Saturday, December 29, 2007

Truly Tamil for Seeman

Director Seeman who is widely known for his penchant for Tamil lingo had decided to communicate in his native tongue throughout the shooting of the film Vaazhthukal. The director was so much stern on getting things or rather the lingo right that he translated all common English terms like ready, start camera, action, and cut into Tamil. For instance he used the term ‘aarambi’ instead of start.Apart from Maddy and Bhavana, the film also boasts of impressive cameos from Kanimozhi, Rajya Sabha MP and daughter of chief minister M Karunanidhi. Maddy who simply can’t stop going gaga over his friend’s commitment and dedication said, “I’m impressed by Seeman, in the entire film none of the characters use any English words.”

Vaazhthukal has Madhavan and Bhavana as the lead pair. Vaazhthukkal is the second movie of the pair who were cast together in the earlier movie Arya. Director Seeman who earlier directed the movie Thambi starring Madhavan is going to direct this Vaazhthukal movie. The movie is produced under the banner of Amma Creations by Siva. Yuvan Shankar Raja will compose the music tunes for Vaazhthukal.

Vacated Chennai? - Asin surprised


Asin has has three releases this year. Pokkiri, Aalwar and Vel. Two of her movies have gone on to be superhits. Her next Tamil release would be Kamal Hassan starrer ‘Dasavatharam’ that is expected to hit the stands sometime next summer.

There was a buzz in the industry a few days back that Asin has vacated her chennai home and shifted to mumbai. The surprised actress clarifies that she has moved to mumbai temporarily due to her commitment to Ghajini in which she is paired opposite to Amir Khan. The schooting of Ghajini is scheduled to resume in the 2nd week on January and she is in mumbai now for that. When she starts shooting for Tamil movie she will come back to her Chennai home.

The actress is said to have bagged in Ken Ghosh’s next opposite Shahid Kapur and is also being considered for a role of Amitabh Bachchan’s daughter in director Honey Irani’s next. Then she is also believed to have grabbed an esteemed role opposite Salman Khan in Sohail Khan’s musical next. Nothing is confirmed yet and Asin will carefully consider her options before signing these movies.

Wedding bells for Shreya Reddy


Shreya Reddy, former SS music VJ and actor, who is engaged to Vishal’s elder brother and producer G.K. Reddy’s son Vikram

Krishna is taking the next step and getting married on March 9 at Adyar Park Sheraton in Chennai. The reception will take

place on March 8 at Kalaignar mandapam in Anna Arivalayam complex.

Shreya began her career in the entertainment industry as VJ in SS music and then entered films. She did a negative role in Thimiru which brought her good recognition. She has also appeared in Veyyil and Pallikoodam.

Her fiancĂ© Vikram Krishna has produced films like ‘Thimiru’ and ‘Sandaikozhi.’ Their parents supported their decision to get married and a betrothal function was held in chennai in September.

Expensive car chase for Sathyam


Sathyam movie starring Vishal and Nayantara in the lead has already completed its first schedule of shooting and is into the second schedule now.

The car chase scene for this film is being shot with a budget of 2 crores is being shot around Maduravayil road. Vishal is being chased by the villans in this scene and the smart police attired Vishal trying to elude them. The scene running to 7 minutes in the film would be shot over 20 days on various locations like Tambaram bypass, Ennore, Ramojirao Film City, Pattinapakkam etc. The car scene is vital for the movie and is shot in the hollywood style. The scene is being shot under the supervision of renowned Hollywood Visual Effects person Craig A Mumma, stunt master Kanal Kannan, and director Rajasekhar.

Vishal plays the role of a police officer who is an encounter specialist. For this role, the diligent actor has done an extensive study on the life and work of police. Popular Kannada star Upendra and Telugu actor Katta Srinivas Rao play villains.

The film, which is scheduled for Tamil new year, April 14th release will finish shooting by next February.

Actress Trisha Krishnan Gallery


Trisha Krishnan born on 4th May 1983 as Trisha Krishnamurthy. Her mother tongue is Tamil. But she is a promininent actress in both Tamil and Telugu film industries. Born to Krishnan and Uma Krishnan, in Chennai, the Tamil Iyer actress got her higher education in Ethiraj College, Chennai. Later, she modelled and won Miss Salem in 1999, Miss Chennai in 1999 and Miss India Miss Beautiful Smile in 2001.

