Thenavattu is going to hit screens only on 21st of November. Initially, slated for a release on 14 November, ‘Thenavattu’, produced by ELK Anthony, will be presented by Sun Pictures throughout Tamilnadu

Rajini is a Phenomenon! – Kamal Hassan

Here are some excerpts of Kamal Hassan’s interview to a movie portal owned by a North Indian Newspaper some time ago in which Kamal says his views on the ‘One and only’ superstar of India. We hope some of the fans have already seen this in some other portals too. Now Kamal speaks… How many films have you actually done with your ‘onscreen arch rival’ Rajinikanth? I think…10, most of them were super hits, though we did have failures. We’ve done three films for our mentor K. Balachander. What’s more, I’ve done guest roles in Rajini’s films. I’d do anything he asks me to, …. more … »

Vaaranam Aayiram is getting a mind-boggling response throughout USA. With Suriya and Gautham Menon joining hands again after their super hit movie “Kaaka Kaaka” the response to the advance bookings for Vaaranam Aayiram is extraordinary and is on full swing in all the cities.

The movie will be premiering in 20 plus centres in USA which is the first time ever for both a Suriya or Gautham’s film. The audience in USA are excited and looking forward for this weekend to watch this Suriya and Gautham’s flick!

Indian Visions: Indian Film Festival of Washington, DC will soon take place from November 13 through November 16. The opening night film is none other than Rock On!! Director Abhishek Kapoor will be attending the opening night to present his film and to interact with the DC audiences.

“I’m sure DC film enthusiasts will enjoy viewing Rock On!! at the Indian Visions Film Festival,” says Amanda Sodhi, Program Coordinator of Indian Visions. “And…” Amanda adds with a smile, “…the fact that Abhishek is attending will bring that extra bit of magik to our festival.”

Looks like DC film enthusiasts are going to have a magik-filled and rocking time at the film festival!

Other celebrity guests who will be attending the film festival and interacting with audiences include Brahmanand Singh, Ashish Avikunthak and Spandan Banerjee. In addition, Harjant Gill, Mona Kumar, Leena Jayaswal and Indira Somani will be leading a panel discussion on the theme of “identity” after the screening of their short films.

Sukumar Srinivasan, the Executive Director of Indian Visions, comments, “Our festival will present several DC premiere films. Designed to educate, entertain and provoke, the programming includes a rich array of feature films and short films in English, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Tamil, Malayalam and Marathi, running the gamut from narratives to documentaries and representing different regions and genres.”

In addition to Abhishek Kapoor’s Rock On!!, other feature films being showcased at the Indian Visions Film Festival are Welcome to Sajjanpur(Shyam Benegal), Naalu Pennungal/Four Women (Adoor Gopalakrishnan),Prapancha Pash/A Throw of Dice (Franz Osten), A Wednesday (Neeraj Pandey), Valu: The Wild Bull (Umesh Kulkarni), Mumbai Meri Jaan(Nishikant Kamat) and Nirakar Chhaya/Shadows Formless (Ashish Avikunthak).

Documentary films Pancham Unmixed (Brahmanand Singh) and Shot in Bombay (Liz Mermin) are also being screened.

Short films which will be screened at the film festival include: The Fiction(Spandan Banerjee), AIDS JaaGo (Mira Nair, Vishal Bharadwaj, Farhan Akhtar and Santosh Sivan), Midnight Lost and Found (Atul Sabharwal),Rewind (Atul Taishete), Haravele Indradhanush/The Lost Rainbow (Dhiraj Meshram), Antaral/End Note (Ashish Avikunthak), Beware Dogs (Spandan Banerjee), The Private Life of Albert Pinto (Sidharth Singh), Between Two Worlds (Mona Kumar), Crossing Lines (Leena Jayaswal and Indira Somani),Milind Soman Made Me Gay (Harjant Gill), Quamar/Working to Live (Preeya Nair), Super 30 (Christopher Mitchell) and Wings of Evolution (Ramesh Mourthy and Raghu Jeganathan).

Director Gowtham doesn’t seem to have been worrying him for the abrupt drop-off with the project of Ajith Kumar and Sivaji Productions. At present, he is busy working on his production venture ‘Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikalam’ starring Trisha in lead role. With the film slated to hit the screens probably by the month of December, he would gear up with Telugu movie with Mahesh Babu in the same month. Simultaneously, he has plans to remake the Telugu in Tamil with Nakul in lead role.

So, what would be his new project that will fill the place of this biggie? Though not the same script, he presented to Ajith Kumar, Gowtham has got an interesting story and Silambarasan has been roped in for playing lead role. Sources have revealed that title of the film maybe ‘Dammal Dumil’ and nothing has been revealed out here. Sooner, official announcements would be made and there are no regrets for Gowtham regarding Ajith…

Not just a perfect filmmaker, Shankar has the ability of picking the potentials out from any filmmaker and presenting their flicks on the screens. Just glimpse through his works as a producer ‘Mudhalvan’, ‘Kadhal’, ‘Veyil’, Imsai Arasan 23rd Pulikesi, Kalloori, Arai En 305il Kadavul and now it’s full off a suspense-thriller.

Anandha Purathu Veedu is a spine chilling thriller that’ll offer nail-biting sequences to the audiences watching it. Naga who churned out the best biggies on small screen Marma Desam, Vidhathu Karuppu, Ramany Vs Ramany and Chindambara Ragasiyam makes his debut directorial with this film.

