oral announcement of the Malayalam Film Producers Council, that Meera Jasmine should not act or sign in to act in Malayalam films, the actress is so keen to act in Tamil films. Why this step was taken by the producers' council, is being secretly maintained, the actress did not mind but taking vigorous steps to act in Tamil films. She is successful in getting Tamil film chances. She is now acting in Malaiyur Mambattiyan's remake film with Prashanth. She is also acting in Adhinarayana. She is acting with the new face Ramesh for the film Thanthirasali produced by Super Good Films. It is said, that the Super Good Films has offered her Rs.30 lakhs to act in this flick.

Mumbai model who has become famous by virtue of her acting in Thamirabarani and Rasikar Mandram films is now acting in Edhir Marai. The actress who fond of only to become a great actress, did not think about money like any other artistes would think of before signing in any contract. According to circles, the actress wanted only to act in good films with good character and story value.

Eversince, Karthiga has started her career she has been facing problems one by one. Recently, when she was acting with new face Vijayan for the film Alaiodu Vilayadu near a beach shore, a tidel wave had taken her inside the sea. She did not expect the attack. She rolled along with the waves and luckily the assistant directors of the film who were watching it dived along with the waves and took her back. The film's hero Vijayan who has to dive was watching it all.

BY N.THYAGARAJAN
Originally the marriage of Jayam Ravi is scheduled to take place on June 7. The actor's parents announced the date of marriage publicly to all their family members and friends. But the bride's family felt that June 4th is the luckiest day for both. Hence, they demand that the marriage should be solemnised only that date. Following, this Jayam Ravi's family is in a utter confusion which date should be fixed for the marriage.

BY N.THYAGARAJAN

Mumaith Khan as heroine? Yes. She is acting in Pournami Nagam as heroine. Nizhalgal Ravi, Nalini and Karunas are also doing weighty roles in the film. The story of the film is about performing Naga Pooja on the full moon days. Once the worship is over, Mumaith Khan will become a beautiful girl attracting all to her side. The film is directed by Yaar Kannan and S.A.Raj Kumar scores the music of the film. Vijaykumar produces the film on behalf of Sound & Claps.

BY N.THYAGARAJAN

Music Director G.V.Prakash is leaving for New York for the remixing work of the songs of the film Ayerathil Oruvan. The music director who knows knack of remixing the songs with the sophisticated equipment only available in the USA. Besides Ayerathil Oruvan G.V.Prakash is directing Anandha Thandavam, Dhanush's AADUKALAM and Idhu Maalai Nerathu Mayakam.

BY N.THYAGARAJAN

Oru Kinnathai Endhugiran was the popular song of Sivaji Ganesan's Vasantha Maaligai. The very same song was remixed in the film Indra Vizha, in which actor Sri Kanth has lent his actions. Though, one may not accept the actor as Sivaji Ganesan, but the actions of Sri Kanth was something fantastic, according to the film's production sources. Vijith Radhika Malhotra act opposite Srikanth. The film is directed by Selvaraghavan's one-time assistant Don and the music is scored by Gangai Amaran.

BY N.THYAGARAJAN

The shootings of the film Kandasamy directed by Susi Ganesan is almost over and the further shootings of the actor Vikram is taking place in Chennai's important locales. The scenes are said to be in the shots are the flashback of Vikram's flashback and some of the comedy scenes of Vadivelu. Some of the songs' sequences of Vikram too were shot recently in Chennai.

BY N.THYAGARAJAN

There was a time, that many who were working in the film industry bought their houses in T'Nagar area, for the area was once considered to be the Lal Bagh of Chennai. But, the director Bala wants to buy a house in T'Nagar and it seems, he had bought a big bungalow. Though his recent film, Naan Kadavul has not fetched enough money as was expected, it made many to accept the director's capability of narrating the story with the stupendous actions of Aarya.

BY N.THYAGARAJAN

Prabhu Deva and Boomika have signed to act in a new Tamil film to be produced by Thangar Bachan.Now Prabhu Deva is in Hyderabad doing dance scenes for the film Enthiran for the Super Star Rajinikanth and Ishwarya. Recently, Prabhu Deva has completed the direction of the Hindi remake of the Tamil film Pokkiri. It is said, that Prabhu Deva will go back direction, once he complete the film of Thangar Bachan's.

