Anjana Sukhani goes Bollywood

How many of them would have the farsightedness (for want of a better word) to agree to go for an item song so early in career, even though many offers as leads are coming their way? Anjana Sukhani of Don Seenu has got that in her. She had looked for meaty roles ever since the release of Don Seenu, but none excited her so much. This was when RGV offered her a song in Bejawada, which she latched on to out of a desire to work with the ace director.

In retrospect, the budding actress took a very sagacious decision. This landed her an offer in Department, the Bollywood movie. She is working with RGV, who is this time in the capacity of a director. She has a seminal role in the film in relation to Daggubati Rana. Rana, who plays a police officer in the film, is constantly egged on by the heroine, who gives him emotional support through and through.

"The film focuses on the police system. Ram Gopal Varma is showing how they face the mafia in fighting them. I tried to learn something about the mafia before the shoot commenced", Anjana quips

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Nee Dookudu' Meenakshi Dixit has an invite for 'Telugu Warriors

Meenakshi Dixit started off by making a raunchy appearance in the title track of Dookudu. She struck it well. Latest, she has signed a film opposite Srikanth in Devaraya. However, she is now in news for a different reason.

The girl has a big invite for the team members of Telugu Warriors. If they win the Celebrity Cricket League-2 cup, she will arrange for a special luncheon to all the stars on the beach side in Mumbai. The actress, who was seen cheering

Telugu Warriors in yesterday's match, made this statement on the sidelines of the popular celebrity cricket tournament.

With CCL2, like all star-studded events, hosting a number of beauties and divas for obvious reasons, more and more such bytes can be expected in the coming days

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Love Failure is for those in love, those who want to fall in love: Sid

Although it is coming from a new director, Love Failure is raising curiosity in one and all. The bi-lingual, starring Siddharth and Amala Paul in the leads, will be released on Feb. 14. Speaking at the audio release function of LF, Siddharth said that the film is for those who are in love and for those who want to fall in love, and they should watch the film for suitable results.

The actor said that he could get under the skin of the character very easily because he had failed in love many times in real life. "The novelty of the story made me want to produce it myself. Thaman has lent very good music after Dookudu and Businessman", he said.

In the film, Sid loves Amala Paul like Devdas loved Parvathi. However, there is a difference in the story. Balaji Mohan, the director, says, "Many love stories in history have ended up being tragedies. However, our story is different altogether. It is entertaining throughout. The film will be liked by all modern audience."

He says that the film will become a milestone in Sid's career. The film is currently in post-production phase. Nirap Shah is the cinematographer. Songs are by Srimani

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Allu Sirish to reprise Prabhas in Tamil Mr. Perfect

When he launched SouthScope and made it one of the most interesting film magazines in India, they called him the perfect proprietor. Allu Sirish, the younger son of Allu Aravind, is going to become a Mr. Perfect on screen now. This yet another future actor from the Chiranjeevi camp is going to act in the Tamil remake of Mr. Perfect.

At a time when our actors are eager to make a mark in new towns, Sirish has sprung up a surprise by choosing to debut in a non-Telugu market. It goes without saying that the actor will choose the best team with which to make the Kollywood foray. It has been said since many months that Sirish was seriously considering acting. Nobody, however, imagined that he will think out of box and test waters in the Tamil market.

Sirish, who shares facial features with his brother, Allu Arjun, is said to be grooming himself and preparing to make a dekko debut. One is reminded of Vishal and Jiiva, who might have been Telugu stars, but who went on to become well-noted ones in Tamil.

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Acting in smoking scenes: Mahesh's take

Mahesh used to smoke before he read 'Easy Ways To Quit Smoking'. The book brought reform in him and he was never to puff a cigar.

"I have stopped doing smoking scenes in my films. I don't subscribe to the argument that it is okay to act in a smoking scene if the script so demanded", the actor has been quoted as saying by a Telugu daily.

In his interview to the daily, he said that it will be good if top heroes restrain themselves from acting in such scenes. His contention is that fans will be easily influenced by their favourite actor's on-screen behaviour.

Mahesh indeed makes a point. It is not unusual to see those advocating against depiction of smoking scenes on screen say that top stars become the harbingers of harmful fads in youngsters.

