Dookudu shooting details

Mahesh Babu’s new film Dookudu in the direction of Srinu Vytla is progressing at rapid pace. Currently, the film’s shoot is taking place in Aluminum factory and recently few scenes on Mahesh and Brahmanandam are canned at a private house in Khairatabad. Dookudu is yet to complete 30 days of shooting.

Samantha is playing the leading lady in this action cum comedy entertainer. Anil Sunkara, Ram Achanta, Gopichand Achanta are producing the film on 14 reels entertainment banner. Thaman is composing the tunes and the audio is likely to be launched in the second week of August.

Stick to way2movies for more details on Mahesh’s Dookudu.

Top music directors remuneration details!

A few days ago we have come across the remuneration package of the leading actress and now we are going take a look at the remuneration of top music directors. It is not only the top actors or actresses, who are being paid high but the music directors too match the figures of actors and actresses.

Top music directors list includes the names of Harris Jayraj, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Devi Sri Prasad, Mani Sharma, Thaman, Keeravani, Koti, Mickey J Meyer, G. V. Prakash Kumar, Vijay Anthony and others. Let’s take a look at some of the top of top music director’s remuneration details.

Harris Jayraj one of the top music director off course most happening too is charging Rs 1.5-2 crore remuneration for each film. His compositions take a special place in the hearts of all music lovers. Next comes Yuvan Shankar Raja the most busy composer of South is currently charging Rs 1 crore as his salary. He has nearly 10-12 projects in hand at present. Devi Sri Prasad the most energetic music director is paid Rs 1-1.5 crore.

Melody king Mani Sharma is getting Rs 75 lakhs-1 crore for his compositions for one film. Thaman, actor turned music director is charging Rs 50-60lakhs and is currently the busiest music director in Tollywood.

Parvathi Melton is back

Parvathi Melton, who acted in Vennela, Madhumasam, Jalsa etc, took a long break from Telugu screens for quite some time. Though Paravathi has paired up with top stars in Tollywood, she failed to deliver success and create her mark. Now, the actress is back in Tollywood again by signing a new film opposite Puri Jagannadh’s brother Sai Ram Shankar.

The film is touted to be socio-fantasy project to be directed by Y Jitendar. The film is based on the story of Yama Dharmaraja and Chitragupta where Real Star Srihari is zeroed in to play the role of Yama in the movie. G Vijaykumar Goud is producing the film.

The regular shoot of the film will commence from September and major part of the film will be canned in US.

Dirty Picture progressing at Hyderabad

Ekta Kapoor’s ambitious film, ‘Dirty picture’ with Vidya Balan in the lead is progressing briskly at Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad. The film on the life and times of southern item girl Silk Smitha will see Vidya Balan portraying her role.

The shoot in Hyderabad is taking place at a special set erected for the film. Earlier director Milan Luthria shot some portions in a big set at Film City in Mumbai resembling 80’s Madras.

The pre-production for Dirty Picture began seven months ago. Production designer, art team and one of Milan’s assistants toured Chennai, Mysore, Puducherry, Ooty and Hyderabad for two months by bringing 2000 pictures which are being utilized for the sets to be erected.

Nasseruddin Shah, Emraan Haashmi and Tusshar Kapoor are playing other key roles. The film is set to release on November 10, 2011.

Two weeks of shooting left for Reema Kagti’s film with Aamir

Aamir Khan’s next featuring him in the lead has completed its major part of the shoot. Only two weeks of the films shoot is left which will be canned in August.

This untitled film starring Aamir Khan, Rani Mukherjee and Kareena Kapoor in the lead is still searching for a   title. Aamir in a recent interview did state that he will be most relieved if the unit finds a title.

The film on the lines of a suspense drama will see Aamir returning to cop avatar after his acclaimed outing in Sarfarosh. According to Aamir, it is unusual script and audience will like it as off late they aren’t any suspense films that were made in India.

Produced by Excel Entertainment private limited, the film is set to release on 26 January, 2012.

Asin and Genelia in Bol Bachchan

Brushing rumors aside regard the possible casting of south actress Samantha in Bol Bachchan, trade sources are abuzz that Rohit Shetty has signed on Asin and Genelia for ‘Bol Bachchan’ starring Ajay Devgn and Abhishek Bachchan in the lead.

This would be the first time that two actresses, Asin and Genelia, who both made big in south films are working together. Bol Bachchan will be a tribute to yesteryear’s classic Golmaal [1978] directed by the legendary Hrishikesh Mukherjee.

In Bol Bachchan, the Guru star will play Amol Palekar's famous double role and his Yuva co-star [Devgn] will essay Palekar’s boss which was played by Utpal Dutt in the original.