BY N.THYAGARAJAN

Nandalala the most expected film of director Mishkin is to be released in April this year, according to sources in the film industry disclosed. The film is about to be released in January this year did not take place, because many big banners films were released and felt the scarcity of cine theaters, the sources said. The film is now in full-shape and the director has re-edited once the editing was over. When he did the editing, the film had lost two and a half minute scenes were cut.

In the coming Lok Sabha elections actress Radhika Sarathkumar likely to contest from Sivaganga constituency. She will be contesing on behalf of her husband's newly launched All India Samuthuva Makkal Katchi, also known as AISMK party. Former Finance Minister and present Home Minister P.Chidambaram will be contesting from the very same constituency on behalf of the Congress Party.

Hence, once the announcement of the candidates completed, it seems the actress who is giving her duo performance for the tv mega serial Arasi, has to postpone her acting for the time being. According to Radaan officials, the actress is able to complete two episodes in a day, by keeping in view of the coming election's tour for propagation.

Will Arasi make it out in the election too, like her pinnacle of career in producing TV mega serials on behalf of the Radaan TV Productions, is a million dollar question that to be answered only after the elections' results are announced, say many.

The film Yavarum Nalam, which was recently released as film and ran packed to cinema halls is likely to be made as mega-serial for a leading Tamil channel.
Director of the film, Vikram says, “In the US, popular films have been made into soaps. After years of tear-jerking family dramas, this would come as a relief for the family audience. They also won’t miss the routine family sentiments in Yaavarum... because the movie itself is based on a family that stays glued to the TV. It is going to be a double treat for them.”

Leading Telugu actress Jayasudha got MP ticket in Secunderabad on behalf of Congress party. She said that in Andhra the Congress is doing their work sincerely for the people."I am very much like the Rajasekara Reddy’s ruling Government, so I left from Telugu Desam and joined Congress and I have been given ticket for Parliament election, Iam very happy" said the actress.

By N.Thyagarajan

Actress Sneha is going to act in the film Murattu Kalai. The film which was produced with the very same title is to be produced again in Tamil in which Sneha will take up the role of Rathi who acted opoosite Super Star Rajinikanth. Similarly, Sneha is going to act in the Nootrukku Nooru film which was acted by the late actor Jai Shankar. Sri Vidya did the role in the old film, but the same will be performed by Sneha, according to sources.

We love him, don't we? That naughty smile and disarming boyish charm, just makes him ever so endearing and we just let ouselves fall in love with him again and again! He's one awesome actor too. In Alaipaiyuthe and then Minnale, he came across as the perfect lover-boy material. Yes so he gets furious with his wife in one and sort of lies to his girlfriend in the other, but we oggled at him anyways! In Yennavale we saw a different sort of Madhavan, a silent sort of guy, but with Dum Dum Dum, he was once again on top of his Prince Charming act! His comic side is quite entertaining, and in Naladhamayenthi he just stole the show, with his naive Indian cook portrayal that has us laughing all the way.
But it was Run and Thambi that caught our attention more, because we saw a completely different Maddy. The action hero Madhavan that we just could not relate to the Maddy we knew shocked us by being all macho and menacing. His best performance however is contained in three classic movies, Anbe Sivam, Kannathil Muthamittal and Evano Oruvan. Maddy is no regular mass man, he has a formidable fan following who love that impish grin and admire his passionate acting. In Anbe Sivam, Maddy played Ars so well, that we actually despise of him on account of his small mindedness. In Kannathil Muthamittal, he underplayed the role so well, not even one emotion was over the top. And in Evano Oruvan, we trully sympathise with his character, even though we do feel at times he could have saved himself the trouble is he was a little bit more pliable. And it's in these feelings that he evokes in his audience that his victory lies.
And Madhavan's fan following is not restricted to Tamil audiences alone. Actually he is a household name among Hindi audiences, thanks to TV shows like Sea Hawks and Ghar Jamai long before his cinema stint. In Hindi too he has a formidable place with movie like Rang De Basanti, Guru and Mumbai Meri Jaan.
Madhavan continues to captivate his audiences in Tamil and Hindi. His latest release Yavarum Nalam/13B has him dabbling with the thriller-horror genre, a complete departure from his usual style of films. Maddy will be soon seen in some very interesting films like Naan Aval Adhu and Guru En Aalu in Tamil and Teen Patti and Three Idiots in Hindi. His Hindi movies are with acting stalwarts like Amitabh Bachchan and Aamir Khan respectively.

