The year 2008 has so far been a forgettable one for Tamil cinema as some real biggies like Kuselan and Sathyam took a tremendous blow at the box office.

All eyes are on director Darani now. The ace film-maker of Tamil cinema, who rendered several hits including Dhil, Dhool, Gilli and Kuruvi, is keeping his lips tight about his forthcoming venture.

After two decades, Kamal Haasan seems to coming back to Malayalam. A film titled Parayan Baakky Vachathu featuring Kamal Haasan and S P Balasubrahmaniyam in the lead had its pooja last week at Aluva.

Madhavan is going strong and steady. The romantic hero of Tamil Cinema, is currently shooting for a Hindi movie in Ladakh. He plays a prominent role in the movie opposite Amitabh Bachchan.

Napoleon’s Jeevan IT Academy (JITA) has launched a new IT training programme for final and pre-final engineering students here on Monday. The two month training programme aims to provide 360 degree training to the students including soft skill and on-job trainings for students undergoing their final year project. The Campus Readiness Project (CRP) is a two months course consisting of 400 hours of training which also includes a real time project.

Anna University Vice-Chancellor Mannar Jawahar and JITA chairman and actor D Napoleon also participated. Further information regarding this can be had in their website www.jeevanitacademy.com.

One of the worst horror flicks directed by Ram Gopal Varma was Darling featuring Farhan Khan, Isha Gopikar and Eesha Deol in lead role. The film is a mystery-horror that didn’t do extremely well at the box office. Fine, we have a strange thing happening down here as one of the director Kona Venkat remaking this film. It’s a bilingual flick in Telugu and Tamil featuring Madhavan, Sadha and Shamitha Shetty in lead role. Audio for the songs were launched yesterday at Ambassador Pallava with the presence of Director Kona Venkat, Producer Saurav Sharma and actress Sadha.

The film has four music directors G.V. Prakash Raj, R.P. Patnaik, Dharan and P. Shekar. But nothing really has been worked out by this music director. Probably, the songs may fetch some credits after the film hits the screens…

Weeks before, a buzz spread across the air that a film based on the love affair of yesteryear actress Sri Vidhya is getting filmed. Yes, the Malayalam film titled ‘Thiraikadha’ featuring Prithviraj, Samvritha, Anup Menon and Priyamani in lead role is about the hidden love story of actress Sri Vidhya who breathed her last in the year 2006 due to prolonged illness. Ranjith, director of this film is a very close friend of Sri Vidhya and he carries all her personal diaries with him.

According to the sources, it has been revealed that the diary penned by her conveyed the fact that Sri Vidhya was in love with a famous actor in 1970 and about their affair. Though not the exact replica, Director Ranjith has added certain aspects of reality and few on innovative style. The entire film is about shooting of a flick with Prithviraj as the director, Anup Menon and Priyamani as actor and actress. Priyamani plays the role of actress Malavika (Actual inspiration of Actress Srividhya). Personal meetings of these celebrities as well conveying their love and feelings through their eyes in shooting spots has been delivered in this film.

As soon as the news about this film spread and with Ranjith using the pictures of Sri Vidhya for the promotion of this film, all the shows are running house packed for the first week. Probably, the film would be dubbed into Tamil. Remember, Sri Vidhya is a famous actress who has acted more than 150 films in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada…

Great your senses cool down! it’s not Nicole Kidman and it’s our Nicole of Kollywood. Making her debut with ‘Adada Enna Azhagu’, Nicole with her stylish sleek looks has already turned out to be a great attention grabber as well heartthrob among young lads. ‘Adada Enna Azhagu’ featuring Jai Akash in lead role with Nicole starring him opposite in the female lead.

Getting on to speak about the swimsuit she wore for this film, Nicole says that she is a modern girl and it’s not a big deal about wearing it. Well, director and producer of this film felt that wearing this costume would add to the glamour quotient. “Those shots will appear for a short time for a song and I will not accept to wear swimsuits in any of my projects” added the young missy. Soon after completing this film, she will pair up with Prasanna for the film ‘Nai Kutti’ (Does she play the role of puppy? We have to wait and see)…

The long time buzz has finally come to an end and it’s a confirmed fact now. Yes, reports flying across the air were that Malayalam actress Meera Jasmine would be pairing up with Vijayakanth in one of his forthcoming flicks. Fine! Now she has agreed to pair up with him for the film ‘Mariyaadhai’ directed by Vikraman. Remember, the duo combo of Director Vikraman- Vijayakanth had earlier swayed successful with ‘Vaanathai Pola’.

Speaking about this film, Director Vikraman says that Mariyaadhai will be off a different theme and would have carry on his clichéd attributes of emotions and sentiments. Also added that Vijayakanth plays dual role with Meera Jasmine in female lead and pursuit is on one more heroine. Churning out the successful film, T.Siva of Amma Creations produces this film with Vijay Antony scoring music. Shooting for this film will hit the floors by next month and lots of expectations are raised among all the centres…

Crossing various genres of music, Tamil Cinemas has experienced a wide round of classics, raps and more. Here comes music director Mariya Manohar who had different plans for his forthcoming flick. Are you guessing, who this Mariya Manohar? Probably, because he is new to Tamil Cinema and made his debut with the film ‘Nayagan’ featuring J.K.Ritish and Ramana in lead and now he has been immersed in lots of offers.

His next film produced and directed by unknown film personalities is titled as ‘Naalum Therinja Irandu Paer’. The entire songs in this album will be tuned in the Hip Hop kind of style. Hip hop style is nothing but uttering dialogues, singing rap and blending with musical tunes. Mariya Manohar has been a sound engineer for several projects and learned the music professionally and also has released music albums in Hindi.