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Big B in 'Marmayogi'?

It has been confirmed that ‘Marmayogi’ will have veteran Bollywood actress Hemamalini playing a prominent role. But the biggest surprise that could lead to tremendous anticipation is that Amitabh Bachchan might be part of the project too. Kamal Haasan, it seems is trying to rope in the legendary actor for an interesting role.

According to sources, Kamal Haasan has recently expressed this desire saying ''We are working on ‘Marmayogi’ which will be on a grand scale and Amitabh Bachchan would be perfect for a role in the film”.

It can be recalled that plans were on to rope in the Big B for the Rajini starrer 'Sivaji'. However he declined the offer.

It would be interesting to see if the Shahensha of Hindi films is fascinated by 'Marmayogi'. Sure would be great if he is. If that happens, it will be the first time Amitab would be part of a Tamil film.

Shunning rumors and keeping rumormongers at bay, Vishal and Nayan seems to have indeed locked their lips for Satyam. While Vishal and Nayan strongly refuted this earlier, the recently released promo pictures of the movie show the couple in an intimate manner locking lips. However, it remains to be seen whether these pictures were shot only for the promos or as a part of a movie. For that, of course, we will have to wait until the movie is released.

Kuselan's audio release function was held recently amidst much fanfare. The songs are proving to be chartbusters and expectations are mounting for the movie's release. It was already announced that Kuselan would hit the screens on July 25th, 2008. But due to the delay in adding the background scores and at the editing table, Kuselan's release has
been postponed to August 1st, 2008. Kuselan and its Telugu version Kuchladu will hit the screens simultaneously. Pyramid Saimira has bagged the worldwide distributorship rights and intends to release the film in over 1000 screens across the world. If sources are to be believed, Rajini is slated to appear on screen only from the third reel onwards and would grace the screens for about an hour.

Silambarasan had made waves with stills of Poodaa Poodi recently. The film is being funded by Padam Kumar from Mumbai along with Roger Nair of Canada and the major portion of the film will be shot in Canada. The film will be launched around the 15th of August in Toronto.

Poodaa Poodi, as the name

suggests, will be a light veined comedy which will have Silambarasan coming to Toronto and meeting his life partner, who was born and raised there. They are diametrically opposite in nature and as the proverbial saying goes, become attracted to each other. Though Silambarasan had written the story earlier, he had made a few changes in the script to accommodate a setting in Canada. Currently the unit is hunting for ideal locations as well a suitable heroine.