Ajay Devgn is producing Bol Bachchan. It will move on floors in August at Ramoji Film city, Hyderabad. Meanwhile both Ajay and Rohit are in plans to promote ‘Singham’, which is scheduled to release on July 22.

Saif, Abhay in battle of the zombies

The fascination of Indian audiences with ghosts, spectres and ghouls will now be extended to zombies as two zom-coms -- Saif Ali Khan-produced "Go Goa Gone" and Abhay Deol-starrer "Shaadi of the Dead" -- are set to go on floor at the same time.

"Shor in the City" co-directors Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K.'s "Go Goa Gone" is about a bunch of youngsters out to have fun who get assailed by zombies while "Manorama 6 Feet Under" director Navdeep Singh's 'Shaadi..." is about an attack by zombies while a Punjabi wedding is on.

Both the projects take a lighter look at the cult of zombies.

Interestingly, both the projects want to get on with their respective zombie films on the floor immediately. Each one wants to be the first zombie film to hit the screens.

While Kunal Khemu, who plays the lead in "Go Goa Gone" feigns ignorance of the other project, "Shaadi..." producer Sid Jain says he's aware of the other project.

"More films will help widen the genre, so I'm happy someone else is attempting a zombie film. But I plan to make a series of zombie flicks. In fact, even before "Shaadi..." goes on the floors, we have planned the sequel 'Honeymoon Of The Dead'," he said.

Sameera juggling between Bollywood and Kollywood

Bombshell Sameera Reddy, who’s last Bollwood film was “Red Alert: The War Within” is making sure that she has enough work down south too. Sameera’s next big Bollwyood release would be Priyadarshan’s ‘Tezz’ in which she is sharing screen space with Ajay Devgn and Anil Kapoor.

The actress has performed daredevil stunts in Tezz. She had to do bike stunts where she was injured apart from performing an under water scene at a temperature of three degrees. In the meantime, Sameera is also completing her Tamil projects.

Her film ‘Vettai’ with director Lingu Swamy opposite Madhavan is on the verge of getting completed and she has almost wrapped up shooting for Prabhu Deva’s ‘Prabhakaran’ with Vishal in the lead. In Vettai, Sameera is playing the role of a villager, who is gutsy and speaks her mind whereas in Prabhakaran, she will be seen as a bubbly city girl.

“Tezz shoot with @ajaydevgn &Anil Kapoor in Scotland then Vettai wt @actormadhavan in Thirenchendur! now home sweet home with the family”, posted Sameera on micro-blogging site ‘twitter’ after returning  to Mumbai from 53 days shoot.

So with Bollywood films and south films, Sameera is sure one busy actress these days.

ndless barrage of compliments for Bbuddah: Big B

Big B’s film Bbuddah-Hoga Terra Baap has released Friday. The film, which sees Bachchan returning to his angry young man avatar has been the talk of the town and is trending on twitter since yesterday. On hearing some great things about Bbuddha, Big B took to his blog to explain what he felt.

“There has been an endless barrage of compliments and good wishes coming along. From friends, from the Industry, from senior journalists and even from Shobha De ..!! I told her coming from you means that the film will succeed .. Ha ha ! She responded back by saying she and her husband were celebrating that with a drink”, posted Big B on his blog.

“For me the people and the masses are the true trade guiders. They make or break us. They go and spend the kind of money that gives them access to our work and therefore, they get all my acceptance marks when judgement is to be confirmed”, added Big B.

In the film Bachchan plays the role of a sharp shooter Vijay, who is on his last mission to complete in Mumbai.

Bipasha compliments Delhi Belly

It’s not what usually a Bollywood actress associates with unless it is her film but Bipasha Basu was mighty impressed with Aamir Khan’s Delhi Belly which released Friday.

Says Bipasha; Saw Delhi Belly last night!Its a crazy good film!Laughed so much!Abhinay deo d director is super talented!Everything abt d film was awesome!

She also added by saying that, “Ram sampat's music fr Delhi Belly is so crisp,bold, entertaining n in sync with the film!”. The actress was all praises for the song swity swity swity.

Delhi Belly starring Imran Khan, Vir Das and Kunal Roy Kapur in the lead took a great opening at the BO yesterday. It released alongside Amitabh Bachchan starrer Bbuddah- Hoga Terra Baap.

Shahid Kapoor completes Mausam

‘Mausam’, Pankaj Kapoor’s ambitious project with his son Shahid in the lead has completed its shoot. Since two years Shahid was associated with the film. Sonam Kapoor is playing Shahid’s love interest in the film.