Prince's off-screen behaviour has been marked by a sense of discipline and decorum, which has won for him many fans. In his latest film, however, his character glorifies Mafia takeover of the country and advocates Mafia-ism as the elixir of crime; but that's a different matter altogether.

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OREP' gala start

The BJP politician Jayappa Reddy producing the film in the name of Ashwath Reddy and Lokesh Reddy launched the new banner 'Swathi Cinemas' and son Sandeep in the direction of Dayal Padmanabhan.

Dayal Padmanabhan known as a good speaker of his contents addressing the media before the launch at Chairman's Club at Kodigehalli in Bengaluru stated that the film is based on the SMS message he received on his mobile. After reading the forwarded message he gave a though to 'In Life when you face choice just toss your coin not because it answers the question. But when the coin is in the air you will know what your heart is hoping for'. He had time to discuss with his daughter Meera and son Tharagan on the way to drop to college and school. The first round of discussion with this message was over with children recalls Dayal Padmanabhan. Later he spoke to Sandeep who was waiting for one and half years to launch. The family members of Sandeep agreed to produce the film launching a new banner. That is 'Swathi Enterprises'.

It is a Di-Angular love story says Dayal. The pattern will be on the lines of one of the top ten movies 'Rashomon' (1950) of Akira Kurosawa and I am using the 'Sholay' coin episode between Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra..Vijay Raghavendra plays a second division clerk in Sub Registrar office while Sandeep is second hand car shed owner. Dayal Padmanabhan is using the 5D, Phantom and Red camera for this film. He has chalked out 43 day shoot.

Power star Puneeth Rajakumar tossing one rupee coin at the Chairman's Club on Friday night marked the beginning of action and cut for 'Ondhu Rupayalli Eradu Preethi' Kannada cinema. Before that Raghavendra Rajakumar pillar of Dr Rajakumar family unveiled the banner of new film maker Jayappa Reddy 'Swathi Enterprises'.

Puneeth Rajakumar and Raghavendra Rajakumar are close friends to Sandeep who is making a beginning from director Dayal Padmanabhan 'OREP'.

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Elephant release 'CL' audio

The crazy thought of director of caliber Kavitha Lankesh in association with Red FM to release the audio of 'Crazy Loka' at Gemini Circus from an elephant before the 5 pm show was successful.

Unveiling the audio CD placard first and a Russian ring dance to treat the invitees were organized before an elephant came and lifted the CD bag from its trunk. There was applauding even from the spectators who had gathered for the next show of Gemini Circus.

Feeling pride for such crazy thought the director of the film Kavitha Lankesh disclosed that the film is ready for release soon. She declined to answer the question whether Galabe...song featuring Ramya has been completed or not. According to sources the Galabe Galabe...song was shot featuring Ramya at Mysore Lamps.

On behalf of the Confident Group Ms Sumana stated that the film 'Crazy Loka' is made at a cost of Rs.6 crores. Music director Manikanth Khadri was extremely happy for such publicity for the film.

Lahari Recording Velu was happy for release of his audio at Gemini Circus. He remembered 'Mera Naam Joker' of doyen of Hindi cinema Raj Kapoor on this occasion.

Financier Mahesh Kothari, distributor Basha, Sundar of Confident group, actress Harshika Poonacha and Surya were present. The key actors of 'Crazy Loka' V Ravichandran and Daisy Boppanna were not present at the audio release

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Komalkumar another record

'Kal Manja' of Kannada cinema Komalkumar ready for release film 'Govindayanamaha' film song Pyaar Ge Agbuttaithe....has set a record as over 65000 people have watched in three days time on You Tube.

Reacting first to this correspondent in an SMS message Komalkumar said Comedy movies will not concentrate on songs usually but I insist on good songs that has paid from 'Govindayanamaha' .

The song Pyar Ge Agbuttaithe....shot in Bijapur featuring Komalkumar and Parul with co dancers has the olden day's style and Urdu style of singing. It is a four minutes song penned by director of the film Pawan Wadeyar. Chetan and Indhu Nagaraj is among the top three downloads with Arakshaka and Chingari film songs up in the chart. To in the list music director Gurukiran has composed the songs for 'Govindayanamaha'.

Producer B Suresh further explain that the films like Paramathma and Jackie film songs on You Tube after 100 days have achieved over one lakh viewers while 'Govindayanamaha' has got over 50000 in just three days. The film is slated for release in the third week of February says B Suresh.