The flick features Nanda and Chaya Singh in lead roles. As off to everyone’s knowledge, earlier Meera Jasmine was roped to play female lead and due to some unavoidable issues, she has been replaced by Chaya Singh…

Suspense, thriller and mystery together; it has a great work underlying for cinematographer Arun Mani Palani who has plans to play the best with psychological significance on camera angles. It is noteworthy he has bagged the graduation of cinematography from MFA in United States. Debutant Ramesh Krishna scores music to the lyrics of Vairamuthu. Bhavani Shankar takes care of art Direction while Supreme Sundar choreographs stunts. Nikil handles PR works…

Though Naga claims it to be a family story, the grapevine says it ought to be a thriller as naga is known for his stories. The 1st schedule of the movies has already started and going at various places like pollachi & moonar. The main portion of the movie will be shot at deep kerala locations.

Director Gowtham Menon pioneered in Tamil cinema bringing in new genres. Perhaps, many called him as an auteur who can churn out the best films with best styles. Be it his debut directorial Minnale till his forthcoming film ‘Vaaranam Aayiram’, every film has been raising our anticipations more and more. With his ‘Vaaranam Aayiram’ slated to hit the screens this weekend, there lies sad news about Gowtham. Yup! The sensational news about Ajith Kumar and Gowtham Menon project dropping off has sent many to great turmoil.

Sources have revealed that for past one year, ever since the agreement was signed Gowtham Menon didn’t reveal the story to actor or producers either. He wanted his script to be so secret so that if it is revealed to them it get spread out. Nevertheless, Ajith Kumar kept working on shedding his weight to down 25kgs. “You’ll play the role of a gangster and this character will ever remain cherished in the minds of your fans” said Gowtham to Ultimate star Ajith Kumar. So excited and high-spirited, Ajith Kumar started on preparing himself for the film that was supposed to have its filming hit the floors by this month end.

But then, Gowtham revealed the story to both Ajith and Sivaji Productions by last week and that had sent the actor to ultimate shock. Yeah, the actor was supposed to play the role of an international gangster named Abu Salim, who trapped by Indian Police regarding bomb blasts in India. His relationship with actress Monica Bedi is known to everyone and even she was imprisoned. The film was supposed to have Sameera Reddy in the role of actress Monica Bedi. Soon after reading the script, Ajith Kumar and his close friends advised him not to pick this role, since that dampen his mass image amongst his fans as audiences.

So, all that we want to ask Ajith Kumar is you an actor or performer? An actor is the one kind of Ajith who just picks up the role that has only simple and normal characters (Don’t take his Varalaaru’s characterization for this context. It was a good one by Ajith. But a performer is the one who changes his dimension from film to film with his characterization. Maybe Kamal Haasan and Surya would be the only performers in the town right now.

Remember this! Ajith Kumar had missed out the biggest of all opportunities like ‘Ghajini’, ‘Kaaka Kaaka’, Shankar’s ‘Jeans’, Bala’s ‘Nanda’ (Ajith and Sivaji Ganeshan were supposed to perform instead of Rajkiran and Surya) and ‘Naan Kadavul’, Director Vasanth’s ‘Nerukku Naer’ and many films… For over a decade, he is concerned a lot about his image-make over and didn’t step into next level. If Ajith had picked up these projects, he would have been one such actor peaking with glories in film industry….

Zee Tamil’s “Saregamapa- Sangeetha Maha Yudhdham” would offer more platform on terms of entertaining it’s viewers. Here comes one more of that sort… This multi-lingual singing contest for Champions singers of all South Indian States is hitting the small screen this weekend 15th & 16th November 2008 with a mix of Tamil and Telugu songs.

The kids would be singing a combination of duets and solos of reigning singing legends ‘Paadum Nila’ S.P. Balasubramaniam and ‘Chinna Kuyil’ Chitra. As kids from other states croon their voices for Tamil songs of these singers the Tamil Nadu singers would be belting out popular Telugu numbers. Adding that extra bit of expertise and celebrity fervour to the show would be popular singer and film producer Shoba Chandrasekar.

Usha Uthup and Sowmiya would be witnessing the contestants battling out to win the “Best Performance” Trophy of the week with their capturing performances.

Ujjainee, specially trained in Tamil to host this show would as natural be seen interacting and encouraging the kids as they step on the grand stage to deliver their well-practiced performances.

The show would be telecasted on every Saturday and Sunday between 8-8.30 P.M. With Aruna Devanandan handling direction Aryan cranks camera for the reality show. Churchill Pandiyan is the programe coordinator and Paul Jacob has tuned melody for the title song. The most versatile personality in reality shows Subhaa Venkat stands on the shoes of Creative Head…

Director Venkat Prabhu with two very successful movies under his belt celebrated his birthday recently at a farmhouse. Just as his films are known to have a touch of humor in every plausible sequence, the party too brimmed with laughter and excitement.

The name Shankar commands respect not just for the films he has directed but also for the films his production house S Pictures has successfully churned out. The long list of films Mudhalvan, Kaadhal, Veyil, Imsai Arasan 23aam Pulikesi, Kallori and Arai Enn 305-il Kadavul will shortly have a new addition in the