“Final patchwork is done. It's a wrap for me on Mausam," said Shahid by suggesting that the film is over. In the film Shahid plays the role of an Air Force officer. He had to take a month long training in order to prepare for his role. The actor has flown F-16 fighter plane thus becoming the first Bollywood actor to do so.

Mausam did run behind its schedule. It had several stoppages and incidents which had an affect on the films progress. It was scheduled to release on July 22 of this year but the makers of the film postponed it to September 9 before once again changing the date to September 16.

Helmed by Pankaj Kapoor, Mausam is produced by Sheetal Talwar and Sunil A. Lulla.

Gnanavel Raja sues on Bollywood Singam!

Gnanavel Raja, producer of Surya‘s Tamil blockbuster Singam has moved to Chennai High Court for seeking ban on the film’s Hindi version.

He filed a petition in the court and claimed that Reliance Entertainment ltd, the producer of Hindi version of Singam has refused to hand over the agreed share in the film’s sale amount.

According to his petition, the Ajay Devgan – Kajal Agarwal starrer Hindi version has sold for Rs 80 cr and reliance has to give him Rs 12.5 cr as share from the sale amount.

Justice Rama Subramaniyam has accepted petition and ordered to send the notice to Reliance for further proceedings.

Vishal’s thanks giving for journalists

‘You have been my greatest support from the time, I made by debut with ‘Chellame’. You have stood by me during the speculative times and I am really grateful to you’ says Vishal. The actor is high in spirits winning incredible laurels for his performance in Bala’s ‘Avan Ivan’. The actor mentions that he is vigorously shooting for Prabhu Deva’s tentatively titled film ‘Prabha’, a remake of Telugu movie ‘Shouryam’.

Speaking about the working experience with Prabhu Deva, he says, “When we were watching the film ‘Shouryam’, there was a deep thought that Prabhu Deva would be the apt person to remake it in Tamil and so signed him.”

The actor has assured of meeting the media personnels and journalists personally and interact about the project he is working right now.

‘Nanban’ team in Coimbatore

Director Shankar is fast on the heels of completing his next film ‘Nanban’, which is a remake of ‘3 Idiots’. Since It’s a remake project, Shankar hasn’t gone for any big changes in the script, but has added more creative appeal to the scenes as we hear it from the inside reports. What’s more interesting about the film is that Shankar is planning to complete the shooting by end of August, thereby having a theatrical release by December.

The film’s shooting is now happening down there in Coimbatore, where the scenes involving Vijay, Srikanth and Jeeva are being shot.

Harris Jayaraj and Madhan Karky together are working on the songs and this morning recorded as a second song that is reported to be an inspiring track.

Sonakshi Sinha walks out of Kamal’s Vishwaroopam

Sonakshi Sinha, the hot irl in Bollywood has withdrawn herself from Kamal Hassan‘s yet to be launched, much publicised project Vishwaroopam.

Sonakshi has signed the bilingual, in which she was to play Hassan’s wife, has opted out due to her prior commitment to Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s project, ‘Rowdy Rathod’.

Her decision to opt out comes as a surprise since the actress was very enthusiastic when she initially signed the film. Even the age difference between Hassan and her did not hinder the actress from taking on the role.

In a media report, Sonakshi stated, “I don’t think that age should be a bar to essay the role of Kamal Hassan’s wife. When I stand before the camera, it is the role that matters. It is not an easy task to act with Kamal. I was a little scared, initially. Language too will not be a problem for me.”

However, Sonakshi’s enthusiasm had fizzled out, when the film failed to go on floors as scheduled. Shooting for the film was to start from the first week of June but the plan was squashed when director Selvaraghavan walked out of the project.

Remember Sonakshi was the first choice for Superstar Rajini’s Rana, but was omitted from the project due to the actor was uncomfortable to pair up with his friend Shatrughan Sinha’s daughter.

Health Reason Behind Saree Below Navel

If there is one reason why being an Indian woman is a blessing, it is because of the culture and tradition. And the other reason why we ladies must be thankful to god is for the creation of Saree and giving it exclusively for the Indian ladies to wear. While that has become a synonym for representing us, there are many advantages of wearing a saree. On a naughty note, if the saree is tied below the navel, the impact it creates on the opposite gender needs no introduction.

 

Puri Reveals Charmy's Secret

The last few days has been seeing a strong gossip about Puri Jagannadh and his ‘close’ equation with Charmy. This got further ignited with the fact that Charmy had a full length role to play in Puri’s latest Bollywood offering ‘Bbuddah..Hoga Terra Baap’. Now, another update has arrived.

 

Puri was reportedly sharing his thoughts when he revealed that Charmy is getting tremendous calls from Bollywood after watching her act in ‘Bbuddah…’. While he maintained that she is getting many offers, he added that they are not to be revealed now.