Comedy programming has emerged as the new flavour of Tamil television. Two new comedy channels - Aditya and Siripoli were launched last month, dedicated exclusively to humour by Sun TV Network and Kalaignar Television Network respectively.
A spokesperson from Sun TV Network says, "The aim is to provide laughter and fun to millions of viewers across the state. The Aditya programming includes comedy film clips, comedy songs, candid camera and stand up comedy shows."
Sujit Kumar, director, Social Media India, which has the marketing rights for Siripoli, says, "Tamil audience is excited about the humour quotient. We saw the potential for a full-fledged comedy channel and launched it."

In a bid to lure more viewers, most of the Tamil general entertainment channels (GEC) and music channels, have switched over to airing comedy clips from Tamil films between 9.30 pm and 11 pm during the last one year.

All those channels which replaced daily soaps with comedy clips have registered a remarkable rise in their TRPs. In the recent time, all the women-oriented daily soaps have shown a decline in viewership, according to the research data by TAM Media.

In the Tamil Nadu market, what sells best is Tamil film comedy clips of Vadivel, Vivekh, Senthil and Goundamani, Nagesh and the golden oldies — N S Krishnan, Thangavelu, M R Radha and Thengai Sreenivasan. The comedy scenes of Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth and Vijay are also extremely popular among young viewers.

Sun TV Network already has a comedy channel, called Comedy Thirai, which operates only for its DTH platform Sun Direct. Meanwhile, both Aditya and Siripoli are available across cable and leading direct-to-home (DTH) platforms.

By N.THYAGARAJAN

Chennai, Mar 11: Charging him with demeaning its members, the ‘physically challenged welfare association’ here has asked director Bala to apologise for the scenes depicting the mute and blind in poor light in his film, Naan Kadavul.

The association in a statement threatened legal action if the director did not come out with an apology and delete the offending portions in the film. Association representatives ‘Engineer’ Gopinath and Ramesh Veeramani said the film projected a negative image of the physically challenged, as though such people had no option but to take to begging or prostitution to eke out a living.

There have been any number of success stories born out of hard work and honest enterprise, but Bala ended up killing his visually-challenged heroine just to save her from the central character played by Arya, the association said.

Bala in an interview said his film was a true picture of the organised beggary racket and was inspired by first-hand account.

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The success of Subramaniapuram has encouraged many a producer to go in for period films. The film set in the eighties is this year’s biggest box office hit and as usual other’s having followed suit. Madrasapattinam directed by Vijay, recently launched is set in the pre- independent period and director Chimbudevan’s Irumbu Kottai Muraatu Singum is set in the 17th century. A film nearing completion is Ayirthil Oruvan which has major portion set in 18th century. It is directed by Selvaraghavan and has Karthi and Reema Sen

Tamil cinema has period films about historical characters and about Kings and their battles set in unspecified period but now stories of ordinary men set in the bygone era is something new to filmdom and the success of Subramaniapuram has inspired many felt film historian Film News Anandan. Kamal Hassan’s Hey Ram set in the partition days was a dud at the box office while his recent offering Dasavathram which starts off from the 12th century to the present era was a hit. Soon to hit the screen is Priyadarsan directed Kanchivaram set in the late forties speaks about the communist movement in the silk weavers town and Cheran directed Pokkisham has portions of the film happenings taking place during the seventies.
In 2006 Chimbudevan directed Imasai Arasan 3M Pulikesi a spoof on the palace politics set in the 18th century and was a blockbuster hit. Shooting a period film is no joke says Sasikumar who directed Subramaniapuram. “ I did lot of research about the way people looked in the Madurai of 80’s and also how the streets looked. I collected many memorabilia to put in the film scenes . Since I was doing a period film the producers would shy away because it costs more and here I had no star in the cast. So I decided to produce it myself,” says the director who recently was awarded for his work in a function organized by a Malayalam channel and a leading vernacular daily. A Tamil film director sitting with likes of Mammooty and Mohanlal and being the only non Malayalee to receive the awards was like a dream said Sasikumar.

Veteran Actor also known as Margandeya ( evergreen hero) of the Tamil films Sivakumar gave away lecture on the essence of Kamba Ramayanam. The oratory was in Tamil, which he gave it to the students of Erode Thindal Vellalar College in Coimbatore.

