Ultimate Star Ajith who is currently busy with the wrapping up of his upcoming venture 'Aegan' will be seen in a never before role. Now, the makers have announced that the audio release of the movie will happen on the 5th of September. With some really haunting tunes by Yuvan Shankar Raja, the film has hot beauty Nayantara as the heroine while Navdeep will play the second lead. The film also marks the debut of Raju Sundaram as the director of the movie.
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Director Prabhu Deva and Vijay are putting in all their efforts to bring out Villu as mass entertainer. The director has in fact taken extra care where Vijay's style in Villu is concerned. While in their earlier venture Pokkiri, Vijay was seen donning a scarf in the entire film, in Villu he will be seen nibbling his shirt collar. According to the director, this new style has reached well among Vijay fans.
Likewise, the name of Vijay's character in Pokkiri was Thamizh and in Villu it will be Pugazh. Looks like with every new film with Vijay, Prabhu Deva plans to give a new dimension to his career.
Nayanthara is in Zweisimmen in Europe on location of Villu (see pic).
Ilayathalapathy Vijay, Prakash Raj, director Prabhu Deva, cameraman Ravi Varman along with a 40-member crew is put up in this exotic Swiss location.
“Its good weather here and the shoot is progressing well but I am tensed about the release of Sathyam on August 14. I’m always anxious, just before my film releases”.
Zweisimmen is a historic town and also known as the gateway to Gstaad. It is a small village located to the south-west of Switzerland. There are miles of greenery, beautiful snow capped mountains, a Church and Museum.
For Nayanthara, who has traveled to some of the most exotic locations for shoots, Zweisimmen is indeed a new experience as it is a cozy small town with no Television, newspapers or Internet.
Two days back, Nayan a net freak traveled a few miles to an Internet café where she could catch up with the latest happenings in tinsel world. “You know that I love surfing on the net whenever I get time. I’m missing it”, says Nayan.
Shirya Saran has with drawn from the Danush film to be directed by Vetrimaran and returned the advance for the film. The reason for this is said to be the delay in launching the project. Kathiresan the producer of this movie had signed Shriya to be Dhanush’s heroine in a film, which was to start in April. But due to various reasons the film got delayed and then it was decided that the launch will happen after Danush finishes his Padikkathavan movie.
Shriya who is busy with her Bollywood and Hollywood projects felt that she will be unable to keep the commitment to this film and hence has returned the advance she took for this movie. The producer refused to accept back the advance and hence she has sent the advance check now to the Nadigar Sangam.
The sucess team of Polladhavan is teaming up again in this film. Dhanush has signed this film with Vetrimaran. Produced by Kathiresan.This movie will have the same technical team of cameraman Vel Raj, music director G.V.Prakash Kumar, editor V.T.Vijayan, stunt master Rambo Rajkumar and director Vetrimaran. The cast will also have the Polladhavan villains Kishore and Daniel Balaji.
Ulaganayagan Kamal Hassan and Asin will be seen again together after Dasavatharam in their next film 16 steps. Kamal Hassan, Japanese superstar Tadanobu Asano, and Asin are roped in for this movie which will be directed by Bharath Bala.
The movie 16 steps produced as a co-venture by Bharath Bala Productions (BBP) and Walt Disney will have a budger of about 50 million dollar and will be based on the theme of origins of martial art in kerala.
“19 Steps” will go on the floors in mid-2009 after Kamal completes his film “Marmayogi”, which is another Hollywood co-production. In “19 Steps”, Asano plays a blood thirsty Samurai Kenji seeking to conquer the ancient Indian martial art of Kalaripayattu (precursor of Karate). He learns the tough 18 steps and masters the 19th from an Indian guru played by Kamal and Asin will play a local princess.
Diya’s 1st Birthday Snaps - Exclusive Images
Kollywood couple Surya and Jyothika celebrated the first birthday of their daughter Diya in style at Taj’s Fisherman Cove on Sunday (August 10) evening.
Diya had the blessings of all the close members of the family and also her own special birthday cake. Diya is said to be a very bubbly girl and Surya and Jyotika take turns in looking after little Diya.
Sathyam movie starring Vishal and Nayantara is finally hitting the theatres on Aug 14th. The movie has been censored both in Tamil and Telugu. Sathayam recieved a ‘UA’ certificate in Tamil and a ‘A’ certificate in Telugu with a few cuts and muted words in the movie.
Out of the cuts suggested to the movie by the censor board is some hot scene’s in the Chellame song picturised on Nayan and Vishal. The Telugu version of the movie is named Salute. ‘Salute’ features Nayantara in a glamorous role and has reportedly performed in a steamy manner with Vishal in the song sequence of Chellame.
Vishal plays Sathyam, a principled ACP and has performed all the stunt sequence without any dupe. Nayanthara is cast as Daivalakshmi, an apprentice in a news channel. She falls in love with Sathyam and helps him in his pursuit. Her role is very bubbly and full of positive energy.