 

If that be true then it must be said just when all thought Charmy’s career was coming to an end she has bounced back with a bang. And if the Puri version works out then there is no doubt that Tollywood has given away yet another talented beauty to the other cine circuits.               

Popular Writer Turns Hardcore Villain

These are the days where multiple roles are the name of the game in the cine circuit. Directors becoming heroes, comedians becoming heroes, heroes becoming directors, heroes becoming villains, singers becoming music directors etc is the latest fad. Now, the turn has come for a writer to reveal a new side.

 

We are talking about the writer Kona Venkat and he is all set to make his debut into acting with the film ‘Endukante..Premanta’ starring Ram and Tamannah. The interesting bit is he is donning the role of a villain, as per sources. Now, he has also got a new name ‘Don Kon Ven’ owing to his debut.

 

The cine folks say that Kona Venkat has strong links with directors Puri and Ramgopal Varma. On the other hand, he has direct links with Salman Khan as well. So, the chances are that he may get Bollywood offers also shortly. Let us see how this Telugu writer shows his talent in front of the camera.

'Bbuddah'- Puri's 2nd Venture-What About 3rd?

It was with great hype and hoopla that the film ‘Bbuddah…Hoga Terra Baap’ was promoted and released. The reason for that was it marks the arrival of Tollywood director Puri Jagannadh into Bollywood. But now, the big question is, what is the future of Puri in Bollywood?

 

The reason for this speculation is due to the first reports from box office. It is heard that ‘Bbuddah..’ has raked in poor openings despite good critical reviews. It’s only on the fate of word of mouth that it should work out now. On the other hand, it was being stated that this was Puri’s debut flick but truth is, he came up with the film ‘Shart’ starring Tusshar Kapoor few years back.

 

Both his debut and latest projects scoring negative and an already negative streak running in Tollywood, the chances of Puri making it big in Bombay is dull. However, he has one last chance with ‘The Businessman’ starring Abhishek Bachchan, his 3rd B-Town venture. While Puri has proven himself as a good technician, he is unable to break the box office, if he can fill that small gap then his future will be secure in both the circuits.

Rajamouli's 'Eega' Available In English?

Though director S S Rajamouli is highly regarded for his streak of successes, there is always a talk that his films draw inspiration from Hollywood. His last project ‘Maryada Ramanna’ was touted to be an inspiration from the old Hollywood flick ‘Our Hospitality’ but Rajamouli managed it with nativity element.

 

Now something has come up regarding his ongoing venture ‘Eega’. Sources say this has been inspired from the movie ‘The Fly’ which came in the year 1986 starring Jeff Goldblum. If this is true then it remains to be seen how Rajamouli has brought nativity to the Telugu version.

 

Those who heard this buzz say “If the lifting from the Hollywood version is true then Rajamouli knows what he is doing. So it is obvious that he would do enough to ensure that the nativity factor, the connect with the Telugu audience is maintained.” Only Rajamouli can answer this one now.

Actor Krishnudu Missed In New Jersey

Actor Krishnudu, who is popularly known as ‘Vinayakudu’ for Telugus was found missing in New Jersey yesterday. He went there for NATS event and accompanied with 4 NATS representatives for a shopping mall. After a while the 4 men discovered that Krishnudu was missing. They tried a lot searching for him but efforts turned vain. There was no mobile with him as well. After a while Krishnudu discovered that the 4 men were missing. He came out of the mall and was looking around. Out of his fate, two Telugu men identified him and came towards him to wish him.

Then Krishnudu said in his typical Bheemavaram slang, “Nenu NATS ki vachchaanandi. Naatho paatu naluguru vachchaaru. Nenu vaallani vadilesaano, vaallu nannu vadilesaaro ardham kaavatledu. Konchem nannu NATS event daggara drop chesthaara”?

The two Telugu men those hail from Vijayawada understood his plight and dropped him considering that as their privilege.

Ramyasri goes nude

In early stages of entry into industry, Ramyasri rated herself as an artist who is here to settle as heroine (!). Later on she degraded to sensuous exposing in homely costumes becoming the sexy vamp attracting B and C class audience. With no significant improvement in result, Ramyasri accorded for Ozomen condom ad that became most famous by her erotic expressions on screen. 

Now, the ravishing lady has gone for almost a nude session. Unfortunately many of the media persons averted these photos before coming out into public. Inner sources say that Ramyasri took personal interest in circulating her nude pics through internet and now they have become hot stock for men. Well, touch her if you have enough guts.

