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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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Chief Minister M Karunanidhi will give away the State Government awards (small screen) for the year 2006 at a function to be held in Chennai on the 8th of August.
Kushboo and Radhika Sarath Kumar, who created wonders on the big screen, repeated their magic with television too. They would be receiving their awards from the Chief Minister.
'Selvi', the television serial starring Radhika, has won the State Government's first prize in the small screen awards category for the year 2006. The award comprises Rs. 2 lakhs, a memento and a certificate.
The second prize has been bagged by 'Sorgam', produced by AVM. Another serial, 'Alli Rajyam', produced by Vikatan Tele Vistas has won the award for the best weekly serial. Both will receive Rs. 1 lakh, a memento and a certificate.
Abhishek has been adjudged the best actor (Malargal), while Kushboo was chosen as the best actress for her performance in the teleserial 'Kalki'.
Actor Rajinikanth offered special prayers at Tirupathy Sri Venkatachalapathy temple on Sunday for the success of ‘Kuselan’ and its Telugu version ‘Kathanayukudu’.Speaking to reporters after offering his prayers, Rajinikanth chose not to speak about the controversy involving his regret over the speech made by him during the Hogenakkal protest.
He said that he was happy with the phenomenal opening for ‘Kuselan’ and ‘Kathanayakudu’.
Thanking his fans for the success, he said that he would commence shooting for ‘Robot’, which is to be directed by Shankar, from the 10th of August. The shooting would kick start in the USA.
Asked whether Aishwarya Rai would be part of the song, he said, “It is for the director to decide”.
The movie has musical score by A R Rahman. Meanwhile his full-length animated movie ‘Sultan - The Warrior’ is shaping up fast.
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Ajith’s passion for motorbike racing is widely known. He took part in many motor racing championships and carved a niche for himself.
The actor, who bid adieu to car races a couple of years ago, is now getting ready to act in the Tamil remake of Hindi blockbuster ‘Race’.
According to sources, Ashok Amritraj who produced Shankar’s film ‘Jeans’ has approached Ajith with this offer. ‘Race’ is about two brothers played by Saif Ali Khan and Akshay Khanna double crossing each other which eventually leads to their downfall.
Attracted by the storyline, Ajith has expressed his consent to act in the film. Meanwhile, ‘Aegan‘, the next venture of Ajith is also a remake of the Bollywood super hit movie Main Hoon Naa. ‘Aegan‘ is nearing its completion
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Sons of Kasthuriraja, Selvaragavan and Danush are set to join in a new film again.
Selvaragavan directed Kaadhal Konden having Danush (his brother) in the lead role. Then they both worked separately and they join together almost each completing 4 films working with others.
Now, both are successful in their career and their joining again for a movie is creating lots of expectations among the Kollywoodians.
Udayanidhi Stalin’s home banner Red Giant Movies has a casting coup- Surya and Nayanthara coming together for the first time in an untitled film to be directed by K.S Ravi Kumar.
It is going to be Udayanidhi Stalin's second venture after Kuruvi. The shoot will start some time in December, after Surya completes Ayan and Nayanthara finishes her current assignments, Aegan and Villu.
Nayanthara had done a brief appearance in Surya’s Ghajani in which Asin was the heroine. K.S Ravi Kumar was trying to bring them together, and now it has become a reality.
Ravi Kumar will complete Jaggu Bhai, by October end, and then start work on the new film, which is likely to have music by A.R Rahman. The other things are being worked out as the film is likely to be a summer 2009 release.