Beijing, Aug 7 - On the eve of the opening of the Olympic Games 2008, the Olympic torch has completed the second last stage of its 140,000km voyage, climbing the Great Wall of China, one of the most famous monuments of the world. The torch was carried over the site best known to tourists, Badaling, decorated with Chinese and Olympic flags. The relay started 7am local time, 1am in Italy. Many visitors, mostly Chinese, wanted to see the 18 torch-bearers, pilot Li Zhonghua first of all.
There was great enthusiasm in the crowd, while patriotic music was played loudly, and doves were released. Its final stage will take the torch to several sites in Beijing: the Changping county, the channel of Thongzhou, the Earth Temple and other sites. Tomorrow the Olympic flame will reach the 'Bird's nest' stadium for the opening of the XXIX modern Olympic Games.
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There was great enthusiasm in the crowd, while patriotic music was played loudly, and doves were released. Its final stage will take the torch to several sites in Beijing: the Changping county, the channel of Thongzhou, the Earth Temple and other sites. Tomorrow the Olympic flame will reach the 'Bird's nest' stadium for the opening of the XXIX modern Olympic Games.
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In several of his blockbusters, Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi makes a 'grand entry', often marked by tantalizing precursors that send his fans into rapturous joy.
A similar sense of anticipation grips the political circles in Andhra Pradesh now as the actor is all set to enter politics and announce the launch of a new party this month.
Fifty-three year old Chiranjeevi, who rose from humble background to become the reigning star of Telugu cinema, is expected to announce his political plans in the third week of August which will be followed by a series of public meetings and road shows across the state.
"The announcement will be made without any fanfare. Later, a public meeting will be held in Hyderabad and Tirupati after August 15 where the party's name, agenda and programmes will be unveiled," the sources close to the actor said.
For several months now, there has been a flurry of activity in Chiranjeevi's camp with two of his brothers and brother-in-law, all connected with the Telugu cinema industry, and his close aides organizing meetings with the fans associations and people from various walks of life and training programmes for the potential cadre ahead of the party formation.
Chiranjeevi, a Padma Bhushan awardee who has acted in 148 films in his three decade long career, is among the highest paid actors in the country and has a massive following particularly among the youth.
With ageing Trisha on one side and busy Nayanthara on the other end, actress Thamanna is haunting the Kollywood. Well, it was more evident that her initial days weren’t so happy since couple of her flicks ‘KD’ and ‘Vyapaari’ flunked at box-office. But, at the moment she is topping the chart with lots of big offers and she has turned to be a globetrotter.
She is busy shooting for the film Ayan at Africa, Anandha Thandavam at United States and Padikaadhavan in Hyderabad. However, held in between busy shooting schedules, she is so punctual to all the schedules and that has grabbed the attention of all the leading directors and now she is approached with lots of offers.
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Aishwarya Rai has finally spoken out on ‘Robot’. The former Miss World has said that she has earmarked the entire month of September to shoot for Rajinikanth's ‘Robot’.
'Rajinikanth and director Shankar have been very busy over the past few weeks with the groundwork for ‘Robot’. I will join them in September,' said Aishwarya Rai, when asked about the mega project.
Meanwhile, Rajinikanth told reporters in Thirupathi a couple of days ago that he along with director Shankar would leave for the US soon to start filming ‘Robot’, which is being jointly produced by Ayngaran and Eros International.
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Actress Aishwarya Rai
Following reports that plans are afoot to disrupt the screening of Kuselan in Tamil Nadu and calling for a ban on the movie, the theatres screening the movie has been given tight police security. The protests led by the Dravidar Parayar Munnetra Kazhagam on Sunday in front of two prominent theatres Chennai has called for this stringent measure. According to the Chennai police,
organizations holding demonstrations in front of the theatres without obtaining police permission will be arrested. It may be recalled that Rajinikanth’s explanation to Karnataka, over his speech during a fast conducted by the Tamil film artistes and technicians over the Hogenakkal issue, created a ruckus in Tamil film industry as many termed it as an apology.
In yet another related incident, which happened in Salem, sources report that Rajini banners have been torn apart by some unidentified miscreants. The banners were posted outside the theatres on behalf of Rajinikanth fans’ association. Police sources, however, say that they are yet to receive a formal complaint in this regard and will take action when they are presented with a complaint. Meanwhile, the fans of the superstar have stressed that the inciters must be brought to book and all the theatres screening Kuselan must be given adequate security.
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Actor Rajini
With the commencement of Marmayogi, it's time for controversies to take centre stage. The recent buzz that has been doing rounds in Kollywood is that Kamal Haasan is trying to revive his dream project Maruthanayagam and pass it off as Marmayogi. A few years ago, the ambitious actor started Maruthanayagam amidst much fanfare. It may be recounted that this
film, which was also directed by Kamal, was shelved when a section of the society raised a hue and cry over depicting their community in dark light. But Kamal's new appearance for Marmayogi, which is similar to one he sported during the Maruthanayagam days, has raised doubts that he has plans to serve the old wine in a new bottle. However, Marmayogi is based in the 7th century while Maruthanayagam was a warrior who lived in the 18th century.