Skeleton hero set to disappear

Continuous flops striking the career of lean hero Varun Sandesh has put him on the verge of disappearance from industry. The latest release of ‘Brahmi Gadi Katha’ with Asmita Sood and Poonam Kaur along with Brahmanandam is declared one of the biggest duds with no chance of surviving at BO. As Varun Sandesh is also failing to improve his acting talents, non stop irritating with his foreign accent of Telugu is giving new head aches to audience.

The NRI guy who early in his stages attempted for variation in characters is now accustomed to boring regular young boy roles. With on flow of young talents in a hurry into industry proving themselves as all-rounders, skeleton boy like Varun Sandesh may find no place in future if he does not recover with next two films.

Raped lady gets Rs.5 Crore offer

Maria susairaj, the Kannada actress famous for Neeraj Grover Murder case walked free from a Mumbai prison after completing the punishment of three years imprisonment. Given her craze in media and public, here comes first big offer for her in the form of ‘Bigg Boss’ reality show. Yes, the sexy killer girl may be seen in the next edition of this show.

According to sources, the production house already has her name among the top three contestants. We know that controversial ladies are always the most potential candidates for such reality shows and Maria is more of such nature. In the past too, we have seen Seema Parihar, Monica Bedi and Bunty Chor taking part in this show. Well, what is more surprising is a raped lady with crime mind set is worth earning Rs.5 Crore with one show or not?

Chiru is better than Amitabh Bachchan!

There have been many comments passing on chiranjeevi ever since he accepted to do 150th film in the direction of Puri Jagannath with special appearance from Amitabh Bachchan. The major criticism from a section of film public was that Mega Star has lost confidence in his image as an artist and that is the reason why he asked Big B for shelter in the form of a guest appearance so as to make his 150th project hit, either by hook or crook.

In fact Amitabh Bachchan doesn’t have any dedicated Fan following in Andhra Pradesh. The first day collections of ‘Bbuddah’ in Hyderabad is alone enough to prove that on any given day chiranjeevi is a far better crowd puller in Telugu land than Big B. So, the call of special appearance was only for courtesy and this doesn’t have any connection to Chiru’s mile stone film. Well, it is still doubtful as how many days Chiru and Puri will remember the words they spoke at ‘Bbuddah’ premier. Wish that this entire episode does not turn out to be a big trash once chiranjeevi becomes busy with Congress politics.

Puri damages 'Bbuddah'

When a film is opened to immense positive talk in South (especially in Andhra Pradesh) on first day of release, what we expect is a block buster to roll out. In contrast collections of ‘Bbuddah’ all over India are surprising to hear because charisma of Amitabh Bachchan failed to ignite the BO. Yes, there have been reports that ‘Bbuddah’ fared very badly in North Indian theatres making a net of Rs. 1.5 Crores all over India on first day.

Trade analysts feel that reason for this is the director tag of Puri Jagannath and the kind of promotion they have done. North audiences never impartially encourage our South talents and Puri being a South brand, there was no anxiety in Hindi sect of audience. The intensity of suppression was so high that name of Big B failed to pull the public to theatres because of Puri factor. Let us see, how far the positive mouth-talk will help ‘Bbuddah’ pick up in spite of early damage already being done.

Prakash Raj to become Sathya Sai!?

Challenge for every artist will be to portray real life characters. As we are well aware that Prakash Raj is a versatile actor who can easily get into the skin of any character given is now known to be feeling apprehensive on a new role offered to him which is ‘sathya sai baba.’  Director Kodi Rama Krishna in association with politician turned producer Hari Rama Jogayya is preparing the subject for this new film based on the life and magical powers of Sathya Sai who died recently.

As there are enough controversies and allegations surrounding Prashanthi Nilayam and Sathya Sai Trust, there is no wonder that Prakash Raj is worried on what kind of problems would sprout up in future on this film. So, he is gossiped to have expressed his unwillingness to take this project but it is Kodi who is insisting only and only on the name of Prakash Raj for this ‘sathya sai baba.’ Well, one have to wait and see, what happens in future.

Audience waiting for 'Dookudu'

The buzz around BO has suddenly slowed down with failures of ‘Badrinath’ followed by ‘180.’ With no star movies in the fray for few more weeks, audiences are to compromise with dubbing and small budget flicks. Unluckily even this week releases ‘Brahmi Gadi Katha’ and ‘Virodhi’ haven’t given their share of entertainment to public thus making them wait for the arrival of Mahesh Babu’s ‘dookudu.’

As director Srinu Vytlsa increased the speed to pack up the movie by going for different locations in last one week shooting various episodes with Mahesh Babu and other artists, there is a hope that ‘dookudu’ might hit the screens mostly in August. Till then we may have to wait only for ‘Dhada’ or ‘Rajanna’ in between. Surely the attention grabbing film in next few months will only and only be ‘dookudu.’