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Shibu, back to scripting

After a while, noted scriptwriter and lyricist Shibu Chakarvarthy will be once again penning scripts for Malayalam cinema. His comeback will be through the movie titled as 'Mercara', to be directed by Senthil. Shibu was last seen as a scriptwriter for the film 'Churam' which was one of the last from late director Bharathan. Divya Unni and Manoj K Jayan were the lead artists of this movie which was told in the backdrop of forest and its dwellers. Earlier in the late eighties Shibu had created many hits like Manu Uncle, Adharvam, Orkkapurathu and Samrajyam.

Many will remember that some other lyricists of Mollywood like P Bhaskaran, Yusaf Ali Kechery and Gireesh Puthencherry also excelled as scriptwriters contributing to many hits of the yesteryears.

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916 KDM Prema' On Location

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'Maatraan': 70% wrapped

KV Anand - Suriya Sivakumar's forthcoming 'Maatraan' is much expected due to reasons many. Nearly 70% of the shooting has been wrapped and as earlier reported some high voltage action scenes were canned in Chennai at a huge set erected in OMR.

The team will be shortly leaving to Hyderabad to Ramoji Film City where a week's schedule has been planned.

'Maatraan' sees Suriya in several looks and the actor also got three tattoos in his hand for the film. It has Kajal Aggarwal opposite him with Isha Sharvani in an item number and Sachin Khedekar playing the bad guy. The film has been shot in several locales including Russia, Croatia and Macedonia.

AGS Entertainment will release the film big in mid 2012. The film is touted to be Suriya's biggest release so far in his career.

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Manasi and Spoorthi in 'Pandhya'

Two good performers in the beginning stage of career Spoorthi and Manasi are heroines for 'Pandhya'...Game of Life by director Devu.

Spoorthi shot in to fame from 'Josh' appeared in a few good films but the heroine spot was eluding her. The recent two films of Spoorthi - Madhuve Mane and Bodyguard got her good recognition. Now in Pandhya she is sharing the space with another talented Manasi.

Manasi a multi talented youngster was found in small screen first from 'Guptha Gamini' television serial. She was spotted in big screen for 'Aptha' Kannada cinema. A dancer, Yoga exponent, trekking girl, swimmer, horse rider, gym and martial art learning Manasi acted in a small role in 'Mata' Kannada cinema. She is now in a sundry role in 'Gowri Puthra' as cop.

'Pandhya' with four heroes - Chandru, Suku, Ravi Markalli and Swami and two heroines Spoorthi and Manasi has completed shooting. Life is a game says director Devu . Sharat Lohitashva, Chitra Shenoy, Sanketh Kashi, Shylaja Joshi, Sangeetha, Muni are in the cast. Gauri Venkatesh is cameraman and Gopikrishna is the music composer for five songs.

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Poorna is 'Chattakari'

After much changes in is lead cast, the new project on the pipeline, the remake of 'Chattakari' has finalised its lead girl. As of now Poorna aka Shamna Kasim will be the one who will be trying to do justice to the role played in the original by none other than Lakshmi.

Shamna who hadn't yet fetched any big role in Malayalam will be taking this as a boon, which can make her dreams of making big in Mollywood successful. 'Chattakari' will be her first major project in Malayalam, though she had done the female lead in half a dozen movies in Tamil. The movie to be produced by Revathy Kalamandir will be also the launchpad of a new director, Santhosh Sethumadhavan, the son of director Sethumadhavan.

Initially it was rumoured that actress like Mythili or Nithya Menon would be in the title role. But the movie which demand some amount of skin show and sensuous scenes was later turned down by both these lead players of current day Mollywood, which forced the makers to look for alternatives.

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Jeetendra & Hema Malini to share screen

Gradually one can see veterans coming back on screen... Mithun Da and Randhir Kapoor in 'Housefull 2', Rishi Kapoor in 'Agneepath', Helen in 'Jodi Breakers'... And now Jeetendra and Hema Malini
While Hema Malini had been busy behind the screen for her daughter Esha Deol's comeback vehicle (Tell Me O Kkhuda), Jeetendra had been a supporting for his daughter Ekta Kapoor's ventures. Buzz is that the two veteran stars will be next seen together in K K Yadav's production 'Barbareek'.

