Climatic conditions are always contrastive for film industries and lay people. When there is a good sunlight, there are people saying it’s unbearably hot and what those who are filming would say? ‘Awesome, we’ve a good lighting’. So, when clouds are showering their heavy downpour it’s gonna be a merry time for lay people while a disastrous one for film units. Just imagine the great sets erected by art directors in outdoors for shooting and other unit members like Mani Rathnam’s bilingual project teaming up with short scheduled call sheets.

And now due to unbearable heavy flooded rainfall, shooting of around 40films has been called off. Some of them are ‘Adhi Narayana’, Sathyaraj’s ‘Sangamithra’, K T Kunjumon’s home production ‘Kadhalukku Maranam Illai’, Raghava Lawrence starrer ‘Rajathi Raja’, T P Gajendran’s ‘Magane En Marumagane’ and Odum Megangale’.

The entire film units are really distressed about the continuous downpour….

Be it successes or failures, nothing seemed to have an impact on Kavithalaya Productions owned by ace director K. Balachandar. It was a dream for K. Balachandar and his daughter and son-in-law to produce a film for his protégés Rajnikanth and Kamal Haasan. Well, their dreams of featuring Rajnikanth were fulfilled with ‘Muthu’ that turned to be a great blockbuster all across the World. Nevertheless, it wasn’t their fault of ‘Kuselan’ turning to be a great disaster for them in box office. And now, the production is so keen in churning out a film for Kamal Haasan.

Speaking on this, K. Balachandar’s son Kandasamy says, “We wanted to make a film for Kamal Haasan that’ll get him for a world class show as Muthu did for Rajnikanth. At present, Kamal Haasan is working on a script and sooner we will be launching our venture once things are decided”.

She is just not an actress when it comes to Selvaraghavan for the film ‘Aayirathil Oruvan’ for there is something more. The actress has been in a special deal with Director Selvaraghavan more than her on-screen performance. Yeah! As everyone knows she’s a great singer; Selvaraghavan had obliged G.V. Prakash to rope her in for rendering voice for couple of songs in ‘Aayirathil Oruvan’.

Soon after the compositions and recording, G.V. Prakash the young lad seems to have been more impressed with missy’s beauteous voice. Speaking on this, the music director says that soon after the audio release of this film, Andrea is sure to go high on places.

It’s not just the producers and distributors who decide for films’ releases and monsoon too has a great role in doing so. Earlier Poo had some troubles in getting released since one of the directors had registered a case against. However, with the issues settled down the film is releasing all over the places. On the contrast, Mahesh Saranya Mattrum Palar that was sure to get released with good centres has been shelved from the release.

The reason may sound ridiculous, but you have to believe it. Producers of the film, Cool Productions have stated that with many parts of Tamil Nadu flooded with heavy rains, the audiences wouldn’t make their way to theatres and so it would a drop in collections for the first week. As everyone knows, on the fourth day pirated videos of the film will be available in stores, they have delayed the film’s release for 4-5days ahead. So, it’s gonna be Poo Vs Ellam Avan Seyal on tomorrow.

Jayashree, the versatile actress is known for her spellbinding performance in all her films. Her debut flick itself with Director Sridhar won her laurels all across the film industry and she continued with same efforts. Some of her films include Visu’s Thirumathi Vegumathi, Thali Dhanam by director R C Sakthi and Karthik starrer Pistha. She was equally popular in Telugu and Malayalam filmdom having acted with the likes of Mammooty. Married and settled abroad since 1988, she was flooded with several offers from various south Indian languages…

However, the mother of two sons was in no mood to make a comeback in silver screen unless she came across a meaty role. Jayashree, who anchored a reality show in a prominent Tamil satellite channel, is finally ready to take a plunge into cinema again. She has been assigned to do a prominent role in Mirchi Movies’ Kadhal 2 Kalyanam. She readily agreed to it because she was highly impressed with the script of the movie.

It’s almost end of the year 2008 and a disappointing year for Tamil cinema for none of the film have really turned to be blockbusters. The expected films were turned into bonkers while few of the underrated ones picked up well at box office. In fact, the superstars, big directors and team with high budgets weren’t pleasing for audiences.

