[For the Date between 20th Oct'03 - 30th' Oct03]
Nagma opens shop in Mumbai
Nagma was last seen in Ajith’s Dhina in a dance number. Her Kannada film Hrudayavantha with Vishnuwardhana was rated reasonably good at the box-office. She has couple of Kannada films on hand. She has started her own production company and looking for good scripts. Apart from acting and teaching ‘Art of Living’ Nagma now has started a fashion clothing store in Mumbai called 'Nagmas', which has international brands like Diesel and Celine. Akshay Kumar inaugurated the shop.
Selva Raghavan is Sri Raghava
Names keep changing when people cross borders. Selva Raghavan, the hot–shot Tamil director and brother of latest sensation Dhanush is known as Sri Raghava in Telugu. The Tamil film 7G Rainbow Colony starring Ravi Krishna (son of AM Rathnam and debuts in Telugu) is 7G Brindavan Colony. This film is supposed to be based on a true story. Genelia plays the heroine Yuvan Shankar Raja scores the music. Sri Raghava is directing this film. The first schedule of this film is currently going on in Hyderabad. AM Rathnam produces this film on Sri Surya movies banner.
Murali in Arivumani
After a brief break, Murali is back and will play the lead role in upcoming Winner Creations’ Arivumani, which depicts the story of an honest person who becomes insignificant after a particular incident and how it takes him a lifetime to prove his innocence. Unnai Saranadainthaen fame Meera Vasudevan is doing the female lead. A new face Dhamini is launched in this film as the second heroine. M.K. Srinivas produces the film. M.A. Kennedy, who has assisted renowned director Agathiyan will do the story, screenplay, dialogues and direction for Arivumani. The shootings for this action and comedy packed film will commence from November.
Kamal announces his films’s name
Kamal Hassan is going to announce the title of his new film on his Birthday which falls on the 7th of November. Earlier Kamal started his film with the title as Sandiyar which created a controversy among Dr.Krishnaswamy of Pudhiya Tamilagam, who wanted him to change the title. This forced Kamal to meet the Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and agreed to change the title of the film after which he commenced the shooting at Theni and Madurai. Subsequently he shifted his location to Chennai and Guindy where a huge set was erected for the film’s purpose at the Campa Cola grounds and shooting is going on there. On Kamal’s 50th Birthday, which will be celebrated at the Nehru Indoor Stadium, he will announce the name of the film and will release the Audio Cassette as well as the Trailer of the film.
Saran turns producer
Director Saran having started his career with Ajith starrer Kaadhal Mannan so far has given five successful films and for this Diwali his much-awaited JJ is expected to hit the theatres. Having proved his mettle as a director he is now venturing in to production. His last film Gemini an action-packed love story went on to become a blockbuster. Fascinated with the name Gemini, he has started a production house 'Gemini Productions' and planned to start off from early next year. Surya will play the lead in the first production and Saran himself directing the film. Director Hari has been roped in for production no.2. MohanKumars.com wishes Saran ‘all the best’ for his new endeavor.
Boys banned by the LTTE
Shankar’s Boys has been banned by the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) for ‘crude sexuality’ and ‘imparting false values among youngsters.’ Though the movie ran to full houses, the LTTE’s film review committee banned the movie in the rebel held parts of Sri Lanka. However censored versions were allowed to run in places like Batticaloa, where Tamil speaking population forms the majority. The LTTE complained that the movie promised false goals with a wrong theme that there is nothing more to life than the pursuit of love. Few scenes like the ones where, a fair-skinned boy speaks in English to a dark-skinned youth, who does not know the language and the one in which the hero of the film is shown walking naked in a crowded road were considered objectionable by the LTTE. Earlier the same group had also banned Baba, and has severely criticized films like Kannathil Muthamittal, Iruvar and Uyire.
Soori in trouble?
Looks like Vignesh’s bad days are not over yet. Soori, which was to give Vignesh the much-needed break like Sethu did for Vikram, is now embroiled in a dispute between the producers Vijayakumar and T.T.Suresh who jointly produced the film. Due to difference of opinion both the partners split when the film was almost complete. Vijayakumar had agreed to pay back the sum of 13 lakhs to Suresh as part of the settlement. Following this Vijaykumar had issued cheques on various dates. All the cheques got bounced and Suresh filed a case in the Egmore court. In the meantime Vijayakumar went ahead with the release of Soori and even conducted a function to release the audio. An agitated Suresh now filed another case in the High court to stop the filming of Soori till his amount was paid. Justice R.Balasubramanian after hearing the case gave the verdict that Soori should not be released and directed Vijaykumar to settle Suresh’s amount. Will Vignesh who tonsured his head 70 times for the film do it once more at Palani temple and hope that Lord Murugan help solve the dispute?
Srikanth and Meera in Jhoot
After Dum Dum, director Azhagam Perumal’s next venture is an action film Jhoot. For the first time Srikanth acts as an action hero. "In today’s scenario only youth are coming to theaters to watch films. So to capture their attention we kept this title Jhoot which is a commonly used slang among youth," says Azhagam perumal. Meera Jasmine is a law student in the film. The innocent Easwaran comes to the city from Tirunelveli and meets Meera and falls for her. How this rustic youth and the modern girl finally unite forms the story. "You would see Srikanth in a totally different role. We have appointed a special gym master for Srikanth and he takes rigorous sessions for a macho look. Meera has lost few kgs. for this film. There is fight scene similar to that of Vijayashanthi’s for Meera. There are no unnecessary sentiments, social messages, and boring advices in the film. It’s a straight, simple fun filled film with action, romance, comedy, dance and music," claims the director. Vivek provides comedy
(Ton)sure route to success
Satyaraj tonsured his head for the film 'Amaidhipadai' and the film went on to be a big hit. Sharat Kumar shaved his head for 'Suryan', and the film's success was a turning point in his career. With this type of 'bald is lucky' sentiment running in the film industry, it's not surprising that they expect down-and-out hero Vignesh to bounce back with his next film 'Soory'! For, Vignesh too has gone bald for the film. In any case, Vignesh needs a hit badly, and hopefully 'Soory' may just be that lucky break!
Vijaykanth seeks 'bachelordom'
It's his 25th year in the film industry, but unfortunately his recent film crashed miserably at the box office. Reportedly, Vijaykanth is now doing a remake-film. Seems the hero is doing the Tamil version of the Malayalam film 'Chronic Bachelor', the Mammootty-starrer which was a big success in Kerala. Co-starring with Vijaykanth will be Kartik and the flick is to be directed by popular Malayalam director Siddique.
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