Maria walks Free; says she is innocent

Maria susairaj, the Kannada actress who was sentenced to three years of imprisonment for murdering TV executive Neeraj Grover with her boy friend former navy officer Emlie Jerome has walked free today completing the jail term in Byculla Jail, Mumbai. Jerome got a term of ten years and he needs to spend seven more years.

Attending a media meet today, Maria reiterated her innocence. Even her lawyer sitting besides provided the images of dead body of Jerome which we know has been chopped into 300 pieces before dumped into the forest area near Thane. But, a new story from Maria now is totally against the theory of cutting the body into pieces.     

In her confession before court earlier, Maria said that she was forced to help her fiancé and killer Jerome after the latter stabbed Neeraj to death at her apartment, then raped her at knife point and then forced her to help in destroying the evidence for which she was given three years jail term. 

‘I want to forget my past. I don’t want to comment anything on Neeraj and the case,’ said Maira. On other side, Neeraj’s relatives and parents expressed their dissatisfaction on the verdict. They want the case to be reviewed. 

Srihari-Sairam Shankar’s Socio-fantasy flick

Salman Khan wants to work with Lawrence

This is an age of sequels and prequels in K’town.

So when choreographer- turned-actor-and-filmmaker Raghava Lawrence chose his hit movie Muni, which was released a few years back, on which to base a sequel called Kanchana, no one was really surprised.

The biggest revelation in the movie is the superb actor-turned-politician Sarath Kumar, who has been persuaded by Lawrence to play a transgender, a role which no other actor of his caliber would dare experiment with.

Sarath Kumar has gone in for an image makeover. He said that he was floored and immediately gave his nod when Lawrence narrated the script. The actor also revealed that he is taking a cue from Bollywood biggie Amitabh Bachchan to go in for meaningful roles rather than continue with the clichéd stuff.

Besides having penned the story and screenplay and directing the film, Lawrence portrays the lead protagonist and keeping him company is sizzling Lakshmi Rai.

Says Lawrence, “Lakshmi Rai is not a mere glam doll here. She has a great role to perform and she’s going to be a surprise package as well. A suspense thriller, the movie will have humour and high action. Graphics on par with Hollywood standards will be the talking point of Kanchana.” This project sees comedian Kovai Sarala back in Tamil films after a long hiatus.

Thaman’s music is said to be the highlight of the movie, produced by Thenandal Films.

The icing on the cake is that Bollywood hot star Salman Khan, who watched the slick trailers and songs at a private screening was so fascinated that he expressed an interest to star in the Hindi version.

Interestingly, Hindi remakes of South films have proved lucky for Sallu at the box-office!

Maestro Ilayaraja’s unseen avatar

Subbu Sujatha, a former associate of Seeman, turned independent with a movie titled Thaandavakone.

The film features Sanjay and Nandhagi, who grabbed everyone’s attention with her realistic performance in the lead role in Aval Peyar Tamizharasi. Maestro Ilayaraja’s music is said to be the backbone of the film.

“It is a romantic film with a difference. I have attempted a new narrative style. After hearing the full script, Isaignani readily agreed to compose for my film,” claims the director.

According to him, Ilayaraja was so moved by one particular situation where a song had to be incorporated that he preferred to write the lyrics for the song himself.

The emotional number talks about how a mother’s death affects an individual. “That’s how the song, which has the lyrics Neeral Udal Kazhuvi Nittha Nidha, originated. And believe me, he penned the song in just half-an-hour and followed that up by immediately composing the music for it in an hour,” he reveals.

Insiders say that Sanjay shed about 15 kilos to suit his offbeat role and has almost lived the character for the past one-and-a-half years of shooting.

The climax will be an arresting one, the director vouches. The entire film has been shot in hilly terrain near Kurangani hills and in available light for the most part.

58th Filmfare Awards South Winners List

TAMIL

Best Cinematographer - Rathnavelu For "Endhiran"

Best Choreographer - Baba Bhaskar For "Kadhal Vandhale" In "Singam"

Best Production Design - Sabu Cyril For "Endhiran"

Best Costume Award - Manish Malhotra For "Endhiran"

Best Playback Singer Female - Sherya Ghosal For "Un Perai Sollum" In "Angadi Theru"

Best Playback Singer Male - Karthi For "Usure Pogudhe" In "Raavanan"

Best Lyricist - Thamarai For "Mannipaaya" In "Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya"

Best Music Director - A.R.Rahman For "Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya"

Best Actor Supporting Role Female - Saranya For "Thenmerku Paruvakatru"