According to sources, the devotional project will feature all the Mahabharat TV show actors. While Hema Malini will play the character of Bheem's wife Hidamba, Jeetendra will essay the role of a devotee.

Earlier, Jeetendra had worked with Hema Malini in 'Dil Aashna Hai', which was nearly 20 years back. Quoted Jeetendra to sources, "It has been a long time since Hema and I have done a film together and its always good working with old friends.

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Grand treat awaits Rahmaniacs

Over 100 orchestra musicians from Germany will perform live on Oscar-Grammy winner A R Rahman's composition in Chennai later today, as part of a program to celebrate 60 years of diplomatic relations between India and Germany.

Titled 'Classic Incantations- The German Film Orchestra Babelsberg performs A R Rahman', the program will be held at Sir Mutha Venkata Subba Rao auditorium at 7 pm. The team earlier conducted similar events in New Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai.

The tour coincides with the celebration of the centenary year of Studio Babelsberg, a film studio located in Germany. After starting its tour in Mumbai, the orchestra then travelled to Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore and now in Chennai, creating a new high point for music lovers across the nation.

Also inducted in the concert tour were about 30 former and current students of the K M Music Conservatory (KMMC), Chennai, a music school run by Rahman. "I hope to inspire youngsters to take up music composing in a big way through these concerts," says Rahman

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Sasikumar to produce Balu Mahendra's next

Veteran cinematographer-director Balu Mahendra is getting ready to wield the megaphone after a long break. Producing the film will be Sasikumar, who, like most of the modern day directors, is inspired by the 'Moondram Pirai' man.

Two important things about this yet-to-be-titled movie is that it would be made inside a house, which is being specially designed for the purpose on a suburb in Chennai. And the budget is just Rs 90 lakh, contrary to the multi-crore trend.

"Balu Mahendra always believed that script and characters are important for the success of a movie, than its budget. So he is making this film to prove this point. Sasikumar is happy to back the venture financially," sources say.

Speaking at a recent function, Balu Mahendra expressed shock that crores and crores of rupees are required these days to make a movie. "I understand that cost of making a film is high today. But still, I can tell you that a quality and watchable movie could be made in lakhs. And I am ready to prove it," he said. It looks like he is all set to do that now

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Darshan magnanimity

Challenging star Darshan has been frequently showing his kindness to people and animal. He has a mini zoo in Mysore and spends over Rs.2.5 lakhs in maintaining different animals at his farm house.

Now the news is that for his birthday on 16th of February is showing another magnanimity. From the profits of his film lauhcing on 16th February from his home banner 'Bul Bul' Darshan is not taking remuneration and the profit earned in the marketing of the film will be distributed to - Dinakar Toogudeepa, Director MD Sridhar, cameraman Krishnakumar, music director V Harikrishna and lyricist Kaviraj - all connected to 'Bul Bul' Kannada cinema.

According to sources Kajal Agarwal has been contacted to play the female lead opposite Darshan. 'Bul Bul' producer is Smt Meena Toogudeepa Srinivas, mother of Darshan and Dinakar.

'Bul Bul' Kannada film held the photo shoot recently and it is a remake of Telugu film 'Darling'.

In the queue for Darshan for release are 'Chingari' and 'Kranthiveera Sangolli Rayanna' is fast nearing completion. He has 'Viraat' in the direction of H Vasu.

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'Arakshaka' Today News

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With no opposition from biggies of non Kannada films (it happened for Ko Ko Koli Kothi and Sidlingu on 13th January 2012) super star Upendra, Ragini and Sada in lead roles with three more big names added to it - director of pretty good success P Vasu, topnotch music director Gurukiran and successful producer Krishna Prajwal raise the expectations of this 'Arakshaka' in which Upendra has variety of performance to treat his fans.

Director P Vasu after 'Aptha Mithra and Aptha Rakshaka' is once again with 'A' letter title and he has made very interesting screenplay of a cop aspirant subject. P Vasu and Upendra are enough to draw good attendance to the theatres


The film 'Arakshaka' (meaning cop) is releasing in over 80 theatres. The film shot in Kerala, Mysore, Channapatna and Bengaluru has five songs. Three songs were shot in Indonesia. The song written and sung by Upendra Thu Nan Makla Gandasra Neevu...has become a favorite song in the chart.