Kollywood Today offers an open opportunity for it viewers in choosing their favorite and best actors of 2008.

Actor Kamal Haasan – Dasavatharam and Kamal Haasan appearing in 10 avatars were really diminishing the flaws on the screen. Few may ask if the 10 roles were really necessary and others were quite excited about it. So, it was a mixed bag of appreciations for Kamal Haasan.

Actor Vijay – It was just a film this year with ‘Kuruvi’. The actor has excelled in his quotients of dance, humor, comedy, emotions and romance. So he’s been a perfect on commercial vistas.

Actor Ajith – He could maintain his standard of ‘Billa’ by gearing up with ‘Aegan’, a classy entertainer for all centres. Precisely, his dance and stunts were really extraordinary….

Actor Surya – A 30 yr old guy depicting himself from various age groups between 18-70yrs is something out of box. He has stridden with lots of potentials winning grand round of applause from all corners with ‘Vaaranam Aayiram’.

Actor Pasupathy – He’s off a versatile style just getting under the skin of every character he plays. Be it negative, a lead or a character role, Pasupathy does it with an ease and he is something rare of a style. His spellbinding performance in ‘Kuselan’ and a wonderful stroke with minimal prominence in ‘Raman Thediya Seedhai’… So, if every actor has got under spotlights with one film, he does it with his couple of flicks.

Well, here goes the list of best actors’ categories for 2008. The polls are open till the end of this year and you can vote your favorite ones. Kindly note it no such bad or abusive words should be used. And hurting anyone’s feeling or unwanted comments will be eliminated immediately. It’s an open interaction and everyone can brim with their decent approach making it a successful.

Very shortly, we would be getting the polls based on Year’s best film, best actresses, Music Directors, Cinematographers, Editors, Supporting actors and actress, new faces of the year.

Majority of votes would be calculated and termed as winners…. Remember! The best entries with good comments will be chosen and they have a surprise gifts awaited for them.

Just not get perplexed with the fact that Ameer and Ajith Kumar are in talks about remaking yesteryear comedy classic ‘Bale Pandiya’. This is something about talented personalities joining hands together for a comedy film that’s not a remake of the same film. AGS Entertainment has already churned out the biggest blockbusters ‘Thiruttu Payale’ starring Jeevan in lead and Santhosh Subramaniam with Jeyam Ravi and Genelia D’ Souza. Now, he steps in the production of this film that has the versatile publicity designer wielding megaphone for the first time. Siddharth Chandrasekhar, the renowned publicity designer who has designed publicity for smash hits like Sivaji, Dasavatharam, Ghajini, Anniyan,Chandramukhi, Vetaiyadu Vilaiyaadu, Jeyam Kondan, Santhosh Subramaniam, Dhaam Dhoom, Paruthiveeran, Unnale Unnale and forthcoming films like Endhiran, Kandasamy, Silambattam will be writing and directing this film.

Prasanna who has been focusing on gearing up with unique characters in each of films plays lead role. Playback singer Devan, who has also performed character roles in many films, makes his debut as a music director with this film. The famous cartoonist and film critic Madhan pens dialogues for the film and earlier he had performed the same task for Kamal Haasan’s Anbe Sivam. Also he has crafted dialogues for the forthcoming well-acclaimed film ‘Kanchivaram’ directed by Priyadarshan. Gurudev cranking camera for most expected films like T.N. AL. 4777 and Yogi is the cinematographer. Don Max who has been involved in editing for films Thennavattu, Silambattam, Jaggubhai and Enga Veettu Pillai will make his cuts ‘n’ pastes. Raju Sundaram is the choreographer while Stun Siva choreographs for stunts. The film speaks about the hidden talent in a person and the reaction of this when exploited is the crux of the story. The story has been penned Siddharth Chandrasekhar.

Kavithalaya, the production house run by Kamals mentor K Balachandar has expressed its desire to produce a movie casting Kamal Haasan.

The release of ‘Magesh, Saranya Mattrum Palar’ has been postponed following heavy rains throughout the state.