Best Actor Supporting Role Male - Parthiban For "Aayirathil Oruvan"

Best Film - Mynaa

Best Director - Vasanthabalan For "Angadi Theru"

Best Actor Female - Anjali For "Angadi Theru"

Best Actor Male - Vikram For "Raavanan"

TELUGU

Best Cinematographer - Manoj Paramahasa For "Ye Maya Chesave"

Best Choreographer - Raju Sundaram  For "Eyi Raaja" In "Brindhavanam"

Best Debut Female - Samantha For "Ye Maya Chesave"

Best Debut Male - Rana Daggubati For "Leader"

Best Playback Singer Female - Geetha Madhuri For "Magallu" In "Golimaar"

Best Playback Singer Male - Ramesh Vinayagam & KarunyaFor "Sada Shiva" In "Mahesh Khaleja"

Best Lyricist - Ramjogayya Sasthri For "Sada Shiva" In "Mahesh Khaleja"

Best Music Director - A.R.Rahman For "Ye Maya Chesave"

Best Actor Supporting Role Female - Abhinaya For "Sambho Shiva Sambho"

Best Actor Supporting Role Male - Sai Kumar For "Prasthanam"

Best Film - Vedam

Best Director - Krish For "Vedam"

Best Actor Female - Anushka Shetty For "Vedam"

Best Actor Male - Allu Arjun For "Vedam"

MALAYALAM

Best Playback Singer Female - Sherya Ghosal For "Kizhakku Pookum" In "Anwar"

Best Playback Singer Male - Hariharan For "Aaro Padun" In "Kadhathudarunnu"

Best Lyricist - Rafiq Ahmed For "Kizhakku Pookum" In "Anwar"

Best Music Director - Gopi Sundar For "Anwar"

Best Actor Supporting Role Female - Urvasi For "Mummy & Me"

Best Actor Supporting Role Male - Biju Menon For "Merikundoru Kunjadu"

Best Film - Pranchiyettan & The Saint

Best Director - Ranjith For "Pranchiyettan & The Saint"

Best Actor Female - Mamtha Mohandas For "Kadha Thudarunnu"

Best Actor Male - Mamooty For "Pranchiyettan & The Saint"

KANNADA

Best Playback Singer Female - Sunitha Gopraju For "O Priyatama" In "Cheluveye Ninna Nodalu"

Best Playback Singer Male - SPB For "Gharne" In "Apatha Rakasha"

Best Lyricist - Kavi Raj For "Gharne" In "Apatha Rakasha"

Best Music Director - V Harikrishna For "Jackie"

Best Actor Supporting Role Female - Umashri For "Krishnan Love Story"

Best Actor Supporting Role Male - Avinash For "Apatha Rakasha"

Best Film - Jackie

Best Director - Girish Kasaravalli For "Kanasembo Kudureyaneri"

Best Actor Female - Radhika Pandit For "Krishnan Love Story"

Best Actor Male - Shivrajkumar For "Thamassu"

SPECIAL AWARDS

Lifetime Achievement Award - Jayasudha Garu

Lifetime Achievement Award - Chiranjeevi

Hero Karthi's wedding reception: Exclusive Pic

Veteran actor Sivakumar's son and Tamil Star Suriya's brother Karthi tied the knot with Ranjani Chinnasamy. The young actor's wedding reception was held in Coimbatore on Saturday, July 2nd.

"All these were baseless rumors," says Ileana

Ileana is fuming at the reports in the media over her alleged catfight with co-star Priyanka Chopra. 

"All these were baseless rumors," says Ileana, who is upset with the media reports.

Ileana and Priyanka Chopra are working for the Bollywood film 'Barfee'. This film marks the debut of Ileana in Bollywood. Ranbir Kapoor plays the lead in the film.

"Barfee's shooting has been postponed because of Ileana and Priyanka Chopra's catfight. Ileana wants more footage as well as a few extra songs than Priyanka in the film," according to some media reports.

"She was shocked with these baseless reports. Although she has done shooting with Ranbir Kapoor, she hasn’t even met Priyanka Chopra till now. Director Anurag Basu has etched out prominent and significant roles for both Priyanka and Ileana, so there is no room for silly catfights," revealed a source close to Ileana.

In Barfee, Ileana is playing a character who will be seen aging from a 19-year-old to 30 to a 65 year-old. Ranbir Kapoor is playing a deaf and mute boy. Priyanka Chopra is mildly autistic (a form of mental illness that causes a person to withdraw into a private world of fantasy and be unable to communicate with others or respond to his/her real environment) in the film.

Shriya runs after Squint-eyed Man

Really, it looks like time for hot beauty Shriya to take a gracious exit rather than making audiences bored at the end of her career. The sexy beauty is trying here and there to make a big comeback on silver screen. Here is another story. 