Vaazhthukal for Tamizhar Thirunal


Vaazhthukal is expected to release on Tamizhar Thirunal Ponjal and the audio of the movie will be released soon. Madhavan and Bhavana are paired together for this movie.
Vaazhthukkal is the second movie of the pair who were cast together in the earlier movie Arya. Director Seeman who earlier directed the movie Thambi starring Madhavan is going to direct this Vaazhthukal movie. The movie is produced under the banner of Amma Creations by Siva. Yuvan Shankar Raja will compose the music tunes for Vaazhthukal. Na. Muthusamy, one of the founders of Koothu-P-Pattarai, makes his debut in an important role in ‘Vaazhthugal’. Trotsky Marudu, a leading artist, too makes an appearance in the film. Actor Prithviraj’s mother Mallika Sukumaran too makes her entry into films by acting as the mother of Madhavan.

Ajith in Gautham Menon`s Next


Ajith who is basking in the sucess of Billa will be acting in Gautam Vasudev Menon’s next venture. Ajith Kumar is going to start on Raju Sundaram’s movie in January. This movie is produced by Ayangaran International.
He will be next seen in Gautam Vasudev Menon’s next movie. Gautham is currently shooting for Vaaranam Ayiram with Surya, Sameera Reddy and Divya in the lead. The next schedule of the shooting of this movie is on now. Director Gautham Vasudev Menon and Suriya come together for ‘Vaaranam Aayiram’, after their earlier smash hit, ‘Kaaka Kaaka’.
After this movie Gautham will be directing Ajith. This movie will be produced by Shivaji Productions.

Vijay pairs with Ileana


Vijay will be pairing with Ileana in the upcomming movie to be directed by Prabu Deva. The combination of Vijay and Prabudeva created Pokkiri who went on to become a superhit movie.

Vijay is currently acting with Trisha in Kuruvi, under the direction of Dharani. The Pokkiri success combination of Vijay and Prabudeva will be comming together again in Prabudeva’s next direction which will start rolling after Kuruvi.

In this movie Vijay will be paired with Telugu actress Ileana. The actress was earlier seen in Tamil in the movie KD(Kedi) opposite Ravi Krishna. Ileana D’Cruz hails from Mumbai. Buzz has it that Prabudeva has approched her for the next movie and the actress has accepted. The call sheet and other details are yet to be decided.

Ten lakh Munishwaran temple for Muniyandi


Malaysia production company Lotus five star and Thiru pictures combine to produce the next movie Muniyandi Vilangiyal Moondramaandu. This movie directed by Thirumurugan will have Bharath and new commer Thamarai in the lead role. Vadivelu plays an important character.
The movie is about the problems encountered by village youth who is commingup in life. The shooting is scheduled in parts of Pollachi for 45 days and around Karaikudi, Devakottai for 15 days and is expected to finish in a single schedule.

The Munishwar temple plays a important role in the movie. The team was not satisfied with any of the Munishwar temple that they visited and hence decided to build a temple of their own. Temple will comeup in Vellai Koundalur near Pollachi. The temple will be built on a rock and art director Bhupathi will design the temple. A 50 foot high Muniswarar idol as well as an ambulatory wall is being built at a cost of 10 lakhs. All the pooja’s and pariharam for the temple will be performed for the temple and the shooting will take place in it for 15 days. After this the temple will be with the village people and they can perform the pooja’s there if they wish adds director Thirumurugan.

The music of the movie is by Vidyasagar, who gave rustic melodies for Em Magan. Vairamuthu is the lyricist. The movie started rolling on December 26th.

Freshness in music for Dheena

After Karupusamy Kuthagaikarar music director Dheena is composing music for the movie Vedigundu Murugesan. The film stars Pasupathy in the lead. In order to get a new freshness to his music Dheena has roped in Yuga Bharathi to write the lyrics and is positive that this song is going to be a super hit when it comes into the market.

Dheena has composed music for around 30 movies. Discussing this he says that he has learnt something new in each movie that he has composed music for. There are lots of new music directors in the industry and this is a healthy competition, and because of this the audience will get good music.

Indiralogam in trouble


The team of Indiralohathil Na. Azhagappan were in trouble while shooting in Adikesava Perumal Koil located in Sriperumputhur. During the shooting more than 500 people including actors, director and cameraman involved were present in the temple and sets for Yaagakundam and Yaagasalai were put up at the temple.
Devotees who had come to pray encountered many difficulties and were unable to pray. Their irritation reached a peak when the used banana leaves after eating and coffee cups were strewn around the temple. The unclean surroundings naturally upset the devotees. The people then went to the extent of stalling the shooting. Finally councilors and other officials of the area intervened and asked the unit to vacate the place.

The unit, however, without a fuss came back after the people had left and continued the shooting.

Vadivelu plays three roles - ndira, Yama, Azhagappan and dons 15 get-ups when he appears in the role of Azhagappan.