Krishna Prajwal of Udayaravi Films finding big success from 'Aptha Rakshaka' 200th film of Dr Vishnuvardhana is extremely happy for his Rs.7 crore venture 'Arakshaka'. PKH Doss is the cameraman. Suresh Urs editing, Venu art direction, Different Danny dance composition are other credits.

Seetha, Sayyaji Shindhe, Adhi Lokesh, Sharan and others are in the cast

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Venky-Srikanth's film is 'most stylish action entertainer'

Don't go by the get-up of Venkatesh, who has grown a stylish beard for the film with Meher Ramesh, and judge it as a Bollywood film. It is a pucca Telugu entertainer, say the makers of the tentatively titled film, Shadow. Produced by Paruchuri Kiriti, the film also stars Srikanth in a good role. Tapsee and Madhurima are the female leads.

The puja event of the film was performed at Ramanaidu Studios. The event was attended by D Ramanaidu, who switched the camera on, and VV Vinayak, who gave the first clap.

Speaking at the event, Venky said that the film is a big commercial entertainer that will be worthy of special mention in his career. Kona Venkat, the dialogue-writer, said that the story was written in a span of 10 days. He said that the film will be in the true style of Meher's previous films.

The film will be shot in Australia's Sydney and Melbroune, besides Mumbai and Hyderabad. Meher felt happy that he is working with Venky so early in his career.

SS Thaman has already completed composing the intro song for the movie.

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Radhika files check bounce case against Vishal

Vishal's 'Vedi' failed to work at the box-office and has now landed the actor in trouble as well. Radhika Sarathkumar's Radaan Mediaworks bagged the distribution rights of this film for Rs 12 crore and she recovered Rs 3 crore by selling the satellite rights. Vishal gave her a cheque for Rs 9 which has bounced!

Radhika, since Vishal isn't paying the balance sum of Rs 9 crore, filed a complained against Vishal for this cheque bounce case with the Nadigar Sangam and Tamil Film Producers Council (TFPC).

She has sought the help of the two organizations to recover this huge sum.

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Ramadandu to release in Feb first week

Writer-turned Vegeshna Satish's Ramadandu, which is produced by Bandi Radhika Narayana Rao and Bandi Ratnakumar on the banner of Nava Chitralaya Creations is busy wrapping the post-production works with Krishnudu and Soumya in the lead roles.

Director says, 'The film deals with certain points like why India is lagging behind in sports? Why only cricket is becoming popular and why not hockey, which is our national sport? Answers to all these questions could be found in our film. We would like to explain if the sports talent was properly encouraged, we are second to none and we too could reach new heights. Basically the film would be a complete entertainer. We are planning to launch the audio very soon.'

The film stars MS Narayana, Krishna Bhagawan, Kondavalasa, Master Bharath, Prithvi, Ajay Ghosh, Sriram, Jhansi, Master Teja, Master Ajay, Master Chaitanya and others.

Cinematography is by MR Varma. Music is by Sri Vasanth.

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Priyan to remake 'Marykkundoru Kunjadu'

Priyadarshan, who had been immensely successful in Hindi with his rehash of hit Malayalam films, will now take on Shafi's last year hit 'Marykkundoru Kunjadu' for a remake. This movie with Dileep and Biju Menon in the lead roles will have Ranbeir Kapoor and Suniel Shetty in the leads in the remake. Reports are that Priyan has decided to give the title 'Malamaal Weekly' for this remake which will be on floors by this February .One other Hindi movie from the director that is yet to get completed is 'Tezz' which also feature his buddy Mohanlal in an important role.

Priyan had been extremely busy in Kerala for quite some months working as the chairman of Kerala Chalachithra Academi and also rearing his new team in CCL, Kerala Strikers.

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Upendra on Twitter

Extremely busy personality Upendra is on a twitter and he developed this new communication system with the help of Ramya on the sets of 'Katari Veera Sura Sundarangi'. Upendra baffled with the ability of Ramya in using the communication system has got flood of message once he opened his account. With an hour Upendra mobile was hit with technical snag. He had to restart his mobile. All such work is a headache I feel sometime. Otherwise it is the best platform to meet the fans all over.