According to the actor, in order to convey the essence of the Kamba Ramayanam to the younger generation in a subtle manner, he chose 1000 couplets, which contained the crux and message of Ramayanam from Kambar's works.

Sivakumar reportedly narrated this in about two and a half hours which was witnessed by over 5000 students including professors and Tamil research scholars.

The compact disk of the event is planned for release on March 10 at Four Frames Preview Theatre Chennai.

Tamil film Superstar Rajinikanth suggested that the Kannada film producers could adopt producing famous Kannada novelists' stories. He suggested that those novels could be made as short films. The photo of the Superstar was with the courtesy of The Hindu,

Actor Vijay has been chosen as brand ambassador of the Coca Cola one of South India's
- Coca Cola and PepsiCo India - are ready for an massive marketing war in the four southern states.
Coca Cola India has roped in Tamil actor Vijay as the company's face for Tamil Nadu. The flavoured water giant has signed a one-year contract with Vijay, wherein the actor will endorse the cola drink of the company.
"Vijay has endorsed Coca Cola between 2000 and 2003. But the brand was growing at a rapid rate in Tamil Nadu at that point of time and the company decided to move ahead without any celebrity." an Coca Cola official said.
"When we decided to have a face in Tamil Nadu this time round, Vijay was the first choice because of the good rapport the company had shared with the actor in the previous contract," the Coke official added.

The company will be releasing TV commercials featuring Vijay from the second week of March across all the leading Tamil channels. Coca Cola already has signed up with actors Mahesh Babu and Ganesh for Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.

"Apart from this south Indian actresses Trisha and Genelia have also been signed contracts with us to endorse our Fanta and Fanta Apple brands respectively," the Coke official added.

On the other hand, PepsiCo India, in an attempt to take on the iconic rival Thums Up in its stronghold Andhra Pradesh has signed on Telugu movie actor Ram Charan Teja to endorse Pepsi in Andhra Pradesh as part of the company's ongoing 'youngistaan' campaign.

the local flavour." The ad agency has been associated with PepsiCo for 20 years now. They have been shot by Rajesh Krishnan, a Tamilian based out of Mumbai, he added.

While the new advertisements hit the screen at prime time on Monday across the south, the all-India version would be released on February 25. "Despite the general recession, the orange drink has seen a healthy double-digit growth in the last six months of 2008 and in the early weeks of 2009. We expect it to grow further with the summer season setting in," Alpana said.

According to her, the company had already kick-started its aggressive campaigning for 2009 summer across all media starting with Pongal season in south. In the north, ad campaigns will be launched around Holi.

On Monday at the Mathruboomi Film Award function, the Tamil film Subramaniyapuram won the best film award. The story of the film was based on the Malayalam novel. Here are some of the Pictures taken at the function sent by Film PRO Nikil Murugan for our readers.

By N.Thyagarajan with the inputs of agenciesFather of Azharuddin Ismail, the child actor of Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire", has demanded more cash from the producers.

The child artiste's father Mohammed Ismail who is a TB patient said that his son had taken on the world and won and added that he was proud of his son and demanded more money and also a house as promised by the producer. " I think they will not fulfill the promises that was made before my son was taken for the shooting of the film" said Mohammed. He also said, that still he was living in the slum, and the Oscar had not catapulted his family financially.

The latest demand comes amid reports that the child actor, who was plucked from a Mumbai slum to act in the movie, will get less than 20,000 pound from the producers of the eight Oscar-winning film, which grossed over 123 million pound at the box-office, the Daily Mail reported.

The 10-year-old Azharuddin Ismail, who played the young Salim, the brother of lead protagonist Jamal in "Slumdog Millionaire" returned to his shanty home on Thursday after a dream visit to Oscar awards and Disneyland.


Ismail, who lives in a shack and makes a living by selling scrap, said the money given to his son was not "enough" and they needed more immediately.

Azharuddin and Rubina Ali, who hail from a slum in Mumbai played young Salim and Latika in the film.


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Madhavan and Neetu Chandra in "Evarum Nalam" directed by Vikram. P C Sreeram handles the camerawork for this bi-lingual film, which is supposed to be a supernatural thriller. The movie is named as "13B" in Hindi. Photo: Special Arrangement
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