Tamil circuit is singing loud that curvaceous Shriya is trying all her curves on a noted Tamil hero. We are talking about hero Vishal who recently rocked the south tinsel towns with his stupendous performance. In the role of 'Walter', with a squint-eyed dud look, Vishal is surely a promising contestant for a National Award this years. Coming to the point, hot Shriya is said to be running after Vishal to bag a lead role in his next flick. Earlier, both the striking damsel worked with Vishal for 'Kiladi' and doesn't even cared him treating as if he is a small hero. With critic meters running an all time high for his brilliant performance in 'Vaadu-Veedu', Shriya has changed the umbrella to check out her fate. Poor Shriya!

Chiru tonic for Jayasudha's illness???

This senior most actress of the industry is not attending any function or event from the last one month. For her hardcore fans, the other day was a shock as their hearthrob heroine suddenly checked in glamorously for a private entertainment event. Know the first ones to have an insight of critics about this. 

Currenlty, five to six movies are halted and a few were made some schedule adjustments as Jayasudha is to give them dates. Citing health reasons, this natural actress is not attending any shoot and is not giving dates to anyone till 1st of August. On the flip side, the yesteryear heroine attended a private function where Megastar Chiru and Amitabh were the chief guests. The onlookers were shocked to see Jayasudha in an enthralled mood without any sight of her ill health. Some industry insiders are saying that all is well on Jayasudha's side and it is only her political move to take such a decision. Whatever may be reason, Film Nagar folks are saying that 'Chiru' is the tonic to pull Jayasudha to the function.

Huge shock to Puri Jagannath!

Puri Jagannath, who looked beaming with confidence prior to Bbuddah's release with all the glowing reviews and superb feedback, is now left in huge shock! Puri expected this film to take an earth shattering start at the box office. But sadly that didn't happen.

Bbuddah opened pretty badly especially in the Northern circuit. The opening collections were around 15 to 20 percent on its first day. Opening day collections in the Southern circuit were slightly better. First day nett figure is just above one crore(Rs 1.65 cr to Rs 1.70 cr) all over India. This is a terrible turnout for the film with so much hype surrounding it.

On the other hand Delhi Belly took a rocking start beating Bbuddah hands down. Although the film was targeted at selected audience, it collected around 7 crore nett on first day. Bbuddah will suffer at the box office if it doesn't pick up in the next few days. However, 75 percent of the budget plus production cost was recovered prior to the release. But what ultimately counts is the box office performance. Puri who is having high hopes on this film is shattered with this reception.

Directors running away from torturous Producer

MS Raju, who was once one of the star producers in Tollywood is now struggling for form. With a string of flops, Raju has taken a big break from making films. Finally, he is back to work with the film 'Tooneega Tooneega' starring his son Sumanth Ashwin.

This film was supposed to be directed by Teja. Later VN Aditya stepped in and another director Sriram Balaji too tried his luck. But all of them ran away after few days as they couldn't handle the torture of MS Raju. This big fat producer is known for putting 'fingers' in director's work and that is the reason why he always signs up flop directors or newcomers.

In the recent times, MS Raju lost confidence over his judgment and started to torture directors with his indecisiveness. No one could stand his unending torture that they fled away within few days. Hence, Raju himself wore the director's cap for his son's debut film. People, who watch him closely, feel that it is suicidal for Sumanth Ashwin to make debut under his father at this time.

Actress gifts expensive gold ring to make-up man

Hot beauty Nayantara, who is planning to quit her acting career after the mythological film 'Sri Rama Rajyam', has presented few gifts to the unit unit members of the film.

It was reported that the actress has presented 150 watches to her unit members and a expensive gold ring to her personal make-up man on the last day of the shoot.

"I consider Sri Rama Rajyam as a blessing and it is a great honour to work with legendry Bapu sir. Everyone in the unit were like a family and there was lots of positive vibes throughout the filming," said Nayantara, who is excited about the film.

Nayantara got emotional on the last day of the shoot. By the time, Bapu called pack-up, Nayan couldn't control her tears.

"It was an emotional day for me as it was the last day of shooting," said Nayantara.

However, when asked about her future plans, Nayantara merely smiled.

Nayantara plays Goddess Sita in the film Sri Rama Rajyam in which Balakrishna would be playing Lord Ram.

Nayantara and Prabhu Deva are going to tie the knot soon. And the marriage is expected to take place in Mumbai in this year. Probably, the divorse settlement of Prabhu Deva and his wife Ramlat will complete on July 10th. Nayantara is planning to get married immediately after the divorse settlement.

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