Actor Kamal Haasan and Mahesh to clash?

It looks like Kamal Haasan’s Viswaroopam and Tollywood Superstar Mahesh Babu’s Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu are all set to battle it out at the Box Office.
A slew of Telugu films is lined up for release in January and will be giving a tough competition to Kamal Haasan’s much-anticipated Viswaroopam (the Telugu release).
In the meantime, Chiranjeevi’s Nayak, Venkatesh’s Shadow and Mahesh Babu’s Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu are also gearing up for a January release. Will all these films get theatres for release or will the Teluguversion get postponed? We will have to wait and watch for that.

Actress Manisha Koirala hospitalized

Manisha Koirala, once the darling of cinema buffs across the country has been hospitalized since Wednesday. The 42 year old fell unconscious suddenly and was rushed to the h hospital. The doctors are giving her a thorough check up and it is expected that she will be released once the medical reports are out.

Manisha worked with Mani Ratnam for the super hit film, Bombay and Uyire. Shankar cast this Nepalese beauty in his blockbuster movie Indian opposite Kamal Haasan and later opposite Arjun in Mudhalvan. She was also Rajini’s heroine in Baba.

Recently the actress was seen in the Dhanush starrer, Maapillai which was a remake of a Rajini film of the same name. Manya as she is affectionately called played the domineering mother-in-law’s role. Behindwoods wishes her a speedy recovery.

Maattrraan Movie Completed a run of 50 days

Suriya’s Maattrraan, directed by KV Anand has completed a run of 50 days at the box-office. The movie is running in a few screens across the state despite the influx of the new Diwali releases.

Kajal Aggarwal also had a prominent role in this movie which featured Suriya in the role of conjoined twins. The movie dealt with themes like performance enhancingdrugs, genetic sciences and baby designing. Harris Jayaraj composed some hit tunes for the album.

Team Maattrraan ought to feel satisfied at the outcome at the box-office.

Actor Karthi's Alex Pandian – All You Wanted to Know Is Here!

Karthi starrer Alex Pandian, directed by Suraaj, is one of the high budget films of the year. This film will depict Karthi in a new avatar that fans have not seen henceforth. Yes, he will be seen as a complete action hero that audiences are going to cherish watching on the silver screens. That doesn’t mean that it would be a serious film because the director has included comedy scenes between Karthi and Santhanam to create a laugh riot. In total, Alex Pandian will have some fiery action sequences and amazing comedy scenes. Director Suraaj has proved already that he is adept in handling comedy flicks and Alex Pandian will ascertain that he is good at directing action flicks as well.

The crux of the story is that Karthi is a happy-go-lucky guy who goes to stay as a guest at Santhanam’s home. Why Santhanam hates Karthi and how he gains too many deadly enemies forms the rest of the story.

Karthi is an actor who works tirelessly to prove his mettle. He has done some daredevil stunt sequences in Alex Pandian without bothering about the risks. The train fight sequence is just an example of his hard work and commitment to excel in his work.

The glamorous Anushka will be seen flexing her muscles to fight the baddies as well. The entire Alex Pandian unit is full of praises for the actress for her punctuality, hard work and cooperation.

Santhanam as Jallikattu champ and Mano Bala as hunter will offer comic relief while Milind Soman plays the menacing villain. Suman and Mahadevan are the other baddies.

Alex Pandian has been shot extensively in Chennai, Mysore, Pondicherry, Hyderabad, Chalakudy and Mumbai. For the train fight sequence alone, the producers have shelled out about 70 lakhs and the audiences will experience the magnificence and intensity of this fight scene when seeing it on the silver screens.

Art director Prabhakar had erected 12 sets for Alex Pandian and all the song sequences have been shot here.

Devi Sri Prasad has scored the music for the lyrics penned by Vaali, Viveka and Pa Vijay. Stunt master Ganesh has included some great chasing sequences and stunts to make it even more thrilling for the action lovers.

Produced by KE Gananvelraja under his banner Studio Green, SR Prakash Babu and SR Prabhu are the joint producers of this film.

Actress Simran ready to rock again

Actress Simran, once the ruling queen in Tamil cinema industry was away from films after getting married. Now the actress is planning to turn as a producer and make a movie under her own production house.