Upendra speaking to media persons at the pre release of 'Arakshaka' get together says he is not free and familiar with this twitter or face book. The buzzer sound he gets when mobile is in his hands is irritating for creative work he says.

In his new tweeter message Upendra says I am not very fluent in English, I was afraid of making mistakes. So I tweeted about that and my new film is 'Arakshaka'.

Upendra was baffled for another aspect recently when he was told he is No.1 director of the Indian cinema. Such news is in the internet world. I am not able to believe such stunning information says Upendra.

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Ananya to enter wedlock

Wedding bells are ringing loud for Ananya. The 'Nadodigal' and 'Engaeyum Eppothum' actress will marry Anjaneyan, a Trichur-based entrepreneur soon. Their engagement is scheduled to take place on February 3.

Says Ananya, "It was my constant decision to leave my marriage to my parents' choice. When Anjaneyan and his family members approached elders in my family with the wedding proposal, my parents found him as the right man."

The engagement ceremony of Ananya and Anjaneyan is being organized at the actress's house at Perumbavur near Ernakulam. Wedding date is expected to be fixed during the betrothal function, which will be attended by close relatives and friends.

"I don't know whether I will continue acting or not after wedding. Anjaneyan has to decide on that," says Ananya, who is currently acting in a film titled 'Iravum Pagalum'. "I am happy about my parents' choice," she concludes

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Cheque bounce case on Vishal!

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Vishal's 'Vedi' failed to work at the box-office and has now landed the actor in trouble as well. Radhika Sarathkumar's Radaan Mediaworks bagged the distribution rights of this film for Rs 12 crore and she recovered Rs 3 crore by selling the satellite rights. Vishal gave her a cheque for Rs 9 which has bounced!
Radhika, since Vishal isn't paying the balance sum of Rs 9 crore, filed a complained against Vishal for this cheque bounce case with the Nadigar Sangam and Tamil Film Producers Council (TFPC).

She has sought the help of the two organizations to recover this huge sumRadhika, since Vishal isn't paying the balance sum of Rs 9 crore, filed a complained against Vishal for this cheque bounce case with the Nadigar Sangam and Tamil Film Producers Council (TFPC).

She has sought the help of the two organizations to recover this huge sum

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Sukumar Azhikode, passes away

Famous orator and veteran Malayalam scholar and Gandhian Sukumar Azhikode died early morning today at a private hospital at Thrissur. He suffered of cancer and was 85.

A former pro-vice-chancellor of Calicut University and ex-chairman of the National Book Trust, he was in the hospital from the first weeks of December.

Azhikode who was a towering presence of Kerala's cultural world, spoke about literature, philosophy, politics, governance and various aspects of life. His famous work 'Tatvamasi' (1984, Malayalam), an authoritative book on Indian Philosophy, Vedas and Upanishads has won 12 major awards including Indian Sahitya Akademi Award, Kerala Sahithya Akademi Award, and Vayalar Awards.

He refused to accept the Padmashri conferred on him on 2007, stating that such honours were against the Constitution.

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'Poraali' goes to Kannada!

A lil' birdie tells us that 'Poraali', a Tamil hit, will be remade in Kannada by Samuthirakani! It is said that Puneet Rajkumar, a renowned Kannada actor will play the lead whilst Allari Naresh and Vasundara will be seen in the same roles.

The movie tasted success in the Tamil and Telugu BO (dubbed as 'Sangarshana'). The film will also be remade in Hindi by Samuthirakani later this year.

It may be mentioned Samuthirakani currently has three acting projects in Malayalam, namely 'Pathiramanal', 'The Reporter' and 'Veendum Kannur'. His next project as an actor in Tamil, 'Sattai', is taking good shape and will be wrapped shortly.

'Poraali' is indeed going on a pan Indian mode and the director along with it... Great going Samuthirakani!

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Kamal watches 'Nanban

Now that Kamal Haasan is back from the United States after shooting some crucial scenes for his multilingual magnum opus 'Viswaroopam', a special show of 'Nanban' was organized for the Ulaganayagan at a preview theatre in Chennai.
"Vijay, who wanted to show the movie to Kamal, made arrangements for the special screening. Kamal was thoroughly impressed after watching Nanban and was all praise for Vijay, Shankar and others behind the movie," sources say.

They add: "Kamal said Nanban has been carefully made without missing out the essence of the original ('3 Idiots') and at the same time without losing on the nativity front. He hailed Vijay for his performance."

Meanwhile, the audio of 'Snehitudu', the Telugu dubbed version of 'Nanban', was launched in Hyderabad recently, at a colourful function attended by Vijay, Shankar, Sathyaraj and Ileana D' Cruz among others. The Telugu version is expected to hit the screens soon.

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Bodyguard's success attributed to Venky

The success meet of Bodyguard was held in Hyderabad today. Speaking at the press meet, director Gopichand Malineni attributed the film's successful run to Venkatesh and his producer Bellamkonda Suresh. He also expressed satisfaction over the appreciation given to him by Sreenu Vytla and VV Vinayak. "The film is turning out to be the biggest hit in Venkatesh garu's career. Thaman's music, Shyam K Naidu's cinematography, Ram-Lakshman's fights and Kona Venkat's dialogues have also contributed to the final product."

Actress Saloni said that this is the first time that he was cast in a serious character. All along, she has only been playing chirpy roles. "I have learnt new nuances of acting by working with Venkatesh. He is a very patient person and a very good co-star. I have been complimented by my friends and family. The last 20 minutes of the film have been heart-touching. I thank the audience for giving us this hit."

The film is doing well in A, B and C centres. The film has been receiving universal appreciation, and the patronage of family audience has been its backbone

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Happy birthday, Santhanam!

Santhanam who is ruling the roost in Tamil cinema as a comedian, whom every producer and director is vying to feature their films, celebrates his birthday today (January 21).

We must say, Santhanam has changed the scenario of comedy in Kollywood and has received as much screen presence as the protagonist itself in many of his films and the response the young comedian receives in theatres for his entry scenes in films needs no introduction!

He has worked with several top notch actors including Rajinikanth, Vijay, Ajith, Suriya, Madhavan, Dhanush, Simbu, Arya, Jiiva, Jayam Ravi, Karthi and many others.

He currently has a number of interesting projects lined up including 'Oru Kal Oru Kannadi', 'Saguni', 'Podaa Podi', 'Vettai Mannan', 'Thaandavam' and many others.

IndiaGlitz wishes the star comedian a very happy birthday and success with his future ventures.

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An 'Ameya' to roll

A group of youngsters are landing into Mollywood, telling the story of a girl who take up a challenge to travel alone in a bus from Kozhikkod to Thiruvananthapuram. Following the girl Ameya and her acquaintances amidst her 12 hour long travel is the movie titled the same.

'Ameya' will feature Ananya in the title role while Nishan and Gowtham will come up in the male lead.Directed by debutant Ashraf Muhammed in the scripts of Harshad, the movie will feature Salim Kumar, Kalabhavan Mani, Suraj, Vijayaraghavan, Sadiq, Manikandan Pattambi, Kalabhavan Niyas, Sarayu, Lena, Aparna Nair, Geetha Vijayan and others.

Nazar Malik is in charge of the music for the lyrics penned by Rafeeq Ahmed and Shamsad Hussain. Prakash Velayudhan is the cinematographer while Rafeeq Veera is producing the film under the banner of New Face Cinema.

The pooja of the film was held a few days ago at the highway gardens, Kochi where senior director Sibi Malayil did the switch on

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Newcomers with Mammootty for 'Balyakalasakhi'

Director Pramod Payyanur, famous for his television and theatre productions, has stated that he will be using a plenty of freshers in his debut film 'Balyakalasakhi' based on one of the most famous writings in Malayalam. The movie which will have Megastar Mammootty in the lead as late writer Vaikkom Muhammed Basheer's famous character, Majeed, will have at least 15 new names carefully selected from college students and theatre artistes in various other supporting characters. The selection camp will be held from the 22nd of Febuary at various parts of the state. Those who are interested to don a role in the movie can sent their applications to 'Living art and estheis creations, Media Box Office, 28/630-A, K P Vallon road, Kadavanthra from today.

The announcement of the production of 'Balyakalasakhi' was held recently at Ernakulam, which was inaugurated by Prof M K Sanu.The movie which will be on sets soon, will have music by Shahbaaz aman, and Raghavan master. The movie will be on sets by the month of July

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'12 AM' Press Meet Photos Glaaery

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