Speaking on her film Simaran said “If the script is good then the film will sure make a hit. Many big budget films fail due to bad script. If we have dedication towards our work then only one can succeed in cinema. There is good response for different genre of films from the audiences and they are expecting this from the makers.”

She also brushed aside rumors that she is going to introduce her husband in that film and asked not to believe such rumors.

Simran is known for her slim and well structured hip. But after marriage and becoming a mother she has put on so much of weight.

Now the actress is keen in reducing her weight to shape her structure. Hope so we can see the hip beauty Simran soon. After the marriage the actress entered small screen as the host of the popular show Jackpot in Jaya TV.

Actor Kamal Haasan to release 3000 prints of ‘Viswarropam’

Kamal Haasan’s upcoming spy thriller Viswaroopam (Tamil) has been cleared by the Central Board of Film Certification with a U certificate with minor cuts, while the Hindi version titled Viswaroop got A rating without any cuts.

It is said that Kamal Hassan would release 3000 prints of the movie but the release date is yet to be finalised.

“Totally 3000 prints are to be release. I’ve poured all my energy and focus into Vishwaroopam now. I can’t think of Hollywood project until my current one is complete. Although I have put the idea for the English project together, but I believe it still needs some fine tuning” said Kamal.

Once the release date is decides, I would make an announcement. To understand the movie one needs some general knowledge and worldly wisdom,” he added. It is to be noted the Viswaroopam is the first movie in Indian to have Auro 3D sound technique used in it.

Written, directed and co-produced by Kamal himself, the film stars Pooja Kumar, Andrea Jeremiah, Rahul Bose, Jaideep Ahlawat, Nassar, Zarina Wahab and Miles Anderson in important roles. Shankar, Eshaan and Loy have composed music for the film, while Sanu Verghese has handled the camera.

2 Days to Diwali

Finally three days before Diwali, the films releasing in Tamil for the festival of lights has been firmed up.

They are Ilayathalapathy Vijay’s Thuppakki, STR’s Podaa Podi, Thangar Bachchan directed Ammavin Kaipesi and little known Kasi Kuppam. All these films have announced their release date with censor certificate and theatre listing.

Vijay’s Thuppakki Chengalpet distribution has been firmed up with market guru Aascar Ravichandran snapping the rights at a fancy price. Advance booking started in all theatres in Chengalpetu area from yesterday evening.
In Chennai city where bookings started from early morning on Friday, the response has been very good with most of the ‘plexes being sold out for the first two days.

STR’s Podaa Podi which got it‘s censor certificate late yesterday evening will start its advance booking from Sunday. Ammavin Kaipesi too has announced that their advance booking too starts from Sunday.

Meanwhile Shah Rukh Khan’s Diwali Dhamaka and Yash Raj Films tribute to their mentor and maker Yash Chopra’s Jab Tak Hai Jaan (JTHJ) is releasing in a dozen screens in Chennai city and suburbs.
The advance booking for the film has been very good.

Ajay Devgan’s Son of Sardaar too has got 9 screens in Chennai city with most of the multiplexes giving them small screens, as their priority is JTHJ.

Actress Samantha bags a biggie with Suriya

Looks like Samantha has baaged herself a biggie this time around. Waiting for a upcoming release with Gautham Menon’s Nethanae En Ponvasantham opposite Jiiva, Samantha has been roped in to Lingusamy’s next starring Suriya.

There were reports that Lingusamy was searching for a heroine to play Suriya’s ladylove in his forthcoming production and direction venture.

Suriya is currently working on Singham 2 and would start to work with Lingusamy next. Impressed hearing the script, Suriya agreed to do the movie and search began for the heroine. The names of Anushka, Kajal Agarwal, Hansika did the rounds.

Eventually Lingusamy and Suriya have settled for Naan Eee and Nethanae En Ponvasantham fame Samantha to settle for the role.

Samantha is busy with her shoots for Gautham Vasudev Menon bi-lingual Neethaane En Ponvasantham (NEP) in Tamil and Yeto Vellipoyindhi Manasu (YVM) in Telugu, but the buzz is that she has signed on the dotted lines.